RE: Cold Duck - Build
Todd, I just got back from the field after an excellent day of Cold Duck flying and saw your post.
What a great story! Kids are the best. When my son was young I always took him to the hobby shop with me and his reward was a glider or one of the snap together rubber powered jobs. Later on I taught him to fly RC at a young age and it was pretty neat to watch him fly his own Falcon 56. They grow up faster than you can imagine and then you have grandkids to enjoy.
Glad you enjoyed the build thread and the RCM article. The RCU thread was a lot easer to do than the hand written RCM article. No computers back then! My wife helped write the RCM article and I thought she was going to kill me when I kept making changes in the build sequence description. If you decide to go ahead with the Cold Duck build I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.