Renegade/Curare, I might ask him myself if he turns up to the IMAC comp at SWARMS again on the Australia day long weekend. I met the bloke for the first time there at SWARMS this year, funny story was that I nicked one of his color schemes for a Curare I built in '90/'91 so meeting him in person nearly 20 years later really added to the weekend, top bloke as well as he called for me while my older brother (I was flying his planes) had to duck into town.

Nah, I couldn't afford a Zeque anyway so I think I'll build a top plane for the Hanno and use it to stir up the bigger planes

Flywilly, at the Dalby comp John Payne had a deadstick with his electric. Turned out the batteries had broken a tab off inside the pack, if he had been running an S-BEC or regulator off that pack then he could have kissed his plane good-bye. Lesson learned that it's hard to beat a simple Ni-Cad pack running through a mechanical switch when it come to flight controls.

I think that electric is the way to go in the long run if you're serious about pattern, but fourstrokes sound right for the job and give the plane some "presence" in the air. Two-strokes are just plain wrong (under the current rules) but a well sorted two-stroke still does a good job....