ORIGINAL: serious power
Hi Jason,
My bad - was not there but was given it that way.
Anyway I think the time-line that I detailed for Scott is pretty close - didn't look any of it up though.
Brian
No problem Brian. I only remember the weighing with the batteries because from the outset we were doing everything light weight. Titanium screws, in-house carbon motor mounts and control horns, end-grain balsa battery tray's... anything that went into that plane was looked at many ways to be done lighter (you think we would have used a 2-cell lipo on the rx lol). If it wasn't for Sean Plummer, Scott Todd, Rainer Hacker and Charlie Wang, my 2003 Worlds would have been with a YS powered Angels Shadow (which was looked at being converted but was unfortunately too heavy). The Rhapsody's were 10.75lbs (4876g) when weighed with 10S3P 6000mAh Thunder Power batteries. This was with a B/C-50 6.7:1 14XL (C-50 guts in a B-50 'can'), Jeti 77, APC 22x12 and Duralite 2S2P Li-Ion 2200mAh (I think) Rx battery. I still have the motor/esc, but disposed of the batteries last year (no balance tabs so figured I couldn't run them anymore lol).