Sebart Avanti 12s EDF with 3d Printed Fan Mount

Sebart Avanti 12s EDF 140mph build:

This is my first big jet and I built this with the purpose of being a Turbine trainer. I wanted to build it kind of heavy and fast in preparation to fly turbine jets. This is a nice build if you want fast but it is HEAVY, which is kind of what I wanted as I wanted something with a higher wing loading. It flies nice but it's one of my harder jets to land. When you get it slow it just falls out of the sky, no wing drop just drops vertically. Needless to say, I have had a few hard landings.

I installed the JP brake system and AG63 steering gyro because this thing likes to come in hot and roll! The brakes and gyro work really well. One issue with all the weight in this thing is the stock gear bottom out and need to be stiffened up. I also 3d printed some gear screens and used a screen door mesh inside to prevent roocks getting thrown through the fan.

I am running 2 5000mah 6s batteries in parallel for 12s and due to the battery layout one in front of another I created a custom fan mount to push the CG back. I also had to create a custom thrust tube out of some Mylar plastic sheets.

I am running dual FrSky Rx as I always like to run redundant Rx and Rx power. I have the primary Rx powered with a BEC off the ESC and I also run a 900mah LiFe for Rx power redundancy.

I have a second 2s 900mzh LiFe to power the steering gyro and brakes.

This is an awesome bird but I think 12s is a little over kill. This thing really flys better on 8 or 10s and its really not much faster on 12s. It does about 140mph with this build.