The guy at my field told me he had about that much lead up front. Knowing him though it might be a little more or little less in reality (he's not that detail oriented!). Anyway from what I read here I was expecting it NOT to hover with the OS 50SX and all that weight. Well, it did hover and can pull out. Not like a rocket ship but the vertical is unlimited at full throttle. I did the maiden for him and flew it the majority of the next 3 flights. Fun plane I will say.

I'm almost done with my own which I'm reviewing for the RCU magazine. Mine has the OS 70 Four Stroke up front. I wanted the extra weight and power after reading what many wrote in this thread. It will be interesting to see how mine performs with the 70. Of course I'll have video so if a picture is worth a thousand words the video should be worth a couple million