CONTROL LINE RACING IJNLESS YOURE LIKE ME wait until last minute youre disgusting people finished last January Ill bet youre middle Christmas shopping What tell relatives friends ask what should get What buy Control Line racer Actually gifts can get engines wheels control lines handles fast-fills kits tanks bellcranks balsa music wire basswood plywood adhesives paint fiberglass cloth resins pins clamps myriad other consumables can get items hobby shops what about super-go engines Im talking about stock items shelf find trick bellcrank saw winning model last contest What about neat fiberglass shell whatshisname Corkscrew Junction next state over built model around specialty items various types racers get items made owner model saw specialty items often produced limited basis sold other racers will take order make something provide service fee number fliers offer engine parts rework service cylinder chroming complete engine rebuilding Others have quality racing wheels fuel shutoffs fuel tanks fast-fills other goodies partial list people know offer parts and/or services Control Line racers offer parts services please send full description can get Out rest group requesting information please include couple bucks printing postage Bob Oge15477 Owens Rd Hinckley Th 60520 Tel 815 2863969engine work including chroming go-fast rework Willie WileyI 112 Hartsdale Dallas TX 75211 Tel 214 3300436super engine work go-fast events Melvin SchuetteOutlaw Racing PO Box 240 Auburn KS 66402 Tel 913 256-2583Special orders fuel shutoffs mechanical fast-fill valves reworked Fox Mk 7 36 Combat special engines other items Lenard Ascher215 N Prospectors Rd Diamond Bar CA 91765 Tel 909 860-9476Russian Team Racing engines model airplanes other equipment Kustom KraftsmanshipP 0 Box 3010 Fallbrook CA 92028 Tel 619 728-4365-/2A racing engines 12A button belicranks wheels needle valve assemblies fuel shutoffs Goodyear plans much Tom Knoppi19007 120th Ave SE Renton WA 98058 Tel 206 228-9502Team Race fuel tanks Russian Cyclon models engines kits ready-to-fly Glen Lee819 Mandrake Batavia IL 60510 Tel 312 8792558Excellent Racing wheels various sizes Smiths Model Products521 Jansen Ave San Dimas CA 91773 Tel 909 592-2100Streaker V Streaker Jr kits rubber fastfills Racer handies fuel tanks special racing tank fabrication specifications Walt PerkinsShadow Racing Inc 4416 Southeast 4 Place Ocala FL 32671 Tel 904 694-7918Nearly Team Race component can think carbon-fiber fuselages circular belicranks elevator horns landing gear sets props wheels etc Since beginners issue Ill discuss getting started Control Line Racing neat thing about niche model aviation has competition several levels four AMA eventsMouse Racing Scale Racing Slow Rat Fast Ratprovide gradual progression relatively unlimited event Fast Rat youve never flown others circle logical starting place Mouse 1/2A-size profile racers weigh 6-8 ounces quite light lines provide excellent training ground learn properly take off other models pilots vicinity exit pilot circle properly engine quits good way acquire basic flying skills must automatic before start using shutoffs fast-fills hot-gloves etc get trouble Mouse racer wont result severe dollar loss chance serious injury much less other events next step big will either advance Scale Slow Rat similar performance complexity number local regional racing events provide easier transition Mouse Racing Scale Racing formerly known Goodyear initially intended intermediate level like AIVIA events quickly became high-tech Thats bad After purposes AMA further advancement model aviation case Scale Racing has become one-engine want win event complex Mouse Racing due addition fast-fills hot-gloves pressurization shutoffs suchall simple components know make have access January1995 149 current AMA Nationals Open Champion Mouse racer Streaker V Mouse ideal Control Line Racing novices Bill Cave warms up Mouse 94 Nats Text has addresses Mouse model/parts distributors Models always allowed regional Foxberg-type events L-R Goldberg Shoestring Buster Cosmic Wind complexity comes form use during race Because Scale Racings expensive oneengine aspect Slow Rat might better move Mouse Slow Rat can also expensive have choice three four engines top engines SuperTigre 40X modified 36 Nelson Fox Mk 7 Combat Special showing some real promise Slow Rat intended entry-level event like other racing events open beginners experts Slow Rat quickly evolved well beyond entry level event havent mentioned FM Team Racing believe beginner racer should consider Team Racing Fast Rat racing until has considerable amount piloting pitting experience Fast Rat models very fast 150 mph pull very hard handful pilots US can fly properly safely Team Racing models also very fast three-up 120 mph mechanics piloting complex present wide gap between top five six TR teams US other teams across country attempt organize Sportsman level TR racing interest wasnt high enough Quick Way Mouse Racing Kustom Kraftsmanship Smiths Model Products addresses listed earlier can provide you need get Mouse racing Paul Gibeault Calgary Canada has very successful Rick Turenne designed Streaker model Paul has developed Streaker V has flown Canadian US records national championships Streaker V current US Nationals champion Smiths Model Products producing two versions Streaker V Streaker Jr Streaker V full-blown competition model bells whistles including button belicrank ball-joint pushrod connector nylon wingtip tail skids wheel Dacron cloth covering Streaker Jr also competition model less expensive componentsmore line Junior budget Smiths also has neat Jed Kusik-designed racing Control Line handle Kustom Kraftsmanship has engine peripheral components needed complete Mouse Racing setup pit box Joe Klause has Cox reed valve engines various stages tune has Black Widow tanks large fill tubes installed fine-thread needle valve assemblies cylinder shim sets piston/rod ball-joint setting tools fuel-filling bulbs trick nylon fill fittings Tornado props 010-inch solid control lines FoxberglGoldberg Another fun way get started Control Line racing local regional events called Foxberg area Depending region goes several different names slightly different rules Northwest call Northwest Sport Race Texas Southeast its called Goldberg Midwest its Foxy Hazel Basically rules require stock Fox 35 stunt engine some areas allow baffled plain-bearing 35 originally restricted Goldberg stunters Cosmic Wind Shoestring Buster Several areas allow Sterling Ringmasters Yak-9s Mustangs dont think allow use fast-fills hot gloves shutoffs Most restrict fuel capacity props Mouse Foxberg racing great ways get started Control Line racing provide relatively inexpensive education basic skills required become top-notch CL racer Youll leam start cold scalding-hot engines take off traffic enter flying circle two other fliers walk circle exit circle get model pitman over again Control Line racing challenging great funtry Join National Control Line Racing Association NCLRA Whether youre beginner expert can help further advancement Control Line racing Great things happening due efforts NCLRA leaders experienced Control Line racers dedicated competitors havent joined yet please send application Send name address phone number AIVIA number brief history CL racing $10 check Dave McDonald PO Box 384 Daleville IN 47334 4Contributors Continued page 148 Richard C Wong Thomas M Wood Michael W Woods William B Wylam Leon H Wysong Jaroslav Vala Kenneth Van Bramer Thomas B Van Dorn Walter P Van Gorder Dirk J Van Kuik Mark W Vancil Theodore F Vanderwerff Charles M Vaughn Richard J Verba Donald G Veres Larry J Verna Frank Vitamante John T Voedisch William F Vogelsang Larry R Uichanco Eugene Ujvari Charles T Unger Earl S Unger Arthur B Tappan John G Tatum II Donald S Taylor Yale M Taylor Ted C Cehovic Charlie P Terranova William D Thatcher William Thienes Thomas B Taylor Wendell S Thomas John Thompson III Randy Thompson Richard J Thompson Steve Thompson Thomas N Thompson Wilson Thorpe Kevin R Tiemann Charles E Tilton John S Timlin III Gordon W Tindle Kenneth M Todoverto Toshiya Tokieda Luis M Toledo Willie J Topps Dennis Toth Robert J Trace Jim Traw Gene R Trevino Arvid B Tronnes James D Tyler John P Tylicki James R Tyndall Robert J Sacek Leonard Sadownick Charles 0 Sabler Joseph Salatino Matthew D Sale Jack R Samuels William P Sanders Bruce E Sandhagen Anthony G Saunderson Marvin Schachter Daniel J Schippers David E Schlie Martin C Schmidt Michael L Schneider Paul P Schnepp Walter 0 Scholkopf Henry Schuyten Stephen J Schuyten Guy R Scott Ken Scott Thomas S Scott David K Seiffert Donald W Serafy James Shadwick Jerryl D Shankland W Sharp Roger Shaw Tom Sheets Robert C Shough Stanley E Shulman Walter Siedlecki Robert Sifleet John T Skahan Hubert L Sliwa Joseph C Slowinski Thomas J Small Chester R Smith Jerald S Smith Jim B Smith John F Smith Keith E Smith Randy D Smith William Smith William J Smith Robert J Smyth Robert W Snedegar Robert E Snider William D Snoreck David F Snow Richard D Snyder Thomas H Sons Robert Sorace Gene Southwick Duane G Spalsbury J Spanjersberg Walker Spann Laird L Spaulding Marc D Spicer George J Spindler Stephen Spinney Richard Steffensen Robert E Stegemiller Laurence C Stenhouse Kenneth E Stevens Alfred D Stewart Roy B Stewart Claude Stober Paul T Storer Malcolm Strachan III Roy D Strader Richard L Strand Samuel M Strong III Philip L Struckman Steve K Sturm Richard Sudermann Edward M Sullivan James B Sullivan Charles Swan Ralph L Swank II Richard S Swartz James P Swift Rick J Swing Pedro E Racelis Richard D Rake Peter D Ramagla J M Randall Richard K Ransom William Ranucci William M Reese Greg Reiger Dwight H Reilly Jr Stefan H Reisinger R C Remington John C Reynolds Harold J Rhodes Richard F Rhodes Richard W Jamerson Robert W Richardson George R Riddell Charles Rife James C Riley Jr F Randall Ringner Donald Rinker Salvatore Riscili Eugene P Rizzardi Jr Barclay Robertson John D Robertson Julius C Robinson Monty C Robson Will Rodgers Jim W Romick Roscoe E Weese Daniel D Rose Noah S Rosenbloom James Rosera Ian H Ross Stanley W Roth Richard L Ruh Ralph J Russell Robert M Russell John C Rutkowski Thomas P Rymer Miguel R PalavicciniStephen W Paris Walter Paris Dominick Parisi James W Continued page 190 150 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1995/01
Page Numbers: 149, 150
CONTROL LINE RACING IJNLESS YOURE LIKE ME wait until last minute youre disgusting people finished last January Ill bet youre middle Christmas shopping What tell relatives friends ask what should get What buy Control Line racer Actually gifts can get engines wheels control lines handles fast-fills kits tanks bellcranks balsa music wire basswood plywood adhesives paint fiberglass cloth resins pins clamps myriad other consumables can get items hobby shops what about super-go engines Im talking about stock items shelf find trick bellcrank saw winning model last contest What about neat fiberglass shell whatshisname Corkscrew Junction next state over built model around specialty items various types racers get items made owner model saw specialty items often produced limited basis sold other racers will take order make something provide service fee number fliers offer engine parts rework service cylinder chroming complete engine rebuilding Others have quality racing wheels fuel shutoffs fuel tanks fast-fills other goodies partial list people know offer parts and/or services Control Line racers offer parts services please send full description can get Out rest group requesting information please include couple bucks printing postage Bob Oge15477 Owens Rd Hinckley Th 60520 Tel 815 2863969engine work including chroming go-fast rework Willie WileyI 112 Hartsdale Dallas TX 75211 Tel 214 3300436super engine work go-fast events Melvin SchuetteOutlaw Racing PO Box 240 Auburn KS 66402 Tel 913 256-2583Special orders fuel shutoffs mechanical fast-fill valves reworked Fox Mk 7 36 Combat special engines other items Lenard Ascher215 N Prospectors Rd Diamond Bar CA 91765 Tel 909 860-9476Russian Team Racing engines model airplanes other equipment Kustom KraftsmanshipP 0 Box 3010 Fallbrook CA 92028 Tel 619 728-4365-/2A racing engines 12A button belicranks wheels needle valve assemblies fuel shutoffs Goodyear plans much Tom Knoppi19007 120th Ave SE Renton WA 98058 Tel 206 228-9502Team Race fuel tanks Russian Cyclon models engines kits ready-to-fly Glen Lee819 Mandrake Batavia IL 60510 Tel 312 8792558Excellent Racing wheels various sizes Smiths Model Products521 Jansen Ave San Dimas CA 91773 Tel 909 592-2100Streaker V Streaker Jr kits rubber fastfills Racer handies fuel tanks special racing tank fabrication specifications Walt PerkinsShadow Racing Inc 4416 Southeast 4 Place Ocala FL 32671 Tel 904 694-7918Nearly Team Race component can think carbon-fiber fuselages circular belicranks elevator horns landing gear sets props wheels etc Since beginners issue Ill discuss getting started Control Line Racing neat thing about niche model aviation has competition several levels four AMA eventsMouse Racing Scale Racing Slow Rat Fast Ratprovide gradual progression relatively unlimited event Fast Rat youve never flown others circle logical starting place Mouse 1/2A-size profile racers weigh 6-8 ounces quite light lines provide excellent training ground learn properly take off other models pilots vicinity exit pilot circle properly engine quits good way acquire basic flying skills must automatic before start using shutoffs fast-fills hot-gloves etc get trouble Mouse racer wont result severe dollar loss chance serious injury much less other events next step big will either advance Scale Slow Rat similar performance complexity number local regional racing events provide easier transition Mouse Racing Scale Racing formerly known Goodyear initially intended intermediate level like AIVIA events quickly became high-tech Thats bad After purposes AMA further advancement model aviation case Scale Racing has become one-engine want win event complex Mouse Racing due addition fast-fills hot-gloves pressurization shutoffs suchall simple components know make have access January1995 149 current AMA Nationals Open Champion Mouse racer Streaker V Mouse ideal Control Line Racing novices Bill Cave warms up Mouse 94 Nats Text has addresses Mouse model/parts distributors Models always allowed regional Foxberg-type events L-R Goldberg Shoestring Buster Cosmic Wind complexity comes form use during race Because Scale Racings expensive oneengine aspect Slow Rat might better move Mouse Slow Rat can also expensive have choice three four engines top engines SuperTigre 40X modified 36 Nelson Fox Mk 7 Combat Special showing some real promise Slow Rat intended entry-level event like other racing events open beginners experts Slow Rat quickly evolved well beyond entry level event havent mentioned FM Team Racing believe beginner racer should consider Team Racing Fast Rat racing until has considerable amount piloting pitting experience Fast Rat models very fast 150 mph pull very hard handful pilots US can fly properly safely Team Racing models also very fast three-up 120 mph mechanics piloting complex present wide gap between top five six TR teams US other teams across country attempt organize Sportsman level TR racing interest wasnt high enough Quick Way Mouse Racing Kustom Kraftsmanship Smiths Model Products addresses listed earlier can provide you need get Mouse racing Paul Gibeault Calgary Canada has very successful Rick Turenne designed Streaker model Paul has developed Streaker V has flown Canadian US records national championships Streaker V current US Nationals champion Smiths Model Products producing two versions Streaker V Streaker Jr Streaker V full-blown competition model bells whistles including button belicrank ball-joint pushrod connector nylon wingtip tail skids wheel Dacron cloth covering Streaker Jr also competition model less expensive componentsmore line Junior budget Smiths also has neat Jed Kusik-designed racing Control Line handle Kustom Kraftsmanship has engine peripheral components needed complete Mouse Racing setup pit box Joe Klause has Cox reed valve engines various stages tune has Black Widow tanks large fill tubes installed fine-thread needle valve assemblies cylinder shim sets piston/rod ball-joint setting tools fuel-filling bulbs trick nylon fill fittings Tornado props 010-inch solid control lines FoxberglGoldberg Another fun way get started Control Line racing local regional events called Foxberg area Depending region goes several different names slightly different rules Northwest call Northwest Sport Race Texas Southeast its called Goldberg Midwest its Foxy Hazel Basically rules require stock Fox 35 stunt engine some areas allow baffled plain-bearing 35 originally restricted Goldberg stunters Cosmic Wind Shoestring Buster Several areas allow Sterling Ringmasters Yak-9s Mustangs dont think allow use fast-fills hot gloves shutoffs Most restrict fuel capacity props Mouse Foxberg racing great ways get started Control Line racing provide relatively inexpensive education basic skills required become top-notch CL racer Youll leam start cold scalding-hot engines take off traffic enter flying circle two other fliers walk circle exit circle get model pitman over again Control Line racing challenging great funtry Join National Control Line Racing Association NCLRA Whether youre beginner expert can help further advancement Control Line racing Great things happening due efforts NCLRA leaders experienced Control Line racers dedicated competitors havent joined yet please send application Send name address phone number AIVIA number brief history CL racing $10 check Dave McDonald PO Box 384 Daleville IN 47334 4Contributors Continued page 148 Richard C Wong Thomas M Wood Michael W Woods William B Wylam Leon H Wysong Jaroslav Vala Kenneth Van Bramer Thomas B Van Dorn Walter P Van Gorder Dirk J Van Kuik Mark W Vancil Theodore F Vanderwerff Charles M Vaughn Richard J Verba Donald G Veres Larry J Verna Frank Vitamante John T Voedisch William F Vogelsang Larry R Uichanco Eugene Ujvari Charles T Unger Earl S Unger Arthur B Tappan John G Tatum II Donald S Taylor Yale M Taylor Ted C Cehovic Charlie P Terranova William D Thatcher William Thienes Thomas B Taylor Wendell S Thomas John Thompson III Randy Thompson Richard J Thompson Steve Thompson Thomas N Thompson Wilson Thorpe Kevin R Tiemann Charles E Tilton John S Timlin III Gordon W Tindle Kenneth M Todoverto Toshiya Tokieda Luis M Toledo Willie J Topps Dennis Toth Robert J Trace Jim Traw Gene R Trevino Arvid B Tronnes James D Tyler John P Tylicki James R Tyndall Robert J Sacek Leonard Sadownick Charles 0 Sabler Joseph Salatino Matthew D Sale Jack R Samuels William P Sanders Bruce E Sandhagen Anthony G Saunderson Marvin Schachter Daniel J Schippers David E Schlie Martin C Schmidt Michael L Schneider Paul P Schnepp Walter 0 Scholkopf Henry Schuyten Stephen J Schuyten Guy R Scott Ken Scott Thomas S Scott David K Seiffert Donald W Serafy James Shadwick Jerryl D Shankland W Sharp Roger Shaw Tom Sheets Robert C Shough Stanley E Shulman Walter Siedlecki Robert Sifleet John T Skahan Hubert L Sliwa Joseph C Slowinski Thomas J Small Chester R Smith Jerald S Smith Jim B Smith John F Smith Keith E Smith Randy D Smith William Smith William J Smith Robert J Smyth Robert W Snedegar Robert E Snider William D Snoreck David F Snow Richard D Snyder Thomas H Sons Robert Sorace Gene Southwick Duane G Spalsbury J Spanjersberg Walker Spann Laird L Spaulding Marc D Spicer George J Spindler Stephen Spinney Richard Steffensen Robert E Stegemiller Laurence C Stenhouse Kenneth E Stevens Alfred D Stewart Roy B Stewart Claude Stober Paul T Storer Malcolm Strachan III Roy D Strader Richard L Strand Samuel M Strong III Philip L Struckman Steve K Sturm Richard Sudermann Edward M Sullivan James B Sullivan Charles Swan Ralph L Swank II Richard S Swartz James P Swift Rick J Swing Pedro E Racelis Richard D Rake Peter D Ramagla J M Randall Richard K Ransom William Ranucci William M Reese Greg Reiger Dwight H Reilly Jr Stefan H Reisinger R C Remington John C Reynolds Harold J Rhodes Richard F Rhodes Richard W Jamerson Robert W Richardson George R Riddell Charles Rife James C Riley Jr F Randall Ringner Donald Rinker Salvatore Riscili Eugene P Rizzardi Jr Barclay Robertson John D Robertson Julius C Robinson Monty C Robson Will Rodgers Jim W Romick Roscoe E Weese Daniel D Rose Noah S Rosenbloom James Rosera Ian H Ross Stanley W Roth Richard L Ruh Ralph J Russell Robert M Russell John C Rutkowski Thomas P Rymer Miguel R PalavicciniStephen W Paris Walter Paris Dominick Parisi James W Continued page 190 150 Model Aviation