This Tiny Jet Can Do INSANE Tricks! ✈️ FMS Rafale 80mm EDF

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Published on May 29, 2025 6:31:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14HALVDkfQ4

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Watch this mini jet fly like a real fighter!! The FMS Rafale RC Fighter Jet is one of the most precise jets in its category! It tracks true and nails maneuvers like few other scale jets do!

Also, that day I felt really inspired on the controls and really managed to make it look like a full scale Rafale, flying low and bold, mimicking the fast paced, sharp rolls that french pilots are known for at airshows, and even recreated the loop / split S landing that is so iconic of the full scale Rafale airshow demos!

BTW, I modded the jet replacing the original nozzles by Kallend's optimized version! I 3D printed them alongside his Meteor missiles set, which you can see featured on the model in this video, and the jet is an entirely new bird now! With the proper nozzle exhaust diameter sizing, the Rafale now has a lot more thrust and carries itself through the air with much more confidence than it did before. Shame again on FMS for poor engineering!

Here are the direct links to Kallend's STLs:
Upgraded Nozzles: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4827133
Meteor missiles + rails: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4864392

I think the Freewing Eurofighter and J-10 still have more punch and general thrust and speed performance compared to the modded Rafale, but the Rafale offers more aerobatic capability in terms of things like improved roll rates, better knife edge and god-tier inverted high alpha performance, which the other two lack. All in all, a very fun jet to fly, once you iron the kinks out... ! :D

I'm kinda angry at FMS for their poor engineering design choices on this jet; from servos frying on the workbench before even maidening, to retracts getting stuck, servos and wires installed in a way that makes them really hard to maintain or replace, cramped up battery spaces by design, mixing boards that are a tasteless joke, a canard mechanism that severely limits canard throws, canard securing mechanisms with awful and unnecessarily protruding nipples to house the locking screws, nozzles that aren't even correctly sized for the EDF they installed, nose gear door mechanism that doesn't work properly, nose gear retract that binds when retracting causing it to get stuck sometimes and/or forcing the steering servo when in retracted position, etc... I love flying this jet and it has really good post-stall features but hell, I'd struggle recommending it to anyone for all the trouble it's given me. FMS better up their game! Freewing also deals with a lot of these issues, but FMS just amps them to a whole new level. And no, I'm not sponsored by anyone, lol, in case you were wondering.

Flight features aside, this jet is truly outstanding as a scale model, with a plethora of scale details and with the possibility of installing a lot of ordnance, including 3 external fuel tanks and 6 missiles!

I'm also flying this one on my new Jeti transmitter with a REX12A gyro-integrated receiver and I also have added a MUI200 current sensor, which helps making the most out of each and every flight!

These were flights 16th to 18th on 'Yvette', as I ended up naming her. ;)

Pilot: RC4ever
Ground video: Luis Ibáñez
Airfield: RACBSA

RAFALE SPECS:

Wingspan: 974mm
Length: 1409mm
Flying Weight: 3300g aprox
Ducted Fan: 80mm, 12 blade
Motor: Brushless inrunner 3280 - KV2100
ESC: Predator 100A
UBEC: Freewing 8A
Servos: Replaced the wheel steering servo and one of the main gear door ones, then added an extra servo to control the nose gear door, left everything else stock
1x 8g Turnigy 1440
8x 12g Stock digital metal gear
Receiver: Jeti REX12A Assist
Current sensor: Jeti MUI200
Main battery: SMC HCL-HVP 6S 4400mAh
Receiver battery: CNHL 2S 650mAh

SETUP:

Full throws everywhere, huge expo (around 70-85%), three different flight modes with slightly different canard offset incidence. Canard pitches mostly down, barely any up deflection as I ran into mechanical adjustment issues due to FMS's stupid design mindset. Mixing board and pilot figure removed. Micro servo added to control the nose gear door. Nozzles replaced by Kallend's 3DP ones. Wires tidied up and battery slammed all the way back. I power the electronics from a separate 2S Li-Po through a 8A UBEC. I use the Jeti Assist gyro on all control surfaces in rate mode. CG is currently roughly about 130-140mm... and that's about it! More info soon... (maybe). ^^

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - 17th Flight (music + slowmo)
04:16 - 16th Flight (music + slowmo)
09:11 - 18th Flight (music + slowmo)
14:43 - Take-off FAIL (retracted LG too soon)
15:36 - 17th Flight RAW (No music / slowmo)

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