luke21:

I'm probably gonna get the flame job of a lifetime here for saying this but I've actually had pretty good luck with my mds 40's. One came stock in a extra easy trainer plane I bought and it's been through plenty or harsh treatment.....was riding along in a couple re-kits of trainer planes I had. Was the motor the problem that caused the crash....nope just a bad case of dumb thumbs on my part. The other mds 40 I bought to replace the gp.42 that was getting tired in my other trainer.

I've got a mds .61 on a large spad plane I built and although it does need a bit of needle adjusting from weekend to weekend (mainly cause of temp and humidity changes and it's still breaking in) but it runs like a champ. I think the biggest thing about the mds motors is that they do take quite a bit longer to get broke in before they really start to perform well. The other motors I've had in the past and most still fly are 2-OS.46LA's - 1-TT GP.42 - 2-MDS.40's - 1-MDS.61....then there is the tower hobbies.75 I've got waiting on the next large spad aircraft I'm building to get finished up.

Madd_Maxx