Does anybody have a World Models Extra 300 30? That is the 30 size extra. If anyone can give a review or even an opinion on this plane, that would be great!! Thanks!!

WM call it the Extra Sports 30 - an absolutely brilliant little plane. I've been flying with an old but powerful ASP .40 with a 10.5x6 Bolly up front and it gets around very happily. If I was getting a new engine I'd go for one of the many 46s out there, or a 60 or so 4 stroke. As for flying, you couldn't ask for much better in a plane of its size - very well behaved, nice stall, seems to be very nicely balanced out of the box and has no bad habits.

The only negative is the very thin aluminium landing gear - on anything but a perfect landing it will easily bend. Most people replace it with something stiffer, I've kept with it as it serves as a measure of how good my landings are, and absorbs the energy that would otherwise go into the fuselage when I stall it on the flare and it drops on its belly

Also, it is a small plane, and if it gets too far away it can be hard to see, but apart from that I couldn't be happier with mine. I'm pondering my next plane, but I'm hard pressed to think of an aircraft that's going to extend what I'm interested in more than this plane.

So you think that an OS 46fx will give this plane unlimited vertical??

Yeah, I'd say so - mine climbs very strongly with a 11.5x5, and is still pretty good with a 10.5x6, but not unlimited, so a bit more power from a 46 should take it over the edge. If you really wanted to make sure, you could put a 50SX, but that might be a little overpowered.

Yeah, but can you really have too much power??

I made a maiden flight last sunday! I have it powered with a OS 46fx. It flys awesome!! Not what I was expecting out of a small plane. And boy is it fast!! I fly at 1/4 throttle most of the time. Full pulls it like a rocket! Just a couple of clicks on the ailerons and she was flying staight as an arrow. Landing was just as graceful. No flaring or stalling. The landing gear bent when I got to the end of the runway and had to turn sharp. I fly off a concrete runway. Im sure off grass its a breeze!! So far so good for this plane! Cant wait for this weekend!! Thanks for the posts!