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Build Companion: Freewing Mig-21 80mm
Copyright 2016 by Brad Miser
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Build Companion: Freewing Mig-21 80mm
This build companion provides information about how you can assemble the Freewing Mig-21
80mm and prepare it for flight. The steps in this document are certainly not the only way to
assemble the plane, but they will (hopefully at any rate) help you build your plane more easily
and faster than relying on just the documentation that comes with the model. If you don’t have
the model yet, this information may help you make an informed buying decision.
The build process described in this document covers the stock PNP version of the plane as it
came out of the box. Generally, the build on this model is straightforward and assuming you
have prior modeling experience (which you should before trying to build and fly this plane!), you
won’t have any trouble assembling it. When the build process is simple, you won’t find a lot of
detail in this document; your experience and the included manual will be enough. When
something requires more information, you’ll find more detailed steps.
I describe the steps to make a number of modifications to improve the maintainability,
performance, durability, or flying characteristics of the model. The details for the
upgrades/modifications are provided in separate steps that you can choose to ignore if you don’t
want to make the upgrades/modifications. The upgrades/modifications included in this build
companion are:
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Strobe lights:
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Strobon v2 Navigation Light (Green) x 2 (right side of vertical stabilizer and bottom
of right wing)
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Strobon v2 Navigation Light (Red) x 2 (left side of vertical stabilizer and bottom of
left wing)
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Strobon v2 Navigation Light (White) x 1 (top of fuselage rear of the cockpit)
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Strobon XL Navigation Strobe (Green) x1 (bottom of fuselage just behind the nose
gear wheel well)
I purchased these lights here:
http://www.flytron.com/12-led-systems
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Landing lights:
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Freewing Stinger 90 Light Controller