I moved the ignition and battery up to the firewall, installed the prop and aluminum spinner this time, I also moved the RX battery to the CG. The plane balanced perfect (very slightly nose heavy) with all three servos in the tail.


I put the plane on the scale and the all up weight minus fuel was 13.5 lbs, not bad considering it weighted 12.5 with the Saito 180 DRY add another 2-3 pounds for the 32oz of glofuel I had mounted over the CG and the plane flew great even at that weight. With the wing area of 992 sq in (thanks to "Hank" on another thread for converting it from metric for me) it should be around 32oz per sq inch wingload. The Saito 180 would swing an 18X6 prop @ about 8200 rpm, from people I have talked to on RC Universe the RCS 180 should swing a 20X6 prop close to that. I am anxious to hear how the RCS 140 and ZDZ 40 do in this plane.