Free Flight Du ration Bob Meu ser STRONG ARM 1150 Paul Stober has cleaning up out West Strong Arm 1150 its close relatives Notable wins include first place Class D Open 1977 Nats first Class 540 sq version again 1150 took first Fresno Annual total 58 minutes early year set Open Class D Category II record respectable score 24 minutes commonly Class D models have 800 900 sq wing area flown 4 cu engines allow flown both Class C Class D bit engine swapping Class D originated group Southern Californians preferred truly large models 8-ft span Supertigre 65 nose all-up weight 60 ounces Stobers Strong Arm finest tradition Class D Double dimensions favorite Half-A have pretty good idea wood sizes used 1150 fuse lage boxed up Starduster style out 3/16 sheet front end reinforced k cheeks Pylon t Leading edges start strip laid flat wing strip 3/ sq stock completes leading edge stab sed two turbulator spars ing 3/16 sq stab Main spar wing consists two strips 3/16 X 3/8 spruce main panels balsa tips stab uses ain spars Trailing edges 3/ x 1 5/16 X 1 ribs /8 thick right wing washed dral break Both tips washed out timer-controlled variable-incidence stabilizer auto-rudder employed NFFS Jacket Emblems Embroidered em blems National Free Flight Society logo ruptured duck blue white now available Jack Brown NFFS Supplies 20267 Northbrook Sq Cupertino CA 95014 $150 post paid youre ask price list includes several dozen top free-flight plans Symposium reports Free Flight Digest back issues NFFS dirty-bird decals etc Urban Redevelopment Manhattan Sere nade midlin-snazzy looking model built Manhattan Formula indoor cabin specs about three years ago Photo Mod Av. January 1977 Three4 1 ST 65 1Z0i2 AJ1fl 1150 nj Pau StoIr 40 AioiL mod t4eelmeijer j 50% i 3 9 __________LA 1 vz12 t__ views NFFS Digest April 1976 196667 Aeromodeller Annual racked up fair earth-shaking track record compromises design sake appearance didnt performance good rules got switched 20 flat span 20 pro jected span cost 2 span favorite dihedral arrangement hurt So new design order No compromises time around con tests win Winning isnt everything 46 Model Aviation Homan yzmuIa adjusted pOStal models recent MIAMA affair winds up Bob Meusers Urban Blight Doc Martin looking See accompanying drawing text details its thing fly just fun jf dont win aint no fun Such notall-that-facetious quotes abound although perhaps emphasis over stated its hard deny winning surely beats heck out losing laid out no-compromise successor Manhattan Serenade tempted call Manhattan Serenade II necessarily ugly beast would have travesty Urban Blight seemed appropriate fuselage barely encloses 2 X 2 X 4 box demanded rules required windows simply sections no-compromise fuselage structure cov ered Microlite fuselage bellied downward minimize wing-fuselage inter ference shorten landing gear single-strut two-wheel landing gear would give otherwise decent looking model severe case uglies somehow didnt detract appearance Urban Blight quite possibly because wasnt much detract Wing tips steeply angled washed out hopefully act winglets Tips rounded because such tips stiffer square angled ones probably better aero dynamically dont often pawn unbuilt untried designs off others having exhausted monthly allowance scruples conned David Hagen up Oregon building first Indoor model didnt have nerve enough fly himself shipped off Manhattan Mail-In sponsored MIAMA guessed Miami Local boy Dan Kilgore won using John Triolos Skyscraper design 3-views appeared Model Aviation January 1977 Urban Blight came close second Second place isnt winning will starters John Martin organizer meet came close third models adjusted flown Roman Syzmula just keep things fair top two models used rubber FAI Supply trouble Dan Kilgore got free fishing trip Gulf Stream trophy free dinner annual MIAMA awards dinner linlim-Mulvi Huge Success An hour half before 8 am starting gun first day prestigious US Free Flight Champs 27 stalwart souls bleary-eyed ground crews staggered reluc tantly out sacks participate unofficial Unlimited-Mulvihill event one-flight sudden-death affair rubberpower models An hour later Bob White declared winner flight 940 followed Roger Gregory George Perryman Jim Quinn Such one-flight no-max contests have held before never West Coast seemed high time basic idea test Mulvihill Unlimited rubber-power models under uniform thermal-free conditions would Continued page 102 F * 4\L~ hedt-cd brecde cLise tips 4 tar i5 mag proj sPan2t* zomayoaI4 zwide g 1 r____ St October1978 47 Wt 4 f&seia~t LI 1 JQbA12 5LK12C mcrnhctutivt fornzua 3uit PavCtfciqcn PcncE nj Tob A4cur FLown lnj Ppman Sizinua * Mcy MIAMA Mail-in Mca nrn mnurn Jieck di Bill Lovins checks thermals before firing up Cox-powered Parsons-designed tathexis FAI model Nov. 1975 MAl Lovins opted flat-bottomed wingParsons used Cole section KITS 0 PLANS 0 ACCESSORIES BABY ACRNUT KITS NYLON BEARINGS BROWN CO-2 ENGINES REAL JAPANESE TISSUE-PROPS 17 SPAN50d KIT $4 25MANY HARD TO FIND ITEMS Pec*-Pyaets W BOX 2498LA MESA CALIF 92041 GET ORGANIZED Hales sal 01 4 shady lies Ihat holds ova 4 years lavorrIe 8 II magazines 4 MAO FILES $495 Sand $496 pisa 5100 10 pOslaga handling I0 DOM INDUSTRIES PO Box 388-K DOVER NH 03820 Charging 2 amps two minutes gives flights between two mmutes either plane Both geared drives Astro-Flight motors hotter direct drives weigh bit due 02s 4-cell battery pack used 4-cell pack three Astro 010s good results Unfortunately 010s yet mass production due limited demand So youre contemplating getting electric prepared build light rubber ship style too small experiment batteries props Bob Boucher Astro-Flight warns against too-large props burning out motors However change stock 7 Mattel plastic prop 8 Paulowina prop added about 25% power Brochet last tip dont use too-small diam eter wire trying save weight resis tance loss isnt worth Hank Fasola VL Vista Labs recommends least 20 gauge Both Astro-Flight VL have great instructions motors read over couple times should help avoid pitfalls such over-charging etc havent experience Ger man Graupner motors E Fillon has using several years good results Flightmasters Annual scale meet drawing FF scale modelers far Texas Nevada Arizona has become Mecca both rubber power enthu siasts judging Saturday night Sept 30 flying Sunday Oct 1 meet allows plenty time bull sessions stocking up new ideas com ing year Contact Fernando Ramos ad dress given earlier myself youre going Los Angeles area Keep good ideas photos coming gang Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 FF Duration/Meuser continued page 47 require perhaps simultaneous launching 4 am some compromises re quired Experience has now shown one-hour time window unnecessarily wide will shortened perhaps 15 mm next year Just half 24 actually flew made flights exceeding 5 mm Any rea sonably good Mulvi design last 20 years can break 5 mm no goofs less successful dozen either models really werent competitive against big 300-square-inchers trim problems other difficulties flight permitted little time test flights things pretty well sorted out ahead time Such models nor mally tuned thermal flying Bob White re-tuned optimize still-air performance stalled disastrously during official Mulvi competition can afford win rubber-power event once Some fliers talking building spe cial still-air models especially event will certainly interesting see what develops Thats fine long models classic Mulvihill-event idiom no Pennyplanes ensure will have some rules-of-play addition official AMA Mulvihill rules Ten tatively well require enclosed motors double-surface solid sheet wing tail surfaces perhaps 70-gram minimum all-up weight latter should pro hibit genuine smallish Mulvihill modelsuch lightly-built Golly wockbut will certainly stamp out im practical ultra-light models Most modelers seem feel OK time keeper roam around keep model sight long roaming done foot AMA rule regarding move ment timers will invoked weather conditions such some models likely fly out sight event will postponed until next morning evening Questionnaires being circulated suggestions will considered care Cottage Industry Lives Ive mentioned Jim Joness free-flight tools previously August September 1977 July 1976 time update have changes Newly added line family high-temperature epoxy-fiber glass prop forms can oven-baked temperatures up 200 F Theyre just thing molding own Wakefield Coupe prop blades will handle prop 102 Model Aviation P 197B CATALOUS SCALE ORAWINS MORR SON A TECH 48500 M KENZ E HWYVIDA OR 97488 MODEL AIRPLANE GAZETTE 28page newsletter England model airplane enthusiasts features club news meet results kit reviews de tailed modeling articles accurate drawings clear sharp photos Send $125 sample copy $650 six-issue subscription make checks/MOs payable J J Daileda Joe Daileda USA/Canada PAMAG Agent 4314 Wut 238th St Torrance CA 90505 Bill Haight sends duesel-powereo muss Loiumuie uu u 5raI5~ t Note huge gas tanks through side window Model has pendulum ailerons level w.gs flight quite beautifully airfoil fuselage lifting struts Bellancas great lifters diameters up 26 blade widths up 3 Forms stock 24 26 pitch can supplied immediately other pitches custom built take two weeks forms molded handcarved mahogany form having true heli cal pitch Jim modeler real life pattern maker youre pretty certain get what want Price S 1295 plus $150 postage Adjustable Rubber Stripper now comes guides starting widths 3 4 5 6 mm 1/8 /4-inch price $15 plus$l50 handling Adjustable Balsa Stripper can strip anything up 1/s sq sheet stock now sells $1550 plus $150 handling deluxe version called Mike ABS comes 100 carbon steel blades two spring pressure feet different thick nesses proper Allen wrench adjusting special care has taken ensure accuracy calibration smoothness action goes $2550 plus $150 handling have difficulty finding sharp snappable carbon-steel double-edge razor blades Jim will happy send 100 $5 postpaid Jims address 36631 Ledgestone Mt Clemens MI 48043 Pigeon Power writing early June 1978-79 AMA Rule Book has just hit newsstands What marvelous con glomeration history expediency neglect say no ill will having followed rules-making process years occasionally having made personal dent rules perfect good marvelous aspect good considering Jiversity opinion about simplest nf rules matters Nevertheless some aspects rules mite amusing instance now have two sets Peanut Scale rules deal decisions decisions Both provisional effect unclear National records established provisional events Scale events involve subjective judging cant qualify national records anyhow According rulebook provi sional events cannot conducted offi- L cial events Nats Tra ditionally Peanut Scale models flown competition rubber powered neither set Peanut rules specifies models must rubber powered Intentional oversight CO-2 power Electric power de-tuned Cox Tee Dee 010 perhaps pigeon power brings mind fable appeared volume 1 number Mil pitas Modeler last issue pres tigious publication ever published wit Once upon time free flight er could read did read worthy being read having read worthy read Rule Book too after having read therein manner wondrous things noted Book Free Flight passage Any form propulsion permitted Any form propulsion nimble mind reeled Being sore vexed boggled mind consulted District Elder Rule Book means what says quite probable Rule Book means what says also quite probable says what means ever possible intent rules accurately reflected strictly literal interpretation have vote will present question Executive Council Elders Rule Book means what says asked Executive Council Elders Elders looked upon other vice versa decided matter should cleared higher authority Elders ascend ed mountain top pondered pondered pondered after seven days seven nights pondering general clowning around descended mountain top pronounced Aye verily Rule Book means what says peace descended firma ment free fighter chose very symbol peacethe doveas pro pulsive power plant model aircraft being unable obtain proper dove local dove-monger reason able price used pigeon instead attached thereto model airplane tiny inhibit performance October1978 103 Please send me...... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 ANS laracteristics 25 35 e lends itsE record b ber tail wa enj ob turns w sport too majizer Old-Timer great old-time ri tak Nets first ,o both slots lisps maker wheels floats t techniques 40 60 i-out performance ntpattern . rbyJohn Ballard 19-25 ylon contests - Irairier ror USA 15 eplica Old-Timer has excellent performance Rutherford frequent winner skin fuselage 25s 45s construction 60 ahipe Nats World Champs ite Great winner built-in muffler 1.. lizer zezeble $10 expense tail-dragger ier 2-sheets Exotic easy Good use experiments cia pontoons wins049/O51 r 46 Consistent winner del 2 big sheets 35 40 eion record jolt ir aport ltcaie mt med Schoenbrun ed-timer 1 kig sheets model Bill Noonan sof art ulse ri excel Itfoengine redic tertol gear ww wing te US P-26 Peashooter 4Opower inelswinglets r frequent big time winne amer Nets winner. 40 I101 103 104 112 118 121 123 124 125 131 134 136 141146149155159165166168169174177178 181183184185186189192193194195198201 202203204205206207208209210211212213 214215216217218219220221222223224225 I226227228229230231232233234235236237 I Please print carefullyEnclosed $______________________ NAMEH STREETH I CITY STATEZIP_____ Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St NW Washington DC 20005 uJ powerplant did fly did win thought unto himself Win ning isnt everything sure beats heck out losing happy came pass Elders heard about sore vexed boggled mind clown snookered us said unto other vice versa decided free fighter must punished banished him AMA headquarters serve forever Technical Director would confronted frequently cases alleged snookering would have himself decide snookeror snookeree course its fable. Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oak land CA 94619 ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control85 Andrews Aircraft Model Co99 Boynton Associates103 California Time Service92 Cove rite86 Cox Hobbies Inc9495 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products89 EK-Products7 Flyline Models101 Fox Mfg Company7 Grish Brothers88 Paul K Guillow Inc9 HB Engines90 K&BMfg5 Kraft Southwestern Inc98 Midwest Model Products6 Model Airplane Gazette102 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech102 Pactra Industries90 Peck-Polymers102 Pica Enterprises97 Progress Mfg Company8 Richard Barron96 S C Modeler100 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc87 Tatone Products Inc93 Westport International Inc9 Williams Brothers91 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Circle numbers plans wish order Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW. Washington DC 20005
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 46, 47, 102, 103, 104
Free Flight Du ration Bob Meu ser STRONG ARM 1150 Paul Stober has cleaning up out West Strong Arm 1150 its close relatives Notable wins include first place Class D Open 1977 Nats first Class 540 sq version again 1150 took first Fresno Annual total 58 minutes early year set Open Class D Category II record respectable score 24 minutes commonly Class D models have 800 900 sq wing area flown 4 cu engines allow flown both Class C Class D bit engine swapping Class D originated group Southern Californians preferred truly large models 8-ft span Supertigre 65 nose all-up weight 60 ounces Stobers Strong Arm finest tradition Class D Double dimensions favorite Half-A have pretty good idea wood sizes used 1150 fuse lage boxed up Starduster style out 3/16 sheet front end reinforced k cheeks Pylon t Leading edges start strip laid flat wing strip 3/ sq stock completes leading edge stab sed two turbulator spars ing 3/16 sq stab Main spar wing consists two strips 3/16 X 3/8 spruce main panels balsa tips stab uses ain spars Trailing edges 3/ x 1 5/16 X 1 ribs /8 thick right wing washed dral break Both tips washed out timer-controlled variable-incidence stabilizer auto-rudder employed NFFS Jacket Emblems Embroidered em blems National Free Flight Society logo ruptured duck blue white now available Jack Brown NFFS Supplies 20267 Northbrook Sq Cupertino CA 95014 $150 post paid youre ask price list includes several dozen top free-flight plans Symposium reports Free Flight Digest back issues NFFS dirty-bird decals etc Urban Redevelopment Manhattan Sere nade midlin-snazzy looking model built Manhattan Formula indoor cabin specs about three years ago Photo Mod Av. January 1977 Three4 1 ST 65 1Z0i2 AJ1fl 1150 nj Pau StoIr 40 AioiL mod t4eelmeijer j 50% i 3 9 __________LA 1 vz12 t__ views NFFS Digest April 1976 196667 Aeromodeller Annual racked up fair earth-shaking track record compromises design sake appearance didnt performance good rules got switched 20 flat span 20 pro jected span cost 2 span favorite dihedral arrangement hurt So new design order No compromises time around con tests win Winning isnt everything 46 Model Aviation Homan yzmuIa adjusted pOStal models recent MIAMA affair winds up Bob Meusers Urban Blight Doc Martin looking See accompanying drawing text details its thing fly just fun jf dont win aint no fun Such notall-that-facetious quotes abound although perhaps emphasis over stated its hard deny winning surely beats heck out losing laid out no-compromise successor Manhattan Serenade tempted call Manhattan Serenade II necessarily ugly beast would have travesty Urban Blight seemed appropriate fuselage barely encloses 2 X 2 X 4 box demanded rules required windows simply sections no-compromise fuselage structure cov ered Microlite fuselage bellied downward minimize wing-fuselage inter ference shorten landing gear single-strut two-wheel landing gear would give otherwise decent looking model severe case uglies somehow didnt detract appearance Urban Blight quite possibly because wasnt much detract Wing tips steeply angled washed out hopefully act winglets Tips rounded because such tips stiffer square angled ones probably better aero dynamically dont often pawn unbuilt untried designs off others having exhausted monthly allowance scruples conned David Hagen up Oregon building first Indoor model didnt have nerve enough fly himself shipped off Manhattan Mail-In sponsored MIAMA guessed Miami Local boy Dan Kilgore won using John Triolos Skyscraper design 3-views appeared Model Aviation January 1977 Urban Blight came close second Second place isnt winning will starters John Martin organizer meet came close third models adjusted flown Roman Syzmula just keep things fair top two models used rubber FAI Supply trouble Dan Kilgore got free fishing trip Gulf Stream trophy free dinner annual MIAMA awards dinner linlim-Mulvi Huge Success An hour half before 8 am starting gun first day prestigious US Free Flight Champs 27 stalwart souls bleary-eyed ground crews staggered reluc tantly out sacks participate unofficial Unlimited-Mulvihill event one-flight sudden-death affair rubberpower models An hour later Bob White declared winner flight 940 followed Roger Gregory George Perryman Jim Quinn Such one-flight no-max contests have held before never West Coast seemed high time basic idea test Mulvihill Unlimited rubber-power models under uniform thermal-free conditions would Continued page 102 F * 4\L~ hedt-cd brecde cLise tips 4 tar i5 mag proj sPan2t* zomayoaI4 zwide g 1 r____ St October1978 47 Wt 4 f&seia~t LI 1 JQbA12 5LK12C mcrnhctutivt fornzua 3uit PavCtfciqcn PcncE nj Tob A4cur FLown lnj Ppman Sizinua * Mcy MIAMA Mail-in Mca nrn mnurn Jieck di Bill Lovins checks thermals before firing up Cox-powered Parsons-designed tathexis FAI model Nov. 1975 MAl Lovins opted flat-bottomed wingParsons used Cole section KITS 0 PLANS 0 ACCESSORIES BABY ACRNUT KITS NYLON BEARINGS BROWN CO-2 ENGINES REAL JAPANESE TISSUE-PROPS 17 SPAN50d KIT $4 25MANY HARD TO FIND ITEMS Pec*-Pyaets W BOX 2498LA MESA CALIF 92041 GET ORGANIZED Hales sal 01 4 shady lies Ihat holds ova 4 years lavorrIe 8 II magazines 4 MAO FILES $495 Sand $496 pisa 5100 10 pOslaga handling I0 DOM INDUSTRIES PO Box 388-K DOVER NH 03820 Charging 2 amps two minutes gives flights between two mmutes either plane Both geared drives Astro-Flight motors hotter direct drives weigh bit due 02s 4-cell battery pack used 4-cell pack three Astro 010s good results Unfortunately 010s yet mass production due limited demand So youre contemplating getting electric prepared build light rubber ship style too small experiment batteries props Bob Boucher Astro-Flight warns against too-large props burning out motors However change stock 7 Mattel plastic prop 8 Paulowina prop added about 25% power Brochet last tip dont use too-small diam eter wire trying save weight resis tance loss isnt worth Hank Fasola VL Vista Labs recommends least 20 gauge Both Astro-Flight VL have great instructions motors read over couple times should help avoid pitfalls such over-charging etc havent experience Ger man Graupner motors E Fillon has using several years good results Flightmasters Annual scale meet drawing FF scale modelers far Texas Nevada Arizona has become Mecca both rubber power enthu siasts judging Saturday night Sept 30 flying Sunday Oct 1 meet allows plenty time bull sessions stocking up new ideas com ing year Contact Fernando Ramos ad dress given earlier myself youre going Los Angeles area Keep good ideas photos coming gang Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 FF Duration/Meuser continued page 47 require perhaps simultaneous launching 4 am some compromises re quired Experience has now shown one-hour time window unnecessarily wide will shortened perhaps 15 mm next year Just half 24 actually flew made flights exceeding 5 mm Any rea sonably good Mulvi design last 20 years can break 5 mm no goofs less successful dozen either models really werent competitive against big 300-square-inchers trim problems other difficulties flight permitted little time test flights things pretty well sorted out ahead time Such models nor mally tuned thermal flying Bob White re-tuned optimize still-air performance stalled disastrously during official Mulvi competition can afford win rubber-power event once Some fliers talking building spe cial still-air models especially event will certainly interesting see what develops Thats fine long models classic Mulvihill-event idiom no Pennyplanes ensure will have some rules-of-play addition official AMA Mulvihill rules Ten tatively well require enclosed motors double-surface solid sheet wing tail surfaces perhaps 70-gram minimum all-up weight latter should pro hibit genuine smallish Mulvihill modelsuch lightly-built Golly wockbut will certainly stamp out im practical ultra-light models Most modelers seem feel OK time keeper roam around keep model sight long roaming done foot AMA rule regarding move ment timers will invoked weather conditions such some models likely fly out sight event will postponed until next morning evening Questionnaires being circulated suggestions will considered care Cottage Industry Lives Ive mentioned Jim Joness free-flight tools previously August September 1977 July 1976 time update have changes Newly added line family high-temperature epoxy-fiber glass prop forms can oven-baked temperatures up 200 F Theyre just thing molding own Wakefield Coupe prop blades will handle prop 102 Model Aviation P 197B CATALOUS SCALE ORAWINS MORR SON A TECH 48500 M KENZ E HWYVIDA OR 97488 MODEL AIRPLANE GAZETTE 28page newsletter England model airplane enthusiasts features club news meet results kit reviews de tailed modeling articles accurate drawings clear sharp photos Send $125 sample copy $650 six-issue subscription make checks/MOs payable J J Daileda Joe Daileda USA/Canada PAMAG Agent 4314 Wut 238th St Torrance CA 90505 Bill Haight sends duesel-powereo muss Loiumuie uu u 5raI5~ t Note huge gas tanks through side window Model has pendulum ailerons level w.gs flight quite beautifully airfoil fuselage lifting struts Bellancas great lifters diameters up 26 blade widths up 3 Forms stock 24 26 pitch can supplied immediately other pitches custom built take two weeks forms molded handcarved mahogany form having true heli cal pitch Jim modeler real life pattern maker youre pretty certain get what want Price S 1295 plus $150 postage Adjustable Rubber Stripper now comes guides starting widths 3 4 5 6 mm 1/8 /4-inch price $15 plus$l50 handling Adjustable Balsa Stripper can strip anything up 1/s sq sheet stock now sells $1550 plus $150 handling deluxe version called Mike ABS comes 100 carbon steel blades two spring pressure feet different thick nesses proper Allen wrench adjusting special care has taken ensure accuracy calibration smoothness action goes $2550 plus $150 handling have difficulty finding sharp snappable carbon-steel double-edge razor blades Jim will happy send 100 $5 postpaid Jims address 36631 Ledgestone Mt Clemens MI 48043 Pigeon Power writing early June 1978-79 AMA Rule Book has just hit newsstands What marvelous con glomeration history expediency neglect say no ill will having followed rules-making process years occasionally having made personal dent rules perfect good marvelous aspect good considering Jiversity opinion about simplest nf rules matters Nevertheless some aspects rules mite amusing instance now have two sets Peanut Scale rules deal decisions decisions Both provisional effect unclear National records established provisional events Scale events involve subjective judging cant qualify national records anyhow According rulebook provi sional events cannot conducted offi- L cial events Nats Tra ditionally Peanut Scale models flown competition rubber powered neither set Peanut rules specifies models must rubber powered Intentional oversight CO-2 power Electric power de-tuned Cox Tee Dee 010 perhaps pigeon power brings mind fable appeared volume 1 number Mil pitas Modeler last issue pres tigious publication ever published wit Once upon time free flight er could read did read worthy being read having read worthy read Rule Book too after having read therein manner wondrous things noted Book Free Flight passage Any form propulsion permitted Any form propulsion nimble mind reeled Being sore vexed boggled mind consulted District Elder Rule Book means what says quite probable Rule Book means what says also quite probable says what means ever possible intent rules accurately reflected strictly literal interpretation have vote will present question Executive Council Elders Rule Book means what says asked Executive Council Elders Elders looked upon other vice versa decided matter should cleared higher authority Elders ascend ed mountain top pondered pondered pondered after seven days seven nights pondering general clowning around descended mountain top pronounced Aye verily Rule Book means what says peace descended firma ment free fighter chose very symbol peacethe doveas pro pulsive power plant model aircraft being unable obtain proper dove local dove-monger reason able price used pigeon instead attached thereto model airplane tiny inhibit performance October1978 103 Please send me...... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 ANS laracteristics 25 35 e lends itsE record b ber tail wa enj ob turns w sport too majizer Old-Timer great old-time ri tak Nets first ,o both slots lisps maker wheels floats t techniques 40 60 i-out performance ntpattern . rbyJohn Ballard 19-25 ylon contests - Irairier ror USA 15 eplica Old-Timer has excellent performance Rutherford frequent winner skin fuselage 25s 45s construction 60 ahipe Nats World Champs ite Great winner built-in muffler 1.. lizer zezeble $10 expense tail-dragger ier 2-sheets Exotic easy Good use experiments cia pontoons wins049/O51 r 46 Consistent winner del 2 big sheets 35 40 eion record jolt ir aport ltcaie mt med Schoenbrun ed-timer 1 kig sheets model Bill Noonan sof art ulse ri excel Itfoengine redic tertol gear ww wing te US P-26 Peashooter 4Opower inelswinglets r frequent big time winne amer Nets winner. 40 I101 103 104 112 118 121 123 124 125 131 134 136 141146149155159165166168169174177178 181183184185186189192193194195198201 202203204205206207208209210211212213 214215216217218219220221222223224225 I226227228229230231232233234235236237 I Please print carefullyEnclosed $______________________ NAMEH STREETH I CITY STATEZIP_____ Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St NW Washington DC 20005 uJ powerplant did fly did win thought unto himself Win ning isnt everything sure beats heck out losing happy came pass Elders heard about sore vexed boggled mind clown snookered us said unto other vice versa decided free fighter must punished banished him AMA headquarters serve forever Technical Director would confronted frequently cases alleged snookering would have himself decide snookeror snookeree course its fable. Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oak land CA 94619 ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control85 Andrews Aircraft Model Co99 Boynton Associates103 California Time Service92 Cove rite86 Cox Hobbies Inc9495 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products89 EK-Products7 Flyline Models101 Fox Mfg Company7 Grish Brothers88 Paul K Guillow Inc9 HB Engines90 K&BMfg5 Kraft Southwestern Inc98 Midwest Model Products6 Model Airplane Gazette102 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech102 Pactra Industries90 Peck-Polymers102 Pica Enterprises97 Progress Mfg Company8 Richard Barron96 S C Modeler100 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc87 Tatone Products Inc93 Westport International Inc9 Williams Brothers91 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Circle numbers plans wish order Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW. Washington DC 20005
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 46, 47, 102, 103, 104
Free Flight Du ration Bob Meu ser STRONG ARM 1150 Paul Stober has cleaning up out West Strong Arm 1150 its close relatives Notable wins include first place Class D Open 1977 Nats first Class 540 sq version again 1150 took first Fresno Annual total 58 minutes early year set Open Class D Category II record respectable score 24 minutes commonly Class D models have 800 900 sq wing area flown 4 cu engines allow flown both Class C Class D bit engine swapping Class D originated group Southern Californians preferred truly large models 8-ft span Supertigre 65 nose all-up weight 60 ounces Stobers Strong Arm finest tradition Class D Double dimensions favorite Half-A have pretty good idea wood sizes used 1150 fuse lage boxed up Starduster style out 3/16 sheet front end reinforced k cheeks Pylon t Leading edges start strip laid flat wing strip 3/ sq stock completes leading edge stab sed two turbulator spars ing 3/16 sq stab Main spar wing consists two strips 3/16 X 3/8 spruce main panels balsa tips stab uses ain spars Trailing edges 3/ x 1 5/16 X 1 ribs /8 thick right wing washed dral break Both tips washed out timer-controlled variable-incidence stabilizer auto-rudder employed NFFS Jacket Emblems Embroidered em blems National Free Flight Society logo ruptured duck blue white now available Jack Brown NFFS Supplies 20267 Northbrook Sq Cupertino CA 95014 $150 post paid youre ask price list includes several dozen top free-flight plans Symposium reports Free Flight Digest back issues NFFS dirty-bird decals etc Urban Redevelopment Manhattan Sere nade midlin-snazzy looking model built Manhattan Formula indoor cabin specs about three years ago Photo Mod Av. January 1977 Three4 1 ST 65 1Z0i2 AJ1fl 1150 nj Pau StoIr 40 AioiL mod t4eelmeijer j 50% i 3 9 __________LA 1 vz12 t__ views NFFS Digest April 1976 196667 Aeromodeller Annual racked up fair earth-shaking track record compromises design sake appearance didnt performance good rules got switched 20 flat span 20 pro jected span cost 2 span favorite dihedral arrangement hurt So new design order No compromises time around con tests win Winning isnt everything 46 Model Aviation Homan yzmuIa adjusted pOStal models recent MIAMA affair winds up Bob Meusers Urban Blight Doc Martin looking See accompanying drawing text details its thing fly just fun jf dont win aint no fun Such notall-that-facetious quotes abound although perhaps emphasis over stated its hard deny winning surely beats heck out losing laid out no-compromise successor Manhattan Serenade tempted call Manhattan Serenade II necessarily ugly beast would have travesty Urban Blight seemed appropriate fuselage barely encloses 2 X 2 X 4 box demanded rules required windows simply sections no-compromise fuselage structure cov ered Microlite fuselage bellied downward minimize wing-fuselage inter ference shorten landing gear single-strut two-wheel landing gear would give otherwise decent looking model severe case uglies somehow didnt detract appearance Urban Blight quite possibly because wasnt much detract Wing tips steeply angled washed out hopefully act winglets Tips rounded because such tips stiffer square angled ones probably better aero dynamically dont often pawn unbuilt untried designs off others having exhausted monthly allowance scruples conned David Hagen up Oregon building first Indoor model didnt have nerve enough fly himself shipped off Manhattan Mail-In sponsored MIAMA guessed Miami Local boy Dan Kilgore won using John Triolos Skyscraper design 3-views appeared Model Aviation January 1977 Urban Blight came close second Second place isnt winning will starters John Martin organizer meet came close third models adjusted flown Roman Syzmula just keep things fair top two models used rubber FAI Supply trouble Dan Kilgore got free fishing trip Gulf Stream trophy free dinner annual MIAMA awards dinner linlim-Mulvi Huge Success An hour half before 8 am starting gun first day prestigious US Free Flight Champs 27 stalwart souls bleary-eyed ground crews staggered reluc tantly out sacks participate unofficial Unlimited-Mulvihill event one-flight sudden-death affair rubberpower models An hour later Bob White declared winner flight 940 followed Roger Gregory George Perryman Jim Quinn Such one-flight no-max contests have held before never West Coast seemed high time basic idea test Mulvihill Unlimited rubber-power models under uniform thermal-free conditions would Continued page 102 F * 4\L~ hedt-cd brecde cLise tips 4 tar i5 mag proj sPan2t* zomayoaI4 zwide g 1 r____ St October1978 47 Wt 4 f&seia~t LI 1 JQbA12 5LK12C mcrnhctutivt fornzua 3uit PavCtfciqcn PcncE nj Tob A4cur FLown lnj Ppman Sizinua * Mcy MIAMA Mail-in Mca nrn mnurn Jieck di Bill Lovins checks thermals before firing up Cox-powered Parsons-designed tathexis FAI model Nov. 1975 MAl Lovins opted flat-bottomed wingParsons used Cole section KITS 0 PLANS 0 ACCESSORIES BABY ACRNUT KITS NYLON BEARINGS BROWN CO-2 ENGINES REAL JAPANESE TISSUE-PROPS 17 SPAN50d KIT $4 25MANY HARD TO FIND ITEMS Pec*-Pyaets W BOX 2498LA MESA CALIF 92041 GET ORGANIZED Hales sal 01 4 shady lies Ihat holds ova 4 years lavorrIe 8 II magazines 4 MAO FILES $495 Sand $496 pisa 5100 10 pOslaga handling I0 DOM INDUSTRIES PO Box 388-K DOVER NH 03820 Charging 2 amps two minutes gives flights between two mmutes either plane Both geared drives Astro-Flight motors hotter direct drives weigh bit due 02s 4-cell battery pack used 4-cell pack three Astro 010s good results Unfortunately 010s yet mass production due limited demand So youre contemplating getting electric prepared build light rubber ship style too small experiment batteries props Bob Boucher Astro-Flight warns against too-large props burning out motors However change stock 7 Mattel plastic prop 8 Paulowina prop added about 25% power Brochet last tip dont use too-small diam eter wire trying save weight resis tance loss isnt worth Hank Fasola VL Vista Labs recommends least 20 gauge Both Astro-Flight VL have great instructions motors read over couple times should help avoid pitfalls such over-charging etc havent experience Ger man Graupner motors E Fillon has using several years good results Flightmasters Annual scale meet drawing FF scale modelers far Texas Nevada Arizona has become Mecca both rubber power enthu siasts judging Saturday night Sept 30 flying Sunday Oct 1 meet allows plenty time bull sessions stocking up new ideas com ing year Contact Fernando Ramos ad dress given earlier myself youre going Los Angeles area Keep good ideas photos coming gang Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 FF Duration/Meuser continued page 47 require perhaps simultaneous launching 4 am some compromises re quired Experience has now shown one-hour time window unnecessarily wide will shortened perhaps 15 mm next year Just half 24 actually flew made flights exceeding 5 mm Any rea sonably good Mulvi design last 20 years can break 5 mm no goofs less successful dozen either models really werent competitive against big 300-square-inchers trim problems other difficulties flight permitted little time test flights things pretty well sorted out ahead time Such models nor mally tuned thermal flying Bob White re-tuned optimize still-air performance stalled disastrously during official Mulvi competition can afford win rubber-power event once Some fliers talking building spe cial still-air models especially event will certainly interesting see what develops Thats fine long models classic Mulvihill-event idiom no Pennyplanes ensure will have some rules-of-play addition official AMA Mulvihill rules Ten tatively well require enclosed motors double-surface solid sheet wing tail surfaces perhaps 70-gram minimum all-up weight latter should pro hibit genuine smallish Mulvihill modelsuch lightly-built Golly wockbut will certainly stamp out im practical ultra-light models Most modelers seem feel OK time keeper roam around keep model sight long roaming done foot AMA rule regarding move ment timers will invoked weather conditions such some models likely fly out sight event will postponed until next morning evening Questionnaires being circulated suggestions will considered care Cottage Industry Lives Ive mentioned Jim Joness free-flight tools previously August September 1977 July 1976 time update have changes Newly added line family high-temperature epoxy-fiber glass prop forms can oven-baked temperatures up 200 F Theyre just thing molding own Wakefield Coupe prop blades will handle prop 102 Model Aviation P 197B CATALOUS SCALE ORAWINS MORR SON A TECH 48500 M KENZ E HWYVIDA OR 97488 MODEL AIRPLANE GAZETTE 28page newsletter England model airplane enthusiasts features club news meet results kit reviews de tailed modeling articles accurate drawings clear sharp photos Send $125 sample copy $650 six-issue subscription make checks/MOs payable J J Daileda Joe Daileda USA/Canada PAMAG Agent 4314 Wut 238th St Torrance CA 90505 Bill Haight sends duesel-powereo muss Loiumuie uu u 5raI5~ t Note huge gas tanks through side window Model has pendulum ailerons level w.gs flight quite beautifully airfoil fuselage lifting struts Bellancas great lifters diameters up 26 blade widths up 3 Forms stock 24 26 pitch can supplied immediately other pitches custom built take two weeks forms molded handcarved mahogany form having true heli cal pitch Jim modeler real life pattern maker youre pretty certain get what want Price S 1295 plus $150 postage Adjustable Rubber Stripper now comes guides starting widths 3 4 5 6 mm 1/8 /4-inch price $15 plus$l50 handling Adjustable Balsa Stripper can strip anything up 1/s sq sheet stock now sells $1550 plus $150 handling deluxe version called Mike ABS comes 100 carbon steel blades two spring pressure feet different thick nesses proper Allen wrench adjusting special care has taken ensure accuracy calibration smoothness action goes $2550 plus $150 handling have difficulty finding sharp snappable carbon-steel double-edge razor blades Jim will happy send 100 $5 postpaid Jims address 36631 Ledgestone Mt Clemens MI 48043 Pigeon Power writing early June 1978-79 AMA Rule Book has just hit newsstands What marvelous con glomeration history expediency neglect say no ill will having followed rules-making process years occasionally having made personal dent rules perfect good marvelous aspect good considering Jiversity opinion about simplest nf rules matters Nevertheless some aspects rules mite amusing instance now have two sets Peanut Scale rules deal decisions decisions Both provisional effect unclear National records established provisional events Scale events involve subjective judging cant qualify national records anyhow According rulebook provi sional events cannot conducted offi- L cial events Nats Tra ditionally Peanut Scale models flown competition rubber powered neither set Peanut rules specifies models must rubber powered Intentional oversight CO-2 power Electric power de-tuned Cox Tee Dee 010 perhaps pigeon power brings mind fable appeared volume 1 number Mil pitas Modeler last issue pres tigious publication ever published wit Once upon time free flight er could read did read worthy being read having read worthy read Rule Book too after having read therein manner wondrous things noted Book Free Flight passage Any form propulsion permitted Any form propulsion nimble mind reeled Being sore vexed boggled mind consulted District Elder Rule Book means what says quite probable Rule Book means what says also quite probable says what means ever possible intent rules accurately reflected strictly literal interpretation have vote will present question Executive Council Elders Rule Book means what says asked Executive Council Elders Elders looked upon other vice versa decided matter should cleared higher authority Elders ascend ed mountain top pondered pondered pondered after seven days seven nights pondering general clowning around descended mountain top pronounced Aye verily Rule Book means what says peace descended firma ment free fighter chose very symbol peacethe doveas pro pulsive power plant model aircraft being unable obtain proper dove local dove-monger reason able price used pigeon instead attached thereto model airplane tiny inhibit performance October1978 103 Please send me...... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 ANS laracteristics 25 35 e lends itsE record b ber tail wa enj ob turns w sport too majizer Old-Timer great old-time ri tak Nets first ,o both slots lisps maker wheels floats t techniques 40 60 i-out performance ntpattern . rbyJohn Ballard 19-25 ylon contests - Irairier ror USA 15 eplica Old-Timer has excellent performance Rutherford frequent winner skin fuselage 25s 45s construction 60 ahipe Nats World Champs ite Great winner built-in muffler 1.. lizer zezeble $10 expense tail-dragger ier 2-sheets Exotic easy Good use experiments cia pontoons wins049/O51 r 46 Consistent winner del 2 big sheets 35 40 eion record jolt ir aport ltcaie mt med Schoenbrun ed-timer 1 kig sheets model Bill Noonan sof art ulse ri excel Itfoengine redic tertol gear ww wing te US P-26 Peashooter 4Opower inelswinglets r frequent big time winne amer Nets winner. 40 I101 103 104 112 118 121 123 124 125 131 134 136 141146149155159165166168169174177178 181183184185186189192193194195198201 202203204205206207208209210211212213 214215216217218219220221222223224225 I226227228229230231232233234235236237 I Please print carefullyEnclosed $______________________ NAMEH STREETH I CITY STATEZIP_____ Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St NW Washington DC 20005 uJ powerplant did fly did win thought unto himself Win ning isnt everything sure beats heck out losing happy came pass Elders heard about sore vexed boggled mind clown snookered us said unto other vice versa decided free fighter must punished banished him AMA headquarters serve forever Technical Director would confronted frequently cases alleged snookering would have himself decide snookeror snookeree course its fable. Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oak land CA 94619 ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control85 Andrews Aircraft Model Co99 Boynton Associates103 California Time Service92 Cove rite86 Cox Hobbies Inc9495 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products89 EK-Products7 Flyline Models101 Fox Mfg Company7 Grish Brothers88 Paul K Guillow Inc9 HB Engines90 K&BMfg5 Kraft Southwestern Inc98 Midwest Model Products6 Model Airplane Gazette102 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech102 Pactra Industries90 Peck-Polymers102 Pica Enterprises97 Progress Mfg Company8 Richard Barron96 S C Modeler100 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc87 Tatone Products Inc93 Westport International Inc9 Williams Brothers91 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Circle numbers plans wish order Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW. Washington DC 20005
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 46, 47, 102, 103, 104
Free Flight Du ration Bob Meu ser STRONG ARM 1150 Paul Stober has cleaning up out West Strong Arm 1150 its close relatives Notable wins include first place Class D Open 1977 Nats first Class 540 sq version again 1150 took first Fresno Annual total 58 minutes early year set Open Class D Category II record respectable score 24 minutes commonly Class D models have 800 900 sq wing area flown 4 cu engines allow flown both Class C Class D bit engine swapping Class D originated group Southern Californians preferred truly large models 8-ft span Supertigre 65 nose all-up weight 60 ounces Stobers Strong Arm finest tradition Class D Double dimensions favorite Half-A have pretty good idea wood sizes used 1150 fuse lage boxed up Starduster style out 3/16 sheet front end reinforced k cheeks Pylon t Leading edges start strip laid flat wing strip 3/ sq stock completes leading edge stab sed two turbulator spars ing 3/16 sq stab Main spar wing consists two strips 3/16 X 3/8 spruce main panels balsa tips stab uses ain spars Trailing edges 3/ x 1 5/16 X 1 ribs /8 thick right wing washed dral break Both tips washed out timer-controlled variable-incidence stabilizer auto-rudder employed NFFS Jacket Emblems Embroidered em blems National Free Flight Society logo ruptured duck blue white now available Jack Brown NFFS Supplies 20267 Northbrook Sq Cupertino CA 95014 $150 post paid youre ask price list includes several dozen top free-flight plans Symposium reports Free Flight Digest back issues NFFS dirty-bird decals etc Urban Redevelopment Manhattan Sere nade midlin-snazzy looking model built Manhattan Formula indoor cabin specs about three years ago Photo Mod Av. January 1977 Three4 1 ST 65 1Z0i2 AJ1fl 1150 nj Pau StoIr 40 AioiL mod t4eelmeijer j 50% i 3 9 __________LA 1 vz12 t__ views NFFS Digest April 1976 196667 Aeromodeller Annual racked up fair earth-shaking track record compromises design sake appearance didnt performance good rules got switched 20 flat span 20 pro jected span cost 2 span favorite dihedral arrangement hurt So new design order No compromises time around con tests win Winning isnt everything 46 Model Aviation Homan yzmuIa adjusted pOStal models recent MIAMA affair winds up Bob Meusers Urban Blight Doc Martin looking See accompanying drawing text details its thing fly just fun jf dont win aint no fun Such notall-that-facetious quotes abound although perhaps emphasis over stated its hard deny winning surely beats heck out losing laid out no-compromise successor Manhattan Serenade tempted call Manhattan Serenade II necessarily ugly beast would have travesty Urban Blight seemed appropriate fuselage barely encloses 2 X 2 X 4 box demanded rules required windows simply sections no-compromise fuselage structure cov ered Microlite fuselage bellied downward minimize wing-fuselage inter ference shorten landing gear single-strut two-wheel landing gear would give otherwise decent looking model severe case uglies somehow didnt detract appearance Urban Blight quite possibly because wasnt much detract Wing tips steeply angled washed out hopefully act winglets Tips rounded because such tips stiffer square angled ones probably better aero dynamically dont often pawn unbuilt untried designs off others having exhausted monthly allowance scruples conned David Hagen up Oregon building first Indoor model didnt have nerve enough fly himself shipped off Manhattan Mail-In sponsored MIAMA guessed Miami Local boy Dan Kilgore won using John Triolos Skyscraper design 3-views appeared Model Aviation January 1977 Urban Blight came close second Second place isnt winning will starters John Martin organizer meet came close third models adjusted flown Roman Syzmula just keep things fair top two models used rubber FAI Supply trouble Dan Kilgore got free fishing trip Gulf Stream trophy free dinner annual MIAMA awards dinner linlim-Mulvi Huge Success An hour half before 8 am starting gun first day prestigious US Free Flight Champs 27 stalwart souls bleary-eyed ground crews staggered reluc tantly out sacks participate unofficial Unlimited-Mulvihill event one-flight sudden-death affair rubberpower models An hour later Bob White declared winner flight 940 followed Roger Gregory George Perryman Jim Quinn Such one-flight no-max contests have held before never West Coast seemed high time basic idea test Mulvihill Unlimited rubber-power models under uniform thermal-free conditions would Continued page 102 F * 4\L~ hedt-cd brecde cLise tips 4 tar i5 mag proj sPan2t* zomayoaI4 zwide g 1 r____ St October1978 47 Wt 4 f&seia~t LI 1 JQbA12 5LK12C mcrnhctutivt fornzua 3uit PavCtfciqcn PcncE nj Tob A4cur FLown lnj Ppman Sizinua * Mcy MIAMA Mail-in Mca nrn mnurn Jieck di Bill Lovins checks thermals before firing up Cox-powered Parsons-designed tathexis FAI model Nov. 1975 MAl Lovins opted flat-bottomed wingParsons used Cole section KITS 0 PLANS 0 ACCESSORIES BABY ACRNUT KITS NYLON BEARINGS BROWN CO-2 ENGINES REAL JAPANESE TISSUE-PROPS 17 SPAN50d KIT $4 25MANY HARD TO FIND ITEMS Pec*-Pyaets W BOX 2498LA MESA CALIF 92041 GET ORGANIZED Hales sal 01 4 shady lies Ihat holds ova 4 years lavorrIe 8 II magazines 4 MAO FILES $495 Sand $496 pisa 5100 10 pOslaga handling I0 DOM INDUSTRIES PO Box 388-K DOVER NH 03820 Charging 2 amps two minutes gives flights between two mmutes either plane Both geared drives Astro-Flight motors hotter direct drives weigh bit due 02s 4-cell battery pack used 4-cell pack three Astro 010s good results Unfortunately 010s yet mass production due limited demand So youre contemplating getting electric prepared build light rubber ship style too small experiment batteries props Bob Boucher Astro-Flight warns against too-large props burning out motors However change stock 7 Mattel plastic prop 8 Paulowina prop added about 25% power Brochet last tip dont use too-small diam eter wire trying save weight resis tance loss isnt worth Hank Fasola VL Vista Labs recommends least 20 gauge Both Astro-Flight VL have great instructions motors read over couple times should help avoid pitfalls such over-charging etc havent experience Ger man Graupner motors E Fillon has using several years good results Flightmasters Annual scale meet drawing FF scale modelers far Texas Nevada Arizona has become Mecca both rubber power enthu siasts judging Saturday night Sept 30 flying Sunday Oct 1 meet allows plenty time bull sessions stocking up new ideas com ing year Contact Fernando Ramos ad dress given earlier myself youre going Los Angeles area Keep good ideas photos coming gang Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 FF Duration/Meuser continued page 47 require perhaps simultaneous launching 4 am some compromises re quired Experience has now shown one-hour time window unnecessarily wide will shortened perhaps 15 mm next year Just half 24 actually flew made flights exceeding 5 mm Any rea sonably good Mulvi design last 20 years can break 5 mm no goofs less successful dozen either models really werent competitive against big 300-square-inchers trim problems other difficulties flight permitted little time test flights things pretty well sorted out ahead time Such models nor mally tuned thermal flying Bob White re-tuned optimize still-air performance stalled disastrously during official Mulvi competition can afford win rubber-power event once Some fliers talking building spe cial still-air models especially event will certainly interesting see what develops Thats fine long models classic Mulvihill-event idiom no Pennyplanes ensure will have some rules-of-play addition official AMA Mulvihill rules Ten tatively well require enclosed motors double-surface solid sheet wing tail surfaces perhaps 70-gram minimum all-up weight latter should pro hibit genuine smallish Mulvihill modelsuch lightly-built Golly wockbut will certainly stamp out im practical ultra-light models Most modelers seem feel OK time keeper roam around keep model sight long roaming done foot AMA rule regarding move ment timers will invoked weather conditions such some models likely fly out sight event will postponed until next morning evening Questionnaires being circulated suggestions will considered care Cottage Industry Lives Ive mentioned Jim Joness free-flight tools previously August September 1977 July 1976 time update have changes Newly added line family high-temperature epoxy-fiber glass prop forms can oven-baked temperatures up 200 F Theyre just thing molding own Wakefield Coupe prop blades will handle prop 102 Model Aviation P 197B CATALOUS SCALE ORAWINS MORR SON A TECH 48500 M KENZ E HWYVIDA OR 97488 MODEL AIRPLANE GAZETTE 28page newsletter England model airplane enthusiasts features club news meet results kit reviews de tailed modeling articles accurate drawings clear sharp photos Send $125 sample copy $650 six-issue subscription make checks/MOs payable J J Daileda Joe Daileda USA/Canada PAMAG Agent 4314 Wut 238th St Torrance CA 90505 Bill Haight sends duesel-powereo muss Loiumuie uu u 5raI5~ t Note huge gas tanks through side window Model has pendulum ailerons level w.gs flight quite beautifully airfoil fuselage lifting struts Bellancas great lifters diameters up 26 blade widths up 3 Forms stock 24 26 pitch can supplied immediately other pitches custom built take two weeks forms molded handcarved mahogany form having true heli cal pitch Jim modeler real life pattern maker youre pretty certain get what want Price S 1295 plus $150 postage Adjustable Rubber Stripper now comes guides starting widths 3 4 5 6 mm 1/8 /4-inch price $15 plus$l50 handling Adjustable Balsa Stripper can strip anything up 1/s sq sheet stock now sells $1550 plus $150 handling deluxe version called Mike ABS comes 100 carbon steel blades two spring pressure feet different thick nesses proper Allen wrench adjusting special care has taken ensure accuracy calibration smoothness action goes $2550 plus $150 handling have difficulty finding sharp snappable carbon-steel double-edge razor blades Jim will happy send 100 $5 postpaid Jims address 36631 Ledgestone Mt Clemens MI 48043 Pigeon Power writing early June 1978-79 AMA Rule Book has just hit newsstands What marvelous con glomeration history expediency neglect say no ill will having followed rules-making process years occasionally having made personal dent rules perfect good marvelous aspect good considering Jiversity opinion about simplest nf rules matters Nevertheless some aspects rules mite amusing instance now have two sets Peanut Scale rules deal decisions decisions Both provisional effect unclear National records established provisional events Scale events involve subjective judging cant qualify national records anyhow According rulebook provi sional events cannot conducted offi- L cial events Nats Tra ditionally Peanut Scale models flown competition rubber powered neither set Peanut rules specifies models must rubber powered Intentional oversight CO-2 power Electric power de-tuned Cox Tee Dee 010 perhaps pigeon power brings mind fable appeared volume 1 number Mil pitas Modeler last issue pres tigious publication ever published wit Once upon time free flight er could read did read worthy being read having read worthy read Rule Book too after having read therein manner wondrous things noted Book Free Flight passage Any form propulsion permitted Any form propulsion nimble mind reeled Being sore vexed boggled mind consulted District Elder Rule Book means what says quite probable Rule Book means what says also quite probable says what means ever possible intent rules accurately reflected strictly literal interpretation have vote will present question Executive Council Elders Rule Book means what says asked Executive Council Elders Elders looked upon other vice versa decided matter should cleared higher authority Elders ascend ed mountain top pondered pondered pondered after seven days seven nights pondering general clowning around descended mountain top pronounced Aye verily Rule Book means what says peace descended firma ment free fighter chose very symbol peacethe doveas pro pulsive power plant model aircraft being unable obtain proper dove local dove-monger reason able price used pigeon instead attached thereto model airplane tiny inhibit performance October1978 103 Please send me...... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 ANS laracteristics 25 35 e lends itsE record b ber tail wa enj ob turns w sport too majizer Old-Timer great old-time ri tak Nets first ,o both slots lisps maker wheels floats t techniques 40 60 i-out performance ntpattern . rbyJohn Ballard 19-25 ylon contests - Irairier ror USA 15 eplica Old-Timer has excellent performance Rutherford frequent winner skin fuselage 25s 45s construction 60 ahipe Nats World Champs ite Great winner built-in muffler 1.. lizer zezeble $10 expense tail-dragger ier 2-sheets Exotic easy Good use experiments cia pontoons wins049/O51 r 46 Consistent winner del 2 big sheets 35 40 eion record jolt ir aport ltcaie mt med Schoenbrun ed-timer 1 kig sheets model Bill Noonan sof art ulse ri excel Itfoengine redic tertol gear ww wing te US P-26 Peashooter 4Opower inelswinglets r frequent big time winne amer Nets winner. 40 I101 103 104 112 118 121 123 124 125 131 134 136 141146149155159165166168169174177178 181183184185186189192193194195198201 202203204205206207208209210211212213 214215216217218219220221222223224225 I226227228229230231232233234235236237 I Please print carefullyEnclosed $______________________ NAMEH STREETH I CITY STATEZIP_____ Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St NW Washington DC 20005 uJ powerplant did fly did win thought unto himself Win ning isnt everything sure beats heck out losing happy came pass Elders heard about sore vexed boggled mind clown snookered us said unto other vice versa decided free fighter must punished banished him AMA headquarters serve forever Technical Director would confronted frequently cases alleged snookering would have himself decide snookeror snookeree course its fable. Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oak land CA 94619 ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control85 Andrews Aircraft Model Co99 Boynton Associates103 California Time Service92 Cove rite86 Cox Hobbies Inc9495 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products89 EK-Products7 Flyline Models101 Fox Mfg Company7 Grish Brothers88 Paul K Guillow Inc9 HB Engines90 K&BMfg5 Kraft Southwestern Inc98 Midwest Model Products6 Model Airplane Gazette102 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech102 Pactra Industries90 Peck-Polymers102 Pica Enterprises97 Progress Mfg Company8 Richard Barron96 S C Modeler100 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc87 Tatone Products Inc93 Westport International Inc9 Williams Brothers91 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Circle numbers plans wish order Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW. Washington DC 20005
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 46, 47, 102, 103, 104
Free Flight Du ration Bob Meu ser STRONG ARM 1150 Paul Stober has cleaning up out West Strong Arm 1150 its close relatives Notable wins include first place Class D Open 1977 Nats first Class 540 sq version again 1150 took first Fresno Annual total 58 minutes early year set Open Class D Category II record respectable score 24 minutes commonly Class D models have 800 900 sq wing area flown 4 cu engines allow flown both Class C Class D bit engine swapping Class D originated group Southern Californians preferred truly large models 8-ft span Supertigre 65 nose all-up weight 60 ounces Stobers Strong Arm finest tradition Class D Double dimensions favorite Half-A have pretty good idea wood sizes used 1150 fuse lage boxed up Starduster style out 3/16 sheet front end reinforced k cheeks Pylon t Leading edges start strip laid flat wing strip 3/ sq stock completes leading edge stab sed two turbulator spars ing 3/16 sq stab Main spar wing consists two strips 3/16 X 3/8 spruce main panels balsa tips stab uses ain spars Trailing edges 3/ x 1 5/16 X 1 ribs /8 thick right wing washed dral break Both tips washed out timer-controlled variable-incidence stabilizer auto-rudder employed NFFS Jacket Emblems Embroidered em blems National Free Flight Society logo ruptured duck blue white now available Jack Brown NFFS Supplies 20267 Northbrook Sq Cupertino CA 95014 $150 post paid youre ask price list includes several dozen top free-flight plans Symposium reports Free Flight Digest back issues NFFS dirty-bird decals etc Urban Redevelopment Manhattan Sere nade midlin-snazzy looking model built Manhattan Formula indoor cabin specs about three years ago Photo Mod Av. January 1977 Three4 1 ST 65 1Z0i2 AJ1fl 1150 nj Pau StoIr 40 AioiL mod t4eelmeijer j 50% i 3 9 __________LA 1 vz12 t__ views NFFS Digest April 1976 196667 Aeromodeller Annual racked up fair earth-shaking track record compromises design sake appearance didnt performance good rules got switched 20 flat span 20 pro jected span cost 2 span favorite dihedral arrangement hurt So new design order No compromises time around con tests win Winning isnt everything 46 Model Aviation Homan yzmuIa adjusted pOStal models recent MIAMA affair winds up Bob Meusers Urban Blight Doc Martin looking See accompanying drawing text details its thing fly just fun jf dont win aint no fun Such notall-that-facetious quotes abound although perhaps emphasis over stated its hard deny winning surely beats heck out losing laid out no-compromise successor Manhattan Serenade tempted call Manhattan Serenade II necessarily ugly beast would have travesty Urban Blight seemed appropriate fuselage barely encloses 2 X 2 X 4 box demanded rules required windows simply sections no-compromise fuselage structure cov ered Microlite fuselage bellied downward minimize wing-fuselage inter ference shorten landing gear single-strut two-wheel landing gear would give otherwise decent looking model severe case uglies somehow didnt detract appearance Urban Blight quite possibly because wasnt much detract Wing tips steeply angled washed out hopefully act winglets Tips rounded because such tips stiffer square angled ones probably better aero dynamically dont often pawn unbuilt untried designs off others having exhausted monthly allowance scruples conned David Hagen up Oregon building first Indoor model didnt have nerve enough fly himself shipped off Manhattan Mail-In sponsored MIAMA guessed Miami Local boy Dan Kilgore won using John Triolos Skyscraper design 3-views appeared Model Aviation January 1977 Urban Blight came close second Second place isnt winning will starters John Martin organizer meet came close third models adjusted flown Roman Syzmula just keep things fair top two models used rubber FAI Supply trouble Dan Kilgore got free fishing trip Gulf Stream trophy free dinner annual MIAMA awards dinner linlim-Mulvi Huge Success An hour half before 8 am starting gun first day prestigious US Free Flight Champs 27 stalwart souls bleary-eyed ground crews staggered reluc tantly out sacks participate unofficial Unlimited-Mulvihill event one-flight sudden-death affair rubberpower models An hour later Bob White declared winner flight 940 followed Roger Gregory George Perryman Jim Quinn Such one-flight no-max contests have held before never West Coast seemed high time basic idea test Mulvihill Unlimited rubber-power models under uniform thermal-free conditions would Continued page 102 F * 4\L~ hedt-cd brecde cLise tips 4 tar i5 mag proj sPan2t* zomayoaI4 zwide g 1 r____ St October1978 47 Wt 4 f&seia~t LI 1 JQbA12 5LK12C mcrnhctutivt fornzua 3uit PavCtfciqcn PcncE nj Tob A4cur FLown lnj Ppman Sizinua * Mcy MIAMA Mail-in Mca nrn mnurn Jieck di Bill Lovins checks thermals before firing up Cox-powered Parsons-designed tathexis FAI model Nov. 1975 MAl Lovins opted flat-bottomed wingParsons used Cole section KITS 0 PLANS 0 ACCESSORIES BABY ACRNUT KITS NYLON BEARINGS BROWN CO-2 ENGINES REAL JAPANESE TISSUE-PROPS 17 SPAN50d KIT $4 25MANY HARD TO FIND ITEMS Pec*-Pyaets W BOX 2498LA MESA CALIF 92041 GET ORGANIZED Hales sal 01 4 shady lies Ihat holds ova 4 years lavorrIe 8 II magazines 4 MAO FILES $495 Sand $496 pisa 5100 10 pOslaga handling I0 DOM INDUSTRIES PO Box 388-K DOVER NH 03820 Charging 2 amps two minutes gives flights between two mmutes either plane Both geared drives Astro-Flight motors hotter direct drives weigh bit due 02s 4-cell battery pack used 4-cell pack three Astro 010s good results Unfortunately 010s yet mass production due limited demand So youre contemplating getting electric prepared build light rubber ship style too small experiment batteries props Bob Boucher Astro-Flight warns against too-large props burning out motors However change stock 7 Mattel plastic prop 8 Paulowina prop added about 25% power Brochet last tip dont use too-small diam eter wire trying save weight resis tance loss isnt worth Hank Fasola VL Vista Labs recommends least 20 gauge Both Astro-Flight VL have great instructions motors read over couple times should help avoid pitfalls such over-charging etc havent experience Ger man Graupner motors E Fillon has using several years good results Flightmasters Annual scale meet drawing FF scale modelers far Texas Nevada Arizona has become Mecca both rubber power enthu siasts judging Saturday night Sept 30 flying Sunday Oct 1 meet allows plenty time bull sessions stocking up new ideas com ing year Contact Fernando Ramos ad dress given earlier myself youre going Los Angeles area Keep good ideas photos coming gang Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 FF Duration/Meuser continued page 47 require perhaps simultaneous launching 4 am some compromises re quired Experience has now shown one-hour time window unnecessarily wide will shortened perhaps 15 mm next year Just half 24 actually flew made flights exceeding 5 mm Any rea sonably good Mulvi design last 20 years can break 5 mm no goofs less successful dozen either models really werent competitive against big 300-square-inchers trim problems other difficulties flight permitted little time test flights things pretty well sorted out ahead time Such models nor mally tuned thermal flying Bob White re-tuned optimize still-air performance stalled disastrously during official Mulvi competition can afford win rubber-power event once Some fliers talking building spe cial still-air models especially event will certainly interesting see what develops Thats fine long models classic Mulvihill-event idiom no Pennyplanes ensure will have some rules-of-play addition official AMA Mulvihill rules Ten tatively well require enclosed motors double-surface solid sheet wing tail surfaces perhaps 70-gram minimum all-up weight latter should pro hibit genuine smallish Mulvihill modelsuch lightly-built Golly wockbut will certainly stamp out im practical ultra-light models Most modelers seem feel OK time keeper roam around keep model sight long roaming done foot AMA rule regarding move ment timers will invoked weather conditions such some models likely fly out sight event will postponed until next morning evening Questionnaires being circulated suggestions will considered care Cottage Industry Lives Ive mentioned Jim Joness free-flight tools previously August September 1977 July 1976 time update have changes Newly added line family high-temperature epoxy-fiber glass prop forms can oven-baked temperatures up 200 F Theyre just thing molding own Wakefield Coupe prop blades will handle prop 102 Model Aviation P 197B CATALOUS SCALE ORAWINS MORR SON A TECH 48500 M KENZ E HWYVIDA OR 97488 MODEL AIRPLANE GAZETTE 28page newsletter England model airplane enthusiasts features club news meet results kit reviews de tailed modeling articles accurate drawings clear sharp photos Send $125 sample copy $650 six-issue subscription make checks/MOs payable J J Daileda Joe Daileda USA/Canada PAMAG Agent 4314 Wut 238th St Torrance CA 90505 Bill Haight sends duesel-powereo muss Loiumuie uu u 5raI5~ t Note huge gas tanks through side window Model has pendulum ailerons level w.gs flight quite beautifully airfoil fuselage lifting struts Bellancas great lifters diameters up 26 blade widths up 3 Forms stock 24 26 pitch can supplied immediately other pitches custom built take two weeks forms molded handcarved mahogany form having true heli cal pitch Jim modeler real life pattern maker youre pretty certain get what want Price S 1295 plus $150 postage Adjustable Rubber Stripper now comes guides starting widths 3 4 5 6 mm 1/8 /4-inch price $15 plus$l50 handling Adjustable Balsa Stripper can strip anything up 1/s sq sheet stock now sells $1550 plus $150 handling deluxe version 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According rulebook provi sional events cannot conducted offi- L cial events Nats Tra ditionally Peanut Scale models flown competition rubber powered neither set Peanut rules specifies models must rubber powered Intentional oversight CO-2 power Electric power de-tuned Cox Tee Dee 010 perhaps pigeon power brings mind fable appeared volume 1 number Mil pitas Modeler last issue pres tigious publication ever published wit Once upon time free flight er could read did read worthy being read having read worthy read Rule Book too after having read therein manner wondrous things noted Book Free Flight passage Any form propulsion permitted Any form propulsion nimble mind reeled Being sore vexed boggled mind consulted District Elder Rule Book means what says quite probable Rule Book means what says also quite probable says what means ever possible intent rules accurately reflected strictly literal interpretation have vote will present question Executive Council Elders Rule Book means what says asked Executive Council Elders Elders looked upon other vice versa decided matter should cleared higher authority Elders ascend ed mountain top pondered pondered pondered after seven days seven nights pondering general clowning around descended mountain top pronounced Aye verily Rule Book means what says peace descended firma ment free fighter chose very symbol peacethe doveas pro pulsive power plant model aircraft being unable obtain proper dove local dove-monger reason able price used pigeon instead attached thereto model airplane tiny inhibit performance October1978 103 Please send me...... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 ANS laracteristics 25 35 e lends itsE record b ber tail wa enj ob turns w sport too majizer Old-Timer great old-time ri tak Nets first ,o both slots lisps maker wheels floats t 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Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St NW Washington DC 20005 uJ powerplant did fly did win thought unto himself Win ning isnt everything sure beats heck out losing happy came pass Elders heard about sore vexed boggled mind clown snookered us said unto other vice versa decided free fighter must punished banished him AMA headquarters serve forever Technical Director would confronted frequently cases alleged snookering would have himself decide snookeror snookeree course its fable. 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