Why scratchbuild an Ultra Sport? Well...
Lets say you have been flying for 3 or 4 years. You've beat to death your
trainer and flown the wings off your 2nd and 3rd and maybe even a 4th plane.
You have probably tried a colorful ARF or two and found them seriously lacking.
You feel the need for a really good flying airplane with no bad habits.

So you search around the online forums and talk to all the RC pilots you know
about various planes and one name keeps popping up. Everyone always says the Ultra Sport
is the best sport plane ever designed.

Well with such a devoted following maybe you should check one of these Ultra Sports out.
You find out Great Planes makes the kit. Great! Oh oh. Wait. Discontinued. Drat!
Never fear...EBAY to the rescue. Lots of old kits show up there. After all didnt you
snag a nice Bridi Super Kaos Off EBAY last year?

Well well...looky here. Two US 60s on EBAY right now. Dang first one went for $175.
Holy crap... the second went for over $200! Whats the deal?

And so it goes. Quite a few show up for auction but the prices are just a bit ridiculous.

A couple of months go by and then you learn that the Ultra Sport was originally published
in RCM Magazine (August 1989) and that the plans are still available. So you order a set
"just to have a look". You start saving up wood and parts and before you know it you
realize you have almost everything you need to build this sucker.

By the following spring you have a brand new Ultra Sport 60 ready for its maiden flight.
By the end of the day you realize that everyone was right. The Ultra Sport truly
IS "the best sport plane ever".

Thats pretty much my story. Names and details have been left out to protect the innocent
and the guilty. Was it a lot of work? Of course. Was it worth it? Absolutely.