Congratulations also Vince. No good deed goes unpunished
You need not spend a lot of time breaking it in on the ground. just get her tuned if for a reliable idle and good transition and then fly it a little rich for the first gallon. I just had a needle bearing go bad on the engine on my Ryan. I heard this screeching sound coming from the engine one day as it flew past so I grounded her and tore down the engine last night and low and behold I found 2 of the rollers in the bearing came out of their places and there was all kind of slop in the connecting rod. A new bearing costs all of a 1.50 but Idon't know why it failed, it looked a lttle cooked though because some of the rollers were blue from heat. I have run it always at 32:1 and never really that hard. Oh well I'm glad it didn't throw a rod and ruin the engine.