I hadn't considered the switch. Have to mull that one over.

My plane started out as a Laniar Elplorer 40. I hated the way it flew, and I was very unhappy with the workmanship in the plane. I got the chance to change some things due to first a hard landing that took out the main landing gear mount, then a hard take-off the busted out the firewall and broke the former at the front of the wing. Got it back to gether and then really tore it up hitting the top rail of a fence. That one totaled the fuselage and put a ding in the leading edge of the wing. I built a new fuselage, stick style, and changed the wing geometory, extended the fuselage two inches forward and three inchs aft. This got rid of about four oz of lead under the engine. It was really flying good. I used some undersized nylon screws holding the new landing gear on and I was planning to fix that tonight when things went south.

I had complained to Lanair about the quality of the plane and they sent me a wing kit at a reduced price and I had never gotten around to trying it. Think I'll build a clone of what I lost today. Just wish I could get that OS 52 four stroke back though. Sweet running engine.

This is a photo of the rebuild before covering. I used day-glow pink on the fuselage because the plane was hard to see with any clouds. Should help locat it if I can ever get close.