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Old 12-31-2018, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by jfcgnv
Thanks Joseph, You are the second person top recommend 70mm fan units. I was hoping to get away with 50 or 60mm units as this would keep the engine nacelles close to scale in size. Do you think this is possible? What about three 64mm engines? Is there a high performance 64mm set available? Is there a formula for thrust to weight for EDF's. I have flown prop electrics and use the formula of 150 wats per pound as a guide for sport flying. Thanks for the input.
Twin Great Planes HyperFlow 370 EDFs (56mm) will put out a little over 3 lbs of combined thrust with the Ammo 3790kv motors on a single 4s 4400 mAh battery (4 minutes of airtime). You would have to limit your AUW to 5 1/2 lbs though, tough to do with a 60" wingspan. At 6 lbs it truly would be a Lead Sled...

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