it will be electric power and i'm not sure what the weight is my digital scale was floating around in my basement, we had a lot of rain and when the temp outside went up to 50 degrees the 4 feet of snowon the ground decided to melt rather quickly needless to say a few things got ruined and my scale was one of them.it's aproctor kit and those kits are designed like tanks, to take a spill and come out unscathed. just me useing lite ply instead of reg ply has cut down the weight considerbly and i'm also building the tail feathers from aluminum tube which will help. i'm also not useing a removable motor tray, thats a considerable amount of weight there. i have a digital scale on order and will get back with you on the wieght when it arrives. it seems like every step i makei should be cutting the weight down by 1/3 coming down from 1/4 scale but in fact i'm 10 to 15 percent more than that by scratch building and customizing a lot of things. most of the brass proctor calls for is 0.25 and i'm useing 0.15, a couple of points less than a third so it not proving to be to difficult. thank you allan for welcomeing me back, again i can't wait to get this fuse weighed to see where i'm at. BTW my ribs arrived. i had them cut by manzano laser at a great price and excellent work, ill post a pic of them. i was going to use a metal template and cut them my self with a table router but when i saw how intricut they were, and how many lighting holes they had i began to doubt i could even do it or even wanted too in any case this is the first time ive had any thing laser cut and i think it's a tremendous service to offer, it's right up there with etching. i have to say that charlie and vickiat manzano laser have some of the best customer service and workmanship ive come acrossed and also delivered in an incredibly timely manner and will have to say i'll never have to look around for laser services and will always deal with them. i redrew the ribs in corel draw opposed to one of my cad programs, it's just plan easier, i can just scan in the rib from the blue prints and redraw a perfect match right over it, then step and repeat on a 12"x24 " template of 1/32" ply and email it to manzano, bing,bang boom and done, it works fabulous. i'm working on the upper cabanes and drawing alot of the brass fixtures and pully's and geeting them ready to etch right now so i'lltalk to you soon.