My bad, I forgot to strip the fuselage and weigh it again. However, after assembling it with an OS 120 AX with a Mac muffler, Tru-Turn spinner, 14x8 Master Airscrew three blade prop, steerable nose gear, Futaba R617FS Rx, three 3152 servos, two 5 cell 6 volt 2000 Mah batteries, and a Miracle dual switch, the all up weight of the completed fuselagecame to 8.2 lbs.

At this point the wings unfinished, but with all hardware installed come to 1.825 lbs for the left one and 1.760 lbs for the right one. That comes to 11.785 lbs before I glass and paint the wings. An educated guess on the final weight will be about 12.5 lbs. That is considerably heavier than I wanted but from what Thom has said about the 120 AX power plant I should not have much trouble with flying my Simla. Cutting 30% of this weight should be quite a challenge for Simla number 2. A smaller power plant,one less battery pack,lighter construction techniques, and lighter finishing techniques should help quite a bit. Only time will tell.

Bill

PS- For what it's worth I could have reduced the weight on this first Simla, but I basically quit worrying aboutthe weight in an effort to finish it more qiuckly.

Bye now