Well, a fellas gotta do what a fella gotta do.

Bottom line is this plane is too heavy for a 50cc engine at 18.5 lbs+. My review will state so. Yet I wouldn't be doing a good job of "reporting" if I didn't also point out the 3-4 easy things I did to drop over 1 lb of weight.

I think this serves the manufacturer as well as the consumer.

I'll point out that installing a larger engine will offer a much better power to weight ratio, but at the cost of wingloading.

These are such beautiful planes and well built (if overly so) and it would be a shame for many 500cc guys to dismiss it as too heavy. I hope my review will open the door to more 50cc guys emjoying this aircraft.

If I can get it to 17.25 it'll be the same weight as my CHP DV and it flies very well with a DA50... at times I could want for a little more power to weight, but not often... so that is my goal... anything udner that is icing.

I'll be finishing up some projects in the next couple days and will hammer ont he Yak right after. I hope to get my standoffs this week and get the engine mounted, surfaces hinges, servos installed and start looking at balance. It would be REAL nice if I could out one rudder servo in the tail instead of going pull-pull, and perhaps with the 3 oz savings I can do that... we'll see.