Hi Rodney, I'll let you know about the contests in a couple of weeks, I've been burning a case a week for a couple of months now. This plane just keeps getting better. Hopefully so am I. Although maybe not enough to win, it's late in the season and my competition is TOUGH. They all have over a years practice on me right now, they'll be hard to take down.

The chin cowl is cut along the imprint line, then flush with the firewall. I then made a frame for both the cowl and chin out of lite ply. I used 2 small music wire pins to fasten it to the firewall, and a 4-40 screw just in front of the carb in the very front, just under the spinner. Works great. lasts forever.

As for the 3M. Well, my OS is working too good. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'll try the 3M again at a later date when it's not on my #1 competition bird. It has a learning curve to it, like every engine, and I need all the flying time I can get right now.

I like the logo Schpankme, but I think I liked the dragon one better.

A note about this plane after 150 flights: A little change changes a LOT, so if you get one flying and start dialing and tweaking, do it SLOWLY. Start with the numbers I give you and go from there, it's VERY close. As of this writing, there is still no rudder mix at all, but I do have about 4% of aileron differential just to smooth out the rolls a little. It will roll like lightning on high rates, so keep that in mind and use really strong centering servos to keep it smooth and locked on low rates. I used JR 9411SAs and they are working great.

More later, I gotta go fly!

-Mike