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Electric combat trial in ACES Finland event - 5/13/2008 8:08:57 AM   
Toni Arte



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Joined: 12/29/2006
From: Kaarina, FINLAND
Status: offline 		This was the first time an electric powered plane was used in the WW2 ACES event in Finland, and the result was the worst possible. Luckily there's no forest or dry hay nearby.

  • The plane had a midair collision with another plane, and the wing moved a bit
  • After a while the whole wing dropped off and the plane came down like a dart, nose-on at the field
  • First there was a puff of gray smoke, which thne turned black and after a while the plane was in fire
  • The only salvageable part is the motor (and the wing)


On the next event he will try if a 4S A123 pack is big enough, at least the motor has to be changed as it's kV was now just right for the RPM limit on 4S lipo and 8x5 propeller. The pack on this plane was a 4S 2200mAh lipo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiTJeLoKqrw

The performance of the plane was quite OK, compared to the glow planes. We follow the ACES rules with some Finnish exceptions (like all tuned pipes, including MVVS mini pipes are forbidden).
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RE: Electric combat trial in ACES Finland event - 5/13/2008 12:58:21 PM   
cccdad


 

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Joined: 6/26/2005
From: Loxahatchee, FL, USA
Status: offline 		I am flying SSC combat with electric motors. what battery were you using and where were they mounted to burn like that?

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RE: Electric combat trial in ACES Finland event - 5/13/2008 1:14:35 PM   
Toni Arte



Posts: 28
Joined: 12/29/2006
From: Kaarina, FINLAND
Status: offline 		It was a fellow pilots plane. But anyway, he was using a 4S 2200mAh HTX lipo from ****, and the battery was mounted quite forward in the fuselage as the plane needed to be balanced correctly. It only had some foam around it in a glass fiber fuselage (the plane was an Aichi Seiran from http://www.svida.cz/horrido/index.php?id=92).

Anyway, usually planes came down spinning like crazy (if you look for 'Tuorla aircombat part 1' at Youtube, at the end you can see my glow-powered Kawasaki Ki-64 spinning down after a midair collision), but this electric one had the worst possible luck and came down like a dart, it could have been doing close to 100 mph without it's wing. We measured a few planes, the quickest one flew about 140 km/h, i.e. about 90 mph.

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RE: Electric combat trial in ACES Finland event - 5/13/2008 7:03:18 PM   
rrh


 

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Joined: 11/16/2002
From: Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Status: offline 		Maybe you guys should consider tethering your wings to prevent the lawn dart situation. Looks like you were prepared with fire extinguishing gear, good job. Too bad this happened on the first electric attempt. Ever notice how many of those jets burn up?

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