The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA 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Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate 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The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA modelers grade kiln dried super sanded Send complete list $100 Kits Feature Roiled Piano Machine & Die Cut Parts Hardware & Construction Photon Mnnncoate solid & TransparentHB 40$4995 Colors$ 629HB 40 POP$6195 Novak Bantam MidgetMuttler.$ 695 Servos$3295Access Pkg.$ 995 Goldherg 102 Jet $ 325 Nylon Pashrnds-Pair 99 Combat cont official practice field Tom Dick use basically same equipment large light weight balsa Texas-style models powered Fox engines fed low-pressure pacifiers nothing new have seen same models year after year Nats team trials Bill Lee made up some special glass carbon-fiber copies Taipan 7-4s Dicks fuel 50% nitro mixture Toms hotter few Foxes scattered during testing totally reliable during contest Duke Fox built some large-crankshaft 15s especially Tom Dick engines feature shaft diameter 36 rear ball bearing bushing front least shaft blow-proof Tom Fluker used time Dick Stubblefteld decided go proven small-shaft Foxes Gary Arnold unique equipment using new Supertigre Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. Model Aviation 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC. 20005 Check appropriate boxenclose payment fl NEW SUBSCRIPTION 0 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Non-AMA subscription rates $1800 12 months US possessions elsewhere including Canada Mexico $2400 US Schools $900 US Libraries $1350 NAME ADDRESS ClTV/TAT U Edslev Denmark S Borer Switzerland used Rossi-powered model tuned pipe Official World Champs practice Ramdalen Sports Center set Wed nesday American team went out have fun flew actual Combat matches models also shocked flying three-man combat Stubblefield first match Thurs day George Cleveland pitted him opponent Fallgren Sweden got him air time after two laps pacifier broke reserve model air quickly Dick took whole streamer Fallgren got cut took rest streamer instances no streamer left either model pilots will fly out time level flight night before discussed rule decided considered passive flyingagainst rules Dick continued attack Fallgrens model eventually took elevator off Dick disqualified Gary Arnold no trouble Yang Weimin China moved next round Tom Fluker beat Mallorqui Spain no problem posted highest score round losers round Dick Stubblefield really good match Wu Zhaoqian China end result five cuts four favor Stubblefield score over 640 would stand highest World Champs 1 58 Model Aviation _______________________________________________ zip ________________ MODEL AVIATION 815 FIFTEENTH ST. NW. WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/01
Page Numbers: 71, 72, 73, 146, 148, 151, 158, 159, 160
The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA modelers grade kiln dried super sanded Send complete list $100 Kits Feature Roiled Piano Machine & Die Cut Parts Hardware & Construction Photon Mnnncoate solid & TransparentHB 40$4995 Colors$ 629HB 40 POP$6195 Novak Bantam MidgetMuttler.$ 695 Servos$3295Access Pkg.$ 995 Goldherg 102 Jet $ 325 Nylon Pashrnds-Pair 99 Combat cont official practice field Tom Dick use basically same equipment large light weight balsa Texas-style models powered Fox engines fed low-pressure pacifiers nothing new have seen same models year after year Nats team trials Bill Lee made up some special glass carbon-fiber copies Taipan 7-4s Dicks fuel 50% nitro mixture Toms hotter few Foxes scattered during testing totally reliable during contest Duke Fox built some large-crankshaft 15s especially Tom Dick engines feature shaft diameter 36 rear ball bearing bushing front least shaft blow-proof Tom Fluker used time Dick Stubblefteld decided go proven small-shaft Foxes Gary Arnold unique equipment using new Supertigre Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. Model Aviation 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC. 20005 Check appropriate boxenclose payment fl NEW SUBSCRIPTION 0 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Non-AMA subscription rates $1800 12 months US possessions elsewhere including Canada Mexico $2400 US Schools $900 US Libraries $1350 NAME ADDRESS ClTV/TAT U Edslev Denmark S Borer Switzerland used Rossi-powered model tuned pipe Official World Champs practice Ramdalen Sports Center set Wed nesday American team went out have fun flew actual Combat matches models also shocked flying three-man combat Stubblefield first match Thurs day George Cleveland pitted him opponent Fallgren Sweden got him air time after two laps pacifier broke reserve model air quickly Dick took whole streamer Fallgren got cut took rest streamer instances no streamer left either model pilots will fly out time level flight night before discussed rule decided considered passive flyingagainst rules Dick continued attack Fallgrens model eventually took elevator off Dick disqualified Gary Arnold no trouble Yang Weimin China moved next round Tom Fluker beat Mallorqui Spain no problem posted highest score round losers round Dick Stubblefield really good match Wu Zhaoqian China end result five cuts four favor Stubblefield score over 640 would stand highest World Champs 1 58 Model Aviation _______________________________________________ zip ________________ MODEL AVIATION 815 FIFTEENTH ST. NW. WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/01
Page Numbers: 71, 72, 73, 146, 148, 151, 158, 159, 160
The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA modelers grade kiln dried super sanded Send complete list $100 Kits Feature Roiled Piano Machine & Die Cut Parts Hardware & Construction Photon Mnnncoate solid & TransparentHB 40$4995 Colors$ 629HB 40 POP$6195 Novak Bantam MidgetMuttler.$ 695 Servos$3295Access Pkg.$ 995 Goldherg 102 Jet $ 325 Nylon Pashrnds-Pair 99 Combat cont official practice field Tom Dick use basically same equipment large light weight balsa Texas-style models powered Fox engines fed low-pressure pacifiers nothing new have seen same models year after year Nats team trials Bill Lee made up some special glass carbon-fiber copies Taipan 7-4s Dicks fuel 50% nitro mixture Toms hotter few Foxes scattered during testing totally reliable during contest Duke Fox built some large-crankshaft 15s especially Tom Dick engines feature shaft diameter 36 rear ball bearing bushing front least shaft blow-proof Tom Fluker used time Dick Stubblefteld decided go proven small-shaft Foxes Gary Arnold unique equipment using new Supertigre Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. 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WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL
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The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA modelers grade kiln dried super sanded Send complete list $100 Kits Feature Roiled Piano Machine & Die Cut Parts Hardware & Construction Photon Mnnncoate solid & TransparentHB 40$4995 Colors$ 629HB 40 POP$6195 Novak Bantam MidgetMuttler.$ 695 Servos$3295Access Pkg.$ 995 Goldherg 102 Jet $ 325 Nylon Pashrnds-Pair 99 Combat cont official practice field Tom Dick use basically same equipment large light weight balsa Texas-style models powered Fox engines fed low-pressure pacifiers nothing new have seen same models year after year Nats team trials Bill Lee made up some special glass carbon-fiber copies Taipan 7-4s Dicks fuel 50% nitro mixture Toms hotter few Foxes scattered during testing totally reliable during contest Duke Fox built some large-crankshaft 15s especially Tom Dick engines feature shaft diameter 36 rear ball bearing bushing front least shaft blow-proof Tom Fluker used time Dick Stubblefteld decided go proven small-shaft Foxes Gary Arnold unique equipment using new Supertigre Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. 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Washington DC. 20005 Check appropriate boxenclose payment fl NEW SUBSCRIPTION 0 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Non-AMA subscription rates $1800 12 months US possessions elsewhere including Canada Mexico $2400 US Schools $900 US Libraries $1350 NAME ADDRESS ClTV/TAT U Edslev Denmark S Borer Switzerland used Rossi-powered model tuned pipe Official World Champs practice Ramdalen Sports Center set Wed nesday American team went out have fun flew actual Combat matches models also shocked flying three-man combat Stubblefield first match Thurs day George Cleveland pitted him opponent Fallgren Sweden got him air time after two laps pacifier broke reserve model air quickly Dick took whole streamer Fallgren got cut took rest streamer instances no streamer left either model pilots will fly out time level flight night before discussed rule decided considered passive flyingagainst rules Dick continued attack Fallgrens model eventually took elevator off Dick disqualified Gary Arnold no trouble Yang Weimin China moved next round Tom Fluker beat Mallorqui Spain no problem posted highest score round losers round Dick Stubblefield really good match Wu Zhaoqian China end result five cuts four favor Stubblefield score over 640 would stand highest World Champs 1 58 Model Aviation _______________________________________________ zip ________________ MODEL AVIATION 815 FIFTEENTH ST. NW. WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/01
Page Numbers: 71, 72, 73, 146, 148, 151, 158, 159, 160
The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA modelers grade kiln dried super sanded Send complete list $100 Kits Feature Roiled Piano Machine & Die Cut Parts Hardware & Construction Photon Mnnncoate solid & TransparentHB 40$4995 Colors$ 629HB 40 POP$6195 Novak Bantam MidgetMuttler.$ 695 Servos$3295Access Pkg.$ 995 Goldherg 102 Jet $ 325 Nylon Pashrnds-Pair 99 Combat cont official practice field Tom Dick use basically same equipment large light weight balsa Texas-style models powered Fox engines fed low-pressure pacifiers nothing new have seen same models year after year Nats team trials Bill Lee made up some special glass carbon-fiber copies Taipan 7-4s Dicks fuel 50% nitro mixture Toms hotter few Foxes scattered during testing totally reliable during contest Duke Fox built some large-crankshaft 15s especially Tom Dick engines feature shaft diameter 36 rear ball bearing bushing front least shaft blow-proof Tom Fluker used time Dick Stubblefteld decided go proven small-shaft Foxes Gary Arnold unique equipment using new Supertigre Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. Model Aviation 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC. 20005 Check appropriate boxenclose payment fl NEW SUBSCRIPTION 0 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Non-AMA subscription rates $1800 12 months US possessions elsewhere including Canada Mexico $2400 US Schools $900 US Libraries $1350 NAME ADDRESS ClTV/TAT U Edslev Denmark S Borer Switzerland used Rossi-powered model tuned pipe Official World Champs practice Ramdalen Sports Center set Wed nesday American team went out have fun flew actual Combat matches models also shocked flying three-man combat Stubblefield first match Thurs day George Cleveland pitted him opponent Fallgren Sweden got him air time after two laps pacifier broke reserve model air quickly Dick took whole streamer Fallgren got cut took rest streamer instances no streamer left either model pilots will fly out time level flight night before discussed rule decided considered passive flyingagainst rules Dick continued attack Fallgrens model eventually took elevator off Dick disqualified Gary Arnold no trouble Yang Weimin China moved next round Tom Fluker beat Mallorqui Spain no problem posted highest score round losers round Dick Stubblefield really good match Wu Zhaoqian China end result five cuts four favor Stubblefield score over 640 would stand highest World Champs 1 58 Model Aviation _______________________________________________ zip ________________ MODEL AVIATION 815 FIFTEENTH ST. NW. WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/01
Page Numbers: 71, 72, 73, 146, 148, 151, 158, 159, 160
The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA 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Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. 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WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL
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The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA modelers grade kiln dried super sanded Send complete list $100 Kits Feature Roiled Piano Machine & Die Cut Parts Hardware & Construction Photon Mnnncoate solid & TransparentHB 40$4995 Colors$ 629HB 40 POP$6195 Novak Bantam MidgetMuttler.$ 695 Servos$3295Access Pkg.$ 995 Goldherg 102 Jet $ 325 Nylon Pashrnds-Pair 99 Combat cont official practice field Tom Dick use basically same equipment large light weight balsa Texas-style models powered Fox engines fed low-pressure pacifiers nothing new have seen same models year after year Nats team trials Bill Lee made up some special glass carbon-fiber copies Taipan 7-4s Dicks fuel 50% nitro mixture Toms hotter few Foxes scattered during testing totally reliable during contest Duke Fox built some large-crankshaft 15s especially Tom Dick engines feature shaft diameter 36 rear ball bearing bushing front least shaft blow-proof Tom Fluker used time Dick Stubblefteld decided go proven small-shaft Foxes Gary Arnold unique equipment using new Supertigre Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. 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Washington DC. 20005 Check appropriate boxenclose payment fl NEW SUBSCRIPTION 0 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Non-AMA subscription rates $1800 12 months US possessions elsewhere including Canada Mexico $2400 US Schools $900 US Libraries $1350 NAME ADDRESS ClTV/TAT U Edslev Denmark S Borer Switzerland used Rossi-powered model tuned pipe Official World Champs practice Ramdalen Sports Center set Wed nesday American team went out have fun flew actual Combat matches models also shocked flying three-man combat Stubblefield first match Thurs day George Cleveland pitted him opponent Fallgren Sweden got him air time after two laps pacifier broke reserve model air quickly Dick took whole streamer Fallgren got cut took rest streamer instances no streamer left either model pilots will fly out time level flight night before discussed rule decided considered passive flyingagainst rules Dick continued attack Fallgrens model eventually took elevator off Dick disqualified Gary Arnold no trouble Yang Weimin China moved next round Tom Fluker beat Mallorqui Spain no problem posted highest score round losers round Dick Stubblefield really good match Wu Zhaoqian China end result five cuts four favor Stubblefield score over 640 would stand highest World Champs 1 58 Model Aviation _______________________________________________ zip ________________ MODEL AVIATION 815 FIFTEENTH ST. 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WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/01
Page Numbers: 71, 72, 73, 146, 148, 151, 158, 159, 160
The author CL Combat modelers dream vacation trip started out visit Eng land met other fliers persua sion took couple Combat meetsand wound up Sweden World Champion ships report highlights models saw 1982 WAS THE YEAR European vacationnot whirlwind 10countries-in-lO-days deals leisurely stay modelers England visit uncle Germany trip Sweden Control Line World C ham pionships years have read Englands Aero Modeller magazine have always very interested Combat reports much blow-by-blow contest accounts design trends British years have dominated Combat competitions throughout Europe Brit ish pilots often travel Netherlands Belgium European championships ambition see participate such competitions made up mind priorto 1982 USA Combat Team Trials go Sweden conversations Steve Hills Jed Kusik John McCollum Larry Jolly Phil Granderson about past World Cham pionships convinced miss 1982 read Dirty Dan Rutherfords column Model Builder British holding British Combat International BCI weekend July 3 4 extending invitations foreign cornpetitors wrote organizers promptly received call Paul Vallins Cosmo Club offering place stay Now firm timetable could set modeling vacation June 29th departure date July 27 return date return date allowed plenty time get AMA Nats Lincoln NE What does take such extended vacation found essentials camera clothes three models lots trading material After 10 hours TWA 747 Londons Heathrow airport quick call Paul Vallins got direc tions home First ride tube British subway ride train got town Bexley Paul waiting After initial greetings January 198371 Mark Jarret Peterboro ctub typical European-design model Chinas Wu Zhaoqlan pitman Dick Stubbiefleid knocked him Out contest Bart van den Bosache Belgium relaxes prior match talk about Combat started continued until departure England first stop home workshop located attic Pauls foam models considerably different own Ameri can foam builders British use center ribs built-up units made 15-in spruce strips balsa center blocks bellcrank bolted between two spruce strips British use 2-in bellcrank very thin 1/16 made phenolic-type material material feels like circuit-board stock British suffer material down grading time time just case point bellcranks Laystrate control lines Neil Gill British World Championship team members snapping some latest batch bellcranks causing destruction models Chris Wellington snapping new sets lines during pull tests BCI Perhaps just isolated cases nevertheless cases did happen subject lines let give opinion famous Laystrate sawing lines longest time lines have enjoyed reputation being super strong ability saw through multi-strand seven-strand 012 lines Well perhaps case under old rules permitted use of0l 2s isnt now everyone uses 015 lines Laystrate three-strand light weight lines tend kink readily seven-strand Sullivan Sig lines real advantage Laystrate over Sullivan Sig cost Laystrate light weights cost 1 pound 3 pence per 100-foot spool model shop translates about $180 depending rate ex change Pounds cost little $170 much $180 However must remember Lay strates come ends made up materials make ends spools Laystrates come made cardboard British pilots end up buying Sig plastic reels 50 pence store lines contrast Sullivan lines cost 3 pounds 40 pence about $600 Mick Hember Cosmo club provides British pilots alternative has found source brass plated sevenstrand 016 lines sells 10000meter spool 50 pence 90 per 100 ft Mick kind enough give two sets testing work just fine Back models lightness cost seems philosophy some top builders Dave Harrison trend setters seems meticu lous British Combat pilots l-oz foam models utilize hollow foam cores tissue covered Dave makes up hollow wooden pushrods streamlined covered silk nylon have ad justable attachments quite lot work seldom destroyed never flex 72 Model Aviation Tile French Doomerang design bi Swiss heeee-iike iiahtenina hale fnem Roelandt Belgium uses lots tape reinNote plastic pacifier compartment Vernon Hunt England used Nelson engines ~ hqlf balsa half foam Combat World Champs U EdaleY 2ndwiththeseSTG2O15-powersdmodels files crankeases lighten Borero vltzer1andusedmodels unusual wino ehnne unrloh enainee trifled nine Only user black-head Rossi engines World Champs Benincasa Italy board see plc nice line checking Nylon-covered Orcrist diesel-powered model typical seen Peterboro meet None British currently using booms models simply add trailing edge extension models hold elevator also adds square inches wing area Most models saw using heavyweight Laystrate lines lead-outs really com petitive models have shape French Boomerang design fuel systems pacifiers housed either Dave Harrison-designed/produced ABS plastic compartment thin card board-lined hole cut foam covered loose-fitting nylon nylon loose enough allow pacifier expan sion simple light effective system older system plastic pacifier compartment round top bottomwith flat round sides will fit glue well foam com partments can used over over Fuel almost exclusively 10% nitro mixture Nitro extremely expensive Europe Mike Whacker Whillance using highest percentage nitro 16% BCI popular FAI Combat engine England Supertigre G20-15 few blokes using Rossi Nelson engines Supertigres seem make good amount power low-nitro fuel British have tried available 15 engine time another have Coxes Foxes put away somewhere workshops popular glow plugs seem Taylor competition type As far props go popular Taipan 7-4 Some pilots use Grish nylon 7-4s Whacker Whillance makes glass/carbon-fiber copy Taipan gain additional rigidity rpm After 1980 World Championships Poland Russians surprised everyone super lightweight 3-oz engine trend has shave weight Dave Harrison again leads way machinist uses lunch hour mill weight off engines no longer resemble Supertigres after Dave has gotten through makes up new ultrathin heads dust-cover-type drive washers G2Os unfortunate engine no longer being produced Its re placement Supertigre XiS TST has received well Paul Vallins Mick Hember organizers British Combat Inter national Dytchleys country estate actually four-day affair organ izers arrived early Friday morning set up site Dytchleys old manor country just outside town Brentwood owned Queen Mary College London Paul aeronautical student Cost contestants 26 pounds two nights accommodation plus three meals day actual flying site 30 yards front door spacious plush field grass recently mowed use atmosphere large family coming together reunion gets feeling competitors take meals together together entire weekend January 1983 73 MII fill new demEan ham metal aflame mount Dave Harrison fuels 11 -oz model features streamlined wooden pushrod model beiongs P.1 0 Canada tnnv lOAn Rummian wlnner Meestreill italy fiewthese nice models wflicfl cikit ncmc.i flOt Continued page 146 Mu Gang China built nice silk-covered models used Rossi engines power view scoring table British Combat international Shown L-R Chris Snifter circle marshal Mrs Abraham Paul Vallins Mrs Gill note light boxes PA system Author thinks such light-signal system would useful big Combat meets Ak Power Panel POWER starter-pump-plug AMMETER indication plug condition ALL 12-Volt battery Battery Cord Mating Plugs Only first flights Develop agreed-upon signaling system helper before flights attempted Test controls raise model head height wing level As helper begins run take several steps forward launch model Dont throw hard gentle push almost allowing pulled hand necessary helper should initially run fairly hard get model climbing gentle touch elevator will help initiate climb Once climb steady helper should adjust running speed maintain steads pull line Concentrate steering along straight flight path leave elevator alone model reaches crest flight path helper should ease off running allow model fly over head disengaging itself towline emergency hand towing model veers sideways immediately after launch helper should immediately release line throwing towards necessary Quick action will needed save model released will slow down normal flying speed can controlled recommend high-start launching until lot flying experience has gained once launched model committed until power elastic has exhausted prototype has achieved hours flying time mainly slope repaying times over effort put its construc tion hope enjoy both building flying model sou go advanced designs writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation standard Power Panel shown also available two new versons smaller 3 x 5 Easy Mounting $2395 Mini Panel flexible Dual Range Panel gives option 1-1/2 2 volts glow plug Combat Odyssey/von Lopez Continued page 73 BCI drew 20 contestants Pieter Roelandt Bart Van Den Bosse came across channel Belgium talked being jury members used two scorers per model penalty observer pit crew circle marshal Chris Snitter no complaints about scores Mick Hember brought along powerful PA system two sets timing light boxes keep track match time boxes included six lightsone yellow warm-up period four green combat period red signal end match lights clearly visible anywhere around circle Such system would very useful Nats Combat Team Trials During Saturday mornings test flying got chance fly models belonging Neil Gill Peter Tribe Whacker Whillance Dave Harrison return let fly FAI model taken also let fly two /2A models Unfortunately old Supertigre Xl 5 didnt like 10% nitro fuel nor did Tee Dee 049s runs good definitely up usual standards Nonetheless think British lads got idea what models fly like wont bother blow-by-blow account BCI results 1st Peter Tribe 2nd Neil GilL 3rd Dave Harrison 4th Whacker Whillance What fascinating about British Combat flying wind-up technique What hap pens two good pilots deliber ately follow another through series loops winding up lines tangling reverse direction get out spectator looks very spectacular pilots need trust anotherinorder fof work semi-final bout Gill Tribe put really marvelous display wind-up Tribe later informed about six loops lines can stand before get too stiff Most British pilots tend stay planted spot entire bout Very few use entire circle tactical advant age very good following opponents model through whatever ma neuver might stayed around organizers Monday clean up stow gear next year really first-rate competi tion s father contest Sunday video camera filming action interesting review video see mistakes could have avoided following weekend Peterboro club holding 3rd round British Class Diesel Combat series reminiscent way British used fly Combat before glow invasion No pressure allowed model per bout diesel engines used Out come old Oliver Tiger PAW MVVS engines 1 46 Model Aviation Improves Engine Life Restriction Type 100-Mesh Screen Removable Cleaning Threaded Two-Part Aluminum Body SBD Two Time Masters Champ 1st Cactus Classic Mosquito 1st Sport Scale Reno 4th Sport Scale Reno Hellcat Garland Hamilton1st Rocky Mt Regionals Spitfire Garland Hamilton2nd Cactus Classic AND MANY MORE Complete Kit SBD $19500 Complete Kit R47 $16500 Includes Air Postage England CATALOG Order Best Scale catalog complete list plans accessories Price$3 first class $1 $10 plus order $2 order less $10 Bob Holman Plans P0 Box 741MA San Bernardino CA 92402 $119 Dealer part mounted nylon-covered models Paul batch damaged FAI models decided repair contest remove plastic pacifier com partments replace hard tanks suggested Paul use balloon tanks similar what Pete Jaden Bobby Mears used Slow Combat during 1981 AMA Nats made up just test effects diesel fuel engine tank combination worked just fine Perhaps British will change over system avoid building models two classes end week four workable models hard tanks ready go Sunday morning Tribe Vallins Hember left Peterboro about 100 miles north London competition bit lower key BCL looking forward flying British lads Paul shared four models Oliver engine turned out enough equipment flying well managed win five bouts contest Peter Tribe close bout final slight air-time advantage might first time American has won British Combat contest diesel-powered models appear running about 65 75 mph speed pilot has time think about tactics strategy idea behind event get new blood sport Incorporated 615 So Gallatin Rd son TN 371 615 868-6811 Mon lhru Sat am 500 pm - RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS Combat Its same sort idea behind Slow Combat seems working England Neil Gill everyone over home after contest dinner look World Championship models built 16 new design metal engine mounts Neil kind enough take three models Sweden him wouldnt have take through Ger stay England very educational enlightening visited modelers homes workshops well two biggest model shops London Henry J Nicholls Michaels Models hope have opportunity return hospitality British modelers uncles place Goeppingen Germany took train Oxelosund Sweden train does go directly Oxelosund stops 10 kilometers away Nykoping got 730 am single Swedish coin pocket bus driver Oxelosund finally figured out what trying communicate just motioned should get first person saw Oxelosund Gary Arnold walking down street wiht couple models under arm Soon after Americans began appear Richard Stubblefield George Mitch Cleveland Fluker family Ron Columbo rest US team first thought what great little town got settled quickly roommate Stubblefield Clevelands out practice field Canadians Mexicans already out sorting out equipment P Sigouin Canada balsa models copies Russian ones used 1980 also hard tanks teammate C Gibson pilot using Cox Conquest 15 R Monge L Silva F Quezada Mexico all-new foam models much better quality ones sporting Seguin Nats pur chased Nelsons running 36% nitro Only Americans nitro John McCollum Southern Cali fornia supplied some custommade glass props flew models favorably impressed Next out Chinese flew different design used Rossis homemade wooden props guys right idea during practice sessions used streamers flight get correct trim model also ran around circle checking body posi tion relation edge circle flew much time looking attheir models could handle models well anyone team manager constantly supervising session checking air speed looked like systematic team operation Gary Arnold Tom Fluker Richard Stubblefield tested later afternoon Continued page 151 148 Model Aviation IJOIN THE WINNINGI AIR FORCEI Brian Taylor1st British NATS Kent Walters Kent Walters Will Reynders Sepp Uiherlacher REPAIR SERvIit i-uA HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE SALESI RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSJ PERFORMANCE ITY PRICES DONT LET OUR LOW PRICES FOOL YOU ORY DIRECT MEANS SAVINGS TO YOU OVER 4000 KITS SOLO ONLY $2495 UPS INC Wa d Famous Cha enge H gh Peflo mance 2Mete Sa Pane Proven Content Winner 590 Sq 24-28 nz Eppier 205 Airfail 2 Channel Cannpy & Hardware Included carry over 200 sizes Balsa Birch aircraft ply spruceall super low prices wood MA 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Xl 5 mounted radially through use specially-machined back plate Gary standard mounting lugs ma chined off No other engines could mounted models Gary definitely down power compared other competitors Try may could extract horsepower Xl 5s glass props did however get consistent runs Russians arrived everyone Con rinued page 158 Complete leisure electronic flight pack inc charger & TH73E$7995 Leisure Electronico 05 Motor $3295 LG #105 Charger $2295 LE Micro Switch $495 Battery Pack $2205 Original Acto-Sportoter40' ONLY $2995 54 Wing Span 30-50 Eng 4 Channel 225 MAH Battery $1495 Coming SounOoadra Size Cap 2$8995 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS 21489 Cold Springs Lane Diamond Bar CA 91785 714 861-5601 24 Hrs M/C-Caoh-Check $350 noodling COD $500 Calif residence add BVs% sales tax Foreign add 20% Flying Near Airports Careful Free Flight Radio Control flying near airports situation might involve possibility models being vicinity full-scale aircraft operations must avoidedor conducted eliminate dangerous situations Models should flown proximity full-scale aircraft operations unless flyer has someone else him sole purpose watching full-scale aircraft supervising flying prevent accident possibilities January 1983 151 Super SmoothGreat Fun Plys Pre-Novice Pattern John Ellioto Model Bailder Magazine Fly Electric Thermal 73E 31 oz Complete Climhs over 1000 Avg tllght 10 mm KIT $1695 anxious see super-powerhil engines Doroshenko 1980 World Champ really fast other engines above average really untouchable Titov Kiseliov running bit slower Kiseliov using single-blade prop models same ones used 1980 plans have published really no secret fact Steve Hills brought back USA 1980 R Forstner West Germany some very lightweight motors German origin Some German lightweights available purchase after contest Italian team consisted Benincasa Maestrelli Vegetti Benincasa pilot using new black-head Rossi Maestrelli Vegetti OPS engines Sweden Maestrelli works OPS people can considered factory pilot impressed speed power OPS popular brand engine far Rossi Nelson-engined pilots num bered six three Mexicans plus V Hunt andD Wiseman Engiand F Meyer Netherlands Koch Nether lands using FMV engine developed Metkemeyer brothers number pilots various countries using Supertigre G20 15s best being -I AVYhFb FN PLETE THIS FORM UI\NlihLiVbLABEL FROM RECENT AND ATTACH MAILING ISSUE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING move please let us know advancesix weeks re quired change address Attach current MA mailing label check appropriate box mail Subscription Dept. Model Aviation 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC. 20005 Check appropriate boxenclose payment fl NEW SUBSCRIPTION 0 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Non-AMA subscription rates $1800 12 months US possessions elsewhere including Canada Mexico $2400 US Schools $900 US Libraries $1350 NAME ADDRESS ClTV/TAT U Edslev Denmark S Borer Switzerland used Rossi-powered model tuned pipe Official World Champs practice Ramdalen Sports Center set Wed nesday American team went out have fun flew actual Combat matches models also shocked flying three-man combat Stubblefield first match Thurs day George Cleveland pitted him opponent Fallgren Sweden got him air time after two laps pacifier broke reserve model air quickly Dick took whole streamer Fallgren got cut took rest streamer instances no streamer left either model pilots will fly out time level flight night before discussed rule decided considered passive flyingagainst rules Dick continued attack Fallgrens model eventually took elevator off Dick disqualified Gary Arnold no trouble Yang Weimin China moved next round Tom Fluker beat Mallorqui Spain no problem posted highest score round losers round Dick Stubblefield really good match Wu Zhaoqian China end result five cuts four favor Stubblefield score over 640 would stand highest World Champs 1 58 Model Aviation _______________________________________________ zip ________________ MODEL AVIATION 815 FIFTEENTH ST. NW. WASHINGTON DC 20005 After losers round 36 competitors left get 32-man pyramid four matches scheduled Friday Flukers name picked computer fly Schou Denmark took care him incident free sightseeing beach Saturday everything bit serious Fluker first up 800 am drew another Spaniard F Mata using Rossi engines final score 248 minus 90 Mata same round Mu Gang fought good bout Titov Russia score five-to-3 favor Gang did other spectators judges called three-tothree Titov winner Titov actually beaten first round Karger W Germany until let go handle F Meyer Netherlands beaten Maestrelli after took whole streamer run entire match second match Gary Arnold put Forstner away score 384 164 Stubblefield drawn Borer pipe man should have piece cake Once again Dick took whole lot forced try hit oppo nents model did through sheer luck Borer managed stay air take two cuts Stubblefield Borers model missing elevator control horn stayed air about minute Stubby out first American fall round total disaster Brits Hunt Wiseman both took lot j~ \ KP TELL M.. WHY DO TREV CAtL -HM THE CHAMP walking out circle helmet Vegetti dismissed Spains Roura 440 400 Fluker took care Maestrelli two-to score 306 190 quarter finals Fluker drew Titov flew two-totwo score collided line tangle totally cleared Titov went back up Flukers streamer tangled lines George Cleveland took 13 seconds clear launch match given 44 4, / January 1983 159 lost Gill tie score Benincasa rematch too committed fatal mistake fell well Y8th finals Sunday morning reigning champ Doroshenko fell Beckers Belgium Titov three-toone over Silva Edslev three-toone over Que sada Benincasa knocked out Arnold two toone Arnold took whole streamer Furbo Denmark beaten Gibson Borer gave away SalermaFinland Ut 2657 NE 188th Street MiamK Florida 33180 Telephone 935-1436 dont use rubber bands hold models together went out high button shoes Titov protest tiled Tom given rematch Edslev made giant killer Beckers look silty putting four cuts him Salerma got Vegetti sour engine Benincasa Gibson tied through poor strategy Gibson got late start casually walked out circle guess trying psych out opponent Benincasa ran out fuel before match endeda couple seconds either way would have won refly Italian beat Canadian 440 minus 20 refly between Fluker Titov best match contest Titov took whole streamer Fluker took three cuts faked Titov ground semi-final Edslev disposed Saler ma through two cuts mid-air line wrap finally cutting Salermas model away Flukers Fox faster black-head Rossi Benincasa took two cuts mid-air Fluker recovered faster score 406 290 ground time really can hurt score consolation bout 3rd place went Salerma Benincasa disqualified starting tactical flying before signal Tom Texas Aggie Fluker Jr beat Edslev three-to-one final What joy Most us tears SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT DCM LABS Helicopter Fuselage Kits True Scale Design Necessary Hardware Lightweight Epoxyglass Highest Quality Dealers & Manufacturer Inquiries Welcome Bell 222 Hughes 500 D-60 Heliboy Competitor Kavan Kalt Hughes 500 D-40 Miniboy Kalt-20 Custom Fabrication & House Tooling Available Manufacturers DC Labs 207 SW 41st St Renton WA 98055 206 251-9553 1 60 Model Aviation Suggested Retail4 $7995 FULL SIZE PLANS GREAT SPORT FLYER WITH 60 COMPLETE BUILDING INSTRUUI7IONS BELL