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Anyway, I'm sure that the stock A-10 can handle the weight with no problem as far as flying, but not sure of the weight of those Graphenes. This aircraft has an excellent power to weight ratio. I fly with 2 RT 35C 6250's (each weighing 795 g) all the way back, in fact removed the control board so I could get the aft battery all the way in to achieve a balance point of 92 mm as my 3D redesigned cockpit and pilot added extra weight of 150 g. My other point was that you don't really need the extra C that I think the Graphenes offer. If I'm not mistaken, the HobbyKing Graphenes weigh about 920 g each and are a 75C battery. If so, you're adding about 240 g of extra weight that is not really going to help the EDF performance (as a lower C battery will work just fine in these EDF's). I get over 5 minutes of aggressive flying on the 2 6250's and rarely am at full throttle, except take-off (on grass) and testing out vertical climb. 50% to 70% throttle gets you just about anything you want. And the most important point, IMO, is to balance it in the 92 mm range instead of the book point of 78 mm, which not only results, IMO, in better flying characteristics but is imperative in landing on the mains with the nose up. The only thing that will get you in trouble with this bird is landing with the front nose gear touching first which will give you the dreaded "bucking bronco". Landing with the balance point of 92 mm has resulted, for me anyway, in 100% of the landings being mains first and probably the easiest landing EDF I have. So I guess you could fly with the graphenes as long as you can achieve the right balance point, but I'd rather trade off that extra weight for a higher mAh battery and get more flight time. Hey, the HobbyStar 8000 mah batteries weight about 900 g each and theoretically would give you 50-60% more flight time, and I can't use these and balance where I need to, so doubt you will be able to with the graphenes. Unnecessary weight with these foamies is not your friend, but the extra weight of cockpit mods, pilots, paint, etc. is what I would call completely necessary extra weight. 
Anyway, I'm sure that the stock A-10 can handle the weight with no problem as far as flying, but not sure of the weight of those Graphenes. This aircraft has an excellent power to weight ratio. I fly with 2 RT 35C 6250's (each weighing 795 g) all the way back, in fact removed the control board so I could get the aft battery all the way in to achieve a balance point of 92 mm as my 3D redesigned cockpit and pilot added extra weight of 150 g. My other point was that you don't really need the extra C that I think the Graphenes offer. If I'm not mistaken, the HobbyKing Graphenes weigh about 920 g each and are a 75C battery. If so, you're adding about 240 g of extra weight that is not really going to help the EDF performance (as a lower C battery will work just fine in these EDF's). I get over 5 minutes of aggressive flying on the 2 6250's and rarely am at full throttle, except take-off (on grass) and testing out vertical climb. 50% to 70% throttle gets you just about anything you want. And the most important point, IMO, is to balance it in the 92 mm range instead of the book point of 78 mm, which not only results, IMO, in better flying characteristics but is imperative in landing on the mains with the nose up. The only thing that will get you in trouble with this bird is landing with the front nose gear touching first which will give you the dreaded "bucking bronco". Landing with the balance point of 92 mm has resulted, for me anyway, in 100% of the landings being mains first and probably the easiest landing EDF I have. So I guess you could fly with the graphenes as long as you can achieve the right balance point, but I'd rather trade off that extra weight for a higher mAh battery and get more flight time. Hey, the HobbyStar 8000 mah batteries weight about 900 g each and theoretically would give you 50-60% more flight time, and I can't use these and balance where I need to, so doubt you will be able to with the graphenes. Unnecessary weight with these foamies is not your friend, but the extra weight of cockpit mods, pilots, paint, etc. is what I would call completely necessary extra weight. 
with the oversized rivets, operating canopy and the scratch built instrument cockpit. If you're just a basher, I'm a crasher!
Can't wait to see what you do with the A-10, I think you will absolutely fall in love with it. Since it first came out, I never felt like I would get one, it just never "blew my skirt up". The only reason I finally did get one was because I wanted to do something in the Arctic Camo livery and that one seemed as good as any since I already had an F-16 in other liveries. After flying it, I have to say it is my favorite EDF, with the Corsair as my favorite prop warbird, both very hard to leave out of the truck when I'm off to the field, but the others need some love as well (who am I kidding, like my children, can't really say I love one over the other). 
with the oversized rivets, operating canopy and the scratch built instrument cockpit. If you're just a basher, I'm a crasher! Can't wait to see what you do with the A-10, I think you will absolutely fall in love with it. Since it first came out, I never felt like I would get one, it just never "blew my skirt up". The only reason I finally did get one was because I wanted to do something in the Arctic Camo livery and that one seemed as good as any since I already had an F-16 in other liveries. After flying it, I have to say it is my favorite EDF, with the Corsair as my favorite prop warbird, both very hard to leave out of the truck when I'm off to the field, but the others need some love as well (who am I kidding, like my children, can't really say I love one over the other). 
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