31.5in Freewing Bubles PNP (EPO Foam)

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Product Review (submitted on September 6, 2014):

The plane is very quick build! the motor is over very nice quality but the shaft (That you can not get a replacement for) is fairly soft and bends fairly easy and thats a REALLY big issue. It uses a 2226 motor thats a size motor thats very hard to find other then from freewing and no one carries replacements, about the only option is the HK C20 that they only carry over seas so long shipping time.

The servos are fast enough and have enough torque BUT centering and resolution is VERY POOR but the teeth are strong and I have not stripped one even tho the plane has had plenty of hits to the ground <speaking of this heres the issue with this plane.

CG is 40mm/4cm from LE in the booklet, I got perfect CG dead on 4cm from LE with a 2S 1000 and 3S850 both 30C the ESC comes with a Male T connector just in case anyone needs to know what the connector is.
The plane has one HUGE issue in the design and no matter what I do I can not correct it (Ive been flying 3D Helicopters at a competition level for 3 years and been VERY good 3D heli pilot for 8, Flying planes for 17 years and Im a very good 3D pilot flying planes) So I really know my stuff given Im more of a heli pilot BUT planes are a joke to fly when you are a Pro level Heli pilot and this plane simply can not be setup.
I have tried everything moving the CG to try and find a sweet spot and can not get this plane to be fly-able. It will not fly at less the half throttle I must have gotten a bad one that has some really bad issues with its air foil. The vert stab is to long/big and some other airfoil issues, It causes the plane to need half power at all times to not tip stall and fall in to a unrecoverable death spiral.

Today I took it up under 100% throttle to about 800 feet back of power to about 20% and in level flight the right wing drops nose down in to a spiral that no matter the control inputs you can not stop the roll and you can not lift the nose even with plenty of speed to give air to the control surfaces, the Ele will not have effect once the death spiral starts you CAN NOT lift the nose back up. This plane isnt stable in ANY flight envelope, you will be fighting roll no matter the speed and at anything less then 85% throttle as soon as you start a bank (Rudder input or not) it will drop the wing and nose in and you loose all control and lawn dart in it.

I have never owned a plane that is this unstable, I was messing around today showing my friends with a 40in Edge 540 that is setup to fly hard core 3D will fly hands off because we had no wind this morning it was dead locked in as all my planes are of course some are more stable then others in level flight but all will pretty much track perfect at half throttle and no wind they fly wings and nose level until you want them to not be. 5 People all very god pilots tried flying this plane today and ONLY I could keep it in the air because the moment you start a bank even under full power you drop air speed and as soon as air speed drops so does the nose even when using the rudder to keep the nose up in a bank it doesnt matter you start a bank and when you start to pull on the Ele you will drop air speed and then you roll in to a death spiral that no matter how high or how fast your going you CAN NOT recover from. This is simply the WORST flying/crashing air plane Ive ever flew.

Ive seen plenty of the Kinetic 800s fly and everyone ive seen flys awesome and ive flew a friends at the field and its awesome thats why I bought this one. I guess I just got a bum one or the Freewing version is garbage. Ive flew VERY Tail heavy planes that flew better this thing is not a plane its a Tip Stalling nose dropping death spiraling piece of junk that ALSO has absolutely NO glide slope, you CAN NOT land it off power you have to land at almost half throttle and slide it in really fast when its time to put it down BUT you wont have to worry about that because you will never get to the point of having to land it it will have spiraled in on you long before its time to bring it in.

Buyers beware of this plane as Advanced pilots cant handle it no matter what we did to it, the good thing is its insanely tough except for the motor shaft to destroy this plane I really dont think you can without WOT lawn darting it. just understand if I didnt get one with a bum airfoil then you are not going to be flying this plane. To make it easy to understand this plane is 10X times harder to fly then a poorly setup 150 size Heli.
Its the first time I have had or seen a plane that I simply COULD NOT FLY.