RE: Lightning Build
Received my Lightning short kit today. Nice!!! Wood is in transit right now from Lonestar. Wing kits in transit from Dave Snow and wing tubes/stab tubes on the way from F3A Unlimited. I order some carbon uniweave from Hobby King and I have to go downtown to pick up some 3.5 oz carbon cloth, honeycomb and Rohacell. I am psyched to get on this build! I had the plans printed out at Office Max.
The motor you used is a bit out of my price range! I think the C50 goes for about 800.00! I'll have to try coming up with a motor mount/firewall setup to deal with a more humble power plant.. If I can build it at the ten pound mark, a more humble motor might work out just fine!
Guy Hanson