This past weekend was the 4th year. until this year we have always done electric planes for the Alpha Class. we decided to try something different this year with the glow. he planes were larger and slower than the little electric planes going nearly 200mph. The main reason for going to glow this year was cost. With only about 5-6 weeks for flight testing before the contest, if we bent a motor shaft, the motor could not get back to the manufacturer and then back to us before the contest was over, effectively rendering the motor worthless to the teams.

This is from 2 years ago. 180mph, vertical launching, fire breathing, completely bad to the bone electric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g36Y...ature=youtu.be