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Gday All

Thanks to Kev he has kindly donated the Easy Sport 40 (hereon ES40) to myself as an experimental test bed in regards to build and design techniques.
There are a few things we know about the ES40:
1- It is a great design.
2- Kev did an awesome job of building her.
3- Its flight stability looked very good
4- I weighs a ton or two.
5- Sucked an enormous amount of amps.

Due to the above I had a few options mentally floating around, all involved reducing the weight substantially and removing the need for the massive amount of added noseweight to balance. Ideally I wanted have swags of lift and a fairly low stall speed.

The photo below indicates the direction I have chosen. I had cut out a couple of foam core wings a few months ago to teach myself the technique and also to have a shot at skinning, the wing was destined for the Precedent Hi Boy, as you can see I have found another use for it.

So, the ES40 is going to become a biplane and I am just about to drill out about 40 zillion holes in the structure to drop the weight. Am also toying with the idea of making her a twin with the nacelles mounted midspan inter wing.

Thanks for the opportunity Kev, much appreciated. Look forward to you having a flight when she is done and dusted.