NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution 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NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution book may obtained Astro Flight 13377 Beach Blvd Venice CA 90291 $595PP product review product review product review Thermal Worthy Aircraft month award October1979 115 QUARTER SCALE 3 OT BY POPULAR DEMAND Exhaust Accessories HB 40 50 & 61 engines Bavarian Precision Products PO Box 8 New Canaan CT 06840 read about Model Aviation writing advertisers mention
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/10
Page Numbers: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 114, 115
NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution book may obtained Astro Flight 13377 Beach Blvd Venice CA 90291 $595PP product review product review product review Thermal Worthy Aircraft month award October1979 115 QUARTER SCALE 3 OT BY POPULAR DEMAND Exhaust Accessories HB 40 50 & 61 engines Bavarian Precision Products PO Box 8 New Canaan CT 06840 read about Model Aviation writing advertisers mention
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/10
Page Numbers: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 114, 115
NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution book may obtained Astro Flight 13377 Beach Blvd Venice CA 90291 $595PP product review product review product review Thermal Worthy Aircraft month award October1979 115 QUARTER SCALE 3 OT BY POPULAR DEMAND Exhaust Accessories HB 40 50 & 61 engines Bavarian Precision Products PO Box 8 New Canaan CT 06840 read about Model Aviation writing advertisers mention
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/10
Page Numbers: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 114, 115
NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution book may obtained Astro Flight 13377 Beach Blvd Venice CA 90291 $595PP product review product review product review Thermal Worthy Aircraft month award October1979 115 QUARTER SCALE 3 OT BY POPULAR DEMAND Exhaust Accessories HB 40 50 & 61 engines Bavarian Precision Products PO Box 8 New Canaan CT 06840 read about Model Aviation writing advertisers mention
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/10
Page Numbers: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 114, 115
NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution 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NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution book may obtained Astro Flight 13377 Beach Blvd Venice CA 90291 $595PP product review product review product review Thermal Worthy Aircraft month award October1979 115 QUARTER SCALE 3 OT BY POPULAR DEMAND Exhaust Accessories HB 40 50 & 61 engines Bavarian Precision Products PO Box 8 New Canaan CT 06840 read about Model Aviation writing advertisers mention
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/10
Page Numbers: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 114, 115
NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution book may obtained Astro Flight 13377 Beach Blvd Venice CA 90291 $595PP product review product review product review Thermal Worthy Aircraft month award October1979 115 QUARTER SCALE 3 OT BY POPULAR DEMAND Exhaust Accessories HB 40 50 & 61 engines Bavarian Precision Products PO Box 8 New Canaan CT 06840 read about Model Aviation writing advertisers mention
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/10
Page Numbers: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 114, 115
NO OCR TEXT EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL war over races would never samethe old races died yet another war Korean conflict Lightflings Mustangs Corsairs Airacobras et al aboundedthen jets swooshed stage public grew bored pert Goodyears came lasting sensation finally coming down years cele brational racesand air racing appears destined remain part Amer ican aeronautical scene WHEN World War II ended life returned normal except very different kind normal war severe killed tens millions people nothing would ever same something innocent National Air Races expe 24 Model Aviation scene has changed action same pair little racing biplanes beardown Cleveland finish line coveted checkered flag backstretch new downtown racing plant over Lake Erie just 20-minute walk Public Square WELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL rienced permanent drastic changes its prewar shape size sound single pre-war racing plane competed after war impossibly low-slung Crosby Racer entered Cleveland 1946 never showed remained few people Tony LeVier Steve Wittman Earl Ortman Art Chester backolder wiserbut no less eager So too Jackie Cochran Paul Mantz airplanes flew bore no similarity exciting machines raced few years before fact flight line Cleveland Hopkins Airport looked like bunch gremlins slipped previous night sprayed red blue yellow paint over Army Navys best fighter planes what everyone would fly Civilianized P-38 Lightnings P-39 Airacobras P-S 1 Mustangs P-63 King cobras F4U Corsairs werent racers course much faster anything Clevelands pylons ever seen cheap low-time Mustang could bought Government forSi O00 could walk down line pick wanted great airplanes little need Uncle Sam tried unload surplus legion war-trained pilots never wanted see military airplane again few did showed up Cleveland Labor Day weekend 1946 quantity did fans special opportunity see famed fighters action maybe settle some old arguments about fastest argument still goes Inline hallowed tradition weekend speed began Bendix Race Los Angeles entry list longest ever 14 P-38s 4 P-51s 2 P-63s Corsair Douglas A-26 Two veterans old days readyCochran Mantzwith beauti fully cleaned-up Mustangs other well-known figure line-up Indian apolis 500 racer Rex Mays P-38 sad day loved custombuilt racers old 16th-place finisher broke Frank Fullers pre-war record solid 40 mph winner covering 2048 miles less five hours Paul Mantz P-5 1 C its wings sealed filled gas could make run non-stop drag-producing drop tanks averaged 4355 mph adding whopping 153 mph old record Cochran second 421 mph four Mustangs took first four places obvious Thompson Trophy Race would just different Alvin Tex Johnston later Boeings chief test pilot ruled time trials souped-up P-39Q Cobra II lap 409 mph led race start finish setting record 3739 mph 90 mph faster Roscoe Turners best seven years before big surprise Tony LeVier now Lockheed test pilot pushed big red P-38 second place ahead Mustangs Earl Ortman 20 seconds back LeVier finish Steve Wittman managed work way up 8th place nearly-stock Kingcobra Ten 12 starters finished race thanks airframes engines proven under wartime conditions delicate souped-up engines flimsy landing gears pre-war racers thing past Unfortunately individuality per sonality airplanes 1946 looked pretty much alike sounded lot alike October 1979 25 King Goodyear Midgets 105-lb Bill Bren nand won two precious trophies flying Steve Wlttmans Bustef now display National Air & Space Museum IEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL little racers paying customers Cleveland 1949 sport has seen years followed Wittman Special foreground eventual winner powered liquid-cooled V-12 crowds gasped speed yawned sameness finally got up started walk out dedicated racing fan bit boring total attendance enormouswell hundreds thousands counting maybe 300000 parked farmers fields watching free races made money future real worry Unless something could done liven up racing Cleveland would trouble T So Professional Race Pilots Association dusted ofla 1939 idea presented Air Foundation Race Director Ben Franidin radical idea calling severe restrictions design power small racers instead beautiful freedom prevailed long freedom no longer working new idea went over big got quick backing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co guarantee $25000 race next three years word went out February 1947 end August 13 Only three-time winner Bendix Trans continental Derby Paul Mantz pioneered modifications made P-51 Mustang unbeatable long cross-country race 26 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Goodyear Class airplanes Cleveland ready race Five modified pre-war racers three others products experienced racing people Response announcement amazing estimated several hundred racers begun throughout country 1947 Cleveland Air Races opened 190 cu Class still just idea Emphasis what now called warbirds Bendix Thompson other races Bendix opening event program also device attracting nationwide attention Cleveland drew 12 starters P-38 pilots 1946 learned lesson Paul Mantz won second row upping record 460 mph narrowly edged Joe DeBona turned 458 mph six Mustangs entered took top six places Among big planes new type attracted attention Goodyear F2G Corsair huge 4360 cu P&W engine put out something over 3000 hp Cook Cleland entered three Dick Beckers leading time trials 402 mph 401 mph respectively Once again looked like battle between monster radial engines smaller in-lines just 1 930s often Wedell Williams Racers Turners Meteor charge Clelands Corsalrs busted things wide open Cook won Thompson record 396 mph Becker second 390 mph Jay Deming third Cobra II few seconds back fastest Mustang trailed muscular Corsairs almost two laps Contrasted brnte horsepower Drawings Biorn Karistrom Photoa Goodyear Tire & Rubber Shute Collection Truman Weaver October1979 27 what its about 1948 GoodyearTrophy Race winner Herman Fish Salmon receives priceless silver platter Goodyears president bronze Cosmic Wind clocked 170 mph VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES debut 190 cu Midgets old master ball crowd yelled itself hoarse Steve Wittman converted Chief Osh- could see entire race management kosh 85-hp 66 sq-ft-of-wing miniature thrilled freebies outside fence 105-lb Bill Brennand pilot won couldnt see thing Creativity back $8000 first prize averaging 1659 mph around Cleveland enthusiasm 22-mile course Art Chesters V-tailedSwee time 1948 Cleveland Air Races Pea second 1654 mph pilots rolled around Midgets established CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELJ major racing class Forty entries received 25 little darlings got far time trials just second year 190 cu Midgets spotlight Bendix entries down again just six starters Five Mustangs deHavilland Mosquito Paul Mantz won third Bendix row closest finish ever averaged 44798 mph Lin Carney 44611 mph Cochran 44585 mph Ed Lunken 44159 mph since taken off time finish didnt look great folks stands Records fell quickly during unlimited time trials Chuck Bmwn tumed 4183 mph Cobra II Cleland right behind him 4174 mph big Corsair cohort Becker third 40588 mph actual race parade drop-outs 3 10 starters making finish line Both F2Gs went out early backfiring tore air scoops loose left Brown completely charge roared record speed laps being well over 400 mph Until 19th race bank crack rear fuselage allowed hot exhaust gas vaporize fuel line put him out business Anson Johnson stock Mustang finished race thinking third place handed Thompson Trophy big planes disappointment Midgets made crowd sit up take notice final race sensational Herman Fish Salmon won Cosmic Wind Minnow 16969 mph Second Steve Wittman new Bonzo 16886 mph followed Art Chester Swee Pea II 16820 mph 1947 winner Brennand Buster 16706 mph Less six seconds separated first fourth places other events Grace Harris beat Kaddy 28 Model Aviation have enough horsepower can almost anything Goodyear F2G Corsair differed ordinaryCorsairs because usual 2000-hp engine replaced byone good 3000 hp 200 octane racing fuel Cook Cleveland 1948 Thompson winner VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA Landry Womens AT-6 Race setting record 23596 mph still stands Jet Division Bendix went USN Ens Brown crossed country FJ- Fury about 23 minutes quicker Mantz did Mus tang Jet Thompson USAF Capt Cun ningham flew new F-86A Sabre around course 586 mph As 1949 Cleveland Air Races opened no hint major changes offing Twenty Thompson class airplanes qualified along 25 Midgets Bendix drew six starters Joe DeBona winning record 4701 mph beating Stan Reaver Paul Mantz Mustang 11 minutes Midgets ran usual series four short elimination heats two semi-finals consolation 12-lap finals around 1 -mile rectangle Billie Robinson qualified record 183 mph lost canopy first heat sat out weekend 1947 winner Bill Brennand pulled upset finals winning closest air races history Bill first 1773 mph Keith Sorenson second Argander Special 1767 mph Steve Wittman third 1762 mph Vince Ast next Ballerina 1760 mph Salmon turned 1757 mph Kip Mone sixth Estrellita 1750 mph build-up Thompson unusually exciting dominance Clelands F2Gs challenged Bill Odom Beguine super P-Si its belly radiator air scoops relocated wingtips race-horse start wild-but-safe speeds built up rapidly second lap Odom tried tighten pylon turn stalled snapped house killing himself woman baby race went Cleland winning second Thompson record 3971 mph fol lowed Ron Puckett own F2G 3935 mph Ben McKillen yet another F2G 3876 mph nation saddened tragedy Odom best known pilots day holder round-the-world speed record Demands heard end air racing would last Cleveland Air Races years because accident Plans made 1950 Races June year Korean Conflict began factory behind grandstands became off-limits tank plant Moreover air race management could see its way clear trying attract crowd heavy mili tary displays So far Cleveland concerned air racing passed history until 1964 major race anywhere US 2000 miles west place called Reno Nevada brought sport back life Cleveland re-entered picture 1967 promoter Don Butterfield arranged organize race Burke Lakefront Airport old field crowded airliners 1967 Races werent much like good ole days no Thompson no Bendix no Goodyear racing Cleveland several classes Formula new name 190 cu Class ding-dong race between reigning king sport Bill Falck exotic Rivets another Goodyear veteran Bob Downey Little Gem Falck won wire 20289 mph 20272 mph Two classes new Cleveland saw action Sport Biplanes Lee Mahoney Stolp Starduster edged Bruce McIntyre Pitts Special 15512 mph 15449 mph Womens Stock Plane Class Pat Arnold winning Piper Comanche TIP ROOT 42 V 0 \\\ \ \ -I ~4A meter ___ 5lOteet __1 1I 1 ABCD III I 111 - p9O b I AB 1--CD BELL COBR 1815 mph 1769 mph racing veteran Edna Whyte Aero Commander 200 Racing caught hold Cleveland promoter Butterfield didnt Under local orga nizers 1968 Races about same format 67 Once again Falck nipped Downey finish line Formula champion ship 21525 mph 21505 mph barely second separating after 25 miles racing Sport Biplane Class starting stand its own Dallas Christian led way toward speed modifying stock Mong Sport Mongster took easy main event almost lost before pouring power outracing Mike duPont PiUs Special slim 15555 mph 15522 mph crowd loved Stock Plane Class Judy Wagner whipped field unusually fast Beech Bonanza clocking 189 mph 188 mph Dot Etheridge Aero Commander 200 Racing continued Cleveland 1969 though Sport Biplanes replaced sud denly popular AT-6 Class Formula pattern Falck vs Downey continued Falck winning third year row 21377 mph Downeys 21289 mph Steve Witt mans 20642 mph big powerful AT-6 trainers offered close competition plenty noise Bob Mitchem won finals 1882 mph Richard Minges second 18541 mph Ed Snyder third 18503 mph Stock Plane Class different story past years successful effort Betty Skelton open men-only classes women opened class men women still won everyone quickly lost interest record race won Judy Wagner 19646 mph second Mary Knapp Italian Marchetti 260 19363 mph third Elaine Loening Meyers 200 18816 mph fourth Salvatore Lanese Mooney 18648 mph next time racing Cleveland 1971 sole event program Formula World Championship Trophy Cup Twenty-five F/is showed up Continued page 114 October1979 29 Friends - AERO CLUB OF ISRAEL 146Join us support national & international events Israeli modelers f Write 14702 29th Ave CLUS Flushing NY 1 1354 neighborhood suppose Well Preliminary Design has done its job now well just turn over Engineering Record Giro 3-view shows what currently record-settingest model autogiro business recent long sequence giros flown national records Jean Andrews offspring Gene tried various wing outlines two- three- four-blade rotors dihedraled rotors before settling design model built lightly possible rotor built flat trailing edges unsupported leading edge twists result lift rotor gives sufficient amount negative incidence vanes make spin proper speed Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 best turn-out since Goodyear days After dozen heats lake shore course within shouting distance down town Cleveland Bill Falck remained top outran Bob Downey 2130 mph 2122 mph Jim Wilson third taper-wing Cassutt 20130 mph Nick Jones fourth Cassutt 21025 mph recent Cleveland Air Races run out City Hail hardly ideal way politicians things own reasons usually best interests air racing main reason gap between 1971 1977 Cleveland air racing story new group chargethe Eastern Region US Air Racing Association new name Pro fessional Race Pilots Association spearheaded Jack Dianiska until death nonracing accident race pilot/builder Marion Baker Labor Day 1977 racing annual air show would Formula FAA man charge safety felt usual race horse start too dangerous though used times before mishap demanded non-radio F/i s use formation flying startover loud protests Prior first heat planes trying get formation 30-year Cleveland veteran Bill Falck got too slow tricky Rivets stalled dove Lake Erie loss perhaps finest race pilot time led serious soulsearching races went Bill would have wanted no flying starts championship race Monday can celled due dense haze over lake prizes awarded basis heat speeds First went Bob Moeller Marion Bakers old BooRay 2241 mph Second went Dow ney new Falcon 2195 mph third Chuck Andrews Moonshiner 2105 mph fourth Jimmy Miller radical pusher Texas Gem 2073 mph second Cleveland Air Races organized USARAs Eastern Region conducted RC Scale Reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup Models will play memorable role Cleveland National Air Show reenactment 1929 Thompson Cup event won Doug Davis Travel Air R Mystery Ship Built members Mentor Cleveland American Air Lines RC Clubs seven ships con structed 2%-in scale range size 6 ft biplanes 9 ft highwing craft using engines 1 hp 3%-hp Hustler will duplicate exactly what happened historic real aircraft 1929 Seven entries include Lockheed Vega Curtiss Hawk FC6 XP-3A Cessna AWl Cabin Simplex Travel Air 3000 biplane will experience such original circumstances engine troubles dropouts Members committee will dressed 1929 styles 1929vintage automobiles will transport models starting point reproduction Thompson Cup will given winner reenactment will take place day Show downtown Cleve land September 1 2 3 Advance tickets show information can obtained calling 216 7810747 114 Model Aviation Races/Berliner continued page 29 CSD-1 1 22% ws [ o ican Eagle Catalog 25c MODERNISTIC MODELS PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 CUSTOM TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Cox 049L051 Specialists brochure send 1 5c stamp Kustom Krattsmanship Brochure Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 714 830-5162 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT GIANT Scale STANDARD PILOT COMPLETE WITH GOGGLES VICKERS PLASTIC MACHINE GUN KITS GNOME ROTARY ENGINE CYLINDERS VINTAGE WHEELS 6% DIAMETER w AfLLJAas SEND 50 FOR COMPLETE CATALOG MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 Labor Day weekend 1978 time mula Ones joined new little broth ers Formula Vees powered more-or-less stock 600-cc VW car engines Thanks airports outstanding location shore Lake Erie crowd numbered over 100000 remembered old days first Cleveland F/Vee race old story have followed sport Steve Wittman toyed field winning cham pionship heat green-and-yellow Vee Witt record-setting 16257 mph Second Vein Willingham Renegade 15813 mph third F/I ace Bob Downey E C Fishers Sonerai Blueberry feature race weekend championship heat Formula Ones produced some very close exciting racing historys first win radical-design raceplane Jimmy Millers all-fiberglass pusher Texas Gem shade too fast Don Becks amazing Cassutt Gnat Miller turning Cleveland record 23326 mph Becks 23226 mph 3-mile oval mainly over water Bob Moeller third 23176 mph Downey fourth 23028 mph kind close racing Formula remains popular US Europe after 30 years action stage has set 50th Anniversary Cleveland Air Races held Sept 1-2-3 1979 Burke Lakefront Airport will old race planes display probably some old race pilots well will racing Formula Formula Vee hopefully Sport Biplane Class ac cording racing director Jack Dianiska course will Steve Wittman flying VW cant very well Cleveland Air Races Steve Pheasant biplane began 1929 built raced Chief Oshkosh Bonzo through 1930s tried Bell P-63 early post-war Thompson Trophy Races switched 190 cu Class little Bonzo still uses now its newest air race classes receiving benefit Steves experience wisdom racing know-how Come Labor Day 1979 Cleveland Air Races will 50 years old its star performer will 75 have made through some very great times some very difficult times racing poised verge heaven-knowswhat neither gives indication quitting FF Sport/Scale/Warner continued page 44 serious contest fliers certain find supporters among modelers like build wierd subjects have fly boot Dragging string nothing new remember few years ago Jim Adams getting gray hair watching diesel-powered Loening am phibian doing circle after circle water product review product review product review HBs Microton Auxiliary Muffler pictured tended used HB #4023 similar muffler substantially reduce exhaust noise manufacturer claims noise reduction approximately 80 81 decibels auxiliary muffler comes complete mounting hardware silicone tubing Second top Microton #7002 muffler Integrated diffusion design makes very efficient uiet muffler However muffler recommended airplanes provide substantial air flow engine cooling because muffler engine runs somewhat hotter Mounting hardware standard Third top standard HB expansion chamber muffler #4020 light-weight coolrunning muffler available engines 40 larger manufacturer claims maximum noise reduction small power loss muffler comes complete pressure tap mounting hardware remaining muffler Helicopter muffler #8523 extra short super-quiet muffler small enough fit neatly almost helicopter installation large enough quiet powerfulHB61 withaminimum lossofpowerAlso comes complete mounting hardware instead using its speed liftoff couple feet string dragging behind outside wing enough straighten out takeoff run no great effect air simple solution vexing problem Adding drag tab plane resists efforts get circling nicely also can often make day lXX1/16 tab flap glued along trailing edge out near wing tip nsion 90 degrees airflow will provide enough drag pull wing rearward give fairly safe turn fairly unobtrusive under wing can trimmed smaller smaller until just right diameter circles obtained Planes trimmed circle drag tab seem have less tendency dive develop nasty tendencies often accompany using rudder thrust adjustments alone 1/16 sheet tab much reliable sticking paper card ailerons always seem moving Remember face tab should posi tioned get maximum push airflow rearward Having angled downward increase lift component may reduce its value Use full-flap position near tip wing Want get kid started modeling right way Want get stuff need frustration having local hobby dealer give funny look ask rubber accessories suggest $100 invest ment Peck-Polymers Wish Book will best buck ever spent Bob Sandy Peck put out own llne contestwinning kits handle hundreds other items make modeling exciting Whether its Peanut plans France black Sleek-Streek wheels 4-in-long diamond-loop prop shafts Ansul C02 bottles nylon nose buttons rubber winders Phineas Pinkham storybook can get PP case cant find address its PO Box 2498 La Mesa CA 92041 definitive treatise electric power far has just published Bob Boucher Astro Flight No modeler should overlook book takes entire electric model-power area makes understandable levels want smooth relatively reliable quiet power scale models perhaps just want reasonable approach multi-engined subjects should investigate electric Entitled Quiet Revolution book may obtained Astro Flight 13377 Beach Blvd Venice CA 90291 $595PP product review product review product review Thermal Worthy Aircraft month award October1979 115 QUARTER SCALE 3 OT BY POPULAR DEMAND Exhaust Accessories HB 40 50 & 61 engines Bavarian Precision Products PO Box 8 New Canaan CT 06840 read about Model Aviation writing advertisers mention