Desert.Rat
Junior Member
I have my dad's hand built J2 Cub that has never flown. I have been building scratch built planes with the new brushless / ECS setup and really like the ease of use and dependability. I want to some day take this plane up as a tribute to my fathers skill and talent as a builder. He and I flew wire controlled planes together, with my father building the planes and I breaking in the gas motors. As a child it was very apparent that my father was an artist with designer, but tenable with mechanical things like motors. This is probably why I am now an engineer and My father is an Art Director / Production Designer for several motion picture companies ...ie Disney. My father now has Alzheimer's / FLD (Frontal Lobe Dementia) but recognizes the plane he built when he can't remember where he is.
Now that I set up the picture...pun intended...I am wondering what it would take to put a brushless motor in this plane
The plane has a wing span of 59", made from balsa and monocoque. Gas motor is a 108 size 2-stroke glow engine and exhaust that weights about 1200 g. It has World receivers and servos. All these would need replaced because I don't have a 72 MHz transmitter. I'm sure it's possible, but ai don't want to damage or modify the plane so it can't go back as a gasser some day.
Any direction or concerns? Can you point me to a link or another thread would be wonderful.
Now that I set up the picture...pun intended...I am wondering what it would take to put a brushless motor in this plane
The plane has a wing span of 59", made from balsa and monocoque. Gas motor is a 108 size 2-stroke glow engine and exhaust that weights about 1200 g. It has World receivers and servos. All these would need replaced because I don't have a 72 MHz transmitter. I'm sure it's possible, but ai don't want to damage or modify the plane so it can't go back as a gasser some day.
Any direction or concerns? Can you point me to a link or another thread would be wonderful.
