The Sportster was the second plane I bought. I flew my SIG trainer for about 3 months and then I got the Sportster.

I learned quickly that you can't land a Sportster like a trainer. (broke a wheel off when the wing stalled about a foot off the runway) But after learning that I really liked flying this plane. It is fast and turns on a dime. I put an O.S. 46AX in it turning a 11x7 prop. Makes for a fun pylon racer. Does snaps, hammerheads, innelmanns, and rolls with ease. Never could get it to do a knife edge very well.

I haven't flown the Sportster since early summer but I took it January 4, 2009 and flew it again. This plane with the O.S. 46AX on it is just plain fast. I need to do some work on the plane because I couldn't get it to snap at all. I believe it is nose heavy and I will check it out on my balancer. Nose heavy and this plane flies straight and landings are really easy. But the airplane will nose over in a heart beat. In fact, it nosed over and didn't kill thengine ot break the prop, but what it did do was make the engine start in reverse. I was on the runway moving forward, the prop hit the asphalt, when I gave it some throttle it was going backwards down the runway. Never saw that one before. I have it on tape.