My new G4! :)

[TonyUK]

Looking good Laurence, Any vids yet?

[swale]

A video.....of the goughmeister, couldn't think of nothing worse to watch :-D

[LaurenceGough]

Thanks Tony, I think Dan may have a video but it was just of rough flying (first flight of the day!), and also my first with a governor. The governor does seem to help a bit, but to be honest cyclic mixing helped a great deal as well when I was without one .

I now have MKS brushless HV servos on cyclic and a Futaba BLS HV on tail so running on direct 2S Optipower Lipo. The Spektrum servos were great it was just I had an issue with the regulator and rather run 2S direct than risk another failure.

I am still waiting on a starter so still not had that many flights on her. I have found 710s are a bit too much so I now have some 690mm Revolution FBL blades ready to go.

And lol swale

[sunny_manku1985]

Looks fantastic Laurence, wish I had the room for one.

[swale]

to be honest that was my thought also on the 710s.....little too floaty for my taste/style :-D

Thanks Tony, I think Dan may have a video but it was just of rough flying (first flight of the day!), and also my first with a governor. The governor does seem to help a bit, but to be honest cyclic mixing helped a great deal as well when I was without one .

I now have MKS brushless HV servos on cyclic and a Futaba BLS HV on tail so running on direct 2S Optipower Lipo. The Spektrum servos were great it was just I had an issue with the regulator and rather run 2S direct than risk another failure.

I am still waiting on a starter so still not had that many flights on her. I have found 710s are a bit too much so I now have some 690mm Revolution FBL blades ready to go.

And lol swale

[LaurenceGough]

True but the Raptor G4 has a massive hub which sticks the blades out really far. I haven't measured it at all but 690s should act more like 700s . Best of both worlds hopefully!

[adieuk]

looking very nice mate does Nitro makes a come back

[swale]

nitro still great fun :-D

looking very nice mate does Nitro makes a come back

[bulnose]

What kinda weight is this model, how do u think it would perform with a 90 in instead of the 105?

[LaurenceGough]

The kit specs are 4400g fully equipped, I don't have scales accurate enough to measure I'm afraid.

I have flown one with a .91 engine in and it seems to perform nicely, this was an OS .91 HZ-R engine. The main difference is when you are really heavily loaded the larger engines keep the headspeed up better.

[squeaky pete]

OS91, and 5kg fully fuelled

[Varelco]

OS91, and 5kg fully fuelled

Seemed powerful enough to me, so is there a real need for these big block engines? That looked perfectly capable to me!

[squeaky pete]

and that was running under powered due to the heat, video has been moved to its own thread for ease

[bulnose]

Have u tried it with the 690 blades on yet ?

[Stuart]

Mine is 4.5kg no fuel while the E720 is 5.5kg with 2 x 6s 5000mah....