A student pilot/friend of mine soloed last year on an old GP Trainer Forty. He called me, and said he wanted to by the Sig
1/4 scale Sukhoi as a first low-winger!!!! I manged to talk him out of that, but he did buy a Model Tech .40-size Sukhoi. I built it,
and he insisted on test flying it himself. He flew beautifully from the start!!!! He finally strained it through a tree at the end of the runway, on the back side of a Split-S.

He immediately ordered the WM Chipmunk with fixed gear. he used the OS 70 Surpass that was in his Sukhoi, and once again,
I built it. In fact, I scotch-taped all the major compnoents together in less than 10 minutes. VERY fine construction (and I'm
not real crazy about ARF's). He did not test fly it, because TOC
legend Don Szcur was on hand. Don wrung that plane out beautifully, and the Os 70 was PLENTY of power. My friend has
never had a single bad moment with this plane, and it has made
him a better pilot.

A testament to the construction quality: My friend was packing his
Chipmunk in the car, but left the wing on the roof!!! He arrived at the field, and realized what he had done. Backtracking, he found the wing about 6 feet up a tree near our homes!! The wing
was unscathed, and the FIBERGLASS wingtips were noticed for the first time. Hard to beat that!

Have Fun , FrankB