On Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 17:09:37 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 11:23:10 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
A question to the ether that, perhaps the manufacturers will see and
think is a good idea: Why not mount the tail battery low on the tail
rather than at the top where it makes an inverted pendulum? Maybe a door
at the aft side of the tail boom above the tail wheel?

Yeah I've always wondered about that. Any added mass at the top of the tail only increases the chance of damage in case of a groundloop.

So does cutting a hole in the location given

It could be strengthened around the edges of the hole, of course, and that extra structure can go towards the extra weight needed