Are you the person that outbid me for the kit on ebay a couple of days ago?!! Bounder!!

I had the Pilot f-16 many years ago when it first came out. I fitted pneumatic retracts and an OS 40FSR. With the added weight of the retracts it needed the 40, it would have been hopeless on the recommended 25. If I had won the ebay auction my intention was to fit my Leo37 with genesis throttle pipe and retracts, but also do some work to reduce the weight. For example, many formers are liteply when they could be just balsa, also the planking with 1/8" might be replaced with 1/16 sheet. It needed a lot of speed to fly, even on a tarmac runway it took a long run to get safely airborne. On its first flight I came off the ground at what seemed like a good speed but it tip stalled violently from side to side all the way up, I only got away with it due to the 40FSR hauling it skyward. Once speed was up it was ok, but it needed the 40 to pull it around loops and they were not big. Landing was a high speed affair. Hence my desire this time around to do all I could to reduce weight, nowadays we have the option also of smaller lighter servos and batteries to help. The Leo 37 is also light, but its standard silencer is a lead bomb! Think about a dustbin to reduce weight, or a pipe to turn the weight into power.

I fitted the tank as shown on the plan with the long aluminium pipes up to the engine, the 40FSR would suck the fuel that far when level but nose up it would go lean after a few seconds, if I had it again I would fit a perry oscillating pump.

Harry