Originally Posted by
aspeed
The only one I heard of is the Man Win at the Balsa Beavers. The Lil Bat was ok, maybe a bit lighter than a Man Win. It could do a loop anyway, with a Baby Bee. I made a plane similar to the Mn Win with a TD, and it was fairly fast and did loops too. Not real tight or anything approaching square. I still have it and fly it maybe every other year. It predates the Man win by a bit, so the coro is pretty good stuff. A control horn broke once because it was brittle with age, and well, I crashed it.
I'll probably never remember the name of the club that got a feature article in one of the main model magazines years ago about how to build a reed valve equipped C/L Combat plane with a 1/8" sheet balsa wing. Things happen so quickly in 1/2 A combat, that unless you have one of those minds that can "slow the game down mentally".....you won't know what happened while you pick up the pieces.