Designed by Bill Noonan
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The Good Tern was a straightforward, reliable, easy-to-adjust Embryo-class model, built with the option of floats for ROW (rise-off-water) or wheels for ROT (rise-off-table).
Construction followed conventional FF model practices. Fuselage parts and tail surfaces were medium square balsa; wings and ribs were cut from straight-grained, soft balsa.
Author Bill Noonan stated that assembling the floats was much like building two more fuselages. He used waterproof glue to cement all pieces of the floats, and…