FREE FLIGHT DURATION EVER SINCE WAS Junior can remember editorials model magazines about Junior Problem Juniors writers moaned wrote about good old days during Depression ten-cent Comet kit would keep kid occupied hours hundreds youths would turn up contest city park hobby shop street corner 1950s television culprit luring youth away building board much television caused decline numbers children participating free flight Some factors societal others specific hobby Increasing affluence permitted other expensive alternatives dime kit Organized sports such Little League baseball cut available time Suburban sprawl took away vacant lots farmers fields No longer could walk ride bike flying site Aviation itself changed glamorous adventure routine means travel free flight changed too Improved model performance required bigger bigger fields further further away populated areas Mail-order suppliers put end neighborhood hobby shop deluding ourselves think will ever again have numbers kids flying free flight 1930s What should concentrate nourishing developing relatively few can interest hobby/sport past has usually meant getting kid started basic easytopbuild model such Delta Dart Collectively modeling community has done good job exposing thousands kids excitement free flight too often nothing ready follow Delta Dart Certainly nothing can built few hours high probability flying successfully Perhaps answer close attic basement experienced modeler Almost everyone know has least few over-the-hill models around flyable no longer competitive Open age category dig out give Junior Senior get January1995 135 Miller family Jodys first Junior WC 1992 Lucenec Czechoslovakia Jody wore radio headset two-way communications helper Reid Simpsons B model has polyester fabric covering wing Reid borrowed details FiC models K&B stab Easy use puncture resistant waterproof 35-powered B Gas model Alligator clip pinches fuel line flying Nothing builds interest free flight like flying Nothing will kill interest faster getting some kid bogged down long complicated building process beginner becomes interested flying building will come later Ah what about builder-of-the-model rule Should follow lead FAI international events abolish rule AMA events Would help attract youngsters free flight young flier has benefited approach Jody Miller few years back started flying FlA towline glider competitively using Jim Bradleys old models quick way Jody see liked event flying wellbuilt well-adjusted model eliminated beginners usual problems lot support parents Blame Sandy Jody has become very successful Junior team program represented United States Junior World Champs Czechoslovakia Ukraine Last fall competed spot US Open team has taken place about five years Could have developed rapidly competitive flier required build models dont think Lets get beginners ages out flying quit worrying about models come Covering Update August column mentioned available alternatives traditional Japanese tissue covering free flight models Well thought mentioned John Oldenkamp Charles Reich dropped notes about mylar Curt Stevens Model Research Laboratories sells different other popular clear quarter- half-mil mylars already has adhesive back much like heavier films used RC fraternity According John film weighs 36 grams per square foot makes comparable weight well-doped tissue Having adhesive film rather framework increases weight good bit sure makes covering quick easy tack film down framework tip iron heat-shrink turns out flying buddy Jim Larkin has using stuff years sheeted wings stabs application might actually weight saving since no brushed-on adhesive balsa soak up Another covering material mentioned August column new polyester film Sal Fruciano Starline importing Pensacola contest June chance talk two people using material Tom Hepler Mulvihill model covered polyester Tom mixed yellow aniline dye clear dope give some color white polyester What impressed quality covering job tiny corner wrinkles always seem end up using tissue unlike some other plastic films almost no bulging between ribs bottom undercambered wing Reid Simpson flying new B Gas model polyester covering Reid Tom assured polyester material easy use gave try new Wakefield wing Following instructions used full-strength nitrate dope attach covering behaves much better tissue much much better other plastic films Simply dope framework lay polyester down over framework Turner DPR line timer released lever pivots retracting L-shaped pin allowing prop start seems almost cover itself worked best dope three four bays time position film smooth out move down wing Trimming excess bit harder tissue sharp razor blade worked much better fine sandpaper As normal practice tissue covered top bottom panel separately polyester doesnt go around sharp bends well After wing covered gave two coats 50/50 dope pulled up fairly tight used hot iron further tighten few spots didnt take much give smooth tight covering Rather use colored dope decided leave material its natural white did dope some small pieces colored tissue 136 Model Aviation 4Bill Turners simple side-mounted lever provides simple light way release DPR delayed prop release front end Bare bones view Fred Guilfoyles 1/4A version Dick Mathis Trigger several 1/4A plans sells see text Jody Miller shown dad Blame has advanced rapidly competitive FlA flier SOGESTED PROP REEASE 05CR IJKOV OPR decoration Tissue AMA numbers completed job wing weighed 42 grams before covering 54 grams afterward wing area 1615 square decimeters about 250 square inches polyester film available Starline 6146 E Cactus Wren Road Scottsdale AZ 85253 mylar film Model Research Laboratories 25108 Marguerite #160 Mission Viejo CA 92692 Cubs time began flying t/2A about 1955 Atwoods Coxes eclipsed ubiquitous OK Cub competition free flight Im sure Cub ever really intended competition engine Rather sort mass-market engine stick nose some control line kit remember ones solid balsa block body somewhat airfoiled piece /iri wing 1937 1963 Herkimer Tool & Model Works produced two million OK engines time worlds largest manufacturer model airplane engines Now thirty years later Cub back replica original engine OK Engines PO Box 355 Mohawk NY 13407 has stock original parts including some complete engines sale Available original 1949 vintage Cub 049 well Cub 049 B S models Also available reed valve 049 059 engines Prices range $895 B models $1895 original Cub reedbvalve 049 Remember original engines supply limited interested new Cub two need spare parts send $2 complete catalog Youll find big help identifying old Cubs youve got lying around bottom drawer Half-Pint hAs neat set plans arrived Fred Guilfoyle PlanLAt Industries scaled-down 31-inch span 160 square inches version Dick Mathis Trigger Its nice-looking high thrust line model designed Cox Tee Dee 020 plans computer drawn REIIYS QUALITY MODEL PRODUCES GIANT SCALE SPECIAJJSTS Zenosh Quadra Sales Parts Service 1/4 1/3 scale kits Ercoupe Tomahawk -J3 Kitten Kinner Taylorcraft Quartermaster 16 Main St Phelps NY 14532 Catalog $100 315-548-3779 very clean Fred has also scaled-down 020-size plans available Starduster Starduster-X Hydro Star Ramrod Spacer Top Banana Pilfered Pearl Others works Price $500 plus $125 postage address Plan-It Industries 15121 62nd Ave West Edmonds WA 98026 Fred busy out Pacific Northwest promoting 14A Power modernized version 020 Replica idea develop event thats easy build cheap fun fly Sounds like good event club contests get together order some plans help few Juniors get started might want try team approach pairing beginner experienced modeler Total time both models determines team ranking could try group building session everyone building same model productionline style Officially Unofficial Speaking new events Walt Rozelle has compiled official NFFS Rules Special Events essentially compilation unofficial free flight events both Indoor outdoor Some may familiar such Nostalgia Gas tI2A Texaco other events may much less well known such CO2 Combined 7-11 Rubber Distance Slow Power way could use OK Cubs Early Nostalgia Gas allows older tI2As such Wasp Spitzy Spitfire Cub K&B Torpedo new rule book sells $2 plus postage Order Walt 926 Argonne Ave NE Atlanta GA 30309 DPR As followup recent Duration columns DPR delayed prop release Wakefield Bill Turner sent along sketch system hes using Its simple light uses conventional trip arm line timer actuate prop release allows Bill use four-function electronic timer accurate sequencing functions UCTS FOR TE lete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Muffled Tuned Pipes Headers uri Mufflers Expansion Mufflers copter Ball Mufflers ialized Exhaust Systems UnSupaSFd .Ia PfformAnC Statement Ownership Management Circulation Required 39 USC 3685 lA Title Publication ModelAviation 1 B Publication Number 087930 2 Date Filing September 301994 3 Frequency Issue Monthly A No isaues published annually 12 B Annual aubscription price $1800 4 Complete Mailing Address Known Office Publication street city county etate ZIP code printers 5151 Eaat Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 5 Complete mailing address headquarters general business officers publisher printer 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 6 Full names complete mailing address publisher editor managing editor item must leff blank Publisher Academy Model Aeronautics Inc 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 Editor Rob Kurek Managing Editor Jim Haught 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 7 Owner Academy Model Aeronautics Inc 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 8 Known bondholders mortgagees other security holders owning holding 1 percent total amount bonds mortgages other securities None 9 For completion nonprofit organizations authorized mail special rates DMM Section 42312 purpose function nonprofit status organization exempt status Federal income tax purposes 1 Has changed during preceding 12 months 10 Extent Nature Circulation Average No Copies issue during pre ceding 12 months A Total No Copies Net Press Run B Pad and/or Requested Orculation 1 Sates through dealers carriers street vendors counter sales 2 Mail Subscription Membership C Total Paid and/or requested Circulahon Sum 1061 1082 D Free Distribution Mail Carrier Other Means Samples complimentary Other Free Copies E Total Distribution Sum C D F Co~es Distributed 1 Office use left over unaccounted spoiled after printing 2 Retems News Agents G TotalSumofEF1 2 should equal net press run shown 139165 2494 Actual No Copies single issue published nearest filing date 148635 2105 135348145258 137842147363 676633 138518 147996 647639 9529 139165148635 11 I certify statements made correct complete Rob Kurek Publications Manager January1995 137
Edition: Model Aviation - 1995/01
Page Numbers: 135, 136, 137
FREE FLIGHT DURATION EVER SINCE WAS Junior can remember editorials model magazines about Junior Problem Juniors writers moaned wrote about good old days during Depression ten-cent Comet kit would keep kid occupied hours hundreds youths would turn up contest city park hobby shop street corner 1950s television culprit luring youth away building board much television caused decline numbers children participating free flight Some factors societal others specific hobby Increasing affluence permitted other expensive alternatives dime kit Organized sports such Little League baseball cut available time Suburban sprawl took away vacant lots farmers fields No longer could walk ride bike flying site Aviation itself changed glamorous adventure routine means travel free flight changed too Improved model performance required bigger bigger fields further further away populated areas Mail-order suppliers put end neighborhood hobby shop deluding ourselves think will ever again have numbers kids flying free flight 1930s What should concentrate nourishing developing relatively few can interest hobby/sport past has usually meant getting kid started basic easytopbuild model such Delta Dart Collectively modeling community has done good job exposing thousands kids excitement free flight too often nothing ready follow Delta Dart Certainly nothing can built few hours high probability flying successfully Perhaps answer close attic basement experienced modeler Almost everyone know has least few over-the-hill models around flyable no longer competitive Open age category dig out give Junior Senior get January1995 135 Miller family Jodys first Junior WC 1992 Lucenec Czechoslovakia Jody wore radio headset two-way communications helper Reid Simpsons B model has polyester fabric covering wing Reid borrowed details FiC models K&B stab Easy use puncture resistant waterproof 35-powered B Gas model Alligator clip pinches fuel line flying Nothing builds interest free flight like flying Nothing will kill interest faster getting some kid bogged down long complicated building process beginner becomes interested flying building will come later Ah what about builder-of-the-model rule Should follow lead FAI international events abolish rule AMA events Would help attract youngsters free flight young flier has benefited approach Jody Miller few years back started flying FlA towline glider competitively using Jim Bradleys old models quick way Jody see liked event flying wellbuilt well-adjusted model eliminated beginners usual problems lot support parents Blame Sandy Jody has become very successful Junior team program represented United States Junior World Champs Czechoslovakia Ukraine Last fall competed spot US Open team has taken place about five years Could have developed rapidly competitive flier required build models dont think Lets get beginners ages out flying quit worrying about models come Covering Update August column mentioned available alternatives traditional Japanese tissue covering free flight models Well thought mentioned John Oldenkamp Charles Reich dropped notes about mylar Curt Stevens Model Research Laboratories sells different other popular clear quarter- half-mil mylars already has adhesive back much like heavier films used RC fraternity According John film weighs 36 grams per square foot makes comparable weight well-doped tissue Having adhesive film rather framework increases weight good bit sure makes covering quick easy tack film down framework tip iron heat-shrink turns out flying buddy Jim Larkin has using stuff years sheeted wings stabs application might actually weight saving since no brushed-on adhesive balsa soak up Another covering material mentioned August column new polyester film Sal Fruciano Starline importing Pensacola contest June chance talk two people using material Tom Hepler Mulvihill model covered polyester Tom mixed yellow aniline dye clear dope give some color white polyester What impressed quality covering job tiny corner wrinkles always seem end up using tissue unlike some other plastic films almost no bulging between ribs bottom undercambered wing Reid Simpson flying new B Gas model polyester covering Reid Tom assured polyester material easy use gave try new Wakefield wing Following instructions used full-strength nitrate dope attach covering behaves much better tissue much much better other plastic films Simply dope framework lay polyester down over framework Turner DPR line timer released lever pivots retracting L-shaped pin allowing prop start seems almost cover itself worked best dope three four bays time position film smooth out move down wing Trimming excess bit harder tissue sharp razor blade worked much better fine sandpaper As normal practice tissue covered top bottom panel separately polyester doesnt go around sharp bends well After wing covered gave two coats 50/50 dope pulled up fairly tight used hot iron further tighten few spots didnt take much give smooth tight covering Rather use colored dope decided leave material its natural white did dope some small pieces colored tissue 136 Model Aviation 4Bill Turners simple side-mounted lever provides simple light way release DPR delayed prop release front end Bare bones view Fred Guilfoyles 1/4A version Dick Mathis Trigger several 1/4A plans sells see text Jody Miller shown dad Blame has advanced rapidly competitive FlA flier SOGESTED PROP REEASE 05CR IJKOV OPR decoration Tissue AMA numbers completed job wing weighed 42 grams before covering 54 grams afterward wing area 1615 square decimeters about 250 square inches polyester film available Starline 6146 E Cactus Wren Road Scottsdale AZ 85253 mylar film Model Research Laboratories 25108 Marguerite #160 Mission Viejo CA 92692 Cubs time began flying t/2A about 1955 Atwoods Coxes eclipsed ubiquitous OK Cub competition free flight Im sure Cub ever really intended competition engine Rather sort mass-market engine stick nose some control line kit remember ones solid balsa block body somewhat airfoiled piece /iri wing 1937 1963 Herkimer Tool & Model Works produced two million OK engines time worlds largest manufacturer model airplane engines Now thirty years later Cub back replica original engine OK Engines PO Box 355 Mohawk NY 13407 has stock original parts including some complete engines sale Available original 1949 vintage Cub 049 well Cub 049 B S models Also available reed valve 049 059 engines Prices range $895 B models $1895 original Cub reedbvalve 049 Remember original engines supply limited interested new Cub two need spare parts send $2 complete catalog Youll find big help identifying old Cubs youve got lying around bottom drawer Half-Pint hAs neat set plans arrived Fred Guilfoyle PlanLAt Industries scaled-down 31-inch span 160 square inches version Dick Mathis Trigger Its nice-looking high thrust line model designed Cox Tee Dee 020 plans computer drawn REIIYS QUALITY MODEL PRODUCES GIANT SCALE SPECIAJJSTS Zenosh Quadra Sales Parts Service 1/4 1/3 scale kits Ercoupe Tomahawk -J3 Kitten Kinner Taylorcraft Quartermaster 16 Main St Phelps NY 14532 Catalog $100 315-548-3779 very clean Fred has also scaled-down 020-size plans available Starduster Starduster-X Hydro Star Ramrod Spacer Top Banana Pilfered Pearl Others works Price $500 plus $125 postage address Plan-It Industries 15121 62nd Ave West Edmonds WA 98026 Fred busy out Pacific Northwest promoting 14A Power modernized version 020 Replica idea develop event thats easy build cheap fun fly Sounds like good event club contests get together order some plans help few Juniors get started might want try team approach pairing beginner experienced modeler Total time both models determines team ranking could try group building session everyone building same model productionline style Officially Unofficial Speaking new events Walt Rozelle has compiled official NFFS Rules Special Events essentially compilation unofficial free flight events both Indoor outdoor Some may familiar such Nostalgia Gas tI2A Texaco other events may much less well known such CO2 Combined 7-11 Rubber Distance Slow Power way could use OK Cubs Early Nostalgia Gas allows older tI2As such Wasp Spitzy Spitfire Cub K&B Torpedo new rule book sells $2 plus postage Order Walt 926 Argonne Ave NE Atlanta GA 30309 DPR As followup recent Duration columns DPR delayed prop release Wakefield Bill Turner sent along sketch system hes using Its simple light uses conventional trip arm line timer actuate prop release allows Bill use four-function electronic timer accurate sequencing functions UCTS FOR TE lete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Muffled Tuned Pipes Headers uri Mufflers Expansion Mufflers copter Ball Mufflers ialized Exhaust Systems UnSupaSFd .Ia PfformAnC Statement Ownership Management Circulation Required 39 USC 3685 lA Title Publication ModelAviation 1 B Publication Number 087930 2 Date Filing September 301994 3 Frequency Issue Monthly A No isaues published annually 12 B Annual aubscription price $1800 4 Complete Mailing Address Known Office Publication street city county etate ZIP code printers 5151 Eaat Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 5 Complete mailing address headquarters general business officers publisher printer 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 6 Full names complete mailing address publisher editor managing editor item must leff blank Publisher Academy Model Aeronautics Inc 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 Editor Rob Kurek Managing Editor Jim Haught 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 7 Owner Academy Model Aeronautics Inc 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 8 Known bondholders mortgagees other security holders owning holding 1 percent total amount bonds mortgages other securities None 9 For completion nonprofit organizations authorized mail special rates DMM Section 42312 purpose function nonprofit status organization exempt status Federal income tax purposes 1 Has changed during preceding 12 months 10 Extent Nature Circulation Average No Copies issue during pre ceding 12 months A Total No Copies Net Press Run B Pad and/or Requested Orculation 1 Sates through dealers carriers street vendors counter sales 2 Mail Subscription Membership C Total Paid and/or requested Circulahon Sum 1061 1082 D Free Distribution Mail Carrier Other Means Samples complimentary Other Free Copies E Total Distribution Sum C D F Co~es Distributed 1 Office use left over unaccounted spoiled after printing 2 Retems News Agents G TotalSumofEF1 2 should equal net press run shown 139165 2494 Actual No Copies single issue published nearest filing date 148635 2105 135348145258 137842147363 676633 138518 147996 647639 9529 139165148635 11 I certify statements made correct complete Rob Kurek Publications Manager January1995 137
Edition: Model Aviation - 1995/01
Page Numbers: 135, 136, 137
FREE FLIGHT DURATION EVER SINCE WAS Junior can remember editorials model magazines about Junior Problem Juniors writers moaned wrote about good old days during Depression ten-cent Comet kit would keep kid occupied hours hundreds youths would turn up contest city park hobby shop street corner 1950s television culprit luring youth away building board much television caused decline numbers children participating free flight Some factors societal others specific hobby Increasing affluence permitted other expensive alternatives dime kit Organized sports such Little League baseball cut available time Suburban sprawl took away vacant lots farmers fields No longer could walk ride bike flying site Aviation itself changed glamorous adventure routine means travel free flight changed too Improved model performance required bigger bigger fields further further away populated areas Mail-order suppliers put end neighborhood hobby shop deluding ourselves think will ever again have numbers kids flying free flight 1930s What should concentrate nourishing developing relatively few can interest hobby/sport past has usually meant getting kid started basic easytopbuild model such Delta Dart Collectively modeling community has done good job exposing thousands kids excitement free flight too often nothing ready follow Delta Dart Certainly nothing can built few hours high probability flying successfully Perhaps answer close attic basement experienced modeler Almost everyone know has least few over-the-hill models around flyable no longer competitive Open age category dig out give Junior Senior get January1995 135 Miller family Jodys first Junior WC 1992 Lucenec Czechoslovakia Jody wore radio headset two-way communications helper Reid Simpsons B model has polyester fabric covering wing Reid borrowed details FiC models K&B stab Easy use puncture resistant waterproof 35-powered B Gas model Alligator clip pinches fuel line flying Nothing builds interest free flight like flying Nothing will kill interest faster getting some kid bogged down long complicated building process beginner becomes interested flying building will come later Ah what about builder-of-the-model rule Should follow lead FAI international events abolish rule AMA events Would help attract youngsters free flight young flier has benefited approach Jody Miller few years back started flying FlA towline glider competitively using Jim Bradleys old models quick way Jody see liked event flying wellbuilt well-adjusted model eliminated beginners usual problems lot support parents Blame Sandy Jody has become very successful Junior team program represented United States Junior World Champs Czechoslovakia Ukraine Last fall competed spot US Open team has taken place about five years Could have developed rapidly competitive flier required build models dont think Lets get beginners ages out flying quit worrying about models come Covering Update August column mentioned available alternatives traditional Japanese tissue covering free flight models Well thought mentioned John Oldenkamp Charles Reich dropped notes about mylar Curt Stevens Model Research Laboratories sells different other popular clear quarter- half-mil mylars already has adhesive back much like heavier films used RC fraternity According John film weighs 36 grams per square foot makes comparable weight well-doped tissue Having adhesive film rather framework increases weight good bit sure makes covering quick easy tack film down framework tip iron heat-shrink turns out flying buddy Jim Larkin has using stuff years sheeted wings stabs application might actually weight saving since no brushed-on adhesive balsa soak up Another covering material mentioned August column new polyester film Sal Fruciano Starline importing Pensacola contest June chance talk two people using material Tom Hepler Mulvihill model covered polyester Tom mixed yellow aniline dye clear dope give some color white polyester What impressed quality covering job tiny corner wrinkles always seem end up using tissue unlike some other plastic films almost no bulging between ribs bottom undercambered wing Reid Simpson flying new B Gas model polyester covering Reid Tom assured polyester material easy use gave try new Wakefield wing Following instructions used full-strength nitrate dope attach covering behaves much better tissue much much better other plastic films Simply dope framework lay polyester down over framework Turner DPR line timer released lever pivots retracting L-shaped pin allowing prop start seems almost cover itself worked best dope three four bays time position film smooth out move down wing Trimming excess bit harder tissue sharp razor blade worked much better fine sandpaper As normal practice tissue covered top bottom panel separately polyester doesnt go around sharp bends well After wing covered gave two coats 50/50 dope pulled up fairly tight used hot iron further tighten few spots didnt take much give smooth tight covering Rather use colored dope decided leave material its natural white did dope some small pieces colored tissue 136 Model Aviation 4Bill Turners simple side-mounted lever provides simple light way release DPR delayed prop release front end Bare bones view Fred Guilfoyles 1/4A version Dick Mathis Trigger several 1/4A plans sells see text Jody Miller shown dad Blame has advanced rapidly competitive FlA flier SOGESTED PROP REEASE 05CR IJKOV OPR decoration Tissue AMA numbers completed job wing weighed 42 grams before covering 54 grams afterward wing area 1615 square decimeters about 250 square inches polyester film available Starline 6146 E Cactus Wren Road Scottsdale AZ 85253 mylar film Model Research Laboratories 25108 Marguerite #160 Mission Viejo CA 92692 Cubs time began flying t/2A about 1955 Atwoods Coxes eclipsed ubiquitous OK Cub competition free flight Im sure Cub ever really intended competition engine Rather sort mass-market engine stick nose some control line kit remember ones solid balsa block body somewhat airfoiled piece /iri wing 1937 1963 Herkimer Tool & Model Works produced two million OK engines time worlds largest manufacturer model airplane engines Now thirty years later Cub back replica original engine OK Engines PO Box 355 Mohawk NY 13407 has stock original parts including some complete engines sale Available original 1949 vintage Cub 049 well Cub 049 B S models Also available reed valve 049 059 engines Prices range $895 B models $1895 original Cub reedbvalve 049 Remember original engines supply limited interested new Cub two need spare parts send $2 complete catalog Youll find big help identifying old Cubs youve got lying around bottom drawer Half-Pint hAs neat set plans arrived Fred Guilfoyle PlanLAt Industries scaled-down 31-inch span 160 square inches version Dick Mathis Trigger Its nice-looking high thrust line model designed Cox Tee Dee 020 plans computer drawn REIIYS QUALITY MODEL PRODUCES GIANT SCALE SPECIAJJSTS Zenosh Quadra Sales Parts Service 1/4 1/3 scale kits Ercoupe Tomahawk -J3 Kitten Kinner Taylorcraft Quartermaster 16 Main St Phelps NY 14532 Catalog $100 315-548-3779 very clean Fred has also scaled-down 020-size plans available Starduster Starduster-X Hydro Star Ramrod Spacer Top Banana Pilfered Pearl Others works Price $500 plus $125 postage address Plan-It Industries 15121 62nd Ave West Edmonds WA 98026 Fred busy out Pacific Northwest promoting 14A Power modernized version 020 Replica idea develop event thats easy build cheap fun fly Sounds like good event club contests get together order some plans help few Juniors get started might want try team approach pairing beginner experienced modeler Total time both models determines team ranking could try group building session everyone building same model productionline style Officially Unofficial Speaking new events Walt Rozelle has compiled official NFFS Rules Special Events essentially compilation unofficial free flight events both Indoor outdoor Some may familiar such Nostalgia Gas tI2A Texaco other events may much less well known such CO2 Combined 7-11 Rubber Distance Slow Power way could use OK Cubs Early Nostalgia Gas allows older tI2As such Wasp Spitzy Spitfire Cub K&B Torpedo new rule book sells $2 plus postage Order Walt 926 Argonne Ave NE Atlanta GA 30309 DPR As followup recent Duration columns DPR delayed prop release Wakefield Bill Turner sent along sketch system hes using Its simple light uses conventional trip arm line timer actuate prop release allows Bill use four-function electronic timer accurate sequencing functions UCTS FOR TE lete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Muffled Tuned Pipes Headers uri Mufflers Expansion Mufflers copter Ball Mufflers ialized Exhaust Systems UnSupaSFd .Ia PfformAnC Statement Ownership Management Circulation Required 39 USC 3685 lA Title Publication ModelAviation 1 B Publication Number 087930 2 Date Filing September 301994 3 Frequency Issue Monthly A No isaues published annually 12 B Annual aubscription price $1800 4 Complete Mailing Address Known Office Publication street city county etate ZIP code printers 5151 Eaat Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 5 Complete mailing address headquarters general business officers publisher printer 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 6 Full names complete mailing address publisher editor managing editor item must leff blank Publisher Academy Model Aeronautics Inc 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 Editor Rob Kurek Managing Editor Jim Haught 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 7 Owner Academy Model Aeronautics Inc 5151 East Memorial Drive Muncie Indiana 47302 8 Known bondholders mortgagees other security holders owning holding 1 percent total amount bonds mortgages other securities None 9 For completion nonprofit organizations authorized mail special rates DMM Section 42312 purpose function nonprofit status organization exempt status Federal income tax purposes 1 Has changed during preceding 12 months 10 Extent Nature Circulation Average No Copies issue during pre ceding 12 months A Total No Copies Net Press Run B Pad and/or Requested Orculation 1 Sates through dealers carriers street vendors counter sales 2 Mail Subscription Membership C Total Paid and/or requested Circulahon Sum 1061 1082 D Free Distribution Mail Carrier Other Means Samples complimentary Other Free Copies E Total Distribution Sum C D F Co~es Distributed 1 Office use left over unaccounted spoiled after printing 2 Retems News Agents G TotalSumofEF1 2 should equal net press run shown 139165 2494 Actual No Copies single issue published nearest filing date 148635 2105 135348145258 137842147363 676633 138518 147996 647639 9529 139165148635 11 I certify statements made correct complete Rob Kurek Publications Manager January1995 137