Sorry Dave on the cowl. These are the first test flights and I wanted to get the down thrust right for flight before I made the cowl. It doesn't fly all that fast with the 52 44 stroke but it does have a heck of a glide ratio. Must be due to that extra smooth Klass Koat. Started to install air brakes yesterday but scrapped the idea. Tough to put in after the fact. Going to glass the cowl up this winter as the flying season is sliding into the building season. Your paint reminds me so much of the old KB superpoxy I used years ago. You just can't make a mistake with it. I used a satin base black and it surprised me how easy oil residue comes off it. I did put on some orange on the left wing and yesterdays flight was more relaxing because of better visibility. Adding a robart strut thats backordered from Tower. It really has a tendancy to balloon even on a grease in landing. Hopefully it will absorb the bumps on our grass field. Sorry for the long post and thanks for the nice comments. Lanny