My Electric SPAD
06-28-2006, 10:16 PM
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RE: My Electric SPAD
You know, you might get better flights with a battery instead of that long cord hanging off the plane there.... 
Just playing, looks like a cool plane, how good does it fly?
Just playing, looks like a cool plane, how good does it fly?
06-28-2006, 10:24 PM
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RE: My Electric SPAD
Haha, it does look like it's plugged in. I am not finsihed yet, so I don't know how it flys. As you can see in the photos the leading edge still needs to be glued down.
06-29-2006, 04:18 PM
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RE: My Electric SPAD
I'm guessing it's going to be heavy ( I tried something similar). You might consider swiss cheesing the 4 mil Coke sign and covering the holes with packing tape.
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06-29-2006, 05:43 PM
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RE: My Electric SPAD
If that motor is a Speed 400 brushed (what it looks to be in the pics) you can probably fly up to about 20-22 ounce wing. The pusher prop you have there looks to be about 5-5.5" you will want to have the motor spinning at least 13,000 rpm to get a good push out of it.
