I have been flying the Gee Bee now for 4 months. I installed a Saito .56 and built it pretty much out of the box. I have since gone back and beefed up the wheel pants with wood on the inside to use screws and straps over the landing gear to mount them as described in the MAN article. The first flight was an experiance. Since the .56 was new I ran it on the rich side, but the model was still off the grass in 30 feet with a nice flat climp. It showed no tendencies to nose over and tracked straight as an arrow. I did a lot of slow work to get the feel for it and was pleased at its slow speed work. I would caution on the elevator throw to start out light as mine had a pretty bad snap with any sharp input to loop or turn. I do my landings a little flat and faster than most models I own and just hold it off at 6 inchs or so until the speed bleeds off My only complaniis on the landing gear. It is too lightly built and the grass I fly off is hard on it. The blocks in the wing are laminated plywood and a glue joint failed on the third time I took it out. The gear collapsed on taxi out for the first flight of the day. I had to reglue a joint in the wing.

Over all I think the model is a blast to fly. Not a good second plane by any means but overall very controlable.