Ah,
that jogged the memory! That was
Dennis Norman, and I was there!
We've learned a lot about how to pack longer motors into nacelles since then, and about lightweight geodesic construction in giant planes ( while on YouTube, search "Dave Rees"). Here're a couple recent examples--Vence Gilbert's twin
"Surrender Betty" (he only builds "Peace" models--and he's a heck of a musician too), and Peter Smart's magnificent
Tupolev at Old Warden a couple years back.
I'm not in those guys' class, I made singles. Anybody interested, here're the plans I and a couple friends did, as the
"DeathTrap Squadron." --I'm the Michael in the bunch. My drawing & flying buddy Rocky Russo died this winter, and that's a lot of why I don't wanna do the stuff now <snif!>
'Duster