I have a couple of those plans catalogs they used to print in MAN every year and all of the HOTs plans are in there. I bought the plans for either the big or giant Hots with the 92 inch wing but due to lack of funds I haven't built it yet. I will get around to it when my pockets are deep, that's a bunch of wood and covering!!!
If you build from Dans plans you end up with a better flying plane. You know I'm not one to care about a little added weight to a kit build but midweat used a lot of light ply and added a bunch of dead weight by making the removable wing and a few other mods. Mine isn't a slouch in the air but I liked the 60 size plans built better. {{ Until I had to haul it!!}}
The YS isn't a lot of over kill but you can 3-D this plane, I can't but someone else could.
It does pull out of a hover real well!! The way I have it proped it isn't real fast either, that wing doesn't allow you to go all that fast anyway. I did have to make up taller LG for it though.
Great plane, see, I like other planes besides the Extras.
