Jim Crawford

THE BIG plane is slow flying and realistic. It also is exciting, stimulating, eye-catching, crowd pleasing, and infinitely more satisfying to the ego and inventiveness of its builder. Since the ultimate aim of any hobby-sport is a relaxing change of pace from the rigors of earning our daily bread, the big model has much appeal. But it is a fact that airplanes up to 2-inch-to-the-foot scale often are, comparatively speaking, flying bombs-miles out of scale speedwise, and anything but relaxing. I have witnessed (and suffered) the frayed nerves this kind of flying can induce, followed by exhaustion that compelled more coffee consumption on the