Well, I have finished mine.
Here is my thoughts:
1. With Saito 100, I had to add 6.5 oz of lead weight to get it to bal. around 7" back. I have the elevator servo in the tail (more on that later). I mounted the throttle servo up on the firewall, mounted a 5 cell 6.5oz battery pack up front as well, used a tru-turn spinner and 15x6 apc prop with stock motor mount. I was not happy about adding the 6.5 oz of weight to the firewall, but I had to.

2. It would be nice if they gave you some extra wire for the pull-pull on rudder so that you could mount servo farther forward.

3. It would also be nice if they included a pushrod system that would be easy to install to allow the elevator servo to be mounted up in the fuse.

The plus on everything is that the flying weight dry is at 8.6 lbs. That's good. Everything went together great.


As you can see, I built mine light. Also, Eric made mention about using a isolation mount in my case for the added weight. It would have come out just right.

I have yet to fly it, can't wait.

Except for the bal. issued, I give this plane a big thumbs up.

They stated that the saito would bal. fine by moving the batt. around and servo placement. It might, except trying to run a pushrod back to the elevator without support in the fuse, is very difficult at best. This is where it would be nice if they maybe included some type of bellcrank to mount the servo up front. I may do this mod later as I think I could get the plane to a tad over 8lbs.

Ultra RC has been a great help.

I rec. this plane so far. I would not run a light engine. If I did not already have the saito 100, i would have gotten the YS 1.10 and it would have bal. perfect.