It might sound odd, but that article was the catalyst for me getting involved in control line stunt.
Way back when that was published, I was looking for ways to make lighter, stronger RC pattern aircraft, and I implimented a lot of the design philosophy into my pattern plane of the time. I then began to delve a little deeper into stunt found wonderfully beatiful aircraft. After that, the rest was history. I rarely fly RC now, and consider most of the aerobatic aircraft around today as ugly, inflatable blimps!