Been doing a little early morning building. The Showtime is coming along pretty good. I have all the hinged surfaces done. This is a nice ARF. Very good quality and easy to build. The fuel tank is assembled and has the fuel tubing attached. The Servo slots are cut out and the covering is ironed in. Very nice. I've been hearing (on the Showtime thread) the weights with a 110 are gonna be right at 9 lbs. That may be able to be reduced with lite tires, small battery, and a mini servo here and there by up to 4 ozs. That's gonna be pretty heavy for my laboring 110 but will probably fly it pretty good. Sometimes I think the body shape of an airplane makes a difference on hovering ease. The Yak seems hard to hover, not the hovering itself but hard to pull with my engine. The 110 will barely pull it out of a hover and yet the engine seems to pull nice RPM (about 9300 comfortably rich) My Ultra Stick weighs right at 9 lbs and seems to pull out better than the 8lbs 9ozs Yak. Weird. OF course the Mayhem is in a league of it's own. It's weird, I like the Yak, but it's not a plane I would buy again. It flys good but seems awkward in flat spin and waterfalls. It does them but certainly not like the UCD or Mayhem. It loses altitude very quickly. You really have to be on your toes when flying it. To me it doesn't instill confidence. It's a scary plane to fly. The more I fly it the more obvious it becomes this plane has little to relieve the Pucker Factor. It will KE and do precision flybys, and pattern work very nicely. It's beautiful in the air. But quite honestly I'm thinking of taking the 110 out and installing it in the UCD60. I would love to see that plane with the an 8lbs 0ozs weight and all that power. It would be a rocket ship and be extremely fun to fly. And I could be two at the price of the Yak. And I can KE the UCD but it's much harder than Yak but much easier to hover and the UCD is in a league of it's own with flat spin. I think I'm keeping the Yak and I will use it to perfect my flying skills in pattern, and harriers (another manuever it does extremely well) But hey, flatspins, it's what I do, and they are hard (less fun) with the Yak. Funny the UCD 46 gives me confidence, too much, that's why I'm always crashing them. But with it I feel I can do anything with the Yak, I'm just glad when the flights over and I'm down without crashing it. I guess it's what you want to do with the hobby. I don't really care what I fly, I'm just trying to have fun. The UCDs, at least for me, are more fun. The Showtime looks fun to.
Thanks.
Barry