Simple Sabar Trainer ?

Eric, the plane itself looks very similar to the Warbirds series that Midwest produced. Keeping in mind, it's a trainer. It certainly has potential to be more. I completely understand the designers intent here.  While this one being a Sabre jet, the Midwest trike gear was the P-63. I still own my P-63. Looking at the print you show, the plane is equipped with a Babe Bee. The plane will fly with that engine, it will certainly be down on power lending itself to mild maneuvers.

I would shorten the fuse a bit and lose the landing gear plus I would go for a Black Widow. You can never have enough power and slabbed wing planes are notoriously poor flyers needing every ounce of power you can squeeze out of it. It's a lot easier to tame a engine down than to go the other way.  I don't mean for that to sound negative, but built up wings fly much better and require less of the engine to make it fly correctly. Trike gear planes are problematic taking off on grass, it also generates a lot of additional drag.  The stance of a trike gear 1/2A is too narrow and the plane wants to easily tip from side to side. There fun as can be on asphalt though. Touch and goes are fun, I like to do that with the large stuff. This is one reason I like trike gear. It takes a bit of skill to do the touch and go however most that first try it usually end up doing the smash and go.

       This simple design  looks cool and it would be neat to see something like this flying on video. I love the simple designs from the 70's. These were always in the magazines back then. it certainly is disheartening that we no longer have publications for control line at the level which once was. While Control line World is struggling, it fixates on the stunt community and not the 1/2A flyer which is really what I consider myself as.