Written by Fred Randall staff
As featured on page 54 in the November 2011 issue.
Read an abridged summary from the article.
I decided to start designing my own as I had done so many years ago as a child. I had worked in a technical trade before retirement and was reasonably computer literate. After making several sketches of my proposed airplane, I looked for a CAD program that would make the design work easier and more enjoyable.
I was familiar with AutoCAD, but I couldn’t justify the cost of such a program for designing model airplanes. A Google search unearthed a program…