I thought originally you wanted somebody to talk out of it. I'll make you a deal. I will trade the directions for the airplane hahaha. Just kidding, I would be more than happy to help out a fellow modeler. I am currently in New York on vacation celebrating my wife's and I 22 anniversary. I'll be traveling home over the weekend and be home on August 30th. I have a doctor's appointment on that Monday. I unfortunately had a macular bleed. It requires me to have an injections into my eye. Provided I can see and I figure out how to scan the instruction manual to attach it to this thread, I'm not very computer savvy, I could get it to you by let's say Wednesday.

I have to warn you 90% of the instruction manual is in Japanese. It will show a picture of a step, have six or seven lines in Japanese and, then have five or six words in english. With today's technologies maybe there is a way to get the full translation.This is one of the reasons I never finished the model.

As I mentioned in a prior thread the late Chris Ceanlli wrote a full article on building, flying, and evaluating the model. It not only had better instructions, when he made the maiden flight he made a couple suggestions on adjusting the center of gravity and the throws on the elevator. One thing I do remember distinctly. There is a pair wooden dowels that go from the elevator to the servo. He said under no circumstances should you use those wooden dowels as they will swell or shrink depended on humidity and temperature. Therefore you would constantly have to trim the model for the conditions of the day your flying. He recommended getting a pair of carbon fiber tubes and the associated hardware as they will not bow or flex. Something I can recommend regarding building the elevators. The metal control rods and a 90° bend that you glue into the elevators needs to be very carefully done. The rod is as thick as balsa wood in the elevator. This leaves only the layer of foam and the mylar covering to support control of the elevator. It is a really bad design. There is very little balsa wood to metal contact in the elevator itself. I think if you build it per instructions, the model may experience control flutter. If that happens obviously you'll lose control of the model and it will crash. I have already finished this part. It is the second reason I haven't completed the model. I can feel play between the two elevators already. I can flex one up while flexing the other one down. This is a recipe for disaster. I have been thinking for years about how I am going to fix this problem. I think I'm going to have to carefully peel off the painted mylar and foam from the skimpy piece of balsa that was designed to support the elevator. Remake the elevator and use much stronger plywood, glue the foam and mylar covering to the plywood. Then drill the hole for the 90° turn in the metal rod and that should solve the flexing problem.

I think we should start a new thread. We could find what's out there. I would love to get my hands on a Mustang. I would even like to get my hands on a second Zero. Heaven forbid I accidentally wreck the one I have. Like I said I'm not looking forward to the pucker factor that I'll have on her maiden flight. Will be in touch soon.

PS I use the speech to text feature on my phone. I can't stand typing on those little letters. Please forgive any grammar messes I may have missed.