Sorry Ollie, you're a little off on this one. I don't really follow pattern design that closely but a few years ago there was a series of columns in one of the magazines. One whole installment was devoted to the horizontal stab. I read it just out of curiosity and while I don't remember the meaty details I do remember that the positioning of the horizontal stab makes a big difference to knife edge flight and somethng else that I don't remember at this point. Perhaps it was the vertical tracking but I'm not sure here. There was one pattern model that did quite well that used an anhedral stab. The author (I think it was Dean Pappas) told of how he did it that way because it was too high and he didn't have time before a big contest to do it properley so he just hacked the stab in two and joined it with some anhedral. It worked and he and the model went on to be US champion or place well at the worlds or whatever.

Either way MHester needs to find this sort of article(s) and follow it.

BTW, a WHOLE INCH for the wing???? From that same series of articles I remember that even 1/4 inch makes a big difference.

Good luck with this and be sure to dig up those articles if no one here has the info.