Is this thing still on?... testing, testing, 1,2,3

I'm keeping this thread alive into 2010:

I just picked up a lightly abused [link=http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1268614]"Great Lakes" over on RCgroups[/link] and plan to convert it to ELECTRIC! Oh the horror!

The advantage (hopefully) to electric power is that I can build a battery tray through the firewall to get that weight all the way to the nose. It will of course get an extensive "Dremel-diet", solid aluminum landing gear, mini-servos in each wing for ailerons to prevent flutter from the springy torque-rods, and pull-pull on the rudder/elevator to keep the tail as light as possible and I can move the servos forward a former. The pull-pull empennage will prevent squirrely or "squishy" pitch control from the poorly supported flexi-rods, plus I'll wire each half of the elevator so there's no risk of flexing or snapping the wood connecting shaft,

I hope to get the AUW down to 4-4.5lbs instead of the advertised 6-7lbs.... a significant amount of surgery but I won't stop cutting until she's skinny.

Due to some shipping damage, I need to rebuild the interplane struts. I think I'll make scale N-struts so I have the option to adjust the top wing incidence via a threaded connector on the rear struts. Relative to the H-stab I'll initially set the top wing at 0deg incidence, but have enough threads to adjust it +/- 2deg.

Wish me luck.