A friend of mine started and I finished a beautiful Smith Mini Plane about 10 years ago. Ours was powered with a Saito .50 and flew soooooo sweet. We let another friend of ours fly it who was a great Heli Pilot and after looping and doing low altitude barrel rolls he was doing a low inverted pass and said "Airplanes aint *****" he then pulled up elevator and our beautiful SMP was instantly destroyed... it was sad really as it truly was a joy to fly. To this day I give my friend a hard time about the incident. this is a GREAT post with some really beautiful SMPs and great info as well. I am the high bidder at the moment on a SMP kit, wish me luck as it is real hard to get kits from SIG right now. I ordered an Astro Hog and they are out of stock on many airplanes I was told due to a Balsa problem.