I swear by the 35% Troy Built Models extra 260. www.troybuiltmodels.com. It's only available as an ARC.

Mine weighs a tad under 23 lb with a DA 100 including dual receivers and receiver batteries. I've seen guys get them down under 21 lb with a single receiver and ZDZ 80. A 102" airframe at 21 lb friggin' rocks with a ZDZ 80.

It blows any edge I've ever flown out of the water for 3D stuff and it's also the most precise airframe I've flown. I've heard the Fiberclassics 33% extra flies a little more true but 3D's a tad less favorably.

Oh yeah. This plane is for someone who will make the weight tradeoffs for an excellent flying airframe. I've got 150 flights on one with no wear problems and know guys who've got 300 or more with only a few maintenance issues.
But -- you better be flying off a paved strip or very nice grass strip and you better not screw up a landing. It'll take only moderate landing abuse. Beyond that I bet you'd shove the gear straight through the wing tube.
The landing frailty doesn't equate to an inability to take abuse in the air though. I've done lots of violent 1/2 throttle blenders, nearly full throttle climbing flat spins, 1/2 throttle walls to backslides, you name it. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.


If ya gotta go with an edge, Aeroworks is about it in that size. 3D's OK but precision flight sucks.

No one's mentioned the radiocraft 35% extra yet. You could probably keep it to 25 lb with the ZDZ 80 and I hear it has good precision and 3D characteristics.