Wole Oyeyele
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I decided to build a 4-channel mighty mini mustang during the quarantine. I've almost fully built it, and I just realized how heavy it is.
The canopy and a few parts aren't even on yet and this thing weighs:
around 270g with all the electronics in apart from the battery,
205g with no electronics but the servos,
over 330g with the battery in.
I followed every step exactly on the plans and build video and made no modifications to the design, apart from using 9g servos rather than 5g (they should only make 16g difference overall). According to Flite Test themselves, the mustang should only weigh 156g without the battery, so accounting for the heavier servos, I should be at 172g, not 270.
I have no clue where the extra hundred grams come from, but I highly doubt it will fly well, if at all. I used normal foam board you'd buy in any hobby store and poster board where required.
Do Flite Test use some special kind of foam or something when doing their own measurements?
Has anyone had this problem before?
The canopy and a few parts aren't even on yet and this thing weighs:
around 270g with all the electronics in apart from the battery,
205g with no electronics but the servos,
over 330g with the battery in.
I followed every step exactly on the plans and build video and made no modifications to the design, apart from using 9g servos rather than 5g (they should only make 16g difference overall). According to Flite Test themselves, the mustang should only weigh 156g without the battery, so accounting for the heavier servos, I should be at 172g, not 270.
I have no clue where the extra hundred grams come from, but I highly doubt it will fly well, if at all. I used normal foam board you'd buy in any hobby store and poster board where required.
Do Flite Test use some special kind of foam or something when doing their own measurements?
Has anyone had this problem before?
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