My first Giant Scale gas plane was the Lanier Laser 200 - with a G62. Shortly after finishing and starting to fly the plane, I discovered IMAC - my club at the time had about 6 IMAC flyers (1995) - so I competed with the Laser in Basic, and then Sportsman. Did VERY well with the plane. But the G62 power limited it (IMO) beyond the Sportsman class, and I had, by that time a new (3W80) Extra.

I still have the Laser - nearly 400 flights on it now - 10 years old. It was, before my current 33% Edge, the best flying plane I had ever flown (35 years in this now) - I resisted the temptation to upgrade the power plant because it was so perfect before - and although vertical was limited, anything (!) involving rolls, snaps, spins - was incredibly (well, still IS)..

In my case - I learned so much that I used to have a reasonably popular web page - "200 flights on a Laser 200" - about 8 years ago - sharing the stuff I learned over the first 200 flights with the airframe - I finally removed the web page as I stopped flying the Laser back when I went to dedicated servers for my other web sites. But basically, everything that could, has at one time or another fallen off due to vibration, and I learned A LOT about IMAC trimming (about 100 flights to get that dialed in) - I still love the plane, but it doesn't get used all that much anymore..

Cheers,
Bob