The big one was the folding wings on the flybaby, as opposed to removeable on the VP-1. Too keep my flying insanity within budget, I need a machine that can have wings on/off/folded to get it into a hanger (a 40x40 is $300/ mo around here, but 8' along a wall with c-210 wings hanging over the back end of the space is $40). maybee not on a every-day or every-week basis during the summer, but being able to do it easily (with practice ;-) ) with one person and the "crutch" is in the top 5 of things I need in an airplane. I have built a couple piet projects (well, 1/2 built anyway-one burned in a garage fire, one got sold because the offer was too good to refuse) so am very familiar with the type of construction. I am also doing a bit of a materials re-design to get away from the spruce wherever possible (this is not only another excuse for me to play in the shop, its kinda a "we did it" project with the help of IHA, just to proove it could be done. The flybaby leaves a bit more room to play with different materials. Because I run a woodworking shop I get a lot of customer-supplied "scrap" in the form of oak, ash, pine and mahogony. about the only wood I will have to buy with the flybaby is the spars and ply- the VP pieces were a bit too big to count on "scrap" (this is not garbage wood, its just the left-overs from small pieces being cut from big boards) Besides, it saves me the trouble of making a VP-1 look like a flybaby--now I can make a flybaby look like a P-26 <grin> Mike -----Original Message----- From: Edward Nolan <artsfoto@yahoo.com> To: FlyBaby <FlyBaby@listbot.com> Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 1:24 PM Subject: Fly Baby vs. Volksplane >FlyBaby > > > >> it's only the last couple days I commited to a >> flybaby over a vp-1) > >Mike, > >I'd be interested in knowing what swayed your choice >in favor of the Fly Baby over the VP which, as many >know, has quite a following. > >Ed >Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. > > >