opjose if you like a little more weight you would like the new sweet stik I just finished. It weighs about half a pound more than I thought it should weigh. Mine finished out at 6.5 pounds for a 21-22 ounce wing loading. I built a little heavy and the super tiger engine is a little heavy. The friggin muffler weigs 6 oz.! And that doesn't include the manifold to mount it with.

A buddy and I bought one each of these. We both tried to start them today to start the break in process. Neither engine would start by flipping the propeller by hand. Now I guess I will have to buy a $30+ starter to start my $75 engine. I can promise you I will never buy another engine that doesn't have OS on the side of it. No more chinese crap for me.

oldtyme which sweet stik do you have? Apparently Midwest had two versions. One had a flat wing with a 54" wingspan and another with a 52.25 wingspan with dihedral. I have the plans for both but built the 52 inch version. ButI had it enlarged to 54". The sweet stik I had back in 1980 was the 54" version. It had the fuse pieces in several sections instead of one solid fuse side piece. I flew the snot out of that plane and liked it much better when I sawed the wing in half and added dihedral to it. I just don't know what else you could ask for in a model plane. It took off with just a short run. Would do any stunt I could think of and landed at a fast walk. I guess it was the best overall plane I have ever owned. A thunder tiger tiger stik was right there with it though. Next would be the sig senioritas I have owned. A different class of airplane but in a class by itself.