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Old 06-06-2006 | 02:25 PM
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Default RE: HARMON ROCKET

Dave,

I was thinking along those lines as well. Being that it is quite tail heavy with a .46, it almosts seems like they engineered the plane thinking people would put bigger motors in it. It being a plane built with speed in mind, and knowing guys will hop it up, maybe the 2 elevator servo's makes sense. not only would it cut the loading of each servo, but if one failed you may have a chance of landing with only one servo working. I know this is the theory in the larger planes, whether it is necessary in a plane of this size or not seems to be the question.

I guess if more tail wieght is not a big issue for you, it certainly can't hurt. I am going to stick with standard 3004 servo's being I have two on the elevator. I will go standard for the rudder as well. I may go with beefier aileron servo's just in case. Are you guys using standard servo's on this thing?

Can't wait to get home and keep going on construction. Picked up the misc. parts I needed at the LHS. Hope to have her in the air this weekend.

Adam