Yup, boy does it EVER!

I flew mine with an O.S. AX .46 ( even this is too little of an engine for this plane, the .55 might have been just right ).

I did shim my engine to add about 2 degrees of right thrust, but this did not help during run-up at takeoff.

I didn't want to add more least it look strange in the air.

Once it was up, it's a great flyer.

Landings are quite gentle and the plane otherwise tracks well.

It's only at takeoff and throttle up that the left yaw tendancy manifest so hard... and it's nasty. Thus far no other plane I've had, has done it this badly. ... and yes it tracked straight ( and I tried with a bit of right movement too ), the wheels were toed in, etc.

Leveling the plane a bit with a longer tail wheel helped once it started picking up speed.


I would NOT recommend this as a second plane because of all of this.

Consider something like a Pulse XT which tracks straight during run up.