1. Don't try to get people interested in hard to build planes. Try a Gremlin from racores.com , or a SPAD (d/l many different planes from spadtothebone.com).
2. Foam, foam, foam. The few "stick" planes that I have seen fly against there foam counter parts have all lost. Badly I must say. Except for one Sig Wounder.
3. Just basic crape paper from a party store, or party section at your grocery store. Either width to start out with, and about 30' long. They are attached with a 10' cotton line. I use a round servo arm, that is glued to my fuse, to attach the line to.
4. As far as double sided tape on L/E, some club rules yes, some no. National points, i.e. RCCA, you will have to d/l their rules at rccombat.com
5. Just do it. Don't try to get complicated with rules(K.I.S.S.). And do not let those old grouchy *****e$, ruin your fun. :devious: pirate: