Many, many years ago I learned on a Telamaster. It used a Clark Y for the wing and a lifting tail with a flat bottom. When I designed my own, I used the same plan form but reduced the dihedral to 1.5 inches each wing tip. With the high wing and a little dihedral it was perfect self righting and pitch recovery. I reduced the incidence to half and the tail plane was zero and the speed range opened up quite a bit. If I flew it 3/4 throttle straight and trimmed it level, I found it perfect for my flying. It would easily do most beginner to intermediate aerobatics in a very scale like shape. I really liked the sheeted wing from the leading edge to the spar top and bottom as it added lots of strength. I scaled it up to 100 inch span and increased the rudder to twice the size, and it made a great glider tug. I promptly increased the rudder in the smaller one and I could carry up to 2 meter sailplanes on a cradle on the top wing. I even have an old Telecaster 66 that I converted to electric, and it has unlimited vertical because I used a motor I had lying around and didn't think it would be that overpowered.

Later I switched to a Lazy Ace, which if you really look at it, you might just see what could be a Telemaster as a biplane. It, too, has both Clark Y's for the main wings and a lifting tail. It's even more fun than the Telemaster and there are quite a few members in my club who's introductory flight was on that Lazy Ace.