Thanks. I 'm actually enjoying having to come up with answers on this build. A big part of why I fly SPADs is the chance to design and figure out how to do things. With SPADs it's not to hard on the budget if your latest design fails. Now that my knowledge of what makes a plane fly a certain way has increased, I've been wanting to try my hand at designing a balsa plane from scratch. I thought I'd start with a kit first to get a better feel for build techniques and I've always wanted a Hots. I'll check out BipGuy's thread as you suggested. I did a fairly decent job on my Spirit sail plane many many years ago, But have learned so much more just reading here that I wished I had known then.