Greetings and Salutations
First off I'd like to thank you for allowing me to be a member of this forum.
I got started in Control Line back in the mid 1970's flying a COX 049 Super Sport. The plane is long gone.. but I've still got the motor.
My grandfather had a bunch of old glow plug motors so I moved up from the Super Sport to building my own plane. A 33" P-40 that ran an old 35 Torpedo Engine.
At that point life got in the way of my hobby. Fast Forward... I'm now a retired Mechanical Engineer / CAD Monkey.
I was also into rocketry back in the day and just recently finished a scratch built X-wing that I designed and built. I was thinking of building a small x-wing style control line plane similar to the American Boy, something simple in construction, but as a pusher style plane. Here's some screen shots and some photo's of the rocket I just completed.
I'd probably be way better off though starting with a way more basic plane. I'm thinking the x-wing is going to be very challenging.