snoop,

thank you for the information about the reason for the eagle company not recommending the 4 stroke engine. i take it that it could be done if extra steps are taken for reinforcement.

if you read through all these posts you know i bought the plane that my instructor is training me on. whenever i get another plane i will take another look at getting a 4 stroke engine. they sound nice to the ears, but it's not as necessary for me to use a 4 stroke as i first thought it was going to be.

good luck with your kit. the eagle flies nicely even without much dihedral. mine has somewhere in the neighborhood of an inch to an inch and a quarter. a pilot in my club built one with what looks to me to be 3 or more inches. it sure looks unnecessary to me to have that much, but different strokes for different folks, and for whatever their reasons for making them that way. planes with zero dihedral look the best to me, but i don't know all the differences that makes in real flight. my instructor commented that planes with less dihedral in the wings fly more realistically when compared to real planes.

thanks again for the post and welcome to the thread. feel free to join in, this is a real nice group of fellows who came to my rescue. and they are the ones with the good answers.

elad