B. Alkinson

STAND-OFF SCALE for competition has come a long way in the last three or four years. It has been accepted as a Scale competition class at most contests and, of course, the state of the art naturally has improved. The Stand-off Scale model in general has excellent performance and far surpasses its AMA scale or FAI counterparts. Many of these airplanes are capable of seriously competing with so-called Pattern airplanes, and by far are more realistic than most of them. The static aspect of Stand-off-Scale models has advanced along with their flying ability. Our rules have governed complexity, as in AMA Scale, but over the last several years modelers have found ways to improve their Scale birds within the rules.