evranch
Well-known member
I think I'm finally going to throw in the towel on my Maja, as even with the greatly improved power package it just is too hard to get off the ground. I'm down to about 150' of ground roll, but the ground needs to be smooth and there isn't much of that in this country. It still will not hand launch, it now just barely skims into the ground. Many others have complained about this airframe in the past on other forums as well, and there are lots of comments as to it barely missing the ground or striking on hand launch. I think there is too much weight in the fuselage and high wing loading.
So time to build something better I think! I want to reuse the power package that I bought for that stupid Maja. A 1000Kv Turnigy and 60A ESC, which will happily swing a 12x8 or 13x6 and put out about 2kg of thrust. I only want to run a single engine for efficiency.
I was looking at the Spear, but I think it doesn't have enough wing area to fly 7000mAh and ~1lb of camera. Ultimately, I'd like to fly a pair of those batteries for 14000mAh if I can. The Kraken can be converted to a single-engine pusher and might be the ticket, and they spec a 6000mAh 3s battery.
The other thing is, it doesn't have to be a pusher as this is not an FPV plane. The camera is on the belly. A heavy lift conventional aircraft could also do the job and will likely both hand launch better and rotate better from the ground, as the surfaces will be blown. I noticed a lot of FT planes seem to have no shortage of excess weight capacity in the videos...
So time to build something better I think! I want to reuse the power package that I bought for that stupid Maja. A 1000Kv Turnigy and 60A ESC, which will happily swing a 12x8 or 13x6 and put out about 2kg of thrust. I only want to run a single engine for efficiency.
I was looking at the Spear, but I think it doesn't have enough wing area to fly 7000mAh and ~1lb of camera. Ultimately, I'd like to fly a pair of those batteries for 14000mAh if I can. The Kraken can be converted to a single-engine pusher and might be the ticket, and they spec a 6000mAh 3s battery.
The other thing is, it doesn't have to be a pusher as this is not an FPV plane. The camera is on the belly. A heavy lift conventional aircraft could also do the job and will likely both hand launch better and rotate better from the ground, as the surfaces will be blown. I noticed a lot of FT planes seem to have no shortage of excess weight capacity in the videos...