My buddy had two of these (both red/white and black/white patterns). First of all the black/white pattern dissappears very quickly when there isn't perfect daylight. It was real easy to lose it in the cloud in the evening. Re/white one was pretty visible. Although these planes look awesome on the ground and in the air both had similiar problems. Squirly take offs are the truth. If you haven't flown a cub on takeoff then don't start with one of these. He could fly his .25 size p-51 fine but had a lot of problems taking off with this plane (tip stalled on takeoff a couple of times and had problems correcting with rudder others). I suppose thats another point. Know how to use the rudder and not just the tailwheel. The CG was hard to work out on the planes. With a os FP .25 it was real tail heavy. Had to add several lead weights to get it to balance properly. The second had a Magnum .28 2 stroke and it was WAY more power than this plane needed. It really ballooned when you throttled up. Once balanced it was a neat flying plane. Very quick even with the standard .25. Rolls were very quick. The landing gear and mounts on this plane were horrible on both planes. A hard landing (bounced or tall grass) will generally twist the landing gear mounting block right out of the fuse. Took a lot of restructuring to get the gear blocks solid. Also the quality of balsa used in both of his planes was HORRIBLE! Looking inside the fuse towards the back and many of the stringers were warped or shreading straight from the factory! The glue was not holding well either. These planes were returned to the manufacturer after writing a letter and they replaced them with sufficient counterparts. So would I buy one? Maybe, but not for the $140 price they go for. On the other side of things I had a global Focke Wulf .15 size arf and that was by far the toughest, highest quality, arf that I have owned. So with that said maybe they have fixed their QA with this plane. Just check it over real good before putting it together.