Top Gun should not be the benchmark for scale contests as it is really an exibition run like a contest just like the old TOC. It is a cool event, but it has hurt the regular scale builder because he has the opinion that it is all or nothing. What is sad is all the potential planes out there that are not put in contests because the owner does not think it is good enough. I took my Pica Jungmaster to the Mint Julep last spring and put it in the Sportsman class. It is just a weekend plane and up close it is really an average plane, but I got high static score. [X(]Most of the planes in the class were nicer than mine, but I understood the documentation process some and I think this is where I came out ahead. I nosed over on my first TO so I was out of the running for the rest of the contest but it was the most fun I had had in RC in a long time.