Performance by Computer: Warts and All
COMPUTERS to chose a configuration? What for? Just pick out the one that makes your blood sing, and take the plunge! Right? No, not right. Typical, yes, but not right. From such outbursts of passion emerge turkeys with defective genes or psychotic souls, turkeys that end their days as hangar queens or hobby room mobiles. How do you recognize a turkey before you build it? Certainly not by looks alone. To anyone who is smirking, "If it looks right, it will fly right," I would ask: "Have you seen Don Srull's version of the Santos Dumont 14 bis?" (That's a pusher canard biplane with which Don has successfully spanned the application range from Indoor Rubber Scale to full RC.)
