I'd have to say that I'm very satisfied with the flight characteristics of my Infinity. It was easy to get trimmed due to it's straightness right out of the box. To date I have 100+ flights on it including two contests flying F3A. It is a capable plane.

Having said that, I must note two areas where there's room for improvement:

1) The covering is a continuous maintenance issue. Every flying session seems to require that a piece of trim be tacked down. Some pieces have long since disappeared. In retrospect, I would have preferred to buy the plane sans covering and finish it off myself with monokote.

2) The engine gusseting and landing gear mounting plate cannot handle the stress of hard flying and a fuel-spewing YS110. My gear have now been torn out twice. Builders should add some glass, carbon and/or other beef to these structures if using this type of setup. Don't skimp on the fuel-proofing.

My aircraft is showing a lot of flight wear. I'm on the second gear struts, engine, tank and motor mount (as a matter of preference, not necessity). It balances perfectly with the YS110, but if I had it to do over again I might put in a 2-stroke 90-100 with a plain muffler. The Bolly FAI STD gear are a perfect match for the dural struts included.


The Infinity is not a $3K custom-built composite 2m pattern bird and is unlikely to take the 500+ practice & contest flights that one would expect from such an aircraft. However, to get a beginner started in pattern or to act as a backup for the experienced flier, it's a derned good plane.

-Ron Ellis