You may be right, jpetro.

Sig was always more of a sport and scale model company. Maxey Hester and Claude McCullough (sp?) tried to widen their offering of products, but they did it from a scale designer's perspective. At least that was my interpretation. Their models weren't really competitive in other areas.

For some reason, every low wing model that was offered for sale in the Seventies was advertised as being a pattern model. Only those not in the know would have made such a claim - non pattern fliers. This is not to say that lots of those models weren't used for practicing/learning the various patterns or that they were not flown in pattern contests successfully, as Sport Pilot pointed out, but they would never be truly competitive in the higher classes. So, at least to me, they were never really to be considered "pattern ships".

We're just talking here. Disagreement is fine. Vocalize and say why you agree or disagree. I might learn something. At the very least I will be pleasantly entertained.