NIGHTMARE FLYING THE TOPGUN F18!!!
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I admire you guys and your reviews for staying after an airplane that should have been History so many times seems like you’re doing all the manufacturers work that should’ve been done long before this point just shows me how truly professional you and your team really are truly inspiring to the RC Hobby and how far technology has really come along thanks again
Finally!! Now the world can know what tinnitus is like! Outstanding flight!! Keep this in mind . When you're gear retracts or deploys it changes the CG on the 18 more so than most other airframes!! Plus some flap on takeoff doesn't hurt. Watching your struggles on the first flight's made my guts hurt!! Then when I saw how well you ran it through its paces I understood how you were able to hang on to it!! Excellent control! I'd say beef up the gear and deal with the extra weight!!? Really want to see it snag a wire!!
Very nice, sir! You seem to be a fantastic pilot and fly a tight ribbon with simple controls.
WOW so glad to see you got it flying great. Looks like the real thing baby
good Martin and crew that's a tuff plane to make fly as it should.
What an amazing pilot! Thank you for sharing! this was impressive!!
Thanks so much for sharing your struggles with this plane. As a comparatively new flyer without a lot of support; I can tend to think that I’m the only one struggling to “tame” a plane with bad tendencies. Thanks again
Well done Martin, I amazed that the factory got the CG and turbine placement all wrong. Nice tip about centralising the weight. Great flight 🫡
Beautiful plane, flight and landing. Very well done!!!
Beautiful plane. I love the authentic paintjob.
It just looks so good in the sky
F16 Still is my favorite of all time. If I have time I will build one, I stop the hobby back in 99 before moving up to turbine from ducted fan. once awhile it give me adrenaline when watch these video. very nice fly, it seem like tail still heavy. Very enjoy to watch .
¡Qué maravilla de modelo... !
Los F-18 suelen ser quisquillosos, también a menores escalas pero por lo menos este, una vez ajustado aguanta bien el high alpha.
En escalas más pequeñas, en modelos sin flaps de borde de ataque, los vórtices de los LERX pierden energía antes de hora y la cola pierde autoridad, impidiendo el vuelo estable pasados los 15-20º de ángulo de ataque. Viendo el high alpha que te has marcado antes de aterrizar parece que al menos con este, eso ya no es un problema. ;)
Congratulations, success is yours to enjoy
Thanks!
Beautiful!!!, only one little mistake, the correct nose fuselage number for this tail decoration are 15-13.
This stuff absolutely blows my mind! All the ingenuity in something like this is just mind boggling!
It will certainly capture the hearts and attention from all who witness it. They will be hooked and likely end up getting into RC in one shape or form. They will lose their minds at the cost of something like this. But hopefully their curiosity leads them down the right path. Because theres so many awesome affordable RC Airplanes out there!
Idt people realize how difficult it is to design something like this! To make it able to hold up to the heat alone from the engines. Then to be able to withstand the g forces applied to all surfaces, as you perform all those tight fast maneuvers. Is absolutely amazing! People dont realize the forces that these recieve from such fast maneuvers. Then to balance between ridged and weight savings to allow it to be able to be light enough to fly and strong enough to not disintegrate on the very first tight turn or climb etc etc. Im a geek when it comes to things like these! I honestly think they are almost more mind boggling then the real thing. Just because of how much smaller everything needs to be. Thats what fascinated me with Nitro rc cars as a kid. Now compared to Electric, its honestly a messy waste of time. But if u are a gearhead, u will love it! One could argue that nitro buggies are every bit as competitive as their electric counterparts. But we all know, it takes less effort for the electric to do what the nitro is doing... Im going off topic, ijs this stuff is absolutely amazing, intriguing and its definitely doing its job in growing the rc community! Awesome job bro!
Thoroughly enjoyed the video and the piloting. Love the Hornet and the way it fly's. My only slight recommendation is not to use the slats and the air brake when landing....yes. Its heavy and you can't float it in, but drive it in and let a slight head wind be your lifting buddy.
Beautiful Jet, great flying too. Glad you got the worst bugs worked out on it. Now they can enjoy flying it.
Hi, I observed two things. First, the angle of attack is wrong during take off, and second, the vertical energy at touch-down is not absorbed by the landing gear. If you look at the original (deck) landing of an F18, the main gear folds in and stays there so the plane does not bounce up again.
I mounted sloppy springs in the Yellow Aircraft F18 main gear and placed O-rings on the lower bushing of this gear to make it air tight.
I put a Festo nipple on the top of the gear and put a hose into a small bottle. I filled everything with anti-freeze fuid.
I so created an effective schock absorber. If You wonder how I did all of this, I was one of the AMT USA guys in 2000 and Terry Nitsch flew our Yellow Aircraft F18 with the AMT Olympus engine.
Yust want you to know how we solved the take-off and landing problems with a heavy F18. Regards, Han Jenniskens.
I was an Aircraft Maintenance Technician in Tindal RAAF Base, Northern Territory,Australia in 75Sqn and had the opportunity to see some of the most amazing flying by the squadron pilots that I have ever witnessed, including the tail walk, ballistic manoeuvre, they could do the tail walk, then hit the loud pedal and go ballistic from the tail walk, the FA18’s that were there were fresh off the assembly line, and were delivered “Clean Skins”, with no markings for Squadron or country, that was THE first job to be performed as soon as they landed.. I would really love to see you do the tail walk then go ballistic from that position if you would like to appease an old digger please mate.. You look as though you have ironed out most of the bugs looking at your last flight, so if you’re going to have a go at it, please give me a yodel so I don’t miss out..
You look like a very good pilot mate, get as much practice as possible and you can be Great..
Really appreciate your time and effort put into this project, it shows…
I purchased, a, icoy system, it works fantastic for the center of gravity location, also it gives you lateral readings as well. Would strongly recommend. Today is October 19th 2022.
This is a great video, Thanks for sharing. Beautiful fighter! Awesome flying, great job.
I was cheering!!! Thank you for sharing😊
Excellent job in building and getting the bugs out. Impressive flight. Hope to see more flight videos.
The F/A-18 used on the Top Gun 2 were F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornets, the one you are using is a EF-18 Hornet. Not saying that It is bad, but the contrary, It is awesome! Just trying to tell more about the difference between aircraft variants
Tecnically its a EF-18M , an upgraded version of the EF-18A wich in turn began life as a custom version of the F/A-18A+ . They have updated avionics, SuperHornet-ish 4 MFD cockpit , updates coms, ECM and datalinks and the big GE 402 engines.. Ironically legacy Hornets still perform slighty better than the Rhino in terms of turn and climb.. so a Legacy would actually be better for the mission "as portrayed" in TG2
@@sparrowlt Tysm for the information! It's always good to learn more, specially when you are studying aviation engineering
@@bilizard6218 The Hornet is a very interesting aircraft to "study" .. first it has a very long and complex origin (its the offspring of the F-5 design wich was evolved into the YF-17 wich was then evolved into the F/A-18) and then McDonnel Douglas in order to try to export the naval version made concesions to buyer countries giving them near total freedom to customize and upgrade their aircraft. So the Canadians CF-18 , Spanish EF-18 and the Swiss Hornets are all slighty different than the baseline Hornet A. The Canadians ended updating their fleet to C standard, the spanish went different way with their own updates and the swiss went directly for the C standard but with much less air to ground and the wingfold system removed so they are rated at 9Gs. Not trying to be pedantic but there is plenty of stuff from the Hornet alone
I like the way you fly it, realistic. Even taxiing you make it look like the 'real'. Some time its hard to say if it's model or 1/1. You got that secret ingredient if realism which is to sit on the pilot's seat , like.
Congratulations
Se me han puesto de corbata cuando las ruedas tocan el suelo y ese ángulo de inclinación tan acusado. Bravo Martin!
Your persistence paid off. Congratulations.
Saludos desde La paz BCS Mexico.
Qué impresionante estaa 🤦🤦🙆🙆🙆lo que debe costar 👏👏👌👌👍👍👌👌🤦
Your broomstick analogy, at least how it actually relates to the plane, is called the polar moment of inertia
Great video Martin! Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic model! Great flying!
Fun facts.
Top gun uses f18 super hornets, meanwhile spain uses F18 hornets.
Super hornets have rectangular air intakes and larger LEX (leading edge extension) and more.
Now you know how to identificate both
Great flying but landing was a little sketchy. Beautiful scale F18...best I've seen.
Nicely done!👍👏😤
I would anytime handover my precious model to you Martin as there aren’t probably many pilots that qualify in the category jet test pilot and construction engineer at the same time. Beautiful plane.
Good landing
11:03 the landing was excellent
The next time you go to balance a plane like this.. try the Vanessa balancing system. Look it up, you make it yourself.. It is a very accurate way to balance any aircraft.. But what I see on the video is an example of fine flying and engineering problem solving.... In a word. COOL!!!
Not certain who your video videographer is... but that person deserves an award for his or her amazing skill, as does the pilot.
Phenomenal.
Liked the high alpha slow flight! Very realistic
I saw a "Bug" do the high Alpha dirty-bird pass at an Airshow, back in the late 1990's, and was amazed then. To see a turbine R/C model do it now, well, WOW!
As a non-degreed Aeronautical Engineering kind of guy (non-degreed by @3.5 years of classes) who has "very informally" studied aviation for around 65 years, I know how hard the Cobra Maneuver is on airframe, engines, and pilot. Throw in RPV to the mix, and all I can say is, congratulations on the major-league cojones!
Polar moment of inertia - is the phrase your looking for
very impressing bird! and what a huge mount of work on this whole process, amazing.
Just a little note: your modell is a legacy Hornet, an earlier modell of the super hornet wich is used in Topgun. the simplest way to check out are the diffrent air intakes for the turbines. (on the Superhornet the are sqared)
But as i mentioned, huge respect for such an amazig work.
cheers
lovely noise in the background
Thanks to your maintenance this Super Hornet is now ready for dogfights ! Happy Landings and have a Good Day !
That thing has a gorgeous paint job.
F18 when I was deployed had the same landing gear issues. I saw a few of landing gears break on carrier recoveries…
영화 탑건 매버릭과 미 해군 항공모함 함재기로 사용하는 기체는 슈퍼호넷으로 영상의 기체와 다름. 영상의 기체는 연식 변경 전의 호넷임. 에어 인테이크로 구별 가능함.
그렇다 해서 이 RC 기체가 별로라는 건 아님. 정말 놀랍도록 훌륭하게 구현한 기체!
job well done congrats
Wonderful
hi martin love your videos amazing flying
Superbe finition. Bravo monsieur.
CG+ ailerons. That is a huge bite out of the air in a turn! To scale, pilot mush
estol muito contente de ver que você finalmente teve conclusão no seu projeto . o passaro fez um voo completo 🏁
Outstanding video. OMG off the hook. 🎉. I’m so so jealous
Thank you!!!!
This is a skymaster POS F-18, every single one of these planes has crashed and so will this one, throw away and get a BVM/Jet Legen F-18
Pitching moments without the control of a fly by wire system is a real pain in the butt. You are on the right track though. Get all the heavy parts closer to the center of pitch and things will go easier. Looks like it flew great though.
Amazing!
Great job and nice owner. He bought it so you could fly it ;-)
HI, All in all Nice flight. Can you share the details of all what you've done so that other soon to be owners can make some changes based off of what you've doe??
This is amazing!!!😮😍👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nice job! Now to figure out how to taxi and take off without the tailhook down.
Yeah, that was another air leek, just like the nose leg…
una pasada martin y lo mejor ver a ese vitoriano por ahi jajajajaj
Jolly good 😊
That servo buzz in a video isn't annoying at all... Beautiful plane though, and nothing feels better than figuring out gremlins!
Ei”feeling a sense of accomplishment”
That thing is sweet.. Tom Cruise would be proud
Me encanta el F 18, es un avión fantástico, a pesar de los muchos años que tiene, aún sigue siendo una plataforma de armas útil y funcional.
Well theres two, the F18 Hornet from the 70's and the Super Hornet from the 90's
I don’t think I could stomach the thought of crashing my >$10,000 dollar model to even do the testing necessary to get that flying like you guys did. Then again, if you can afford to have a few expensive learning mistakes in the process, more power to ya. Nice model, glad it flies properly now, and cheers from NorCal
If it was mine, I would have probably not wanted to continue suffering! Would have gone cheap… 😄
Wow any lesser pilot and that plane would have been in 1000 pieces the first flight. Smart owner. Impressive scale jet!
Bad ass F-18 and great flying😳
WOW far-out mate 👏
IMHO, the tails flail around a lot when taxi'ing... this can eventually strip servo gears...
Yup I would look the elevator linkage and servos and tighten that area up.
No this F18 skymaster is a great flying plane with right setting up. The manual always makes nose heavy
That is such a nice plane 💪🏻
Yyyeeeeeesssss. Let’s fly and dance baby. Let’s Race
I remember Canada started updated our fleet of Voodoos' and Star fighters ..I didn't like the looks since the US had cooler looking Jets, but 40 years after I love the look Cf-18 very soon CF-35 might start being made. But that's another story.
Charlie model not in Top Gun. Not tailerons, elevons. All that said, absolutely fantastic flying. 👏
Beautiful legacy windscreen to gun blast shield just a little bit too long. Also outboard pylons are supposed to be the exact same as inboard.
I was on wheels watch at NAS Oceana when the two prototype F-18s came in from sea trials on the Nimitz and I watched as one of them did a ground loop as the landing gear folded on landing. This has never been included in any documentary on this aircraft.
Congrats sorting out some of the bugs .
A few remarks though .
A, the aircraft sits to high off the tarmac, therefore it’s less stable on the ground .
B, on approach change your rate of descend to a shallower rate . Start from a lower altitude with power on . Use more thrust to control rate of descend instead of trying to glide it in . Otherwise you’re on the right track, good job .
Crappy kit though
Wow.. impressive 👌
Building as light as possible ist noch a new Invention in Germany 😁
Nice!
It's the same for racing cars. Rather than setting up the weight as a barbell with weight on each end, they set it up with as much weight as possible close to the center of mass. Your model will be much more responsive to control surfaces this way.
Relocating mass to the center causes to be more active and responsive to pitch and yaw inputs as you said, which you certainly want in a race car or highly aerobatic aircraft, but as a result it also causes it to be less stable. The only reason why it works in this model is because the gyros are now better able to act upon the airframe, functioning and holding attitude more effectively. Without gyro stability, this model would likely suffer from a sudden increase in pilot induced oscillations by centering the mass. Aircraft are engineered to have a certain amount of force input by the pilot in order to create a corresponding movement of the aircraft, get it too light and easy to manipulate and you'll start seeing PIO's as the cause of crashes. Coincidentally, trophy trucks are actually set up the entire opposite of this, trying to get as much weight as far from the center as possible, so that a bump on one side doesn't cause the entire truck to easily rotate about its center as a result. The widely distributed weight tends to want to stay in the orientation it's at when acted upon by uneven terrain. They're limited in how much they can do this by also necessitating a proper weight distribution front and rear, but they do what they can within that envelope. Smaller trucks and open wheel buggies have a harder time distributing that weight to the outer corners even though they share a similar wheelbase, because there's even less stuff located away from the center. As a result, the buggies and smaller classes (especially the UTV classes) can be seen bucking and bobbing around (rolling and pitching moments) whereas a trophy truck would exhibit more stability in those axis when encountering the same terrain.
WWooow! 🐝🐝 ALA 15 !
What a machine! New subscriber. Nice flying
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡GUAPISIMO!!!!!!!! W O W...
Nice work Martin!
Martin, if that beast gives you any more trouble, just hand me the box, hold my beer, and I will professionally re-kit it for you in very short order. Love your videos and enthusiasm!
Vrooooommm!
Marine call in,, BOOOOMMM!
Keep it coming buddy you’ll get the gears fix right soon
I was thinking on similar lines as you we had a giant scale race plane that was so pitch sensitive it was almost unflyable did basically the same thing as you took weight out from behind the cg and removed nose weight in essence the cg was like an ice skate so narrow it made it like the wobbly goblin our solution solved our problem as it did yours . Like the way you flew it like you stole it nice job !!!
WOW!!!!
This is best video I have seen. Your landing is not proper. But you are still dangerous. You can be my wingman anytime 👌👍❤
I love the RC jets just the cost alone would scare me away, but it would be wonderful to fly one of those. I would just be nervous to crash such an expensive plane.
What kit is this, you didn't mention the manufacturer, was this on purpose?
Sky master.
Isn't that airbrake supposed to be deployed only on the ground? Surely that will push the tail down?
Also make sure you got elevon mix setup.
Done, still flys like a pig lol
Would the Gyro stability system you have installed on there perhaps benefit from being installed nearest to the center of gravity? I don't have much experience with that particular one, but ones I have installed before generally stated to be installed as close to CoG as possible. Great looking F18. Too bad it was giving so much of a headache.
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