
Originally Posted by
CubersWrist
The rules are pretty wide open at this stage. This is good because you want as many different approaches, companies, and strategies as possible when starting something new like this. We currently have a max allowable continuous power of 150kW from the battery. So you do the math of 150kW for 5 laps (appx 5 minutes) that gives you the battery size and then you add in margin for safety and cool down and landing.
All electric motors are fair game. We can only have 1 prop or 2 coaxial props so no designs like the X-57 but that's subject to change in the future.
We are going to cram the plane full of batteries and we are either going to run out of real estate in the cowling or we are going to hit max gross weight, whichever we encounter first. Then the next challenge is keeping everything cool. Same challenge as all other air racing, just a different twist.