I did a few more tests today and was suprised to find out a few things. I weighed the plane and indeed it is 15oz but the battery is 4more oz... Iwanted to see about how much foward thrust was comming out of the prop so I put my scale sideways and had the plane nose in to it at full throttle and it showed about 4oz. Not quite sure if this is accurate or if this tells me any real useful information. Do those numbers seem right? I saw on http://www.graysonhobby.com/catalog/...roducts_id=414 after watching a few of ********.com (dave powers) videos that this motor seems to put out "<font face="Times New Roman" size="2">On a 6x4 expect close to 24oz of thrust at 19,000 + RPM at only 23Amps!"</font>. If that is true, that should let me be able to take off from a rolling ground start because as of right now, it doesn't seem remotely possible without a huge gust of wind but then after it takes off a bit, the wind will catch the plane and toss it to the side which sucks. On all the flight simulators I have played/trained with, none of the planes ever seemed this underpowered so it's a bit of a trip for me and I'll have to figure out how to get use to the whirly bird/discus launch the plane. On Dave Power's video with that motor on his modified wildhawk, it seems to be able to take off by itself without any landing gear which seems very impressive considering the wildhawk weights <font size="+0"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2">1.27lb and has a larger battery: Ni-MH 8.4V 1300mAH</font></font>.


Do most ready to fly prop planes need to be hand launched?