ORIGINAL: roadtrip
ORIGINAL: GaGeeBees
Pictures of progress to date. I have just a few details to finish up and I'll be out of excuses for not doing a test flight. Installing the batteries for the flight pack and on-board glow next and then will see how it balances.
Can you post a pic or two with your batteries and on-board-glow installed? I'd like to see how folks are setting them up.
Not much to see. I had to put the flight pack battery (sub C 2000 mAh) and the onboard glow pack (4.8V 2400 mAh) as far forward as possible. The flight pack battery is stuffed in forward of the instrument panel and the glow driver pack is beside the fuel tank. The box with the glow driver electronics is tucked in forward of the retract air tank. Despite moving it all as far forward as possible, I still had to bolt 18 ounces (!) of lead to the firewall to get it to balance.