Gentlemen,

outstanding responses! Many thanks.

Rusty, it is good to know of the services offered by elf "scanner". I'm sure they will come in handy. UStik, very interesting models you provided links for. I will be reading up in detail on them. Rousseau's site is of particular interest as he is based here in Quebec! I'm sure that didn't escape you. He also offers laser services which will also come in handy soon I hope.

Ray, as usual, comes in with flying colours and the article in question. Many thanks Ray. The airfoils on that plan are of particular interest and the plan itself already is approaching very much what I had in mind in terms of design. Since I plan to make this an electric powered aircraft (~2000W), it will be a matter of adapting and integrating ideas from both the MA plan and the GP plan. The trickiest part of the design/model will be sourcing a canopy that fits without having to make a mold for one. This would save some time and expense. It appears though that the wing/stab work is already done for me as I was thinking of going with foam surfaces.

After a little back of the envelope last night, I had though that an 80" span/65" length (actually 133% of the 60" span GP model) would produce a wing in the 1000 squares ballpark (977 sq in per the GP design). However, it needs to be designed to come under 10 lbs as otherwise it will be too heavy or too large for my desired scale.

With a bit of heard work, this might be a project that would be nice to schedule for construction next winter. In the meantime, there are other scale aerobats on the horizon...

David.