Wow, this it is weird looking back just 6 months!

Well, I did get the Twist and liked it with an OS46FX with Tower muffler.. on a 12x4 it could pull out of a hover ok, not a rocket but enough to hover close to the ground without fear (torque rolling it low is another story!). I did get tired of the knife edge difficulties and it won't snap. Got some pretty good blenders going with it into hovering flat spins. That was fun. Wouldn't do harrier rolls too well. Maybe the snapping and harrier roll is setup but I did make adjustments to cg, control surface deflection, props, etc. all summer while I flew the covering off it! The nice fat wing I'm sure saved me a number of times flying too slow or doing something dumb close to the ground. It could save itself from a lot.. maybe I should try a bigger engine before retiring it totally, then I can get rid of the 5 oz of lead in the nose!

Anyway, I wanted a more serious plane recently so I just got a funtana 40 with a Saito 91 and fast digital servos... I'm excited all over again!

Hope to try it in the next week or so and I know what you mean about power being comfort lynn! You sure get used to it with overpowered brushless foamies! I'm really hoping this Funtana will do it for me but it had a lot more research so I think it will. I spent an hour at work one day browsing all the websites looking at engine weights and props etc and found exactly what you're saying about some larger displacements having the same or less weight because they just bored it out more. I don't think I'll ever get a "recommended" engine again as I won't see the power I really want and the weight is really a non-issue.