Here's a Giles that will 3D like no other 40 size plane I've ever flown.

http://www.chiefaircraft.com/cgi-bin...DGiles202.html

Wingspan is 49" Weight is about 5 pounds. I'm hovering under 1/2 throttle with a Tower .75 engine and a 13-5 prop Zinger.

It needs a few mods to really suite my taste:

There is no tailwheel--only a wire skid. Lousy ground handling. I use a Sullivan medium tailwheel assembly. You need to cut the bottom of the plane open, but it's an easy mod that only takes about an hour or 2. Who wants to fly a plane without a steerable tailwheel?? Not me.

I'm using a TH .75 glow engine--because I fly at rediculously high altitude. It is extremely overpowered--even up here, but I'm hovering at about 1/2 throttle. The problem is the firewall. It's only 2 pieces of 1/8" lite-ply, and it's terribly weak. I have flown this plane before--currently working on assembling the 2nd one. I ripped the FW out after about 75 flights on the first plane. On this second plane, I completely cut the entire firewall out. Took about 2 minutes with a sharp exacto blade. Cheap hot glue.[:'(] I traced the FW and cut a new one from 1/4" hard-ply. I added a bunch of tri-stock. A little sanding and it was ready to glue in. I mixed up a batch of 30 min epoxy and a good amount of microballons and slapped it in. I pinned the sides of the FW through the lite-ply fuse. with bamboo skewers. They are about 1/8" diameter and they soak up thin CA like a dry sponge. Great method for pinning LG, wing mounts, and FW.

If I can use a .75 engine and fly it at high altitude and land at a walk--you guys at sea level should be able to slap a 40--50 engine on it and fly it like a dry leaf.

The stock LG is wire, and it's a bit weak. I replaced it with the LG from the GP Giles kit.

You have the option of using either 1 or 2 elevator servos. I'm using 2 with a JR Matchbox to get them dialed in. Elevator servos need to be low-profile. They are mounted opposite each other in the tail. Not much room--tail is getting thin back there. Rudder servo is mounted inverted in the tail of the fuse. Removable hatch for access to rudder servo.

I'm using JR 9011 on elevators. I had to make a little 1/4" thick block and glue it on the sides of the fuse to space the servos apart----so that they don't hit or touch when installed. JR 9411 mid-coreless digital on rudder. JR 4721 on ailerons and a JR 3021 on the throttle. Battery is 6V 1000mah metal hydride. RX is Hitec 555.

The rudder is one solid piece. No vertical stab--the whole thing moves. Thats why I'm using a 100oz. coreless digital on my rudder. It's extremely subject to flutter with an underpowered servo.

With the upgraded main and tailgear--I'm flying right at 5 pounds. This plane slows down to a walk on landing---and remember, I'm using twice the recommmended engine and I've got heavier mains and tailwheel. Not too mention the JR Matchbox and dual elevator servos. I'm about 4-6oz overloaded, but you could never tell.

Harriers are solid with only very minimal wing rocking. It rocks slow and only when your going REALLY SLOW.

Torque rolls are effortless. Hovering is a breeze. Very stable. Flat spins are rediculous. It will enter a flat spin both inverted and upright. It will spin slow or fast, depending on throttle and throws. I've spun it all the way down to about 50' from the ground and then just release the rudder and add some power. Blenders are blistering. Unbelievable.

It tucks to the gear in knife edge, but I just fly it. No mixing. So- it can't require much to actually mix it out. It will knife edge loop. It will do cartwheels. Walls/terminators are sick. It just POPS when you hog the elevator at slow speed.

It flies inverted with 1 click of down trim.

All the control surfaces are enormous. Counterbalanced elevators.

The covering is neat, but high maintenance. It's cheap chinakote, and it's sticky on the backside. It likes to come unglued at the seams and it won't stick back down when oil gets on it. You have to clean the backside with alcohol and remove all the oil--then stick it down with monokote trim solvent.

I don't know what it takes to hover a 5 pound plane at sea level or lower elevations----but you can definetely count on it weighing about 4.75---5.25 pounds RTF. This is my second one--and they are almost the exact same weight between the 2 planes.

It does need some work--IMO--to really get it tuned up and tweaked-in before flying, but for $100 shipped--you can't beat it for a Giles that will 3D. It's a great all around fun-fly plane.

You can buy it from www.raidentech.com and get it for $99.50 shipped Fedex ground.