THE United States Control Line Cham pionships held year WinstonSalem North Carolina under beautiful sunny skies temperatures 80s second time AAAA J E Albritton comes off line Scale Rac ing Flying fast 41 event entries putting great show MAs Bill Lee won John Ballard well under 3 minutes 80 laps Open Class Winston-Salem NC control line Taft free flight Over June 17-18 weekend Mecca top hands came far wide fly against very best Text photos John Gimbel rating given C/L Meet making biggest best its kind classic event started early Saturday morning FAI team racers tuning event requires good balance speed fuel consumption since fuel tank mere 7 cc Now races started team warming up checking final adjustments engines blink eye models up away pits pitmen looked like plumbing trucks wheels gauges hot gloves assure lightning fast pits went action Flip flip flip away went smoke diesel fumes cleared team Dodge Nelson knew sweet joy victory total 13 teams competed including two top Canadian teams mem bers three US teams going 56 Model Aviation Holding dear life Rat pilot Bill Martin beasties can pull close 70 pounds 150mph Times 12 flat better find speed youll find Glen Lee has flown bullets since ignition days Winston-Salem meet noted its enthusias tic speed turnout exceeded Nats Times year sensational Bulb left hand Bill Martin uses good fore hand drive Rat engine life Pitting Swamp Rat V Ben Brady JSO comoined Harold Lambert hung up 140-lap final 45368 World Championships Over US Carrier Winston Salem Navy Carrier planes tuning up event lightly contested did take skill quality competition Profile class George Cox winner Class II com bined won Ronald Haase also got second Some trick ask fly against percent Record Ratio anything possible Haase percentage 81 Class II first 78 Class second spite impressive quantity quality trophies five individuals flew event After 1977s poor showing Carrier CD Bill Pardue written over 30 Carrier fliers inviting 78 competition likely event will scheduled half day next year Meanwhile grass Slow Com bat fliers glory Nothing much new year same Flite Streaks Nimblers etc Tigres pretty much rule Speeds high 80s nothing super cunning Mack Henry showed done used K&B 35 Series 75 Nimbler Ninety per cent time plane slower did turn Consistency practice makes big difference over half 50-gallon drum full broken pitiful looking airplanes pilots looked bit worn themselves followed Fast Combat went Sunday finals since field vacant 500 pm Sun day morning Fast finished Paul Curtis winner Eric Taylor second girl third Melissa Hartman flew box-stock Fox MK III CS Voodoo beat Dick Tyndle Tooth pick fame third place equipment Nemesis Ils Moto vators Ninjas Voodoos Gotchas etc speeds 105 108 mostly excep tion Phil Cartiers TWA engine did 114 clock Mid-airs line tangles quite often thats way goes m Combat missed Howard Rush Chuck Rudner being 100 pm Precision Aerobatics started Beginner-Intermediate Class Airplanes pretty much same46size mostly nothing exceptionally new people disappointed no AMA Novice Since three air plane-breaker maneuvers AMA Novice pattern could flown marginal airplane Ring master winner Vince Schnetzer Dean Brock close second Unfortunately Beginner-Intermediate full pattern poorly supported four entrants Speed flown both days never knew flights official Although scale judged basis typical aircraTi moueleo oruer Ta aiscourage full acrobatic stunt ships entries few Keith Trostles Focke-WuIf 190 winner Author Gimbel thought pitmen FAI Team Race looked like plumbing trucks wheels hot gloves gages worked furiously Tim Gillott makes pre-race check Note oaoes assure oressure fuel refill Nelson-Dodae 8268 200-lao final MAs Carrier columnist Dick Perry right prepares well-known Short Sea Mew see plan listing Headset protects hearing Both men staring intently rpm tach ground deck George Cox Profile Carrier model best score 21210 JSO combined Flying record/ratio Class II Ronald Haase won both classes best score 31221 81% Class II 30278% Class Maikis Claus West German Stunt champion releases PAMPA president Keith Trostles nice ship Expert Precision Aerobatics Lea McDonald topped Expert practicemost flights official Italian jet champion posted 190-plus flight Glenn Lee again found everywhere Frank Garzon New York strong ever team Upton/Hempel keeping up pack Fifty-one trophies Speed alone awardedwhich lot hardware l/2As year tuned pipe variety case often Speed homebuilts showing up props mostly glass types very small high pitched like 4/7 re worked Cox Competition Graysshaped lot like soup spoon l/2A Profile Proto event year addition Senior Open very encouraging since allows father son fly engines TDs mostly Kustom Kraft needle valve assembly turning left-hand glass props cut 5/4 some single bladers Rossi king Speed homemade parts inte2rated type head design imaginable FAI enjoyable two lines fuel restric tion make tempting try asymmetrical wings back again well mixed metal wood wings idea being put less weight airplanes body designs now glass shells very much like rat racers B Speed Proto trend still pretty much inverted engines V tails Jet speed fast ever speeds up over 190 mph practice fuel mostly nitromethane proplene oxide jets did run long enough make official laps Formula 40 speed models looked like misplaced Rat Racers Speeds up 155 plus common Some wheel pants OPS 40 seemed strong did K&B 40 Winston-Salem place regarded go Speed fliers finest fliers show up competition fast furious top four places Jet 207 197 196 194 mph Several D flights exceeded 190 196 First second B 19347 19306 HaIfA Speed saw 12108 topping 12043 Now Class D fliers using mini-pipes having worry about building whole new engine flight fussing fuel prop head combinations Formula 40 saw unique show-down Joe Kall set Senior record 155 mph three weeks before WS contest Dennis Ytuarte broken mark 157 Glen Van Sant managed tie 157 mph could produce back up flight Open 40 Thomas Blankman slipped record-holding team Hempel/Upton 15909 15825 Scale racing finished out Saturdays flying entries 12 made finals Rossi king After very long hard day winner proved Bill Lee earned trophy believe 58 Model Aviation best everywhere trying beat him Lamberts Kilsdonk Gillot name few152 fastest time low mid 16s Bill Lee showed 41 race entrants go fast pit Lee Ballard both under three minutes 80-lap heats 24857 2511 Jr/Sr taken Joe Kall Sunday started Precision Aero batics Experts Advanced Class heavily contested world champion Les McDonald new airplane beautiful won event ease Expert class has seen 21 different fliers competing Win ston-Salem over past four years circumstance CD Pardue thinks due Expert fliers reluctance risk repu tations against tough competition chance poor scores given crack pot local judges Actually W-S judges have worked Nationals FAI Elims Airplane designs Stunt price some 35s up $4500 35 fliers talked building smaller aircraft going back old standby relatively cheap Fox 3T Stunt new trend ways exiting cooling air some ships have holes top body some air exits side conventional designs year such Nobler-type cockpit block canopy top 46-size air planes pretty much same like Stilleto Genisis variations Tigre 46 far popular 46 Second place Expert won Norm Whittle Stunt world privi leged have reigning German stunt champion Claus Maikis over con test everyone took warm gen tleman signed card gave him end contest also received plaque contest director l/2A Class Scale Racing next little airplanes cute buttons might want build just put TV rules simple reed valve nice because allows some learn compete same airplane just small expense George Cleveland winner engines mostly Cox Black Widows yellow Grish 5/4 props Cox Cus tom Blend racing car fuel time Rat Racing coming close Times Rats 12 flat better seems standard Rat fast three pit stops final Harold Lambert showed way 220 22025 70-lap heats 45368 140-lap finals Lets look Slow Rat Racing Franklin Tennessee Tune/H ill racing team equipment everywhere now legal 05 36 RV doubt superior engine Nashville Rats one-two-three Slow Rat Marshall Busby winning 53916 Half-A racing fine turn-out George CaIdwell first Scale 529 Robert Oge first victor Fast Comoat Paul Curtis flew Supertigre 36 ship propped 8/8 good sport pitted almost half entries along Mack Henry day Harold Lamberts Champion cap appropriate went home marbles Fast Rat race top 155 mph Remember Rat poor mans team race goes Slow Combat Very well judge Mack Henrys smile Flew Nimbler Open win jets turning faster speed models ever flew beforefirst four places 207 197 196 194 Leonard Waltemath pre pares DynajetLanglois Huff Hurlocker top team Mouse II 10041 final event Sport Scale won again semi-scale stunter aircraft German FW-l90 PAMPA Pres ident Keith Trostle event very lightly contested real shame such sporty event Hoping improve last years poor turnout event years rules scored flight maneuvers typical aircraft modeled hopes discouraging full aerobatic ships spite encouragement three entrants needs said WinstonSalem people feel Champion ship nature big annual meet requires recognize controlline events six events going same time management must field over 50 working people such manpower requirements probable schedule will rethought 1979 Either recordratio flying combined age groups may down road Speed events Al though Winston-Salem outdrawn Nats Speed eight left over trophies event five l/2A alone Less critical still concern number entries Navy Carrier Sport Scalein FAI Combat four few words praise Bill Pardue made happen ever man deserved have award Bill efforts made possible AAAA Meet Control Line dont ever forget Safe Flying No Accident Half scale profiles cute buttOns lop L TO II ueorge LIOWUII Friday Bill Friday Bottom Ito R Tom CarrJim Lindamore Jerry Kasmer______________________________________ 60 Model Aviation winner wed hate see loser Af ter third place win Slow Bobby Yandles basket-case Flite Streak held dad
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
THE United States Control Line Cham pionships held year WinstonSalem North Carolina under beautiful sunny skies temperatures 80s second time AAAA J E Albritton comes off line Scale Rac ing Flying fast 41 event entries putting great show MAs Bill Lee won John Ballard well under 3 minutes 80 laps Open Class Winston-Salem NC control line Taft free flight Over June 17-18 weekend Mecca top hands came far wide fly against very best Text photos John Gimbel rating given C/L Meet making biggest best its kind classic event started early Saturday morning FAI team racers tuning event requires good balance speed fuel consumption since fuel tank mere 7 cc Now races started team warming up checking final adjustments engines blink eye models up away pits pitmen looked like plumbing trucks wheels gauges hot gloves assure lightning fast pits went action Flip flip flip away went smoke diesel fumes cleared team Dodge Nelson knew sweet joy victory total 13 teams competed including two top Canadian teams mem bers three US teams going 56 Model Aviation Holding dear life Rat pilot Bill Martin beasties can pull close 70 pounds 150mph Times 12 flat better find speed youll find Glen Lee has flown bullets since ignition days Winston-Salem meet noted its enthusias tic speed turnout exceeded Nats Times year sensational Bulb left hand Bill Martin uses good fore hand drive Rat engine life Pitting Swamp Rat V Ben Brady JSO comoined Harold Lambert hung up 140-lap final 45368 World Championships Over US Carrier Winston Salem Navy Carrier planes tuning up event lightly contested did take skill quality competition Profile class George Cox winner Class II com bined won Ronald Haase also got second Some trick ask fly against percent Record Ratio anything possible Haase percentage 81 Class II first 78 Class second spite impressive quantity quality trophies five individuals flew event After 1977s poor showing Carrier CD Bill Pardue written over 30 Carrier fliers inviting 78 competition likely event will scheduled half day next year Meanwhile grass Slow Com bat fliers glory Nothing much new year same Flite Streaks Nimblers etc Tigres pretty much rule Speeds high 80s nothing super cunning Mack Henry showed done used K&B 35 Series 75 Nimbler Ninety per cent time plane slower did turn Consistency practice makes big difference over half 50-gallon drum full broken pitiful looking airplanes pilots looked bit worn themselves followed Fast Combat went Sunday finals since field vacant 500 pm Sun day morning Fast finished Paul Curtis winner Eric Taylor second girl third Melissa Hartman flew box-stock Fox MK III CS Voodoo beat Dick Tyndle Tooth pick fame third place equipment Nemesis Ils Moto vators Ninjas Voodoos Gotchas etc speeds 105 108 mostly excep tion Phil Cartiers TWA engine did 114 clock Mid-airs line tangles quite often thats way goes m Combat missed Howard Rush Chuck Rudner being 100 pm Precision Aerobatics started Beginner-Intermediate Class Airplanes pretty much same46size mostly nothing exceptionally new people disappointed no AMA Novice Since three air plane-breaker maneuvers AMA Novice pattern could flown marginal airplane Ring master winner Vince Schnetzer Dean Brock close second Unfortunately Beginner-Intermediate full pattern poorly supported four entrants Speed flown both days never knew flights official Although scale judged basis typical aircraTi moueleo oruer Ta aiscourage full acrobatic stunt ships entries few Keith Trostles Focke-WuIf 190 winner Author Gimbel thought pitmen FAI Team Race looked like plumbing trucks wheels hot gloves gages worked furiously Tim Gillott makes pre-race check Note oaoes assure oressure fuel refill Nelson-Dodae 8268 200-lao final MAs Carrier columnist Dick Perry right prepares well-known Short Sea Mew see plan listing Headset protects hearing Both men staring intently rpm tach ground deck George Cox Profile Carrier model best score 21210 JSO combined Flying record/ratio Class II Ronald Haase won both classes best score 31221 81% Class II 30278% Class Maikis Claus West German Stunt champion releases PAMPA president Keith Trostles nice ship Expert Precision Aerobatics Lea McDonald topped Expert practicemost flights official Italian jet champion posted 190-plus flight Glenn Lee again found everywhere Frank Garzon New York strong ever team Upton/Hempel keeping up pack Fifty-one trophies Speed alone awardedwhich lot hardware l/2As year tuned pipe variety case often Speed homebuilts showing up props mostly glass types very small high pitched like 4/7 re worked Cox Competition Graysshaped lot like soup spoon l/2A Profile Proto event year addition Senior Open very encouraging since allows father son fly engines TDs mostly Kustom Kraft needle valve assembly turning left-hand glass props cut 5/4 some single bladers Rossi king Speed homemade parts inte2rated type head design imaginable FAI enjoyable two lines fuel restric tion make tempting try asymmetrical wings back again well mixed metal wood wings idea being put less weight airplanes body designs now glass shells very much like rat racers B Speed Proto trend still pretty much inverted engines V tails Jet speed fast ever speeds up over 190 mph practice fuel mostly nitromethane proplene oxide jets did run long enough make official laps Formula 40 speed models looked like misplaced Rat Racers Speeds up 155 plus common Some wheel pants OPS 40 seemed strong did K&B 40 Winston-Salem place regarded go Speed fliers finest fliers show up competition fast furious top four places Jet 207 197 196 194 mph Several D flights exceeded 190 196 First second B 19347 19306 HaIfA Speed saw 12108 topping 12043 Now Class D fliers using mini-pipes having worry about building whole new engine flight fussing fuel prop head combinations Formula 40 saw unique show-down Joe Kall set Senior record 155 mph three weeks before WS contest Dennis Ytuarte broken mark 157 Glen Van Sant managed tie 157 mph could produce back up flight Open 40 Thomas Blankman slipped record-holding team Hempel/Upton 15909 15825 Scale racing finished out Saturdays flying entries 12 made finals Rossi king After very long hard day winner proved Bill Lee earned trophy believe 58 Model Aviation best everywhere trying beat him Lamberts Kilsdonk Gillot name few152 fastest time low mid 16s Bill Lee showed 41 race entrants go fast pit Lee Ballard both under three minutes 80-lap heats 24857 2511 Jr/Sr taken Joe Kall Sunday started Precision Aero batics Experts Advanced Class heavily contested world champion Les McDonald new airplane beautiful won event ease Expert class has seen 21 different fliers competing Win ston-Salem over past four years circumstance CD Pardue thinks due Expert fliers reluctance risk repu tations against tough competition chance poor scores given crack pot local judges Actually W-S judges have worked Nationals FAI Elims Airplane designs Stunt price some 35s up $4500 35 fliers talked building smaller aircraft going back old standby relatively cheap Fox 3T Stunt new trend ways exiting cooling air some ships have holes top body some air exits side conventional designs year such Nobler-type cockpit block canopy top 46-size air planes pretty much same like Stilleto Genisis variations Tigre 46 far popular 46 Second place Expert won Norm Whittle Stunt world privi leged have reigning German stunt champion Claus Maikis over con test everyone took warm gen tleman signed card gave him end contest also received plaque contest director l/2A Class Scale Racing next little airplanes cute buttons might want build just put TV rules simple reed valve nice because allows some learn compete same airplane just small expense George Cleveland winner engines mostly Cox Black Widows yellow Grish 5/4 props Cox Cus tom Blend racing car fuel time Rat Racing coming close Times Rats 12 flat better seems standard Rat fast three pit stops final Harold Lambert showed way 220 22025 70-lap heats 45368 140-lap finals Lets look Slow Rat Racing Franklin Tennessee Tune/H ill racing team equipment everywhere now legal 05 36 RV doubt superior engine Nashville Rats one-two-three Slow Rat Marshall Busby winning 53916 Half-A racing fine turn-out George CaIdwell first Scale 529 Robert Oge first victor Fast Comoat Paul Curtis flew Supertigre 36 ship propped 8/8 good sport pitted almost half entries along Mack Henry day Harold Lamberts Champion cap appropriate went home marbles Fast Rat race top 155 mph Remember Rat poor mans team race goes Slow Combat Very well judge Mack Henrys smile Flew Nimbler Open win jets turning faster speed models ever flew beforefirst four places 207 197 196 194 Leonard Waltemath pre pares DynajetLanglois Huff Hurlocker top team Mouse II 10041 final event Sport Scale won again semi-scale stunter aircraft German FW-l90 PAMPA Pres ident Keith Trostle event very lightly contested real shame such sporty event Hoping improve last years poor turnout event years rules scored flight maneuvers typical aircraft modeled hopes discouraging full aerobatic ships spite encouragement three entrants needs said WinstonSalem people feel Champion ship nature big annual meet requires recognize controlline events six events going same time management must field over 50 working people such manpower requirements probable schedule will rethought 1979 Either recordratio flying combined age groups may down road Speed events Al though Winston-Salem outdrawn Nats Speed eight left over trophies event five l/2A alone Less critical still concern number entries Navy Carrier Sport Scalein FAI Combat four few words praise Bill Pardue made happen ever man deserved have award Bill efforts made possible AAAA Meet Control Line dont ever forget Safe Flying No Accident Half scale profiles cute buttOns lop L TO II ueorge LIOWUII Friday Bill Friday Bottom Ito R Tom CarrJim Lindamore Jerry Kasmer______________________________________ 60 Model Aviation winner wed hate see loser Af ter third place win Slow Bobby Yandles basket-case Flite Streak held dad
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
THE United States Control Line Cham pionships held year WinstonSalem North Carolina under beautiful sunny skies temperatures 80s second time AAAA J E Albritton comes off line Scale Rac ing Flying fast 41 event entries putting great show MAs Bill Lee won John Ballard well under 3 minutes 80 laps Open Class Winston-Salem NC control line Taft free flight Over June 17-18 weekend Mecca top hands came far wide fly against very best Text photos John Gimbel rating given C/L Meet making biggest best its kind classic event started early Saturday morning FAI team racers tuning event requires good balance speed fuel consumption since fuel tank mere 7 cc Now races started team warming up checking final adjustments engines blink eye models up away pits pitmen looked like plumbing trucks wheels gauges hot gloves assure lightning fast pits went action Flip flip flip away went smoke diesel fumes cleared team Dodge Nelson knew sweet joy victory total 13 teams competed including two top Canadian teams mem bers three US teams going 56 Model Aviation Holding dear life Rat pilot Bill Martin beasties can pull close 70 pounds 150mph Times 12 flat better find speed youll find Glen Lee has flown bullets since ignition days Winston-Salem meet noted its enthusias tic speed turnout exceeded Nats Times year sensational Bulb left hand Bill Martin uses good fore hand drive Rat engine life Pitting Swamp Rat V Ben Brady JSO comoined Harold Lambert hung up 140-lap final 45368 World Championships Over US Carrier Winston Salem Navy Carrier planes tuning up event lightly contested did take skill quality competition Profile class George Cox winner Class II com bined won Ronald Haase also got second Some trick ask fly against percent Record Ratio anything possible Haase percentage 81 Class II first 78 Class second spite impressive quantity quality trophies five individuals flew event After 1977s poor showing Carrier CD Bill Pardue written over 30 Carrier fliers inviting 78 competition likely event will scheduled half day next year Meanwhile grass Slow Com bat fliers glory Nothing much new year same Flite Streaks Nimblers etc Tigres pretty much rule Speeds high 80s nothing super cunning Mack Henry showed done used K&B 35 Series 75 Nimbler Ninety per cent time plane slower did turn Consistency practice makes big difference over half 50-gallon drum full broken pitiful looking airplanes pilots looked bit worn themselves followed Fast Combat went Sunday finals since field vacant 500 pm Sun day morning Fast finished Paul Curtis winner Eric Taylor second girl third Melissa Hartman flew box-stock Fox MK III CS Voodoo beat Dick Tyndle Tooth pick fame third place equipment Nemesis Ils Moto vators Ninjas Voodoos Gotchas etc speeds 105 108 mostly excep tion Phil Cartiers TWA engine did 114 clock Mid-airs line tangles quite often thats way goes m Combat missed Howard Rush Chuck Rudner being 100 pm Precision Aerobatics started Beginner-Intermediate Class Airplanes pretty much same46size mostly nothing exceptionally new people disappointed no AMA Novice Since three air plane-breaker maneuvers AMA Novice pattern could flown marginal airplane Ring master winner Vince Schnetzer Dean Brock close second Unfortunately Beginner-Intermediate full pattern poorly supported four entrants Speed flown both days never knew flights official Although scale judged basis typical aircraTi moueleo oruer Ta aiscourage full acrobatic stunt ships entries few Keith Trostles Focke-WuIf 190 winner Author Gimbel thought pitmen FAI Team Race looked like plumbing trucks wheels hot gloves gages worked furiously Tim Gillott makes pre-race check Note oaoes assure oressure fuel refill Nelson-Dodae 8268 200-lao final MAs Carrier columnist Dick Perry right prepares well-known Short Sea Mew see plan listing Headset protects hearing Both men staring intently rpm tach ground deck George Cox Profile Carrier model best score 21210 JSO combined Flying record/ratio Class II Ronald Haase won both classes best score 31221 81% Class II 30278% Class Maikis Claus West German Stunt champion releases PAMPA president Keith Trostles nice ship Expert Precision Aerobatics Lea McDonald topped Expert practicemost flights official Italian jet champion posted 190-plus flight Glenn Lee again found everywhere Frank Garzon New York strong ever team Upton/Hempel keeping up pack Fifty-one trophies Speed alone awardedwhich lot hardware l/2As year tuned pipe variety case often Speed homebuilts showing up props mostly glass types very small high pitched like 4/7 re worked Cox Competition Graysshaped lot like soup spoon l/2A Profile Proto event year addition Senior Open very encouraging since allows father son fly engines TDs mostly Kustom Kraft needle valve assembly turning left-hand glass props cut 5/4 some single bladers Rossi king Speed homemade parts inte2rated type head design imaginable FAI enjoyable two lines fuel restric tion make tempting try asymmetrical wings back again well mixed metal wood wings idea being put less weight airplanes body designs now glass shells very much like rat racers B Speed Proto trend still pretty much inverted engines V tails Jet speed fast ever speeds up over 190 mph practice fuel mostly nitromethane proplene oxide jets did run long enough make official laps Formula 40 speed models looked like misplaced Rat Racers Speeds up 155 plus common Some wheel pants OPS 40 seemed strong did K&B 40 Winston-Salem place regarded go Speed fliers finest fliers show up competition fast furious top four places Jet 207 197 196 194 mph Several D flights exceeded 190 196 First second B 19347 19306 HaIfA Speed saw 12108 topping 12043 Now Class D fliers using mini-pipes having worry about building whole new engine flight fussing fuel prop head combinations Formula 40 saw unique show-down Joe Kall set Senior record 155 mph three weeks before WS contest Dennis Ytuarte broken mark 157 Glen Van Sant managed tie 157 mph could produce back up flight Open 40 Thomas Blankman slipped record-holding team Hempel/Upton 15909 15825 Scale racing finished out Saturdays flying entries 12 made finals Rossi king After very long hard day winner proved Bill Lee earned trophy believe 58 Model Aviation best everywhere trying beat him Lamberts Kilsdonk Gillot name few152 fastest time low mid 16s Bill Lee showed 41 race entrants go fast pit Lee Ballard both under three minutes 80-lap heats 24857 2511 Jr/Sr taken Joe Kall Sunday started Precision Aero batics Experts Advanced Class heavily contested world champion Les McDonald new airplane beautiful won event ease Expert class has seen 21 different fliers competing Win ston-Salem over past four years circumstance CD Pardue thinks due Expert fliers reluctance risk repu tations against tough competition chance poor scores given crack pot local judges Actually W-S judges have worked Nationals FAI Elims Airplane designs Stunt price some 35s up $4500 35 fliers talked building smaller aircraft going back old standby relatively cheap Fox 3T Stunt new trend ways exiting cooling air some ships have holes top body some air exits side conventional designs year such Nobler-type cockpit block canopy top 46-size air planes pretty much same like Stilleto Genisis variations Tigre 46 far popular 46 Second place Expert won Norm Whittle Stunt world privi leged have reigning German stunt champion Claus Maikis over con test everyone took warm gen tleman signed card gave him end contest also received plaque contest director l/2A Class Scale Racing next little airplanes cute buttons might want build just put TV rules simple reed valve nice because allows some learn compete same airplane just small expense George Cleveland winner engines mostly Cox Black Widows yellow Grish 5/4 props Cox Cus tom Blend racing car fuel time Rat Racing coming close Times Rats 12 flat better seems standard Rat fast three pit stops final Harold Lambert showed way 220 22025 70-lap heats 45368 140-lap finals Lets look Slow Rat Racing Franklin Tennessee Tune/H ill racing team equipment everywhere now legal 05 36 RV doubt superior engine Nashville Rats one-two-three Slow Rat Marshall Busby winning 53916 Half-A racing fine turn-out George CaIdwell first Scale 529 Robert Oge first victor Fast Comoat Paul Curtis flew Supertigre 36 ship propped 8/8 good sport pitted almost half entries along Mack Henry day Harold Lamberts Champion cap appropriate went home marbles Fast Rat race top 155 mph Remember Rat poor mans team race goes Slow Combat Very well judge Mack Henrys smile Flew Nimbler Open win jets turning faster speed models ever flew beforefirst four places 207 197 196 194 Leonard Waltemath pre pares DynajetLanglois Huff Hurlocker top team Mouse II 10041 final event Sport Scale won again semi-scale stunter aircraft German FW-l90 PAMPA Pres ident Keith Trostle event very lightly contested real shame such sporty event Hoping improve last years poor turnout event years rules scored flight maneuvers typical aircraft modeled hopes discouraging full aerobatic ships spite encouragement three entrants needs said WinstonSalem people feel Champion ship nature big annual meet requires recognize controlline events six events going same time management must field over 50 working people such manpower requirements probable schedule will rethought 1979 Either recordratio flying combined age groups may down road Speed events Al though Winston-Salem outdrawn Nats Speed eight left over trophies event five l/2A alone Less critical still concern number entries Navy Carrier Sport Scalein FAI Combat four few words praise Bill Pardue made happen ever man deserved have award Bill efforts made possible AAAA Meet Control Line dont ever forget Safe Flying No Accident Half scale profiles cute buttOns lop L TO II ueorge LIOWUII Friday Bill Friday Bottom Ito R Tom CarrJim Lindamore Jerry Kasmer______________________________________ 60 Model Aviation winner wed hate see loser Af ter third place win Slow Bobby Yandles basket-case Flite Streak held dad
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
THE United States Control Line Cham pionships held year WinstonSalem North Carolina under beautiful sunny skies temperatures 80s second time AAAA J E Albritton comes off line Scale Rac ing Flying fast 41 event entries putting great show MAs Bill Lee won John Ballard well under 3 minutes 80 laps Open Class Winston-Salem NC control line Taft free flight Over June 17-18 weekend Mecca top hands came far wide fly against very best Text photos John Gimbel rating given C/L Meet making biggest best its kind classic event started early Saturday morning FAI team racers tuning event requires good balance speed fuel consumption since fuel tank mere 7 cc Now races started team warming up checking final adjustments engines blink eye models up away pits pitmen looked like plumbing trucks wheels gauges hot gloves assure lightning fast pits went action Flip flip flip away went smoke diesel fumes cleared team Dodge Nelson knew sweet joy victory total 13 teams competed including two top Canadian teams mem bers three US teams going 56 Model Aviation Holding dear life Rat pilot Bill Martin beasties can pull close 70 pounds 150mph Times 12 flat better find speed youll find Glen Lee has flown bullets since ignition days Winston-Salem meet noted its enthusias tic speed turnout exceeded Nats Times year sensational Bulb left hand Bill Martin uses good fore hand drive Rat engine life Pitting Swamp Rat V Ben Brady JSO comoined Harold Lambert hung up 140-lap final 45368 World Championships Over US Carrier Winston Salem Navy Carrier planes tuning up event lightly contested did take skill quality competition Profile class George Cox winner Class II com bined won Ronald Haase also got second Some trick ask fly against percent Record Ratio anything possible Haase percentage 81 Class II first 78 Class second spite impressive quantity quality trophies five individuals flew event After 1977s poor showing Carrier CD Bill Pardue written over 30 Carrier fliers inviting 78 competition likely event will scheduled half day next year Meanwhile grass Slow Com bat fliers glory Nothing much new year same Flite Streaks Nimblers etc Tigres pretty much rule Speeds high 80s nothing super cunning Mack Henry showed done used K&B 35 Series 75 Nimbler Ninety per cent time plane slower did turn Consistency practice makes big difference over half 50-gallon drum full broken pitiful looking airplanes pilots looked bit worn themselves followed Fast Combat went Sunday finals since field vacant 500 pm Sun day morning Fast finished Paul Curtis winner Eric Taylor second girl third Melissa Hartman flew box-stock Fox MK III CS Voodoo beat Dick Tyndle Tooth pick fame third place equipment Nemesis Ils Moto vators Ninjas Voodoos Gotchas etc speeds 105 108 mostly excep tion Phil Cartiers TWA engine did 114 clock Mid-airs line tangles quite often thats way goes m Combat missed Howard Rush Chuck Rudner being 100 pm Precision Aerobatics started Beginner-Intermediate Class Airplanes pretty much same46size mostly nothing exceptionally new people disappointed no AMA Novice Since three air plane-breaker maneuvers AMA Novice pattern could flown marginal airplane Ring master winner Vince Schnetzer Dean Brock close second Unfortunately Beginner-Intermediate full pattern poorly supported four entrants Speed flown both days never knew flights official Although scale judged basis typical aircraTi moueleo oruer Ta aiscourage full acrobatic stunt ships entries few Keith Trostles Focke-WuIf 190 winner Author Gimbel thought pitmen FAI Team Race looked like plumbing trucks wheels hot gloves gages worked furiously Tim Gillott makes pre-race check Note oaoes assure oressure fuel refill Nelson-Dodae 8268 200-lao final MAs Carrier columnist Dick Perry right prepares well-known Short Sea Mew see plan listing Headset protects hearing Both men staring intently rpm tach ground deck George Cox Profile Carrier model best score 21210 JSO combined Flying record/ratio Class II Ronald Haase won both classes best score 31221 81% Class II 30278% Class Maikis Claus West German Stunt champion releases PAMPA president Keith Trostles nice ship Expert Precision Aerobatics Lea McDonald topped Expert practicemost flights official Italian jet champion posted 190-plus flight Glenn Lee again found everywhere Frank Garzon New York strong ever team Upton/Hempel keeping up pack Fifty-one trophies Speed alone awardedwhich lot hardware l/2As year tuned pipe variety case often Speed homebuilts showing up props mostly glass types very small high pitched like 4/7 re worked Cox Competition Graysshaped lot like soup spoon l/2A Profile Proto event year addition Senior Open very encouraging since allows father son fly engines TDs mostly Kustom Kraft needle valve assembly turning left-hand glass props cut 5/4 some single bladers Rossi king Speed homemade parts inte2rated type head design imaginable FAI enjoyable two lines fuel restric tion make tempting try asymmetrical wings back again well mixed metal wood wings idea being put less weight airplanes body designs now glass shells very much like rat racers B Speed Proto trend still pretty much inverted engines V tails Jet speed fast ever speeds up over 190 mph practice fuel mostly nitromethane proplene oxide jets did run long enough make official laps Formula 40 speed models looked like misplaced Rat Racers Speeds up 155 plus common Some wheel pants OPS 40 seemed strong did K&B 40 Winston-Salem place regarded go Speed fliers finest fliers show up competition fast furious top four places Jet 207 197 196 194 mph Several D flights exceeded 190 196 First second B 19347 19306 HaIfA Speed saw 12108 topping 12043 Now Class D fliers using mini-pipes having worry about building whole new engine flight fussing fuel prop head combinations Formula 40 saw unique show-down Joe Kall set Senior record 155 mph three weeks before WS contest Dennis Ytuarte broken mark 157 Glen Van Sant managed tie 157 mph could produce back up flight Open 40 Thomas Blankman slipped record-holding team Hempel/Upton 15909 15825 Scale racing finished out Saturdays flying entries 12 made finals Rossi king After very long hard day winner proved Bill Lee earned trophy believe 58 Model Aviation best everywhere trying beat him Lamberts Kilsdonk Gillot name few152 fastest time low mid 16s Bill Lee showed 41 race entrants go fast pit Lee Ballard both under three minutes 80-lap heats 24857 2511 Jr/Sr taken Joe Kall Sunday started Precision Aero batics Experts Advanced Class heavily contested world champion Les McDonald new airplane beautiful won event ease Expert class has seen 21 different fliers competing Win ston-Salem over past four years circumstance CD Pardue thinks due Expert fliers reluctance risk repu tations against tough competition chance poor scores given crack pot local judges Actually W-S judges have worked Nationals FAI Elims Airplane designs Stunt price some 35s up $4500 35 fliers talked building smaller aircraft going back old standby relatively cheap Fox 3T Stunt new trend ways exiting cooling air some ships have holes top body some air exits side conventional designs year such Nobler-type cockpit block canopy top 46-size air planes pretty much same like Stilleto Genisis variations Tigre 46 far popular 46 Second place Expert won Norm Whittle Stunt world privi leged have reigning German stunt champion Claus Maikis over con test everyone took warm gen tleman signed card gave him end contest also received plaque contest director l/2A Class Scale Racing next little airplanes cute buttons might want build just put TV rules simple reed valve nice because allows some learn compete same airplane just small expense George Cleveland winner engines mostly Cox Black Widows yellow Grish 5/4 props Cox Cus tom Blend racing car fuel time Rat Racing coming close Times Rats 12 flat better seems standard Rat fast three pit stops final Harold Lambert showed way 220 22025 70-lap heats 45368 140-lap finals Lets look Slow Rat Racing Franklin Tennessee Tune/H ill racing team equipment everywhere now legal 05 36 RV doubt superior engine Nashville Rats one-two-three Slow Rat Marshall Busby winning 53916 Half-A racing fine turn-out George CaIdwell first Scale 529 Robert Oge first victor Fast Comoat Paul Curtis flew Supertigre 36 ship propped 8/8 good sport pitted almost half entries along Mack Henry day Harold Lamberts Champion cap appropriate went home marbles Fast Rat race top 155 mph Remember Rat poor mans team race goes Slow Combat Very well judge Mack Henrys smile Flew Nimbler Open win jets turning faster speed models ever flew beforefirst four places 207 197 196 194 Leonard Waltemath pre pares DynajetLanglois Huff Hurlocker top team Mouse II 10041 final event Sport Scale won again semi-scale stunter aircraft German FW-l90 PAMPA Pres ident Keith Trostle event very lightly contested real shame such sporty event Hoping improve last years poor turnout event years rules scored flight maneuvers typical aircraft modeled hopes discouraging full aerobatic ships spite encouragement three entrants needs said WinstonSalem people feel Champion ship nature big annual meet requires recognize controlline events six events going same time management must field over 50 working people such manpower requirements probable schedule will rethought 1979 Either recordratio flying combined age groups may down road Speed events Al though Winston-Salem outdrawn Nats Speed eight left over trophies event five l/2A alone Less critical still concern number entries Navy Carrier Sport Scalein FAI Combat four few words praise Bill Pardue made happen ever man deserved have award Bill efforts made possible AAAA Meet Control Line dont ever forget Safe Flying No Accident Half scale profiles cute buttOns lop L TO II ueorge LIOWUII Friday Bill Friday Bottom Ito R Tom CarrJim Lindamore Jerry Kasmer______________________________________ 60 Model Aviation winner wed hate see loser Af ter third place win Slow Bobby Yandles basket-case Flite Streak held dad
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
THE United States Control Line Cham pionships held year WinstonSalem North Carolina under beautiful sunny skies temperatures 80s second time AAAA J E Albritton comes off line Scale Rac ing Flying fast 41 event entries putting great show MAs Bill Lee won John Ballard well under 3 minutes 80 laps Open Class Winston-Salem NC control line Taft free flight Over June 17-18 weekend Mecca top hands came far wide fly against very best Text photos John Gimbel rating given C/L Meet making biggest best its kind classic event started early Saturday morning FAI team racers tuning event requires good balance speed fuel consumption since fuel tank mere 7 cc Now races started team warming up checking final adjustments engines blink eye models up away pits pitmen looked like plumbing trucks wheels gauges hot gloves assure lightning fast pits went action Flip flip flip away went smoke diesel fumes cleared team Dodge Nelson knew sweet joy victory total 13 teams competed including two top Canadian teams mem bers three US teams going 56 Model Aviation Holding dear life Rat pilot Bill Martin beasties can pull close 70 pounds 150mph Times 12 flat better find speed youll find Glen Lee has flown bullets since ignition days Winston-Salem meet noted its enthusias tic speed turnout exceeded Nats Times year sensational Bulb left hand Bill Martin uses good fore hand drive Rat engine life Pitting Swamp Rat V Ben Brady JSO comoined Harold Lambert hung up 140-lap final 45368 World Championships Over US Carrier Winston Salem Navy Carrier planes tuning up event lightly contested did take skill quality competition Profile class George Cox winner Class II com bined won Ronald Haase also got second Some trick ask fly against percent Record Ratio anything possible Haase percentage 81 Class II first 78 Class second spite impressive quantity quality trophies five individuals flew event After 1977s poor showing Carrier CD Bill Pardue written over 30 Carrier fliers inviting 78 competition likely event will scheduled half day next year Meanwhile grass Slow Com bat fliers glory Nothing much new year same Flite Streaks Nimblers etc Tigres pretty much rule Speeds high 80s nothing super cunning Mack Henry showed done used K&B 35 Series 75 Nimbler Ninety per cent time plane slower did turn Consistency practice makes big difference over half 50-gallon drum full broken pitiful looking airplanes pilots looked bit worn themselves followed Fast Combat went Sunday finals since field vacant 500 pm Sun day morning Fast finished Paul Curtis winner Eric Taylor second girl third Melissa Hartman flew box-stock Fox MK III CS Voodoo beat Dick Tyndle Tooth pick fame third place equipment Nemesis Ils Moto vators Ninjas Voodoos Gotchas etc speeds 105 108 mostly excep tion Phil Cartiers TWA engine did 114 clock Mid-airs line tangles quite often thats way goes m Combat missed Howard Rush Chuck Rudner being 100 pm Precision Aerobatics started Beginner-Intermediate Class Airplanes pretty much same46size mostly nothing exceptionally new people disappointed no AMA Novice Since three air plane-breaker maneuvers AMA Novice pattern could flown marginal airplane Ring master winner Vince Schnetzer Dean Brock close second Unfortunately Beginner-Intermediate full pattern poorly supported four entrants Speed flown both days never knew flights official Although scale judged basis typical aircraTi moueleo oruer Ta aiscourage full acrobatic stunt ships entries few Keith Trostles Focke-WuIf 190 winner Author Gimbel thought pitmen FAI Team Race looked like plumbing trucks wheels hot gloves gages worked furiously Tim Gillott makes pre-race check Note oaoes assure oressure fuel refill Nelson-Dodae 8268 200-lao final MAs Carrier columnist Dick Perry right prepares well-known Short Sea Mew see plan listing Headset protects hearing Both men staring intently rpm tach ground deck George Cox Profile Carrier model best score 21210 JSO combined Flying record/ratio Class II Ronald Haase won both classes best score 31221 81% Class II 30278% Class Maikis Claus West German Stunt champion releases PAMPA president Keith Trostles nice ship Expert Precision Aerobatics Lea McDonald topped Expert practicemost flights official Italian jet champion posted 190-plus flight Glenn Lee again found everywhere Frank Garzon New York strong ever team Upton/Hempel keeping up pack Fifty-one trophies Speed alone awardedwhich lot hardware l/2As year tuned pipe variety case often Speed homebuilts showing up props mostly glass types very small high pitched like 4/7 re worked Cox Competition Graysshaped lot like soup spoon l/2A Profile Proto event year addition Senior Open very encouraging since allows father son fly engines TDs mostly Kustom Kraft needle valve assembly turning left-hand glass props cut 5/4 some single bladers Rossi king Speed homemade parts inte2rated type head design imaginable FAI enjoyable two lines fuel restric tion make tempting try asymmetrical wings back again well mixed metal wood wings idea being put less weight airplanes body designs now glass shells very much like rat racers B Speed Proto trend still pretty much inverted engines V tails Jet speed fast ever speeds up over 190 mph practice fuel mostly nitromethane proplene oxide jets did run long enough make official laps Formula 40 speed models looked like misplaced Rat Racers Speeds up 155 plus common Some wheel pants OPS 40 seemed strong did K&B 40 Winston-Salem place regarded go Speed fliers finest fliers show up competition fast furious top four places Jet 207 197 196 194 mph Several D flights exceeded 190 196 First second B 19347 19306 HaIfA Speed saw 12108 topping 12043 Now Class D fliers using mini-pipes having worry about building whole new engine flight fussing fuel prop head combinations Formula 40 saw unique show-down Joe Kall set Senior record 155 mph three weeks before WS contest Dennis Ytuarte broken mark 157 Glen Van Sant managed tie 157 mph could produce back up flight Open 40 Thomas Blankman slipped record-holding team Hempel/Upton 15909 15825 Scale racing finished out Saturdays flying entries 12 made finals Rossi king After very long hard day winner proved Bill Lee earned trophy believe 58 Model Aviation best everywhere trying beat him Lamberts Kilsdonk Gillot name few152 fastest time low mid 16s Bill Lee showed 41 race entrants go fast pit Lee Ballard both under three minutes 80-lap heats 24857 2511 Jr/Sr taken Joe Kall Sunday started Precision Aero batics Experts Advanced Class heavily contested world champion Les McDonald new airplane beautiful won event ease Expert class has seen 21 different fliers competing Win ston-Salem over past four years circumstance CD Pardue thinks due Expert fliers reluctance risk repu tations against tough competition chance poor scores given crack pot local judges Actually W-S judges have worked Nationals FAI Elims Airplane designs Stunt price some 35s up $4500 35 fliers talked building smaller aircraft going back old standby relatively cheap Fox 3T Stunt new trend ways exiting cooling air some ships have holes top body some air exits side conventional designs year such Nobler-type cockpit block canopy top 46-size air planes pretty much same like Stilleto Genisis variations Tigre 46 far popular 46 Second place Expert won Norm Whittle Stunt world privi leged have reigning German stunt champion Claus Maikis over con test everyone took warm gen tleman signed card gave him end contest also received plaque contest director l/2A Class Scale Racing next little airplanes cute buttons might want build just put TV rules simple reed valve nice because allows some learn compete same airplane just small expense George Cleveland winner engines mostly Cox Black Widows yellow Grish 5/4 props Cox Cus tom Blend racing car fuel time Rat Racing coming close Times Rats 12 flat better seems standard Rat fast three pit stops final Harold Lambert showed way 220 22025 70-lap heats 45368 140-lap finals Lets look Slow Rat Racing Franklin Tennessee Tune/H ill racing team equipment everywhere now legal 05 36 RV doubt superior engine Nashville Rats one-two-three Slow Rat Marshall Busby winning 53916 Half-A racing fine turn-out George CaIdwell first Scale 529 Robert Oge first victor Fast Comoat Paul Curtis flew Supertigre 36 ship propped 8/8 good sport pitted almost half entries along Mack Henry day Harold Lamberts Champion cap appropriate went home marbles Fast Rat race top 155 mph Remember Rat poor mans team race goes Slow Combat Very well judge Mack Henrys smile Flew Nimbler Open win jets turning faster speed models ever flew beforefirst four places 207 197 196 194 Leonard Waltemath pre pares DynajetLanglois Huff Hurlocker top team Mouse II 10041 final event Sport Scale won again semi-scale stunter aircraft German FW-l90 PAMPA Pres ident Keith Trostle event very lightly contested real shame such sporty event Hoping improve last years poor turnout event years rules scored flight maneuvers typical aircraft modeled hopes discouraging full aerobatic ships spite encouragement three entrants needs said WinstonSalem people feel Champion ship nature big annual meet requires recognize controlline events six events going same time management must field over 50 working people such manpower requirements probable schedule will rethought 1979 Either recordratio flying combined age groups may down road Speed events Al though Winston-Salem outdrawn Nats Speed eight left over trophies event five l/2A alone Less critical still concern number entries Navy Carrier Sport Scalein FAI Combat four few words praise Bill Pardue made happen ever man deserved have award Bill efforts made possible AAAA Meet Control Line dont ever forget Safe Flying No Accident Half scale profiles cute buttOns lop L TO II ueorge LIOWUII Friday Bill Friday Bottom Ito R Tom CarrJim Lindamore Jerry Kasmer______________________________________ 60 Model Aviation winner wed hate see loser Af ter third place win Slow Bobby Yandles basket-case Flite Streak held dad