Forgive my enthusiam, but sharing news of a great test flight with the family just didn't give me enough satisfaction....they don't understand do they?!

This is my new Insight (Insight-squared) that I built from my own plans. The look of this plane will likely create "lovers" or "haters" of the design. It is mainly a shape that came from what I thought would be a quicker build (notice no fiberglass or plastic parts to mold or buy.....). The square shapes allowed me to cut all of the top and bottom decks from foam (hot wire) and sheet them easily in their shucks (just like wing panels). The only wood building was the fuse-box, which is a 4" tall x 6" wide fuse (think of a giant kaos fuse) made from balsa and small amounts of ply. The wings and tail are again cut from foam and sheeted with contest grade balsa. Apart from a learning curve with the foam cutter, the build was nice.

Some may recognize the landing gear as it is from the Ultra-rc Icepoint ARF.

The good news:
Span: 74"
Length: 78"
Area: 890" (approx.)
Weight: 9lbs. 12oz.
Engine: YS140sport (apc 17x8)
Radio: Futaba

I will make plans available soon (need to detail the drawings) if anyone is interested.