Thanks guys, I pour my heart and soul into my planes as I can tell you do as well.

First abut the covering. painted fabric is a great idea, ive seen some work that way and it looks great, scale as you can get. BUT I cant paint to save my life and the mess would bring down the house. I wanted the plane to be strong as possible, i am not the best pilot, but the real reason was so i could start and stop monocoat colors without a rib or stringer under the seams. but as it turned out after I got the coverite on it I found a picture of this waco which has two colors but is seamless. i mean i did not stop the white and start the purple, the second color (purple) just goes right over the white. It sorta was a after though or mistake. however when you touch the coating it feels real expensive with the two layers and is very durable. no wrinkling either after hours in the sun or months in storage for winter.
you dont have to worry about it flying, you do have to worry about getting it to descend though, mine wants to float forever, perhaps i need to work on the top wing incidence. my first few flights needed the entire runway and we have 500 feet of north south runway here in Webster ny.

The Eagle is another of my true loves, she is a great planes ARF. I know, ARF yuk, BUT these days the arfs are getting so good and this is such a pretty airplane I just fell into the dark side on this one. Just kidding , I own may arfs but I still build kits for therapy, lol. She has a Fuji 50 on her firewall, now ive read all the dirt on every engine you can come up with and they all have ups and downs, this fuji never stops running, is a little heavy but I needed the pounds anyway. price is good and has electric ignition. spins a 20/10 @ 7200rpm's and pulls the 20 pound eagle around nicely, a little better than scale on the power to weight ratio. I used hi-teck digitals on the tail and JR sport servos on the wing, i dont have the specs in my head but all servos are in the 50 dollar each range. All my planes these days are getting PCM recievers.

The eagle flies scale, its not overpowered, you must fly the plane, if you are responding to what the plane wants to do, you are doomed. however once you get a handle on it you feel like you are flying the real thing,I tend to have a vivid imagination and slip into fantasy while flying so for what it's worth. I joy in the sky, taking off is a bit challenging just be sure you have the right prop and things set up just so, run it down the field as far as you dare and get the speed up, let it lift on it's own if it will and if you need to add a smidge of elevator, it will tork to the left so be ready with the ailerons and rudder to keep her striaght. Landing on the other hand is a challenge beyond challenges, a real monster if you havn't done your homework. power on half throttle, angle of decsent, speed, altitude and distance from the threshold of the runway are critical. I have had eight or ten good landings and two or three controlled crashes,lol. busted up the fuse three times, now i am on the third fuse and is waiting for a warm day for another flight. I'll be on the g2 flight sim all winter keeping my skills warm. I could run on for pages about flying Sorry if I run on to long. Just one my thing. I was at an open house here in my home town (rochester n.y.) and two guys were flying the GP 1/3 pitts together, It impressed me so much I am hooked, i've had disasters and I have had successes, there is no turning back now. It's like a first date, gotta do it again.


Thanks for the compliments and kind words
Al