Ed,
Yes, that was me. Big Art and I had spent a lot of the early part of the year doing clinics and I sort of ran out of time for that Tri-plane. As such, it was actually painted it in the motel room, at the Nats. So after the 6th flight on the model, I failed to qualify by 3 points. My fault, not the design.
The model has 650 square inches of wing, 80 square inches of horizontal stab/elevator, and 40 square inches of canard. It flew with a one blade prop on an FP-40, and had a mono wheel landing gear. It's actually a very good model. It was actually a proof of concept design. My son Archie Had intended to use the tri-plane approach on his Gemini, but we had linkage problems and we deleted the canard to ease his assembly. It's a concept that I'm going to try again because some of the things it did were incredable. In level flight, it feels like it will never turn, rock solid, but the instant you input control, it just rotates. The 2 stabs at opposite ends of a 48" long fuse hold it level when you want and move it when you want.Really quite amazing. The canard moves down as the elevator moves up. We experimented with the CG and we were able to easily fly the model within a 3" CG range. How many other designs can you move the balance plus or minus 1.5 inches and still have a flyable model. It still exists and I'll try to post some pictures this weekend.I'm actually working on the next generation of that design. I'm going to use one of my son's glass fuses, actually the the glass fuse for his Gemini I . The one pictured in his published article. The canard will be mounted on the cowl separation line and will have abut 15 degrees of anhedral, sort if like the fins on a shark. The original stab/elevator will still be a V, but it will be reduced in size slightly to take the canard in account.
Thanks for asking.
Arch