I for one look forward to hearing how you fare building and flying your SPAD trainer. While I freely admit that SPADs may not be my personal cup of tea, I feel a lot stronger kinship to guys who fly SPADs than to the folks who don't fly at all.

Glow vs. electric, SPAD vs. balsa, kit builders vs. ARFs, helicopters versus fixed wing airplanes - it would be nice if we all realized that RC pilots are outnumbered by about 1000 to 1 by school-age soccer players and there aren't enough of us in the hobby to allow us to bicker amongst ourselves.