Great input from everyone. Today, I maidened the plane. Several issues before today, so I will address them one at a time.

1. Weight, when finished is 5.65 pounds.

2. CG. I marked the plane as indicated in the build instructions. I am using the OS 50, and a 5 cell 6 volt 1100mah battey that was placed as far forward in the radio compartment as possible, just behind the fuel tank compartment. It balanced out exactly where the instructions said it would. There was no nose dip nor any tail dip, perfect point of balance. I added 2 ounces of withgt to the nose to give it some initial nose weight for the first flights. I can remove that as necessary/needed.

3. I set the throws by eye. I wanted to make sure I had enough to fly. As it turned out, my maiden flight showed that there was to much elevator and aileron throw. Ther is never enough rudder throw..ha.. oops. After landing the first flight, I took out some of the elevator throw. By the way, it took three clicks of down to get it to fly straight. That was all. No problems with take off or aileron. Happy happy!! OK..

4. I flew it again then did some aerobatics. Flew just grand. But, I was still a bit unappy with the snap of the roll and the fact that I felt there was still to much elevator, so I landed it and removed some throw from both the aileron and the elevator. I put it back up and it flew just great, throws were,. what I felt anyway, very comfortable and the aircraft was veryu capable.

Battery recharge time.

After I recharged the batteries (TX and RX). I refueled and put it up. Problems. The engine surged, and did not behave very well. I opted to land immediately, however, during landing, the throttle went to full then back to idle without input from me. I struggled to get it down, but manage dto land without incident. We (Ron is our club 'pro') looked it over and got the immediate impression that it was not the engine .... duh.. again I guess.

Ok.. took the wing off and turned on the TX and RX. With no input, the throttle servo kept moving, often to full open then to full shut. Not sure what happened to this servo, but it's history!!! Lucky for me, I discovered it and managed to get the plane on the ground before it caused problems. By the way, all other servo's were solid, no gitter, no irregular movement.. so it's either the servo or... the RX with a bad channel. I'll see and report.

Thanks to all for your input and recommendations. I do love the way it flys and think it will be my favorite plane.

DS.