counter sunk through the mount and into the hardwood behind the mount or drill and use dowels to help
secure the mount to the plane. When you mount the motor, you can use washers to give a 2-3 degrees of
right off set if desired.
Now you have to make a decision as to how you are going to power the flight pack. If you are going to us
separate battery for the flight pack, install it in the battery hatch in the nose and follow the same steps to
feed the battery lead back to receiver as the gas version. If you are going to u
2.
e a
se the BEC in the ESC to
power the flight pack, then you will need to glue the battery hatch in place.
3.
”
wide and 1/8” deep. These slots are where you will install your Velcro straps to secure the lipo batteries.
4.
tch
and wrap around the bottom of the fuselage. Allow enough length to cover two 4 cell lipo batteries.
Before you glue the battery hatch in place, with a sharp Exacto knife cut a slit in the front and rear upper
corners of the hatch cavity and then notch the hatch cover in the same location. Make these slits about a ½
On both sides of the fuselage below the motor mount area, carefully cut out the covering from in front of the
main landing gear up to about 1” from the nose of the plane. This is where the Velcro strips will be glued in
place on the side of the fuselage to mount the lipo batteries. Make the Velcro strip the width of the batteries
so they don’t rock on the plane. Remove the covering slightly smaller than the Velcro strips and then glue
the strips in place on the side of the fuselage. Slip ½” Velcro strips in the slots made in the battery ha
