PPKK,

What are you doing living my life?! Give it back! Just kidding , your cub story with your wife
is just like mine. I thought about a .25-.28 2 stroke or a .32 4stroke I'm not sure yet. Might
still go electric, as long as the motor and the batts don't get too big. Batts for my Electristar
are mighty expensive 7.4v 3200mah lipo X 2 = $130 give or take. If I can get a good brushless
motor, esc and run it on a 1800mah-2100mah 11.1v lipo I might fo that route.

mclina,

Good to know about the light build. My instructor told me that he puts on the inside a thinned out
coating of epoxy to 1; fuel proof the balsa and 2; give the balsa a little more strength. Didn't you
point out in your thread on this plane that It came with a balsa motor mount? How well do it hold
up before your crash? I find it hard to believe that you used that BM2409-12T and it had enough
power to fly. Isn't that a park flyer sized motor and this plane is above park flyer weight range?
I was told those bell type tower pro motors were good up to about 30 oz. I hope you rebuild yours,
it's a nice looking bird for the money. Do you still recommend it? I like the new 1/8 Champ at
Hobby-Lobby (Looks like a Piper cub but was better) but it's nearly 3 times the $.

Hemicuda