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Old 09-30-2010, 05:05 PM
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ddemu
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Default RE: Great Planes F-14

We went with the Scorpion 4020-12 motor, a 100amp ESC, and two 4,000mAh 11.1 batteries = 22.2 volts.

Test flights have been with a 12x8 APC electric prop (I broke the 12x10 on a botched take-off). Test flights have been limited to 5-6 minutes (not wanting to push things too much) and have been hampered with some other issues (retract problems, bad switch and then a bad elevator servo).

It's still fast, no smoke (yet[X(]) but it sounds COOL as it's more jet-like than the 2-cysle glow engine was.

House construction has limited flying / testing time. But the fun continues! Thanks for all the suggestions and help.