There are 3 of these in our flying club... All 3 are powered by Saito 100's turning APC 15x6 props at about 9,800 RPM's on 15% nitro...

This engine is perfect for this plane, almost has unlimited vertical and is very smooth (plus sounds great!)

One of the planes has all sorts of lights on it, it looks neat but it weighs probably 1 1/2 lbs more than the others (he also has an onboard glow system, which really isn't needed) His performance is noticably less than the other 2 but still flies nice...

The plane is well built and a lot of fun to fly... I agree it will do the maneuvers, but it has no where the precision of a CAP, Extra or Edge (nor was it designed to)...

Hope this helps!