Hangar 9 3.1M Sukhoi

[stangflyer]

Reviving a old thread. Thinking about using the Chief Aircraft sale to buy servos for my Sukhoi. Strongly considering MKS HV777 servos. I've seen 2 and 4 servos for the elevator, surely two 777's are enough elevator power for my mild flying. Do I save a few bucks and order a cheaper MKS for the throttle?

Thanks

I say yes.... there really is no need for an extremely high torque servo for throttle. As long as it is a good quality servo. I use Hitec 5665's on all my throttle setups. HV, Digital, metal gear and torque is around 130. Which is still way more than needed. But for 45 bucks, pretty tough to beat that price for setup. The MKS777's should do fine with your style of flying. I stepped up the program on my setups. Mainly because, originally I was using 7954's on my 260. Mild flying, she was fine. But the more aggressive I have been getting with it, I noticed some "blow-back" on the elevators. I considered upping the setup to 2 per elevator half, but chose to swap them out for the 7950's instead. I noticed an immediate and definite improvement. My Sukhoi has 7950's throughout. 2 per aileron, 2 per elevator, 2 on the rudder. I can't believe how "solid" and "precise" this plane flies. I took mine out for a whirl today and just flew IMAC sequences with it. I could not have asked for a finer bird. You will absolutely love your Sukhoi. Good luck with her. She's a fine bird indeed.

 

[dhal22]

Thanks stangflyer.

 

[dhal22]

Finally got around to buying some servos for my Sukhoi. It's getting long in the tooth, I need to fly it someday.

 

[stangflyer]

Finally got around to buying some servos for my Sukhoi. It's getting long in the tooth, I need to fly it someday.View attachment 42852

So cool.... now lets get that thing put together and fly it.

 

[dhal22]

It's approaching 3 years old. Expensive toy plus I have other planes so just accumulating the package slowly.

 

[Stinger]

Just saw one of these at my home field with a DA200 in it. Normally I'm not high on over powering my planes but this thing is something else.
Very quiet and very smooth.
This the second one I've seen with the 200. Someone needs to come out with headers having the correct "Drop" for 200 on this plane and H9 may want to look at an alternate fire wall position for the 200.

 

[Robotech]

Got some good air time in on mine this weekend. 76 degrees and sunny all weekend. The photographer must have been using a very fast shutter speed.

 

[dhal22]

Very fast shutter speed.

 

[Joe Hunt]

Very fast shutter speed.

Or, he's just always dead stick. haha

 

[stangflyer]

Or, he's just always dead stick. haha

Robert is just that good. Dead stick in a hover then lands dead stick. Someday when I grow up, I wanna fly like him.