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Orville and Wilbur started it all with an aircraft layout that today we call a canard configuration—that is the horizontal stabilizer/elevator mounted in front of the wing. Despite the Wright brothers’ success, aeronautical designers quickly found that today’s conventional planform with the wing in front and the vertical and horizontal stabilizers in the back is more practical, easier to do, and better performing.
Mig-3-2004/11
Mikoyan-Gurevich fighter
design translates into
delightful model
Roger Dodger - 2005/05
IF AN AIRPLANE looks good and flies well, I suspect
that most modelers would have very little interest in its
design history or design inspiration. This lightweight,
all-built-up balsa, electric-powered sport model offers
an interesting appearance and lively, fun aerobatic
performance.
This project is based on a 50-year-old CL aircraft
design by Harold “Red” Reinhart. I was so impressed at
that time by Red’s flying ability and his aircraft that, for
some nostalgic fun, I went back in history to use this design
as the basis for a new electric-powered RC sport aircraft
with today’s technology in equipment and power plants.
Lotsa Watts - 2007/08
TWIN-ENGINE airplanes are fun, larger airplanes are fun,
and I’ve been enjoying electric-powered flying, so here’s
the Lotsa Watts. It’s a big, double-motored aerobatic sport
flier that is easy to build and fly.
The G-Fast - 2010/12
I had a Moki 1.80 engine and no airplane to put
it in. Then I saw some photos of English 1930s
racing aircraft, and I wanted to try building a wing
with Bob Hunt’s Lost Foam construction technique.
The G-FAST is the result.
