ORIGINAL: BTerry
Joe,
Thanks for the excellent advice on the planes. On your Venus, which engine did you use? The OS 1.20AX 2-stroke or the 1.20 Surpass 4-stroke? I have a couple of 1.20 4-strokes I could use.
I have a ton of lipo and A123 battery packs in the basement, so perhaps an electric would work for me. I could probably get away with running 8S A123 packs in the Helios, or serially double up some 3S 2700 mAh Lipo's in the Angel.
Good point on the Fliton planes. I didn't know if the larger ones were a bit more stout. The smaller ones are excellent performers, but are very light and fragile.
Since I LOVE the smell of glow fuel in the morning I will look at one of the smaller 63-size planes for the Magnum 91fs. If I think of it as a YS .63 that weighs 6 oz more and will swing a larger prop I will be successful.
A friend had the Focus I and it was just about perfect. I am sure the smaller Focus Sport is also phenomenal.
Pete, PM sent.
I had a 1.20 AX on the Venus II.
My opinion of currently available A123 type cells at this time is that they are definitely fine on trainers and sport planes. Not so sure about weight penalty on high performance type aircraft with these cells yet.
On the Angel I am using 5350ma 5S packs. Easily/Safely get 9 minutes with these. I'm sure you can go with a smaller capacity pack around 4500ma no problem. My Angel is right around 6 lbs and could be made even lighter with the use of an Airboss 80A controller over what I am using right now.