I think we all need to start flying planes with multiple wings and stabs...if we keep flying monoplanes we are only copying the pattern designs from years ago. Maybe we all need to send royalty checks to the guy who built the first flying model airplane years ago.  </p>

 All of these planes are similiar because of their function.  We are all using symmetrical wings, maybe someone should've copyrighted those, even though there are slight deviations in the actual airfoil.  The colors on my plane are the colors that Dave Villwok flew on a Hydeout a few years ago...I guess I need to sand my plane down and start over.  </p>

All of these planes take design elements from each other.  It is the nature of the beast.  I saw a profile drawing of a Passport and Black Magic V3 a few weeks ago and ya know what..they are VERY similar.  The Passport is more rounded, but wing and stab locations were VERY close.  Does this mean one is a copy of the other, NO, it means though that they have very similar performance as they are designed for similar jobs.  Chip and I are very close and he as well as Mike Hester found it funny that 2 designs that came out around the same time, from two different guys on opposite sides of the country ended up so close.    </p>

Since you are in Europe maybe you need to talk to the F1 guys since all of their cars have wings on the tail and nose.  Looks to me like they are all copying each other.  </p>

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