I've put several of these planes together for people and own two myself that I use to teach people.

They WILL fly with a .61 size two stroker, but you'll be wishing you had put something larger in... such as a .75.

The Magnum's will fly this plane just fine but go for a larger engine.


One thing you absolutely MUST do is to re-inforce the landing gear. The provided wire is abysmally weak and bends if you breath on it.

I doubled it up by soldering a second wire to the first and putting a bend at the root, 90 degrees to the provided wire mount. This gives it front to back torsional strength.
If you wish I can post pictures later.

I also replaced the front gear with a Fults strut.

These are changes you'll quickly wish you had made, far more so than selecting an OS engine or a four stroke.

The plane flies great though.

However the covering glue... well... it needs "help" or it will come off very quickly.

Before you put the canopy on, use a covering iron to firm up all of the covering and edges.
Apply thin CA at all of the covering edges, particularly those where the covering ends up on explosed wood.

Then put the plane together and apply a few light coats of Top Flite clear coat spray to seal the trim edges.

If you don't do that, glow fuel spilling out of the exhaust will cause the covering to come off within two or three flights!