ORIGINAL: Blockbuster
ORIGINAL: bubbagates
guys, whaturi and I fly at the same place and he can easily attest to what mine will do and I can do the same for him, especially since he has my old one that was powered originally by the Fuji 43 which he also saw fly at 14lbs
How Fuji engine stacks up vs DA? What impression do you have from Fuji?(I'm not an IMAC type of pilot, mostly hover and TR)
Sorry Blockbuster, I just saw this post
The fuji did well but it did not stay on the plane long enough for me to really answer this question. About flight 5 or 6 it deadsticked on me, (not the engines fault) and I landed it off field and snapped the front end off.
I can tell you that it had decent vertical using a PT models 20X8 but the APC 20x8 they recommend was a dog for a prop and is really heavy, held KE just fine, flew inverted just fine, tumbled very well. The Fuji is a precent decent engine. My guess would be it would hover and TQ it just fine but you would have no room for error. If you really want to have good 3D power and want to use gas, use the DA50. Cut out the floor under the canopy, lose the spinner and pants and use li-ion batteries and replace all the stock controls rods with either Titanium or CF control rods and use ball links on the servo side of the rods and use Gorilla glue on all the hinge points and when joining the wing and I'll bet you could see 13lbs on a DA50
Gorilla glue is much lighter than epoxy. one ounce of epoxy is 4 ounces in weight, one ounce of GG is one ounce of weight and you will use roughly 4 ounces of each when assembling this plane