Hey Matt! Well good news and bad news. I acheived balanced flight with my Rutan! With a setup of being slightly nose heavy, the plane took off well. It tried to nose down on me a little, but I had one of my buddies with me and he adjusted the elevator trim a little while I was flying. I flew for about 6 minutes doing large ovals with smooth turns, totally under control. Suddenly I had some sort of radio problem, the plane went nose down and spiraled to the ground. I had no control what soever. The fwd firewall was broken off, the aft motor continued to run, I could not even shut it off with the radio. When I got to the plane all the controls seemed to work fine. The next pilot flying after me experienced some sort of radio problems as well. So, to sum it up, its to the body shop for this Rutan. We will get it back in the air, it may take a little while as I am dealing with other planes as well. Lets keep this thread going and let me know how you fare with yours. Wil