Thank you for choosing our 700 Blue Thunder. Please read
through the instruction manual carefully before proceeding
with the assembly of the model.Please note that due to the
extensive details associated with this product the
instruction manual is divided into two parts, one for the
mechanic and one for the assembly of the accessories.
Equipment Recommendations
Rudder servo DS610 or equivalent.
4s 2500 Mah battery for tail motor.
Trex 600 or clone mechanic.
Main motor battery 6 s-10 s
Main blade 660-700 mm
Minimum 7 channel receiver.
Content List
Please review the following photos and locate the parts
as mentioned.
Main fuselage and tail.
Wood formers pre glued and
tail motor drive system with
fenestron pre installed.
Dummy engine components,
dummy intake components,
horizontal tail and vertical fin and
tail section access opening
covers.
Gun turret components, 20mm
Vulcan cannon, microphone turret,
Spotlights, IR sensor turret, side sensors
components and landing gear struts.
L:anding gear gluing jig and landing gear
struts wood bearer rings.
Tail rotor Esc with instructions, one set
of bullet connectors, fuselage stays
components, tail fixing screws and blind
nuts, and extended rotor head pushrods.
Decals, landing skids with metal skid end
nipples, wire mesh, optional fusealge stays
Long mainshaft for trex 600 and Y harness.
One set of laser cut window panels.
Screws for securing window panels,
access panels and landing skid
securing screws.
Pre Assembly Preparations
Before assembly please solder all the motor and ESC and battery bullet
connectors to the tail motor and tail motor ESC. Motor to ESC connectors
are supplied. ESC battery connectors are not supplied.
Tail Fenestron Assembly
The tail fenestron unit comes preassembled from the factory, so only
minor assembly is required. Locate the 3 claw nuts supplied and drill
3 holes in the tail for the 3 3mm nuts. Following photo is a guideline for
locating the 3 holes.
After drilling the 3 holes install the claw nut on the inside face of the tail.
Offer the tail section up to the main fuselage section and transfer the
location of the 3 holes over to the main fuselage section. Drill the 3
holes for the 3 mm screws on the main fuselage.
Now glue the tail to the main fuse and use the 3 screws for further
reinforcement.
Photo shows the installed screws.
Landing Skid Assembly
Locate the 4 landing skid cross members. Also locate and assemble the landing gear
gluing jig supplied with the model.
The cross members are the same for both left and right side. The longer cross member
is for the rear and the shorter one for the front.
Landing Skid gluing jig former.
Assemble the landing skid gluing jig into the box in the following photo and place
it under the main fuselage.
After placing the gluing jig under the main fuselage, align the front
of the jig with the front of the fuselage rectangular protrusion on
the fuselage bottom. See photo.
Locate the skid cross member reinforcement rings as in photo. You need
3 rings per cross member.
Reinforcement rings.
Insert the cross member into the already pre opened cross member holes
in the fuselage sides. Slip the reinforcement rings onto the cross members on
the inside as shown in the following photo.
Slide in the cross members
and set up the landing skids.
Do one side at a time.
Arrangement of the
reinforcement rings.
Same for all four sides.
Once the desired landing skid height and location is set , use ample
epoxy to glue the reinforcement rings at the location shown on the following photos.
Arrows shows the locations
for gluing the reinforcement rings.
Same for all four sides.
After gluing the skid cross members and its reinforcement rings, drill a hole on each cross
member through to the metal landing skid at location in photo. Use epoxy and sheet
screw to secure the landing skid to the cross members.
Disconnect the swashplate side ball links and slide the mechanics into
the main fuselage. Align the mechanic mounting holes with the pre
drilled holes on the factory installed base board.
Ypou might need to trim the area on the top of the main fuselage for your
mechanic's mounting holes to line up with the base board holes.
You might need to trim this area
for your specific mechanic to fit.
Secure the mechanic using the bolts supplied with your mechanic. Screw the bolts in
from the bottom through the pre drilled holes on the bottom of the main fuselage.
Install the rudder servo into the preinstalled rudder servo plate inside the tail.
The rudder pushrod is preinstalled as well. You need only fine tune the length for
your specific servo only.
Preinstalled servo plate.
The installed rudder servo.
At this point of the assembly, TF Model highly recommend that you test fly the basic
airframe first to get the setting adjusted to your style of flying and to get used to the
handling characteristic of this new independent tail drive system.(ITDS)
Setting up of the ITDS for first test flight.
Hook up the ESCs and Motors as you normally would. Locate and secure the ESCs to
your desired locations. A "Y" lead/harness is supplied in the kit for you to link the main
and tail ESCs. Connect them up and plug the Y lead into the throttle channel of your
receiver.To utilize the tail motor drive successfully, you will need to set idle up for the
throttle, the main throttle will slave the tail motor ESC and will both operate at the
same idle setting.For the first test flight we recommend a idle up throttle setting of
80%. After the first flight, you can then fine tune the idle up setting to suit your flying
style.
For the tail motor drive system we recommend the use of a separate 4s Lipo
of 2500mah capacity.
The factory matched ESC and motor for the fenestron operates best
on 4s.
Battery Pluggin In Procedure
Before your first flight here is the recommended procedure for plugging in the batteries.
1. Turn on your transmitter making sure that the throttle stick is at low and the idle
switch is at normal or off.
2. Power up the receiver.
3. Plug in the battery to the ESC of the REAR motor.
4. Plug in the main battery to the main drive ESC.
5. Switch to idle up and GO FLY !!
You will notice that on startup, the tail rotor will spin up first before the main
rotor blades, this is desirable. You just need to get use to it.
After thoroughly testing and enjoying our new system, you can
now proceed to the second part of this manual to dress up your
BLUE THUNDER !
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