We had a group fly at the field yesterday of a design from the seventies... a .40 size Alley Cat. It was a low wing intermediate pattern type plane and a good flyer and one of the favorite planes in my memory. A friend had one in his attic and offered it a while back and I thought it would be nostalgic to fly one again and got it flight worthy and flew it a couple of times and then yesterday the original builder and owner, another who had owned one and myself all got some stick time on it. It was windy but we had a good time.

What turned out to be interesting and hence my reason for this story, another modeler asked why the ailerons were so small on the design. I replied that one had to remember that was in an era before dual rates or exponential. So control movements were restricted to what one could comfortably land with.