ORIGINAL: Dean Pappas
. . . but we have to do something about the rampant "tweaking" of the old designs.
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Yes, discussed that up here too. Then the spectre of a flightline consisting of various colored Daddy Rabbits crossed our mind. People will find the best plane that qualifies and that is all you will see.
Then there is the matter of time having marched on. Many of the airplanes were experiments to find what works. We now have a much better idea of that and it's hard to build a model that you know won't fly well; or at least not as well as it could. I have on the building table right now a plane, Troublemaker, which was famous in its' day but the horizontal stabilizer is right at the bottom of the fuselage and rudder. Should I build it knowing it won't fly as well as other designs? . . .or raise the stab just a wee bit?