How would I convert the Mustang to Li-po batteries? It says it is 3-cell Lipo compatible. Can I run lithiums with the stock motor included?

I'm hoping lipos could maybe increase flight time, am I correct?

BTW, I've decided on the Mustang, I just need to scrounge up the money...Yes and no, they are plug and play compatible with lipos, you may have to change the connector on the lipo , But if you go lipo I would suggest upgrading to deans connectors on the plane and on the lipo, Yes you will get longer run time if the lipo Mah is higher than the pack in the plane, you will definitley have more power with 11.1 lipo, and yes the stock motor can be run with lipo. lipos need a different charger too!

Are these the plugs I'd need? What are deans connectors?
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Shop/ByCategory/Product/RelatedParts.aspx?ProdID=PKZ1500&Category=Optional+Accessories&SubCategory=

The provided Ni-MH batteries are 1000 mah, the Lipos are 2100 mah, so they woul last longer. Any idea how long if the stock batts run 15 mins?

Are these the plugs I'd need? What are deans connectors?
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Shop/ByCategory/Product/RelatedParts.aspx?ProdID=PKZ1500&Category=Optional+Accessories&SubCategory=

The provided Ni-MH batteries are 1000 mah, the Lipos are 2100 mah, so they woul last longer. Any idea how long if the stock batts run 15 mins?no go to http://www.wsdeans.com/products/plugs/ultra_plug.html they have then at your LHS. I realy would fly it with the regular bats first!!!! be alittle less powerful

I realy would fly it with the regular bats first!!!! be alittle less powerful

Oh I am! The Lipos are a little too expensive to get right now. I was just curious. Thanks.

Hey guys, I finally bought my Parkzone P51 Mustang and I have a question. The peak charger included with the set has a 12V car adaptor but no power outlet plug. Is there an adaptor that will let me charge it in the house.

I see the point of charging it in the car, but no 2nd adaptor is kind of screwy. :rolleyes:

Would a 40-minute charge from a non-running car battery be enough to kill it? I don't think it would, but just to be safe...

Hey guys, I finally bought my Parkzone P51 Mustang and I have a question. The peak charger included with the set has a 12V car adaptor but no power outlet plug. Is there an adaptor that will let me charge it in the house.

I see the point of charging it in the car, but no 2nd adaptor is kind of screwy. :rolleyes:

Would a 40-minute charge from a non-running car battery be enough to kill it? I don't think it would, but just to be safe...thats the way they come, only with a car charger sorry!. you can charge it from a non running car battery yes! charging wont kill it your only pulling 4 amps at best

Thanks! The charge rate is 1.4 amps.

Have any flying tips for a first-timer? I've played that RealFlight(?) computer program at a hobby store and found it pretty easy to maneuver. Is it harder in real-life? Wind, etc....

Thanks! The charge rate is 1.4 amps.

Have any flying tips for a first-timer? I've played that RealFlight(?) computer program at a hobby store and found it pretty easy to maneuver. Is it harder in real-life? Wind, etc....yeah Dont crash! LOL the best thing I can tell you is take it easy, dont get over zealous on the stick inputs, a little goes a long way. make sure for your first flight your in a very large open area. and I always taught people to keep the plane to the right of them so the controls never change, meaning so that the plane is never comming straight back at you, because then left is right and right is left! thats where most pilots make there mistake.

so how have you been makeing out with your airplane?

Brandon

so how have you been makeing out with your airplane?

Brandon

I ended up getting the Parkzone Super Decathlon. I found a local flying club with one guy who had the Mustang and he strongly recommended another plane. The Decathlon runs great and the 2 rates are nice. The guys at my local field really made learning alot easier.

I'm thinking my next purchase will be a Lipo and then maybe a Stryker with the PZ Mustang receiver for Lipo power. I have 2, maybe 3 guys who fly combat with PZ's combat modules.

Then I want a warbird. Any of you guys have any experience with GWS warbirds?

I ended up getting the Parkzone Super Decathlon. I found a local flying club with one guy who had the Mustang and he strongly recommended another plane. The Decathlon runs great and the 2 rates are nice. The guys at my local field really made learning alot easier.

I'm thinking my next purchase will be a Lipo and then maybe a Stryker with the PZ Mustang receiver for Lipo power. I have 2, maybe 3 guys who fly combat with PZ's combat modules.

Then I want a warbird. Any of you guys have any experience with GWS warbirds?yup they all seem to fly great, you can t go wrong with any of em but I am partucular to the p40

Have you two flown the Cub or Decathlon for awhile? Do you own one?
I've read that the Venom 370 motor is a good upgrade for both planes.

I have had a lot of stick time on the cub not so much on the decathlon. but not sure what would be a good motor for the plane but i will tell you what would be an awsome motor for it is the AXI 2208/34 got to hobby-lobby.com they have a sale on them right now for 50.00. they are AWSOME i would never go back to a gear drive again the outrunners are great just my opinion.


Brandon

I have had a lot of stick time on the cub not so much on the decathlon. but not sure what would be a good motor for the plane but i will tell you what would be an awsome motor for it is the AXI 2208/34 got to hobby-lobby.com they have a sale on them right now for 50.00. they are AWSOME i would never go back to a gear drive again the outrunners are great just my opinion.


BrandonJust the cub for me too, I agree with the outrunner thing ,no more gears for me either!

I have had a lot of stick time on the cub not so much on the decathlon. but not sure what would be a good motor for the plane but i will tell you what would be an awsome motor for it is the AXI 2208/34 got to hobby-lobby.com they have a sale on them right now for 50.00. they are AWSOME i would never go back to a gear drive again the outrunners are great just my opinion.


Brandon

I'm sure eventually I will go brushless, but right now it is WAY to expensive. Plus I don't have a good Transmitter right now. I need that first. Hopefully by Christmas.

i know brushless is expensive!! But you do not need a real good radio you have to make a choice between futaba or jr? I personaly fly jr it is the most user friendly radio i have used!! Go with some thing atleats 6 channel or higher like the jr 6102 is an awsome radio you can pick one up for like 250? But a real good one is the jr pcm10x but that is 1,200.


BRANDON

i know brushless is expensive!! But you do not need a real good radio you have to make a choice between futaba or jr? I personaly fly jr it is the most user friendly radio i have used!! Go with some thing atleats 6 channel or higher like the jr 6102 is an awsome radio you can pick one up for like 250? But a real good one is the jr pcm10x but that is 1,200.


BRANDON

I plan on getting a JR 6102 around Christmas as well as a good brushless motor/ESC. I'm leaning towards an AXI. I'd love to get an AXI brushless and stick it in the Great Planes Combat Corsair. It's a balsa plane, so by then I'm hoping my skills will be good enough. The Stryker should be a good aileron trainer for that.

Literally EVERYONE at my flying club has the 6102.

And when I said in my previous post that I don't have a good Tx...I'm using the PZ Tx from the Decathlon. So I'm not thinking I need a $1000 controller.

I also have the 6102 and it is awsome but i know what you are saying about the 1000 bucks it is alot to spend. i would deff go with the axi!!

Brandon

What Axi would power the Great Planes Combat Corsair? It's a 2-3 lb plane and I saw on Hobby-lobby.com that there are mulitple versions of the same motor. What's the difference? How many amps the motor can handle?

for my hobby-lobby yak i use a axi 2208/34 but it is only 12 ounces!! I would go with the axi-2814-12 will do it flies 4 pound models and up but if you are looking for horse power go with the axi 2820-10 that flies 5 pound models and up!!

Brandon Snyder

2208/34

the last didget is the winds in the motor so it would be a 34 wine's motor and so on if it was 12 at the end it would be a 12 wine's? the less wine's i belive that it would have more power?

Brandon

Hey Brandon, have you tried out the BP21 (Balsa Products 21) brushless motor?

Right now it's only $19 and I think $20-$30 for the ESC.

I saw this on RCuniverse. A few guys are modifying the motor mount on the Stryker to use the BP21. It's only for smaller planes about 16 oz or less. A guy at my field also flies it on his Cobra and it's pretty fast!

http://www.balsapr.com/catalog/motors/BPBrushlessView.asp?ProductId=U422859

looks like an aswsome motor just my opoinin i would not go with any thing but an outrunner? But it will work in you case. looks like a nice motor.



Brandon

Yeah, when I go brushless, no more gearboxes....to much of a mess.

outrunners are the only way to go!! When i have gear boxes i always strioed the gear when i landed so i just come in hover the plane and hold it there and grab it!!


Brandon

I Fly The Stranger Special !

I Fly The Stranger Special !
lol u da man dave!

the stranger is by far the best there is. good recommendation Dave w 1! bsracing8 are you a pro flyer? i think i have seen you in magizines b4?

I am a vey good flyer i go and fly contest all over the NE like marry land to and as far north as you can go! I might be in a mag? but i sure want to be a pro driver!! haha

not much chit chat going on here!

Brandon

Ummm....

Let's list the planes we want or plan on getting in the future.

I have a PZ Stryker on order, building it from parts. The Rx and elevons are on backorder so I'm not happy. I'll be running 1320 mah Lipo.

I want a Great Planes Mini Super Sportster and plan on putting a Himax brushless in it with Lipo. Not sure on which motor yet, probably a direct-drive.

Also want a GWS Zero with a Himax or BP21 brushless outrunner.

My PZ Decathlon is too tame right now, not enough power and no ailerons. I've reached the extent of it's aerobatic abilities. It's been through the ringer. Pile-drove it into some tall weeds coming out of a failed low-altitude loop. Only cracked the cowl.
Also blew off a flight-table at the field and cracked the entire right side of the elevator. Still flies like a champ.

Brandon, are you on any RC airplane forums? I'm registered on RCuniverse and visit the Parkflyer area regularly. RCgroups wouldn't let me register for some reason.

I am a member of rcu but dont go on that to much! I am on here alot I dont know why it will not let you sign up that is strange? Email them and see what tey say. I hope to have a nice new big airplane for this spring!! Something like a 52% pitts challanger!! That would be nice.

brandon

Update, The Decathlon is old news. Got my lipo Stryker up and flying, has about 6 flights on it now. Screams like a bat outta hell! I find it very easy to fly also. On windy days, like today, I can just get up high, cut the power and sit around for awhile while it catches some air. Glides very nice!

Awsome glad to hear you are having fun with the new plane!!!! Are you ever going to get a 35%? Or 40% I love them but when they go down you almost wan't to cry it hurts!! you are talking 5,000 -9,000 when they go down!!! But nothing flies better the a 40%!! Maybe the real ones fly better? I am going to school to be a aerobatic pilot!!! I want to be just like JIMMY FRANKLIN!!! Jim Franklin Will always be missed!!

Brandon Snyder
Hear is a pic of jim... Jim was one of the best aerobatic pilots in the world he was killed on 7/10/05 in a Airplane crash With his best friend Bobby Younkin the where preforming what they call Masters of Disaster. No one know's what happen there flying is so close!!! This i what i am sure happend the one part goes like this the jet truck is on the ground and jim franklin has a jet and yes I said jet on the bottom of his 1937 waco and he races the truck and bobby comes from the other end of the runway and they meet in the middle and they both go to knife edge and that is where i am sure every thing went wrong. Jimmy and Bobby I will miss you guys!!!
http://www.franklinairshow.com/images/BobbyCockpit.gifhttp://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/071305/tppic.jpghttp://miramar.airshowjournal.com/2002/Img_8588.jpg

I don't know if I'll ever get that big. It seems really cool, maybe when I start making some really good money after college I could step up to something close to that level. :lol:

I don't know if there's any way I could justify 5-9K on a model plane.
Most likely the largest I'll go is around 60" wingspan for now. My local field isn't big enough for anything larger, and we only fly electric. The closest gas field is probably 45 mins away, whereas my little electric field with a 500ft paved runway is only 10 mins away.

The Fliton Mini Edge and Extra are looking very tempting! ;)

yah i hear you on the big thing but i love them!!! I just never want mine to go down i think i would cry!! haha LOL.

Brandon

http://miramar.airshowjournal.com/2002/Img_8588.jpg
WOW now i know who these guys are! I saw these guys the first time back in 1996 at the Lorain county airshow, I thought it was nutz to see a dam waco with a turbine and radial engine! it was sweet he would do a fly buy on the prop and the pull up and go vertical and throttle the jet engine and climb straight up out of sight! not to mention that the dude wing walks on it too! I wil lmiss them now too knowing now who they are!

you and me bolth will miss them!!

where are you guys where is all the chit chat!

HMMM where is everyone i take it not to mant flyers on this site?

Brandon

HMMM where is everyone i take it not to mant flyers on this site?

Brandon


Nobodies talkin' balsa/dope/nitro. Yeah I voted "other":thumbsup:

haha What type of plane do you fly CRAZY MIKE?

Brandon

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/510/Flounder.jpg

You expected less?

what kind of plane is that that is a wing i am seeing?

Brandon

hope everyone had a merry xmas!!!!

Oops, forgot about this board. I've been on RCgroups too much. :D

Just got a Carl Goldberg Super Chipmunk with an E-flite 450 outrunner. Very nice flyer!

Brandon, got any videos of your flying? You say you fly competition, I'd like to see some stuff.

i dont have a videos sorry.

ttt not to much talk going on hear!!!! Any luck with the chipmunk?

Brandon

yea brandon ya know what kind of plane i like best?



THE KIND THAT FLYS!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

mine fly well!!!!

Brandon