The Brushfire was one of my all time favorite planes to fly. I built an S&W kit that was featured in Flying Models magazine as a kit review. Not sure how many they actually produced. I know Chris Moon produced a fiberglass version as well. I even have some old plans for the wooden version tucked away somewhere. I am pretty sure that Steve Rojecki was the designer. The brushfire was interesting in that it had a pretty tall and bulky fuse for its time. It wasn't the sleek missle like many of its time. It definitely fles slower than most. Much more like todays planes than the standard AMA pattern plane of the 80's. It's proportions made it one of the nicest planes that I have flown to date in as far as rolling qualities are concerned. Very predictable and easy to perform long slow rolling maneuvers. If it had a flying fault is that it was difficult to get to snap well. I heard others complain about the same thing back then. Since the drag is pretty high a strong power plant is needed. The standard 60's (before the long strokes) barely had enough power for tall maneuvers. I went to the Atlanta from the Brushfire and was immediately impressed by its ability to go vertical in comparison. Still I wish that I still had the brushfire. Perhaps with a strong OS or YS long stroke it would be real nice.

Good luck,
Stuart Chale