Like Waldo said, it is a great all around fun airplane, whether it is electric or glow. That is what is great about this hobby.

Although we have put engines in it between 2 stroke OS-.61 and a Saito .82 4 stroke, you did not need a PHD to figure out what engine you needed for a .40 size plane. Electrics are convienent and no clean up but you need a PHD to figure out what motor/esc/gear box/battery combo. If you make a mistake you will end up with a very expensive lesson. Buy a $20 foam airplane and put $350 worth of batteries and electronics in it.

Like DownT, I too have lots of money tied up in dead batteries. Mostly from mistakes and the learning process. Without a Watt-meter of some kind you are the road to the school of hard knocks. The other thing with Lipos unless you are very,very careful, one mistake and your house, car, or whatever could go up in smoke. Electrics are fun. I have 5 of them but there is nothing like the smell and clean-up of nitro. I also think glow powered planes seem to fly better.

Once the motor goes dead on the electrics it seems like they turn into flying bricks. Only 1 of the 5 electrics I have seems to fly like a glow powered plane. The 1 is a balsa/ultracote ARF, three others are all foam and the fifth is a balsa kit. Adam, can you tell any difference in the flying characteristics between your electric and glow powered T***T?