We have a static display at Airport Day next weekend. I would like to have it finished for that and display it. Then hopefully the folowing Monday, maiden it. Boy it sure is heavy though. Right now, it is tipping the scale a 8.6 lbs. I'm guessing that by the time I have the wheel pants finished and the cowl mounting and painting done, if I don't need to add weight to balance it, I'll end up real close to 9 lbs. That should put me at around 22 to 23 oz/sq ft. I guess that isn't to bad, but that fuse sure weighs a ton. It weighs 6.2 lbs without the wheel pants.

If I like the way it flys, I think I'll do some redeisgn work and build up a fuselage with light ply vs the 1/2" thick balsa up front. I'll bet I could shave a couple pounds of the finished weight. Actually, even though the wings are not to heavy, 14 oz on the top wing and 20 oz on the bottom, including two servos, I think I could improve on them also. Guess I'm addicted to building

Gray Beard, I'm thinking seriously about adding the N-struts. The striping on the bottom of the wings is seperate pieces of covering, so I would only have to replace two pannels of covering for each wing and not touch the top covering other than to cut a thin exit hole for the ply to exit. By the way, how did you handle the loose wires in the top wing mount? I can chuck the wing up and down with the llittle mounting taps in place and screwed down. I'm guessing this is a "design feature" that allows for changing the incidence of the top wing

Don