RE: AMA Plan Pricing - Way Too High?
Bill, I'm sure you can [by now] draw up one of those big planes of yours in your sleep, you've got all the engineering memerorized, I'll bet. But if I asked you to draw up a competitive design for .15 power [or something else you haven't taken on in awhile], I'll also bet that you would need to take a peek at other competitive designs to see where you could save an ounce. By the strictest definition of scratch build, if you borrow any ideas or engineering from another design, you would have violated the sanctity of that term.
There is very little left that anyone can take full credit for, just different ways to package what is basically the same plane.
If I do a 100% faithfull 1/12th takeoff of a F-16 with the help of my 2 inch thick book on F-16s....what has been accomplished there. Same goes for any other scale project, they aren't scratch builds, just faithfull copies that any Yayhoo with a scanner wand can whip out.