Free Flight Old-Timers Clarence Haught BACK Thirties modelers often competed particular perpetual trophy such trophy Moffett Memorial trophy named after Admiral Moffett died US Airship Akron plunged Atlantic April 1933 1936 Vernon Gray won Moffett trophy model proxy-flown 44 mm 14 sec Bert Pond Detroit Ml Vernon Grays home club Aukland Model Aero Club New Zealand decided celebrate occasion its fiftieth anniversary staging International Moffett Gold Commemorative Contest held November 23 1986 Karaka distinct difference between two meets models Commemorative Contest replicas Vernon Grays 1936 winner Minor changes allowed include dethermalizers fidelity original rewarded bonus mulitiplier bestowed model judges event spanned two days included trim ming processing first day capped off social evening Official flights took place second day followed fly-for-fun afternoon session prior formal prize-giving dinner evening Forty-four entries received 39 actually arriving Twenty-three models logged flights 60 sec format called longest three flights official score As often case contest day weather less desirable overcast skies strong northerly wind hampered ROGs extended retrieval chases end round Brian Standish ahead flight 172 sec end round two Rod Lewis proxy-flying Paul Lagens model lead 173 sec Round three changed flight 265 sec Bill MeGarvey Number two score posted John Poletti proxying Stephen Moores model leav ing winner round two third place Obviously event great success several noteworthy points made has one-design concept Other con tests have required special engines specific de signs event replicas winning model 50 years ago unusual Another inter esting point use proxy fliers Just original event some contestants unable attend person Yet models ably flown local modelers Actually three top five places went models flown proxy fliers Some flight times recorded better proxy fliers times own models Hows dedication Also model proxyrepaired Thats great dedication spirit competition contest proper followed up flyfor-fun afternoon What idea After fun what its about often us just go out fly fun noncompetition flying normally series trim sessons get ready competition never go out just fly Maybe theres message An awards dinner also neat touch SAM Champs usually local re gional meets its prizes field car off home good meal informal visiting could add great deal pleasure meet Lastly fellowship modeling great benefit attendance Auckland Bert Pond Vein Gray Bill Mackley original contest 50 years ago Long-term friendships still firm strong know value friendships first established competition trail Im sure too Another fiftieth just received word EF Lindsey Hangar No 13 Beloit WI will holding 52-year reunion September 1987 wont contest just some good old-fashioned fun-flying featuring some original models will fill later 020 Replica event scaled-down OldTimers powered Cox TD 020 has popular since its inception modelers lured romance Old-Timers have built 020 Replicas first step Old-Timer activity Its usually fatal step cannot resist going further hobby/sport performance 020 Replica models very good due largely high power output Cox engine has made high-performance models very popular 020 fliers recently received plans Kerswap design scaled 020 Replica size Dick Lyons 552 Camino Concordia Camarillo CA 93010 case dont remember Kerswap Gil Morris design beautiful elliptical stabi lizer pylon-mounted wing elliptical tips long tail moment Dicks model 70% Continued page 176 Dick Lyons Kerswap models left 02 Replica event 1870% size original its size compared original-size Kerswap powered front-rotor Ohlsson 23 R fine performance big inspired Dick make 02 Lyons photos 68 Model Aviation Aukiand New Zealana Model Aero lu b put 1986 contest memorialize Vernon Grays 1936 win Moffett Memorial Trophy Detroit Mi left Vernon launches 36 winner 86 meet its no surprise 56 winner Bill McGarvey R used replica 36 modelit onedesign contest 1936 winning model proxy flown Detroit Bert Pond Photos Aukiand Model Aero Club original size performs well looks Dick says its equal Stratostreak dominates 020 meets Kerswap won SCAMPS annual last November six max es modelers asked Dick plans has made available five bucks plans come sheet construction trim notes Timer Clarence Haught 3226 Honeysuckle Dr Coeur dAlene ID 83814 Wildcat/Cartier Continued page 71 possible before gluing foam especially careful fitting spars flush foam better parts fit before assembly better final ftnish will After first layer silkspan use spackling compound fill dents unevenness filler will completely hidden second layer silkspan plastic covering fuselage uses unique construction too plans show foam core design used prototype forewarned standard profile fuselage half-inch balsa wont work will much too heavy weight will tail foam core fuselage pretty easy youd rather can use half-inch-wide strip formers instead foam build up aft section fuselage Making lam inated outline may bit tricky can done result should similar foam corea big light strong scalelike fuselage foam core fuselage has three basic parts composite balsa/foam core two sides Start core Cut forward section half-inch balsa install engine mounts Also cut slot landing gear Following outline carefully cut foam part sharp knife saw hot wire Glue balsa piece add tail block dry add laminated outline three layers of/16 x -in balsa Use masking tape hold outline pieces place glue dries outline should little wider foam can sanded down core drying assemble fuselage sides Glue forward piece Y16 ply balsa sides balsa sides can pieced together using piece stan dard 3 x 36 balsa per side core dry use large sanding block smooth its sides bring laminated outline down uniform thick ness simplest method assembling fuselage use slow-drying epoxy mixed microballoon filler ratio two parts glue part microbalboon filler Spread coat sides remember right left lam inate fuselage Use masking tape hold sides aligned lay assembly flat floor board provide uniform pressure over whole fuselage lay books magazines concrete blocks sembly went all-out lightness used three different glues epoxy aliphatic spray contact cement masked off forward fuselage about quarter-inch around outline both core fuselage sides Both foam matching section sides got coat contact cement balsa part core ply part sides got coat epoxy/microbalboon-filler mixture laminated outline got bead aliphatic glue saved little weight substituting contact cement epoxy However considerably trickier use three different glues once fuselage dry trim excess wood off outline Add turtledeck -in balsa whole thing can sanded rounded shape Locate wing position fuselage saw out Trial-fit wing trim neces sary get good fit landing gear plugs slot forward fuselage Sandwich wire tween two pieces -in ply Glue assembly place epoxy type mount plenty sturdy normal land ingsand some pretty ferocious bounces However can substitute bolt on-gear whatever suits fancy flew prototype gear flew great bottom fuselage 176 Model Aviation PRODUCTS FOR ThE DISCERNING MODELER Complete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Pipes * Muffled Tuned Pipes * Headers uri Mufflers * Expansion Mufflers * Helicopter Ball Mufflers ialized Exhaust Systems Unsurpassed Wnrkmanshin b Performance FF Old-Timers/Haught Continued page 68
Edition: Model Aviation - 1987/06
Page Numbers: 68, 176
Free Flight Old-Timers Clarence Haught BACK Thirties modelers often competed particular perpetual trophy such trophy Moffett Memorial trophy named after Admiral Moffett died US Airship Akron plunged Atlantic April 1933 1936 Vernon Gray won Moffett trophy model proxy-flown 44 mm 14 sec Bert Pond Detroit Ml Vernon Grays home club Aukland Model Aero Club New Zealand decided celebrate occasion its fiftieth anniversary staging International Moffett Gold Commemorative Contest held November 23 1986 Karaka distinct difference between two meets models Commemorative Contest replicas Vernon Grays 1936 winner Minor changes allowed include dethermalizers fidelity original rewarded bonus mulitiplier bestowed model judges event spanned two days included trim ming processing first day capped off social evening Official flights took place second day followed fly-for-fun afternoon session prior formal prize-giving dinner evening Forty-four entries received 39 actually arriving Twenty-three models logged flights 60 sec format called longest three flights official score As often case contest day weather less desirable overcast skies strong northerly wind hampered ROGs extended retrieval chases end round Brian Standish ahead flight 172 sec end round two Rod Lewis proxy-flying Paul Lagens model lead 173 sec Round three changed flight 265 sec Bill MeGarvey Number two score posted John Poletti proxying Stephen Moores model leav ing winner round two third place Obviously event great success several noteworthy points made has one-design concept Other con tests have required special engines specific de signs event replicas winning model 50 years ago unusual Another inter esting point use proxy fliers Just original event some contestants unable attend person Yet models ably flown local modelers Actually three top five places went models flown proxy fliers Some flight times recorded better proxy fliers times own models Hows dedication Also model proxyrepaired Thats great dedication spirit competition contest proper followed up flyfor-fun afternoon What idea After fun what its about often us just go out fly fun noncompetition flying normally series trim sessons get ready competition never go out just fly Maybe theres message An awards dinner also neat touch SAM Champs usually local re gional meets its prizes field car off home good meal informal visiting could add great deal pleasure meet Lastly fellowship modeling great benefit attendance Auckland Bert Pond Vein Gray Bill Mackley original contest 50 years ago Long-term friendships still firm strong know value friendships first established competition trail Im sure too Another fiftieth just received word EF Lindsey Hangar No 13 Beloit WI will holding 52-year reunion September 1987 wont contest just some good old-fashioned fun-flying featuring some original models will fill later 020 Replica event scaled-down OldTimers powered Cox TD 020 has popular since its inception modelers lured romance Old-Timers have built 020 Replicas first step Old-Timer activity Its usually fatal step cannot resist going further hobby/sport performance 020 Replica models very good due largely high power output Cox engine has made high-performance models very popular 020 fliers recently received plans Kerswap design scaled 020 Replica size Dick Lyons 552 Camino Concordia Camarillo CA 93010 case dont remember Kerswap Gil Morris design beautiful elliptical stabi lizer pylon-mounted wing elliptical tips long tail moment Dicks model 70% Continued page 176 Dick Lyons Kerswap models left 02 Replica event 1870% size original its size compared original-size Kerswap powered front-rotor Ohlsson 23 R fine performance big inspired Dick make 02 Lyons photos 68 Model Aviation Aukiand New Zealana Model Aero lu b put 1986 contest memorialize Vernon Grays 1936 win Moffett Memorial Trophy Detroit Mi left Vernon launches 36 winner 86 meet its no surprise 56 winner Bill McGarvey R used replica 36 modelit onedesign contest 1936 winning model proxy flown Detroit Bert Pond Photos Aukiand Model Aero Club original size performs well looks Dick says its equal Stratostreak dominates 020 meets Kerswap won SCAMPS annual last November six max es modelers asked Dick plans has made available five bucks plans come sheet construction trim notes Timer Clarence Haught 3226 Honeysuckle Dr Coeur dAlene ID 83814 Wildcat/Cartier Continued page 71 possible before gluing foam especially careful fitting spars flush foam better parts fit before assembly better final ftnish will After first layer silkspan use spackling compound fill dents unevenness filler will completely hidden second layer silkspan plastic covering fuselage uses unique construction too plans show foam core design used prototype forewarned standard profile fuselage half-inch balsa wont work will much too heavy weight will tail foam core fuselage pretty easy youd rather can use half-inch-wide strip formers instead foam build up aft section fuselage Making lam inated outline may bit tricky can done result should similar foam corea big light strong scalelike fuselage foam core fuselage has three basic parts composite balsa/foam core two sides Start core Cut forward section half-inch balsa install engine mounts Also cut slot landing gear Following outline carefully cut foam part sharp knife saw hot wire Glue balsa piece add tail block dry add laminated outline three layers of/16 x -in balsa Use masking tape hold outline pieces place glue dries outline should little wider foam can sanded down core drying assemble fuselage sides Glue forward piece Y16 ply balsa sides balsa sides can pieced together using piece stan dard 3 x 36 balsa per side core dry use large sanding block smooth its sides bring laminated outline down uniform thick ness simplest method assembling fuselage use slow-drying epoxy mixed microballoon filler ratio two parts glue part microbalboon filler Spread coat sides remember right left lam inate fuselage Use masking tape hold sides aligned lay assembly flat floor board provide uniform pressure over whole fuselage lay books magazines concrete blocks sembly went all-out lightness used three different glues epoxy aliphatic spray contact cement masked off forward fuselage about quarter-inch around outline both core fuselage sides Both foam matching section sides got coat contact cement balsa part core ply part sides got coat epoxy/microbalboon-filler mixture laminated outline got bead aliphatic glue saved little weight substituting contact cement epoxy However considerably trickier use three different glues once fuselage dry trim excess wood off outline Add turtledeck -in balsa whole thing can sanded rounded shape Locate wing position fuselage saw out Trial-fit wing trim neces sary get good fit landing gear plugs slot forward fuselage Sandwich wire tween two pieces -in ply Glue assembly place epoxy type mount plenty sturdy normal land ingsand some pretty ferocious bounces However can substitute bolt on-gear whatever suits fancy flew prototype gear flew great bottom fuselage 176 Model Aviation PRODUCTS FOR ThE DISCERNING MODELER Complete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Pipes * Muffled Tuned Pipes * Headers uri Mufflers * Expansion Mufflers * Helicopter Ball Mufflers ialized Exhaust Systems Unsurpassed Wnrkmanshin b Performance FF Old-Timers/Haught Continued page 68