Hi, is there anyone out there still flying this plane? I just finished reading the entire thread 1-62 pages in several days. I liked how the first 50 - 55 pages were full off positive thoughts and then when I find out that it is no longer produced i felt sad. Because I also have this plane, bought in 2009, had a few successful flights with a fuji 43 without knowing about this and other threads about this plane. Now I realize that I was lucky with it being in one piece today, because of the lack of information. Now that I've read a lot, did about 10-11 upgrades to it and being prepared to fly it again with a XYZ 53cc twin engine, after years of resting, I don't know if there is still anyone interested in this thread or plane... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vATndqkDTGs

The changes/improvements that I've made after all I've read here and there are:
- Making baffles and lovers for cooling
- reinforce the wing with fiberglass cloth on both sides then paint it white
- changing the simple rx switch harness to heavy duty deluxe spectrum switches
- mounting two separate Rx,switches and LiFe battery packs. Switched from NiMh to LiFe although are not 123 that many are using, but flat, but rated 20 C.
- replace the elastic that holds the fuel tank with velcro (the elastic broke someone's ply around the tank because it pulls all the time,although I was putting it on only during flight)
- mounting a vent tube from carb diaphragm and route it back in the fuselage
- closing the choke diaphragm hole with a nut to be able to close the engine at any needle settings
- covering the upper big hole and right side little one of the engine box with thin transparent ABS (I've read that some, at other gas models had their back fuse covering being blown of from positive pressure from the cowl
- Mounted skies. It's not an improvement but for now I plan on flying it in winter as I'm sick of repairing the tail gear after every landing on rough grass terrain in summer. That's just me..
- fiber glass cloth inside the engine box at corners (down in front of landing gear and left-right corners)
- reinforced the ply on both sides of the fuel tank's bottom.


Now I want to reinforce with aluminium the down side of the engine box the corner where it meets the fuselage right after the landing gear
I'd also like to come up with a solution to the problem that someone on this thread had, if the fuel tank stopper come lose not to have all the fuel everywhere... don't want to switch to a plastic bottle.