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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1349821" data-attributes="member: 11896"><p>not sure I would recommend this myself.  It reminds me of a few years ago when I was flying RC airplanes out in AZ.  We had a dirt/decomposed granite runway that was perfectly fine until the ducted fan/electric jet engines came out.  Because of how most of their designs have a completely open inlet from the top/bottom of the airplane it was not uncommon for them to suck a rock up into the fan/jet while on takeoff.  Needless to say a piece of decomposed granite can do some damage to a plastic fan even if its only in it for a short time before it get shot out.  To fix this some of the guys started to try and put different types of screen material on the inlet to protect this from happening but they were surprised to find out that unless they had a mesh big enough on the front that would still allow most rocks in that the screen material cut down on the intake that most of them could not take off.  If they did get off the ground they barely had enough power to keep up in the air.  It was pretty surprising to see that some of the mesh could reduce the intake by up to 40 percent.  I would not be surprised at all if the same thing happens here.</p></blockquote><p></p>