I note that the 25 we are talking about putting in full-size Noblers, Twisters, etc. is not the motor you are describing. I have a motor like yours (25-S Baffle piston from the 70's) and while it's a nice runner it won't fly typical 35-sized models very well.
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I am curious - what sort of airplane are you planning to fly with a 25S? There aren't a lot of airplanes in the right size range.
There aren't -- so I'm making one. That's why I'm asking all the questions about airfoils and nose moments and such on the design group.
I'm kind of interpolating between older designs for baffled 15s and 19s, and the Nobler for a baffled 35, and coming up with somewhere around 400 or 450 square inches. I'm going for 400 squares, because I can always throttle down, but throttling up is hard (and hard on cranks, apparently).
I've also had a hankering to build something with a V tail, so the model is a semi (
very semi) scale Waiex. There's probably a bazillion different reasons to build something more conventional is smarter -- this may be my only chance to build this aircraft and have it be more capable of the pattern than I am!
For an idea, see
http://www.sonexaircraft.com/aircraft/waiex.html -- imagine the fuse squished down to normal stunt dimensions, ditto the V tail, and the wing moved up with the dihedral removed. I was going to keep the dihedral even though it is supposed to be deleterious to performance in the wind -- but got lazy, and decided a plank wing would work just fine.