Now if you stuff a Zenoah G-26 on her nose, round the wing tips, add upper ailerons (using two high-torque brushless servos burried under hatches, one in each lower wing and 4-40 rod connectors to uppers, instead of one central with torque rods), thin the top wing's airfoil by 3/16" or so and set the incedences to 0-0-0 and put narrow 5.6" WWI wheels on the mains you have the makings of a day-to-day rugged sport plane that kind of looks like a Curtiss F6C from the 30's.

At least that's my winter build plans.

I just received the Phaeton 90 kit from BalsaUSA and am drawing up my "bashes" to make sure they'll work. Figure while I'm at it a smoke system would be fun. Definalely a builder's kit. Minimal hardware, and they don't disrupt your creative juices by showing much of anything besides the airframe on the plans. Good balsa and very good die cutting.

I've asked Santa to help me sell the darned house I moved out of in June to bankroll the motor & radio. Local real-estate has tanked. Figures. Be starting on the kit right after Christmas. Should be a fun build.

Oh - and reverse the "N" struts. They're backwards in the instructions and on the plans. Diagonal goes lower front to upper rear - shorter run and true-to scale for almost all biplanes.