Somewhere around 1989 I had been reviewing model airplane designs in Model Airplane News Magazine and came across an article that documented the early history of the Knight Twister. Now, not many airplane designs jump out and bite me but this airplane really did. It is a timeless classic airplane design from 1928 and has been developing right up through the years to the present day. A version that was presented in the magazine was the Imperial Knight Twister, an improved version used in air racing. Included in this article was a three view of the Imperial Knight Twister. Further into the magazine was another photo of a 1/3-scale version of this airplane to be published in the October 1985 edition of Model Airplane News. Now at that time I was not interested in building a large version but wanted a model that was more manageable. I was interested in Peanut Scale subjects and I promised myself that this would be a really neat airplane to do. My skills at that time were not strong enough to build from a three view so the idea would end up waiting until at least 1992 before I was able to tackle this sort of project. In 1998 I set about enlarging the three view that I had and finally had much of the basic structure worked out on paper. It would actually be 2002 by the time I finally began to build it. The construction remained straightforward but the cowling area took some extra time to work up.