so today I sold the plane; I took it to the gent's house and helped him install his receiver, then went to the field with him to help him get it in the air. The engine needed some fine tuning, but once we got it set....ahhh.....

The plane is really beautiful. Blue skies, few white clouds, and a nice trail of white smoke behind the red and white plane, engine running great. It was picture perfect. I enjoyed flying the plane today. It really is aerobatic for a scale plane, and I stress the word scale. Nice slow loops, great spins, stall turns, etc. I would love to have this plane in my hangar, probably with a four stroke and smoke system (and a larger size) one day. But, I got most of my money back and will be much happier with something different right now. I enjoyed the experience, well the tail end of it, and the guy really liked flying it (though will need plenty of work with taxiing!).

A happy ending