and thank you too campgems for those awesome pictures of your mods. very nice work on the servo box. i may try this same thing if i decide to keep this plane but probably not until next winter. i've got too many other planes to fool around with. i'll fly this thing the way it comes out of the box and we'll see what happens. right now, i've got it sitting on the C.G. machine and it's telling me it needs weight on the nose. about three ounces should do it. i'll mount some lead in such a way that i will be able to easily add or remove as the plane becomes more comfortable to me. after i've found the balance that suits my flying style, i'll burry it inside and out of sight. my aileron throws are a bit of a concern as well. they dont want to travel down as much as i'd like them to. as you said, the material needs to be trimmed back some but i'll try it like this first. i have a feeling i'm going to be asked if i would sell this plane anyhow as soon as the newbies at our field see it go. it would actually make a good plane for one of them if i can get it to fly decent.

sounds like you had an interesting flight at your field campgems...i'm glad you got the plane back home. we're probably going to try flying off the snow saturday. man, the last time we did, our take offs were very hair raising indeed. hopefully we wont have a repeat performance. wish us luck....and thanks for the posts