Haven't done the radome mission in its entirety yet - that's on tomorrow's agenda. However, given this thing's climb rate and glide ratio, I doubt we'll be in too much trouble there. Even if I can't fly it WOT the entire time, I'm pretty sure that I can fly a motorglider type profile if needed. Also, while our setup doesn't take off quite as well as yours, we do fly faster and draw less current, I think. It's all in the tradeoffs. What does your setup draw static? Motocalc seems to predict 40ish amps... sound right?

And yes, we've successfully dumped the payload several times. Works great, and has no tendency to knock over the plane.

Well, off to bed.