I take it the plane had a flat-bottomed wing? Yep, them won't turn at all well in the outside direction or fly inverted very well.

Jim Thomerson, of course, is his usual pragmatic self with the whip airplane idea. Absolutely a great, low price idea. But I figure if I spent a year building a plane and then crashed it three weeekends in a row while trying to learn to fly inverted, then everyone else should too....

"I've heard daytime temperatures in Arizona can rise to 120 degrees."

"Yeah, but it's a DRY heat . . . "