From the ground up, this RC sport design helps beginners go micro
By Bob Aberle
As seen in the May 2010 issue of Model Aviation.
In 2003 and 2004, I authored 10 installments of the 31-part “From the Ground Up” series that was published in MA. The sequence of articles reads like a book and takes a new (beginner) modeler from square one up through his or her first RC model flights.
This is likely an overnight airplane build for the beginner.
As part of that series, I came up with a design I called the Scratch-One, which was an ultra-simple trainer design that…