Hi Phillip,

You're going to love the Cox Christen Eagle. It flies very nicely and as you said, the bi-plane looks terrific in the air. I'm a little jealous of the great price you got. I fly from dirt and/or short grass, so I got rid of the wheel pants and increased the size of the wheels. I had some spare wheels from my Typhoon and they worked perfectly. I had two problems when I was assembling the plane. The first is that the battery was too tight a fit into the battery compartment, which was corrected by cutting the plastic frame of the compartment along one of the corners, allowing it to "flex" when inserting the battery. The second is that the provided connectors for the struts between the wings didn't work very well. I used my own cable ties to connect each of the struts to the wings, one at the front and one at the rear of each wing.

I've had well over 50 flights with the plane and the only problem that I had was that after a couple of "bounced" landings the lower wing developed a crack next to the fuselage. A little Foam Safe CA and packing tape corrected the problem. Got to love those foam planes for ease of repair.