RE: The new Lanier Edge 87"
Last pics for the night... the fuselage. It's very lightly built, definitely built to fly, not to crash. You do need to go through every single joints though, as I find that the glue joint near where the hatch is screwed on is loose. All joints are glued with epoxy, not that white glue. The firewall and engine box is doulbe laminated ply as described before, and the firewall box, LG, and wing tube are interconnected, making the structure stronger (see the last pic).
I'll try to get the weight, but it should come close to the Extra posted earlier. This is definitely not your dad's Lanier.