Originally Posted by
Joe Fisher
When I was a kid I built a lot of Sientific kits. The solid balsa airplanes all had 18" wing span and the built up wing airplanes were 22" span. They were reasonably fast and could tolerate resonable wind up to about 10 mph. I got for my 12th birthday a Berkley Aeronca C3 kit with 36" span. It flew good but it was slow and could not tolerate more than 3 MPH wind.
This is a scratch built, it is 13" long from the prop to the t/e of the elavator, and the wing is 23" L and is 5 1/2" wide down to 4 1/2" at the wing tip.