Thank you, JR and Dana!!.

<span style="font-size: medium">FLIGHTREPORT:</span>

I got 4 flights today, all pattern flights. The plane performs the current Masters better than any model I've seen or flown lately. It's a very honest airplane, extremely smooth responding with very good balance of control in all axes.

Snap rolls must be flown all the way through. The model stops exactly when you release control so it took a few snaps to get the timing right.

It's a fine spinning plane. Even I can do these now....

Knife edges, either side, have zero roll couple as we discussed in the design phase early on. Just a hint of pitch couple which may be trimmed with incidence, we'll see...

The everpresent downline conundrum is a baby carriage on this model. The big wing, big fan up front and the low idle of the 55 slows it way down, too much actually.... We felt that we needed tio bump throttle as we exited downlines....

Yaw stability is better than expected. The large 3 blader tends to destabilize the plane in yaw so I was a little concerned; but it was nothing. Turned out to be dead true, both inside pullsand outside pushes. Fellas who have been at this awhile would appreciate the yaw stability the model displays coming out of verticals. But always at reduced power.....

It flies rather light on its wing; not quite as light as my Temptress did, as Dean P pointed out, but lighter than the Vanquish or my Aesthesis. Vanquish is much lighter than Delta, but it has a tinsy winsy wing and around 10% higher wing loading. Temptress weighed around 10 lbs with an 1100 squre inch wing.....I can get the Delta with that loading but will need the lighter OS GT33 in it

Power to burn of course.Its pace is slow and comfortable at half stick (around 33% servo travel, and around 30% throttle) in little wind. How we do in a fair amount of wind will have to wait til next week. Masters schedules are taking about7 1/2 minutes....I'll play with control arm position to get it to delivermuch reducedpower at full throttle. The 500 cc tank provides just enough gas for two whole Mast schedules when flown this way.

Extremely QUIET as I've described before. This combo is proof that medium sized gas engines don't have to make a chain saw racket

Is it going to last?????? Much too early to tell. Gut feeling tells me that the fuse construction materials will not hold up to the pounding of the big block.....we'll see...

Glad I made a mold. Balsa/glass/carbon sandwich should be more durable......

I will add a turn of positive incidence, and change the power output for next time......