The UPS man just delivered the Sterling P-63 kit I won on ebay. Talk about a trip down memory lane. The plans look just like those of the Sterling Ringmaster U-Control kit I built 100 years ago as a kid. There are text instructions and isometrics filling about every inch of space on the two side plans.

The parts look as though they have never been out of the box. On the top is a die cut ply sheet with little brass eyelets installed for all the control horns. There must be a million little parts, and huge precarved balsa blocks with carving both inside and outside. For a Sterling kit the wood seems quite good. I took a crack at a Sterling Flying Fool kit about ten years ago. The wood on that one was so bad (hard, heavy) that I gave up on it. This kit is certainly buildable with the original wood.

In summary, worth every penny.

Jim