I call it the But Ugly [as in: It's a decent flying plane, but ugly.] Yes, it's yet another fan fold franken foamy (yaffff) 8.4 oz current AUW Fuse, wing and tail are blue fan fold multi-part hacks that were tweaked bit by bit until I liked how the plane flew. It is seriously ugly, but it flies pretty darn well. Here are the rest of the parts: 4-Channel GWS Pico Receiver 2 x GWS Pico BB Servo Great Planes C-20 Mini High Frequency ESC GWS IPS-DX2BB (2XCS) w/Heat Sink EP7060 Propeller Qualcomm 830 power HELI-MAX MICRO PIEZO GYRO Plastic "Spaghetti" Tubing pushrod housings 4mm carbon fiber rod tail boom (both from http://www.airdyn.com/) Lots of scotch and strapping tape, epoxy and probond. The esc was a Tower Hobbies scratch and dent so I didn't mind hacking off the bigger wires and reworking it for sub 10oz work. The gyro is also a scratch and dent that I threw on just for testing. It seems to have cured a predisposition for me to get it rocking back and forth during course corrections. I kind of like it. I have full throws and no expo, but I do have mixed throttle/left rudder because the motor angle could use some tweaking but I am too lazy to rework it. I like the way it flies so much that I'm having a hard time deciding to redo it neatly. With my current skill level it is just fast enough to be dangerous in my back yard (50x50 feet) when the spirals get too tight and the trees start reaching out to play. It's no aerobat, but it climbs well in low wind. It doesn't like getting upside down so it does some cool sloppy diving oblong loops and stall turn/loops. It is definately influenced by Hippo's frog design, but I just ended up back there after a number of hack and slash sessions. The fuse and tail were originally part of a short coupled, aileron, tall fuse bipe with no-rudder and fully semetrical wings that was completely unflyable (was.jpg). I then added rudder, removed a wing, chopped the whole tail and added the boom, removed the other wing and added the undercamber with 3" less per wing tip (see the lines?), changed the power plant and extended the nose. What fun it was to keep bashing until it became something that flies. The frog is available as a downloadable plan for $12 from www.foamfly.com and it is very well laid out. I think that the fuse and tail would be almost perfect in place of my ugly since many of the building concepts were based on it, although maybe I'd make it a little shorter. It is my slimmer wing that makes it go faster. I need to get a good picture that shows the incidence between the motor, tail and wing and then I'll lay out what I used. Those angles make a huge impact on the handling. What really has made my ugly special to me is the built in "testability." The tail is fixed to the fuse making a test base to work with. The motor stick was placed to allow me to strap on a second stick to change thrust angles or just to swap motors at will. Last saturday I ran it with a dx2, dxa, edp100 and eps100 all field swapped in minutes. The wing saddle has the same versitility. I can shim up the front or rear or even move the wing forward or back to mess with cg. The shims and added on bits make it look like a freak, but that is what has made it a great learning tool for me. I actually started out with the frog wing, but shortened it at both width and chord to get the wing I have today.