Another delta of EPS foam, with the wing encapsulated in packing tape. Expected it to fly as well as "Vector", but it didn't. Ended up cutting off the non-functional canards, that didn't help. Still not sure what was wrong with this plane.

My fourth flying saucer, this one was underpowered. Would have done better with a gearbox and larger prop. The "wing" was 1/2" EPS foam with strapping tape spars.

My first kit in about two years, this one was given to me by a friend (so how could I refuse?). Since he already had the stock version (red with iron crosses), I painted mine with acrylic craft paint so we could tell them apart in a dogfight. One of the more successful planes I've ever owned, powered by the EP-300C motor. Flies indoors and out with ease.

My first attempt at an indoor flyer, this one actually made a flight outdoors first. Powered by a highly-geared GWS motor, it swung a 13" prop with authority on a little 7-cell NiCd pack. It didn't fly very well, and never did fly indoors.

But yet another twin-boom foamie pusher, and another excellent flyer. Had a nice 432 square inch wing.

A friend was nice enough to share some of his fan fold foam bundle, so I made this little one as my First Fan Fold Foam Flyer (F5). Used a GWS IPS-A unit and flew great. Total weight 10.6 ounces. Acrylic craft paint airbrushed.

To thank my friend for all he had done for me (even though it was me who got him hooked on RC planes), I made him this plane as a Christmas present. All fan fold foam with balsa struts. Also had hand-made spoked wheels. Used a GWS EP-300c motor. Once a lot of lead was added to the nose, and the incidence of the top wing adjusted, this turned out to be a great flying plane with good looks too.

My first plane built from plans in over four years, this one was made of a balsa stick and de-papered Sturdiboard. Used a GWS IPS-A unit and flew good. Total weight 10.2 ounces.

Essentially a flying saucer with a tail, the fuselage was a balsa stick, the wing and tail surfaces were fan fold foam. Flew really good on a GWS EP-300c. Had most of the good characteristics of a pure flying saucer. Some people said it was just plain "wrong" to have a smiley face that big, I say "get over it, and be happy!"

This was a foamie electric version of a plan out of RC Modeler. The original glow version had the engine on the front, this one has a motor on the back. All other measurements, including CG was taken from the plan. This plane flew poorly.

A flying wing made of folded-up fan fold foam with an EPS foam fuselage pod, this plane flew marginally.

An excellent plane with a Speed 400. All EPS foam with acrylic craft paint. Had paper covering the top part of the fuselage for strength.

A purpose-built slope soarer, it was EPS foam encapsulated with packing tape. Flies great.

My fifth flying saucer. Did not do well.

Almost the same as the "Goose Pusher", except with the motor on the front, like the original glow-powered design. Crashed on it's first flight.

A semi-scale foamie, did not fly very good. Entirely covered in clear packing tape and spraypainted chrome silver.

My first ducted-fan plane! Constructed from a combination of hollowed-out EPS foam and de-papered Sturdyboard, painted with acrylic craft paint. Used a GWS EDF-50.

Built from a combination of balsa, Coroplast, and EPS foam, with a paper-covered foam wing. Speed 400 pusher. Intended for catapult launch.

An original design to experiment with a fin integrated into the fuselage. Built entirely from EPS foam with some paper covering to strengthen the booms. Speed 400 pusher.

My sixth flying saucer. Made of fan fold foam, flies great and has hovering capability.

Twentieth in my "So" series, this plane is EPS foam finished with acrylic craft paint. Speed 400, flies great.

How-wired from EPS foam with a GWS A drive pushing, 8.5 ounces AUW. Controls are elevator and single aileron, flies good with it's cambered airfoil, but has a nasty stall at full aileron deflection. Flies very slow.

The 22nd "So" plane. This one has a GWS 350C pushing. Climb rate is good, and overall performance is good. Very fun to fly. Features a single aileron on a Modified Clark Y airfoil.

Constructed from a combination of fan fold foam and EPS foam, this plane actually has two ailerons as most planes do. Used a borrowed Eflight 370 brushless motor. Canopy was molded from a soda bottle. Plane flew OK but was damaged due to a motor cut-out. Will be repaired and tried again.

A sloper made from EPP foam. Mostly covered with Ultracote and Monokote trim sheets, but some paint too.

A copy of the U.S. military drone, this plane was built from fan-fold foam. It originally had a GWS EP400 motor and a 2-cell lipo battery, but this was insufficient power. When the Predator finally flew, it had the Nippy brushless motor on the back with an 8-cell NiMH pack. This plane flew extremely well and was very stable.

An experiment with a tandem wing design, this plane glided well to estimate the center of gravity position, but then flew very poorly with a motor.

The Hawk was made from foam board with the paper removed. Made to resemble one of the Hawk biplanes from the 1930's, this plane flew very well despite my streak of relative bad luck with biplanes.

Gunship was an "So" design, but did not carry the "So" designation. This plane was built from EPS foam and featured a "tiperon", or an aileron that consisted of the entire outboard wing panel that pivoted. The tiperon functioned very well. The plane also had several machine gun turrets.

Observer was built from foam board with the paper removed, and was intended to resemble an observation plane from the 1940's or 1950's. Flew very well. The wing was hot-wired from EPS foam with a camber shape.

So.23 was built from EPS foam and featured "tailerons", or elevators on each of the stabilizer surfaces mixed to function as elevators and ailerons. The tail booms were reinforced with tape and the plane flew and handled very well.

This one did not fly well. Made from EPS foam.

This one didn't fly well either.

This plane was an experiment to see how much drag I could create. It was made from EPS foam, and the wing was a flat plate reinforced with a carbon spar. Needless to say it was very draggy, but it did fly.

This plane flew very well. It had a motor cowling made from a peanut butter container.

Another great flying plane. I felt I wanted to try a different paint pattern on this one, it was all hand-painted.

An experiment with three tail booms instead of two. Excellent flying plane.

An experiment with a very short-coupled airplane. It did have two tailbooms, but both were very short. This plane flew marginally well.

This plane's tail booms were not connected to the wing, but rather extended from a pair of sponsons or small wings on the fuselage sides. generous amounts of tape reinforced the structure, and it did fly good.

A slope glider with an EPS foam wing, EPP foam fuselage, coroplast tail surfaces, and Monokote covering. It flew OK.

Another twin-boom pusher. It didn't fly well, later the wingtips were clipped off which improved it a little. This plane had tailerons like the So.23.

A very small plane made from EPS foam with a GWS motor. The cowling was a plastic juice bottle, the canopy was made from a soda bottle. The tail surfaces were depapered foam board.

Another small plane with a GWS fan mounted on the top. It flew OK, but was underpowered with a 2-cell lipo battery.

Made from EPS foam with a plastic bottle as the cowling. GWS motor and 2-cell lipo pack. The nose was too short, resulting in lead counterweight for balance, which made the overall weight too high to fly well.

EPS foam with a GWS fan mounted at the back of the fuselage. This plane had tailerons which did not have enough surface area to turn the plane effectively. This plane flew marginally well.

Built from EPS foam specifically to piggy-back a glider. A servo controlled the glider release. Flew very will by itself and with the glider attached. Resembled a Pilatus PC-6, but didn't notice until after construction.

The glider to go with "Parasitic Adventure". EPS foam and depapered foam board tail surfaces. Flew well.

An EPP foam slope glider. Flew very well.

A plane built specifically to test the Uberall Nippy Black 2410/103 brushless motor. Excellent plane.

This plane was built after a short hiatus for university studies. Constructed from EPS foam covered with paper, Nippy motor. The elevator and rudder servos were mounted in the tail, resulting in the nose being extended to get the 3-cell lipo pack farther out in the nose to achieve the proper balance. Very good flying plane. The battery was housed under the canopy which was attached to the plane with magnets.