{"id":1672,"date":"2004-05-23T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/23\/i-flew-about-7-batteries-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2004-05-23T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2004-05-23T20:00:08","slug":"i-flew-about-7-batteries-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/23\/i-flew-about-7-batteries-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"I flew about 7 batteries on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I flew about 7 batteries on Saturday. The first battery is always the worst.   It&#8217;s like the plane is broken or something. But then it (IE me) gets better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting tired of the motor shaft overheating and melting the prop off. I   lost 1 prop today. Maybe it was the inverted crash that loosened the prop but I   think it was the heat. After flying a few batteries, the motor was &#8220;ouch, that&#8217;s   pretty darn hot&#8221; hot.<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly enough, I keep thinking about going brushless&#8230; overpowered   brushless. It&#8217;s all those gas &amp; glow jocks at the field. There I am just inching   off the field and they&#8217;re pulling verticals right after take-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew about 7 batteries on Saturday. The first battery is always the worst. It&#8217;s like the plane is broken or something. But then it (IE me) gets better. I&#8217;m getting tired of the motor shaft overheating and melting the prop off. I lost 1 prop today. Maybe it was the inverted crash that loosened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}