I guess you all have heard that China will be shutting down its nitro plant for 3 months. This will send the price of nitro through the roof. I have always been a fan of large 4 stroke nitro burning engines unti I got my first gasser which is a crrc GF26I. I was always under the opinion that these gas engines were too big, hard to start, and vibrated everything loose. Was I wrong. This little 26 takes the place of large 4 strokes, is easy to start, runs like a swiss clock, easy to start, weighs 2.5 lbs , pulls a 13 lb warbird around with no effort, sounds great in the air, cheaper to buy (just over 200.00 ) So why do we need nitro burning engines. The distributor for these engines (rconlysite.com) tells me that a lot of people are switching to these gassers and I can see why. Just my thoughts