I know the feeling about the brain tumbling. I was good for only 4-5 flights on the plane, before my brain, thumbs, and hands were scorched, but what a wild ride. I broke mine in half doing a knifeedge-inverted flat-knifeedge spin when the motor flamed out, but the nose, tail and wing were fine. Used that chance to remove all the plastic from it on the nose, and used basswood stringers, balsa sheeting and moved the battery to the tail. Came out at under 3 3/4lbs after the rebuild. It's hanging up now, due to changing props and cutting the idle trim too low on a windy approach. Motor stalled, gust took it up about 5 feet, and pancaked it on the mains. Tore the gear, gear block, and part of two formers. Could repair it, but I wouldnt feel comfy flying it, because one of the parts that broke was where the wing dowels slide into. Given that planes usual attitude of being thrown around violently in outside manuevers, i could see the wing and fuse parting company in a very fast manner. So its a pretty hanger queen in my garage for the time being. I wish the wing would have been damaged instead of the fuse, because I was going to modify a dazzler wing to fit it, creating a semi-scale/funfly plane, with almost twice the wing area.

I would get another one at that price, but have sold the motor/pipe.

Steve