Right on I'll do that.
I've been flying flybarless since I started really. I learned on flybarless micro's - several Blade Nano's, a 130x that I've rebuilt enough times that it qualifies as several, and a lot of sim time, and my first full size 450 was a FBL Blade 450, then a Blade 500 FBL, before getting a used Trex 500 DFC pro fbl from a local guy that flies for the Snowbirds air demonstration team, who runs our club and field right now. I've got a fair bit of experience setting up and running the Beastx and the 3gx systems. Thankfully there are tons of youtube help videos, not to mention that the systems themselves are very simplified IMO and designed for dumdums in the hobby like me.
I thought a lot about "staying with what you know" and doing that Spit in electric, but the whole reason I bought it was for one of those great sounding motors from Saito. My goal is in a year or two to get an F4 or P47 model with the same motor you had in your F4U model. Even this Spit 9 will be easily over 2$k of an investment for me I'm sure, but I've got the radio gear already at least. I can't wait to start building it, much less flying it. Who knows, maybe I'll end up doing it with an electric motor after talking with him, I've got enough field electric power systems in the back box of my Duramax, as our field has no power with which to recharge. I like to have a large number of batteries, but for a full 4 hour afternoon of flying, I always end up recharging stuff in the field, always, so I bring my little genset and my 1000A/700W power box.
We'll see. I sure do love that sound though of the gas powered Saitos.