Built from photographs of a Fleetwing L-5 amphibian, a scale model plane exhibited in a meet at Yakima, Wash., has landing gear constructed so that its wheels can be raised above the water line of the hull in a few seconds for launching from a pond or lake. , one-fifth horsepower gasoline engine is mounted above the cabin with spring-steel rods. The model weighs five pounds and one ounce ready for flight and has a main wing area of seven square feet. It was designed on a scale of two inches to the foot. The fuselage is full planked one-eighth inch balsa wood; the motor cowling is aluminum. Remote controls permit motor adjustments without removal of the cowling.