New Extreme Flight RC Vanquish F3A

[Boulder]

Hey Chris,

As always you've got it going on!!!

I'm looking forward to this one being in my hanger, along side my 300E and my 540T profile...oh yeah...it still lives!!!

On the profile I took your advice, z-bends on one end, works sweet as heck!!

I'll get with you soon.

[jwilliams]

As soon as I get mine I promise a huge assembly thread with lots of pictures and once it is flying a video.
Jeff W.

[EXTREME FLIGHT]

The container with the Vanquish has been on the water for about 2 weeks. They should be here around March 10th, along with more of the 88 inch Yaks.
At this time we are only producing the color scheme shown.

[EXTREME FLIGHT]

The shipment of Vanquish F3As is arriving Friday afternoon and we will begin shipping on Monday. Please contact us at 770-887-1794 to order or you may order using our online store at www.extremeflightrc.com/store

[topgun130643]

Once again EF looks great Chris I love the scheme

[jwilliams]

GREAT NEWS. Glad to hear you are getting them in Chris.
Jeff

[EXTREME FLIGHT]

Thanks guys. This plane has become my favorite of our electrics.

[GremlinX]

Its a pretty little plane...I like it..

[jwilliams]

My buddy just got the email from Chris, they ship on Monday. Way to go Chris.
Jeff

[jwilliams]

Got an email from Chris last night. I will be starting a thread here just as soon as it arrives.
Jeff Williams

[Coolpig]

Would you come to Texas and fly with me and then give me the plane? that sounds like a sweet deal to me. BTW, Cool lookin' plane.

[klhoard]

Gentlemen,

The FMA 4S-2100 packs were coming out of the plane right at 140 degrees F after 7 minute flights. FMA says that is the temp that starts to degrade the packs as far as life cycle goes, so I decided to try something different.

I made up a paralleling plug and flew the plane this morning with both packs paralleled (electrically and physically!!). After the flight, the packs were only 104 degrees F, The speed control was 120F, and the motor was about 115F. I hooked up the Eagletree to one of the batteries, and you can see it only drew 19.5 amps on initial takeoff / fresh batteries, and about 17 amps at the peaks throughout the flight. When I got home the CellPro charger "fuel gauge" read 20% remaining charge in both packs.

I did not notice any difference in the flight characteristics of the plane due to the extra weight. If anything, the verticals seemed to take less throttle; a little less than half. I also carried a little extra speed on final approach in case the weight affected the landing, but don't think that will be a factor on future flights. I'm sure if you decided to 3D this configuration you would notice the difference, but at pattern speeds I couldn't tell the difference between one pack and two.

All up weight of the airplane is 2lb. 8oz. with one pack, and 6.8oz. more with the second pack.

Edit - I just tested this setup with an APC 12 x 6E prop. 840 Watts and 50 amps on the ground at WOT (ESC is good to 45 amps). Extremeflight recommends 500 watts, so I'm sure this will definately make it jump.