Long-term Memory

Place: Home
Tanks flown: 0.4
Time flown: 0h31 (cumulative model timer: 7h37)
Rx battery recharged with: 1890 mAh
Tx battery recharged with: 827 mAh
Glow heater battery recharged with: 334 mAh
Starter battery recharged with: N/A mAh

Comment:
Checking balance after replacement of balance tape; little hoover-demo for parents.

Place: Tienen
Tanks flown: 2.8
Time flown: 0h53 (cumulative model timer: 7h06)
Rx battery recharged with: not recharged
Tx battery recharged with: not recharged
Glow heater battery recharged with: not recharged
Starter battery recharged with: not recharged

Comment:
Hoover exercises with safety-hoop; some of the balance tape came loose. Replaced balance tape.

Place: Halle
Tanks flown: 2.8
Time flown: 1h00 (cumulative model timer: 6h13)
Rx battery recharged with: not recharged
Tx battery recharged with: not recharged
Glow heater battery recharged with: not recharged
Starter battery recharged with: not recharged

Comment:
First hoover with safety-hoop. Some tracking adjustments.

Place: Home
Tanks flown: 2, but not really flown
Time flown: N/A (cumulative model timer: 5h13)
Rx battery recharged with: 3153 mAh (first charge)
Tx battery recharged with: 1902 mAh (first charge)
Glow heater battery recharged with: N/A mAh
Starter battery recharged with: N/A mAh

Comment:
Breaking in the engine in the garden.

This page gives a short overview of my Thunder Tiger Raptor 50 Titan.

Lets start off with some specs:

• Rotor diameter: 1345mm
• Mass: 3.5kg
• Engine: OS 50SX-H Hyper; 8.2cm³, peak power of 1.4kW at 17000rpm
• Gyro: Futaba GY401 w/ 9254 digital tail servo
• Servo’s: Futaba 3152 on throttle, elevator and aillerons; 9206 on the pitch
• Governor: GV-1 set for 1650 and 1700rpm
• Rx: Futaba R319DPS 9 channel synthesizer module for the 35MHz band
• Tx: Futaba FF9 with synthesizer module for the 35MHz band

Pictures

It all started out like this:

After some days of gluing, screwing and a lot of sweat, this was the result:

After breaking in the engine, giving the canopy some color and a lot of simulator-hours, it finally flew:

Controlling this machine is done via the Futaba FF9CP, configured in Mode 2 (swash on the right, rudder and pitch on the left, NOT like the picture below):