You don't like the looks of a Jug??!! Hey, it may not be a beauty queen but this is one great looking hunk of metal! I mean, how can you not like 2,000 horsepower in a seven-ton airframe with eight .50 caliber Brownings that could soak up axis lead like a sponge and still bring its pilot home? It may not have been a pretty ballerina in pink tights but it was definitely the fat lady who sang at many an axis flyers funeral! Read Robert S. Johnson's book, "Thunderbolt", and be prepared to be impressed.

Take one more look at this bird and tell me this isn't beauty on the wing. (Pictures lower down.)

Now, having said all that, I'm a die hard Spitfire lover in every Mark made. A Spitfire is a great flying airplane in both RC and full scale but they both have a tendency to nose-over on the ground. This can be dealt with by tweeking the gear forward a bit and by careful management of the controls. Like the P-47, it has a generous wing area that allows excellent slow-speed flight controllability.

Cooling of the engine is easy enough with some careful ducting of the cool in-coming air and the hot exiting air. Your main problem will be hiding the muffler. This gets easier to do with the larger scales but with a .60-size bird, something is going to hang out somewhere.

Anyway, that's my dos centavos. Just remember that your trainer was butt ugly and you knew that when you bought it. However, after it gave you a little confidence and the thrill of your first loop, it looked a whole lot better, right?

Al