Well I maidened it yesterday but my FA-80 wasn't running very well, I forgot I had problems with this engine when I put it on so I didn't fly much.But I flew enough to like what I was flying, seems to be a smooth stable flyer, I was on low rates to start with and stayed on them and even with about half throw on the ailerons it had a very nice roll rate.I was suprised.As soon as I rolled it I said "Yeah, this is a nice one." I was sold. [8D]

I was very nervous on take off but as soon as it took to the air I could see this was one good flying airplane, I didn't test the stall or anything because I didn't want to idle too long and have the engine quit on me, but I did land pretty slow a few times with no problem at all.The Goldberg Extra I have has horrible tip stalls.

When I got back last night I pulled the Saito FA-80(yeah it was an 80 I made a mistake when I said 82) and put my Saito 100 on it and it runs good.I had to enlarge the cowling for the exhaust pipe to fit and enlarge the already big hole for the high speed needle though.But the bad news and good at the same time is that I was running it just to see how it ran and noticed the engine was coming loose and it didn't suprise me because the engine is big and vibrates a bit and I might not have tightened the motor mount screws enough, but then I looked inside the cowling and it is that whole firewall box that seems to be loose.I am glad I caught it before flying it, now I just need to strengthen it up.

So how does your Giles stall, is it an abrupt tip stall or a slow wing drop or does it just mush in?Also where do you have your CG set?