You live on the west coast and have never even seen slope soaring? Shame on you. I have seen your posts in Extreme speed planes and you would love this. The current speed record is well over 300 MPH. Something like 365 but I can't remember.

My Zagi never had a motor. TLH means thermal hand launch. I have flown brushless Zagis but not lately, maybe over six years. It was not very exciting. My point, I don't think I could expect consecutive loops from level flight with an .061 but it might haul it around fairly well. It would be great if it could be setup like Tufflight does their engines so it could be added or removed(easily) for slope or combat. The GP Slinger cores are $22 from Tower and are already covered. If I could get something going with these, I could get several guys into combat here. Cheap and easy, what could be better for combat? The only problem I can think of is the weight may be too much.

Since I built the Zagi it has no ballast, the Slinger takes an 1100mah Nicad in the nose to balance. Replace the 1100 with 350 bolt on .061 and go fly! I like it.

Wiggy