Has anyone built one of these new ARFs and then gone back and completely surveyed the completed model for areas to lose weight? I.e., trimming excess plastic, cutting out wasteful ply on formers etc. AND if so, how much weight were you actually able to save?

1 pound of weight = 1 pound of effective thrust gain for that model right? Or am I wrong here?

When I was backpacking years ago there was this guy named Collin Fletcher who wrote a book about hiking around the Grand Canyon. This guy was a weight finatic. He would even trim the excess paper off his maps.

I bet there is a significant amount of weight that can be removed from these ARF jets (screws that are too long, door hinges, excess glue...etc ..etc... (you scratch builders probably already practic this right??)

Thanks,
Andy