whaturi is very lucky in the fact he has a great girlfriend that supports his hobby/addiction. About the only thing she complains about is when he gets a little too low and "out of hand as she calls it" doing things a bit too fast which tends to get too wild followed by having to fix the plane. But in his defense, he's really good at repairs.

The Yak is my old Aerotech that I absolutely hated. I just gave it to him to get it out of my face which was his first GS plane. It had more than a few issues right from the factory. He stripped it, fixed it, recovered it and flew the snot out of it. The Cap was another one I gave him. I had flown it with the Fuji 43 and during a blender it deadsticked and I landed off field breaking the front clean off like I took a saw to it. After looking closely at it there was little to no glue on it. I took pics, sent them to GP and they sent me a whole new plane so I gave it to wahturi.

He then proceeded to stuff an MVVS58 in it and if you ever wanted to see a plane powered by gas that truely had foamy power that was it. I gave him a ZM prop 23x12 to try. I saw him hover it and plant the throttle and it was a rocket coming out and that is not an exaggeration. The problem was it was to much torque for the plane so he bought my OS160 from me and that is what he used in that video.

BTW, that video one him a prize (which is the Fusion in the other two videos) on another forums video contest.

I met him about 6 months ago while he was hovering a Funtana40 which in itself is a feat since that was one very hard plane to hover. He has improved so much in that amount of time.