It's a great looking plane and about 90% complete out of the box.

I replaced the tailwheel with a sillivan unit.

The 425BB should be pushing about 60oz at 6V.

Keep in mind that I'm using the .75 because I'm flying in Pueblo at about 4200' elevation. I expect brisk performance--but it's not gonna be a hover monster at 8 pounds. Not even close.

The TH .75 is good for about 6.5 pounds if you want a hover monster that will rocket out and accelerate going up. This 8 pound airframe should fly very nice with my usuall Pro Zinger 13-5 prop and Omega 5% fuel. I may try a 13-6. I've run 25% through this engine before--and you can DEFINETLY see the difference in performance. But--I don't want to cook the engine or wear it out prematurely--so 5% is cheap and works well. Very dependable and reliable setup with 5% and some castor.

Decathlons aren't meant to hover anyway. It should fly with plenty of authority, and pull nice big loops, but I'm not expecting a Decathlon that will torque roll.[:-]

I do plan to fly it hard--so I'm going to put the 475BB on all the surfaces.