RE: Before the Brushfire there was...
David,
The construction article was in Model Builder and had pictures of the second Brushfire, the first with a fiberglass fuse.
By the way, there is a German flight simulator program called Reflex that has modeled the Brushfire. You can find the info package here: [link]http://time.fh-augsburg.de/~erd/Modellflug/textDownloads.shtml[/link]
I flew in SAM quite a bit, too. At one time or another I had a Record Hound, Super Dolphin, a couple Goldberg Clippers, and a few others. One of the Clippers is sitting in my basement with a 4-stroke 40. My dad made an R/C sailplane by putting a Comet Sailplane wing, tail, and vertical on a simple sheet balsa fuse. Boy did it ever fly great!
Ken