Fairly well built kit for an ARF. I didn't have to re-build anything on this one. The covering is pretty good, not the best but works well. I used a different engine mount and am having carbon gear built. The landing gear that came with it are pretty bad. They are soldered at the base and I feel they will break fairly quickly. I don't like the rubber band on wing, but left it that way this time. It comes with trays for the servos and I ended up using a micro for the throttle and had to change that, but did the others stock. It uses pull pull rods instead of cable but they work well. There is not a lot of room for battery and receiver, but I had to use full size stuff. It did work nicely though with the micro throttle servo.

It ballenced exactly where they said it should with no weight.

Flight is very nice. I took off with a brand new OS .46 FX at about 3/4 throttle. It lifted in about 4 feet. I went vertical and went to full throttle. It accelerates nicely. I have way more throw than reccommended and it rolls very nice and very fast. I expected the thing to flip end over end with the amount of elevator I have. It didn't. It was very stable. I am going to move the CG back and see if I can make it a little less stable to make it more fun. It lands very slow and I did not find any bad habbits and no snap tendancy at stall. It is a nice plane to fly and would be very good for both the low time pilot set with less control movement or the experienced pilot with a lot of throw set up. Overall impression of the plane so far is good. I will play with the CG and hopefully it will tumble more than it does, but there are not a lot of planes that will do that as well as my old shoestring. Don't hesitate to buy it if you want a fun ARF plane to get into the air quickly. I don't care for ARF planes generally, but this one seems pretty well built.

I added a little lead to the tail this weekend and it was a tad more fun. I am going to add another bit, equal to the first. That should be about right. I am just behind where they had the CG. It was too stable. It hovered fine this time but flipped a bit better. Landings are still like a trainer and takeoffs can be done normal scale like or vertical into a hover or what ever you want. It is getting to be more fun. Just a touch more unstable and it might be more of what I expected. Nice plane for a second or third. Ballanced as the specs say, anyone can fly it. I have about double the control throws that they call for and it is fun. Slow them down and anyone could fly it. I bet you could teach on it as well with the right throws.

Larry, I tried to email you and it bounced. Here is a picture of my magic. Battery behind stock tank, rec sideways next to micro throttle servo.