This little plane flies well with the new nose. I have an imperfect thrust angle, so I busted and had to replace a prop dialing her in. No structural damage and a little trim cleaned it up enough to fly well. Controls are a little more touchy than they used to be. The new nose and the more forward CG where it was tail heavy before make it carry more momentum, which gives me cleaner, crisper turns with less drift, more stability in high alpha, and with the CG forward it actually glides fairly well when I cut the engine.(Imagine that I made it more like the original which was a glider and now it glides!).