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How to: Gas to Electric Conversion

This is nothing new, but many planes designed for gas engines still give little or no instructions for conversion to electric power plants. A fellow RC club member wanted a large S-Bach with electric power because that’s what he likes. Not a problem for me as I have done both gas and electric giant scale many times over. The basic problem with the S-Bach when using an electric motor is that the motor is shorter...

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