Krustygun--just picked up on the Waco thread. What a small world we live in. In 1976, while teaching at the University of Tromso in northern Norway, I bought Dave Platt's Waco YMF3 and started building it to preserve my sanity during the dark winters we had up there. I got it framed up, and on floats (which I bought in England and which were made for a Supermarine) and then moved back to my little farm in Oregon where the unfinished model languished in my attic for thirty years with the balsa getting brittle. Two weeks ago, right before I left for Norway, I gave it to the head of the model flying club in Salem, Oregon, to finish for me while I sit over here pretending to be a writer and keeping the wife happy. Two months ago I bought a Saito 90 radial for it off the RC Universe used-engine forum. It fits perfectly under the cowling. Platt specified a 45-60 engine for the kit, but with the floats I'm certain it will take a lot more horsepower. After reading through everybody's posts on the topic though I'm wondering if even the 90 radial is big enough. It's basically equivalent to a 60 two-cycle, as I understand. I asked the builder to finish it in the colors on the front of the box, blue and yellow. The decals in the box had all faded, but the builder said he had a friend who could scan and recut them from new material. With the radial I'm hoping I won't have a CG problem, as the engine weighs 31 ounces with the exhaust ring that came with it. At the moment I'm trying to bring myself up to speed on a radio. I'm 68 and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since I stopped work on the model. Am looking at the seven-channel 2.4 Spektrum and Futaba. I could really use some advice here. Was also trying to find a 1/6th scale cockpit for the plane when I came across this thread. Any advice you can pass on to me that I can pass on to the builder would certainly be appreciated. I basically want the model finished as a hangar queen, but I don't know how detailed I should get, since I also want to fly it. Dick