Hi All

I am thinking of scratch building a plane and wpuld desperately like some help and advice on all design parameters and general rules needed to make something fly well.

It will be a high winger looking a little like a cessna if poss. A wing span of 62" is looking nice but I am open to any reasonable thoughts and suggestons.

I wait with anticipation folks...................

What you are asking is like asking how long is a piece of string. It would be impossible to condense aircraft design down into a few paragraphs. If you want to scratch build a plane, buy or download a set of plans for a plane that you know flies well. There are plenty of links to free plans sites in the sticky at the top of this page. Have a look there, and do some research on designs that you like.
'Fly well' is a very open and loose term. But if its a trainer that you're looking to build then that narrows it down a bit.
As I said, look up the free plans and see whats going. Having a .DWG and/or .DXF viewer is a great help when looking at free plan downloads as many are in CAD format.

These should help. Dan.

Two more. Dan.

Dear Dan

Many thanks for your input.................plenty of reading to do

All the best