RE: katana snaps with minimal elevator input
All the components are fairly lightweight. Battery pack is a stock hitec 600mAh 4.8V. Servos are 2 HS81s on the elevators, HS545 on the ailerons, HS605 on rudder, and futaba s3004 on throttle. Saito 82 is pretty light itself, comparable to some .46 2 strokes out there. Anyways, your point about the saito 82 being too much engine may be right, although as mentioned previously ultra r/c used the 82 in one of their planes.
Anyways, without beating this thread to death, I am probably going to try and sell the plane anyways. Thanks for all the advice.