Hi Mike,
Don't give up on your amd/jhh hawk as you don't know what you are missing as it is a delight to fly. I am the U.K. importer of this kit and have been flying them for 3 years.It originally had a wren 54 supers sport in which i think Sonnich will vouch for this as he saw it fly in Denmark about 2 years ago.Well less is more and we now have one with the mw 44 in and weighs just over 10lb same as the ducted fan version and flies incredible well and will go even better with the new wren 44 which is now produces 10lb of thust.All my kits are supplied with 3mm metal clevises and 3mm studding.The most important area of this plane is the all moving tail.Make sure you file flats on the tailplane joiner rod then put 3mm allen head srews rather than the supplied grub srews and you will be able to tighten things up better.Our c.g. is 64mm from the top hatch opening giving a slightly nose heavy plane.We have done extensive test swith this plane and i feel the wren 44 combination is the best.It has been flown in extremely strong winds where you would not even dare to fly a kite but cuts through the rough air like a knife through butter. Bobcats and Fire birds were being thrown all over the place on landing bot the hawk took it all in its own stride.If those sort of conditons does not test the models strength i do not know what would.I have been in touch over the last year with AMD and have helped them develope the latest turbine version of this by sending various samples out to them.There is a complete review of this model in the next edition of RCJI so go and buy it and discover all of the up grades i have suggested.Videos of our turbine powered AMD Hawks flying
For First AMD Hawk powered by Wren Super Sport flown off grass at a
meeting in Denmark in 2004.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...21#post5700761

For second Hawk powered by a standard MW44 flown at a meeting in the UK
in 2005
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...hlight=hawk#po