Mateer

A NEW MODEL design must have a reason for being; better performance, better construction, or a myriad of other reasons. Another truism is that sooner or later most free flighters get the itch to "roll their own," to advance the Free-Flight state of the art by designing their own flying machine. Thus, the birth of the "French Wench." A systematic approach was taken with this new design. Rather than drawing a nice, sporty-looking airplane followed by countless modifications and redesigns to make it perform adequately, a form-follows-function approach was adopted. That is, a set of design objectives was established and the features that satisfied these objectives would determine what the final design would look like.