f3a foamies. Which one??

[fun_fly_3d]

Guys,

i am really getting into these lightweight 5-6oz airplanes. I plan on using a park 300 motor. I need to know what f3a type plane to put this on. I really like the f3a foamy from ikarus. I will probably end up doing a scratch build based on this foamy. I am wondering what battery packs would be good to run with this setup to keep it lightweight but still have plenty of power. I also want to know what servos you guys are running. pics are great as well! I like the biplanes but have never built one let alone scratchbuilt one. i guess i'm open to the idea though.

Thanks,

Brian

[yakwrecker]

I had an F3A with a 300 and a castle creations thunderbird 9. I was using two cells to keep it light and i was not impressed. It would just go vertical at full power for about the first three minutes of flight. I would recommend one of the small three cell packs from www.2dogrc.com there's like a 360mih and something like a 470. They have a 30C discharge rate and i can say from personnal experience that they kick ass.

[Marcus76]

First off, I would suggest that if you have not already bought the 300, buy the Park 250 instead. I bought the Axi 2204, and I think the Eflite 250 would have been as powerful on a sub-5 ounce foamy, and less weight. If you already have the 300, no worries though, it'll still work fine.

Far batts, use any 2cell lipo around 300-400 mAh with 20C discharge or so, ideally no more than around 25 grams. I've been lucky with TP's. Use a 9x4.7 prop or so. Lots of power.

Servos, any 6.0 ounce servo or less will do. I went cheap, and bought the GWS Pico BB, but they are kinda slow. Dymond D47 are good (so I hear), and lighter too!

Scratch built is the way to go if you ask me. Lotsa good threads on RCGroups inthe Indoor/F3A forum, with links to plans amd build threads. Should be easy to get sub 5 ounces with proper equipment setup and light build techniques.

[flybye]

ikarus F3A axi 2204/54, 3 cirrus 4g servos, one hs-55(one 4 gram on the rudder, one one each elevator half, set up with ailevators kicks some ass) castle creations pheonix 10, gws 6ch reciever, Twenty(20C) 3 cell 400mah packs, sold through hobby-lobby. with the axi.. absolute insane vertical AUW: 10.5ow

[PLANKBONE]

The F3P Vorlet from Fancy foam is a pretty sweet patten plane. Run some Diamond servos and wait for the slow downlines!

[BubbaGump]

The Smove is pretty good too. It flies soo m=nice that I was doing the 06 ETOC sequence with it on the first flight. Then I let my dad fly it on three cells and the battery flew off and now the plane is scrap.

[JohnnyKatana]

the insane foamies sypher looks nothing like an f3a plane but on low rates flys just like the CHP genesis (1.20?)
and itll turn some heads if you land in a knife edge position or even upside down
god i love that plane

[kim3D]

get shock flyer f3a and go super light setup somthing like
6 gram servos
EFLITE 250
tray to get the frame under 2 oz

[Mike Williams]

Look at Jeff Pfeifer's blog.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=40850

You will see he has a 116 gram F3A Shockflyer for F3P.

Michael