Remember this baby? Received 4 stars in the phot gallery. Well some of you may recall the slamming review i gave last year on this piece. It came out of the box so screwe up that i rebuilt and recovered.
*Weighed in at 11.5lbs with a OS 1.08 in it. The engine runs super. Now in the past year and a half I only flew it about 7 times and each flight was a nightmare due to the weight. No room for a larger engine. So last Sunday up it went again and again it was just a pain. I was sort of lucky enough to "get it back" but pancaked it on the runway and broke the wing.
*It is fixable but not worth the aggravation in the long run. So on the way home i stopped by the LHS and picked up the Modeltech P-47 67"wing. Going to throw all the stuff from the P-51 in it and should top out at about 8lbs.
*I have been assembling it the last few days and I am impressed. Need to be careful ironing out the bubble. Responds to well to higher heat and curls up the covering. Need extreme low heat. Kinda looking forward to this one.

Sorry to hear about your plane. I have the same plane, same engine with a jet pits muffler, using robart retracts. I also stripped the cheap covering and fiberglassed it. Just starting to paint, so dont know of the weight. I was hopping that this would be a good fast Mustang. I guess time will tell.

Sorry to hear about your loss!
I lost my GSP Mustang about a month ago. I was really having a lot of fun with it too. It was my own fault though.
I didn't secure the battery real well and it came lose at the bottom of a loop. This means the YS 1.20 was at full power,too. With just a little up elevator and wings ltevel I watched as the plane made several giant loops! Getting closer to the ground with every one. I thoughtl, "it is going to hit the wheat field flat coming out of the bottom!" No such luck. It hit and about a 45 degree angle. It hit so hard that the horizontal stab flew up above the wheat. That is how I was able to find the werckage. Needless to say it was a total loss. The fiberglass fuse must have taken all the stress of impact as the spinner didn't even break. It is a CB Tatone plastic. The engine appears to be undamaged. I just got the bill from Futaba for the radio repair though!! WOW, it was more than I thought it was going to be. It still worked when I sent it in to get checked out.
I just got the GSP P-51 kit last Friday to replace it. I now have the P-47 and the Mustang on my bench. I plan to be busy for awhile.

R/Cjunkie, before your plane crashed how was the flight performance. I gather since you purchased two more from GSP. it must have been pretty good. I hope to get mine in the air before the end of summer. I saw their FW190 at the Toledo show and came close to buying it, but wanted to fly the Mustang first.

As I said I was running a OS 1.08. What a nice engine. I hav two of them but it just wont pull this thing to even resemble a scale flight. I did run it inverted to save the cowl appearence. May I suggest a 120plus fourstroke or at least a 120 2stroke.

Well, if anybody plans on passing through Albuquerque and wants the fuselage and wing, You can have it. It is fixable. The fuse is fine. The wing near the retracts cracked but I have lost interest in the plane.

J.V.

I was very happy with the performance of the plane with the YS 1.20. I mounted it inverted and only the head and exhaust pipe showed. The covering is not the best, but most ARFs aren't. I was turning a Zinger 15 X 8 prop at about 9,000 and the plane would go from straight and level through a 200' loop with no tendency to slow down. I have an O.S. 1.08 and considered using it on this plane, but chose the 1.20SF instead. It was definitly a crowd pleaser. I took the time to paint the cowl and cockpit area to resemble the 336th fighter sqdn. I have (5) different Mustangs right now. I have the Hanger 9 .60 with a YS .91AC. World Models .40 with an OS .70 Surpass. Pica 1/5 scale with a BME 50, Byron with a Q-52 on a purr power (No reduction) Had the reduction drive and it made me too nervious.
Now I have another GSP and plan to make it just like the last one only better.