Brit I was reading the beginners forum about the nexstar and it was very good reading. I did not know about all the problems with this plane. I had a few of the problems to with the thrust but all I did is reduce throttle on takeoff and use the rudder and I was in the air no problem. I went in the basement and looked at my plane after reading the forum and sure enough. man did it have right thrust built in so I think I'm going to take all the fab off and waterproof the wood with urathane and do a tail dragger conversion and set it up for floats and flatten the wing a bit. I like the look with engine in cowl how and what cowl did you use Brit and put engine back on center. Looking forward to you input britbrat thx Lureman