Hey Jon, as Randy stated, I'm away from home all week and only get one day off to catch up and do everything I need to do lol. Yea, it never all gets done...
The plane in that video (if you are talking about
THIS video) is the Rc-Help Trainer V1. It is a plane based off of the Telemaster kit. On that plane I used just cheap blue 9 gram servos for all controls. The ESC was a hobbywing 40a which is my go to ESC on planes like this. Cheap and works great. The battery was a 2200mah 25c pack and the motor was just an
Optima 450 size brushless motor. It's heavy, but the V1 needs nose weight since the plane is tail heavy. It is a 130w motor so it is perfect for this plane. The 40a ESC is overkill, but again, I use the 40a in all of these planes. Remember, the motor pulls the power it needs, the ESC and battery will not push it. So for this plane, the motor is only going to pull about 12a which is almost nothing. Pair that with a 10x8 prop from APC and it will pull vertical all day long.
One thing to remember, this plane was built out of foam board. I don't think I ever weighed this plane, but I'm sure it is way under 5lbs which you are stating. So you may need to move up to a much larger setup, maybe even something like I have on my 55" Edge 540 which is a .10 size motor (I think lol) and a 60a hobbywing ESC with a 4s battery.
This will just depend on what your setup is and what you want the plane to do. We are here to help so definitely post up and let us know.
And a big thank you to Randy for looking out for the members. The only way we can stop the crawler bots from stealing email addresses posted is to make this forum completely private so you have to log in to see anything. This would be bad for the forum since it would never be put on a google search. So we just try to let everyone know that it is out of our control on what happens with the email addresses once posted to a public forum. This could be our forum or it could be the millions of others out there, they are all the same in that aspect. So thanks Randy for looking out for the members.
I hope this helps at lease a little bit.