Simple Plastic Airplane Design (SPAD) airplanes are meant to be robust and keep the cost of flying both fun and affordable.

Bob Rhoades has been perfecting the design and is making kits available to those interested. See Butch Patterson's SPAD plane here.

Bob Rhodes readies a SPAD plane for flight.

Here is Bob at the pit on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.

Here is the plane in flight.