forestroke, My second plane experience was very similar. I had the WM Cap Castrol Aviator, of course it is the one you can't get anymore.[:@] I lost it do to a poor assembly job on my part. It was my first ARF & I couldn't wait to get that bad-boy done quick enough. Don't know why I was in such a hurry, I knew I wasn't going to try to fly it until I had mastered my Trainer pretty well. So after sitting in my closet for about a year I finally broke it out & did surprisingly well with it, It flew very nice for about 10 good flights, that's when both elevator halves parted company with the horizontal while in a high stress attitude & she came down in a death spiral. I may have dumb-thumbed it, but it certainly doesn't look that way from the wreckage. So I replaced it with the WM ultimate I spoke of & she is every bit as easy to fly, if not more so than the Cap was. I'm still very much a Cap guy & will put another one together as soon as I can afford to.


P.S. Besides Grumpy, my other knickname at the field is fourstroke.