Alasdair: THere won't be many wires. Only the very minimum necessary. With the flat bottom air foil and struts that passfrom bottom, through middle into top wing, it should be fairly stiff. I think I will need wires to brace the landing gear and maybe a single set of landing and flying wires.

Bmathews: Wow!

IT looks like it might fly afterall. Since you are obvioulsy enthused, here is a bit of background. I am building this for a new event called the Dawn Patrol Games at Charles County RC Club in Waldorf MD. I have built three profile fighters and the guys responsible for putting it together wanted some bombers. One guy is making a Handly Page 0-400. THere are designs for a Gotha as well. I always like to be a bit different so I am building this glorious thing. In the process, I have gotten really interested and picked up some good reference books and made contact with Gregory Alegi, a Caproni scholar. I am seriously considering making a 1/8 scale (detailed, all the wires, fittings etc) version with a 12 foot span and scale airfoil. It must have been an amazing thing to see rumbling down the runway and floating into the sky. They were not terribly standardized and even though not that many were made, there were many combinations of engine, tail shape, armament etc. THey used Liberty, Fiat, Isotta Fraschini and even rotary engines.

Just built the third wing.