Hey Tony, glad you got the ship back!

Imagine if the pack had wedged itself in the tail? Hoowee!
So I take it the pack with the BEC was still in the ship.
I had wondered about the "G" loads on 54 ounces of battery ... so real battery boxes are in order, eh?
I was actually wondering about the effect of putting that percentage of the plane's weight far from the vertical CG: I have an old Prettner Supra-Star that I'm contemplating electrifying, and the batteries would be outside where the external pipe would hang.
So the Partner suits you? How's the spin/snap?
My guess is that a single LiPo cell and a properly done switching "boost" regulator will be the lightest devoted flight-pack battery system.
No one does this now, but a switching supply will work nicely, provided that the receiver (at least) is fed by a linear regulator that isolates it from the switching noise.
Too many ideas for projects!
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Dino