Thank you much!! The plans were from MAN and designed by Mark Sirianni. It was designed to come in at 10 pounds. My first thought was my YS 110 but due to the size I decided to just redraw everything and stuff A gas engine on it. Even the way I did things it was A light plane until I installed the engine and two batteries. I used the LG from A Wild Hare 27% Extra. It had enough ground clearence for the 20 inch prop if the pilot knew how to land smoother. After the first landing I changed over to an 18 incher and all is now well. I could go back to the 20 after A couple of tries, took no time at all to get used to this plane.
My cowl is all one piece built onto the fuse but the top half comes off for engine work. I liked the way Mark designed it so I made no changes except how to mount the top part of the cowl.
This was A very easy build and came out looking good with the round fuse. Looking back there are A couple of little things I would do different but not much. If anyone wants to go bigger and try building from plans this is one of the good ones.