I had one of the little ones until recently. Funny story this. I`m not sure how it started, but about five years ago or more I got to discuss Mud Ducks with Al Stein, late of RCU. He undertook to send me the details ex the 'Model Aviation' article.

Al tried to email a scan from the AMA magazine to me, and such were my computer skills then - not much better now either - I couldn`t download the pages involved. I got around the immediate problem by taping a piece of tracing paper onto the monitor and freehand sketched the details. Such was Al`s scan, and the AMA drawing, that dimensions were real scarce and the two pages seemed to be drawn to different scales.

From there I drew my own drawings and built a prototype which was powered with an old OS 25 2 stroke. It was a real ugly duckling, but a great performer. Only three functions but it flew great and could readily maintain inverted flight, perform outside loops, Cuban Eights etc. Several of my mates built them - there were weird 'ducks everywhere.

Just a few weeks ago mine, all of 5 years old , was involved in a middair - you guessed it - with another 'duck. The other model exploded into a million bits and mine flew on scarcely damaged at all. I felt sorry for Mike, he`s not the world`s most prolific builder, and later donated my bare airframe to him. It`s still flying up a storm - he was flying it yesterday......

Contrary to comment above, all the ones I have seen flew great - not a pig at all. They were quite fast for a .25 powered sport model, but easy to fly accurately - mine got to survive flying through the soccer goal at the local park on more than one occasion of goaded-on silliness.

Unfortuntely I can`t find a decent picture of same in my library right now, but could snap one sometime if required.

I still have my plan somewhere and have threatened to build another sometime when the building bench is clear.

I`m sorry I`ve lost touch with Al Stein too.....

Alan W