The Aquacraft V24 One Design has certainly been a hit with me. The size is perfect for drawing some attention out on the lake, and the fact that it uses traditional pump gas instead of nitro makes it very affordable in the long run. It can move across the surface of the lake very quickly, throwing a ton of water in its wake. Even boating veteran’s will love the fact that it comes set up to allow an optional third servo control the propeller angle, giving you the ability to alter the boat’s behavior on the fly.
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There was a heavy chop on the pond and it made the Mini Rio catch air constantly. I had more fun with it that day than I had to date. It’s surprisingly agile on the water, thanks to a good center of gravity and dual rudders. My only issue was with the cavitation on start. When you hit the throttle, the Rio will cavitate for about 4 seconds before the prop grabs the water and off she goes.
The E-flite AT-6 Texan looks great right out of the box! No decals or paint is needed and the pre-hinged control surfaces help make it a quick build. The hidden servos and split flaps help create a true scale appearance.
Loops and rolls are a lot of fun. With the controls set on high rates you will need to add some up elevator during the second half of the roll to keep the nose from tucking under. Add a little less elevator for a barrel roll. Inverted flight requires some up elevator to maintain level flight. 
Once the Rio 51 is broken-in and tuned for performance, you’ll soon realize that it’s a great hull and exhibits no adverse handling characteristics. Will put the Rio through the ringer but was unable to capsize the hull, but don’t think it’s invincible; introduce some heavy chop and you could get it to grab in a turn and roll. Full speed left and right hand turns are possible, as evident in the video, and make for a nice show as it digs in and throws a few buckets of water. Even though left hand turns are easily accomplished, the Rio 51 does best when turning right due to the placement of the rudder and the counter-clockwise rotation of the propeller. Although we were in a small lake, we were able to make some decent wake by running in a circle, creating a washing machine effect in the middle. Hitting this wake almost always got the Rio 51 airborne and it repeatedly landed smoothly and kept on going. As far as attitude, the Rio 51 was close to perfect from the factory. I added a slight bit of positive angle to the surface drive and maybe 1 degree of positive to the trim tabs to pull the hull out the water up front. In my opinion, this seemed to wake the hull up a little and got it moving well.
Steering to the right produced a much more graceful and wider turning arc. The wider arc permitted the Capricorn to carry all of its speed through the turn, when compared to turning left. I brought the Capricorn into shore and quickly adjusted the rudder’s center point by twisting it manually as described in the manual. When I pulled away from the shore, I found I could carry all of my speed when I turned in either direction now. The blend of speed and direction changes made for some very nice shots of the boat out on the lake.
With the trim tabs properly adjusted the boat responded much better in the turns as well as gaining a few MPH in the top end speed. Right hand turns were much sharper than left ones, most likely due to the FE turn fin on the right side of the transom. When doing a high speed left turn the boat would tend to skid into the turn more and you needed to be more careful of capsizing. It screamed across the water as if it were on rails. I felt the rudder was very effective reacting instantly to my every input. 
Once you get the VS1 setup to your liking, expect fast running down the straights and no bad tendencies when turning. I’ve got mine to where I can usually turn sharp running wide open but I like to blip the throttle before I enter the turn to get the nose down and avoid flipping. The pictures below show a good ride attitude with the nose lifted down the straights. Also, watch the video and you can see when the VS1 is turning well and when too much deflection was given at high speed, causing the hull to trip a little in the turn.