{"id":83,"date":"2008-05-04T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:11","slug":"l-39-rc-jet-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/l-39-rc-jet-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"L-39 R\/C Jet on the way&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is in the air in Salt Lake City, so it&#8217;s finally warm enough to get back into R\/C flying. To that end, I ordered the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electrifly.com\/ductedfans\/gpma1869.html\">Electrifly L-39<\/a> electric ducted fan (EDF) jet. It&#8217;s getting great reviews, and I&#8217;m excited to fly it. I&#8217;ve read that the stock brushless motor is underpowered, so I&#8217;m looking into motor upgrades. I&#8217;m considering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbycity.com\/hobbycity\/store\/uh_viewItem.asp?idproduct=4202\">HXT 2040 4850kv<\/a> from HobbyCity.com, which ought to be a bolt-on replacement for the Ammo 3500 inrunner the plane comes with, but I&#8217;m worried it won&#8217;t give an appreciable power boost.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more info, but in the mean time, check out this video of the L-39 flying with a pair of F-27 Strykers (which I have also built and flown, if you follow this blog):<\/p><embed \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/mXf71-EwGKI\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/mXf71-EwGKI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the official Electrifly advertisement for the L-39:<\/p><embed \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/IE7s1-JJQTs\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/IE7s1-JJQTs\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is in the air in Salt Lake City, so it&#8217;s finally warm enough to get back into R\/C flying. To that end, I ordered the new Electrifly L-39 electric ducted fan (EDF) jet. It&#8217;s getting great reviews, and I&#8217;m excited to fly it. I&#8217;ve read that the stock brushless motor is underpowered, so I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}