Ross Jahnke

THE IMPETUS for this model came when I needed a quickie replacement for a Hot Box I, lost test flying two days before the P-30 event at the 1981 Nationals. That was the first and only Nationals I have attended, and it spawned not only the Quick One P-30 prototype and its progeny but also a Hand-Launched Glider called the Roscoe, published in the May 1986 Model Aviation. The original Quick One built at the Nationals was an unsophisticated airplane with an all-sheet fuselage and a shorter stabilizer, wing, and tail moment. Its flight characteristics were mediocre, although sufficient to place second in Senior. Four revisions have spiraled out of that first improvised effort, each with modifications developed by looking at other models and other events.