INtheAIRLATE-BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ACADEMY
July 2006 9
“Come Fly with
Us” Sweepstakes
Grand Prize Winner
Announced!
2006 Flying Site Grant Winners
Meet Author H.L. Schreiner During the Nats
AMA launched the 80th National
Aeromodeling Championships (Nats)—the
world’s largest model-aviation event—May
31, 2006, in Johnson City, Tennessee, with
Indoor FF activity. Outdoor action at the
International Aeromodeling Center in
Muncie, Indiana, begins July 4.
More than 1,000 participants are
expected to fill the skies with virtually
every form of flying model imaginable. For
a schedule and more information about this
thrilling contest that covers six weeks and
comprises more than 165 separate events,
go to www.modelaircraft.org/events/.
If you would like to follow the Nats as it
unfolds, sign up now for AMA’s daily
electronic newsletter—NatsNews—which
is available free to all members. To
NatsNews is Back for 2006!
subscribe, go to www.modelair
craft.org/subscribe.aspx and complete the
online form. You will receive a daily Email
with a link to the newsletter. Or you
can bookmark www.natsnews.org; the
newsletter began May 31.
NatsNews covers day-to-day events in a
bold style that will bring the event to life on
your computer screen. Expect scores,
photos, and blow-by-blow descriptions of
the action, in addition to a behind-thescenes
look at the participants and the
technology they bring with them to win one
of the oldest and most prestigious modelairplane
contests today.
If you can’t be there but wish you could
be, check out NatsNews online! MA
—Publications Department
Franklin D. Warner of Newport,
Washington, is the Grand Prize winner of
AMA’s “Come Fly with Us”
Sweepstakes. He will receive a Hangar 9
46% TOC Ultimate biplane, a JR 10X
radio, and a Desert Aircraft DA-150
engine, just for renewing his AMA
membership by March 31.
Franklin began modeling at roughly 5
years of age and has been an AMA
member for more than 35 years. He has
belonged to several clubs during that
time.
Congratulations to Franklin and all the
monthly winners of this sweepstakes
period! The Academy would like to thank
Horizon Hobby and Desert Aircraft for
their support of this contest. MA
—Tom Schwyn
Marketing Director
This year alone AMA gave more than $32,000 to clubs that participated in the Flying Site Development Improvement
Program. Visit www.modelaircraft.org/06fsgrecipient.htm to see the list of this year’s winners.
Applying is easy! The application and instructions are located at www.modelaircraft.org/pdf-files/712.pdf, or you can
call (765) 287-1256, extension 270 or 272, to receive a copy. Although grants have already been awarded for 2006, you
can apply for 2007.
Congratulations to all the clubs that received grant money. To those that did not, we extend our best wishes for a
successful 2006 flying season and hope you apply again next year. MA
—AMA Headquarters
The National Model Aviation Museum (NMAM) will host AMA member and
World War II naval pilot H.L. (Herm) Schreiner, who authored the book Aviation’s
Great Recruiter: Cleveland’s Ed Packard.
Schreiner will be at the NMAM building (5151 E. Memorial Dr., Muncie,
Indiana) Tuesday July 11, 2006, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again that evening from
5 p.m. until closing at 7 p.m. He will autograph and discuss his latest book, which
is on sale at the museum store.
Aviation’s Great Recruiter is a tribute to Ed Packard, who is known as the
“Father of Scale Flying Modeling.” His authentic Cleveland Models influenced
thousands of youth to seek a career in military or civil aviation before and during
World War II.
Packard’s legendary career intertwines with those of such intrepid aviation
greats as the “Lone Eagle” Charles Lindbergh, America’s World War I “Ace of
Aces” Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, and record-shattering racing pilot Jimmy
Doolittle.
Schreiner will bring photos from his book, a full-color spread of “flying pulp”
magazine covers from the 1930s, full-color covers of the model-airplane
publications showing how many began as “pulps,” and such magazines as Bill
Barnes Air Trails, Flying Aces, Popular Aviation, and MA. Other aviation
memorabilia will include an accurate Scale model of a 1932 Wedell-Williams
Racer. MA
—AMA Headquarters
INtheAIR
10 MODEL AVIATION
When I think of all the help I received
along the way from the time I began modelairplane
and full-scale flying, I reflect on the
learning experience and determine what
exactly made me so interested in aviation.
It was the people who helped me learn to
build and fly and the ones who taught me to
never give up when the going got tough. Those
same kinds of people are still around today in
our fast-paced society, and one who stands out
is Jim Mahoney.
Jim is a member of the AMA, the
International Miniature Aircraft Association,
the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA),
and the Antique Aircraft Association. He has
constructed two home-built and two classic
airplanes, along with scores of models. His
modeling interest started after World War II.
He has special interests in autogiros.
Jim was chairman of the kids’ activities
tent at the 2006 Sun ’n Fun Fly-In, held April
4-10 in Lakeland, Florida. It is the world’s
second-largest full-scale fly-in. But this wasn’t
the first time I had found Jim helping kids
learn about aviation and model building.
A couple years ago, after I had joined the
Prop Busters RC Club in Lakeland, Jim came
into my hobby shop and asked if he could
leave a brochure about something called “Air
Camp” that Sun ’n Fun held during the
summer months to help kids learn to fly RC. I
Programs That Get Kids Flying
A link trainer constructed by Sun ’n Fun
volunteers lures kids weighing as much as
100 pounds in the kids’ activity tent. It
can move in all directions with the
controls.
The first picture with the kids flying (L-R):
Jim Strawn (hands on shoulder) tells
Justin Cooper to pay attention. The kid
with the transmitter is being instructed
by Shelly Smith. In the background are
Ed Francis, Don Shaw, and Charlie
Patterson.
Typical turnout for Air Camp (L-R): Jim Mahoney, Al Quick, Shelly Smith in front of Charlie
Patterson, Ken Coker, unknown kid’s father, Lloyd Fogelcrost, Jim Strawn, John Freel with
his grandson in front, and an unknown father and grandfather with their kid in front.
am raising a 9-year-old grandson, and it
sounded like a good way to teach him to fly.
To participate in Air Camp, parents bring
their kids to the flying site on the Sun ’n Fun
Campus and leave them, along with a lunch
and $5 to cover their AMA dues for the day, in
the care of Jim and crew. The young aviators
then receive training on RC flight simulators
and finally take the controls of an RC model
with a volunteer from the local model clubs on
the buddy box.
Last year roughly 80 kids went through
training at Air Camp, and they came from
across Florida. My grandson Justin soloed after
two years of Air Camp and is now an avid
flier.
Another event Jim heads up is Wings ’n
Things, which takes place on the Sun ’n Fun
campus during the summer. It features
autogiros and electric-powered models and
attracts approximately 1,500 Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts who are there earning Aviation
Merit Badges.
Jim and other RC club members
demonstrate different types of flying machines.
The volunteers show up with every type of
model imaginable, such as flying lawn mowers
and flapping-wing electric birds to show the
kids what it is possible to fly.
The kids’ activity tent at the 2006 Sun ’n
Fun attracted hundreds of kids. It was staffed
with aviation-oriented volunteers, many of
whom were from the RC clubs in the area.
Some were full-scale pilots or ex-pilots who
just want to teach kids about flying.
Also in the tent is a link trainer-type setup
that kids weighing as much as 100 pounds can
get inside of and fly and several radio-control
simulators. The kids are also taught how to
make a wing rib, a balsa glider, and a paper
airplane.
While I was working in the tent with the
RC simulators, adults asked me numerous
questions about the RC hobby and the
simulators. Many of these people were parents
who wanted to participate along with their
kids.
Most of the volunteers this year were older
guys like Jim and me. There were few younger
workers. Who will continue the work after we
are gone? I am 68 and have been building and
flying models since I was 12.
When I started there were no ARFs or RC
simulators; everything was done the hard way.
Today it is easier for kids, thanks to programs
such as those I have mentioned, volunteers to
teach them, and people such as Jim to head up
the activities. Younger adults also need to get
involved.
I have seen it asked in MA and other model
magazines where the kids are. The kids are out
there; it just takes someone to lead them in the
right direction. If you are a model builder/flier,
why not pay back some of what you owe and
volunteer in your area helping kids learn about
the great hobby we all enjoy?
Why not start a club project with a few
training airplanes geared toward new fliers?
And why not start some classes on building
model airplanes for the time when you crash?
There are older and younger model-airplane
enthusiasts who know nothing about building
or repairing an airplane but would like to. One
can find classes on constructing full-scale
airplanes, but there are very few for building
and flying models.
All the information about Wings ’n Things
and the Air Camps is posted on the Sun ’n Fun
Web site (www.sun-n-fun.org), but not until a
few months before they are scheduled. Wings
’n Things will not be held again until early
November.
There is also a summer program called
“Destination Aviation” that teaches kids
about full-scale flying. The new Tom Davis
Education Center was opened last year for
the purpose of teaching kids.
Perhaps another Air Camp will be held
during the early part of 2007. In the
meantime, you can read about the 2006
event and perhaps get some ideas about
how to get a program going in your area.
You can contact me at Box 818, Eaton Park
FL 33840; Tel.: (863) 665-8297; E-mail:
[email protected]. MA
—Bob Bass
District V
INtheAIR
July 2006 11
• Construction articles are for D.B.
Mathews’ almost-scale RC Rearwin Junior
for .30-.40 engines and Gil Morris’s big
brother to the 1980 National Free Flight
Society Model of the Year, 1/2A
Toothpicks—A-B-C Toothpicks—for .19-
.36 engines.
• Part 2 of Bob Beckman and Kirby
Crawford’s “Big Bangers for Big Birds”
and Part 2 of Tom Burdin’s tutorial on
learning to fly RC helicopters.
• E.J. Hartmangruber reports on the Delta
Dart II AMAzer designed by Frank Ehling.
This little model starts life as a whip model
and is then transformed into a CL trainer
by adding an .049 engine. The AMAzer is
part of a program to teach young beginners
the joy of model aviation.
• Bob Petro explains how to convert a
Kraft electric-powered Chipmunk model to
gas power. He shows the steps involved in
removing the motor and installing a Cox
Tee Dee .049 engine.
• New products include B and B
Specialties’ modified Kawasaki TA-51 gas
engine for $30 and Vortac Manufacturing’s
Manual Choke that fits Walbro carburetors
on Giant Scale engines. Robart introduces
Twenty-Five Years Ago in MA:
July 1981
Modeling Icon Receives AMA Fellowship Award
New Giant Scale
Racing Safety Rules
At its April 29, 2006, meeting the AMA
Executive Council (EC) approved changes to
the “Required Safety Standards for Giant
Scale Racing.” The Unlimited Scale Racing
Association proposed the changes, which
were recommended to the EC by AMA’s
Safety Committee.
You may access the updated safety
standards at www.modelaircraft.org/PDFfiles/
515-A.pdf. MA
—Carl Maroney
Special Service Director
Links on theWeb!
For more news, events,
and information, go to
www.modelaircraft.org.
its Super Hinge Point Pockets and Super
Hinge Points at 15 for $3.98. Midwest
Products offers spruce lumber in 72-inch
lengths, and RAM Radio Controlled
Models is selling a new Strobe Light for
$19.95.
New airplanes include a .40-powered J-
3 Cub from Top Flite, an improved Coyote
glider from Bob Martin’s RC Models, and
plans for an 84-inch-span Curtiss P-6E
Hawk from Wendell Hostetler’s Super
Scale Plans. MA
—Rich LaGrange
AMA Librarian
Model-aviation legend and AMA
Life Member Leon Shulman was
recently presented with the Academy’s
highest honor: the AMA Fellowship
Award.
Leon’s distinguished modeling career
began in the early 1920s. Since then he
has designed several well-known FF
models including the Zomby, the
Banshee, the Wedgy, and the
Skyscraper. In the mid-1940s he
developed and manufactured the famous
.29 cu. in.-displacement Drone Diesel,
which was one of the more popular
model-aircraft engines during that
period.
Leon’s hobby drove him to a
successful career in the hobby industry,
leading to a position as vice president of
Monogram Models in Chicago. Illinois.
Later in his career, beginning in the
1950s, Leon became a manufacturer’s
sales representative for many of the
more prominent modeling companies of
that period including Top Flite, Du-Bro,
Welcome, AMA
Life Members!
The Academy recently welcomed new
Life Members James Kennicker (Saint
Petersburg FL), John Root (Sylvania OH),
Robert Cunningham (Gibraltar MI), and
Kenneth Petersen (Fort Collins CO).
For information about becoming a Life
Member, contact AMA Headquarters at
(800) 435-9262. MA
—Membership Department
Fox Engines, Midwest Products, Bonner
Electronics, and E.K. Logitrol Radios.
Leon has been recognized several
times during his life for the contributions
he has made to model aviation. He has
received the Howard McEntee Award and
the AMA Distinguished Service Award.
He is a member of the Vintage Radio
Control Society Hall of Fame, the National
Free Flight Hall of Fame, the Society of
Antique Modelers Hall of Fame, and the
Model Aviation Hall of Fame.
Today Leon continues to design and
fly models and has recently had several
articles published in various modeling
magazines. He also spends much of his
time watching his son Don and grandsons
Jason and David follow in his footsteps as
outstanding modelers.
On behalf of all AMA members, the
Academy thanks Leon Shulman for more
than 80 years of involvement in the
hobby/sport of model aviation. MA
—Dave Mathewson
District II Vice President
Fellowship Award recipient Leon
Shulman (L) and District II Vice
President Dave Mathewson.
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Page Numbers: 9,10,11
INtheAIRLATE-BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ACADEMY
July 2006 9
“Come Fly with
Us” Sweepstakes
Grand Prize Winner
Announced!
2006 Flying Site Grant Winners
Meet Author H.L. Schreiner During the Nats
AMA launched the 80th National
Aeromodeling Championships (Nats)—the
world’s largest model-aviation event—May
31, 2006, in Johnson City, Tennessee, with
Indoor FF activity. Outdoor action at the
International Aeromodeling Center in
Muncie, Indiana, begins July 4.
More than 1,000 participants are
expected to fill the skies with virtually
every form of flying model imaginable. For
a schedule and more information about this
thrilling contest that covers six weeks and
comprises more than 165 separate events,
go to www.modelaircraft.org/events/.
If you would like to follow the Nats as it
unfolds, sign up now for AMA’s daily
electronic newsletter—NatsNews—which
is available free to all members. To
NatsNews is Back for 2006!
subscribe, go to www.modelair
craft.org/subscribe.aspx and complete the
online form. You will receive a daily Email
with a link to the newsletter. Or you
can bookmark www.natsnews.org; the
newsletter began May 31.
NatsNews covers day-to-day events in a
bold style that will bring the event to life on
your computer screen. Expect scores,
photos, and blow-by-blow descriptions of
the action, in addition to a behind-thescenes
look at the participants and the
technology they bring with them to win one
of the oldest and most prestigious modelairplane
contests today.
If you can’t be there but wish you could
be, check out NatsNews online! MA
—Publications Department
Franklin D. Warner of Newport,
Washington, is the Grand Prize winner of
AMA’s “Come Fly with Us”
Sweepstakes. He will receive a Hangar 9
46% TOC Ultimate biplane, a JR 10X
radio, and a Desert Aircraft DA-150
engine, just for renewing his AMA
membership by March 31.
Franklin began modeling at roughly 5
years of age and has been an AMA
member for more than 35 years. He has
belonged to several clubs during that
time.
Congratulations to Franklin and all the
monthly winners of this sweepstakes
period! The Academy would like to thank
Horizon Hobby and Desert Aircraft for
their support of this contest. MA
—Tom Schwyn
Marketing Director
This year alone AMA gave more than $32,000 to clubs that participated in the Flying Site Development Improvement
Program. Visit www.modelaircraft.org/06fsgrecipient.htm to see the list of this year’s winners.
Applying is easy! The application and instructions are located at www.modelaircraft.org/pdf-files/712.pdf, or you can
call (765) 287-1256, extension 270 or 272, to receive a copy. Although grants have already been awarded for 2006, you
can apply for 2007.
Congratulations to all the clubs that received grant money. To those that did not, we extend our best wishes for a
successful 2006 flying season and hope you apply again next year. MA
—AMA Headquarters
The National Model Aviation Museum (NMAM) will host AMA member and
World War II naval pilot H.L. (Herm) Schreiner, who authored the book Aviation’s
Great Recruiter: Cleveland’s Ed Packard.
Schreiner will be at the NMAM building (5151 E. Memorial Dr., Muncie,
Indiana) Tuesday July 11, 2006, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again that evening from
5 p.m. until closing at 7 p.m. He will autograph and discuss his latest book, which
is on sale at the museum store.
Aviation’s Great Recruiter is a tribute to Ed Packard, who is known as the
“Father of Scale Flying Modeling.” His authentic Cleveland Models influenced
thousands of youth to seek a career in military or civil aviation before and during
World War II.
Packard’s legendary career intertwines with those of such intrepid aviation
greats as the “Lone Eagle” Charles Lindbergh, America’s World War I “Ace of
Aces” Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, and record-shattering racing pilot Jimmy
Doolittle.
Schreiner will bring photos from his book, a full-color spread of “flying pulp”
magazine covers from the 1930s, full-color covers of the model-airplane
publications showing how many began as “pulps,” and such magazines as Bill
Barnes Air Trails, Flying Aces, Popular Aviation, and MA. Other aviation
memorabilia will include an accurate Scale model of a 1932 Wedell-Williams
Racer. MA
—AMA Headquarters
INtheAIR
10 MODEL AVIATION
When I think of all the help I received
along the way from the time I began modelairplane
and full-scale flying, I reflect on the
learning experience and determine what
exactly made me so interested in aviation.
It was the people who helped me learn to
build and fly and the ones who taught me to
never give up when the going got tough. Those
same kinds of people are still around today in
our fast-paced society, and one who stands out
is Jim Mahoney.
Jim is a member of the AMA, the
International Miniature Aircraft Association,
the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA),
and the Antique Aircraft Association. He has
constructed two home-built and two classic
airplanes, along with scores of models. His
modeling interest started after World War II.
He has special interests in autogiros.
Jim was chairman of the kids’ activities
tent at the 2006 Sun ’n Fun Fly-In, held April
4-10 in Lakeland, Florida. It is the world’s
second-largest full-scale fly-in. But this wasn’t
the first time I had found Jim helping kids
learn about aviation and model building.
A couple years ago, after I had joined the
Prop Busters RC Club in Lakeland, Jim came
into my hobby shop and asked if he could
leave a brochure about something called “Air
Camp” that Sun ’n Fun held during the
summer months to help kids learn to fly RC. I
Programs That Get Kids Flying
A link trainer constructed by Sun ’n Fun
volunteers lures kids weighing as much as
100 pounds in the kids’ activity tent. It
can move in all directions with the
controls.
The first picture with the kids flying (L-R):
Jim Strawn (hands on shoulder) tells
Justin Cooper to pay attention. The kid
with the transmitter is being instructed
by Shelly Smith. In the background are
Ed Francis, Don Shaw, and Charlie
Patterson.
Typical turnout for Air Camp (L-R): Jim Mahoney, Al Quick, Shelly Smith in front of Charlie
Patterson, Ken Coker, unknown kid’s father, Lloyd Fogelcrost, Jim Strawn, John Freel with
his grandson in front, and an unknown father and grandfather with their kid in front.
am raising a 9-year-old grandson, and it
sounded like a good way to teach him to fly.
To participate in Air Camp, parents bring
their kids to the flying site on the Sun ’n Fun
Campus and leave them, along with a lunch
and $5 to cover their AMA dues for the day, in
the care of Jim and crew. The young aviators
then receive training on RC flight simulators
and finally take the controls of an RC model
with a volunteer from the local model clubs on
the buddy box.
Last year roughly 80 kids went through
training at Air Camp, and they came from
across Florida. My grandson Justin soloed after
two years of Air Camp and is now an avid
flier.
Another event Jim heads up is Wings ’n
Things, which takes place on the Sun ’n Fun
campus during the summer. It features
autogiros and electric-powered models and
attracts approximately 1,500 Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts who are there earning Aviation
Merit Badges.
Jim and other RC club members
demonstrate different types of flying machines.
The volunteers show up with every type of
model imaginable, such as flying lawn mowers
and flapping-wing electric birds to show the
kids what it is possible to fly.
The kids’ activity tent at the 2006 Sun ’n
Fun attracted hundreds of kids. It was staffed
with aviation-oriented volunteers, many of
whom were from the RC clubs in the area.
Some were full-scale pilots or ex-pilots who
just want to teach kids about flying.
Also in the tent is a link trainer-type setup
that kids weighing as much as 100 pounds can
get inside of and fly and several radio-control
simulators. The kids are also taught how to
make a wing rib, a balsa glider, and a paper
airplane.
While I was working in the tent with the
RC simulators, adults asked me numerous
questions about the RC hobby and the
simulators. Many of these people were parents
who wanted to participate along with their
kids.
Most of the volunteers this year were older
guys like Jim and me. There were few younger
workers. Who will continue the work after we
are gone? I am 68 and have been building and
flying models since I was 12.
When I started there were no ARFs or RC
simulators; everything was done the hard way.
Today it is easier for kids, thanks to programs
such as those I have mentioned, volunteers to
teach them, and people such as Jim to head up
the activities. Younger adults also need to get
involved.
I have seen it asked in MA and other model
magazines where the kids are. The kids are out
there; it just takes someone to lead them in the
right direction. If you are a model builder/flier,
why not pay back some of what you owe and
volunteer in your area helping kids learn about
the great hobby we all enjoy?
Why not start a club project with a few
training airplanes geared toward new fliers?
And why not start some classes on building
model airplanes for the time when you crash?
There are older and younger model-airplane
enthusiasts who know nothing about building
or repairing an airplane but would like to. One
can find classes on constructing full-scale
airplanes, but there are very few for building
and flying models.
All the information about Wings ’n Things
and the Air Camps is posted on the Sun ’n Fun
Web site (www.sun-n-fun.org), but not until a
few months before they are scheduled. Wings
’n Things will not be held again until early
November.
There is also a summer program called
“Destination Aviation” that teaches kids
about full-scale flying. The new Tom Davis
Education Center was opened last year for
the purpose of teaching kids.
Perhaps another Air Camp will be held
during the early part of 2007. In the
meantime, you can read about the 2006
event and perhaps get some ideas about
how to get a program going in your area.
You can contact me at Box 818, Eaton Park
FL 33840; Tel.: (863) 665-8297; E-mail:
[email protected]. MA
—Bob Bass
District V
INtheAIR
July 2006 11
• Construction articles are for D.B.
Mathews’ almost-scale RC Rearwin Junior
for .30-.40 engines and Gil Morris’s big
brother to the 1980 National Free Flight
Society Model of the Year, 1/2A
Toothpicks—A-B-C Toothpicks—for .19-
.36 engines.
• Part 2 of Bob Beckman and Kirby
Crawford’s “Big Bangers for Big Birds”
and Part 2 of Tom Burdin’s tutorial on
learning to fly RC helicopters.
• E.J. Hartmangruber reports on the Delta
Dart II AMAzer designed by Frank Ehling.
This little model starts life as a whip model
and is then transformed into a CL trainer
by adding an .049 engine. The AMAzer is
part of a program to teach young beginners
the joy of model aviation.
• Bob Petro explains how to convert a
Kraft electric-powered Chipmunk model to
gas power. He shows the steps involved in
removing the motor and installing a Cox
Tee Dee .049 engine.
• New products include B and B
Specialties’ modified Kawasaki TA-51 gas
engine for $30 and Vortac Manufacturing’s
Manual Choke that fits Walbro carburetors
on Giant Scale engines. Robart introduces
Twenty-Five Years Ago in MA:
July 1981
Modeling Icon Receives AMA Fellowship Award
New Giant Scale
Racing Safety Rules
At its April 29, 2006, meeting the AMA
Executive Council (EC) approved changes to
the “Required Safety Standards for Giant
Scale Racing.” The Unlimited Scale Racing
Association proposed the changes, which
were recommended to the EC by AMA’s
Safety Committee.
You may access the updated safety
standards at www.modelaircraft.org/PDFfiles/
515-A.pdf. MA
—Carl Maroney
Special Service Director
Links on theWeb!
For more news, events,
and information, go to
www.modelaircraft.org.
its Super Hinge Point Pockets and Super
Hinge Points at 15 for $3.98. Midwest
Products offers spruce lumber in 72-inch
lengths, and RAM Radio Controlled
Models is selling a new Strobe Light for
$19.95.
New airplanes include a .40-powered J-
3 Cub from Top Flite, an improved Coyote
glider from Bob Martin’s RC Models, and
plans for an 84-inch-span Curtiss P-6E
Hawk from Wendell Hostetler’s Super
Scale Plans. MA
—Rich LaGrange
AMA Librarian
Model-aviation legend and AMA
Life Member Leon Shulman was
recently presented with the Academy’s
highest honor: the AMA Fellowship
Award.
Leon’s distinguished modeling career
began in the early 1920s. Since then he
has designed several well-known FF
models including the Zomby, the
Banshee, the Wedgy, and the
Skyscraper. In the mid-1940s he
developed and manufactured the famous
.29 cu. in.-displacement Drone Diesel,
which was one of the more popular
model-aircraft engines during that
period.
Leon’s hobby drove him to a
successful career in the hobby industry,
leading to a position as vice president of
Monogram Models in Chicago. Illinois.
Later in his career, beginning in the
1950s, Leon became a manufacturer’s
sales representative for many of the
more prominent modeling companies of
that period including Top Flite, Du-Bro,
Welcome, AMA
Life Members!
The Academy recently welcomed new
Life Members James Kennicker (Saint
Petersburg FL), John Root (Sylvania OH),
Robert Cunningham (Gibraltar MI), and
Kenneth Petersen (Fort Collins CO).
For information about becoming a Life
Member, contact AMA Headquarters at
(800) 435-9262. MA
—Membership Department
Fox Engines, Midwest Products, Bonner
Electronics, and E.K. Logitrol Radios.
Leon has been recognized several
times during his life for the contributions
he has made to model aviation. He has
received the Howard McEntee Award and
the AMA Distinguished Service Award.
He is a member of the Vintage Radio
Control Society Hall of Fame, the National
Free Flight Hall of Fame, the Society of
Antique Modelers Hall of Fame, and the
Model Aviation Hall of Fame.
Today Leon continues to design and
fly models and has recently had several
articles published in various modeling
magazines. He also spends much of his
time watching his son Don and grandsons
Jason and David follow in his footsteps as
outstanding modelers.
On behalf of all AMA members, the
Academy thanks Leon Shulman for more
than 80 years of involvement in the
hobby/sport of model aviation. MA
—Dave Mathewson
District II Vice President
Fellowship Award recipient Leon
Shulman (L) and District II Vice
President Dave Mathewson.
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INtheAIRLATE-BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ACADEMY
July 2006 9
“Come Fly with
Us” Sweepstakes
Grand Prize Winner
Announced!
2006 Flying Site Grant Winners
Meet Author H.L. Schreiner During the Nats
AMA launched the 80th National
Aeromodeling Championships (Nats)—the
world’s largest model-aviation event—May
31, 2006, in Johnson City, Tennessee, with
Indoor FF activity. Outdoor action at the
International Aeromodeling Center in
Muncie, Indiana, begins July 4.
More than 1,000 participants are
expected to fill the skies with virtually
every form of flying model imaginable. For
a schedule and more information about this
thrilling contest that covers six weeks and
comprises more than 165 separate events,
go to www.modelaircraft.org/events/.
If you would like to follow the Nats as it
unfolds, sign up now for AMA’s daily
electronic newsletter—NatsNews—which
is available free to all members. To
NatsNews is Back for 2006!
subscribe, go to www.modelair
craft.org/subscribe.aspx and complete the
online form. You will receive a daily Email
with a link to the newsletter. Or you
can bookmark www.natsnews.org; the
newsletter began May 31.
NatsNews covers day-to-day events in a
bold style that will bring the event to life on
your computer screen. Expect scores,
photos, and blow-by-blow descriptions of
the action, in addition to a behind-thescenes
look at the participants and the
technology they bring with them to win one
of the oldest and most prestigious modelairplane
contests today.
If you can’t be there but wish you could
be, check out NatsNews online! MA
—Publications Department
Franklin D. Warner of Newport,
Washington, is the Grand Prize winner of
AMA’s “Come Fly with Us”
Sweepstakes. He will receive a Hangar 9
46% TOC Ultimate biplane, a JR 10X
radio, and a Desert Aircraft DA-150
engine, just for renewing his AMA
membership by March 31.
Franklin began modeling at roughly 5
years of age and has been an AMA
member for more than 35 years. He has
belonged to several clubs during that
time.
Congratulations to Franklin and all the
monthly winners of this sweepstakes
period! The Academy would like to thank
Horizon Hobby and Desert Aircraft for
their support of this contest. MA
—Tom Schwyn
Marketing Director
This year alone AMA gave more than $32,000 to clubs that participated in the Flying Site Development Improvement
Program. Visit www.modelaircraft.org/06fsgrecipient.htm to see the list of this year’s winners.
Applying is easy! The application and instructions are located at www.modelaircraft.org/pdf-files/712.pdf, or you can
call (765) 287-1256, extension 270 or 272, to receive a copy. Although grants have already been awarded for 2006, you
can apply for 2007.
Congratulations to all the clubs that received grant money. To those that did not, we extend our best wishes for a
successful 2006 flying season and hope you apply again next year. MA
—AMA Headquarters
The National Model Aviation Museum (NMAM) will host AMA member and
World War II naval pilot H.L. (Herm) Schreiner, who authored the book Aviation’s
Great Recruiter: Cleveland’s Ed Packard.
Schreiner will be at the NMAM building (5151 E. Memorial Dr., Muncie,
Indiana) Tuesday July 11, 2006, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again that evening from
5 p.m. until closing at 7 p.m. He will autograph and discuss his latest book, which
is on sale at the museum store.
Aviation’s Great Recruiter is a tribute to Ed Packard, who is known as the
“Father of Scale Flying Modeling.” His authentic Cleveland Models influenced
thousands of youth to seek a career in military or civil aviation before and during
World War II.
Packard’s legendary career intertwines with those of such intrepid aviation
greats as the “Lone Eagle” Charles Lindbergh, America’s World War I “Ace of
Aces” Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, and record-shattering racing pilot Jimmy
Doolittle.
Schreiner will bring photos from his book, a full-color spread of “flying pulp”
magazine covers from the 1930s, full-color covers of the model-airplane
publications showing how many began as “pulps,” and such magazines as Bill
Barnes Air Trails, Flying Aces, Popular Aviation, and MA. Other aviation
memorabilia will include an accurate Scale model of a 1932 Wedell-Williams
Racer. MA
—AMA Headquarters
INtheAIR
10 MODEL AVIATION
When I think of all the help I received
along the way from the time I began modelairplane
and full-scale flying, I reflect on the
learning experience and determine what
exactly made me so interested in aviation.
It was the people who helped me learn to
build and fly and the ones who taught me to
never give up when the going got tough. Those
same kinds of people are still around today in
our fast-paced society, and one who stands out
is Jim Mahoney.
Jim is a member of the AMA, the
International Miniature Aircraft Association,
the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA),
and the Antique Aircraft Association. He has
constructed two home-built and two classic
airplanes, along with scores of models. His
modeling interest started after World War II.
He has special interests in autogiros.
Jim was chairman of the kids’ activities
tent at the 2006 Sun ’n Fun Fly-In, held April
4-10 in Lakeland, Florida. It is the world’s
second-largest full-scale fly-in. But this wasn’t
the first time I had found Jim helping kids
learn about aviation and model building.
A couple years ago, after I had joined the
Prop Busters RC Club in Lakeland, Jim came
into my hobby shop and asked if he could
leave a brochure about something called “Air
Camp” that Sun ’n Fun held during the
summer months to help kids learn to fly RC. I
Programs That Get Kids Flying
A link trainer constructed by Sun ’n Fun
volunteers lures kids weighing as much as
100 pounds in the kids’ activity tent. It
can move in all directions with the
controls.
The first picture with the kids flying (L-R):
Jim Strawn (hands on shoulder) tells
Justin Cooper to pay attention. The kid
with the transmitter is being instructed
by Shelly Smith. In the background are
Ed Francis, Don Shaw, and Charlie
Patterson.
Typical turnout for Air Camp (L-R): Jim Mahoney, Al Quick, Shelly Smith in front of Charlie
Patterson, Ken Coker, unknown kid’s father, Lloyd Fogelcrost, Jim Strawn, John Freel with
his grandson in front, and an unknown father and grandfather with their kid in front.
am raising a 9-year-old grandson, and it
sounded like a good way to teach him to fly.
To participate in Air Camp, parents bring
their kids to the flying site on the Sun ’n Fun
Campus and leave them, along with a lunch
and $5 to cover their AMA dues for the day, in
the care of Jim and crew. The young aviators
then receive training on RC flight simulators
and finally take the controls of an RC model
with a volunteer from the local model clubs on
the buddy box.
Last year roughly 80 kids went through
training at Air Camp, and they came from
across Florida. My grandson Justin soloed after
two years of Air Camp and is now an avid
flier.
Another event Jim heads up is Wings ’n
Things, which takes place on the Sun ’n Fun
campus during the summer. It features
autogiros and electric-powered models and
attracts approximately 1,500 Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts who are there earning Aviation
Merit Badges.
Jim and other RC club members
demonstrate different types of flying machines.
The volunteers show up with every type of
model imaginable, such as flying lawn mowers
and flapping-wing electric birds to show the
kids what it is possible to fly.
The kids’ activity tent at the 2006 Sun ’n
Fun attracted hundreds of kids. It was staffed
with aviation-oriented volunteers, many of
whom were from the RC clubs in the area.
Some were full-scale pilots or ex-pilots who
just want to teach kids about flying.
Also in the tent is a link trainer-type setup
that kids weighing as much as 100 pounds can
get inside of and fly and several radio-control
simulators. The kids are also taught how to
make a wing rib, a balsa glider, and a paper
airplane.
While I was working in the tent with the
RC simulators, adults asked me numerous
questions about the RC hobby and the
simulators. Many of these people were parents
who wanted to participate along with their
kids.
Most of the volunteers this year were older
guys like Jim and me. There were few younger
workers. Who will continue the work after we
are gone? I am 68 and have been building and
flying models since I was 12.
When I started there were no ARFs or RC
simulators; everything was done the hard way.
Today it is easier for kids, thanks to programs
such as those I have mentioned, volunteers to
teach them, and people such as Jim to head up
the activities. Younger adults also need to get
involved.
I have seen it asked in MA and other model
magazines where the kids are. The kids are out
there; it just takes someone to lead them in the
right direction. If you are a model builder/flier,
why not pay back some of what you owe and
volunteer in your area helping kids learn about
the great hobby we all enjoy?
Why not start a club project with a few
training airplanes geared toward new fliers?
And why not start some classes on building
model airplanes for the time when you crash?
There are older and younger model-airplane
enthusiasts who know nothing about building
or repairing an airplane but would like to. One
can find classes on constructing full-scale
airplanes, but there are very few for building
and flying models.
All the information about Wings ’n Things
and the Air Camps is posted on the Sun ’n Fun
Web site (www.sun-n-fun.org), but not until a
few months before they are scheduled. Wings
’n Things will not be held again until early
November.
There is also a summer program called
“Destination Aviation” that teaches kids
about full-scale flying. The new Tom Davis
Education Center was opened last year for
the purpose of teaching kids.
Perhaps another Air Camp will be held
during the early part of 2007. In the
meantime, you can read about the 2006
event and perhaps get some ideas about
how to get a program going in your area.
You can contact me at Box 818, Eaton Park
FL 33840; Tel.: (863) 665-8297; E-mail:
[email protected]. MA
—Bob Bass
District V
INtheAIR
July 2006 11
• Construction articles are for D.B.
Mathews’ almost-scale RC Rearwin Junior
for .30-.40 engines and Gil Morris’s big
brother to the 1980 National Free Flight
Society Model of the Year, 1/2A
Toothpicks—A-B-C Toothpicks—for .19-
.36 engines.
• Part 2 of Bob Beckman and Kirby
Crawford’s “Big Bangers for Big Birds”
and Part 2 of Tom Burdin’s tutorial on
learning to fly RC helicopters.
• E.J. Hartmangruber reports on the Delta
Dart II AMAzer designed by Frank Ehling.
This little model starts life as a whip model
and is then transformed into a CL trainer
by adding an .049 engine. The AMAzer is
part of a program to teach young beginners
the joy of model aviation.
• Bob Petro explains how to convert a
Kraft electric-powered Chipmunk model to
gas power. He shows the steps involved in
removing the motor and installing a Cox
Tee Dee .049 engine.
• New products include B and B
Specialties’ modified Kawasaki TA-51 gas
engine for $30 and Vortac Manufacturing’s
Manual Choke that fits Walbro carburetors
on Giant Scale engines. Robart introduces
Twenty-Five Years Ago in MA:
July 1981
Modeling Icon Receives AMA Fellowship Award
New Giant Scale
Racing Safety Rules
At its April 29, 2006, meeting the AMA
Executive Council (EC) approved changes to
the “Required Safety Standards for Giant
Scale Racing.” The Unlimited Scale Racing
Association proposed the changes, which
were recommended to the EC by AMA’s
Safety Committee.
You may access the updated safety
standards at www.modelaircraft.org/PDFfiles/
515-A.pdf. MA
—Carl Maroney
Special Service Director
Links on theWeb!
For more news, events,
and information, go to
www.modelaircraft.org.
its Super Hinge Point Pockets and Super
Hinge Points at 15 for $3.98. Midwest
Products offers spruce lumber in 72-inch
lengths, and RAM Radio Controlled
Models is selling a new Strobe Light for
$19.95.
New airplanes include a .40-powered J-
3 Cub from Top Flite, an improved Coyote
glider from Bob Martin’s RC Models, and
plans for an 84-inch-span Curtiss P-6E
Hawk from Wendell Hostetler’s Super
Scale Plans. MA
—Rich LaGrange
AMA Librarian
Model-aviation legend and AMA
Life Member Leon Shulman was
recently presented with the Academy’s
highest honor: the AMA Fellowship
Award.
Leon’s distinguished modeling career
began in the early 1920s. Since then he
has designed several well-known FF
models including the Zomby, the
Banshee, the Wedgy, and the
Skyscraper. In the mid-1940s he
developed and manufactured the famous
.29 cu. in.-displacement Drone Diesel,
which was one of the more popular
model-aircraft engines during that
period.
Leon’s hobby drove him to a
successful career in the hobby industry,
leading to a position as vice president of
Monogram Models in Chicago. Illinois.
Later in his career, beginning in the
1950s, Leon became a manufacturer’s
sales representative for many of the
more prominent modeling companies of
that period including Top Flite, Du-Bro,
Welcome, AMA
Life Members!
The Academy recently welcomed new
Life Members James Kennicker (Saint
Petersburg FL), John Root (Sylvania OH),
Robert Cunningham (Gibraltar MI), and
Kenneth Petersen (Fort Collins CO).
For information about becoming a Life
Member, contact AMA Headquarters at
(800) 435-9262. MA
—Membership Department
Fox Engines, Midwest Products, Bonner
Electronics, and E.K. Logitrol Radios.
Leon has been recognized several
times during his life for the contributions
he has made to model aviation. He has
received the Howard McEntee Award and
the AMA Distinguished Service Award.
He is a member of the Vintage Radio
Control Society Hall of Fame, the National
Free Flight Hall of Fame, the Society of
Antique Modelers Hall of Fame, and the
Model Aviation Hall of Fame.
Today Leon continues to design and
fly models and has recently had several
articles published in various modeling
magazines. He also spends much of his
time watching his son Don and grandsons
Jason and David follow in his footsteps as
outstanding modelers.
On behalf of all AMA members, the
Academy thanks Leon Shulman for more
than 80 years of involvement in the
hobby/sport of model aviation. MA
—Dave Mathewson
District II Vice President
Fellowship Award recipient Leon
Shulman (L) and District II Vice
President Dave Mathewson.
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