Free Flight Scale/Sport LET ME BEGIN installment saying thanks responded first article comments photos tips often have seen great looking very flyable outdoor rubber scale model just wouldnt hack air Close inspection will times reveal culprit prop Im about describe again bow carve prop five minutes flipping through pages past issues model magazine will uncover article subject show layout prop blank carve prop given diameter pitch However lieve important know what prop carve particular scale model instance model biplane struts wires Lots drag does have big radial engine blanking Out prop creates drag model bit overweight detail Ralph D Kuenz sleek fighter type racer flown landing gear gear up position drag scale model will fly slower require lower pitch prop deliver thrust out excessive torque slower flying model cant handle overweight model will require power fly means grams rubber up front need efficient device translate power thrustthe biggest prop model can handle rolling torque reaction Consider outdoor rubber scale model average weight weighs oz/per ft rubber Example 12 ws oz X 1 X 24ws- /2 oz X 2 X 2 36 ws oz X 3 X 3 4Soz48ws 4X4 8oz some basic rule thumb guidelines help determine prop blank Wright Quadraplane designed Dave Scott built Pins Bruning highly unusual Peanut Rotary engine spins prop Rigging wires require 38 ft thread go wing area theres literally acres Bob Mosher pie should start fits particular scale model Diameter Should 3 4 models wingspan landing gear permitting ROG Pitch Start 13 times diameter Blade Width 15% diameter Diameter pitch blade width Start based wingspan model starting factors will changed based characteristics model drag lessen pitch use following Model DiaPitchWidth Short land ing gear . fit ROG Biplane Radial Engine In-Line Engine Drag High Drag Low %offdia -10% 5% 5% 10% 5% 10% 2% 1% Determine diameter first work Round nearest keep simple Lets take example 22 biplane radial engine short landing gear little heavy 2 oz Model 22 Short LG 12% off dia Weight Biplane Radial Engine DiaPitch Width 915% 8511 1 cant add 5 12% —51% 8510518% result 85 X 105 wide-blade prop about 20 racer long landing gear in-line engine low drag weighing 2 oz Model 20 ws80 Long Gear In-line Engine Weight Low Drag___ Dia Pitch Width 851115% 1 51 1___ 912 result 9 X 12 standard width prop As stated previously prop dimensions both examples given above rule thumb calculation biplane ultimately landing gear extended permit 9 prop blade width reduced improve glide racer Folkerts SK-2 flies well 6 first places 9 x 13 prop prop arrive through method may fit model exactly youll close will have made good start understanding fashion prop scale model want tofly continued page 70 October 1975 31 Above Simple straight-forward Peanut John Oldenkamp OKAY Monoplane based three-views National Aeronautics magazine Pic builderl Below Absolutely beautiful Hawker Fury Andy Macisaac took top scale points 70 Nats has scale ribs shock-absorb ing landing gear metal parts simulated vacu-formed 005 acetate sheet sprayed silver side Weight 2-1/2 ounces Photograph Bob Meuser FF Sport/Scale continued page 31 1975 Michigan State Indoor Model Championships held June 15 State Fairground Coliseum Detroit meet sponsored Michigan Exchange Clubs run veteran Detroit Balsa Bugs Two scale events agenda Indoor Scale has part meet least 25 years recent addition Peanut Scale Both events flown Sr-Open Jr door scale Sr-Op won Don Roberts Davis DI-K strikingly beautiful model designed using P Westburgs drawings reference Indoor Scale Sr-Op 1st Don Roberts 1241 Davis DI-K 2nd Paul Shailor 1030 Pietenpol ultra lite 3rd Fred Wunscbe 983 Druine Turbulent Indoor Scale Jr 1st Jim Schick *693 *Winner determined second best flight Pietenpol 2nd Dave Schick 693 Nesmith Cougar 3rd Robert Hats 540 Mr Mulligan Peanut Scale 1st Jack Russ 515 Citabria 2nd Pres Bruning 44 Cessna Airmaster 3rd Ed Vargo 41 Farman Mosquito Peanut Scale Jr 1st Jim Schick *385 Pietenpol 2nd Bob Hass 385 Mr Mulligan 3rd Tony Immers 29 Whittman Tailwind *Fly off determined winner Peanut Scale flown using Walter Har tungs rules 30 points max judging t per second first minute t over mm 6 flight attempts second highest flight counts June 22 Chagrin Falls Ohio Date loca tion fourth annual Great Lakes Rubber Scale Meet Sponsored Erie Model Air craft Assoc flown true spirit old Flying Aces Club years ago real fun group spread thinly coast coast still remembers Phineas Pinkham FAC group Connecticut originated Peanut Scale Seven events flown 90 heat little respite mid-day rainstorm FA Scale Jumbo Scale Peanut Scale No-Cal Scale profile Thompson Trophy Race low wing models racing aircraft Jr-Sr FreeFor-All WWI Peanut Dogfight simul taneous launch offered Blue Max Medal winner Chagrin Falls has become Midwestern Front Detroiten Geschwader FAC Cleveland area LeCignone Escadrille FAC meet engage battle Although Geschwader strafed main runway 390 frog spears took away nine trophies Blue Max won Capt Raoul Brownier Escadrille Big guns meet Pres Bruning Mike Midkiff Mike flies Douglas 0-38 Jumbo stops other activity its air Pres has hard time deciding 40 scale ships take meet Some models lost out-of-bounds wheat field wind got tricky before storm Hung great God Thermals kind enough spirit away models Peanut Scale 1st Mike Midkiff Clipped Wing Cub 2nd Jack Russ Herr VonHair Folkerts SK-Z 3rd Flugmeister VonBruning Curtiss Seagull FAC Scale 1st Fritz VonWunsche 140 points Druine Turbulent 2nd Flugmeister Von-Bruning 117 points Savoia SM-81 3rd Jack Fliegermann VonMoses 108 points Interstate Cadet Thompson Race 1st Flugmeister VonBrun ing 131 points Chambermaid 2nd Mike Mid kiff 118 Howard Ike 3rd Herr VonHair 115 Folkerts TOO SK-2 Jumbo Scale 1st Mike Midkiff 114 points Douglas 0-38 2nd Ted Russell 106 Taylorcraft 3rd Dan MacDonald 83 Pilatus Porter Jr-Sr Scale Free Terry MacDonald 95 points Hughes Racer 70 Model Aviation Meticulously built Voile Monocoupe Bill CaIdwell CO2 powered Note wire-spoked wheels carefully wrought Velie engine 1-os model went haywire windy Nats Caidwell photo Top left Mike Midkiffs gorgeous Douglas 0-38 Jumbo Scale bipe Colored olive drab yellow highly detailed stable flier Top right Neat Tayloreraft Jumbo Scale made Ted Russell has locking pin holds fully wound rubber S-hook engaging prop Lower left Folkers SK-2 Jack Russ has proportions fine filler Bottom right All-red Folkerts Jack Russ uses 10-gram rubber motor consisting 30-in loop 1/8 Real Folkerts among best its day rear-inward swinging retracts Mosher photos NoCal Profile 1st Herr Von Chuck Schobloher 120 points Beechcraft Bipe 2nd Flugmeister VonBruning 118 Curtiss Seagull 3rd Bob Heywood 94 Chester Goon WWI Peanut Dogfight 1st Russ Brown Capt Raoul Brownier Junkers J-2 2nd Mike Midkiff Bristol Bullet 3rd Dennis Norman Fokker D-7 Tips Techniques George Meyers Hauptmann VonToot water shrinking Japanese tissue add few drops white glue wetting solution help seal grain / / &4i Lh96A#kA GS-r mPF CC 7Y M 3gLk Ctfla &6Y 7 / FIG 1 Gives shiny look coat thinned dope Pres Bruning uses strips Japanese tissue applied rubber cement tape make iron work canopies See Sketch #1 Handy uses epoxy shown Sketch #2 XcAR -Art-I I3UStttS/E8DRC -tt AJAVI4tSltOlJ I-I Cr14 IS sy icts 51JuraFIG 2 Esy F6 SIAL FAO8 Laws Heres sources scale documentation GrummanNorman G MacKinnon Public Relations Dept Grumman Corp South Oyster Bay Rd Bethpage NY 11714 Photos aircraft Bendix air races Mr Donald Erskine Corporate Director Ad vertising Bendix Corp Executive Offices Bendix Center Southfield Mich 48076 Neat Things Buy Nitrate dope thinner plasticizer Lucky Moody Nitrate lighter better suited rubber models Write CPM Products 11054 Leoland Ave Sunland Ca 91040 Vintage Aero Glen Tenafly NJ 07670 manufacturing some old Ideal Continental Megow kits along other rubber model accessories Everybody builds has built rubber scale models has have copy Golden Age Reproductions Plan Book Costs $440 mail illustrates reduced size 150 old-time scale models Lindberg Comet Megow Peerless others PO Box 13 Braintree Mass 02184 PEANUT SCALE Ii - PLANS ACCESSORIES IComplete catalog 25c Pftk-PeIpws I~ PO BOX 2496- AM LA MESA CALIF 92041 FF Duration continued page 33 paper plane meets several us oc casion try hand Wing-Battery using some Brians rather battered pre-production prototypes conventional straight-ahead launch results surprisingly flat glide Grasp wingtip heave overhand might flops its way up fair altitude About half time somehow manages recover losing much alti tude descends lazy cirlees like wellbehaved conventional hand-launch glider Brian put up nice demonstration flight using high-start technique dumped WingBat nice little thermal rode skill fully tight circles Later Brian demonstrated Wing-Bats slope soaring ability After launching model would keep its nose wind quite awhile wandering back forth bit 100 feet upwind would exe cute 180-degree turn return launch point occasion demonstrate duck ing ability never thought Id turned foam ready-to-fly kinda kicks.. BIdu Tracior 53 54 ech z5~3 5W4 30 Blade63 643W Pusher74 76 78 50 ,eseach84 86 88 65 54-3s/-494 9-6 97qs 6-36-4 3W10-4 106aSt 9-61061 PC 124 3 Blade TractorT25 126 150 5354 6364 50 ORUSH 3 Blade PusherBROS 6-3ST JOHN INDIANA 46373 October1975 71 Bill Caidwell plc Vought 173 Flying Flapjack off-the-beaten-track Peanut measur ing 13 between stabilizers tips Contra-props laminated three layers 1/64 balsa Wing-Bat glider solid-foam flying wing flies well enough make Bob wonder about dihe dral undercamber tails such nonsense Ehflfl~L MORE wnAfOffl iaS o same power YELLOW ted- PROPEL \ 6 IL 55 8-68-5 125 9610-6 10-4150 3BLADE\to6Pusher Metallic Aluminum Color150
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/10
Page Numbers: 31, 70, 71
Free Flight Scale/Sport LET ME BEGIN installment saying thanks responded first article comments photos tips often have seen great looking very flyable outdoor rubber scale model just wouldnt hack air Close inspection will times reveal culprit prop Im about describe again bow carve prop five minutes flipping through pages past issues model magazine will uncover article subject show layout prop blank carve prop given diameter pitch However lieve important know what prop carve particular scale model instance model biplane struts wires Lots drag does have big radial engine blanking Out prop creates drag model bit overweight detail Ralph D Kuenz sleek fighter type racer flown landing gear gear up position drag scale model will fly slower require lower pitch prop deliver thrust out excessive torque slower flying model cant handle overweight model will require power fly means grams rubber up front need efficient device translate power thrustthe biggest prop model can handle rolling torque reaction Consider outdoor rubber scale model average weight weighs oz/per ft rubber Example 12 ws oz X 1 X 24ws- /2 oz X 2 X 2 36 ws oz X 3 X 3 4Soz48ws 4X4 8oz some basic rule thumb guidelines help determine prop blank Wright Quadraplane designed Dave Scott built Pins Bruning highly unusual Peanut Rotary engine spins prop Rigging wires require 38 ft thread go wing area theres literally acres Bob Mosher pie should start fits particular scale model Diameter Should 3 4 models wingspan landing gear permitting ROG Pitch Start 13 times diameter Blade Width 15% diameter Diameter pitch blade width Start based wingspan model starting factors will changed based characteristics model drag lessen pitch use following Model DiaPitchWidth Short land ing gear . fit ROG Biplane Radial Engine In-Line Engine Drag High Drag Low %offdia -10% 5% 5% 10% 5% 10% 2% 1% Determine diameter first work Round nearest keep simple Lets take example 22 biplane radial engine short landing gear little heavy 2 oz Model 22 Short LG 12% off dia Weight Biplane Radial Engine DiaPitch Width 915% 8511 1 cant add 5 12% —51% 8510518% result 85 X 105 wide-blade prop about 20 racer long landing gear in-line engine low drag weighing 2 oz Model 20 ws80 Long Gear In-line Engine Weight Low Drag___ Dia Pitch Width 851115% 1 51 1___ 912 result 9 X 12 standard width prop As stated previously prop dimensions both examples given above rule thumb calculation biplane ultimately landing gear extended permit 9 prop blade width reduced improve glide racer Folkerts SK-2 flies well 6 first places 9 x 13 prop prop arrive through method may fit model exactly youll close will have made good start understanding fashion prop scale model want tofly continued page 70 October 1975 31 Above Simple straight-forward Peanut John Oldenkamp OKAY Monoplane based three-views National Aeronautics magazine Pic builderl Below Absolutely beautiful Hawker Fury Andy Macisaac took top scale points 70 Nats has scale ribs shock-absorb ing landing gear metal parts simulated vacu-formed 005 acetate sheet sprayed silver side Weight 2-1/2 ounces Photograph Bob Meuser FF Sport/Scale continued page 31 1975 Michigan State Indoor Model Championships held June 15 State Fairground Coliseum Detroit meet sponsored Michigan Exchange Clubs run veteran Detroit Balsa Bugs Two scale events agenda Indoor Scale has part meet least 25 years recent addition Peanut Scale Both events flown Sr-Open Jr door scale Sr-Op won Don Roberts Davis DI-K strikingly beautiful model designed using P Westburgs drawings reference Indoor Scale Sr-Op 1st Don Roberts 1241 Davis DI-K 2nd Paul Shailor 1030 Pietenpol ultra lite 3rd Fred Wunscbe 983 Druine Turbulent Indoor Scale Jr 1st Jim Schick *693 *Winner determined second best flight Pietenpol 2nd Dave Schick 693 Nesmith Cougar 3rd Robert Hats 540 Mr Mulligan Peanut Scale 1st Jack Russ 515 Citabria 2nd Pres Bruning 44 Cessna Airmaster 3rd Ed Vargo 41 Farman Mosquito Peanut Scale Jr 1st Jim Schick *385 Pietenpol 2nd Bob Hass 385 Mr Mulligan 3rd Tony Immers 29 Whittman Tailwind *Fly off determined winner Peanut Scale flown using Walter Har tungs rules 30 points max judging t per second first minute t over mm 6 flight attempts second highest flight counts June 22 Chagrin Falls Ohio Date loca tion fourth annual Great Lakes Rubber Scale Meet Sponsored Erie Model Air craft Assoc flown true spirit old Flying Aces Club years ago real fun group spread thinly coast coast still remembers Phineas Pinkham FAC group Connecticut originated Peanut Scale Seven events flown 90 heat little respite mid-day rainstorm FA Scale Jumbo Scale Peanut Scale No-Cal Scale profile Thompson Trophy Race low wing models racing aircraft Jr-Sr FreeFor-All WWI Peanut Dogfight simul taneous launch offered Blue Max Medal winner Chagrin Falls has become Midwestern Front Detroiten Geschwader FAC Cleveland area LeCignone Escadrille FAC meet engage battle Although Geschwader strafed main runway 390 frog spears took away nine trophies Blue Max won Capt Raoul Brownier Escadrille Big guns meet Pres Bruning Mike Midkiff Mike flies Douglas 0-38 Jumbo stops other activity its air Pres has hard time deciding 40 scale ships take meet Some models lost out-of-bounds wheat field wind got tricky before storm Hung great God Thermals kind enough spirit away models Peanut Scale 1st Mike Midkiff Clipped Wing Cub 2nd Jack Russ Herr VonHair Folkerts SK-Z 3rd Flugmeister VonBruning Curtiss Seagull FAC Scale 1st Fritz VonWunsche 140 points Druine Turbulent 2nd Flugmeister Von-Bruning 117 points Savoia SM-81 3rd Jack Fliegermann VonMoses 108 points Interstate Cadet Thompson Race 1st Flugmeister VonBrun ing 131 points Chambermaid 2nd Mike Mid kiff 118 Howard Ike 3rd Herr VonHair 115 Folkerts TOO SK-2 Jumbo Scale 1st Mike Midkiff 114 points Douglas 0-38 2nd Ted Russell 106 Taylorcraft 3rd Dan MacDonald 83 Pilatus Porter Jr-Sr Scale Free Terry MacDonald 95 points Hughes Racer 70 Model Aviation Meticulously built Voile Monocoupe Bill CaIdwell CO2 powered Note wire-spoked wheels carefully wrought Velie engine 1-os model went haywire windy Nats Caidwell photo Top left Mike Midkiffs gorgeous Douglas 0-38 Jumbo Scale bipe Colored olive drab yellow highly detailed stable flier Top right Neat Tayloreraft Jumbo Scale made Ted Russell has locking pin holds fully wound rubber S-hook engaging prop Lower left Folkers SK-2 Jack Russ has proportions fine filler Bottom right All-red Folkerts Jack Russ uses 10-gram rubber motor consisting 30-in loop 1/8 Real Folkerts among best its day rear-inward swinging retracts Mosher photos NoCal Profile 1st Herr Von Chuck Schobloher 120 points Beechcraft Bipe 2nd Flugmeister VonBruning 118 Curtiss Seagull 3rd Bob Heywood 94 Chester Goon WWI Peanut Dogfight 1st Russ Brown Capt Raoul Brownier Junkers J-2 2nd Mike Midkiff Bristol Bullet 3rd Dennis Norman Fokker D-7 Tips Techniques George Meyers Hauptmann VonToot water shrinking Japanese tissue add few drops white glue wetting solution help seal grain / / &4i Lh96A#kA GS-r mPF CC 7Y M 3gLk Ctfla &6Y 7 / FIG 1 Gives shiny look coat thinned dope Pres Bruning uses strips Japanese tissue applied rubber cement tape make iron work canopies See Sketch #1 Handy uses epoxy shown Sketch #2 XcAR -Art-I I3UStttS/E8DRC -tt AJAVI4tSltOlJ I-I Cr14 IS sy icts 51JuraFIG 2 Esy F6 SIAL FAO8 Laws Heres sources scale documentation GrummanNorman G MacKinnon Public Relations Dept Grumman Corp South Oyster Bay Rd Bethpage NY 11714 Photos aircraft Bendix air races Mr Donald Erskine Corporate Director Ad vertising Bendix Corp Executive Offices Bendix Center Southfield Mich 48076 Neat Things Buy Nitrate dope thinner plasticizer Lucky Moody Nitrate lighter better suited rubber models Write CPM Products 11054 Leoland Ave Sunland Ca 91040 Vintage Aero Glen Tenafly NJ 07670 manufacturing some old Ideal Continental Megow kits along other rubber model accessories Everybody builds has built rubber scale models has have copy Golden Age Reproductions Plan Book Costs $440 mail illustrates reduced size 150 old-time scale models Lindberg Comet Megow Peerless others PO Box 13 Braintree Mass 02184 PEANUT SCALE Ii - PLANS ACCESSORIES IComplete catalog 25c Pftk-PeIpws I~ PO BOX 2496- AM LA MESA CALIF 92041 FF Duration continued page 33 paper plane meets several us oc casion try hand Wing-Battery using some Brians rather battered pre-production prototypes conventional straight-ahead launch results surprisingly flat glide Grasp wingtip heave overhand might flops its way up fair altitude About half time somehow manages recover losing much alti tude descends lazy cirlees like wellbehaved conventional hand-launch glider Brian put up nice demonstration flight using high-start technique dumped WingBat nice little thermal rode skill fully tight circles Later Brian demonstrated Wing-Bats slope soaring ability After launching model would keep its nose wind quite awhile wandering back forth bit 100 feet upwind would exe cute 180-degree turn return launch point occasion demonstrate duck ing ability never thought Id turned foam ready-to-fly kinda kicks.. BIdu Tracior 53 54 ech z5~3 5W4 30 Blade63 643W Pusher74 76 78 50 ,eseach84 86 88 65 54-3s/-494 9-6 97qs 6-36-4 3W10-4 106aSt 9-61061 PC 124 3 Blade TractorT25 126 150 5354 6364 50 ORUSH 3 Blade PusherBROS 6-3ST JOHN INDIANA 46373 October1975 71 Bill Caidwell plc Vought 173 Flying Flapjack off-the-beaten-track Peanut measur ing 13 between stabilizers tips Contra-props laminated three layers 1/64 balsa Wing-Bat glider solid-foam flying wing flies well enough make Bob wonder about dihe dral undercamber tails such nonsense Ehflfl~L MORE wnAfOffl iaS o same power YELLOW ted- PROPEL \ 6 IL 55 8-68-5 125 9610-6 10-4150 3BLADE\to6Pusher Metallic Aluminum Color150
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/10
Page Numbers: 31, 70, 71
Free Flight Scale/Sport LET ME BEGIN installment saying thanks responded first article comments photos tips often have seen great looking very flyable outdoor rubber scale model just wouldnt hack air Close inspection will times reveal culprit prop Im about describe again bow carve prop five minutes flipping through pages past issues model magazine will uncover article subject show layout prop blank carve prop given diameter pitch However lieve important know what prop carve particular scale model instance model biplane struts wires Lots drag does have big radial engine blanking Out prop creates drag model bit overweight detail Ralph D Kuenz sleek fighter type racer flown landing gear gear up position drag scale model will fly slower require lower pitch prop deliver thrust out excessive torque slower flying model cant handle overweight model will require power fly means grams rubber up front need efficient device translate power thrustthe biggest prop model can handle rolling torque reaction Consider outdoor rubber scale model average weight weighs oz/per ft rubber Example 12 ws oz X 1 X 24ws- /2 oz X 2 X 2 36 ws oz X 3 X 3 4Soz48ws 4X4 8oz some basic rule thumb guidelines help determine prop blank Wright Quadraplane designed Dave Scott built Pins Bruning highly unusual Peanut Rotary engine spins prop Rigging wires require 38 ft thread go wing area theres literally acres Bob Mosher pie should start fits particular scale model Diameter Should 3 4 models wingspan landing gear permitting ROG Pitch Start 13 times diameter Blade Width 15% diameter Diameter pitch blade width Start based wingspan model starting factors will changed based characteristics model drag lessen pitch use following Model DiaPitchWidth Short land ing gear . fit ROG Biplane Radial Engine In-Line Engine Drag High Drag Low %offdia -10% 5% 5% 10% 5% 10% 2% 1% Determine diameter first work Round nearest keep simple Lets take example 22 biplane radial engine short landing gear little heavy 2 oz Model 22 Short LG 12% off dia Weight Biplane Radial Engine DiaPitch Width 915% 8511 1 cant add 5 12% —51% 8510518% result 85 X 105 wide-blade prop about 20 racer long landing gear in-line engine low drag weighing 2 oz Model 20 ws80 Long Gear In-line Engine Weight Low Drag___ Dia Pitch Width 851115% 1 51 1___ 912 result 9 X 12 standard width prop As stated previously prop dimensions both examples given above rule thumb calculation biplane ultimately landing gear extended permit 9 prop blade width reduced improve glide racer Folkerts SK-2 flies well 6 first places 9 x 13 prop prop arrive through method may fit model exactly youll close will have made good start understanding fashion prop scale model want tofly continued page 70 October 1975 31 Above Simple straight-forward Peanut John Oldenkamp OKAY Monoplane based three-views National Aeronautics magazine Pic builderl Below Absolutely beautiful Hawker Fury Andy Macisaac took top scale points 70 Nats has scale ribs shock-absorb ing landing gear metal parts simulated vacu-formed 005 acetate sheet sprayed silver side Weight 2-1/2 ounces Photograph Bob Meuser FF Sport/Scale continued page 31 1975 Michigan State Indoor Model Championships held June 15 State Fairground Coliseum Detroit meet sponsored Michigan Exchange Clubs run veteran Detroit Balsa Bugs Two scale events agenda Indoor Scale has part meet least 25 years recent addition Peanut Scale Both events flown Sr-Open Jr door scale Sr-Op won Don Roberts Davis DI-K strikingly beautiful model designed using P Westburgs drawings reference Indoor Scale Sr-Op 1st Don Roberts 1241 Davis DI-K 2nd Paul Shailor 1030 Pietenpol ultra lite 3rd Fred Wunscbe 983 Druine Turbulent Indoor Scale Jr 1st Jim Schick *693 *Winner determined second best flight Pietenpol 2nd Dave Schick 693 Nesmith Cougar 3rd Robert Hats 540 Mr Mulligan Peanut Scale 1st Jack Russ 515 Citabria 2nd Pres Bruning 44 Cessna Airmaster 3rd Ed Vargo 41 Farman Mosquito Peanut Scale Jr 1st Jim Schick *385 Pietenpol 2nd Bob Hass 385 Mr Mulligan 3rd Tony Immers 29 Whittman Tailwind *Fly off determined winner Peanut Scale flown using Walter Har tungs rules 30 points max judging t per second first minute t over mm 6 flight attempts second highest flight counts June 22 Chagrin Falls Ohio Date loca tion fourth annual Great Lakes Rubber Scale Meet Sponsored Erie Model Air craft Assoc flown true spirit old Flying Aces Club years ago real fun group spread thinly coast coast still remembers Phineas Pinkham FAC group Connecticut originated Peanut Scale Seven events flown 90 heat little respite mid-day rainstorm FA Scale Jumbo Scale Peanut Scale No-Cal Scale profile Thompson Trophy Race low wing models racing aircraft Jr-Sr FreeFor-All WWI Peanut Dogfight simul taneous launch offered Blue Max Medal winner Chagrin Falls has become Midwestern Front Detroiten Geschwader FAC Cleveland area LeCignone Escadrille FAC meet engage battle Although Geschwader strafed main runway 390 frog spears took away nine trophies Blue Max won Capt Raoul Brownier Escadrille Big guns meet Pres Bruning Mike Midkiff Mike flies Douglas 0-38 Jumbo stops other activity its air Pres has hard time deciding 40 scale ships take meet Some models lost out-of-bounds wheat field wind got tricky before storm Hung great God Thermals kind enough spirit away models Peanut Scale 1st Mike Midkiff Clipped Wing Cub 2nd Jack Russ Herr VonHair Folkerts SK-Z 3rd Flugmeister VonBruning Curtiss Seagull FAC Scale 1st Fritz VonWunsche 140 points Druine Turbulent 2nd Flugmeister Von-Bruning 117 points Savoia SM-81 3rd Jack Fliegermann VonMoses 108 points Interstate Cadet Thompson Race 1st Flugmeister VonBrun ing 131 points Chambermaid 2nd Mike Mid kiff 118 Howard Ike 3rd Herr VonHair 115 Folkerts TOO SK-2 Jumbo Scale 1st Mike Midkiff 114 points Douglas 0-38 2nd Ted Russell 106 Taylorcraft 3rd Dan MacDonald 83 Pilatus Porter Jr-Sr Scale Free Terry MacDonald 95 points Hughes Racer 70 Model Aviation Meticulously built Voile Monocoupe Bill CaIdwell CO2 powered Note wire-spoked wheels carefully wrought Velie engine 1-os model went haywire windy Nats Caidwell photo Top left Mike Midkiffs gorgeous Douglas 0-38 Jumbo Scale bipe Colored olive drab yellow highly detailed stable flier Top right Neat Tayloreraft Jumbo Scale made Ted Russell has locking pin holds fully wound rubber S-hook engaging prop Lower left Folkers SK-2 Jack Russ has proportions fine filler Bottom right All-red Folkerts Jack Russ uses 10-gram rubber motor consisting 30-in loop 1/8 Real Folkerts among best its day rear-inward swinging retracts Mosher photos NoCal Profile 1st Herr Von Chuck Schobloher 120 points Beechcraft Bipe 2nd Flugmeister VonBruning 118 Curtiss Seagull 3rd Bob Heywood 94 Chester Goon WWI Peanut Dogfight 1st Russ Brown Capt Raoul Brownier Junkers J-2 2nd Mike Midkiff Bristol Bullet 3rd Dennis Norman Fokker D-7 Tips Techniques George Meyers Hauptmann VonToot water shrinking Japanese tissue add few drops white glue wetting solution help seal grain / / &4i Lh96A#kA GS-r mPF CC 7Y M 3gLk Ctfla &6Y 7 / FIG 1 Gives shiny look coat thinned dope Pres Bruning uses strips Japanese tissue applied rubber cement tape make iron work canopies See Sketch #1 Handy uses epoxy shown Sketch #2 XcAR -Art-I I3UStttS/E8DRC -tt AJAVI4tSltOlJ I-I Cr14 IS sy icts 51JuraFIG 2 Esy F6 SIAL FAO8 Laws Heres sources scale documentation GrummanNorman G MacKinnon Public Relations Dept Grumman Corp South Oyster Bay Rd Bethpage NY 11714 Photos aircraft Bendix air races Mr Donald Erskine Corporate Director Ad vertising Bendix Corp Executive Offices Bendix Center Southfield Mich 48076 Neat Things Buy Nitrate dope thinner plasticizer Lucky Moody Nitrate lighter better suited rubber models Write CPM Products 11054 Leoland Ave Sunland Ca 91040 Vintage Aero Glen Tenafly NJ 07670 manufacturing some old Ideal Continental Megow kits along other rubber model accessories Everybody builds has built rubber scale models has have copy Golden Age Reproductions Plan Book Costs $440 mail illustrates reduced size 150 old-time scale models Lindberg Comet Megow Peerless others PO Box 13 Braintree Mass 02184 PEANUT SCALE Ii - PLANS ACCESSORIES IComplete catalog 25c Pftk-PeIpws I~ PO BOX 2496- AM LA MESA CALIF 92041 FF Duration continued page 33 paper plane meets several us oc casion try hand Wing-Battery using some Brians rather battered pre-production prototypes conventional straight-ahead launch results surprisingly flat glide Grasp wingtip heave overhand might flops its way up fair altitude About half time somehow manages recover losing much alti tude descends lazy cirlees like wellbehaved conventional hand-launch glider Brian put up nice demonstration flight using high-start technique dumped WingBat nice little thermal rode skill fully tight circles Later Brian demonstrated Wing-Bats slope soaring ability After launching model would keep its nose wind quite awhile wandering back forth bit 100 feet upwind would exe cute 180-degree turn return launch point occasion demonstrate duck ing ability never thought Id turned foam ready-to-fly kinda kicks.. BIdu Tracior 53 54 ech z5~3 5W4 30 Blade63 643W Pusher74 76 78 50 ,eseach84 86 88 65 54-3s/-494 9-6 97qs 6-36-4 3W10-4 106aSt 9-61061 PC 124 3 Blade TractorT25 126 150 5354 6364 50 ORUSH 3 Blade PusherBROS 6-3ST JOHN INDIANA 46373 October1975 71 Bill Caidwell plc Vought 173 Flying Flapjack off-the-beaten-track Peanut measur ing 13 between stabilizers tips Contra-props laminated three layers 1/64 balsa Wing-Bat glider solid-foam flying wing flies well enough make Bob wonder about dihe dral undercamber tails such nonsense Ehflfl~L MORE wnAfOffl iaS o same power YELLOW ted- PROPEL \ 6 IL 55 8-68-5 125 9610-6 10-4150 3BLADE\to6Pusher Metallic Aluminum Color150