Keith, I have to say I'm impressed with your coming on this site and talking about your product, and marketing ideas.. Thank you for your honesty. You have hit the nail right on the head, bravo! It's rare to find an innovator that is also good at marketing or vise versa. I think you have learned that you give the people what they want, instead of giving them what you think they should have. Thank you for apealing to all classes. Not everybody wants an expensive DA-50, expensive and heavy 3W, or others. Especially now that you can buy a DL-50and muffler for nearly half the price, not to mention better performance. The expensive/high profit engines were keeping a lot of people out of the gas planes.

Some People think the cheap chineese engines are bad for the hobby and the USA. Lets think about that. The Beautiful Chineese ARF's have actually spawned the demand for the majority of engines being sold today. New, liter and more powerful engines will put more life into the ARF sales, wheels, props, servo's CF landing gears, wing tubes titanium axles, fuel tanks, fuel line, trailers to haul the bigger planes, AMA members, Club members. I certainly don't hear anybody complaining about all the new planes being sold. Not long ago, only a select few could efford to fly gas.

Personally, I'm not in the market for another 50cc DL-50 equivilent, however I'm definatly down for a lite 58cc if it will swing a 24x8 with authority and quick throttle response. (DA-50s and DL's won't give me the throttle response I need with the bigger props.) We need bigger props to get more of the the working end of the prop outside the cowl on the Yaks.

Keep the info coming, when do you expect to release the 58cc, and some numbers would be great.

john