What never ceases to amaze me is that the schools seem to expect that learning all there is to know about the aerodynamics, structural issues and flying of the models is just something that can be picked up with a snap of the fingers and a few book references. Those of us that have learned and honed our design and building skills and knowledge through a couple or more decades at this hobby apparently are "slow learners" as far as the profs are concerned. Or, more likely, few of them have a real handle on just how much knowledge at these topics is truly needed to understand and succesfully design a model that does well in a competitive flying situation.

It's no secret that all the more succesful teams have had at least one long time model builder on their teams so that this sort of knowledge is brought to the table. And I suppose that asking us for help and data is just one other avenue of research. But likely our usernames won't end up in the appendix listing information sources......