Scale-SparI Ei Ralph D Kuenz month have words wit wisdom honored guest editor chief sayer Flying Aces Club Newsletter pioneer purveyor Peanut paranoiaMajor General David Stott FAC Dave dont always see eye-to-eye matters Hes shorter lam though CG some what lower Dave has done kind model aviation anyone else know So listen what Dave has say says well.. Ralph D Kuenz AWRIGHT SOMEBODY HELP Ralph up off hangar floor Yeah know yanked soapbox out under him Well invited use little hangar flyin Can help have lot say want get early start What Ralph Five thousand feet over Lake Mi chigan tomorrow dawn demand satisfaction huh will Hawker Hurricane OK will use Fokker YIC-15 ambulance ship get airsick Yeah Same Hauptman Von Rottensocks Now will ya let fan breeze rubber scale builders standin around hangar Cripes hes trouble maker Just because knows editor thinks anyone else has no say Boy wait til tomorrow mornin will drop hypodermics him like flechettes let us get Now have al ways credited Merrill Hamburg launching aeromodeling its first flight national popularity via Airplane Model League America AMLA 1928 book Beginning Fly Merrill say chapter scale models Genuine scale models seldom fly wings thing too far forward rse model could set wing farther back order balance shipbut you no longer have scale model scale model remember built duplicate exactly real ship turbulence knew what talking about Wings too far forward thing C-5 Galaxy full other reasons Sure know familiar lets take look again things kick flyability pants before lets take another look ourselves rubber scale builder far different RC CL counterpart latter concerned need con serve weight critical need duplicate exactly miniature details feasible other hand rubber scale builder must sort sorcerer make cloud cuddler look like real thing creating illusions Out bits tissue balsa tubing card stock plastic must conjure up sheet metal louvered cowls exhaust pipes en tire engines machine guns bombs pilots Alas illusion created sells part soul Devil Drag Demon Weight true scale modeler Continued page 102 February 1978 55 Chamberlins transatlantic Bellanca expertly developed Bill Noonan Flyline kit commercial version its lifting struts airfoil-type fuselage Bellanca design could carry useful load excess its empty weight Photograph John Oldenkamp flOIUII IIb0 UUbWI nuc nrc0 transport vave Stott Credit reads Phineas Pinkhamwhich happens pseudonym author extinct Ftying Aces mag Dave member Flying Aces Club nowaro rere reanur version tamous racing plane built Robert H Masters cross section actual aircraft deter mined sitting pilot front mirror chalking outline 26-in sport model Navy Flier Sherman Gillespie decorated colors Fighting Squadron No 6 famous Felix Cat Squadron U SS Saratoga Photograph taken Jack Stewart 3-book boxed set covers fastest racing machines 3 4 5-view scale drawings color schemes markings construc tion performance data pilots race results descriptive illustrated story 22 Unlimiteds 41 Formula ls 19 Sport Biplanes 6 AT6/SNJs current era plus over 90 great Thomp son Bendix Greve Goodyear racers 3Ds 40s plus fabulous S chneider Cup floatlanes oithe 20s Pulitzer Racers Gordon ennett Racers lamous European racers way back tirst air race win ner 1909 Curtiss Golden Flyer- IJtIA 234 planes all pIIt Quality printed 192 big B/s 5 11 pages trul fine reference POSTAGE tour aviation bra ry Oder yours INCLUDED O Early Air Racers 3-views 1909-29 o National Air Racers 3-views 29-49 O ModernAirRacersina-views 4975 495 495 495 Send Check Money Order PUBLICATIONS P0 505 2726 SEPT IOCHESTEE SEW 6036 14626 RETURN MAIL DELIVERY Name Street City StateZip leadouts flap bending nose weight line length handle spacing select about five six good different props spend about two weeks 20-40 flights switching props Keep notes Its easy forget after two three switches Some prop combinations 35-size engines flying Foxes have using following Giesekeplane 525 sq 40 oz Rev-up 10-6W Tom Dixon 9th FAT tryoutsplane 560 sq 45 oz Rev-up 10-6W Fast Richard Mathis 13th Natsplane 525 sq 41 oz Grish 3-blade Joe Musumeci 2nd Senior NatsRev up 10-6W Using Max 35 have Remel Cooper 7th FAIplane 625 sq 46 oz Rev-up 10-6W Dave Hem strought 10th FAI plane 630 sq 53 oz Rev-up 10-6 EW Dennis Adamisin FAI 13thplane 580 sq 47 oz Rev-up 10-6EW David Fitzgerald 1st Senior Natsplane stock Sig Chipmunk 42 oz Zinger 10-6 pilots using 40 engines have using Norm Whittle 9th Nats plane weighs 55 oz Rev-up 10-6W Paul Walker 14th Nats 640 sq plane 49 oz Rev-up 10-6 Zinger 10-6 Roger Barrett 15th Nats 550 sq plane 455 oz. Rev-up l0-6EW Tom Lay 19th Nats680 sq plane 49 os Rev-up 10-6W Steve McCann 20th Nats plane 550 sq 48 oz Rev-up 10-6 Lets forget Half-As Nats champion Bob Whitely used Cox 6-3 gray prop TD 051 plane weighing 10 oz 210 sq wing 76 Bob smaller 170 sq wtng same weight used Cox 55-4 prop David Fitzgerald won Senior Half-A using Pinto Dick Mathis design weighing 12 oz 34 span Cox 6-3 prop TD 049 information stunt PAMPA write Wynn Paul 1640 Maywick Dr Lexington KY 40504 FF Sport Scale/Kuenz continued page 55 sells soul evil duo happily fine features model scale builder As far concerned must OK skysters about draw backs mentioned earlier does illusionist handle distorts truth subtle changes result nothing grotesque deformed admirable representation real mach ine capable good performance free flight guess biggest drawback cause resultant misery model has times scale horse power prop size order get up stairs Because scale effect no in-flight control other alterations scale configuration necessary gain stability dihedral must increased model like Spirit St Louis done minimum destroy appearance Anyhow flat wing dihedral looks like droops bit added actually improves appearance High-wing cabin jobs like Spirit have inherent stability no need excessive dihedral sleek sky-slicing low-wingers another bag low-wing design has wing tapered planform luck Dihedral angles less noticeable tapered wing constant chord wing Cut tapered wing out card stock another constant chord wing well Give tapered wing half again much di hedral constant chord jobbie eyeball em different angles will seem wing has no dihedral other except view head An illusion Tiny tail feathers another bug-a-boo scale modelers couple ways approaching drawback course enlarge stabilizer good taste Dont pull Charlie Tuna simply add -in around perimeter destroying aspectratio changing appearance stab aspect-ratio must taken consideration enlarging tail stabilizer want enlarge has aspect-ratio six-to-one aspect-ratio relation average chord span enlargement must same ratio say add -in chord six times 1-in must added span preserves ap pearance efficient enlarg ing changing proportion have created illusion unaltered tail large extent Another method combines two subtle alterations scale configuration wash out wing tips mono plane will cover bipes multiplanes later washing out tips center section stalls first tips still lifting keep ship stall ing completely nose lowers flying speed regained assume rib-slicers know wash-out re duced incidence wing approach es tips performed during building later warping additional alteration scale stretch fuselage Haw-w-w-w Yeah use Pirelli longerons just Naw am kiddin course mean increase tail moment building little extra length fuselage aft wing trailing edge stern post Such change usually has drawn redrawn few times get good balance between what looks OK maximum stretch can add no set rule procedure skysters must use engineering intuitivity Igor Sikorsky called such things fuselage stretching must sometimes done stabilizer area en larged because gap between trail ing edge wing leading edge stabilizer has consequently shrunk worst tussle system ever experienced design Farman Jabiru Transport teeny stab enlarged quite bit thereby reducing distance between wing stab meant fuselage stretched Tissue trimmers must have redrawn fuselage half dozen times before suita ble balance arrived did destroy dumpy appearance Farman fuselage Part fun rubber scale modeling right fellas no such thing model tough build Some just take longer others thats Overcoming small stabilizer area bipe easy ground-looping Spad Decalage answer setting wings different angles incidence rela tive other have read few differ ing methods setting up biplanes lately 102 ModelAviation MORRISONSCALE DRAWINGS EPLA-TECHCATALOG 25c nlerIWt/OflG/ 48500 McKenzie Hwy Vida Oregon 97483 Charles Mendenhall will tell have doing moons now reasoning behind always give incidence fore wing bipe would top wing SE-5 bottom wing Beechcraft way foremost wing stalls before further aft loss lift front center gravity combined lift still generated unstalled aft wing behind center gravity brings smooth recovery extremely nose-high attitude very quick recov ery flying speed little waste precious turns once lost half elevator Nieuport 28 set up described manner never missed Flights sans elevator exactly same flying venetian blinds like tripes quads different matter thing have remember wing sters incidence devil disguise Incidence also drag Armstrong Whitworth Quad set wings positive stagger follows bot tom wing set zero degrees incidence next one degree positive third up two degrees positive top wing degree negative inci dence because top wing set good amount positive incidence would create much drag up above thrust line excessive downthrust would have needed adding inefficiency certainly enough deealage other three wings take care stability us stringer benders ought throt tle back comes final assembly model crucial part construc tion can make break models per formance consider degree incidence wing threeinch chord rise leading edge 3/64 inch dont need wipe goggles see what mean use small lightweight level vial setting incidence wingswith model its back enables check angles number points along span trimming struts correct rig pays make dry runs before glu ing wings Once glued check em again sure have way want Youve got lot hours bus spend time freely now final stages splitting hairs difference gnats empen nage has effect end Now about wings too far forward Merrill Hamburg wrote because concentration weight engine nose course model motor long thin job reaching nose to. Ah yes end Some old kit plans show motor running way stern post others show ending quite bit forward economics kit production made some designers go short motor space subsequent shorter cheaper motors did balance past few years much has written about best place locate rear motor peg achieve balance decent motor space least amount ballast Well slide-rule slippers calculate want thing happens often throws efforts slipstream mean motor bunches little unwound ball rear peg goes glide stalling like kilt wearer dinner check arrives school flight uses indoor type motor power run too upsetting have set up good flight time long motor run power up glide type like us climates indoor style motor runs dont always trick sure ruins flight time Unless rig up little gadget could unwind motor rear near exhaustion means battling fluke may sound ridiculous peddling porkers Pales tine some measure success can locating rear peg no farther aft center gravity nose hook front Short rubber space can bet last sheet checkerboard Japanese tissue necessarily short motor simply run same length motor would have peg February 1978 103 Beca will b Showh end fu {YWRAM~#2STC FULLSIZE PLANS No 212 Miss America$925 RC Antique Famous historic model 2 big sheets 35 40 No 213 Eliminator II$175 CL Class Speed model asymmetric design record job No 214 Bumbled Bee$100 Jean Pailets tail first version Indoor Easy B No101Short Seamew 40-powered Class i carrier model good prototype lends itself toinnovationsS30O No103Kloud King 15-19 AC Old-Timer Free Flight based upon 1938 record breaker FF$400 No 104Wiley Post Biplane Petite durable scale design foreither rubber tail wagger pulserudder$225 No112Sneat Sport AC glider simple job can flown engine$275 No 118GollyGeeWhiz Dan Rutherfords simple Half-A powered combat job turns dime$150 No 121Gremlin Sturdy aerobatic AC biplane flieswell 35s up 60s$300 No 1234-Bits 40-powered RC 500 Club Racer has winning ways Good sport too 0 No 124Semi-Pro Contest-winning HL glider has apop-up tail dethermalizer$100 No125HaIf-Korda rubber John Oldenkamps1/2-size all-balsa Old-Timer.$175 No 131Gee Bee Modal Y 40-powered AC stand-off scale great old-time racers$600 No134callisto superb Standard Class AC sailplane also took Nats first$400 No 136Fieseler Storch AC scale model 23-45 5-channel has both slots flaps$400 No 141Blackburn Monoplane AC Scale renditionof history-maker wheels floats 40 engine$450 No 146OuickSilver-RC 1/2A Pylon Racer incorporates latest techniques ..$200 No 147B-i AC 15 USAF bomber full house Acefoam wings Stable.$275 No 149comedian AC fun-fly aerobatic biplane good looker .... -$400 No 151Nesmitli cougar FF rubber scale 30-in span Excellent design long flights$300 No 153Cerberux AC 60-powered Pattern job retracts advanced features$475 No155Tellipsoar AC Standard Class sailplane wins stand-out performance$1000 No 159Tercal Keith Trostles 1/2A CL Stunt thip flies excellent pattern .$200 No 164Pogo AC Formula Pylon racer deBolt based full-scale Owl$760 No 165Midget Mustang CL 1975-1976 Nets winning Goodyear byJohn Ballard$200 No 166Nothing Fancy AC biplane 35 enginesis pretty handles beautifully$825 No 168Simitar AC spectacular flying-wing 15fin-mounted tractor$300 No169Dennyplane RCversionoffamedcabinmodelkitfrom 193719-25$400 No 172Tutorn AC Cabin model scale-like performance 25-35$325 No 174Iron Dog AC Quarter Midget Bell Airacobra has won Pylon contests$400 No176Que dCoupe rubber power attractive Coupe has excellent performance$300 No 177Zonker AC canard has pattern capability 40 power$300 No uscountry Boy FF Jim Clem thoroughbred/09/51 1/2A$300 No 180Bristol Scout AC 02 power scale pulse rudder small radios$200 No 181Bed check Charlie AC Scale model Russian PT trainer 09/ 1 5$300 No183The Answer AC FF cabin 02 sized Replica Old-Timer$175 No164Seville AC Sport low-wing sailplane SOwing has excellent performance$350 No 185Cheater Slow CL Slow Combat model byDan Rutherford frequent winner$275 No 186Fancy Pants AC Sport/Aerobatic low-wing has ply-skin fuselage 25s 45s$460 No 187Big Boy FF Unlimited Class rubber modelno frills great performer$300 No 158Rockette FF model Jetex-type power isa Nationals winner$150 No 189Vintage 11 AC Antique type old-timeopen fuse construction 60$476 No190Snake CL Rat racer Dick Lambertlatest state art.$200 No191Mountaineer AC Slope Soarer Clarence Haughtgood can get$375 No 192Chipmunk AC Scale winner 1978 World Championships Nats$900 No 193Stiletto CL stunt model McDonald winner 1976 FAI World Champs $375 No 194Vol Libre FF rubber-powered Wakefield Bob White Great winner. $275 No195Hats Biplane AC aerobatic scale job takes40/50 built-in muffler$475 No 19Mirage Sherwood Buckataffs Fast Combattwice Nets winner$250 No197FokkerT-2 Nets winning FF scale electric poweredAstro 02 etc$275 No 195Sportater AC deBolt wing choice aerobatics/racing.. $375 No199P-3 ACforCos 09 Acefoamwings stepupfrom 049 jobs $360 No200Ole Aeliable CL Formula 40 speed job Snyders Nets winner$175 No201AclI Out FFdethermalizer.. $100 No 202Avenger CL profile 049 uses sheet wing maneuverable.$150 No203Fokker 0-VIII AC 45 60 Two sheets 2-1/2 scale. $900 No204Cardboard Douglas M-2 CL 50 biplane 40 power less $10 expense$600 No 205Hot Aock AC aerobatics 19-40 engines Simple tail-dragger$360 No 206Air Camper FF Pientenpol 1/2A Charming old-timer 2-sheets$300 No 207Livesey DL 5 AC English homebuilt 3-chan. 1 5s Exotic easy Good flier$500 No 208Swinger CL 1/2A all-balsa swing-wing Fly fun oruse experiments$200 No209Seastruti AC biplane 3 channels 19wheels pontoons$460 No210Simplex FF years development wins049/05l$450 No 211 Together IV CL Rather large impressive stunter 46 Consistent winner $3 75 Circle numbers plans wish order 112118121123124 149151153155159 101 103 104 125131134136141 164165166168169 146147 172174 176177178180181183184185186187188189 190191192193194195196197198199200201 202 203 204 205 206 207 214 Please print carefully 208 209 210 211 212 213 NAME STREET CITY 7l STATE Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC 20005 located its usual aft position bunches seems happen less due less restricting fuselage dimen sions further forward has less effect balance Also due clumps unwound motor gathering forward tend ency counter-balance bunching drawback slapping fuselage sides jobs slender overcome addition light 1/32-in slapper boards glued inside uprights fuselage motor compartment 1/64-in sheet strong enough smaller models Peanuts motors very power ful no slapper board needed Now stringer benders want what say caught Ralph pourin acid control cables Fokker Ambulance bet related Erich Von Stroheim Well will get some bicarbonate soda out medicine chest daub antacid huh Boy thought good guys flew Hurricanes Ill bet wears black helmet square goggles too Well long fellas have get ready Lake Michigan momin has swell jawin you take advice given wrap up new crate can blame someone else time haw-w-w-w Ralph Kuenz 14645 Stahelin Detroit MI 48223 ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control Andrews Aircraft Model Co Coverite 92 90 3 Cox Hobbies Inc5 Du-Bro Products85 EK-Products7 Flyline Models94 Fox Mfg Company7 Carl Goldberg Models. Grish Brothers Hobbypoxy K&B Mfg Kraft Great Lakes Inc. Midwest Model Products Modernistic Models.. Morrison Repla-Tech. Pactra Industries PeckPolymers Proctor Ent Corp Progress Mfg Company Pylon Publications R/C Buyers Guide Sig Mfg Company Sterling Models Inc. Sullivan Products Inc Tatone Products Inc. Westport International Williams Brothers d Engines WRAMS Show Inside Front Cover 86 87 91 89 6 100 102 99 100 98 60 102 101 1 88 93 97 95 96 Back Cover 103 104 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/02
Page Numbers: 55, 102, 103, 104
Scale-SparI Ei Ralph D Kuenz month have words wit wisdom honored guest editor chief sayer Flying Aces Club Newsletter pioneer purveyor Peanut paranoiaMajor General David Stott FAC Dave dont always see eye-to-eye matters Hes shorter lam though CG some what lower Dave has done kind model aviation anyone else know So listen what Dave has say says well.. Ralph D Kuenz AWRIGHT SOMEBODY HELP Ralph up off hangar floor Yeah know yanked soapbox out under him Well invited use little hangar flyin Can help have lot say want get early start What Ralph Five thousand feet over Lake Mi chigan tomorrow dawn demand satisfaction huh will Hawker Hurricane OK will use Fokker YIC-15 ambulance ship get airsick Yeah Same Hauptman Von Rottensocks Now will ya let fan breeze rubber scale builders standin around hangar Cripes hes trouble maker Just because knows editor thinks anyone else has no say Boy wait til tomorrow mornin will drop hypodermics him like flechettes let us get Now have al ways credited Merrill Hamburg launching aeromodeling its first flight national popularity via Airplane Model League America AMLA 1928 book Beginning Fly Merrill say chapter scale models Genuine scale models seldom fly wings thing too far forward rse model could set wing farther back order balance shipbut you no longer have scale model scale model remember built duplicate exactly real ship turbulence knew what talking about Wings too far forward thing C-5 Galaxy full other reasons Sure know familiar lets take look again things kick flyability pants before lets take another look ourselves rubber scale builder far different RC CL counterpart latter concerned need con serve weight critical need duplicate exactly miniature details feasible other hand rubber scale builder must sort sorcerer make cloud cuddler look like real thing creating illusions Out bits tissue balsa tubing card stock plastic must conjure up sheet metal louvered cowls exhaust pipes en tire engines machine guns bombs pilots Alas illusion created sells part soul Devil Drag Demon Weight true scale modeler Continued page 102 February 1978 55 Chamberlins transatlantic Bellanca expertly developed Bill Noonan Flyline kit commercial version its lifting struts airfoil-type fuselage Bellanca design could carry useful load excess its empty weight Photograph John Oldenkamp flOIUII IIb0 UUbWI nuc nrc0 transport vave Stott Credit reads Phineas Pinkhamwhich happens pseudonym author extinct Ftying Aces mag Dave member Flying Aces Club nowaro rere reanur version tamous racing plane built Robert H Masters cross section actual aircraft deter mined sitting pilot front mirror chalking outline 26-in sport model Navy Flier Sherman Gillespie decorated colors Fighting Squadron No 6 famous Felix Cat Squadron U SS Saratoga Photograph taken Jack Stewart 3-book boxed set covers fastest racing machines 3 4 5-view scale drawings color schemes markings construc tion performance data pilots race results descriptive illustrated story 22 Unlimiteds 41 Formula ls 19 Sport Biplanes 6 AT6/SNJs current era plus over 90 great Thomp son Bendix Greve Goodyear racers 3Ds 40s plus fabulous S chneider Cup floatlanes oithe 20s Pulitzer Racers Gordon ennett Racers lamous European racers way back tirst air race win ner 1909 Curtiss Golden Flyer- IJtIA 234 planes all pIIt Quality printed 192 big B/s 5 11 pages trul fine reference POSTAGE tour aviation bra ry Oder yours INCLUDED O Early Air Racers 3-views 1909-29 o National Air Racers 3-views 29-49 O ModernAirRacersina-views 4975 495 495 495 Send Check Money Order PUBLICATIONS P0 505 2726 SEPT IOCHESTEE SEW 6036 14626 RETURN MAIL DELIVERY Name Street City StateZip leadouts flap bending nose weight line length handle spacing select about five six good different props spend about two weeks 20-40 flights switching props Keep notes Its easy forget after two three switches Some prop combinations 35-size engines flying Foxes have using following Giesekeplane 525 sq 40 oz Rev-up 10-6W Tom Dixon 9th FAT tryoutsplane 560 sq 45 oz Rev-up 10-6W Fast Richard Mathis 13th Natsplane 525 sq 41 oz Grish 3-blade Joe Musumeci 2nd Senior NatsRev up 10-6W Using Max 35 have Remel Cooper 7th FAIplane 625 sq 46 oz Rev-up 10-6W Dave Hem strought 10th FAI plane 630 sq 53 oz Rev-up 10-6 EW Dennis Adamisin FAI 13thplane 580 sq 47 oz Rev-up 10-6EW David Fitzgerald 1st Senior Natsplane stock Sig Chipmunk 42 oz Zinger 10-6 pilots using 40 engines have using Norm Whittle 9th Nats plane weighs 55 oz Rev-up 10-6W Paul Walker 14th Nats 640 sq plane 49 oz Rev-up 10-6 Zinger 10-6 Roger Barrett 15th Nats 550 sq plane 455 oz. Rev-up l0-6EW Tom Lay 19th Nats680 sq plane 49 os Rev-up 10-6W Steve McCann 20th Nats plane 550 sq 48 oz Rev-up 10-6 Lets forget Half-As Nats champion Bob Whitely used Cox 6-3 gray prop TD 051 plane weighing 10 oz 210 sq wing 76 Bob smaller 170 sq wtng same weight used Cox 55-4 prop David Fitzgerald won Senior Half-A using Pinto Dick Mathis design weighing 12 oz 34 span Cox 6-3 prop TD 049 information stunt PAMPA write Wynn Paul 1640 Maywick Dr Lexington KY 40504 FF Sport Scale/Kuenz continued page 55 sells soul evil duo happily fine features model scale builder As far concerned must OK skysters about draw backs mentioned earlier does illusionist handle distorts truth subtle changes result nothing grotesque deformed admirable representation real mach ine capable good performance free flight guess biggest drawback cause resultant misery model has times scale horse power prop size order get up stairs Because scale effect no in-flight control other alterations scale configuration necessary gain stability dihedral must increased model like Spirit St Louis done minimum destroy appearance Anyhow flat wing dihedral looks like droops bit added actually improves appearance High-wing cabin jobs like Spirit have inherent stability no need excessive dihedral sleek sky-slicing low-wingers another bag low-wing design has wing tapered planform luck Dihedral angles less noticeable tapered wing constant chord wing Cut tapered wing out card stock another constant chord wing well Give tapered wing half again much di hedral constant chord jobbie eyeball em different angles will seem wing has no dihedral other except view head An illusion Tiny tail feathers another bug-a-boo scale modelers couple ways approaching drawback course enlarge stabilizer good taste Dont pull Charlie Tuna simply add -in around perimeter destroying aspectratio changing appearance stab aspect-ratio must taken consideration enlarging tail stabilizer want enlarge has aspect-ratio six-to-one aspect-ratio relation average chord span enlargement must same ratio say add -in chord six times 1-in must added span preserves ap pearance efficient enlarg ing changing proportion have created illusion unaltered tail large extent Another method combines two subtle alterations scale configuration wash out wing tips mono plane will cover bipes multiplanes later washing out tips center section stalls first tips still lifting keep ship stall ing completely nose lowers flying speed regained assume rib-slicers know wash-out re duced incidence wing approach es tips performed during building later warping additional alteration scale stretch fuselage Haw-w-w-w Yeah use Pirelli longerons just Naw am kiddin course mean increase tail moment building little extra length fuselage aft wing trailing edge stern post Such change usually has drawn redrawn few times get good balance between what looks OK maximum stretch can add no set rule procedure skysters must use engineering intuitivity Igor Sikorsky called such things fuselage stretching must sometimes done stabilizer area en larged because gap between trail ing edge wing leading edge stabilizer has consequently shrunk worst tussle system ever experienced design Farman Jabiru Transport teeny stab enlarged quite bit thereby reducing distance between wing stab meant fuselage stretched Tissue trimmers must have redrawn fuselage half dozen times before suita ble balance arrived did destroy dumpy appearance Farman fuselage Part fun rubber scale modeling right fellas no such thing model tough build Some just take longer others thats Overcoming small stabilizer area bipe easy ground-looping Spad Decalage answer setting wings different angles incidence rela tive other have read few differ ing methods setting up biplanes lately 102 ModelAviation MORRISONSCALE DRAWINGS EPLA-TECHCATALOG 25c nlerIWt/OflG/ 48500 McKenzie Hwy Vida Oregon 97483 Charles Mendenhall will tell have doing moons now reasoning behind always give incidence fore wing bipe would top wing SE-5 bottom wing Beechcraft way foremost wing stalls before further aft loss lift front center gravity combined lift still generated unstalled aft wing behind center gravity brings smooth recovery extremely nose-high attitude very quick recov ery flying speed little waste precious turns once lost half elevator Nieuport 28 set up described manner never missed Flights sans elevator exactly same flying venetian blinds like tripes quads different matter thing have remember wing sters incidence devil disguise Incidence also drag Armstrong Whitworth Quad set wings positive stagger follows bot tom wing set zero degrees incidence next one degree positive third up two degrees positive top wing degree negative inci dence because top wing set good amount positive incidence would create much drag up above thrust line excessive downthrust would have needed adding inefficiency certainly enough deealage other three wings take care stability us stringer benders ought throt tle back comes final assembly model crucial part construc tion can make break models per formance consider degree incidence wing threeinch chord rise leading edge 3/64 inch dont need wipe goggles see what mean use small lightweight level vial setting incidence wingswith model its back enables check angles number points along span trimming struts correct rig pays make dry runs before glu ing wings Once glued check em again sure have way want Youve got lot hours bus spend time freely now final stages splitting hairs difference gnats empen nage has effect end Now about wings too far forward Merrill Hamburg wrote because concentration weight engine nose course model motor long thin job reaching nose to. Ah yes end Some old kit plans show motor running way stern post others show ending quite bit forward economics kit production made some designers go short motor space subsequent shorter cheaper motors did balance past few years much has written about best place locate rear motor peg achieve balance decent motor space least amount ballast Well slide-rule slippers calculate want thing happens often throws efforts slipstream mean motor bunches little unwound ball rear peg goes glide stalling like kilt wearer dinner check arrives school flight uses indoor type motor power run too upsetting have set up good flight time long motor run power up glide type like us climates indoor style motor runs dont always trick sure ruins flight time Unless rig up little gadget could unwind motor rear near exhaustion means battling fluke may sound ridiculous peddling porkers Pales tine some measure success can locating rear peg no farther aft center gravity nose hook front Short rubber space can bet last sheet checkerboard Japanese tissue necessarily short motor simply run same length motor would have peg February 1978 103 Beca will b Showh end fu {YWRAM~#2STC FULLSIZE PLANS No 212 Miss America$925 RC Antique Famous historic model 2 big sheets 35 40 No 213 Eliminator II$175 CL Class Speed model asymmetric design record job No 214 Bumbled Bee$100 Jean Pailets tail first version Indoor Easy B No101Short Seamew 40-powered Class i carrier model good prototype lends itself toinnovationsS30O No103Kloud King 15-19 AC Old-Timer Free Flight based upon 1938 record breaker FF$400 No 104Wiley Post Biplane Petite durable scale design foreither rubber tail wagger pulserudder$225 No112Sneat Sport AC glider simple job can flown engine$275 No 118GollyGeeWhiz Dan Rutherfords simple Half-A powered combat job turns dime$150 No 121Gremlin Sturdy aerobatic AC biplane flieswell 35s up 60s$300 No 1234-Bits 40-powered RC 500 Club Racer has winning ways Good sport too 0 No 124Semi-Pro Contest-winning HL glider has apop-up tail dethermalizer$100 No125HaIf-Korda rubber John Oldenkamps1/2-size all-balsa Old-Timer.$175 No 131Gee Bee Modal Y 40-powered AC stand-off scale great old-time racers$600 No134callisto superb Standard Class AC sailplane also took Nats first$400 No 136Fieseler Storch AC scale model 23-45 5-channel has both slots flaps$400 No 141Blackburn Monoplane AC Scale renditionof history-maker wheels floats 40 engine$450 No 146OuickSilver-RC 1/2A Pylon Racer incorporates latest techniques ..$200 No 147B-i AC 15 USAF bomber full house Acefoam wings Stable.$275 No 149comedian AC fun-fly aerobatic biplane good looker .... -$400 No 151Nesmitli cougar FF rubber scale 30-in span Excellent design long flights$300 No 153Cerberux AC 60-powered Pattern job retracts advanced features$475 No155Tellipsoar AC Standard Class sailplane wins stand-out performance$1000 No 159Tercal Keith Trostles 1/2A CL Stunt thip flies excellent pattern .$200 No 164Pogo AC Formula Pylon racer deBolt based full-scale Owl$760 No 165Midget Mustang CL 1975-1976 Nets winning Goodyear byJohn Ballard$200 No 166Nothing Fancy AC biplane 35 enginesis pretty handles beautifully$825 No 168Simitar AC spectacular flying-wing 15fin-mounted tractor$300 No169Dennyplane RCversionoffamedcabinmodelkitfrom 193719-25$400 No 172Tutorn AC Cabin model scale-like performance 25-35$325 No 174Iron Dog AC Quarter Midget Bell Airacobra has won Pylon contests$400 No176Que dCoupe rubber power attractive Coupe has excellent performance$300 No 177Zonker AC canard has pattern capability 40 power$300 No uscountry Boy FF Jim Clem thoroughbred/09/51 1/2A$300 No 180Bristol Scout AC 02 power scale pulse rudder small radios$200 No 181Bed check Charlie AC Scale model Russian PT trainer 09/ 1 5$300 No183The Answer AC FF cabin 02 sized Replica Old-Timer$175 No164Seville AC Sport low-wing sailplane SOwing has excellent performance$350 No 185Cheater Slow CL Slow Combat model byDan Rutherford frequent winner$275 No 186Fancy Pants AC Sport/Aerobatic low-wing has ply-skin fuselage 25s 45s$460 No 187Big Boy FF Unlimited Class rubber modelno frills great performer$300 No 158Rockette FF model Jetex-type power isa Nationals winner$150 No 189Vintage 11 AC Antique type old-timeopen fuse construction 60$476 No190Snake CL Rat racer Dick Lambertlatest state art.$200 No191Mountaineer AC Slope Soarer Clarence Haughtgood can get$375 No 192Chipmunk AC Scale winner 1978 World Championships Nats$900 No 193Stiletto CL stunt model McDonald winner 1976 FAI World Champs $375 No 194Vol Libre FF rubber-powered Wakefield Bob White Great winner. $275 No195Hats Biplane AC aerobatic scale job takes40/50 built-in muffler$475 No 19Mirage Sherwood Buckataffs Fast Combattwice Nets winner$250 No197FokkerT-2 Nets winning FF scale electric poweredAstro 02 etc$275 No 195Sportater AC deBolt wing choice aerobatics/racing.. $375 No199P-3 ACforCos 09 Acefoamwings stepupfrom 049 jobs $360 No200Ole Aeliable CL Formula 40 speed job Snyders Nets winner$175 No201AclI Out FFdethermalizer.. $100 No 202Avenger CL profile 049 uses sheet wing maneuverable.$150 No203Fokker 0-VIII AC 45 60 Two sheets 2-1/2 scale. $900 No204Cardboard Douglas M-2 CL 50 biplane 40 power less $10 expense$600 No 205Hot Aock AC aerobatics 19-40 engines Simple tail-dragger$360 No 206Air Camper FF Pientenpol 1/2A Charming old-timer 2-sheets$300 No 207Livesey DL 5 AC English homebuilt 3-chan. 1 5s Exotic easy Good flier$500 No 208Swinger CL 1/2A all-balsa swing-wing Fly fun oruse experiments$200 No209Seastruti AC biplane 3 channels 19wheels pontoons$460 No210Simplex FF years development wins049/05l$450 No 211 Together IV CL Rather large impressive stunter 46 Consistent winner $3 75 Circle numbers plans wish order 112118121123124 149151153155159 101 103 104 125131134136141 164165166168169 146147 172174 176177178180181183184185186187188189 190191192193194195196197198199200201 202 203 204 205 206 207 214 Please print carefully 208 209 210 211 212 213 NAME STREET CITY 7l STATE Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC 20005 located its usual aft position bunches seems happen less due less restricting fuselage dimen sions further forward has less effect balance Also due clumps unwound motor gathering forward tend ency counter-balance bunching drawback slapping fuselage sides jobs slender overcome addition light 1/32-in slapper boards glued inside uprights fuselage motor compartment 1/64-in sheet strong enough smaller models Peanuts motors very power ful no slapper board needed Now stringer benders want what say caught Ralph pourin acid control cables Fokker Ambulance bet related Erich Von Stroheim Well will get some bicarbonate soda out medicine chest daub antacid huh Boy thought good guys flew Hurricanes Ill bet wears black helmet square goggles too Well long fellas have get ready Lake Michigan momin has swell jawin you take advice given wrap up new crate can blame someone else time haw-w-w-w Ralph Kuenz 14645 Stahelin Detroit MI 48223 ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control Andrews Aircraft Model Co Coverite 92 90 3 Cox Hobbies Inc5 Du-Bro Products85 EK-Products7 Flyline Models94 Fox Mfg Company7 Carl Goldberg Models. Grish Brothers Hobbypoxy K&B Mfg Kraft Great Lakes Inc. Midwest Model Products Modernistic Models.. Morrison Repla-Tech. Pactra Industries PeckPolymers Proctor Ent Corp Progress Mfg Company Pylon Publications R/C Buyers Guide Sig Mfg Company Sterling Models Inc. Sullivan Products Inc Tatone Products Inc. Westport International Williams Brothers d Engines WRAMS Show Inside Front Cover 86 87 91 89 6 100 102 99 100 98 60 102 101 1 88 93 97 95 96 Back Cover 103 104 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/02
Page Numbers: 55, 102, 103, 104
Scale-SparI Ei Ralph D Kuenz month have words wit wisdom honored guest editor chief sayer Flying Aces Club Newsletter pioneer purveyor Peanut paranoiaMajor General David Stott FAC Dave dont always see eye-to-eye matters Hes shorter lam though CG some what lower Dave has done kind model aviation anyone else know So listen what Dave has say says well.. Ralph D Kuenz AWRIGHT SOMEBODY HELP Ralph up off hangar floor Yeah know yanked soapbox out under him Well invited use little hangar flyin Can help have lot say want get early start What Ralph Five thousand feet over Lake Mi chigan tomorrow dawn demand satisfaction huh will Hawker Hurricane OK will use Fokker YIC-15 ambulance ship get airsick Yeah Same Hauptman Von Rottensocks Now will ya let fan breeze rubber scale builders standin around hangar Cripes hes trouble maker Just because knows editor thinks anyone else has no say Boy wait til tomorrow mornin will drop hypodermics him like flechettes let us get Now have al ways credited Merrill Hamburg launching aeromodeling its first flight national popularity via Airplane Model League America AMLA 1928 book Beginning Fly Merrill say chapter scale models Genuine scale models seldom fly wings thing too far forward rse model could set wing farther back order balance shipbut you no longer have scale model scale model remember built duplicate exactly real ship turbulence knew what talking about Wings too far forward thing C-5 Galaxy full other reasons Sure know familiar lets take look again things kick flyability pants before lets take another look ourselves rubber scale builder far different RC CL counterpart latter concerned need con serve weight critical need duplicate exactly miniature details feasible other hand rubber scale builder must sort sorcerer make cloud cuddler look like real thing creating illusions Out bits tissue balsa tubing card stock plastic must conjure up sheet metal louvered cowls exhaust pipes en tire engines machine guns bombs pilots Alas illusion created sells part soul Devil Drag Demon Weight true scale modeler Continued page 102 February 1978 55 Chamberlins transatlantic Bellanca expertly developed Bill Noonan Flyline kit commercial version its lifting struts airfoil-type fuselage Bellanca design could carry useful load excess its empty weight Photograph John Oldenkamp flOIUII IIb0 UUbWI nuc nrc0 transport vave Stott Credit reads Phineas Pinkhamwhich happens pseudonym author extinct Ftying Aces mag Dave member Flying Aces Club nowaro rere reanur version tamous racing plane built Robert H Masters cross section actual aircraft deter mined sitting pilot front mirror chalking outline 26-in sport model Navy Flier Sherman Gillespie decorated colors Fighting Squadron No 6 famous Felix Cat Squadron U SS Saratoga Photograph taken Jack Stewart 3-book boxed set covers fastest racing machines 3 4 5-view scale drawings color schemes markings construc tion performance data pilots race results descriptive illustrated story 22 Unlimiteds 41 Formula ls 19 Sport Biplanes 6 AT6/SNJs current era plus over 90 great Thomp son Bendix Greve Goodyear racers 3Ds 40s plus fabulous S chneider Cup floatlanes oithe 20s Pulitzer Racers Gordon ennett Racers lamous European racers way back tirst air race win ner 1909 Curtiss Golden Flyer- IJtIA 234 planes all pIIt Quality printed 192 big B/s 5 11 pages trul fine reference POSTAGE tour aviation bra ry Oder yours INCLUDED O Early Air Racers 3-views 1909-29 o National Air Racers 3-views 29-49 O ModernAirRacersina-views 4975 495 495 495 Send Check Money Order PUBLICATIONS P0 505 2726 SEPT IOCHESTEE SEW 6036 14626 RETURN MAIL DELIVERY Name Street City StateZip leadouts flap bending nose weight line length handle spacing select about five six good different props spend about two weeks 20-40 flights switching props Keep notes Its easy forget after two three switches Some prop combinations 35-size engines flying Foxes have using following Giesekeplane 525 sq 40 oz Rev-up 10-6W Tom Dixon 9th FAT tryoutsplane 560 sq 45 oz Rev-up 10-6W Fast Richard Mathis 13th Natsplane 525 sq 41 oz Grish 3-blade Joe Musumeci 2nd Senior NatsRev up 10-6W Using Max 35 have Remel Cooper 7th FAIplane 625 sq 46 oz Rev-up 10-6W Dave Hem strought 10th FAI plane 630 sq 53 oz Rev-up 10-6 EW Dennis Adamisin FAI 13thplane 580 sq 47 oz Rev-up 10-6EW David Fitzgerald 1st Senior Natsplane stock Sig Chipmunk 42 oz Zinger 10-6 pilots using 40 engines have using Norm Whittle 9th Nats plane weighs 55 oz Rev-up 10-6W Paul Walker 14th Nats 640 sq plane 49 oz Rev-up 10-6 Zinger 10-6 Roger Barrett 15th Nats 550 sq plane 455 oz. Rev-up l0-6EW Tom Lay 19th Nats680 sq plane 49 os Rev-up 10-6W Steve McCann 20th Nats plane 550 sq 48 oz Rev-up 10-6 Lets forget Half-As Nats champion Bob Whitely used Cox 6-3 gray prop TD 051 plane weighing 10 oz 210 sq wing 76 Bob smaller 170 sq wtng same weight used Cox 55-4 prop David Fitzgerald won Senior Half-A using Pinto Dick Mathis design weighing 12 oz 34 span Cox 6-3 prop TD 049 information stunt PAMPA write Wynn Paul 1640 Maywick Dr Lexington KY 40504 FF Sport Scale/Kuenz continued page 55 sells soul evil duo happily fine features model scale builder As far concerned must OK skysters about draw backs mentioned earlier does illusionist handle distorts truth subtle changes result nothing grotesque deformed admirable representation real mach ine capable good performance free flight guess biggest drawback cause resultant misery model has times scale horse power prop size order get up stairs Because scale effect no in-flight control other alterations scale configuration necessary gain stability dihedral must increased model like Spirit St Louis done minimum destroy appearance Anyhow flat wing dihedral looks like droops bit added actually improves appearance High-wing cabin jobs like Spirit have inherent stability no need excessive dihedral sleek sky-slicing low-wingers another bag low-wing design has wing tapered planform luck Dihedral angles less noticeable tapered wing constant chord wing Cut tapered wing out card stock another constant chord wing well Give tapered wing half again much di hedral constant chord jobbie eyeball em different angles will seem wing has no dihedral other except view head An illusion Tiny tail feathers another bug-a-boo scale modelers couple ways approaching drawback course enlarge stabilizer good taste Dont pull Charlie Tuna simply add -in around perimeter destroying aspectratio changing appearance stab aspect-ratio must taken consideration enlarging tail stabilizer want enlarge has aspect-ratio six-to-one aspect-ratio relation average chord span enlargement must same ratio say add -in chord six times 1-in must added span preserves ap pearance efficient enlarg ing changing proportion have created illusion unaltered tail large extent Another method combines two subtle alterations scale configuration wash out wing tips mono plane will cover bipes multiplanes later washing out tips center section stalls first tips still lifting keep ship stall ing completely nose lowers flying speed regained assume rib-slicers know wash-out re duced incidence wing approach es tips performed during building later warping additional alteration scale stretch fuselage Haw-w-w-w Yeah use Pirelli longerons just Naw am kiddin course mean increase tail moment building little extra length fuselage aft wing trailing edge stern post Such change usually has drawn redrawn few times get good balance between what looks OK maximum stretch can add no set rule procedure skysters must use engineering intuitivity Igor Sikorsky called such things fuselage stretching must sometimes done stabilizer area en larged because gap between trail ing edge wing leading edge stabilizer has consequently shrunk worst tussle system ever experienced design Farman Jabiru Transport teeny stab enlarged quite bit thereby reducing distance between wing stab meant fuselage stretched Tissue trimmers must have redrawn fuselage half dozen times before suita ble balance arrived did destroy dumpy appearance Farman fuselage Part fun rubber scale modeling right fellas no such thing model tough build Some just take longer others thats Overcoming small stabilizer area bipe easy ground-looping Spad Decalage answer setting wings different angles incidence rela tive other have read few differ ing methods setting up biplanes lately 102 ModelAviation MORRISONSCALE DRAWINGS EPLA-TECHCATALOG 25c nlerIWt/OflG/ 48500 McKenzie Hwy Vida Oregon 97483 Charles Mendenhall will tell have doing moons now reasoning behind always give incidence fore wing bipe would top wing SE-5 bottom wing Beechcraft way foremost wing stalls before further aft loss lift front center gravity combined lift still generated unstalled aft wing behind center gravity brings smooth recovery extremely nose-high attitude very quick recov ery flying speed little waste precious turns once lost half elevator Nieuport 28 set up described manner never missed Flights sans elevator exactly same flying venetian blinds like tripes quads different matter thing have remember wing sters incidence devil disguise Incidence also drag Armstrong Whitworth Quad set wings positive stagger follows bot tom wing set zero degrees incidence next one degree positive third up two degrees positive top wing degree negative inci dence because top wing set good amount positive incidence would create much drag up above thrust line excessive downthrust would have needed adding inefficiency certainly enough deealage other three wings take care stability us stringer benders ought throt tle back comes final assembly model crucial part construc tion can make break models per formance consider degree incidence wing threeinch chord rise leading edge 3/64 inch dont need wipe goggles see what mean use small lightweight level vial setting incidence wingswith model its back enables check angles number points along span trimming struts correct rig pays make dry runs before glu ing wings Once glued check em again sure have way want Youve got lot hours bus spend time freely now final stages splitting hairs difference gnats empen nage has effect end Now about wings too far forward Merrill Hamburg wrote because concentration weight engine nose course model motor long thin job reaching nose to. Ah yes end Some old kit plans show motor running way stern post others show ending quite bit forward economics kit production made some designers go short motor space subsequent shorter cheaper motors did balance past few years much has written about best place locate rear motor peg achieve balance decent motor space least amount ballast Well slide-rule slippers calculate want thing happens often throws efforts slipstream mean motor bunches little unwound ball rear peg goes glide stalling like kilt wearer dinner check arrives school flight uses indoor type motor power run too upsetting have set up good flight time long motor run power up glide type like us climates indoor style motor runs dont always trick sure ruins flight time Unless rig up little gadget could unwind motor rear near exhaustion means battling fluke may sound ridiculous peddling porkers Pales tine some measure success can locating rear peg no farther aft center gravity nose hook front Short rubber space can bet last sheet checkerboard Japanese tissue necessarily short motor simply run same length motor would have peg February 1978 103 Beca will b Showh end fu {YWRAM~#2STC FULLSIZE PLANS No 212 Miss America$925 RC Antique Famous historic model 2 big sheets 35 40 No 213 Eliminator II$175 CL Class Speed model asymmetric design record job No 214 Bumbled Bee$100 Jean Pailets tail first version Indoor Easy B No101Short Seamew 40-powered Class i carrier model good prototype lends itself toinnovationsS30O No103Kloud King 15-19 AC Old-Timer Free Flight based upon 1938 record breaker FF$400 No 104Wiley Post Biplane Petite durable scale design foreither rubber tail wagger pulserudder$225 No112Sneat Sport AC glider simple job can flown engine$275 No 118GollyGeeWhiz Dan Rutherfords simple Half-A powered combat job turns dime$150 No 121Gremlin Sturdy aerobatic AC biplane flieswell 35s up 60s$300 No 1234-Bits 40-powered RC 500 Club Racer has winning ways Good sport too 0 No 124Semi-Pro Contest-winning HL glider has apop-up tail dethermalizer$100 No125HaIf-Korda rubber John Oldenkamps1/2-size all-balsa Old-Timer.$175 No 131Gee Bee Modal Y 40-powered AC stand-off scale great old-time racers$600 No134callisto superb Standard Class AC sailplane also took Nats first$400 No 136Fieseler Storch AC scale model 23-45 5-channel has both slots flaps$400 No 141Blackburn Monoplane AC Scale renditionof history-maker wheels floats 40 engine$450 No 146OuickSilver-RC 1/2A Pylon Racer incorporates latest techniques ..$200 No 147B-i AC 15 USAF bomber full house Acefoam wings Stable.$275 No 149comedian AC fun-fly aerobatic biplane good looker .... -$400 No 151Nesmitli cougar FF rubber scale 30-in span Excellent design long flights$300 No 153Cerberux AC 60-powered Pattern job retracts advanced features$475 No155Tellipsoar AC Standard Class sailplane wins stand-out performance$1000 No 159Tercal Keith Trostles 1/2A CL Stunt thip flies excellent pattern .$200 No 164Pogo AC Formula Pylon racer deBolt based full-scale Owl$760 No 165Midget Mustang CL 1975-1976 Nets winning Goodyear byJohn Ballard$200 No 166Nothing Fancy AC biplane 35 enginesis pretty handles beautifully$825 No 168Simitar AC spectacular flying-wing 15fin-mounted tractor$300 No169Dennyplane RCversionoffamedcabinmodelkitfrom 193719-25$400 No 172Tutorn AC Cabin model scale-like performance 25-35$325 No 174Iron Dog AC Quarter Midget Bell Airacobra has won Pylon contests$400 No176Que dCoupe rubber power attractive Coupe has excellent performance$300 No 177Zonker AC canard has pattern capability 40 power$300 No uscountry Boy FF Jim Clem thoroughbred/09/51 1/2A$300 No 180Bristol Scout AC 02 power scale pulse rudder small radios$200 No 181Bed check Charlie AC Scale model Russian PT trainer 09/ 1 5$300 No183The Answer AC FF cabin 02 sized Replica Old-Timer$175 No164Seville AC Sport low-wing sailplane SOwing has excellent performance$350 No 185Cheater Slow CL Slow Combat model byDan Rutherford frequent winner$275 No 186Fancy Pants AC Sport/Aerobatic low-wing has ply-skin fuselage 25s 45s$460 No 187Big Boy FF Unlimited Class rubber modelno frills great performer$300 No 158Rockette FF model Jetex-type power isa Nationals winner$150 No 189Vintage 11 AC Antique type old-timeopen fuse construction 60$476 No190Snake CL Rat racer Dick Lambertlatest state art.$200 No191Mountaineer AC Slope Soarer Clarence Haughtgood can get$375 No 192Chipmunk AC Scale winner 1978 World Championships Nats$900 No 193Stiletto CL stunt model McDonald winner 1976 FAI World Champs $375 No 194Vol Libre FF rubber-powered Wakefield Bob White Great winner. $275 No195Hats Biplane AC aerobatic scale job takes40/50 built-in muffler$475 No 19Mirage Sherwood Buckataffs Fast Combattwice Nets winner$250 No197FokkerT-2 Nets winning FF scale electric poweredAstro 02 etc$275 No 195Sportater AC deBolt wing choice aerobatics/racing.. $375 No199P-3 ACforCos 09 Acefoamwings stepupfrom 049 jobs $360 No200Ole Aeliable CL Formula 40 speed job Snyders Nets winner$175 No201AclI Out FFdethermalizer.. $100 No 202Avenger CL profile 049 uses sheet wing maneuverable.$150 No203Fokker 0-VIII AC 45 60 Two sheets 2-1/2 scale. $900 No204Cardboard Douglas M-2 CL 50 biplane 40 power less $10 expense$600 No 205Hot Aock AC aerobatics 19-40 engines Simple tail-dragger$360 No 206Air Camper FF Pientenpol 1/2A Charming old-timer 2-sheets$300 No 207Livesey DL 5 AC English homebuilt 3-chan. 1 5s Exotic easy Good flier$500 No 208Swinger CL 1/2A all-balsa swing-wing Fly fun oruse experiments$200 No209Seastruti AC biplane 3 channels 19wheels pontoons$460 No210Simplex FF years development wins049/05l$450 No 211 Together IV CL Rather large impressive stunter 46 Consistent winner $3 75 Circle numbers plans wish order 112118121123124 149151153155159 101 103 104 125131134136141 164165166168169 146147 172174 176177178180181183184185186187188189 190191192193194195196197198199200201 202 203 204 205 206 207 214 Please print carefully 208 209 210 211 212 213 NAME STREET CITY 7l STATE Price includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC 20005 located its usual aft position bunches seems happen less due less restricting fuselage dimen sions further forward has less effect balance Also due clumps unwound motor gathering forward tend ency counter-balance bunching drawback slapping fuselage sides jobs slender overcome addition light 1/32-in slapper boards glued inside uprights fuselage motor compartment 1/64-in sheet strong enough smaller models Peanuts motors very power ful no slapper board needed Now stringer benders want what say caught Ralph pourin acid control cables Fokker Ambulance bet related Erich Von Stroheim Well will get some bicarbonate soda out medicine chest daub antacid huh Boy thought good guys flew Hurricanes Ill bet wears black helmet square goggles too Well long fellas have get ready Lake Michigan momin has swell jawin you take advice given wrap up new crate can blame someone else time haw-w-w-w Ralph Kuenz 14645 Stahelin Detroit MI 48223 ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control Andrews Aircraft Model Co Coverite 92 90 3 Cox Hobbies Inc5 Du-Bro Products85 EK-Products7 Flyline Models94 Fox Mfg Company7 Carl Goldberg Models. Grish Brothers Hobbypoxy K&B Mfg Kraft Great Lakes Inc. Midwest Model Products Modernistic Models.. Morrison Repla-Tech. Pactra Industries PeckPolymers Proctor Ent Corp Progress Mfg Company Pylon Publications R/C Buyers Guide Sig Mfg Company Sterling Models Inc. Sullivan Products Inc Tatone Products Inc. Westport International Williams Brothers d Engines WRAMS Show Inside Front Cover 86 87 91 89 6 100 102 99 100 98 60 102 101 1 88 93 97 95 96 Back Cover 103 104 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/02
Page Numbers: 55, 102, 103, 104
Scale-SparI Ei Ralph D Kuenz month have words wit wisdom honored guest editor chief sayer Flying Aces Club Newsletter pioneer purveyor Peanut paranoiaMajor General David Stott FAC Dave dont always see eye-to-eye matters Hes shorter lam though CG some what lower Dave has done kind model aviation anyone else know So listen what Dave has say says well.. Ralph D Kuenz AWRIGHT SOMEBODY HELP Ralph up off hangar floor Yeah know yanked soapbox out under him Well invited use little hangar flyin Can help have lot say want get early start What Ralph Five thousand feet over Lake Mi chigan tomorrow dawn demand satisfaction huh will Hawker Hurricane OK will use Fokker YIC-15 ambulance ship get airsick Yeah Same Hauptman Von Rottensocks Now will ya let fan breeze rubber scale builders standin around hangar Cripes hes trouble maker Just because knows editor thinks anyone else has no say Boy wait til tomorrow mornin will drop hypodermics him like flechettes let us get Now have al ways credited Merrill Hamburg launching aeromodeling its first flight national popularity via Airplane Model League America AMLA 1928 book Beginning Fly Merrill say chapter scale models Genuine scale models seldom fly wings thing too far forward rse model could set wing farther back order balance shipbut you no longer have scale model scale model remember built duplicate exactly real ship turbulence knew what talking about Wings too far forward thing C-5 Galaxy full other reasons Sure know familiar lets take look again things kick flyability pants before lets take another look ourselves rubber scale builder far different RC CL counterpart latter concerned need con serve weight critical need duplicate exactly miniature details feasible other hand rubber scale builder must sort sorcerer make cloud cuddler look like real thing creating illusions Out bits tissue balsa tubing card stock plastic must conjure up sheet metal louvered cowls exhaust pipes en tire engines machine guns bombs pilots Alas illusion created sells part soul Devil Drag Demon Weight true scale modeler Continued page 102 February 1978 55 Chamberlins transatlantic Bellanca expertly developed Bill Noonan Flyline kit commercial version its lifting struts airfoil-type fuselage Bellanca design could carry useful load excess its empty weight Photograph John Oldenkamp flOIUII IIb0 UUbWI nuc nrc0 transport vave Stott Credit reads Phineas Pinkhamwhich happens pseudonym author extinct Ftying Aces mag Dave member Flying Aces Club nowaro rere reanur version tamous racing plane built Robert H Masters cross section actual aircraft deter mined sitting pilot front mirror chalking outline 26-in sport model Navy Flier Sherman Gillespie decorated colors Fighting Squadron No 6 famous Felix Cat Squadron U SS Saratoga Photograph taken Jack Stewart 3-book boxed set covers fastest racing machines 3 4 5-view scale drawings color schemes markings construc tion performance data pilots race results descriptive illustrated story 22 Unlimiteds 41 Formula ls 19 Sport Biplanes 6 AT6/SNJs current era plus over 90 great Thomp son Bendix Greve Goodyear racers 3Ds 40s plus fabulous S chneider Cup floatlanes oithe 20s Pulitzer Racers Gordon ennett Racers lamous European racers way back tirst air race win ner 1909 Curtiss Golden Flyer- IJtIA 234 planes all pIIt Quality printed 192 big B/s 5 11 pages trul fine reference POSTAGE tour aviation bra ry Oder yours INCLUDED O Early Air Racers 3-views 1909-29 o National Air Racers 3-views 29-49 O ModernAirRacersina-views 4975 495 495 495 Send Check Money Order PUBLICATIONS P0 505 2726 SEPT IOCHESTEE SEW 6036 14626 RETURN MAIL DELIVERY Name Street City StateZip leadouts flap bending nose weight line length handle spacing select about five six good different props spend about two weeks 20-40 flights switching props Keep notes Its easy forget after two three switches Some prop combinations 35-size engines flying Foxes have using following Giesekeplane 525 sq 40 oz Rev-up 10-6W Tom Dixon 9th FAT tryoutsplane 560 sq 45 oz Rev-up 10-6W Fast Richard Mathis 13th Natsplane 525 sq 41 oz Grish 3-blade Joe Musumeci 2nd Senior NatsRev up 10-6W Using Max 35 have Remel Cooper 7th FAIplane 625 sq 46 oz Rev-up 10-6W Dave Hem strought 10th FAI plane 630 sq 53 oz Rev-up 10-6 EW Dennis Adamisin FAI 13thplane 580 sq 47 oz Rev-up 10-6EW David Fitzgerald 1st Senior Natsplane stock Sig Chipmunk 42 oz Zinger 10-6 pilots using 40 engines have using Norm Whittle 9th Nats plane weighs 55 oz Rev-up 10-6W Paul Walker 14th Nats 640 sq plane 49 oz Rev-up 10-6 Zinger 10-6 Roger Barrett 15th Nats 550 sq plane 455 oz. Rev-up l0-6EW Tom Lay 19th Nats680 sq plane 49 os Rev-up 10-6W Steve McCann 20th Nats plane 550 sq 48 oz Rev-up 10-6 Lets forget Half-As Nats champion Bob Whitely used Cox 6-3 gray prop TD 051 plane weighing 10 oz 210 sq wing 76 Bob smaller 170 sq wtng same weight used Cox 55-4 prop David Fitzgerald won Senior Half-A using Pinto Dick Mathis design weighing 12 oz 34 span Cox 6-3 prop TD 049 information stunt PAMPA write Wynn Paul 1640 Maywick Dr Lexington KY 40504 FF Sport Scale/Kuenz continued page 55 sells soul evil duo happily fine features model scale builder As far concerned must OK skysters about draw backs mentioned earlier does illusionist handle distorts truth subtle changes result nothing grotesque deformed admirable representation real mach ine capable good performance free flight guess biggest drawback cause resultant misery model has times scale horse power prop size order get up stairs Because scale effect no in-flight control other alterations scale configuration necessary gain stability dihedral must increased model like Spirit St Louis done minimum destroy appearance Anyhow flat wing dihedral looks like droops bit added actually improves appearance High-wing cabin jobs like Spirit have inherent stability no need excessive dihedral sleek sky-slicing low-wingers another bag low-wing design has wing tapered planform luck Dihedral angles less noticeable tapered wing constant chord wing Cut tapered wing out card stock another constant chord wing well Give tapered wing half again much di hedral constant chord jobbie eyeball em different angles will seem wing has no dihedral other except view head An illusion Tiny tail feathers another bug-a-boo scale modelers couple ways approaching drawback course enlarge stabilizer good taste Dont pull Charlie Tuna simply add -in around perimeter destroying aspectratio changing appearance stab aspect-ratio must taken consideration enlarging tail stabilizer want enlarge has aspect-ratio six-to-one aspect-ratio relation average chord span enlargement must same ratio say add -in chord six times 1-in must added span preserves ap pearance efficient enlarg ing changing proportion have created illusion unaltered tail large extent Another method combines two subtle alterations scale configuration wash out wing tips mono plane will cover bipes multiplanes later washing out tips center section stalls first tips still lifting keep ship stall ing completely nose lowers flying speed regained assume rib-slicers know wash-out re duced incidence wing approach es tips performed during building later warping additional alteration scale stretch fuselage Haw-w-w-w Yeah use Pirelli longerons just Naw am kiddin course mean increase tail moment building little extra length fuselage aft wing trailing edge stern post Such change usually has drawn redrawn few times get good balance between what looks OK maximum stretch can add no set rule procedure skysters must use engineering intuitivity Igor Sikorsky called such things fuselage stretching must sometimes done stabilizer area en larged because gap between trail ing edge wing leading edge stabilizer has consequently shrunk worst tussle system ever experienced design Farman Jabiru Transport teeny stab enlarged quite bit thereby reducing distance between wing stab meant fuselage stretched Tissue trimmers must have redrawn fuselage half dozen times before suita ble balance arrived did destroy dumpy appearance Farman fuselage Part fun rubber scale modeling right fellas no such thing model tough build Some just take longer others thats Overcoming small stabilizer area bipe easy ground-looping Spad Decalage answer setting wings different angles incidence rela tive other have read few differ ing methods setting up biplanes lately 102 ModelAviation MORRISONSCALE DRAWINGS EPLA-TECHCATALOG 25c nlerIWt/OflG/ 48500 McKenzie Hwy Vida Oregon 97483 Charles Mendenhall will tell have doing moons now reasoning behind always give incidence fore wing bipe would top wing SE-5 bottom wing Beechcraft way foremost wing stalls before further aft loss lift front center gravity combined lift still generated unstalled aft wing behind center gravity brings smooth recovery extremely nose-high attitude very quick recov ery flying speed little waste precious turns once lost half elevator Nieuport 28 set up described manner never missed Flights sans elevator exactly same flying venetian blinds like tripes quads different matter thing have remember wing sters incidence devil disguise Incidence also drag Armstrong Whitworth Quad set wings positive stagger follows bot tom wing set zero degrees incidence next one degree positive third up two degrees positive top wing degree negative inci dence because top wing set good amount positive incidence would create much drag up above thrust line excessive downthrust would have needed adding inefficiency certainly enough deealage other three wings take care stability us stringer benders ought throt tle back comes final assembly model crucial part construc tion can make break models per formance consider degree incidence wing threeinch chord rise leading edge 3/64 inch dont need wipe goggles see what mean use small lightweight level vial setting incidence wingswith model its back enables check angles number points along span trimming struts correct rig pays make dry runs before glu ing wings Once glued check em again sure have way want Youve got lot hours bus spend time freely now final stages splitting hairs difference gnats empen nage has effect end Now about wings too far forward Merrill Hamburg wrote because concentration weight engine nose course model motor long thin job reaching nose to. Ah yes end Some old kit plans show motor running way stern post others show ending quite bit forward economics kit production made some designers go short motor space subsequent shorter cheaper motors did balance past few years much has written about best place locate rear motor peg achieve balance decent motor space least amount ballast Well slide-rule slippers calculate want thing happens often throws efforts slipstream mean motor bunches little unwound ball rear peg goes glide stalling like kilt wearer dinner check arrives school flight uses indoor type motor power run too upsetting have set up good flight time long motor run power up glide type like us climates indoor style motor runs dont always trick sure ruins flight time Unless rig up little gadget could unwind motor rear near exhaustion means battling fluke may sound ridiculous peddling porkers Pales tine some measure success can locating rear peg no farther aft center gravity nose hook front Short rubber space can bet last sheet checkerboard Japanese tissue necessarily short motor simply run same length motor would have peg February 1978 103 Beca will b Showh end fu {YWRAM~#2STC FULLSIZE PLANS No 212 Miss America$925 RC Antique Famous historic model 2 big sheets 35 40 No 213 Eliminator II$175 CL Class Speed model asymmetric design record job No 214 Bumbled Bee$100 Jean Pailets tail first version Indoor Easy B No101Short Seamew 40-powered Class i carrier model good prototype lends itself toinnovationsS30O No103Kloud King 15-19 AC Old-Timer Free Flight based upon 1938 record breaker FF$400 No 104Wiley Post Biplane Petite durable scale design foreither rubber tail wagger pulserudder$225 No112Sneat Sport AC glider simple job can flown engine$275 No 118GollyGeeWhiz Dan Rutherfords simple Half-A powered combat job turns dime$150 No 121Gremlin Sturdy aerobatic AC biplane flieswell 35s up 60s$300 No 1234-Bits 40-powered RC 500 Club Racer has winning ways Good sport too 0 No 124Semi-Pro Contest-winning HL glider has apop-up tail dethermalizer$100 No125HaIf-Korda rubber John Oldenkamps1/2-size all-balsa Old-Timer.$175 No 131Gee Bee Modal Y 40-powered AC stand-off scale great old-time racers$600 No134callisto superb Standard Class AC sailplane also took Nats first$400 No 136Fieseler Storch AC scale model 23-45 5-channel has both slots flaps$400 No 141Blackburn Monoplane AC Scale renditionof history-maker wheels floats 40 engine$450 No 146OuickSilver-RC 1/2A Pylon Racer incorporates latest techniques ..$200 No 147B-i AC 15 USAF bomber full house Acefoam wings Stable.$275 No 149comedian AC fun-fly aerobatic biplane good looker .... -$400 No 151Nesmitli cougar FF rubber scale 30-in span Excellent design long flights$300 No 153Cerberux AC 60-powered Pattern job retracts advanced features$475 No155Tellipsoar AC Standard Class sailplane wins stand-out performance$1000 No 159Tercal Keith Trostles 1/2A CL Stunt thip flies excellent pattern .$200 No 164Pogo AC Formula Pylon racer deBolt based full-scale Owl$760 No 165Midget Mustang CL 1975-1976 Nets winning Goodyear byJohn Ballard$200 No 166Nothing Fancy AC biplane 35 enginesis pretty handles beautifully$825 No 168Simitar AC spectacular flying-wing 15fin-mounted tractor$300 No169Dennyplane RCversionoffamedcabinmodelkitfrom 193719-25$400 No 172Tutorn AC Cabin model scale-like performance 25-35$325 No 174Iron Dog AC Quarter Midget Bell Airacobra has won Pylon contests$400 No176Que dCoupe rubber power attractive Coupe has excellent performance$300 No 177Zonker AC canard has pattern capability 40 power$300 No uscountry Boy FF Jim Clem thoroughbred/09/51 1/2A$300 No 180Bristol Scout AC 02 power scale pulse rudder small radios$200 No 181Bed check Charlie AC Scale model Russian PT trainer 09/ 1 5$300 No183The Answer AC FF cabin 02 sized Replica Old-Timer$175 No164Seville AC Sport low-wing sailplane SOwing has excellent performance$350 No 185Cheater Slow CL Slow Combat model byDan Rutherford frequent winner$275 No 186Fancy Pants AC 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No201AclI Out FFdethermalizer.. $100 No 202Avenger CL profile 049 uses sheet wing maneuverable.$150 No203Fokker 0-VIII AC 45 60 Two sheets 2-1/2 scale. $900 No204Cardboard Douglas M-2 CL 50 biplane 40 power less $10 expense$600 No 205Hot Aock AC aerobatics 19-40 engines Simple tail-dragger$360 No 206Air Camper FF Pientenpol 1/2A Charming old-timer 2-sheets$300 No 207Livesey DL 5 AC English homebuilt 3-chan. 1 5s Exotic easy Good flier$500 No 208Swinger CL 1/2A all-balsa swing-wing Fly fun oruse experiments$200 No209Seastruti AC biplane 3 channels 19wheels pontoons$460 No210Simplex FF years development wins049/05l$450 No 211 Together IV CL Rather large impressive stunter 46 Consistent winner $3 75 Circle numbers plans wish order 112118121123124 149151153155159 101 103 104 125131134136141 164165166168169 146147 172174 176177178180181183184185186187188189 190191192193194195196197198199200201 202 203 204 205 206 207 214 Please print carefully 208 209 210 211 212 213 NAME STREET CITY 7l 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