I just started flying the Mercury F3P.
This plane was designed by Nicolas Pietu and is being distrubuted here in the States by www.SkipMillermodels.com.
I ordered it last week from them and they have been great to deal with.

Plane went together extremely well. Foam was nice and flat, no warps.
Everything fit really well.
There really wasnt anything to putting it together.

I put several flights on the plane this evening and its incredible.
SUPER slow, Extremely precise and very neutral.
Its literally like flying a pattern plane indoors.

Mines has:

Eflite 250 motor
Eflite 10 esc
GWS 7x3.5 DD prop
JR 185 servos on the tail (pull-pull)
Eflite S-60 on rudder.
Spektrum 2gram RX

4.1 oz no battery
5.0 oz with a 2S 480

That thing is sweet!! i think i found my next foamy

This design takes everything good off the F3P group and rolles it into 1 design. This is the best of current thinking on indoor precision aerobatics.

I like how they did the pattern style rudder to get equal displacement about the thrust line. That is certainly something new in an F3p foamy.

That looks real cool! What's the wingspan Wayne?

Chris B.

Hey Chris...

I am not real sure. Its in the 32" range though.

Awesome, no wonder it flies slow. Thats a good wing loading!

Chris B.

Hi,

The wingspan is 830mm.


My Mercury equipments :
Propeller : wes-technik 8x4,3
Motor : MicroDan F3P-29Tseries
Servo : Topmodel TS1118 speed
Controller : XPower XREG6
Weight : 98,3gr without battery (111,7gr with)







Best regards,
Nicolas PIETU

Nicolas,

Thanks for posting.
I have a new Mercury that is being milled out right now. I'll post weights and pics when its done.
Should be a few days.

Nicolas,

Welcome! Great Design and build!


Thanks Wayne, for sharing the Plane with us, found my next foamy.


Ward

Oh, a yellow mercury !

Nice looking Plane..... One more for the build list!!!!


John

Milled Mercury.

My buddy Craig Koerner said he would mill out a Mercury for me.
He just posted these pics.
Total weight removed was .4oz or 11.33g
AWESOME.

Thanks Craig.
(He's watching here if anyone has questions for him)

It's the same method as Matchless posted on here on how to mill a foamy.

Originally Posted by Wayne

Total weight removed was .4oz or 11.33g
AWESOME.

Thanks Craig.
(He's watching here if anyone has questions for him)

I have a question, how fast can you knock out a couple for me Craig?

Ward

Originally Posted by zzw26n

I have a question, how fast can you knock out a couple for me Craig?

Ward

If it's a Mercury, pretty quick. Once the template is made it doesn't take long. Took me about 3.5-4hrs to make the template.