a guy at my field has a home-scavenged plane. It's fuselage is a drainpipe. that's right, a drainpipe. His wing is that of a right flyer, with all the dihedral taken out of it, and sheeted with contest balsa so it also mows lawns nicely without punching holes in the covering. the tail is also a right flyer tail. the tailboom is aluminum bar. it has a tendency to rock from side to side, so the stab is almost never strait with the wing. He is not a very good pilot, and his landings are amusing. but, this plane could make it through WWIII no problem. Thanks to his incredible landing skills, sometimes he smacks the side of the hill (our field is on top of a hill) and he just picks it up, refuels, and starts his engine again, and flies. this guy has hit other hills around us while he stares out at the sky. amazing.....