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05-03-2015, 09:04 PM
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Getting pretty close!! Balanced her today and it took some serious nose weight! I try to avoid lead at all cost so I put the ecu battery all the way up in the nose and then 2) 2s 5000 mah A123 just behind it. I'm going for 125mm for the maiden and will work things back from there but don't want any bucking Bronco landings!!
I am not a fan of the pilots from Skymaster so I decided to make my own. First thing I found was thier "1/8 scale" pilots just looked to small so did some measurements and found it is actually about 1-7.5 scale. So my buddy Chris Wolfe from Jet Hangar Hobbies and RcGeek.com makes some really nice 1/7-1/7.5 busts. I trimmed down the torsos and used some cut down 1/6 flight suits filled with 5/16 foam tubing and they came out awesome! The only weigh 1.7 oz each and Chris even molded me some hands for them!
So I am sitting at 35lbs dry and guessing about 43lbs wet so I should be better than1:1 at take off!!
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