ORIGINAL: TEAMERICA

Wow, there is an Oxi-moron. It's like Jumbo Shrimp.

Classic Pattern ARFs never really existed. One of the things that gives the SPA or Classic Pattern concept its appeal is the realtionship the pilot had with his model. In most cases, he built the model that he competed with. He either bought and built a kit that was designed by champion or he designed one himself which had him selecting everything from the size and shape of the actual aircraft to the grade of the wood that he would use. The satisfaction was derived from not only flying the prescribed maneuvers but by doing it with the machine that he built from the ground up. Another discipline of Model Aviation that is slowly fading away in favor of immediate gratification and the toying-down of Model Airplanes.