Hobbyking 1.875 milímetros B-17 F / G Flying Fortress (V2) P & P (Silver)

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Overall review: 4 and 3/4 stars.

Oct 07, 2023

Beautiful aircraft, manual brief and not fully detailed, found online videos a great help covering details not in the manual. Only issue was missing decals.

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Great buy

Jan 20, 2023

The plane looks fantastic in the air. Building it is tricky if you don’t follow the right steps. I only have two “but” the center of gravity is not well explained. And it does take time to reassemble after transport. Too many wires, it would be great if there was a single plug. Other than that it’s a fabulous looking bird.

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Love it!

Jan 16, 2023

Love it so much bought a second one.

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CG is Wrong!

Jan 09, 2023

The recommended CG is show on the top view in the manual as being at the back of the outer engine nacelles. That would be at 138 -145mm. But the figures shown there and on the website are 38-45. The model flies nose-heavy even at 140mm. (Lots of up trim to fly level and as it slows down to land it takes more and more up elevator to keep the nose from dropping.) I had to add 3 ounces of lead to the tail to get the B-17 to fly normally. This error needs to be corrected!

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OK

Mar 30, 2022

The airplane is a great design and construction, but attention to detail assembling is lacking. I had missing parts that should have been assembled. Also no instruction manual included and very poor english translations throughout it. Someone fluent in english should re write the manual. No instruction where to plug channel 7 into the 6 channel transmitter.

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Great B17

Mar 27, 2022

Nice detail, placed receiver on center wing with wires. Flys easy and stable. Only need to put wing and fuselage together with 2 bolts and connect 2 servos. Flies great. Plenty of power with two 2200ma batteries

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Need to send intruction looked on line but not real clear

Mar 24, 2022

All together sweet

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Could have been better

Mar 09, 2022

This plane was a pain to build, and a motor broke after the second flight, almost destroying the entire thing, but I was able to do an emergency landing. Their support was horrible and didn't do a thing, just sent an automated message. This plane could have been much better in pretty much every sector, but didn't achieve anything apart from the looks of it. I would never buy from Hobbyking again.

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Great!

Jul 22, 2021

This is an AWESOME plane!!!

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B17 F/Gb

Jun 19, 2021

over all is good purchase, for the scale buff it falls a little short, there is little to no addon parts to bring this fine model to a more scale look for a B17G the gun turrets the upper turret was way wrong and not even round in shape. I replaced it with a upper turret from the new RC B24 Foam model. the lower turret is good but not to correct size.(too small in size) the nose cheek windows no longer available as the spare part kit for the Flight-line B17 kit is no longer in production production also there no replacement parts for the tail gun position to proper correct to late model B17G