Milkman - I don't remember what the wingtip distance translated to at the fuselage, but I do remember that it gave me a bit of concern because of it being a good bit further behind the main spar than what I am usually used to using. I had talked to Horizon Hobbies and they had assured me that the cg position was a good one. I used the translated center position at the fuselage as the final cg position and the plane flew very well and handled very nicely. Other that the clevis that sheared, she didn't have any vices that I noticed. As mentioned in another post, when she got very slow and did stall, she would drop a wing tip and start a spin rather than mushing into a wings level straight ahead stall. She would recover very easily from this condition and the speed at which she dropped her wing tip was well below approach and landing speeds. Based on her high altitude stalls and slow speed performance I didn't anticipate any difficulty at all in the final approach and landing. Unfortunately, as I said earlier, the landing was never meant to be because of the sheared pin on the factory supplied nylon elevetor clevis and the resulting crash.

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HDKENEY