Many years back my dad built a Stafford Commanche (single) for me. It was my 1st scale plane, and flew it at a local scale rally when I was 9 yrs old. It flew like a trainer. Bare in mind the only other planes I have flown at the time was a single channel Cox American Eagle glider, and a Craft-Air Scout 15. It had a K&B .61 in it for power. As I recall though, the plane was a LOT of wood, fully sheeted, and a lot of balsa blocks on the fuse for shaping. It did fly nice though, scale, but nice. Mine was definatly no aerobatic marvel, it was just a nice easy to fly scale plane.