Dick, that story about the raven model is priceless! I laughed a good one at that.

The info on the DC3 and your experience with the gyro was also excellent. Far too often we, as modellers, want our models to ignore the charactarisitics of the full sized prototypes. We only do so to our own peril. We tend to get so used to not having the same limits as the full sized craft that we tend to get choked up when one of the full sized aircraft's foibles hits home on a scale model. Hopefully Spalex takes this to heart.