ORIGINAL: opjose
ORIGINAL: sportrider_fz6
arrrggg!!!! what a gutless wonder!!! we tried flying the A-10 on Saturday. never had a range issue seeing how the only time I was more then 100 ft. away from the plane was during the "high speed taxiing" at full throttle and after about 80 ft of runway I got the plane about 6 ft in the air going into a small headwind of about 2-3 MPH. the "spruce goose" wanted to stall at a very mild climb rate so I leveled it off and flew it for 30-40 feet before it started loosing altitude and landing it out in a grass field. tried 2 more times with roughly the same effect. I tried swapping the battery from my Super Cub in it to see if the higher mah (SC is 1000 vs 650mah A-10) would help but had the same effect.
a little later some guys came out flying some planes and I talked to one of them and he said he has that plane and after swapping out the RX and servos to some better ones and installing a brush less ESC and two brush less 370's the plane flys really good. unfortunately he didn't have it with him at the time so I couldn't see it fly.
Changing those batteries is not going to have any effect. You merely upped the run time, not the actual output.
You need to go with a slightly higher voltage that is still within the range of the ESC.
Most of the NiCD equipped planes ( no matter WHO sells them ) come with grossly inadecuate batteries.
When you install the right batteries, the planes come alive. Unfortunately this is par for the course on cheaper RTF electrics.
Swap out the included batteries for the right set and it will be transformed.
I am thinking a 3S lipo would make all the difference IF the ESC can handle it.
IF, as stated by other posters who have this airplane, you have to change the engines and electronics to get it to fly then the answer to the original post is "yes".
$100 for a foamy airframe is pricey.