Paul... I hear ya. I''ve been flying RC since ''75 and this plane was given to me in ''82 by a then pilot for Walmart. H''ed partially built it and I painted it and was preparing it to fly when the wing sheeting joints started curling up. It was set aside in the barn for many years and deserve to fly and some effort saved it but no further heroic measures will be given. It has a foam core wing and fibergass fuselage so wont get any major repairs. Plus, I''ve fairly well shifted to gas models and hate cleaning up after a .60 size 2 stroke glow motor but I just couldn''t stand to see this plane not have its day.

Yes... I didn''t try to rotate until boogying well and then was surprised by how much elevator was required. Course, this is the world of scale and it simply may not have enough elevator. I guess I''m saying, I''m assuming nothing and not going to jump to conclusions it is nose heavy.

And... it just occurred to me that there is one more issue that could have a bearing on this. As I said, the sheeting joints curled on this thing and I removed and replaced all the wing sheeting. The stab is foiled and was also sheeted and it has one joint that curled only very slightly. The stab was of course fitted and faired to the fiberglass fuselage and replacing the sheeting on it would have been very difficult and the bump very minor in appearance. It could however be that the bump causes physical issues however as a contributing factor, ie scale plane and minimum elevator and reduced elevator authority because of airflow disturbance.