You built 8-9 of these? Do you still have them, did you crash them or decommission them somehow? I'm just trying to understand, I've built maybe 2 of the same design. Maybe I'm not far enough along and still building different designs. I guess when I find something that really works for me I'll have 8-9 of them? That's a good topic for another post, who's built the most Ringmasters, Twisters or something.
Motorman 
Hi Walter,
I guess I just really liked the design of the Primary Force and something else I liked was the way they flew. I am nowhere near being in the league of some of the expert fliers on here and never will be because that is not one of my goals and I also have some physical problems that just make it uncomfortable for me to try and fly the pattern. However, in my personal experience in building and flying full fuselage and profiles, I found the Primary Force to corner and stunt as well as any full fuselage ship with flaps that I ever built, but again, I am relating that to my flying skill. Short answer, I just like the design and the way it flies.
I have either given away or crashed the previous ones I have built. I gave most of them away.
There is a story connected to the last one I built before this one I am now building.
Here is what happened.
I have been on a flight crew for the Civil Air Patrol for years and one of the members of our flying club here in New Orleans is a minister and a Chaplin in CAP. He had a 13-year-old son who was a cadet in CAP and he woud come to the field with his dad and we would let him fly one of our models and he got pretty good at flying them.
So, as a surprise, I built a Primary Force and put an OS LA25 on it and took it to the field and surprised him with it. As you might imagine he was thrilled to have his own CL Plane that was ready to fly. All he had to do was fill the tank with fuel and go fly.
This all took place during the Covid Lockdowns and hysteria was taking place.
He took the plane home and hung it on his bedroom wall. At this point, he had not even had a chance to fly it.
Simultaneously, he was waiting to hear back from the Civil Air Patrol Glider Academy as he was going to get his sailplane license. Just a few days after I gave him the plane, he got word that he could not attend the glider academy because of Covid.
He took his life that same day when he got the news because he was so depressed and had such hopes to be a pilot. Imagine how devastating this was to everyone.
Sometime after this all happened, I was contacted by his father, and he thought it would be a good idea to hold a raffle for the model and then donate the proceeds the Civil Air Patrol Cadet program and that is exactly what we did.
The last I heard of the model, was that it was hanging in Hobby Towne Hobby Shop in Baton Rouge, but I also heard that it had been sold.
Walter, I guess in some strange way this whole thing gave special meaning to me about the Primary Force and I often think about this young man who was so full of life and loved to fly control line and never had the opportunity to live his life. Thirteen is to young to die.
Anyway, I hope I answered your question of why this particular model is special to me.
Mike
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