Heh,heh... Sorry 'bout that Patrick.
You know the funny thing is that I was never a big fan of the Phaeton...before I had one. I always was a bigger fan of either the Pitts/EAA Bipe style or a more rounded, stringered fuse like the Fleet or PT-17. I bought it for the size. There aren't a whole lot of bipes in the 70" range. They're either 60" and under or 80" and over.
After I built it and started flying it, it was the flying qualities of the Phaeton that won me over. That plus the many possiblities it offers for kitbashing into something scale.
I didn't spend much time making mine look pretty, as you can see-but now that I know what a great plane it is, if I ever build another one....

Oh, almost forgot. No, I wouldn't call the performance spirited by any means but it was fairly fast in level flight. It looked slow due to the size but when running alongside faster looking 40 sized sport planes, the speeds were similar. It just didn't have much vertical. A shallow dive was required to loop. The Ryobi will probably be a little better. If you've ever seen a fullscale, stock Stearman do aerobatics, you'll know what I mean. It looked great doing slow rolls, stall turns, spins and that kind of stuff. Just a really fun plane.
I'd guesstimate that it weighed 14 pounds or less ready to fly.