After launching a number of large aircraft off the slope in a strong wind and having extreme difficulty in doing so. It was decided that it was about time to have something you could easily launch , fast to put together and if you did damage it you were not to concerned. The whole plane is built by traditional means except for the spars these are carbon fibre arrow shafts, the only other thing is that the end ribs are made of glass fibre printed circuit board.
The root chord of the wing is eight inch's going in a straight taper to the six inch tip chord.
The body is a John Stevens design as are the tail planes. John generally uses 3/16 inch stringers in the fuselage , however I only had 1/4inch spruce and so that is what I have used. The fuselage is quite a pleasing shape (to my eye that is.) and you can get standard equipment in it without any difficulty.
The tail feathers as you can see from the drawing's are bolt on. This does enable you to take them off for transport or to easily replace them in case of an accident. The present set of tailplanes are slightly heavy, needing a bit more weight in the nose than I expected , however this has not detracted from the planes performance. The first flight saw the plane rush towards the bottom of the slope, but with the addition of about two thirds uptrim, it was flying (even if I do say it myself) rather well. The only thing left to do now, is to make the small alterations in nose weight and to alter the throws on the ailerons and elevator . Small alterations are all that are necessary, but it is the fine trimming that turns an ordinary model into one that is a delight to fly.