Flew my Pitts today for first time. In a word......GREAT!

I built the updated version and beefed up items here and there as per these forums and common sense. No Guy wires yet, going to make them from fishing line and use nylon clevises to prevent radio interfering vibration.

The airplane still came in light with a Moki 2.10. The Moki mounted on the factory supplied mounts perfectly without needing to use my radial mount. Cowling fit was perfect as well with only minimal cutting required. Airplane uses all HT Metal Gear servos except 3004 on throttle. I moved the throttle servo inside the fuse and I balanced it right on the money without adding weight(shifted the battery forward). Airplane is set up using (4) aileron servos.

With a 22 x 10 prop it will fly vertical out of my hand! No crazy tendancies at slow speeds and stalls are graceful and straight ahead without tipping. Flying field sized loops are no problem, the airplane will knifedge till the cows come home(read where some couldn't get knife edge), roll rate is very good, probably quicker than scale, and vertical climb...well its unlimited, at least for the depth of my 20/10 vision.

What else can I tell you folks. I'm just lucky to be able to own and fly one of these beautiful airplanes.

Tom

P.S. The Moki engine on this airplane took forever to break in on a WM Extra 300s...thanks for your help with my questions about break in on another forum of this site. It runs perfectly now and does so on Zero percent nitro fuel....that was the secret for this hot florida weather.