Hi Moondoggie.

Well, I didn't buy the Tiger II (40 size) arf, I bought the kit so I can't really comment on the ARF. But I can comment on the Tiger 60 and Tiger 120 ARFs.

The Tiger 60 was (still is) a great flyer. I love that plane. I beat the hell out of it.. my second plane after my trainer, which was a Nexstar. I started out with an OS 61 SF then later on put a Super Tigre 75 with a tuned pipe. The plane flew just fine with the OS 61 Sf but I needed to replace the front bearings on that engine (bought it used and it needed them when I bought it). The Super Tiger, well, the muffler insides came all undone, Super Tiger replaced it, two flights later it happened again, so I bought a MACS tuned pipe system for it (header, tube, and muffler) and installed that, and it flys just great.

The second one, a Tiger 120 is also a great flyer, however, I was very VERY disappointed in that ARF. I put an OS 1.20 AX on board and built it, what I thought, very light. I moved stuff from the rear, used pull-pull, light weight tail wheel assembly, and so on, yet I still needed over a pound of nose weight just to make the CG. That really pissed me off. And, I know of three others that bought this model with the same problem.

They build them strong, I'll admit that, and that requires strong wood, I understand that, but jeech.. over a pound of nose weight to make the CG?

But, as I said, it flys great in spite of the weight, and the OS 1.20 AX is more than adequate for that plane. Verticals are great, take off speed is attained very quickly ( APC 15-10 pattern prop) with about 9800 RPM as max RPM with that prop, and it flys just fine with absolutely no probems at landing in spite of the pound of wieght... which means that the wing loading is more than adequate..

My other Goldberg is a Wildstick 40. A fun fly plane that I also beat around like a bad dog. It has an OS 46 on board and flys just fine.

Dick.