Will it fly??

A few of us nut bars in our local club have been having a rather tongue in cheek debate over the last few years. On one side we have a VERY limited number of believers, on the other side the majority, are the most vocal nonbelievers. The debate centers around weather a model air craft with the wing covered in window screen would fly.
On the yes side, the premise of given enough power a brick would fly, on the no side all manner of semi half baked aerodynamic gems of wisdom. You may now realize how little we really have to talk about at our (help get us though the winter) Club meetings.

This discussion was born when I shared my experience with a CG Gentle Lady which had a two color film covering on the wing. On launch, on a high start the wing shed the covering from the spar to the trailing edge (Black Barron over Monokote not a good combo). The resulting flight sans more than 50% of the wings covering was to say the least uneventful. I achieved a flight that was very similar in duration to the six previous flights of the day. So began the debate… Like why bother with covering at all? And it went downhill from there. … Have some fun all… Bert