Nice plane.

I had two Flash 45s. One was a kit and the other was scratch built from the plans of the kit I had. Both had retracts and the scratchbuilt had 2 piece wings and still weighed 5.5 lbs with a Magnum .70 FS. The scratchbuilt had the 45pro wing tips. This made it snap roll easily. The original Flash had flaperons and I don’t recall it having any difficulty in TO and landing. It had a Fox .50 abc . But the Pro took a long time to bleed off speed for landing, and if you got it down to a certain speed and thought it was time to flare, and were wrong, it would snap. It happened once and I pranged it. It pitched up and half rolled and came down on it’s back.

Flew on rails though. The dihedral made concentric loops easy. Verticals with the .70 were limitless.