Chuck, I really want you to get the maiden over with so you can tell us how much fun it was.

My U-Can .46 and my Twist fly so well and are so much fun, that I didn't really want to try any other planes for 3-D. However...I couldn't resist buying a .60 U-Can and I bought a Saito 1.00 for it. My first Saito was no good, vibrated so much the carb broke off the backplate and I sent it back to Horizon. (yeah, I balanced the prop) They replaced it immediately and the second one vibrated, backfired, and I sent that one back also. They returned it saying they replaced the rear bearing and now it should run fine. Yeah, right. I've replaced bearings but never because the engine vibrated. So now it sits in its box, brand new, never flown and a quart of fuel run through it. This is why I've had a .60 U-Can behind the furnace for a year. Now I want to put a Y-S 110 in it but they are not available right now Hobbies so I took the
Y-S 120 from my Dave Patrick bipe and last night mounted it on my .60 U-Can. I will get serious about finishing my .60 after the Olympic Games. Now that I have the motor mounted I have to figure out how to do the plumbing and where I want to put the tank. The mid wing planes make it tough to put the tank on the C.G. My .46 tank is behind the firewall and it flat spins better when the fuel is depleted, as you would expect.
Different people have different ways of building and my way is to do the motor mounting first so I don't have to worry about gouging the tail fins while twisting the fuse around.

By the way, I am not knocking Saito engines, just the experience I've had. I put a Saito 1.5 in a Cap 232 once and liked it...for a short while. I first put a Saito .72GK in my Twist and went finally to an O.S. .70 4C which runs just great. My three Saito engines are cleaned up and resting peacefully. I fly with Cool Power 15% in the winter. In the summer I go to Omega 15%.

A flier in the Lancaster Club had a U-Can-Do .60 plane and used to talk about his engine flooding out and also about tearing out the landing gear block. I joined another club closer to home and haven't flown at that club for over a year so I don't know how he resolved either problem. I punched out the 6-32 T nuts and replaced them with 1/4-20 T nuts as I did in my U-.46 and flowed some thinned epoxy around the 4 sides of the block.

Chuck, I am practically vibrating with anticipation waiting for your maiden flight !!

Talk to ya later, FRED