J.O. Dwyer

WHY, YOU ASK, another P-30? The answer should be dear to every competitor's heart. This P-30 lives up to all my hopes for it. It was designed to really win-and win it does. The Sparrow Hawk definitely outperforms the breed. It has placed in every contest it's competed in, and yet the airplane maintains a relative simplicity that belies its capabilities. As a retired aeronautical engineer and a relative newcomer to Free Flight modeling, I was looking for a challenging event to start off with. After reading the rules, I roughed out my first P-30, built it, and flew it-or tried to. Heavy and ugly, the model barely got airborne. Clearly, there had to be a better way. I decided to use some of my experience and education to design a better-performing P-30.