Sewerdude, you will not be wasting the DA's power at all. If you remember I started out with the Fuji 43 on the first one and liked it a lot. That plane weighed 14lbs even. When that plane broke the nose off and GP sent me a new one I put the 43 in it and it still was at 14lbs. I had someone that really wanted the Fuji so much so he offered me what I paid for it and I had a Da50 looking for a home so in it went and I have been lovin life since.

I think you have seen whaturi's video with this plane on the OS160 plus he posted in here the night he flew mine and said he absolutely loved it. Power when you needed it, still flew very lite, tada yada yada...

You'll find a lot of thses with 50cc engines as well as the Evolution 45 and the Fuji 43. I've even seen one with a MVVS58 (whaturi's). Now that was true foamie power. He could not hover it for long as the ailerons could not overcome the torque and that was turning a 23x12 ZM prop. I watched him in a very low hover, plant the throttle and it was gone and I mean gone in a huge hurry