I wrote this book because I was mentoring about 15 kids all over the country and answering basically the same questions over and over. The design will fly right off the drawing board and achieve about a 1:45 to 2:10 consistently. This has been my experience with kids all over the country. This design will fly in gyms where the AC has been left on for competition. One high school senior hung on his second flight or he would have won the national comp for TSA. His first flight in the turbulent gym was 2:05 so he overwound the model on the next flight to really blow away the competition when all he needed to do was fly a safe 2:00 flight and take home the trophy. You can only learn to fly in competition by making those kinds of mistakes. The model can be built right on weight in stock configuration and the wood sizes are easy to handle. A North Georgia school attended our last indoor competition and some of the kids completed models during the competition. Each flew well as a result of using the building and trimming techniques included in the "Wright Stuff" book. I have also included suggested modifications for performance enhancement for advanced builders and for follow-on projects for the next year's competition. An enhanced version of the "Spartan" design will fly for 3:00 minutes on a consistent basis.

Dear Mr. Baughman:
I received your The Wright Stuff booklet a couple of days ago. I have now had a chance to look at it and I think your booklet is great. Dayna is excited about this years competition, last year was a big disappointment for her. This was mainly my fault because I didn't realize the sophistication of these models. We bought a balsa model kit and some wood and basically made another plane using the model as a pattern and needless to say we didn't do so well. I didn't get to participate with her until her school went to state competition. When I saw the other planes in practice I was totally amazed at what I thought would be an average of  20 to 30 second flights turn into an average of 2 or 3 minutes. So I promised her that this year we would be competitive and with your book I have no doubts. Your book is written in a way that makes the reader feel as if with a little patience and like myself very little skill they can't go! wrong. Until I got your book I was dreading this project but now I am looking forward to getting started. As for a video I think it would be a big help for someone like myself with no real experience at this kind of thing. If you have a video or are thinking about making one I would be interested.
Many thanks for your help.
Michael