newbie with HUGE plan
-------My advice to you is to start working on your design, and at the same time build a kit,------
Banktoturn, you really read my mind on this! The full balance of your post is right on, (IMHO).
C5, I both envy and admire you. As a 'practical engineer' with 20+ years of mechanical design experience, and a newbie to this hobby myself, (hope to solo this weekend) I wish I had the vision and the ambition twenty years ago that you seem to have today.
Go for it.
Fever