I just bought a Great Planes Venus 40. My intent is to use a new Evolution 60 that I have, it's broken in and runs great.

The weight difference between the OS 50 and the Evo 60 is about 7 ounces. My thoughts were to use a 5 cell 6 volt 1100 mah battery and place it under or aft of the servo pan. This should help with the weight difference and CG although I do believe I will be in need of some aft weight on this.

I have an Airtronics RD8000 radio and am using the higher quality BB high-torque servo's. The aileron will get two servo's and I intend on using channels 2 and 6 for the aileron setup rather than the Y cable.

I am also thinking of using Sullivan carbon fiber rods for the elevator and rudder in place of the wooden stick and wire pushrods.

I saw that someone put the throttle servo (micro) in the engine compartment although I may not want to do this because of the weight issue with the EVO 60 engine. Any thoughts on this?

Any comments or hints on this setup or general hints or ideas on putting this together?

I do have a fairly new (maybe 20 flights or so) OS 50 SX that I could use on this, but wanted more power.. if needed. Don't know what engine I should use. Suggestion on this are also appreciated. I just hate to see that new Evo 60 sitting there.

DS.