CofG,

I appreciate your comments, gracious and generous. I will allow that I do NOT have the time on the UCD 40 that I have with the Twist. Consequently I may have not LEARNED all that bird can do--and teach. With the PRICE of the Can Dos, I will NOT let them become "Hangar Queens." And you are probably very corect re: fine tuning is everything. The more one flies a bird, the more it gets "tuned" to individual needs. I promise you I shall do the tuning on the UCDs I have and will certainly push their envelopes to discover their charms and talents.

I've discovered every bird I have has its own grace, it's own peculiar personality. Even the Lanier Dart, a bird I often detest, a brick to fly on flameouts, has a unique "presence" in the air. It stays where it's put--as a good pattern plane should. My UCD .60, with the Saito 100, though it's a bit of a dog, has the grace of a huge bird, moreso if I treat her right with the sticks. Creating that "grace" is also a matter of experience and transition in flight. ANY bird can look ugly, incompetent in the air. Only the pilot, the wind, and the bird, in that special "relationship," create uniqueness, individuality, that distinct beauty in flight.

Fly well.

Jack