Electric practice plane?

[Airplanedude]

Thanks for all the replies guys.
I think I am going to stick with a larger foamie because of my budget and flying space (for winter)

I was doing some looking, and am stuck between two planes right now. The Airfoilz Edge 540 NX, and the Airfoilz Edge 540 FF.

What are the advantages of the FF over the NX, which would you prefer?

Thanks

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[rcpilot82]

the FF is more rigid in the tail section IMO, it will fly cleaner than the NX and just looks cool as hell. I think you wiould be happier with the FF for what you are doing. You Won't be dissapointed at all.

[Airplanedude]

Ok, thanks for the quick reply.

A couple questions I hope you could answer for me. (since it looks like your a sponcer!)

Would a 480 motor work well in it? (E-flite 480 bl) I would be using a 40amp E-flite esc with it.

What battery would you recomend? I have a couple 3 cell, 1320mah packs, but do you think I would benifit from the higher, 2100mah packs? How much noticable weight would that ad?

Is there any-thing I would need to get to complete the air-frame besides some faom-safe ca? (push-rods, etc)

Thanks for the help!

[Airplanedude]

And what web-site should I order off of?

[rcpilot82]

OK, here is a link to 3dxhobbies. buy from there.
http://stores.3dxhobbies.com/-strse-...nes%3AAirfoilz

aside from foam safe ca, I would recomend the WHITE gorrila glue or titebond. you'll need a soldering iron or similar to solder on wheel washers. thats about it.

For Batts, 1320's will get you in the air but flight time will suffer, most I know are running 15-1800 packs for about 12 min flights.

as for motor: I don't know about the e-flight but if it is around a hacker a20-20l it will work great.

Hope this helps let me know if you have any more questions.

[Airplanedude]

Ok, I think I have the building concern out of the way as I can easily obtain all the needed materials.

I used the comparing feature on RCU for three motors, the Hacker, the E-flite 480, and a 450.
Comparing to the hacker (which you said flies good) the 480 seems a little too big. But the 450 seems like it would work nicely.

What do you think?

http://www.rcuniverse.com/product_gu...inecompare.cfm

[flyingfoam]

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[rcpilot82]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Airplanedude
	Ok, I think I have the building concern out of the way as I can easily obtain all the needed materials. I used the comparing feature on RCU for three motors, the Hacker, the E-flite 480, and a 450. Comparing to the hacker (which you said flies good) the 480 seems a little too big. But the 450 seems like it would work nicely. What do you think? http://www.rcuniverse.com/product_gu...inecompare.cfm

Yeah it looks like the 450 would be a good match looks like you are set !! it's an awsome plane!

[Airplanedude]

Great!

I think I will order one today or tomorow

Sounds like a good plane!