I made a bracket that was mounted to the firewall and a small hole through the cowling to get to the Great Planes fueling valve. It was easy to get to and did not interfere with cowl removal.

I also used a remote glow plug adapter that has a 1/8" phono jack that is mounted to the fuselage wall. It is almost invisible. You can see the fueling hole in the right side pic and the glow connector just above the radio switch on the laft side.

The Gee Bee flies great. It's quite fast! I have a Saito 120 in mine. Takeoffs are straight and short. Once airborne, I noticed that it needs coordinated rudder and aileron to keep it from slipping in turns. It is capable of about all sport aerobatic manuvers and does them with style. This airplane is inpressive to watch in the air. Landings are the only problem area that I can see. If you use the stock wire gear, they are too flexible and will bend back in the wheel pant and lock the wheel against the pant, causing it to flip. The cowling mounting isn't very strong and does get damaged easily. I used an abrasive wheel and cut a slot behind the wheels to allow more travel of the gear. It helped a lot. Using the Robart oleo strus will help. I wish I had put them on mine. Landings need to be smooth full stall. The Gee Bee doesn't need much encouragement to flip over and landing too fast will most likely result in a flip. I think the hardest part I have is getting it to slow down on landing. Where I was flying is surrounded by trees and you have to come in over the top of them. The Gee Bee will speed up with the nose pointed down. It does not slow down and fall out of the air just because the throttle is pulled back to idle. You would think with that hugh cowling that it would act as a speed brake, but I didn't find it so.

DO TAKE YOUR TIME AND GET THE CG CORRECT! As posted earlier, the CG is critical. Too far aft and you will have a monster on your hands! Set when it's called out in the instructiuons, and it flies great.

Any advanced flyer should be able to handle the Gee Bee. You must be able to make good landings though. If you are unsure of your abilities, I'd recommend that you have someone with you that is more experienced than you are on those first flights.

Once an Gee Bee addict, always an Gee Bee addict! There's never ben another plane like it!

Rod