this is a really excellent airplane.

i had a shoestring and flew it almost every weekend for two years. after a while I got cocky and crashed it on an aggressive (short) landing approach and thought it was done, but i had the time and bothered to fix it and flew it again.

this is a super flying airplane which will really teach you taildragger handling, you can do nice wheel landings and it will even knife edge really well. I only had an OS 61FX in it and that was all the power she needed. not overpowered but plenty of vertical (not unlimited, but plenty while flying with speed) and could do nice large loops of almost any size.

it flies perfectly whether right side up or inverted. will also fly remarkably slow and graceful for a model of a real pylon racer.

It tended to nose over easily on our bumpy grass field, eventually i ditched those pretty wheel pants and went to some larger wheels which helped, but you still have to pay attention to the nose while taxiing slow, and consciensly hold the tail down. if you're taxiing down wind with up elevator to hold the tail down, the wind can just lift your tail right up on you so you have to mind the throttle and keep prop wash over the tail to hold it down. maybe this is typical with tail draggers.