The Phoenix is finished. I don't have a weight yet. It is lighter than my Vertigo (8lb 4oz), I estimate sub 8 lbs. It took 2 oz in the tail to balance to the book C.G. specification.

There was nothing remarkable about the balance of the assembly. The fixed gear was installed (still waiting for the Spring-Airs) per the book. One of the main gear mounts was not drilled all of the way through, or tapped, so I simply drilled and tapped it for a 6-32 set screw.I found the book specification for the aileron throw to be excessive by my estimation, so I set the high rate to the low rate spec. We will see how that pans out tomorrow.
I used a Du-Bro switch mount for the switch, and will install an Ernst mount for the charge jack later on. All of the control linkages are what was supplied by H-9.

The Dave Brown Pipe mount was installed at the location specified in the instruction book. I used an extra long header VS the recommended long header. This worked out great, as I am running a 10cc Quiet pipe instead of the 8.5cc pipe recommended by H-9. The 10cc pipe is longer than the 8.5, and the extra length compensates for the extra long header.

My overall impression regarding the assembly of the H-9 Phoenix 7 ARF is that H-9 deserves a great round of applause for not only rolling the dice that something like this would sell well enough to warrant the investment to produce, but that they did a very good job at engineering and execution of a classic design, for a very reasonable price. I hope that they consider doing more resurrections of other classic designs.

Then there is the family picture. The P-7 is pictured with it's cousin the Vertigo II. The Vertigo II is a spin-off of the Phoenix 6/7.