Written by Stan Alexander
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Digital bonus content for the February 2018 issue of Model Aviation.
Approximately a third of my models are now electric powered. In some ways it’s a convenience, and in others it’s more complicated and dangerous. With electrics, you don’t have the cleanup you have with two-stroke engines. You also don’t have the sound, but I’ve heard some great sound systems that make electric-powered aircraft sound more scalelike.
When an electric system is armed and you or anyone else is near it, however, you are in…