The first tandem-wing aircraft I saw appeared in an early 1960s edition of the boys comic—Lion. I dismissed it as a figment of the artist's imagination, but later came across the self-same aircraft in War Planes of World War 2—Fighters—Volume 2 by W. Green. From then on I have been collecting information on tandem-wing aircraft. Some eight years later what started as an interest in aircraft took an academic turn when I did a design study of a tandem-wing aircraft as part of an MSc.