HOW hours have spent scouring hard ware stores thrift shops swap meets looking nice light aluminum pot some kind make cowl Soda can bottoms sometimes work occasionally measuring cup has al right shape chances finding just right size shape weight pretty slim youre fussy perhaps can sacrifice little avoid making something self have make own round cowl ing will probably built up few rings front wrapped balsa sheet stiff paper form back portion nice light way cowling has disadvantage breaking up impact fairly eas ily Vacuu-forming heat-forming plastic over form makes nice small cowlings some times split hit really solid addweight-up-front cowling fiberglass materi al choice especially models 36-in span up Years ago bought fiberglass kit Sig helped get started talked wood shop teacher school work let ting use lathe turn some scrap pine form off running first cowl old Waco YKS-6 36in span made using several layers heavy fiberglass cloth over outside wooden form well doped waxed cut fiberglass female mold off form wouldnt come off other way male form having straight sides no draft gle would allow easy release cut straight down side easily glued back together resulting female mold extremely durable durable found easier split light-cloth cowl made inside split mold again case epoxying cut back together matter five minutes two-piece mold would make task easier making part quick-anc-dirty method will case model won Nats didnt turn out too badly second fiberglass cowl big Cleveland Stinson featured column some months back cowl has required draft taper let pop right Out mold used plaster paris instead fiberglass create female mold over wooden form works well though takes very long time dry Out completely Because perfectly round cowling plug also easy turn lathe oval irregularly shaped cowl making plug out balsa would allow easily shaped razor blade sanding block Instead Sig glass kit just used 15 EQUAL WIClN2S5E5 O STDCK SUNG USED lUPiNE gvvLop cfloN5 WV PEAWING SIbCK IVICKNESS ON lOP VIEWS. 2 PUONT VIEW C W PINE WALL WWIC4 GivE NSThN6l*s OV EACH SECflON 051 LAMEST DIMENSION CARVE 0 SHAPE 11mM 0SAND SMOOTH K SL%GMTLV UNPEKSIZS W ThICKNUS$ OP PINlSI4EP LEAIS MOLE OPEI \ 7000 IVIAP OP VLAST1L OP PMA6 Whit PUTTY KNIFE LET DEV 14 NOURS AT LEAST AFtER SETTING MAKII4G FiSREGLASS COWL Drawings Jim Kaman CAREFULLY PATU AllY CHIPS SAND WITh 400 GRIT WIPER APPLY 6 COATS OP WAC minute epoxy brushed over pieces thin fiber glass cloth surplus storemaking sure mold first well waxed Simoniz car wax Scale research Getting documentation want full-size plans often quite challenging Ive spent hours archives Air Force Museum Musee de lAir Paris plane owners Oshkosh friends per sonal libraries joy discovery discounted lifes little pleasures trips strange wonderful places can unfor gettable experiences Still everyone has chance getting started can real drag remember first serious attempt get three-views model magazines down town Los Angeles Library Someone beaten though sliced out draw ings razor blade able borrow book Fokker aircraft made pho SAW oirr SCTIONS ROIrnNej OUT IPeN& GLUE PISCS TOGEfl4ER. KEEP CENTERED USE SEVERAL T5 OF POPE AND e cors o wc POP OUT POVA AlLOW PlASTER MOLD 10 DRY INSIDE PO ANOTHER 14 I4OIIPS L & SRUSw RESIN TUKOUGU LIGHT FlIREGLASs CLOTH SUILD UP Z OVENJAPPING LAVEP5 AROUHp INSIDE OP MOLD PULL PINISNEP CO OR MAKING NEW COWL tocoples later enlarged make model win few lose few Being member Scale club probably best cheapest way get documentation guys have spent lifetime collect64 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 1370 Monache Ave Porterville CA 93257 Left Turbofan unit Ferrell Papic Orange CA features two VL minimotors geared 51 Mylar-bladed fans work opposite directions giv ing 2 oz thrust Warner photo Right Sample Scale Model Research archives Curtiss B-14 Speedwing existence Left Bubble packaging fine cheap source material bubble cockpits windscreens Bill Warner photo Right Built book called Classic Paper Airplanes Fokker DR1 can handle either Rubber CO2 power Built Jack McCracken Norwalk CA Warner photo ing stuff theyll never use million years theyre glad someone will able some thing Once upon time magazines full three view drawings still around peoples basements workshops note club newsletter usually brings results obscure aircraft another way get data need commercial service Bob Banka ex-reading teacher cant bad has best services have come contact Foto-Paaks said reading spell ing teacher seem average about $20 usu ally include over 20 photos taken modeler mind comes under dollar shot figure time trouble ex pense getting airport plus developing its certainly reasonable Some Paaks have few three shots RCAF Harvard $6 South African Mark IX Spit fire 75 shots $4550 Three-views go $3 12 pages J-3 Cub Send $3 1990 catalog will just about cover post age printing 54-page tome Scale Model Research 2334 Ticonderoga Way Costa Mesa CA 92626 tel 1-714/979-8058 ser vice fast complete can get 20 x 30-in color enlargement particular photo den $20 Ducted fans Free Flight Ducted fans have around some time first saw fly Skyray 1963 Los Alamitos Nats ROGd flew very realistically think Berkeley kit probably 049 glow engine power Richter Jets zipped over Sepulveda Basin LA usually about belt height occasionally took off went miles usually props inside rather impel lers fan variety late Six ties recall Jon Hoshizaki Junior made MiG 15 rubber-driven North Pacific prop inside flew very long though now hear reports number guys experi menting rubber-powered fans Among successful E Fillons Soufflant squirrel-cage blower just matter time until serious electric-powered model came along Ferrell Papic now developing Ferrells Electric minimotor business cur rently hold hasnt stopped him loping unit according calcula s puts out about two ounces static thrust uses two Vista Labs VL motors powered three 80-mA batteries rotor blades two laminated layers drafting Mylar turn five times slowly motors test bed HE 178 airplane Germans awed prop-driven world opened door jet age model utilizes A-in foam sandwich board circular bulkheads draftingfilm duct tube fits expect experiment lightening stepping up down tube sizing reward will some nice flights cause fan setup has thrust handle Continued page 153 March 1990 65 cA Dick Allens never-ending quest ulti mate Gee-Bee design application has forced him another fielddesigning sleepwear NEW ELECTRIC Fly .. t stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05 electric power can perform take-offs touch goes aerobatics beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts hardware complete rolled plans step-by-step instructions formed landing gear windshield Electro-combo includes kit DS 075 Hyperth rust motor fused switch harness Tam iya connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $29~ x 40 Span 275 Sq area 32 oz flying ht flat bottom airfoil rudder elevator motor add ailerons too IAVEY675 TOWER LANE inYSTEMS WEST CHESTER PA 193& i ORPORATION 2 15430-8645 landing area should set up outside course preferably side course opposite pit area Landings will made between #2 #3 Pylons time public address system strongly recommended both pit spectator areas Part two will included next months col umn FF Scale/Warner Continued page 65 task Paper airplanes Marty us grew up dur ing war years make cardboard pine paper models balsa diverted making life rafts other impor tant uses Some paper models flew few seconds sort fun make ranging small models given away Jack Armstrong program larger ones heavy stock punch-out books Jack McCracken super Scale modeler painstaking scratch-builder models full size aircraft has making paper planes spare time fun loving models range Italian twin-hulled flying boats Fokker DR Most would probably fly rubber power too adds balsa reinforcements sometimes balsa spinner set wheels cute bugs ear models taken book models called Classic Paper Airplanes costs about $20 authors Johnson Austin published St Martins Press 175 5th Ave NY NY 10010 ISBN 0-312-02734-6 Maybe local bookseller could get Some models includes Spirit St Louis SM-55 Schleicher-Rhonadler Avro 560 MS Type N Blackburn Monoplane Haw ker Hart Fairey Longrange Avro 560 Fokker D-8 DR 1 What great present give kid has never experienced anything other plastic kit modeler has thing except artwork first class s write-up photo book September 89 Product Review section MAEd bubble pack fun Al Lawton has made 3D Corsair foam meat trays using rounded corners build rounded fuselage topping whole affair off bubble packing night-light bulb fits beautifully little Tomy Pocket Pets make great gifts young friends provided give packing know modeler reheats stuff uses own canopy forms think reaction rising cost mod eling brings out creativity everyone Never use bad language stuck-on screw cap Ever have experience trying get cap off paint bottle contact cement jar has made decision stay put Using old viseand water-pump pliers trick often messes up cap breaks bottle wealth new vocab ulary has picked up generations modelers kids vicinity such event Books have written subject am now going tell avoid prob lem ever occurring again Turning whole affair upside down fill ing edge cap thinner will help loosen already stuck provided wait long enough though dont know works acrylics Also need know dope thinner dissolves clear little square bot tles just look like glass hold plastic car en amel get ready reinstall cap wipe threads bottle rag smear little Vaselinenot too muchon too messy couple turns Teflon pipejoint tape will available hardware store about dollar hundred-year sup ply Get inch wide put some over top bottle help get airtight seal Support National Free Flight Society NFFS Chris Weinreich taking over mon umental task editing NFFS Digest Redacteur-en-chef Bob Meuser retiring can build couple Scale models Chris wants make Digest stronger FF Scale Continued page 156 March 1990 153 1st US RIC Flight School Stop Crashing Start Learning CLASSES FILLING FAST Info pack $200 1st US RiC FLIGHT SCHOOL 621 S Sawyer. Shawano WI 54166 17151524-2985 LATHES ING MACHIUdES MACHINE SHOP SUPPLES S Ihe AIIIon Model e/ MACHINERY ANSWR INC P0 BRR 53N-Y NsrnlRnR WV 25S26 342 3530 REPRESENTATIVES OF MAN MANUFACTURERS _____NEW CATALOG 500Z Flu IRII II ISUNOR RI RWRR InS S HIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION APRIL 6 7 8 1990 FRIDAY9amto6pm SATURDAY9am to6pm SUNDAY9 am 430 pm TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO TICKETS can purchased door ADVANCE sending self-addressed stamped business size 41/sx9 envelope TICKETS 38235 Castle Romulus Ml 48174 orders above 10 tickets must include double postage US orders must include 25 cents per order handling charge foreign orders must include 50 cents per order handling charge need send addressed envelope will providethe necessary postage NOTE Registered Express Type Mail Orders Will 8 Acceptedll Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club Ticket prices $400 per day adults $100 per dayfor children 12 under Please specify number Deadline ticket orders March 30 1990 sales arefinaland non-refundable Hotel info map area may obtained sending stamped self-addressed envelope ticket address above Any other Exposition information avail able contacting Wayne Yeager co director ticket address phone 313 941-6661 WillHave TraditionalSwap Shop Saturday Night Auction COMPETITION CLASSES NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE No Jets SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models Only No Engines HELICOPTER R/C CAR COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT PLEASURE POWER BOAT WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED presented Weak Signals R/C Club Toledo Ohio NEW FAI TAN RUBBER 1/4 3/16 1/8 3/32 1/16 042 thick 1 lb box $147 lincludes4oz Slick Lubel $1375 mo lube k Costa *1 751 10 lb box- SilO00 lUPSOeliveradI Postpaid US via UPS Cal res add 6% sales tax Made USA Slow cure consistant quality Ask PAl-TAN 89/90 catalog lIsts 100 FF kits CROCKET HOOKS NOW MADE BYFAI SEND Model Supply FOR CATALOG P0 Box 3967 Torrance CA 90610 FF Scale/Warner Continued page 153 sport categories avid FF nuts Out need pitch give him hand NFFS rapidly becoming important national organization Free Flighters AMA devotes more attention needs RC majority heartily urge become NFFS member become active contributor Digest Now time send Chris pictures hints tips descriptions interesting models expe riences drawings etc Address Chris Weinreich 905 W 5th Ave Olympia WA 98502 call him 1-206/352-8183 some eve ning talk about what can help keep FF strong vital years membership includes sub scription Digest costs $15 youre over 19 $750 youre under join send name address age AMA number along check made out National Free Flight Society 646 East Cactus Wren Rd Scotts dale AZ 85253 Diels kit tans already know about Dave Diels fine rubber-powered Scale model kits aware fact quite special Highly recommended label can put new F4F Wildcat kit Its proven win ner flies like blazes Originally done Bill Hannan Model Builder WW II Rubber Scale book has produced consistent results average expert modelers Daves second new offering tail-first Shinden might prove bit trickier fly certainly interesting subject kit comes good wood fine-quality tissue de tailed documentation building instructions Drop him large SASE Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 lat est listings dont build kits lim ited production going collectors items someday FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 67 simple fly timer prop-stopactuated autorudder about safe way fly right-right pattern small-stab Wake field sometimes prop-stop A/R too safe trips too soon model un der power will cause model spin right trips launch l least TA HO~ bob iardood L ho kJ ItEnlult 60 LARGE 120 THE ILGEAR Pat Pond TO QHOU HO. did HOtS $1021 tOSs IScSXCOOI Kflisit TOCatria CiHOO,oogK 05 31 n vdder Solo 055005 SHOCK TV 01300055 ow otovo O13TOOHOITIAI COOS 15090% 0050 TiCiHO IIO0OO 000050 00551010 sos-sososso COSThY 0010500510 TOSCKIOSOD4O 00100 CAST IOSTAOATISl SAC HO 150001100 IS AS C0OT OHACE HOOOSCTS TOSTAJUTIOS PACKSItr S1 100 iHOl,dd dont have walk far pick up pieces Rex Hinson Inverness FL has come up rather clever way making sure rudder trips supposed toand before stead using drop-pin Montreal prop stop trip lever release line rud der Rex adds round disc thin aluminum front turned aluminum nose block hole disc drop-pin slot top disc line rudder hooked end Z-shaped wire pivoted top nose block other end wire held down aluminum disc rubber-motor torque runs down Montreal drop-pin spring-loaded moves rear drops hole aluminum disc Since prop still turning disc will rotate until slot edge uncovers wire hinges up releases autorudder line second hole drop-pin aluminum nose block firmly stop propeller allow fold As can see photographs Rex uses aluminum bar-stock hub hinges A6 wire soldered sections brass tube approximately -in-long Stub dowels blade fit tubes allowing precise setting blade pitch Cyklones Siberia Yet another engine now available battle Rossi Nel son FIC Cyklone 25T includes brake produces claimed 11 horsepower 28000 30000 rpm Price whopping $280 think thats bad consider Cy klone C F2C FAL CL Speed price $600 However does include tuned pipe carbon fiber single-blade prop fuel tank claimed 18 horses 39000 rpm folks Siberia also offering two Wake field front ends prop assembly experts variable pitch delayed start $80 standard Montreal-type stop unit $25 RIC COMBAT 1 1-800-336-0602__1 156 Model Aviation 10 FT B-17 PLANS $4200 EPOXY GLASS COWLS 0 PLASTIC NOSE TURRETS SSS0O POWER 4 x 40-45 3 CATALOOS 59tO THE SEsT IN SCALE-SOB HOLMAN P0 505 Ni NA SAN SONG CA OSASI
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/03
Page Numbers: 64, 65, 153, 156
HOW hours have spent scouring hard ware stores thrift shops swap meets looking nice light aluminum pot some kind make cowl Soda can bottoms sometimes work occasionally measuring cup has al right shape chances finding just right size shape weight pretty slim youre fussy perhaps can sacrifice little avoid making something self have make own round cowl ing will probably built up few rings front wrapped balsa sheet stiff paper form back portion nice light way cowling has disadvantage breaking up impact fairly eas ily Vacuu-forming heat-forming plastic over form makes nice small cowlings some times split hit really solid addweight-up-front cowling fiberglass materi al choice especially models 36-in span up Years ago bought fiberglass kit Sig helped get started talked wood shop teacher school work let ting use lathe turn some scrap pine form off running first cowl old Waco YKS-6 36in span made using several layers heavy fiberglass cloth over outside wooden form well doped waxed cut fiberglass female mold off form wouldnt come off other way male form having straight sides no draft gle would allow easy release cut straight down side easily glued back together resulting female mold extremely durable durable found easier split light-cloth cowl made inside split mold again case epoxying cut back together matter five minutes two-piece mold would make task easier making part quick-anc-dirty method will case model won Nats didnt turn out too badly second fiberglass cowl big Cleveland Stinson featured column some months back cowl has required draft taper let pop right Out mold used plaster paris instead fiberglass create female mold over wooden form works well though takes very long time dry Out completely Because perfectly round cowling plug also easy turn lathe oval irregularly shaped cowl making plug out balsa would allow easily shaped razor blade sanding block Instead Sig glass kit just used 15 EQUAL WIClN2S5E5 O STDCK SUNG USED lUPiNE gvvLop cfloN5 WV PEAWING SIbCK IVICKNESS ON lOP VIEWS. 2 PUONT VIEW C W PINE WALL WWIC4 GivE NSThN6l*s OV EACH SECflON 051 LAMEST DIMENSION CARVE 0 SHAPE 11mM 0SAND SMOOTH K SL%GMTLV UNPEKSIZS W ThICKNUS$ OP PINlSI4EP LEAIS MOLE OPEI \ 7000 IVIAP OP VLAST1L OP PMA6 Whit PUTTY KNIFE LET DEV 14 NOURS AT LEAST AFtER SETTING MAKII4G FiSREGLASS COWL Drawings Jim Kaman CAREFULLY PATU AllY CHIPS SAND WITh 400 GRIT WIPER APPLY 6 COATS OP WAC minute epoxy brushed over pieces thin fiber glass cloth surplus storemaking sure mold first well waxed Simoniz car wax Scale research Getting documentation want full-size plans often quite challenging Ive spent hours archives Air Force Museum Musee de lAir Paris plane owners Oshkosh friends per sonal libraries joy discovery discounted lifes little pleasures trips strange wonderful places can unfor gettable experiences Still everyone has chance getting started can real drag remember first serious attempt get three-views model magazines down town Los Angeles Library Someone beaten though sliced out draw ings razor blade able borrow book Fokker aircraft made pho SAW oirr SCTIONS ROIrnNej OUT IPeN& GLUE PISCS TOGEfl4ER. KEEP CENTERED USE SEVERAL T5 OF POPE AND e cors o wc POP OUT POVA AlLOW PlASTER MOLD 10 DRY INSIDE PO ANOTHER 14 I4OIIPS L & SRUSw RESIN TUKOUGU LIGHT FlIREGLASs CLOTH SUILD UP Z OVENJAPPING LAVEP5 AROUHp INSIDE OP MOLD PULL PINISNEP CO OR MAKING NEW COWL tocoples later enlarged make model win few lose few Being member Scale club probably best cheapest way get documentation guys have spent lifetime collect64 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 1370 Monache Ave Porterville CA 93257 Left Turbofan unit Ferrell Papic Orange CA features two VL minimotors geared 51 Mylar-bladed fans work opposite directions giv ing 2 oz thrust Warner photo Right Sample Scale Model Research archives Curtiss B-14 Speedwing existence Left Bubble packaging fine cheap source material bubble cockpits windscreens Bill Warner photo Right Built book called Classic Paper Airplanes Fokker DR1 can handle either Rubber CO2 power Built Jack McCracken Norwalk CA Warner photo ing stuff theyll never use million years theyre glad someone will able some thing Once upon time magazines full three view drawings still around peoples basements workshops note club newsletter usually brings results obscure aircraft another way get data need commercial service Bob Banka ex-reading teacher cant bad has best services have come contact Foto-Paaks said reading spell ing teacher seem average about $20 usu ally include over 20 photos taken modeler mind comes under dollar shot figure time trouble ex pense getting airport plus developing its certainly reasonable Some Paaks have few three shots RCAF Harvard $6 South African Mark IX Spit fire 75 shots $4550 Three-views go $3 12 pages J-3 Cub Send $3 1990 catalog will just about cover post age printing 54-page tome Scale Model Research 2334 Ticonderoga Way Costa Mesa CA 92626 tel 1-714/979-8058 ser vice fast complete can get 20 x 30-in color enlargement particular photo den $20 Ducted fans Free Flight Ducted fans have around some time first saw fly Skyray 1963 Los Alamitos Nats ROGd flew very realistically think Berkeley kit probably 049 glow engine power Richter Jets zipped over Sepulveda Basin LA usually about belt height occasionally took off went miles usually props inside rather impel lers fan variety late Six ties recall Jon Hoshizaki Junior made MiG 15 rubber-driven North Pacific prop inside flew very long though now hear reports number guys experi menting rubber-powered fans Among successful E Fillons Soufflant squirrel-cage blower just matter time until serious electric-powered model came along Ferrell Papic now developing Ferrells Electric minimotor business cur rently hold hasnt stopped him loping unit according calcula s puts out about two ounces static thrust uses two Vista Labs VL motors powered three 80-mA batteries rotor blades two laminated layers drafting Mylar turn five times slowly motors test bed HE 178 airplane Germans awed prop-driven world opened door jet age model utilizes A-in foam sandwich board circular bulkheads draftingfilm duct tube fits expect experiment lightening stepping up down tube sizing reward will some nice flights cause fan setup has thrust handle Continued page 153 March 1990 65 cA Dick Allens never-ending quest ulti mate Gee-Bee design application has forced him another fielddesigning sleepwear NEW ELECTRIC Fly .. t stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05 electric power can perform take-offs touch goes aerobatics beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts hardware complete rolled plans step-by-step instructions formed landing gear windshield Electro-combo includes kit DS 075 Hyperth rust motor fused switch harness Tam iya connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $29~ x 40 Span 275 Sq area 32 oz flying ht flat bottom airfoil rudder elevator motor add ailerons too IAVEY675 TOWER LANE inYSTEMS WEST CHESTER PA 193& i ORPORATION 2 15430-8645 landing area should set up outside course preferably side course opposite pit area Landings will made between #2 #3 Pylons time public address system strongly recommended both pit spectator areas Part two will included next months col umn FF Scale/Warner Continued page 65 task Paper airplanes Marty us grew up dur ing war years make cardboard pine paper models balsa diverted making life rafts other impor tant uses Some paper models flew few seconds sort fun make ranging small models given away Jack Armstrong program larger ones heavy stock punch-out books Jack McCracken super Scale modeler painstaking scratch-builder models full size aircraft has making paper planes spare time fun loving models range Italian twin-hulled flying boats Fokker DR Most would probably fly rubber power too adds balsa reinforcements sometimes balsa spinner set wheels cute bugs ear models taken book models called Classic Paper Airplanes costs about $20 authors Johnson Austin published St Martins Press 175 5th Ave NY NY 10010 ISBN 0-312-02734-6 Maybe local bookseller could get Some models includes Spirit St Louis SM-55 Schleicher-Rhonadler Avro 560 MS Type N Blackburn Monoplane Haw ker Hart Fairey Longrange Avro 560 Fokker D-8 DR 1 What great present give kid has never experienced anything other plastic kit modeler has thing except artwork first class s write-up photo book September 89 Product Review section MAEd bubble pack fun Al Lawton has made 3D Corsair foam meat trays using rounded corners build rounded fuselage topping whole affair off bubble packing night-light bulb fits beautifully little Tomy Pocket Pets make great gifts young friends provided give packing know modeler reheats stuff uses own canopy forms think reaction rising cost mod eling brings out creativity everyone Never use bad language stuck-on screw cap Ever have experience trying get cap off paint bottle contact cement jar has made decision stay put Using old viseand water-pump pliers trick often messes up cap breaks bottle wealth new vocab ulary has picked up generations modelers kids vicinity such event Books have written subject am now going tell avoid prob lem ever occurring again Turning whole affair upside down fill ing edge cap thinner will help loosen already stuck provided wait long enough though dont know works acrylics Also need know dope thinner dissolves clear little square bot tles just look like glass hold plastic car en amel get ready reinstall cap wipe threads bottle rag smear little Vaselinenot too muchon too messy couple turns Teflon pipejoint tape will available hardware store about dollar hundred-year sup ply Get inch wide put some over top bottle help get airtight seal Support National Free Flight Society NFFS Chris Weinreich taking over mon umental task editing NFFS Digest Redacteur-en-chef Bob Meuser retiring can build couple Scale models Chris wants make Digest stronger FF Scale Continued page 156 March 1990 153 1st US RIC Flight School Stop Crashing Start Learning CLASSES FILLING FAST Info pack $200 1st US RiC FLIGHT SCHOOL 621 S Sawyer. Shawano WI 54166 17151524-2985 LATHES ING MACHIUdES MACHINE SHOP SUPPLES S Ihe AIIIon Model e/ MACHINERY ANSWR INC P0 BRR 53N-Y NsrnlRnR WV 25S26 342 3530 REPRESENTATIVES OF MAN MANUFACTURERS _____NEW CATALOG 500Z Flu IRII II ISUNOR RI RWRR InS S HIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION APRIL 6 7 8 1990 FRIDAY9amto6pm SATURDAY9am to6pm SUNDAY9 am 430 pm TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO TICKETS can purchased door ADVANCE sending self-addressed stamped business size 41/sx9 envelope TICKETS 38235 Castle Romulus Ml 48174 orders above 10 tickets must include double postage US orders must include 25 cents per order handling charge foreign orders must include 50 cents per order handling charge need send addressed envelope will providethe necessary postage NOTE Registered Express Type Mail Orders Will 8 Acceptedll Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club Ticket prices $400 per day adults $100 per dayfor children 12 under Please specify number Deadline ticket orders March 30 1990 sales arefinaland non-refundable Hotel info map area may obtained sending stamped self-addressed envelope ticket address above Any other Exposition information avail able contacting Wayne Yeager co director ticket address phone 313 941-6661 WillHave TraditionalSwap Shop Saturday Night Auction COMPETITION CLASSES NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE No Jets SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models Only No Engines HELICOPTER R/C CAR COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT PLEASURE POWER BOAT WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED presented Weak Signals R/C Club Toledo Ohio NEW FAI TAN RUBBER 1/4 3/16 1/8 3/32 1/16 042 thick 1 lb box $147 lincludes4oz Slick Lubel $1375 mo lube k Costa *1 751 10 lb box- SilO00 lUPSOeliveradI Postpaid US via UPS Cal res add 6% sales tax Made USA Slow cure consistant quality Ask PAl-TAN 89/90 catalog lIsts 100 FF kits CROCKET HOOKS NOW MADE BYFAI SEND Model Supply FOR CATALOG P0 Box 3967 Torrance CA 90610 FF Scale/Warner Continued page 153 sport categories avid FF nuts Out need pitch give him hand NFFS rapidly becoming important national organization Free Flighters AMA devotes more attention needs RC majority heartily urge become NFFS member become active contributor Digest Now time send Chris pictures hints tips descriptions interesting models expe riences drawings etc Address Chris Weinreich 905 W 5th Ave Olympia WA 98502 call him 1-206/352-8183 some eve ning talk about what can help keep FF strong vital years membership includes sub scription Digest costs $15 youre over 19 $750 youre under join send name address age AMA number along check made out National Free Flight Society 646 East Cactus Wren Rd Scotts dale AZ 85253 Diels kit tans already know about Dave Diels fine rubber-powered Scale model kits aware fact quite special Highly recommended label can put new F4F Wildcat kit Its proven win ner flies like blazes Originally done Bill Hannan Model Builder WW II Rubber Scale book has produced consistent results average expert modelers Daves second new offering tail-first Shinden might prove bit trickier fly certainly interesting subject kit comes good wood fine-quality tissue de tailed documentation building instructions Drop him large SASE Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 lat est listings dont build kits lim ited production going collectors items someday FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 67 simple fly timer prop-stopactuated autorudder about safe way fly right-right pattern small-stab Wake field sometimes prop-stop A/R too safe trips too soon model un der power will cause model spin right trips launch l least TA HO~ bob iardood L ho kJ ItEnlult 60 LARGE 120 THE ILGEAR Pat Pond TO QHOU HO. did HOtS $1021 tOSs IScSXCOOI Kflisit TOCatria CiHOO,oogK 05 31 n vdder Solo 055005 SHOCK TV 01300055 ow otovo O13TOOHOITIAI COOS 15090% 0050 TiCiHO IIO0OO 000050 00551010 sos-sososso COSThY 0010500510 TOSCKIOSOD4O 00100 CAST IOSTAOATISl SAC HO 150001100 IS AS C0OT OHACE HOOOSCTS TOSTAJUTIOS PACKSItr S1 100 iHOl,dd dont have walk far pick up pieces Rex Hinson Inverness FL has come up rather clever way making sure rudder trips supposed toand before stead using drop-pin Montreal prop stop trip lever release line rud der Rex adds round disc thin aluminum front turned aluminum nose block hole disc drop-pin slot top disc line rudder hooked end Z-shaped wire pivoted top nose block other end wire held down aluminum disc rubber-motor torque runs down Montreal drop-pin spring-loaded moves rear drops hole aluminum disc Since prop still turning disc will rotate until slot edge uncovers wire hinges up releases autorudder line second hole drop-pin aluminum nose block firmly stop propeller allow fold As can see photographs Rex uses aluminum bar-stock hub hinges A6 wire soldered sections brass tube approximately -in-long Stub dowels blade fit tubes allowing precise setting blade pitch Cyklones Siberia Yet another engine now available battle Rossi Nel son FIC Cyklone 25T includes brake produces claimed 11 horsepower 28000 30000 rpm Price whopping $280 think thats bad consider Cy klone C F2C FAL CL Speed price $600 However does include tuned pipe carbon fiber single-blade prop fuel tank claimed 18 horses 39000 rpm folks Siberia also offering two Wake field front ends prop assembly experts variable pitch delayed start $80 standard Montreal-type stop unit $25 RIC COMBAT 1 1-800-336-0602__1 156 Model Aviation 10 FT B-17 PLANS $4200 EPOXY GLASS COWLS 0 PLASTIC NOSE TURRETS SSS0O POWER 4 x 40-45 3 CATALOOS 59tO THE SEsT IN SCALE-SOB HOLMAN P0 505 Ni NA SAN SONG CA OSASI
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/03
Page Numbers: 64, 65, 153, 156
HOW hours have spent scouring hard ware stores thrift shops swap meets looking nice light aluminum pot some kind make cowl Soda can bottoms sometimes work occasionally measuring cup has al right shape chances finding just right size shape weight pretty slim youre fussy perhaps can sacrifice little avoid making something self have make own round cowl ing will probably built up few rings front wrapped balsa sheet stiff paper form back portion nice light way cowling has disadvantage breaking up impact fairly eas ily Vacuu-forming heat-forming plastic over form makes nice small cowlings some times split hit really solid addweight-up-front cowling fiberglass materi al choice especially models 36-in span up Years ago bought fiberglass kit Sig helped get started talked wood shop teacher school work let ting use lathe turn some scrap pine form off running first cowl old Waco YKS-6 36in span made using several layers heavy fiberglass cloth over outside wooden form well doped waxed cut fiberglass female mold off form wouldnt come off other way male form having straight sides no draft gle would allow easy release cut straight down side easily glued back together resulting female mold extremely durable durable found easier split light-cloth cowl made inside split mold again case epoxying cut back together matter five minutes two-piece mold would make task easier making part quick-anc-dirty method will case model won Nats didnt turn out too badly second fiberglass cowl big Cleveland Stinson featured column some months back cowl has required draft taper let pop right Out mold used plaster paris instead fiberglass create female mold over wooden form works well though takes very long time dry Out completely Because perfectly round cowling plug also easy turn lathe oval irregularly shaped cowl making plug out balsa would allow easily shaped razor blade sanding block Instead Sig glass kit just used 15 EQUAL WIClN2S5E5 O STDCK SUNG USED lUPiNE gvvLop cfloN5 WV PEAWING SIbCK IVICKNESS ON lOP VIEWS. 2 PUONT VIEW C W PINE WALL WWIC4 GivE NSThN6l*s OV EACH SECflON 051 LAMEST DIMENSION CARVE 0 SHAPE 11mM 0SAND SMOOTH K SL%GMTLV UNPEKSIZS W ThICKNUS$ OP PINlSI4EP LEAIS MOLE OPEI \ 7000 IVIAP OP VLAST1L OP PMA6 Whit PUTTY KNIFE LET DEV 14 NOURS AT LEAST AFtER SETTING MAKII4G FiSREGLASS COWL Drawings Jim Kaman CAREFULLY PATU AllY CHIPS SAND WITh 400 GRIT WIPER APPLY 6 COATS OP WAC minute epoxy brushed over pieces thin fiber glass cloth surplus storemaking sure mold first well waxed Simoniz car wax Scale research Getting documentation want full-size plans often quite challenging Ive spent hours archives Air Force Museum Musee de lAir Paris plane owners Oshkosh friends per sonal libraries joy discovery discounted lifes little pleasures trips strange wonderful places can unfor gettable experiences Still everyone has chance getting started can real drag remember first serious attempt get three-views model magazines down town Los Angeles Library Someone beaten though sliced out draw ings razor blade able borrow book Fokker aircraft made pho SAW oirr SCTIONS ROIrnNej OUT IPeN& GLUE PISCS TOGEfl4ER. KEEP CENTERED USE SEVERAL T5 OF POPE AND e cors o wc POP OUT POVA AlLOW PlASTER MOLD 10 DRY INSIDE PO ANOTHER 14 I4OIIPS L & SRUSw RESIN TUKOUGU LIGHT FlIREGLASs CLOTH SUILD UP Z OVENJAPPING LAVEP5 AROUHp INSIDE OP MOLD PULL PINISNEP CO OR MAKING NEW COWL tocoples later enlarged make model win few lose few Being member Scale club probably best cheapest way get documentation guys have spent lifetime collect64 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 1370 Monache Ave Porterville CA 93257 Left Turbofan unit Ferrell Papic Orange CA features two VL minimotors geared 51 Mylar-bladed fans work opposite directions giv ing 2 oz thrust Warner photo Right Sample Scale Model Research archives Curtiss B-14 Speedwing existence Left Bubble packaging fine cheap source material bubble cockpits windscreens Bill Warner photo Right Built book called Classic Paper Airplanes Fokker DR1 can handle either Rubber CO2 power Built Jack McCracken Norwalk CA Warner photo ing stuff theyll never use million years theyre glad someone will able some thing Once upon time magazines full three view drawings still around peoples basements workshops note club newsletter usually brings results obscure aircraft another way get data need commercial service Bob Banka ex-reading teacher cant bad has best services have come contact Foto-Paaks said reading spell ing teacher seem average about $20 usu ally include over 20 photos taken modeler mind comes under dollar shot figure time trouble ex pense getting airport plus developing its certainly reasonable Some Paaks have few three shots RCAF Harvard $6 South African Mark IX Spit fire 75 shots $4550 Three-views go $3 12 pages J-3 Cub Send $3 1990 catalog will just about cover post age printing 54-page tome Scale Model Research 2334 Ticonderoga Way Costa Mesa CA 92626 tel 1-714/979-8058 ser vice fast complete can get 20 x 30-in color enlargement particular photo den $20 Ducted fans Free Flight Ducted fans have around some time first saw fly Skyray 1963 Los Alamitos Nats ROGd flew very realistically think Berkeley kit probably 049 glow engine power Richter Jets zipped over Sepulveda Basin LA usually about belt height occasionally took off went miles usually props inside rather impel lers fan variety late Six ties recall Jon Hoshizaki Junior made MiG 15 rubber-driven North Pacific prop inside flew very long though now hear reports number guys experi menting rubber-powered fans Among successful E Fillons Soufflant squirrel-cage blower just matter time until serious electric-powered model came along Ferrell Papic now developing Ferrells Electric minimotor business cur rently hold hasnt stopped him loping unit according calcula s puts out about two ounces static thrust uses two Vista Labs VL motors powered three 80-mA batteries rotor blades two laminated layers drafting Mylar turn five times slowly motors test bed HE 178 airplane Germans awed prop-driven world opened door jet age model utilizes A-in foam sandwich board circular bulkheads draftingfilm duct tube fits expect experiment lightening stepping up down tube sizing reward will some nice flights cause fan setup has thrust handle Continued page 153 March 1990 65 cA Dick Allens never-ending quest ulti mate Gee-Bee design application has forced him another fielddesigning sleepwear NEW ELECTRIC Fly .. t stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05 electric power can perform take-offs touch goes aerobatics beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts hardware complete rolled plans step-by-step instructions formed landing gear windshield Electro-combo includes kit DS 075 Hyperth rust motor fused switch harness Tam iya connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $29~ x 40 Span 275 Sq area 32 oz flying ht flat bottom airfoil rudder elevator motor add ailerons too IAVEY675 TOWER LANE inYSTEMS WEST CHESTER PA 193& i ORPORATION 2 15430-8645 landing area should set up outside course preferably side course opposite pit area Landings will made between #2 #3 Pylons time public address system strongly recommended both pit spectator areas Part two will included next months col umn FF Scale/Warner Continued page 65 task Paper airplanes Marty us grew up dur ing war years make cardboard pine paper models balsa diverted making life rafts other impor tant uses Some paper models flew few seconds sort fun make ranging small models given away Jack Armstrong program larger ones heavy stock punch-out books Jack McCracken super Scale modeler painstaking scratch-builder models full size aircraft has making paper planes spare time fun loving models range Italian twin-hulled flying boats Fokker DR Most would probably fly rubber power too adds balsa reinforcements sometimes balsa spinner set wheels cute bugs ear models taken book models called Classic Paper Airplanes costs about $20 authors Johnson Austin published St Martins Press 175 5th Ave NY NY 10010 ISBN 0-312-02734-6 Maybe local bookseller could get Some models includes Spirit St Louis SM-55 Schleicher-Rhonadler Avro 560 MS Type N Blackburn Monoplane Haw ker Hart Fairey Longrange Avro 560 Fokker D-8 DR 1 What great present give kid has never experienced anything other plastic kit modeler has thing except artwork first class s write-up photo book September 89 Product Review section MAEd bubble pack fun Al Lawton has made 3D Corsair foam meat trays using rounded corners build rounded fuselage topping whole affair off bubble packing night-light bulb fits beautifully little Tomy Pocket Pets make great gifts young friends provided give packing know modeler reheats stuff uses own canopy forms think reaction rising cost mod eling brings out creativity everyone Never use bad language stuck-on screw cap Ever have experience trying get cap off paint bottle contact cement jar has made decision stay put Using old viseand water-pump pliers trick often messes up cap breaks bottle wealth new vocab ulary has picked up generations modelers kids vicinity such event Books have written subject am now going tell avoid prob lem ever occurring again Turning whole affair upside down fill ing edge cap thinner will help loosen already stuck provided wait long enough though dont know works acrylics Also need know dope thinner dissolves clear little square bot tles just look like glass hold plastic car en amel get ready reinstall cap wipe threads bottle rag smear little Vaselinenot too muchon too messy couple turns Teflon pipejoint tape will available hardware store about dollar hundred-year sup ply Get inch wide put some over top bottle help get airtight seal Support National Free Flight Society NFFS Chris Weinreich taking over mon umental task editing NFFS Digest Redacteur-en-chef Bob Meuser retiring can build couple Scale models Chris wants make Digest stronger FF Scale Continued page 156 March 1990 153 1st US RIC Flight School Stop Crashing Start Learning CLASSES FILLING FAST Info pack $200 1st US RiC FLIGHT SCHOOL 621 S Sawyer. Shawano WI 54166 17151524-2985 LATHES ING MACHIUdES MACHINE SHOP SUPPLES S Ihe AIIIon Model e/ MACHINERY ANSWR INC P0 BRR 53N-Y NsrnlRnR WV 25S26 342 3530 REPRESENTATIVES OF MAN MANUFACTURERS _____NEW CATALOG 500Z Flu IRII II ISUNOR RI RWRR InS S HIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION APRIL 6 7 8 1990 FRIDAY9amto6pm SATURDAY9am to6pm SUNDAY9 am 430 pm TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO TICKETS can purchased door ADVANCE sending self-addressed stamped business size 41/sx9 envelope TICKETS 38235 Castle Romulus Ml 48174 orders above 10 tickets must include double postage US orders must include 25 cents per order handling charge foreign orders must include 50 cents per order handling charge need send addressed envelope will providethe necessary postage NOTE Registered Express Type Mail Orders Will 8 Acceptedll Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club Ticket prices $400 per day adults $100 per dayfor children 12 under Please specify number Deadline ticket orders March 30 1990 sales arefinaland non-refundable Hotel info map area may obtained sending stamped self-addressed envelope ticket address above Any other Exposition information avail able contacting Wayne Yeager co director ticket address phone 313 941-6661 WillHave TraditionalSwap Shop Saturday Night Auction COMPETITION CLASSES NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE No Jets SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models Only No Engines HELICOPTER R/C CAR COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT PLEASURE POWER BOAT WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED presented Weak Signals R/C Club Toledo Ohio NEW FAI TAN RUBBER 1/4 3/16 1/8 3/32 1/16 042 thick 1 lb box $147 lincludes4oz Slick Lubel $1375 mo lube k Costa *1 751 10 lb box- SilO00 lUPSOeliveradI Postpaid US via UPS Cal res add 6% sales tax Made USA Slow cure consistant quality Ask PAl-TAN 89/90 catalog lIsts 100 FF kits CROCKET HOOKS NOW MADE BYFAI SEND Model Supply FOR CATALOG P0 Box 3967 Torrance CA 90610 FF Scale/Warner Continued page 153 sport categories avid FF nuts Out need pitch give him hand NFFS rapidly becoming important national organization Free Flighters AMA devotes more attention needs RC majority heartily urge become NFFS member become active contributor Digest Now time send Chris pictures hints tips descriptions interesting models expe riences drawings etc Address Chris Weinreich 905 W 5th Ave Olympia WA 98502 call him 1-206/352-8183 some eve ning talk about what can help keep FF strong vital years membership includes sub scription Digest costs $15 youre over 19 $750 youre under join send name address age AMA number along check made out National Free Flight Society 646 East Cactus Wren Rd Scotts dale AZ 85253 Diels kit tans already know about Dave Diels fine rubber-powered Scale model kits aware fact quite special Highly recommended label can put new F4F Wildcat kit Its proven win ner flies like blazes Originally done Bill Hannan Model Builder WW II Rubber Scale book has produced consistent results average expert modelers Daves second new offering tail-first Shinden might prove bit trickier fly certainly interesting subject kit comes good wood fine-quality tissue de tailed documentation building instructions Drop him large SASE Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 lat est listings dont build kits lim ited production going collectors items someday FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 67 simple fly timer prop-stopactuated autorudder about safe way fly right-right pattern small-stab Wake field sometimes prop-stop A/R too safe trips too soon model un der power will cause model spin right trips launch l least TA HO~ bob iardood L ho kJ ItEnlult 60 LARGE 120 THE ILGEAR Pat Pond TO QHOU HO. did HOtS $1021 tOSs IScSXCOOI Kflisit TOCatria CiHOO,oogK 05 31 n vdder Solo 055005 SHOCK TV 01300055 ow otovo O13TOOHOITIAI COOS 15090% 0050 TiCiHO IIO0OO 000050 00551010 sos-sososso COSThY 0010500510 TOSCKIOSOD4O 00100 CAST IOSTAOATISl SAC HO 150001100 IS AS C0OT OHACE HOOOSCTS TOSTAJUTIOS PACKSItr S1 100 iHOl,dd dont have walk far pick up pieces Rex Hinson Inverness FL has come up rather clever way making sure rudder trips supposed toand before stead using drop-pin Montreal prop stop trip lever release line rud der Rex adds round disc thin aluminum front turned aluminum nose block hole disc drop-pin slot top disc line rudder hooked end Z-shaped wire pivoted top nose block other end wire held down aluminum disc rubber-motor torque runs down Montreal drop-pin spring-loaded moves rear drops hole aluminum disc Since prop still turning disc will rotate until slot edge uncovers wire hinges up releases autorudder line second hole drop-pin aluminum nose block firmly stop propeller allow fold As can see photographs Rex uses aluminum bar-stock hub hinges A6 wire soldered sections brass tube approximately -in-long Stub dowels blade fit tubes allowing precise setting blade pitch Cyklones Siberia Yet another engine now available battle Rossi Nel son FIC Cyklone 25T includes brake produces claimed 11 horsepower 28000 30000 rpm Price whopping $280 think thats bad consider Cy klone C F2C FAL CL Speed price $600 However does include tuned pipe carbon fiber single-blade prop fuel tank claimed 18 horses 39000 rpm folks Siberia also offering two Wake field front ends prop assembly experts variable pitch delayed start $80 standard Montreal-type stop unit $25 RIC COMBAT 1 1-800-336-0602__1 156 Model Aviation 10 FT B-17 PLANS $4200 EPOXY GLASS COWLS 0 PLASTIC NOSE TURRETS SSS0O POWER 4 x 40-45 3 CATALOOS 59tO THE SEsT IN SCALE-SOB HOLMAN P0 505 Ni NA SAN SONG CA OSASI
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/03
Page Numbers: 64, 65, 153, 156
HOW hours have spent scouring hard ware stores thrift shops swap meets looking nice light aluminum pot some kind make cowl Soda can bottoms sometimes work occasionally measuring cup has al right shape chances finding just right size shape weight pretty slim youre fussy perhaps can sacrifice little avoid making something self have make own round cowl ing will probably built up few rings front wrapped balsa sheet stiff paper form back portion nice light way cowling has disadvantage breaking up impact fairly eas ily Vacuu-forming heat-forming plastic over form makes nice small cowlings some times split hit really solid addweight-up-front cowling fiberglass materi al choice especially models 36-in span up Years ago bought fiberglass kit Sig helped get started talked wood shop teacher school work let ting use lathe turn some scrap pine form off running first cowl old Waco YKS-6 36in span made using several layers heavy fiberglass cloth over outside wooden form well doped waxed cut fiberglass female mold off form wouldnt come off other way male form having straight sides no draft gle would allow easy release cut straight down side easily glued back together resulting female mold extremely durable durable found easier split light-cloth cowl made inside split mold again case epoxying cut back together matter five minutes two-piece mold would make task easier making part quick-anc-dirty method will case model won Nats didnt turn out too badly second fiberglass cowl big Cleveland Stinson featured column some months back cowl has required draft taper let pop right Out mold used plaster paris instead fiberglass create female mold over wooden form works well though takes very long time dry Out completely Because perfectly round cowling plug also easy turn lathe oval irregularly shaped cowl making plug out balsa would allow easily shaped razor blade sanding block Instead Sig glass kit just used 15 EQUAL WIClN2S5E5 O STDCK SUNG USED lUPiNE gvvLop cfloN5 WV PEAWING SIbCK IVICKNESS ON lOP VIEWS. 2 PUONT VIEW C W PINE WALL WWIC4 GivE NSThN6l*s OV EACH SECflON 051 LAMEST DIMENSION CARVE 0 SHAPE 11mM 0SAND SMOOTH K SL%GMTLV UNPEKSIZS W ThICKNUS$ OP PINlSI4EP LEAIS MOLE OPEI \ 7000 IVIAP OP VLAST1L OP PMA6 Whit PUTTY KNIFE LET DEV 14 NOURS AT LEAST AFtER SETTING MAKII4G FiSREGLASS COWL Drawings Jim Kaman CAREFULLY PATU AllY CHIPS SAND WITh 400 GRIT WIPER APPLY 6 COATS OP WAC minute epoxy brushed over pieces thin fiber glass cloth surplus storemaking sure mold first well waxed Simoniz car wax Scale research Getting documentation want full-size plans often quite challenging Ive spent hours archives Air Force Museum Musee de lAir Paris plane owners Oshkosh friends per sonal libraries joy discovery discounted lifes little pleasures trips strange wonderful places can unfor gettable experiences Still everyone has chance getting started can real drag remember first serious attempt get three-views model magazines down town Los Angeles Library Someone beaten though sliced out draw ings razor blade able borrow book Fokker aircraft made pho SAW oirr SCTIONS ROIrnNej OUT IPeN& GLUE PISCS TOGEfl4ER. KEEP CENTERED USE SEVERAL T5 OF POPE AND e cors o wc POP OUT POVA AlLOW PlASTER MOLD 10 DRY INSIDE PO ANOTHER 14 I4OIIPS L & SRUSw RESIN TUKOUGU LIGHT FlIREGLASs CLOTH SUILD UP Z OVENJAPPING LAVEP5 AROUHp INSIDE OP MOLD PULL PINISNEP CO OR MAKING NEW COWL tocoples later enlarged make model win few lose few Being member Scale club probably best cheapest way get documentation guys have spent lifetime collect64 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 1370 Monache Ave Porterville CA 93257 Left Turbofan unit Ferrell Papic Orange CA features two VL minimotors geared 51 Mylar-bladed fans work opposite directions giv ing 2 oz thrust Warner photo Right Sample Scale Model Research archives Curtiss B-14 Speedwing existence Left Bubble packaging fine cheap source material bubble cockpits windscreens Bill Warner photo Right Built book called Classic Paper Airplanes Fokker DR1 can handle either Rubber CO2 power Built Jack McCracken Norwalk CA Warner photo ing stuff theyll never use million years theyre glad someone will able some thing Once upon time magazines full three view drawings still around peoples basements workshops note club newsletter usually brings results obscure aircraft another way get data need commercial service Bob Banka ex-reading teacher cant bad has best services have come contact Foto-Paaks said reading spell ing teacher seem average about $20 usu ally include over 20 photos taken modeler mind comes under dollar shot figure time trouble ex pense getting airport plus developing its certainly reasonable Some Paaks have few three shots RCAF Harvard $6 South African Mark IX Spit fire 75 shots $4550 Three-views go $3 12 pages J-3 Cub Send $3 1990 catalog will just about cover post age printing 54-page tome Scale Model Research 2334 Ticonderoga Way Costa Mesa CA 92626 tel 1-714/979-8058 ser vice fast complete can get 20 x 30-in color enlargement particular photo den $20 Ducted fans Free Flight Ducted fans have around some time first saw fly Skyray 1963 Los Alamitos Nats ROGd flew very realistically think Berkeley kit probably 049 glow engine power Richter Jets zipped over Sepulveda Basin LA usually about belt height occasionally took off went miles usually props inside rather impel lers fan variety late Six ties recall Jon Hoshizaki Junior made MiG 15 rubber-driven North Pacific prop inside flew very long though now hear reports number guys experi menting rubber-powered fans Among successful E Fillons Soufflant squirrel-cage blower just matter time until serious electric-powered model came along Ferrell Papic now developing Ferrells Electric minimotor business cur rently hold hasnt stopped him loping unit according calcula s puts out about two ounces static thrust uses two Vista Labs VL motors powered three 80-mA batteries rotor blades two laminated layers drafting Mylar turn five times slowly motors test bed HE 178 airplane Germans awed prop-driven world opened door jet age model utilizes A-in foam sandwich board circular bulkheads draftingfilm duct tube fits expect experiment lightening stepping up down tube sizing reward will some nice flights cause fan setup has thrust handle Continued page 153 March 1990 65 cA Dick Allens never-ending quest ulti mate Gee-Bee design application has forced him another fielddesigning sleepwear NEW ELECTRIC Fly .. t stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05 electric power can perform take-offs touch goes aerobatics beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts hardware complete rolled plans step-by-step instructions formed landing gear windshield Electro-combo includes kit DS 075 Hyperth rust motor fused switch harness Tam iya connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $29~ x 40 Span 275 Sq area 32 oz flying ht flat bottom airfoil rudder elevator motor add ailerons too IAVEY675 TOWER LANE inYSTEMS WEST CHESTER PA 193& i ORPORATION 2 15430-8645 landing area should set up outside course preferably side course opposite pit area Landings will made between #2 #3 Pylons time public address system strongly recommended both pit spectator areas Part two will included next months col umn FF Scale/Warner Continued page 65 task Paper airplanes Marty us grew up dur ing war years make cardboard pine paper models balsa diverted making life rafts other impor tant uses Some paper models flew few seconds sort fun make ranging small models given away Jack Armstrong program larger ones heavy stock punch-out books Jack McCracken super Scale modeler painstaking scratch-builder models full size aircraft has making paper planes spare time fun loving models range Italian twin-hulled flying boats Fokker DR Most would probably fly rubber power too adds balsa reinforcements sometimes balsa spinner set wheels cute bugs ear models taken book models called Classic Paper Airplanes costs about $20 authors Johnson Austin published St Martins Press 175 5th Ave NY NY 10010 ISBN 0-312-02734-6 Maybe local bookseller could get Some models includes Spirit St Louis SM-55 Schleicher-Rhonadler Avro 560 MS Type N Blackburn Monoplane Haw ker Hart Fairey Longrange Avro 560 Fokker D-8 DR 1 What great present give kid has never experienced anything other plastic kit modeler has thing except artwork first class s write-up photo book September 89 Product Review section MAEd bubble pack fun Al Lawton has made 3D Corsair foam meat trays using rounded corners build rounded fuselage topping whole affair off bubble packing night-light bulb fits beautifully little Tomy Pocket Pets make great gifts young friends provided give packing know modeler reheats stuff uses own canopy forms think reaction rising cost mod eling brings out creativity everyone Never use bad language stuck-on screw cap Ever have experience trying get cap off paint bottle contact cement jar has made decision stay put Using old viseand water-pump pliers trick often messes up cap breaks bottle wealth new vocab ulary has picked up generations modelers kids vicinity such event Books have written subject am now going tell avoid prob lem ever occurring again Turning whole affair upside down fill ing edge cap thinner will help loosen already stuck provided wait long enough though dont know works acrylics Also need know dope thinner dissolves clear little square bot tles just look like glass hold plastic car en amel get ready reinstall cap wipe threads bottle rag smear little Vaselinenot too muchon too messy couple turns Teflon pipejoint tape will available hardware store about dollar hundred-year sup ply Get inch wide put some over top bottle help get airtight seal Support National Free Flight Society NFFS Chris Weinreich taking over mon umental task editing NFFS Digest Redacteur-en-chef Bob Meuser retiring can build couple Scale models Chris wants make Digest stronger FF Scale Continued page 156 March 1990 153 1st US RIC Flight School Stop Crashing Start Learning CLASSES FILLING FAST Info pack $200 1st US RiC FLIGHT SCHOOL 621 S Sawyer. Shawano WI 54166 17151524-2985 LATHES ING MACHIUdES MACHINE SHOP SUPPLES S Ihe AIIIon Model e/ MACHINERY ANSWR INC P0 BRR 53N-Y NsrnlRnR WV 25S26 342 3530 REPRESENTATIVES OF MAN MANUFACTURERS _____NEW CATALOG 500Z Flu IRII II ISUNOR RI RWRR InS S HIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION APRIL 6 7 8 1990 FRIDAY9amto6pm SATURDAY9am to6pm SUNDAY9 am 430 pm TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO TICKETS can purchased door ADVANCE sending self-addressed stamped business size 41/sx9 envelope TICKETS 38235 Castle Romulus Ml 48174 orders above 10 tickets must include double postage US orders must include 25 cents per order handling charge foreign orders must include 50 cents per order handling charge need send addressed envelope will providethe necessary postage NOTE Registered Express Type Mail Orders Will 8 Acceptedll Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club Ticket prices $400 per day adults $100 per dayfor children 12 under Please specify number Deadline ticket orders March 30 1990 sales arefinaland non-refundable Hotel info map area may obtained sending stamped self-addressed envelope ticket address above Any other Exposition information avail able contacting Wayne Yeager co director ticket address phone 313 941-6661 WillHave TraditionalSwap Shop Saturday Night Auction COMPETITION CLASSES NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE No Jets SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models Only No Engines HELICOPTER R/C CAR COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT PLEASURE POWER BOAT WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED presented Weak Signals R/C Club Toledo Ohio NEW FAI TAN RUBBER 1/4 3/16 1/8 3/32 1/16 042 thick 1 lb box $147 lincludes4oz Slick Lubel $1375 mo lube k Costa *1 751 10 lb box- SilO00 lUPSOeliveradI Postpaid US via UPS Cal res add 6% sales tax Made USA Slow cure consistant quality Ask PAl-TAN 89/90 catalog lIsts 100 FF kits CROCKET HOOKS NOW MADE BYFAI SEND Model Supply FOR CATALOG P0 Box 3967 Torrance CA 90610 FF Scale/Warner Continued page 153 sport categories avid FF nuts Out need pitch give him hand NFFS rapidly becoming important national organization Free Flighters AMA devotes more attention needs RC majority heartily urge become NFFS member become active contributor Digest Now time send Chris pictures hints tips descriptions interesting models expe riences drawings etc Address Chris Weinreich 905 W 5th Ave Olympia WA 98502 call him 1-206/352-8183 some eve ning talk about what can help keep FF strong vital years membership includes sub scription Digest costs $15 youre over 19 $750 youre under join send name address age AMA number along check made out National Free Flight Society 646 East Cactus Wren Rd Scotts dale AZ 85253 Diels kit tans already know about Dave Diels fine rubber-powered Scale model kits aware fact quite special Highly recommended label can put new F4F Wildcat kit Its proven win ner flies like blazes Originally done Bill Hannan Model Builder WW II Rubber Scale book has produced consistent results average expert modelers Daves second new offering tail-first Shinden might prove bit trickier fly certainly interesting subject kit comes good wood fine-quality tissue de tailed documentation building instructions Drop him large SASE Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 lat est listings dont build kits lim ited production going collectors items someday FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 67 simple fly timer prop-stopactuated autorudder about safe way fly right-right pattern small-stab Wake field sometimes prop-stop A/R too safe trips too soon model un der power will cause model spin right trips launch l least TA HO~ bob iardood L ho kJ ItEnlult 60 LARGE 120 THE ILGEAR Pat Pond TO QHOU HO. did HOtS $1021 tOSs IScSXCOOI Kflisit TOCatria CiHOO,oogK 05 31 n vdder Solo 055005 SHOCK TV 01300055 ow otovo O13TOOHOITIAI COOS 15090% 0050 TiCiHO IIO0OO 000050 00551010 sos-sososso COSThY 0010500510 TOSCKIOSOD4O 00100 CAST IOSTAOATISl SAC HO 150001100 IS AS C0OT OHACE HOOOSCTS TOSTAJUTIOS PACKSItr S1 100 iHOl,dd dont have walk far pick up pieces Rex Hinson Inverness FL has come up rather clever way making sure rudder trips supposed toand before stead using drop-pin Montreal prop stop trip lever release line rud der Rex adds round disc thin aluminum front turned aluminum nose block hole disc drop-pin slot top disc line rudder hooked end Z-shaped wire pivoted top nose block other end wire held down aluminum disc rubber-motor torque runs down Montreal drop-pin spring-loaded moves rear drops hole aluminum disc Since prop still turning disc will rotate until slot edge uncovers wire hinges up releases autorudder line second hole drop-pin aluminum nose block firmly stop propeller allow fold As can see photographs Rex uses aluminum bar-stock hub hinges A6 wire soldered sections brass tube approximately -in-long Stub dowels blade fit tubes allowing precise setting blade pitch Cyklones Siberia Yet another engine now available battle Rossi Nel son FIC Cyklone 25T includes brake produces claimed 11 horsepower 28000 30000 rpm Price whopping $280 think thats bad consider Cy klone C F2C FAL CL Speed price $600 However does include tuned pipe carbon fiber single-blade prop fuel tank claimed 18 horses 39000 rpm folks Siberia also offering two Wake field front ends prop assembly experts variable pitch delayed start $80 standard Montreal-type stop unit $25 RIC COMBAT 1 1-800-336-0602__1 156 Model Aviation 10 FT B-17 PLANS $4200 EPOXY GLASS COWLS 0 PLASTIC NOSE TURRETS SSS0O POWER 4 x 40-45 3 CATALOOS 59tO THE SEsT IN SCALE-SOB HOLMAN P0 505 Ni NA SAN SONG CA OSASI