@@Thercgeek I really hope so - I have two balsa models now after moving from a bunch of Eflite and Hobbyking foamies. Once you go balsa it's hard to go back to foam but the building time is really annoying with balsa. This could be a new sweet spot for people who love balsa but have time constraints.
Dear Mr. Geek, thank you for a really good review. Thank you for not talking over the sound of the plane in flight, which is incredible with the stock prop on 4S. Most reviewers just talk and talk and then talk some more, and they don't say a whole lot. It was refreshing to find a reviewer who talks an appropriate amount and in the right places. What is it about balsa? That thing flies like it's on rails and rock solid. Foam just don't fly like that. Subscribed, taking notes and looking forward to binging your videos. Look for a review from me on a plane that I built myself. ;-)
I know this is a couple years old, but this reminds me of an old school ARF kit with all the electrics already installed. I love the way balsa flys. I may have to get one.
A good friend of mine just got one of these. He cut the ailerons to make flaps works great. He did have his motor mount box break off. Seems it was only CA'd on . He expoied it now and it's fine now.
Mine is coming this week. I plan to make flaperons with mine. I do this all the time with my 3d planes. No need to cut into the wing and add weight just but both ailerons on two channels and make a flaperon set up. Love the review.
Mine just came in, it has a ton of weights already installed on the motor mount. Also my motor mount is separated from the firewall. No glue on it at all and this is my second plane from Hanger 9 where the firewall had no glue. My 15cc Carbon Cub motor pulled out and no signs of glue on it anywhere. So if anyone buys any Hanger 9 planes, re glue to the motor mounts or at least thoroughly check them. I do it on foamies, never thought I would have to do it on a Hanger 9 plane.
Another great vid. I do like the "fun scale " approach. Currently building an old gp slab sided corsair. And back in the day built a jenco fun scale P-51 with inverted engine and retracts, and a few other tweaks. Hope H9 does a few more of these.
Thanks for the review, do you think it would be difficult to cut the ailerons and make flaps? It seems weird to spend $500 on a scale (semi scale) warbird without flaps.
The model is the airframe with the electronics installed including the motor and esc. It requires supplying a radio, receiver and flight battery. I have links to all of that in the video description.
@@Thercgeek mostly on rates. It seemed really responsive. Or overly responsive when he first started. I could see he really had it locked in. Yours seemed to just do great right from the start.
@Pete Beebe I heard about that. Honestly, this isn’t a real great candidate for flaperons IMO. Flaperons reduce your roll rate when they are down just by themselves which at slow speed can be problematic. I think just cutting in a flap would be the way to go honestly and wouldn’t be too hard I don’t think.
@Old Scratch that’s all in the setup. I give myself individually selectable aileron and elevator rates which gives me options for both on a maiden. The model was pretty roll sensitive on the first flight, but switching them to low rate during the flight tamed that straight away.
I bought an airplane after watching the video. What kind of 4s 5000 battery is it? I want to know the weight. I don't like adding weights. I'm thinking about buying the 5500 size.
Sign me up for more balsa PNPs! Really hope we see more from H9 in this category!
Agreed! I see balsa pnp becoming more prevalent in the future for sure.
@@Thercgeek I really hope so - I have two balsa models now after moving from a bunch of Eflite and Hobbyking foamies. Once you go balsa it's hard to go back to foam but the building time is really annoying with balsa. This could be a new sweet spot for people who love balsa but have time constraints.
Dear Mr. Geek, thank you for a really good review. Thank you for not talking over the sound of the plane in flight, which is incredible with the stock prop on 4S. Most reviewers just talk and talk and then talk some more, and they don't say a whole lot. It was refreshing to find a reviewer who talks an appropriate amount and in the right places. What is it about balsa? That thing flies like it's on rails and rock solid. Foam just don't fly like that. Subscribed, taking notes and looking forward to binging your videos. Look for a review from me on a plane that I built myself. ;-)
Thanks so much! I think the rigidity of wood is what helps them to lock in better in flight.
I know this is a couple years old, but this reminds me of an old school ARF kit with all the electrics already installed. I love the way balsa flys. I may have to get one.
It totally is like the old school birds. That’s why I like it. Good flyer too
I've been eyeing this plane up eversince I first heard about it. You flew it fantastically well and it looks like a very nice solid performer.
Thanks! It really is a fun ride and Flies extremely well.
Good one Geekster 👍 The worst thing about the old balsa days was coming home after a days flying and cleaning all the castor goop off everything 🙂
Ah yes, I remember that well. I don’t miss that. I do miss the smell though. I love the smell of burned glow fuel, haha
And the sound of them good old saito and os 4 bangers
A good friend of mine just got one of these. He cut the ailerons to make flaps works great. He did have his motor mount box break off. Seems it was only CA'd on . He expoied it now and it's fine now.
That silver really pops Awesome aircraft Great video as well!!!!!!!
Thanks! 😊
Nice one camera guy 👍🤣
Mine is coming this week. I plan to make flaperons with mine. I do this all the time with my 3d planes. No need to cut into the wing and add weight just but both ailerons on two channels and make a flaperon set up. Love the review.
Great build video Chris, off course a great flight as well. It’s almost H9 are fighting the PNP Foam with Bulsa, I think that’s great. 👍🏻
Thanks! Yeah, I’m liking the balsa pnp direction for sure.
@@Thercgeek mind you, I am sure I would find bits to add just for my enjoyment. 👍🏻
Always! 😁
Agreed. I was put off by foam when I got back into it after my 70's days. A lots changed sense then but I cought up.
Great job RC Geek, very helpful. I'm going to have to go get one of these for my quickie flights.
Beautiful~
Mine just came in, it has a ton of weights already installed on the motor mount. Also my motor mount is separated from the firewall. No glue on it at all and this is my second plane from Hanger 9 where the firewall had no glue. My 15cc Carbon Cub motor pulled out and no signs of glue on it anywhere. So if anyone buys any Hanger 9 planes, re glue to the motor mounts or at least thoroughly check them. I do it on foamies, never thought I would have to do it on a Hanger 9 plane.
Another great vid. I do like the "fun scale " approach. Currently building an old gp slab sided corsair. And back in the day built a jenco fun scale P-51 with inverted engine and retracts, and a few other tweaks.
Hope H9 does a few more of these.
Very cool! My friend has one of the corsairs he built with a 4 stroke in it and retracts. Flies great!
There are no bad jugs! :D
Amazing rc plane bro💓💓💓🇮🇳🇮🇳 indian youtuber 👌👌👌
good vid , I just got this plane as my first balsa plane , we will see if I can handle it..
Thanks, Have fun with it! 😊
I just cut the aileron and made flaps, haven't flown it yet but after too many slippery landings I decided to go for it.
That’s the way to go with it and was my intention intention to do so, but never got around to it.
It sure comes in hot w/ no flaps . It should have flaps , especially for the price .
It’s really not that bad, but I could see it really landing like a peach with flaps in it.
Nice flight! The landing distance is a little bit longer than I am used to though
That's partly due to the lack of flaps. I'm planning to put flaps into it when I can find the time to do so.
nice build
I'm assembling it and preparing for the first flight. Does the throttle come down when landing?
Thanks for the review, do you think it would be difficult to cut the ailerons and make flaps? It seems weird to spend $500 on a scale (semi scale) warbird without flaps.
That was the thought I had for adding them. I don’t think it would be too difficult to do.
@@Thercgeek you could just add flaparons instead of cutting the aileron that would give it a slower roll rate
It's an amazing aircraft. When using the 6s5000, did you replace only the prop with the same ESC? Was there no need to replace the ESC?
Correct, no change of the esc.
@@Thercgeek Excellent. Even if you use full throttle, it doesn't go over 60a, right?
I never measured the current and never had any issues between the two.
I like 4s because I like things that are light weight
If I change to 6s, can I feel the speed getting faster?
I can seel the power increasing.
I actually liked how it flew on 4s a little more. It wasn’t as fast, but it sounded great and still had excellent power.
Cool 😊
I have to ask, what Does it Cost? Does it Come with the RADIO, Batteries, Prop, and all the other things that are going to be needed?
The model is the airframe with the electronics installed including the motor and esc. It requires supplying a radio, receiver and flight battery. I have links to all of that in the video description.
Nice job, you made it look EZ, Brian Phillips did one and did a lot of tweaking on her.
What kind of tweaking? I found the assembly was pretty weight forward. Took a little more time glueing it together.
@@Thercgeek mostly on rates. It seemed really responsive. Or overly responsive when he first started. I could see he really had it locked in. Yours seemed to just do great right from the start.
I believe he did flapperons.
@Pete Beebe I heard about that. Honestly, this isn’t a real great candidate for flaperons IMO. Flaperons reduce your roll rate when they are down just by themselves which at slow speed can be problematic. I think just cutting in a flap would be the way to go honestly and wouldn’t be too hard I don’t think.
@Old Scratch that’s all in the setup. I give myself individually selectable aileron and elevator rates which gives me options for both on a maiden. The model was pretty roll sensitive on the first flight, but switching them to low rate during the flight tamed that straight away.
I bought an airplane after watching the video. What kind of 4s 5000 battery is it? I want to know the weight. I don't like adding weights. I'm thinking about buying the 5500 size.
It’s linked in the video description. It was the Spektrum smart 4s 5000mah.
@@Thercgeek Thank you
The shape of the fuselage is so wrong on this supposed P-47
It’s a throw back to the simplified quick build, fun scale models from back in the day.
Does anyone think that this airplane could be converted for nitro flying?
I definitely think it could.
@@Thercgeek Thanks for the response Chris. Love the channel.
You cut out the bit about...
Did you watch until the very end? 🤣
Now that's was funny.
@@Thercgeek i did now hahhaha
No flaps or LEDs really let’s this down
It definitely could benefit from flaps for landings imo.