FREE FLIGHT DURATION U @1 I~W 1A1 jJ j VM& SERENA Thats name new Coupe being imported Sal Fruciano Starline International Like Andre Burdov coupe Starline has importing last year Serena available ready-to-fly model Her&s SaPs tale new Coupe came new Coupe now named Serena made Ukraine Alexie Bukin flying buddy Stephan Stephanchuk Alexie won Anatov Cup Fl B year met him 1994 trip Kiev l.ast year visit Czech Republic asked would make Coupe thoughts bigger orders follow About five weeks later first model arrived Somehow able read mind perfectly Compared Burdov coupe Serena has higher-aspect-ratio wing tabular carbon spar longer fuselage tail-moment arm prop larger 19-V inches diameter flies well 12 strands inch Tan II Nats summer bad chance examine Serena John Clapp FAI Model Supply flying As Sal points out Serena bigger model Burdov Sweet C Coupe also lighter-appearing model thanks its tubular carbon spar construction Burdov coupe uses carbon fiber D-box wing tubular spar also used stab leading edge rudder rudder all-moving arrangement pivots about 20% back prop blades balsa covered light glass cloth nicely-machined front end uses reverse-Montreal stop entire hub blades pulled forward launch torque drops near zero end run spring pushes entire assembly rear engages fixed stop pin easy winding front end fitted bobbin bayonets over shaft timer molded pylon controls VYI7 variable incidence tailplane auto rudder DT dethermalizer Following standard Wakefield practice motor tube Russian aramid cloth tailboom carbon fiber/aluminum composite vital statistics Wing area 12 square decameters about 190 square inches span 1300mm about 52 inches weight wing 26 grams Total weight 75 grams Price Serena $440 plus shipping can order directly Sal Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Tel 602 948-5798 can also check John Clapp FM Model Supply Box 366 Sayre PA 18840-0366 BOM BOM stands builder-of-the-model Thats rule AMA Free flight events long can remember Simply stated rule says flier supposed builder model also rule international events years As late 1950s die-cut ribs allowed Rules changes few years back eliminated builder-of-the-model rule large international events FlA glider FiB Wakefield rubber FiC gas also coincided fall Berlin wall breakup Soviet Union allowed Eastern-bloc modelers travel freely West sell finished models well components dollars marks Some diehard proponents builderof-the-model rule decried end Free Flight Perhaps end Free Flight hobby beginning Free Flight sport Flying contests became focusnot endless hours spent over building board People could try new event 128 Model Aviation Clapp shows Serena Coupe imported Ukraine Sal Fruciano Two-piece wing carbon-fiber tube spar aluminum-carbon tailboom stabilizer also uses tubular carbon spar Note small 7-shaped hammer stab trailing edge screw top hammer allows fine adjustment glide minimal time investment albeit higher dollar investment used us remember paying $225 Gollywock kit 950s may have felt paying upwards thousand dollars finished Wakefield bit much quick look other sports showed highquality sporting equipment costs money 22 caliber target rifle sells $2000 bass boat can cost much car widespread use radio transmitters same time greatly reduced likelihood losing expensive model Model life now measured years weeks Free Flight fliers especially full-time jobs time valuable commodity money Buying finished model often allows someone time compete allows relative novice fly model structurally sound accurately built especially heartening see some Junior Team members out flying winning state-of-the-art FlA towline gliders Frankly think average teenager would get much excited about flying seven-foot span carbon-fiber bunt glider programmable electronic timer would flying Delta Dart Remember too nothing international rules says have buy model have skills time can make much little model want Eliminating builder-ofthe-model rule simply allows people compete higher level basic flying air-picking skills still important perhaps since difference performance between models has reduced interesting note both firstand second-place models Coupe 1998 Nats conventional stick-andtissue models despite presence number bought high-tech models what about builder-of-the-model rule AMA events course still effect rule difficult enforce may also rule hinders rather helps ensure future Free Flight Would better give sell models beginners quick way get interested flying Free Flight building could come later What some enterprising modeler built dozen P-30s offered sale rent contest Spectators could become instant participants far better trying explain someone need order supplies mail spend weeks trying build model have crash because mislaigament Eliminating builder-of-the-model rule would also provide outlet older modelsthe ones now clutter basements attics across country older modelers could still stay active builders long after physical ability fly retrieve gone feel time seriously examine builder-of-the-model rule still needed enforceable best interest future Free Flight keep BOM rule Please let know what think Model Research Labs Got old McCoy 60 laying around Curt Stevens MJL has just plan Its scaled-up 200-square-inch version Sal Taibis Spacer case memory fading less 40 Spacer pylon gas model designed 1950s plan 1200 Spacer looks like construction drawing house model plan big model wingspan just over 92 inches chord bit over 14 inches thats too big fit car consider 200-square-inch version Nostalgia plans actually enlargements reductions original California Models kit plans updated notes added best part plans themselves accompanying instructions set 200 runs 12 pages no glue tab slot C nonsense Instead Curt has put together humor insight opinion guide getting started /2A Nostalgia covers everything engine selection contest tactics An example Curts style cautionary note about using Holland Hornet Nostalgia Hornets notorious breaking shafts Flying expensive Holland Hornet like using $100 bill snuffer tube Dont let Mom find out addition two sizes mentioned MRL also offers 145-square-inch version Cox Tee Dee 020 435 version 15s 500 size 19-23 power 608-square-inch version 29- 35 engines plans $7 except 145 $5 1200 $10 Shipping additional $3 California residents need add extra 775% sales tax Cash personal checks address Model Research Labs 25108 Marguerite #160 Mission Viejo CA 92692 Fax 714 248-1074 sure get MRL catalog $1 Curt offers wide variety items including MylarTM polyester covering materials carbon KevlarTM glider polish latter update old-fashioned sanding sealer used hand-launched gliders Again Curt includes couple pages finishing gliders useful tip completely sand finish rudder before cutting loose sheet balsa wish known back glider-building youth ary1999 129 Lightweight rudder Coupe uses carbon tube leading edge carbon-capped balsa ribs carbon trailing edge Front end features molded carbon cloth spinner reverse-Montreal stop removable bobbin assembly Threaded aluminum fittings pitch adjustment
Edition: Model Aviation - 1999/01
Page Numbers: 128, 129
FREE FLIGHT DURATION U @1 I~W 1A1 jJ j VM& SERENA Thats name new Coupe being imported Sal Fruciano Starline International Like Andre Burdov coupe Starline has importing last year Serena available ready-to-fly model Her&s SaPs tale new Coupe came new Coupe now named Serena made Ukraine Alexie Bukin flying buddy Stephan Stephanchuk Alexie won Anatov Cup Fl B year met him 1994 trip Kiev l.ast year visit Czech Republic asked would make Coupe thoughts bigger orders follow About five weeks later first model arrived Somehow able read mind perfectly Compared Burdov coupe Serena has higher-aspect-ratio wing tabular carbon spar longer fuselage tail-moment arm prop larger 19-V inches diameter flies well 12 strands inch Tan II Nats summer bad chance examine Serena John Clapp FAI Model Supply flying As Sal points out Serena bigger model Burdov Sweet C Coupe also lighter-appearing model thanks its tubular carbon spar construction Burdov coupe uses carbon fiber D-box wing tubular spar also used stab leading edge rudder rudder all-moving arrangement pivots about 20% back prop blades balsa covered light glass cloth nicely-machined front end uses reverse-Montreal stop entire hub blades pulled forward launch torque drops near zero end run spring pushes entire assembly rear engages fixed stop pin easy winding front end fitted bobbin bayonets over shaft timer molded pylon controls VYI7 variable incidence tailplane auto rudder DT dethermalizer Following standard Wakefield practice motor tube Russian aramid cloth tailboom carbon fiber/aluminum composite vital statistics Wing area 12 square decameters about 190 square inches span 1300mm about 52 inches weight wing 26 grams Total weight 75 grams Price Serena $440 plus shipping can order directly Sal Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Tel 602 948-5798 can also check John Clapp FM Model Supply Box 366 Sayre PA 18840-0366 BOM BOM stands builder-of-the-model Thats rule AMA Free flight events long can remember Simply stated rule says flier supposed builder model also rule international events years As late 1950s die-cut ribs allowed Rules changes few years back eliminated builder-of-the-model rule large international events FlA glider FiB Wakefield rubber FiC gas also coincided fall Berlin wall breakup Soviet Union allowed Eastern-bloc modelers travel freely West sell finished models well components dollars marks Some diehard proponents builderof-the-model rule decried end Free Flight Perhaps end Free Flight hobby beginning Free Flight sport Flying contests became focusnot endless hours spent over building board People could try new event 128 Model Aviation Clapp shows Serena Coupe imported Ukraine Sal Fruciano Two-piece wing carbon-fiber tube spar aluminum-carbon tailboom stabilizer also uses tubular carbon spar Note small 7-shaped hammer stab trailing edge screw top hammer allows fine adjustment glide minimal time investment albeit higher dollar investment used us remember paying $225 Gollywock kit 950s may have felt paying upwards thousand dollars finished Wakefield bit much quick look other sports showed highquality sporting equipment costs money 22 caliber target rifle sells $2000 bass boat can cost much car widespread use radio transmitters same time greatly reduced likelihood losing expensive model Model life now measured years weeks Free Flight fliers especially full-time jobs time valuable commodity money Buying finished model often allows someone time compete allows relative novice fly model structurally sound accurately built especially heartening see some Junior Team members out flying winning state-of-the-art FlA towline gliders Frankly think average teenager would get much excited about flying seven-foot span carbon-fiber bunt glider programmable electronic timer would flying Delta Dart Remember too nothing international rules says have buy model have skills time can make much little model want Eliminating builder-ofthe-model rule simply allows people compete higher level basic flying air-picking skills still important perhaps since difference performance between models has reduced interesting note both firstand second-place models Coupe 1998 Nats conventional stick-andtissue models despite presence number bought high-tech models what about builder-of-the-model rule AMA events course still effect rule difficult enforce may also rule hinders rather helps ensure future Free Flight Would better give sell models beginners quick way get interested flying Free Flight building could come later What some enterprising modeler built dozen P-30s offered sale rent contest Spectators could become instant participants far better trying explain someone need order supplies mail spend weeks trying build model have crash because mislaigament Eliminating builder-of-the-model rule would also provide outlet older modelsthe ones now clutter basements attics across country older modelers could still stay active builders long after physical ability fly retrieve gone feel time seriously examine builder-of-the-model rule still needed enforceable best interest future Free Flight keep BOM rule Please let know what think Model Research Labs Got old McCoy 60 laying around Curt Stevens MJL has just plan Its scaled-up 200-square-inch version Sal Taibis Spacer case memory fading less 40 Spacer pylon gas model designed 1950s plan 1200 Spacer looks like construction drawing house model plan big model wingspan just over 92 inches chord bit over 14 inches thats too big fit car consider 200-square-inch version Nostalgia plans actually enlargements reductions original California Models kit plans updated notes added best part plans themselves accompanying instructions set 200 runs 12 pages no glue tab slot C nonsense Instead Curt has put together humor insight opinion guide getting started /2A Nostalgia covers everything engine selection contest tactics An example Curts style cautionary note about using Holland Hornet Nostalgia Hornets notorious breaking shafts Flying expensive Holland Hornet like using $100 bill snuffer tube Dont let Mom find out addition two sizes mentioned MRL also offers 145-square-inch version Cox Tee Dee 020 435 version 15s 500 size 19-23 power 608-square-inch version 29- 35 engines plans $7 except 145 $5 1200 $10 Shipping additional $3 California residents need add extra 775% sales tax Cash personal checks address Model Research Labs 25108 Marguerite #160 Mission Viejo CA 92692 Fax 714 248-1074 sure get MRL catalog $1 Curt offers wide variety items including MylarTM polyester covering materials carbon KevlarTM glider polish latter update old-fashioned sanding sealer used hand-launched gliders Again Curt includes couple pages finishing gliders useful tip completely sand finish rudder before cutting loose sheet balsa wish known back glider-building youth ary1999 129 Lightweight rudder Coupe uses carbon tube leading edge carbon-capped balsa ribs carbon trailing edge Front end features molded carbon cloth spinner reverse-Montreal stop removable bobbin assembly Threaded aluminum fittings pitch adjustment