Emmanuel Fillon Francewith 1909 Givaudan-Vermorel Flilons rubber-powered model flewwell thoughthefull-size onedidnt HISTORY IN MODELS MODELS IN HISTORY As come end AMAs 50th anniversary year fitting include article highlights role played models days long gone U Bill Hannan SO THE PHARAOH folded papyrus wedge cast atop pyramid whence sailed forth over valley Nile.. Well materials available time placeand what glorious setting fly glider As launcher say certain has often noticed history collection myths commonly agreed upon nowhere evident aviation history published Still argue endlessly pointlessly about got off ground first would well heed words Romanian aircraft de signer Trajan Vuia does matter has made thing said What important exists has made Model aircraft have played vital role throughout aviation history serving test new ideas theories risk builders bones As Octave Chanute 19th century authority gliders aptly put Nothing beats ocular demon stration Present-day model builders especial ly fortunate can create recreate aviation history through time machine hobby can bring historical alrcraft back life put designers intendednot books dusty museums sky dont underestimate accom plishments yesterdays modelers Much what seems new really quite ancient Kites spiraliferes example have around much longer aviation historians themselves yet have fur nished ideas employed modem aircraft Helicopters Naturalist Launoy machinist/physician Bienvenu made public demonstrations contraro tating models 1784 Sailplanes man-made object thought glider found Egyptian tomb tentatively dated 200 BC Al though archaeologists opinions differ carved wooded bird may well have Free Flight model Certainly unique featuring vertical tail surfacesomething found known species bird matter vertical tails lack thereof has bone contention among aviation historians trying prove dis prove flight capabilities certain con troversial designs Both models full size craft have flown such appendages Sir George Cayley seems have established advantage early 78 Model Aviation 1804 first glider model amounted kite equipped cruci form tail Perhaps best-known pioneer model builder Alphonse Penaud French man experimented manner flying machines shared findings freely rubber-powered helicopters planophores ornithopters dem onstrated both indoors out during 1 870s Some sent England proxy-flown Like other modelers Penaud gen erated ideas faster could put practice some models parts constructed others including Jobert Pline Victor Tatin Consequently designs differed intent natural differences workmanship interpretation built Although frequently repro duced illustrations planophore mon oplane design show vertical tail Penaud did employ fact adjustable steering purposes Among models propeller-in-front twinprop variations aptly illustrating satiable curiosity common modelers eras Penaud also seems have direct well indirect influence upon Wright brothers 1878 still boys father Bishop Milton Wright brought home flying toy author long student model aviation history has accumulat ing material subject years Numerous books magazines museum booklets have con sulted have other enthusiasts historians However surprising num ber discrepancies controversies have encountered final analysis history personally wit nessed recorded soon thereafter can represent opinions Perhaps should regard word storyBill Hannan really set imaginations work Soon making own versions December1986 79 Left Bill Hannans later-day reproaucTlonns OT renauas puanopnore ana neuicupter designs night Wait Mooney launches Penaud planophore reproduction model has achieved 58-sec flight duration flown indoors Early modelers less choice materials Escondido CA Almost everyone has seen drawings Leonardo da Vinci 1500 AO aerial screw helicopter DickJohnson did something about constructing intricate rubber-powered model No model will take off ground will lower itself slowly hand launched quite accomplishment Hes now considering engine-powered version two pictures Bill Caidwell called bats Years later Orville adamant contention toy given father Penauds de sign Samuel Pierpont Langley third secre tary Smithsonian Institution re portedly brought some French terfly toys back him Paris during 1 800s brand purchased probably Dandrieux pro lific manufacturers items firm believer miniatures concept testing Langley investigated models configurations including Penauds before deciding tandem-wing layout used aerodromes power examined rubber compressed-air CO-2 steam gasoline engines gas job Quarter Scale incidentally may think recent idea Penauds friend colleague Victor Tatin accomplished watchmaker unusually clever craftsman Although constructed flew various models free flight much early acclaim re sulted 1879 twin-prop com pressed-air-powered monoplane model flown tethered central bearingno doubt grandaddy Con trol Line Spanning about six feet fourpound machine part collection Musee de lAir Le Bourget outside Paris individuals seems grossly underrated history books Au gustus Moore Herring did produce successful flying models con tribute significantly work both Langley Chanute may have first American leave ground powered fixed-wing aircraft experimental 1898 biplane propelled compressed-air motor though originally intended powered gasoline engine Control dependent pilots ability shift weight Herring t time doubtless worlds experienced hang-glider pilot should have little difficulty Apart personal accomplish ments Herrings influence upon others indirect far-reaching effect model aviation assistants during early 1 900s Walter Laurence Brock became accomplished pilot air racer subsequently worked Illinois Model Aero Club helped establish governing organization model fliers served team manager during first National Contest Another innovator inspired Augustus Herringpar ticularly work gas engineswas make mark model engines important glow plugs would eliminate need heavy oom plex ignition systems name Ray Arden Lawrence Hargrave towering figure among early modelers Englishman lived life Australia Like Octave Chanute Hargrave corresponded Left Benno Sabel Germany examines Goupy No 1 triplane design usesthe Hargrave box kite theoryof lateral stability Right Ken Johnson rubber-powered reproduction Gustave Whiteheads *21 monoplane 1901 plane some claim achievement successful man-carrying powered flight before Wright brothers Ken flew before TVS Believe cameras 80 Model Aviation other experimenters world-wide shared results freely invented box kite providing method lateral lateral stability relying upon dihedral system vertical cells eventually found direct application full-size Voisins Goupys Farmans Hargraves models included canards flying wings powered rubber com pressed-air motors told constructed over 20 rubber-powered models 100 kites gliders some 42 engines Today Hargrave has unique distinction among model builders portrait appears Australian 20-dollar bill postage stamp Modelers present have tremen dous advantage over forbears addition benefits 20/20 hindsight have modem materials quality adhe sives well designed tools power plants Thus possible improve upon performances originalsno mat ter what scale way example authors reproduction Penaud plano phore flew 58 seconds proxy-flown Doug Walt Mooney whereas Penaud could manage about 13 seconds take Santos-Dumont 14-Bis canard full-size original credited best flight about 21 seconds duration contrast small models model builders Fulton Hungerford Dr John Martin Mark Hinton Don Srull have far exceeded performance Some have topped times tiny Peanut-size version Bill Stroman California Flightmasters constructed flew model 1910 Fabre hydroaeroplane first aircraft take off water under its own power share marvelous experi ence recreating aviation history minia ture have favorite designer would like champion cause can start First some research order list books end article consulted doing research make fascinating reading should make good place begin work Dick Johnson modeler Dallas TX talks about approach fascinated Leonardo da Vincis heli copter design eventual result rubber-powered Peanut model Dick says Leonardo has always quite hero me.. studied drawing helicopter design long time before starting construction extremely curious about big machine would have what mind far construction materials concerned clue size fact planned use four stout souls run ning around platform turn screw Scaling drawing set total height about 15 ft elected make central tube 1A-in balsa didnt have patience taper Dick next encountered several physical well philosophical mysteries about machine chose press anyway came to making helix itself Continued page 174 December 1986 81 nis originai 1 1 onmon aAmecourt steam-powered helicopter model Musee de lAir Paris France Picture collection Georges Chaulet L JAMI SAMUE SAMU Bill ultimate pleasure receiving letter personal congratulations Henri Fabre himself Henri over 100 years old staunch supporter model building few qualified give eye-witness accounts pioneer aviation activities SHIPPING & HANDLING USA AZ RESIDENTS ADD $400 TAX JoGsErBoosTERTM PACE AGE CHARGING HAS ARRIVED Convenient solar charging will solve battery charging problems flying sight boosting batteries between flights SAFE 100 MA CHARGE RATE AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF AT FULL CHARGE HIGH EFFICIENCY UNDER CLOUDY CONDITIONS 4 CHARGES BOTH RX AND TX SIMULTANEOUSLY i FOR ALL POPULAR RADIO SYSTEMS USING 48 AND 96 VOLTS SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO Bell Rock Industries Sedona Arizona 86336 HANDY PLUG-IN CHARGING CORD # ADJUSTABLE ANGLE BRACKET i BUILT FOR EVERYDAY USE . RUGGED TWEIGHT EASY CARRY HANDLE FULL WARRANTY DEALERS INVITED 6486 Hwy 179 Suite 108 602 284-1808 powered three Ni-Cds turning 3-in prop Regarding green stuff commutator have tearing apart tiny motor can get hands lately find have similar problems Some come factory grease area have no brushes merely using spring-brass rubbers instead some have such small wire wound arma tures will barely turn over power applied have found some parts interchangeable Art Overn suggested Radio Shack motors find Stomper toy car motor much improved replacing rear end motor uses brushes instead brass leaves Jerryco 601 Linden Place Evanston IL 62204 neat surplus mail-order house sug gested reader name have misplaced am eternally grateful stocks little Mabuchi motors Stock No 4374 six two bucks have interchangeable assem bly fits Mabuchi unit Stomper type four-wheel-drive toy cars catch deal Jerryco charges three bucks postage handling has minimum order $10 However send catalog guarantee youll find 10 clams worth stuff just have have gear trains make winders WW II British helmets wear flying field Need inspiration John Grega Classic Era Modelpians 355 Grand Blvd Bedford OH 44146 will send Sample plan illustrated plans list send him dollar wont sorry doI guarantee kit fancier Dave Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 has just supplemented plan line Boeing F4B/P-12C rubber kit having 15-in span Its dandy hes working kit No 2 Lavochkin LA-S FN/LA-7 124 scale Carlo Godel Velivoli 5726 Case Ave No Hollywood CA 91601 has drawn up eight aircraft three-views various Fikes should complete collection Send SASE complete list interesting three-views Italian accent flyer Rev W 0 Anderson RD 4 Box 4349 Mercer PA 16137 will send threepage rubber Weedhopper JC-24C plans Id say price bit high its too hard build capable QOS flights Its cutie-pie anyway Scale alive well Czechoslovakia Lubomir Koutny sends along results very impressive photos Scale ships us will never get see person Czech/Soviet Cup contest Nove Mesto Hall Slovakia saw 50 Peanuts topped Koutnys Monnet Sonerai doing 101 seconds son Peter won Junior 80 seconds Kalinin K-5 Other meets Indoors Prague Boleradice Hradec Kralove well-attended wide variety subjects flown including seaplanes vying Special Elbe Cup won HE-i 14 doing over 50 seconds outdoor Scale season e-scale rub ber ships started 28 high-quality models fighting wind Medlanky including Stran iks fine McDonnell XP-67 Kunert Vyso cans MC-202s Mertas Wildcat Sinoniks Arsenal VG-39c1 being representative variety hats off group terrific Scale modelers Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 Models History/Hannan Continued page 81 experienced difficulties found him self fabricating elaborate jigs fixtures required hours work made three attempts before finally com pleting workable assembly Applying tissue covering also proved formid able challenge eventually task completed model assembled rubber motor installed winding thing tricky First tests made models base taped drawing board Watching helix rotate rewarding looked like old-fashioned barber pole did displace air downward spite power increases other changes model would ascend Just fun Dick entered da Vinci Peanut Scale contest fared well static judging could manage official flight Its best slow descent 6-ft hand-launch about 25 sec As Johnny Clemens somewhat uncharitably remarked Inverted would make gcod well-digger project waste time Dick considers itto interesting modeling experiences firmly believe says proper Continued page 176 AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&8 FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Mlcrs-BaIIosss FILLER K&B SUPER POXY RESIN KaB SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT SB MIXING CUPS 174Model Aviation $7995 $450 FREE FLIGHT SUPPLIES FAI Rubber Japanese Tissue Rubber Lube Nitrate Dope Front End Bearings Assemblies Crocket Hooks DT Fuse KSB Timers Cox Engines & Parts Kits Blue Ridge Peck Midway Micro-x others PO Box 5996 Lake Worth FL 33461 CATALOG 5100 CONTIOLIII TEND PROFILECOMBA RA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE UNIILOI&ITIID3D Custom iig lush Ingredients detailed hrochura5OC stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8346 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-563-7169 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO APRIL 1O 11 & 12 1987 presented Weak Signals RIO Club Toledo Ohio power reaction provisions thing will climb am seriously considering addition Cox 0 10 run roadblocks meager undertakings get feeling Leonardo telling have much draw did shouldnt give up youre modeler youre part illustrious group has around least 2000 years includes some greatest minds world has known Its easy get touch modeling roots just take advice offered Law rence Hargrave 1907 Come boys read up subject make things fly author extends grateful thanks following valuable research sistance Richard Miller Domineck Pisano George Chaulet Hewitt Phillips JF Fm goli Leo Opdycke Bert Pond Eugene Husting Lauren S McCready Reg Parham John Brown Dr Robert B Allen Bill Stroman Dick Johnson Bruce Car michael Progress Flying Machines Octave Chanute 1894 reprinted 1976 Lawrence Hargrave Explorer Inventor & Aviation Experimenter W Hudson Shaw Olaf Ruhen 1977 Jai vu naitre L Aviation 1980 Henri Fabre exposition inrormation avaiiaoie D contacting Wayne Yeager co-director ticket address shown below ADVANCED TICKETS may ordered sending self-addressed-stamped busi ness size 4 x 9 envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 phone 313 941-6661 Canadian orders must contain International Postal Cou pon US Stamps orders above 5 tickets must contain extra postage Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club along 25 cents per order handling charge must state expo days tickets used prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under Deadline ticket orders March 31 1987 Ticket sales final non rfr nrIhIQ Complete Book Model Aircraft Spacecraft Rockets Louis H Hertz 1967 Sir George Cayleys Aeronautics 17961855 CH Gibbs-Smith 1962 James Means problem Manflight James Howard Means 1964 Langley Memoir Mechanical Flight Part 1 SP Langley 1911 Commemorative Book Semi-Centennial Model Aviation Bert Pond 1976 Alphonse Penauds Letters Aeronau tics Pearl Young 1968 Langleys Model Aero Engine 1903 Robert B Meyer Jr 1976 FAC Nats/Noonan Continued page 92 limited rubber said Dennis pilot mechanics took time out adjustments last mass launch WW II Combat always popular 3 pm Goodnow called participants bullhorn Guys came points care fully carrying Thunderbolts Helicats Wildcats Mustangs sorts lesserknown designs gained fame between 1940 1945 Within hour heats completed Allan Lawton orders program will returned near mid-March Tickets also available door COMPETITION CLASS NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT HELICOPTER PLEASURE POWER BOAT R/C CAR WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED beautiful colorful Kawasaki KI-6 1 Hem declared winner afternoon slowly drew close long shafts filtered sun cast bright green ribbons soft grass 6 pm field officials tabulated scores Bob Clemens called remaining modelers winners circle receive handsome Flying Aces Club award plaques Co-director Vet Thomas handed out plaques along sentimental handshake winner Lavender twi light closed silent field next day us would return present two days just spent time warp back 1 930s 1 940s will have pleasant memory Thanks Flying Aces CLWC General/Perkins Continued page 96 general gloom happily never present After dumping luggage quickly took off get look official com petition site about five kilometers hotel main com plex shows what can done club enthusiastic modelers some political fluence dose state sponsorship Two permanent model aircraft circles tethered-car circle lay edge Continued page 178 VERI #ERSA VIAL h 1 450A SOLID STATE DEVICE THAT WILL a& m Kit Vary Speed Brush Type Plus $250 Handling Motor Tools Ship per Unit ary Temperature Irons MANY USES AROUND THE HOME OR SHOP ISend Check orDealer Inquiries Invited Money Order Today No COD please 12OVACBRECHIN ENTERPRISES L~Ps 3514 Cardenis Ave imore Maryland 3-1129 176 Model Aviation US,AA7 AZROIA L-16fl/OIUP Open 8J Such. pewer 6090 U8AA1 VIJLTER N3-13 VALIABT open 8i juehes power 90-120 56 aquw foot plan aet S2d ca FThEROUSS C3LS120 ea AIRO PLANS N PARTS PO BdYL 939 NY 114760 372 CASE CHUCK 140hZ C2DER add 10% ahippLig
Edition: Model Aviation - 1986/12
Page Numbers: 78, 79, 80, 81, 174, 176
Emmanuel Fillon Francewith 1909 Givaudan-Vermorel Flilons rubber-powered model flewwell thoughthefull-size onedidnt HISTORY IN MODELS MODELS IN HISTORY As come end AMAs 50th anniversary year fitting include article highlights role played models days long gone U Bill Hannan SO THE PHARAOH folded papyrus wedge cast atop pyramid whence sailed forth over valley Nile.. Well materials available time placeand what glorious setting fly glider As launcher say certain has often noticed history collection myths commonly agreed upon nowhere evident aviation history published Still argue endlessly pointlessly about got off ground first would well heed words Romanian aircraft de signer Trajan Vuia does matter has made thing said What important exists has made Model aircraft have played vital role throughout aviation history serving test new ideas theories risk builders bones As Octave Chanute 19th century authority gliders aptly put Nothing beats ocular demon stration Present-day model builders especial ly fortunate can create recreate aviation history through time machine hobby can bring historical alrcraft back life put designers intendednot books dusty museums sky dont underestimate accom plishments yesterdays modelers Much what seems new really quite ancient Kites spiraliferes example have around much longer aviation historians themselves yet have fur nished ideas employed modem aircraft Helicopters Naturalist Launoy machinist/physician Bienvenu made public demonstrations contraro tating models 1784 Sailplanes man-made object thought glider found Egyptian tomb tentatively dated 200 BC Al though archaeologists opinions differ carved wooded bird may well have Free Flight model Certainly unique featuring vertical tail surfacesomething found known species bird matter vertical tails lack thereof has bone contention among aviation historians trying prove dis prove flight capabilities certain con troversial designs Both models full size craft have flown such appendages Sir George Cayley seems have established advantage early 78 Model Aviation 1804 first glider model amounted kite equipped cruci form tail Perhaps best-known pioneer model builder Alphonse Penaud French man experimented manner flying machines shared findings freely rubber-powered helicopters planophores ornithopters dem onstrated both indoors out during 1 870s Some sent England proxy-flown Like other modelers Penaud gen erated ideas faster could put practice some models parts constructed others including Jobert Pline Victor Tatin Consequently designs differed intent natural differences workmanship interpretation built Although frequently repro duced illustrations planophore mon oplane design show vertical tail Penaud did employ fact adjustable steering purposes Among models propeller-in-front twinprop variations aptly illustrating satiable curiosity common modelers eras Penaud also seems have direct well indirect influence upon Wright brothers 1878 still boys father Bishop Milton Wright brought home flying toy author long student model aviation history has accumulat ing material subject years Numerous books magazines museum booklets have con sulted have other enthusiasts historians However surprising num ber discrepancies controversies have encountered final analysis history personally wit nessed recorded soon thereafter can represent opinions Perhaps should regard word storyBill Hannan really set imaginations work Soon making own versions December1986 79 Left Bill Hannans later-day reproaucTlonns OT renauas puanopnore ana neuicupter designs night Wait Mooney launches Penaud planophore reproduction model has achieved 58-sec flight duration flown indoors Early modelers less choice materials Escondido CA Almost everyone has seen drawings Leonardo da Vinci 1500 AO aerial screw helicopter DickJohnson did something about constructing intricate rubber-powered model No model will take off ground will lower itself slowly hand launched quite accomplishment Hes now considering engine-powered version two pictures Bill Caidwell called bats Years later Orville adamant contention toy given father Penauds de sign Samuel Pierpont Langley third secre tary Smithsonian Institution re portedly brought some French terfly toys back him Paris during 1 800s brand purchased probably Dandrieux pro lific manufacturers items firm believer miniatures concept testing Langley investigated models configurations including Penauds before deciding tandem-wing layout used aerodromes power examined rubber compressed-air CO-2 steam gasoline engines gas job Quarter Scale incidentally may think recent idea Penauds friend colleague Victor Tatin accomplished watchmaker unusually clever craftsman Although constructed flew various models free flight much early acclaim re sulted 1879 twin-prop com pressed-air-powered monoplane model flown tethered central bearingno doubt grandaddy Con trol Line Spanning about six feet fourpound machine part collection Musee de lAir Le Bourget outside Paris individuals seems grossly underrated history books Au gustus Moore Herring did produce successful flying models con tribute significantly work both Langley Chanute may have first American leave ground powered fixed-wing aircraft experimental 1898 biplane propelled compressed-air motor though originally intended powered gasoline engine Control dependent pilots ability shift weight Herring t time doubtless worlds experienced hang-glider pilot should have little difficulty Apart personal accomplish ments Herrings influence upon others indirect far-reaching effect model aviation assistants during early 1 900s Walter Laurence Brock became accomplished pilot air racer subsequently worked Illinois Model Aero Club helped establish governing organization model fliers served team manager during first National Contest Another innovator inspired Augustus Herringpar ticularly work gas engineswas make mark model engines important glow plugs would eliminate need heavy oom plex ignition systems name Ray Arden Lawrence Hargrave towering figure among early modelers Englishman lived life Australia Like Octave Chanute Hargrave corresponded Left Benno Sabel Germany examines Goupy No 1 triplane design usesthe Hargrave box kite theoryof lateral stability Right Ken Johnson rubber-powered reproduction Gustave Whiteheads *21 monoplane 1901 plane some claim achievement successful man-carrying powered flight before Wright brothers Ken flew before TVS Believe cameras 80 Model Aviation other experimenters world-wide shared results freely invented box kite providing method lateral lateral stability relying upon dihedral system vertical cells eventually found direct application full-size Voisins Goupys Farmans Hargraves models included canards flying wings powered rubber com pressed-air motors told constructed over 20 rubber-powered models 100 kites gliders some 42 engines Today Hargrave has unique distinction among model builders portrait appears Australian 20-dollar bill postage stamp Modelers present have tremen dous advantage over forbears addition benefits 20/20 hindsight have modem materials quality adhe sives well designed tools power plants Thus possible improve upon performances originalsno mat ter what scale way example authors reproduction Penaud plano phore flew 58 seconds proxy-flown Doug Walt Mooney whereas Penaud could manage about 13 seconds take Santos-Dumont 14-Bis canard full-size original credited best flight about 21 seconds duration contrast small models model builders Fulton Hungerford Dr John Martin Mark Hinton Don Srull have far exceeded performance Some have topped times tiny Peanut-size version Bill Stroman California Flightmasters constructed flew model 1910 Fabre hydroaeroplane first aircraft take off water under its own power share marvelous experi ence recreating aviation history minia ture have favorite designer would like champion cause can start First some research order list books end article consulted doing research make fascinating reading should make good place begin work Dick Johnson modeler Dallas TX talks about approach fascinated Leonardo da Vincis heli copter design eventual result rubber-powered Peanut model Dick says Leonardo has always quite hero me.. studied drawing helicopter design long time before starting construction extremely curious about big machine would have what mind far construction materials concerned clue size fact planned use four stout souls run ning around platform turn screw Scaling drawing set total height about 15 ft elected make central tube 1A-in balsa didnt have patience taper Dick next encountered several physical well philosophical mysteries about machine chose press anyway came to making helix itself Continued page 174 December 1986 81 nis originai 1 1 onmon aAmecourt steam-powered helicopter model Musee de lAir Paris France Picture collection Georges Chaulet L JAMI SAMUE SAMU Bill ultimate pleasure receiving letter personal congratulations Henri Fabre himself Henri over 100 years old staunch supporter model building few qualified give eye-witness accounts pioneer aviation activities SHIPPING & HANDLING USA AZ RESIDENTS ADD $400 TAX JoGsErBoosTERTM PACE AGE CHARGING HAS ARRIVED Convenient solar charging will solve battery charging problems flying sight boosting batteries between flights SAFE 100 MA CHARGE RATE AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF AT FULL CHARGE HIGH EFFICIENCY UNDER CLOUDY CONDITIONS 4 CHARGES BOTH RX AND TX SIMULTANEOUSLY i FOR ALL POPULAR RADIO SYSTEMS USING 48 AND 96 VOLTS SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO Bell Rock Industries Sedona Arizona 86336 HANDY PLUG-IN CHARGING CORD # ADJUSTABLE ANGLE BRACKET i BUILT FOR EVERYDAY USE . RUGGED TWEIGHT EASY CARRY HANDLE FULL WARRANTY DEALERS INVITED 6486 Hwy 179 Suite 108 602 284-1808 powered three Ni-Cds turning 3-in prop Regarding green stuff commutator have tearing apart tiny motor can get hands lately find have similar problems Some come factory grease area have no brushes merely using spring-brass rubbers instead some have such small wire wound arma tures will barely turn over power applied have found some parts interchangeable Art Overn suggested Radio Shack motors find Stomper toy car motor much improved replacing rear end motor uses brushes instead brass leaves Jerryco 601 Linden Place Evanston IL 62204 neat surplus mail-order house sug gested reader name have misplaced am eternally grateful stocks little Mabuchi motors Stock No 4374 six two bucks have interchangeable assem bly fits Mabuchi unit Stomper type four-wheel-drive toy cars catch deal Jerryco charges three bucks postage handling has minimum order $10 However send catalog guarantee youll find 10 clams worth stuff just have have gear trains make winders WW II British helmets wear flying field Need inspiration John Grega Classic Era Modelpians 355 Grand Blvd Bedford OH 44146 will send Sample plan illustrated plans list send him dollar wont sorry doI guarantee kit fancier Dave Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 has just supplemented plan line Boeing F4B/P-12C rubber kit having 15-in span Its dandy hes working kit No 2 Lavochkin LA-S FN/LA-7 124 scale Carlo Godel Velivoli 5726 Case Ave No Hollywood CA 91601 has drawn up eight aircraft three-views various Fikes should complete collection Send SASE complete list interesting three-views Italian accent flyer Rev W 0 Anderson RD 4 Box 4349 Mercer PA 16137 will send threepage rubber Weedhopper JC-24C plans Id say price bit high its too hard build capable QOS flights Its cutie-pie anyway Scale alive well Czechoslovakia Lubomir Koutny sends along results very impressive photos Scale ships us will never get see person Czech/Soviet Cup contest Nove Mesto Hall Slovakia saw 50 Peanuts topped Koutnys Monnet Sonerai doing 101 seconds son Peter won Junior 80 seconds Kalinin K-5 Other meets Indoors Prague Boleradice Hradec Kralove well-attended wide variety subjects flown including seaplanes vying Special Elbe Cup won HE-i 14 doing over 50 seconds outdoor Scale season e-scale rub ber ships started 28 high-quality models fighting wind Medlanky including Stran iks fine McDonnell XP-67 Kunert Vyso cans MC-202s Mertas Wildcat Sinoniks Arsenal VG-39c1 being representative variety hats off group terrific Scale modelers Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 Models History/Hannan Continued page 81 experienced difficulties found him self fabricating elaborate jigs fixtures required hours work made three attempts before finally com pleting workable assembly Applying tissue covering also proved formid able challenge eventually task completed model assembled rubber motor installed winding thing tricky First tests made models base taped drawing board Watching helix rotate rewarding looked like old-fashioned barber pole did displace air downward spite power increases other changes model would ascend Just fun Dick entered da Vinci Peanut Scale contest fared well static judging could manage official flight Its best slow descent 6-ft hand-launch about 25 sec As Johnny Clemens somewhat uncharitably remarked Inverted would make gcod well-digger project waste time Dick considers itto interesting modeling experiences firmly believe says proper Continued page 176 AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&8 FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Mlcrs-BaIIosss FILLER K&B SUPER POXY RESIN KaB SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT SB MIXING CUPS 174Model Aviation $7995 $450 FREE FLIGHT SUPPLIES FAI Rubber Japanese Tissue Rubber Lube Nitrate Dope Front End Bearings Assemblies Crocket Hooks DT Fuse KSB Timers Cox Engines & Parts Kits Blue Ridge Peck Midway Micro-x others PO Box 5996 Lake Worth FL 33461 CATALOG 5100 CONTIOLIII TEND PROFILECOMBA RA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE UNIILOI&ITIID3D Custom iig lush Ingredients detailed hrochura5OC stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8346 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-563-7169 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO APRIL 1O 11 & 12 1987 presented Weak Signals RIO Club Toledo Ohio power reaction provisions thing will climb am seriously considering addition Cox 0 10 run roadblocks meager undertakings get feeling Leonardo telling have much draw did shouldnt give up youre modeler youre part illustrious group has around least 2000 years includes some greatest minds world has known Its easy get touch modeling roots just take advice offered Law rence Hargrave 1907 Come boys read up subject make things fly author extends grateful thanks following valuable research sistance Richard Miller Domineck Pisano George Chaulet Hewitt Phillips JF Fm goli Leo Opdycke Bert Pond Eugene Husting Lauren S McCready Reg Parham John Brown Dr Robert B Allen Bill Stroman Dick Johnson Bruce Car michael Progress Flying Machines Octave Chanute 1894 reprinted 1976 Lawrence Hargrave Explorer Inventor & Aviation Experimenter W Hudson Shaw Olaf Ruhen 1977 Jai vu naitre L Aviation 1980 Henri Fabre exposition inrormation avaiiaoie D contacting Wayne Yeager co-director ticket address shown below ADVANCED TICKETS may ordered sending self-addressed-stamped busi ness size 4 x 9 envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 phone 313 941-6661 Canadian orders must contain International Postal Cou pon US Stamps orders above 5 tickets must contain extra postage Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club along 25 cents per order handling charge must state expo days tickets used prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under Deadline ticket orders March 31 1987 Ticket sales final non rfr nrIhIQ Complete Book Model Aircraft Spacecraft Rockets Louis H Hertz 1967 Sir George Cayleys Aeronautics 17961855 CH Gibbs-Smith 1962 James Means problem Manflight James Howard Means 1964 Langley Memoir Mechanical Flight Part 1 SP Langley 1911 Commemorative Book Semi-Centennial Model Aviation Bert Pond 1976 Alphonse Penauds Letters Aeronau tics Pearl Young 1968 Langleys Model Aero Engine 1903 Robert B Meyer Jr 1976 FAC Nats/Noonan Continued page 92 limited rubber said Dennis pilot mechanics took time out adjustments last mass launch WW II Combat always popular 3 pm Goodnow called participants bullhorn Guys came points care fully carrying Thunderbolts Helicats Wildcats Mustangs sorts lesserknown designs gained fame between 1940 1945 Within hour heats completed Allan Lawton orders program will returned near mid-March Tickets also available door COMPETITION CLASS NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT HELICOPTER PLEASURE POWER BOAT R/C CAR WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED beautiful colorful Kawasaki KI-6 1 Hem declared winner afternoon slowly drew close long shafts filtered sun cast bright green ribbons soft grass 6 pm field officials tabulated scores Bob Clemens called remaining modelers winners circle receive handsome Flying Aces Club award plaques Co-director Vet Thomas handed out plaques along sentimental handshake winner Lavender twi light closed silent field next day us would return present two days just spent time warp back 1 930s 1 940s will have pleasant memory Thanks Flying Aces CLWC General/Perkins Continued page 96 general gloom happily never present After dumping luggage quickly took off get look official com petition site about five kilometers hotel main com plex shows what can done club enthusiastic modelers some political fluence dose state sponsorship Two permanent model aircraft circles tethered-car circle lay edge Continued page 178 VERI #ERSA VIAL h 1 450A SOLID STATE DEVICE THAT WILL a& m Kit Vary Speed Brush Type Plus $250 Handling Motor Tools Ship per Unit ary Temperature Irons MANY USES AROUND THE HOME OR SHOP ISend Check orDealer Inquiries Invited Money Order Today No COD please 12OVACBRECHIN ENTERPRISES L~Ps 3514 Cardenis Ave imore Maryland 3-1129 176 Model Aviation US,AA7 AZROIA L-16fl/OIUP Open 8J Such. pewer 6090 U8AA1 VIJLTER N3-13 VALIABT open 8i juehes power 90-120 56 aquw foot plan aet S2d ca FThEROUSS C3LS120 ea AIRO PLANS N PARTS PO BdYL 939 NY 114760 372 CASE CHUCK 140hZ C2DER add 10% ahippLig
Edition: Model Aviation - 1986/12
Page Numbers: 78, 79, 80, 81, 174, 176
Emmanuel Fillon Francewith 1909 Givaudan-Vermorel Flilons rubber-powered model flewwell thoughthefull-size onedidnt HISTORY IN MODELS MODELS IN HISTORY As come end AMAs 50th anniversary year fitting include article highlights role played models days long gone U Bill Hannan SO THE PHARAOH folded papyrus wedge cast atop pyramid whence sailed forth over valley Nile.. Well materials available time placeand what glorious setting fly glider As launcher say certain has often noticed history collection myths commonly agreed upon nowhere evident aviation history published Still argue endlessly pointlessly about got off ground first would well heed words Romanian aircraft de signer Trajan Vuia does matter has made thing said What important exists has made Model aircraft have played vital role throughout aviation history serving test new ideas theories risk builders bones As Octave Chanute 19th century authority gliders aptly put Nothing beats ocular demon stration Present-day model builders especial ly fortunate can create recreate aviation history through time machine hobby can bring historical alrcraft back life put designers intendednot books dusty museums sky dont underestimate accom plishments yesterdays modelers Much what seems new really quite ancient Kites spiraliferes example have around much longer aviation historians themselves yet have fur nished ideas employed modem aircraft Helicopters Naturalist Launoy machinist/physician Bienvenu made public demonstrations contraro tating models 1784 Sailplanes man-made object thought glider found Egyptian tomb tentatively dated 200 BC Al though archaeologists opinions differ carved wooded bird may well have Free Flight model Certainly unique featuring vertical tail surfacesomething found known species bird matter vertical tails lack thereof has bone contention among aviation historians trying prove dis prove flight capabilities certain con troversial designs Both models full size craft have flown such appendages Sir George Cayley seems have established advantage early 78 Model Aviation 1804 first glider model amounted kite equipped cruci form tail Perhaps best-known pioneer model builder Alphonse Penaud French man experimented manner flying machines shared findings freely rubber-powered helicopters planophores ornithopters dem onstrated both indoors out during 1 870s Some sent England proxy-flown Like other modelers Penaud gen erated ideas faster could put practice some models parts constructed others including Jobert Pline Victor Tatin Consequently designs differed intent natural differences workmanship interpretation built Although frequently repro duced illustrations planophore mon oplane design show vertical tail Penaud did employ fact adjustable steering purposes Among models propeller-in-front twinprop variations aptly illustrating satiable curiosity common modelers eras Penaud also seems have direct well indirect influence upon Wright brothers 1878 still boys father Bishop Milton Wright brought home flying toy author long student model aviation history has accumulat ing material subject years Numerous books magazines museum booklets have con sulted have other enthusiasts historians However surprising num ber discrepancies controversies have encountered final analysis history personally wit nessed recorded soon thereafter can represent opinions Perhaps should regard word storyBill Hannan really set imaginations work Soon making own versions December1986 79 Left Bill Hannans later-day reproaucTlonns OT renauas puanopnore ana neuicupter designs night Wait Mooney launches Penaud planophore reproduction model has achieved 58-sec flight duration flown indoors Early modelers less choice materials Escondido CA Almost everyone has seen drawings Leonardo da Vinci 1500 AO aerial screw helicopter DickJohnson did something about constructing intricate rubber-powered model No model will take off ground will lower itself slowly hand launched quite accomplishment Hes now considering engine-powered version two pictures Bill Caidwell called bats Years later Orville adamant contention toy given father Penauds de sign Samuel Pierpont Langley third secre tary Smithsonian Institution re portedly brought some French terfly toys back him Paris during 1 800s brand purchased probably Dandrieux pro lific manufacturers items firm believer miniatures concept testing Langley investigated models configurations including Penauds before deciding tandem-wing layout used aerodromes power examined rubber compressed-air CO-2 steam gasoline engines gas job Quarter Scale incidentally may think recent idea Penauds friend colleague Victor Tatin accomplished watchmaker unusually clever craftsman Although constructed flew various models free flight much early acclaim re sulted 1879 twin-prop com pressed-air-powered monoplane model flown tethered central bearingno doubt grandaddy Con trol Line Spanning about six feet fourpound machine part collection Musee de lAir Le Bourget outside Paris individuals seems grossly underrated history books Au gustus Moore Herring did produce successful flying models con tribute significantly work both Langley Chanute may have first American leave ground powered fixed-wing aircraft experimental 1898 biplane propelled compressed-air motor though originally intended powered gasoline engine Control dependent pilots ability shift weight Herring t time doubtless worlds experienced hang-glider pilot should have little difficulty Apart personal accomplish ments Herrings influence upon others indirect far-reaching effect model aviation assistants during early 1 900s Walter Laurence Brock became accomplished pilot air racer subsequently worked Illinois Model Aero Club helped establish governing organization model fliers served team manager during first National Contest Another innovator inspired Augustus Herringpar ticularly work gas engineswas make mark model engines important glow plugs would eliminate need heavy oom plex ignition systems name Ray Arden Lawrence Hargrave towering figure among early modelers Englishman lived life Australia Like Octave Chanute Hargrave corresponded Left Benno Sabel Germany examines Goupy No 1 triplane design usesthe Hargrave box kite theoryof lateral stability Right Ken Johnson rubber-powered reproduction Gustave Whiteheads *21 monoplane 1901 plane some claim achievement successful man-carrying powered flight before Wright brothers Ken flew before TVS Believe cameras 80 Model Aviation other experimenters world-wide shared results freely invented box kite providing method lateral lateral stability relying upon dihedral system vertical cells eventually found direct application full-size Voisins Goupys Farmans Hargraves models included canards flying wings powered rubber com pressed-air motors told constructed over 20 rubber-powered models 100 kites gliders some 42 engines Today Hargrave has unique distinction among model builders portrait appears Australian 20-dollar bill postage stamp Modelers present have tremen dous advantage over forbears addition benefits 20/20 hindsight have modem materials quality adhe sives well designed tools power plants Thus possible improve upon performances originalsno mat ter what scale way example authors reproduction Penaud plano phore flew 58 seconds proxy-flown Doug Walt Mooney whereas Penaud could manage about 13 seconds take Santos-Dumont 14-Bis canard full-size original credited best flight about 21 seconds duration contrast small models model builders Fulton Hungerford Dr John Martin Mark Hinton Don Srull have far exceeded performance Some have topped times tiny Peanut-size version Bill Stroman California Flightmasters constructed flew model 1910 Fabre hydroaeroplane first aircraft take off water under its own power share marvelous experi ence recreating aviation history minia ture have favorite designer would like champion cause can start First some research order list books end article consulted doing research make fascinating reading should make good place begin work Dick Johnson modeler Dallas TX talks about approach fascinated Leonardo da Vincis heli copter design eventual result rubber-powered Peanut model Dick says Leonardo has always quite hero me.. studied drawing helicopter design long time before starting construction extremely curious about big machine would have what mind far construction materials concerned clue size fact planned use four stout souls run ning around platform turn screw Scaling drawing set total height about 15 ft elected make central tube 1A-in balsa didnt have patience taper Dick next encountered several physical well philosophical mysteries about machine chose press anyway came to making helix itself Continued page 174 December 1986 81 nis originai 1 1 onmon aAmecourt steam-powered helicopter model Musee de lAir Paris France Picture collection Georges Chaulet L JAMI SAMUE SAMU Bill ultimate pleasure receiving letter personal congratulations Henri Fabre himself Henri over 100 years old staunch supporter model building few qualified give eye-witness accounts pioneer aviation activities SHIPPING & HANDLING USA AZ RESIDENTS ADD $400 TAX JoGsErBoosTERTM PACE AGE CHARGING HAS ARRIVED Convenient solar charging will solve battery charging problems flying sight boosting batteries between flights SAFE 100 MA CHARGE RATE AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF AT FULL CHARGE HIGH EFFICIENCY UNDER CLOUDY CONDITIONS 4 CHARGES BOTH RX AND TX SIMULTANEOUSLY i FOR ALL POPULAR RADIO SYSTEMS USING 48 AND 96 VOLTS SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO Bell Rock Industries Sedona Arizona 86336 HANDY PLUG-IN CHARGING CORD # ADJUSTABLE ANGLE BRACKET i BUILT FOR EVERYDAY USE . RUGGED TWEIGHT EASY CARRY HANDLE FULL WARRANTY DEALERS INVITED 6486 Hwy 179 Suite 108 602 284-1808 powered three Ni-Cds turning 3-in prop Regarding green stuff commutator have tearing apart tiny motor can get hands lately find have similar problems Some come factory grease area have no brushes merely using spring-brass rubbers instead some have such small wire wound arma tures will barely turn over power applied have found some parts interchangeable Art Overn suggested Radio Shack motors find Stomper toy car motor much improved replacing rear end motor uses brushes instead brass leaves Jerryco 601 Linden Place Evanston IL 62204 neat surplus mail-order house sug gested reader name have misplaced am eternally grateful stocks little Mabuchi motors Stock No 4374 six two bucks have interchangeable assem bly fits Mabuchi unit Stomper type four-wheel-drive toy cars catch deal Jerryco charges three bucks postage handling has minimum order $10 However send catalog guarantee youll find 10 clams worth stuff just have have gear trains make winders WW II British helmets wear flying field Need inspiration John Grega Classic Era Modelpians 355 Grand Blvd Bedford OH 44146 will send Sample plan illustrated plans list send him dollar wont sorry doI guarantee kit fancier Dave Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 has just supplemented plan line Boeing F4B/P-12C rubber kit having 15-in span Its dandy hes working kit No 2 Lavochkin LA-S FN/LA-7 124 scale Carlo Godel Velivoli 5726 Case Ave No Hollywood CA 91601 has drawn up eight aircraft three-views various Fikes should complete collection Send SASE complete list interesting three-views Italian accent flyer Rev W 0 Anderson RD 4 Box 4349 Mercer PA 16137 will send threepage rubber Weedhopper JC-24C plans Id say price bit high its too hard build capable QOS flights Its cutie-pie anyway Scale alive well Czechoslovakia Lubomir Koutny sends along results very impressive photos Scale ships us will never get see person Czech/Soviet Cup contest Nove Mesto Hall Slovakia saw 50 Peanuts topped Koutnys Monnet Sonerai doing 101 seconds son Peter won Junior 80 seconds Kalinin K-5 Other meets Indoors Prague Boleradice Hradec Kralove well-attended wide variety subjects flown including seaplanes vying Special Elbe Cup won HE-i 14 doing over 50 seconds outdoor Scale season e-scale rub ber ships started 28 high-quality models fighting wind Medlanky including Stran iks fine McDonnell XP-67 Kunert Vyso cans MC-202s Mertas Wildcat Sinoniks Arsenal VG-39c1 being representative variety hats off group terrific Scale modelers Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 Models History/Hannan Continued page 81 experienced difficulties found him self fabricating elaborate jigs fixtures required hours work made three attempts before finally com pleting workable assembly Applying tissue covering also proved formid able challenge eventually task completed model assembled rubber motor installed winding thing tricky First tests made models base taped drawing board Watching helix rotate rewarding looked like old-fashioned barber pole did displace air downward spite power increases other changes model would ascend Just fun Dick entered da Vinci Peanut Scale contest fared well static judging could manage official flight Its best slow descent 6-ft hand-launch about 25 sec As Johnny Clemens somewhat uncharitably remarked Inverted would make gcod well-digger project waste time Dick considers itto interesting modeling experiences firmly believe says proper Continued page 176 AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&8 FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Mlcrs-BaIIosss FILLER K&B SUPER POXY RESIN KaB SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT SB MIXING CUPS 174Model Aviation $7995 $450 FREE FLIGHT SUPPLIES FAI Rubber Japanese Tissue Rubber Lube Nitrate Dope Front End Bearings Assemblies Crocket Hooks DT Fuse KSB Timers Cox Engines & Parts Kits Blue Ridge Peck Midway Micro-x others PO Box 5996 Lake Worth FL 33461 CATALOG 5100 CONTIOLIII TEND PROFILECOMBA RA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE UNIILOI&ITIID3D Custom iig lush Ingredients detailed hrochura5OC stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8346 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-563-7169 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO APRIL 1O 11 & 12 1987 presented Weak Signals RIO Club Toledo Ohio power reaction provisions thing will climb am seriously considering addition Cox 0 10 run roadblocks meager undertakings get feeling Leonardo telling have much draw did shouldnt give up youre modeler youre part illustrious group has around least 2000 years includes some greatest minds world has known Its easy get touch modeling roots just take advice offered Law rence Hargrave 1907 Come boys read up subject make things fly author extends grateful thanks following valuable research sistance Richard Miller Domineck Pisano George Chaulet Hewitt Phillips JF Fm goli Leo Opdycke Bert Pond Eugene Husting Lauren S McCready Reg Parham John Brown Dr Robert B Allen Bill Stroman Dick Johnson Bruce Car michael Progress Flying Machines Octave Chanute 1894 reprinted 1976 Lawrence Hargrave Explorer Inventor & Aviation Experimenter W Hudson Shaw Olaf Ruhen 1977 Jai vu naitre L Aviation 1980 Henri Fabre exposition inrormation avaiiaoie D contacting Wayne Yeager co-director ticket address shown below ADVANCED TICKETS may ordered sending self-addressed-stamped busi ness size 4 x 9 envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 phone 313 941-6661 Canadian orders must contain International Postal Cou pon US Stamps orders above 5 tickets must contain extra postage Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club along 25 cents per order handling charge must state expo days tickets used prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under Deadline ticket orders March 31 1987 Ticket sales final non rfr nrIhIQ Complete Book Model Aircraft Spacecraft Rockets Louis H Hertz 1967 Sir George Cayleys Aeronautics 17961855 CH Gibbs-Smith 1962 James Means problem Manflight James Howard Means 1964 Langley Memoir Mechanical Flight Part 1 SP Langley 1911 Commemorative Book Semi-Centennial Model Aviation Bert Pond 1976 Alphonse Penauds Letters Aeronau tics Pearl Young 1968 Langleys Model Aero Engine 1903 Robert B Meyer Jr 1976 FAC Nats/Noonan Continued page 92 limited rubber said Dennis pilot mechanics took time out adjustments last mass launch WW II Combat always popular 3 pm Goodnow called participants bullhorn Guys came points care fully carrying Thunderbolts Helicats Wildcats Mustangs sorts lesserknown designs gained fame between 1940 1945 Within hour heats completed Allan Lawton orders program will returned near mid-March Tickets also available door COMPETITION CLASS NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT HELICOPTER PLEASURE POWER BOAT R/C CAR WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED beautiful colorful Kawasaki KI-6 1 Hem declared winner afternoon slowly drew close long shafts filtered sun cast bright green ribbons soft grass 6 pm field officials tabulated scores Bob Clemens called remaining modelers winners circle receive handsome Flying Aces Club award plaques Co-director Vet Thomas handed out plaques along sentimental handshake winner Lavender twi light closed silent field next day us would return present two days just spent time warp back 1 930s 1 940s will have pleasant memory Thanks Flying Aces CLWC General/Perkins Continued page 96 general gloom happily never present After dumping luggage quickly took off get look official com petition site about five kilometers hotel main com plex shows what can done club enthusiastic modelers some political fluence dose state sponsorship Two permanent model aircraft circles tethered-car circle lay edge Continued page 178 VERI #ERSA VIAL h 1 450A SOLID STATE DEVICE THAT WILL a& m Kit Vary Speed Brush Type Plus $250 Handling Motor Tools Ship per Unit ary Temperature Irons MANY USES AROUND THE HOME OR SHOP ISend Check orDealer Inquiries Invited Money Order Today No COD please 12OVACBRECHIN ENTERPRISES L~Ps 3514 Cardenis Ave imore Maryland 3-1129 176 Model Aviation US,AA7 AZROIA L-16fl/OIUP Open 8J Such. pewer 6090 U8AA1 VIJLTER N3-13 VALIABT open 8i juehes power 90-120 56 aquw foot plan aet S2d ca FThEROUSS C3LS120 ea AIRO PLANS N PARTS PO BdYL 939 NY 114760 372 CASE CHUCK 140hZ C2DER add 10% ahippLig
Edition: Model Aviation - 1986/12
Page Numbers: 78, 79, 80, 81, 174, 176
Emmanuel Fillon Francewith 1909 Givaudan-Vermorel Flilons rubber-powered model flewwell thoughthefull-size onedidnt HISTORY IN MODELS MODELS IN HISTORY As come end AMAs 50th anniversary year fitting include article highlights role played models days long gone U Bill Hannan SO THE PHARAOH folded papyrus wedge cast atop pyramid whence sailed forth over valley Nile.. Well materials available time placeand what glorious setting fly glider As launcher say certain has often noticed history collection myths commonly agreed upon nowhere evident aviation history published Still argue endlessly pointlessly about got off ground first would well heed words Romanian aircraft de signer Trajan Vuia does matter has made thing said What important exists has made Model aircraft have played vital role throughout aviation history serving test new ideas theories risk builders bones As Octave Chanute 19th century authority gliders aptly put Nothing beats ocular demon stration Present-day model builders especial ly fortunate can create recreate aviation history through time machine hobby can bring historical alrcraft back life put designers intendednot books dusty museums sky dont underestimate accom plishments yesterdays modelers Much what seems new really quite ancient Kites spiraliferes example have around much longer aviation historians themselves yet have fur nished ideas employed modem aircraft Helicopters Naturalist Launoy machinist/physician Bienvenu made public demonstrations contraro tating models 1784 Sailplanes man-made object thought glider found Egyptian tomb tentatively dated 200 BC Al though archaeologists opinions differ carved wooded bird may well have Free Flight model Certainly unique featuring vertical tail surfacesomething found known species bird matter vertical tails lack thereof has bone contention among aviation historians trying prove dis prove flight capabilities certain con troversial designs Both models full size craft have flown such appendages Sir George Cayley seems have established advantage early 78 Model Aviation 1804 first glider model amounted kite equipped cruci form tail Perhaps best-known pioneer model builder Alphonse Penaud French man experimented manner flying machines shared findings freely rubber-powered helicopters planophores ornithopters dem onstrated both indoors out during 1 870s Some sent England proxy-flown Like other modelers Penaud gen erated ideas faster could put practice some models parts constructed others including Jobert Pline Victor Tatin Consequently designs differed intent natural differences workmanship interpretation built Although frequently repro duced illustrations planophore mon oplane design show vertical tail Penaud did employ fact adjustable steering purposes Among models propeller-in-front twinprop variations aptly illustrating satiable curiosity common modelers eras Penaud also seems have direct well indirect influence upon Wright brothers 1878 still boys father Bishop Milton Wright brought home flying toy author long student model aviation history has accumulat ing material subject years Numerous books magazines museum booklets have con sulted have other enthusiasts historians However surprising num ber discrepancies controversies have encountered final analysis history personally wit nessed recorded soon thereafter can represent opinions Perhaps should regard word storyBill Hannan really set imaginations work Soon making own versions December1986 79 Left Bill Hannans later-day reproaucTlonns OT renauas puanopnore ana neuicupter designs night Wait Mooney launches Penaud planophore reproduction model has achieved 58-sec flight duration flown indoors Early modelers less choice materials Escondido CA Almost everyone has seen drawings Leonardo da Vinci 1500 AO aerial screw helicopter DickJohnson did something about constructing intricate rubber-powered model No model will take off ground will lower itself slowly hand launched quite accomplishment Hes now considering engine-powered version two pictures Bill Caidwell called bats Years later Orville adamant contention toy given father Penauds de sign Samuel Pierpont Langley third secre tary Smithsonian Institution re portedly brought some French terfly toys back him Paris during 1 800s brand purchased probably Dandrieux pro lific manufacturers items firm believer miniatures concept testing Langley investigated models configurations including Penauds before deciding tandem-wing layout used aerodromes power examined rubber compressed-air CO-2 steam gasoline engines gas job Quarter Scale incidentally may think recent idea Penauds friend colleague Victor Tatin accomplished watchmaker unusually clever craftsman Although constructed flew various models free flight much early acclaim re sulted 1879 twin-prop com pressed-air-powered monoplane model flown tethered central bearingno doubt grandaddy Con trol Line Spanning about six feet fourpound machine part collection Musee de lAir Le Bourget outside Paris individuals seems grossly underrated history books Au gustus Moore Herring did produce successful flying models con tribute significantly work both Langley Chanute may have first American leave ground powered fixed-wing aircraft experimental 1898 biplane propelled compressed-air motor though originally intended powered gasoline engine Control dependent pilots ability shift weight Herring t time doubtless worlds experienced hang-glider pilot should have little difficulty Apart personal accomplish ments Herrings influence upon others indirect far-reaching effect model aviation assistants during early 1 900s Walter Laurence Brock became accomplished pilot air racer subsequently worked Illinois Model Aero Club helped establish governing organization model fliers served team manager during first National Contest Another innovator inspired Augustus Herringpar ticularly work gas engineswas make mark model engines important glow plugs would eliminate need heavy oom plex ignition systems name Ray Arden Lawrence Hargrave towering figure among early modelers Englishman lived life Australia Like Octave Chanute Hargrave corresponded Left Benno Sabel Germany examines Goupy No 1 triplane design usesthe Hargrave box kite theoryof lateral stability Right Ken Johnson rubber-powered reproduction Gustave Whiteheads *21 monoplane 1901 plane some claim achievement successful man-carrying powered flight before Wright brothers Ken flew before TVS Believe cameras 80 Model Aviation other experimenters world-wide shared results freely invented box kite providing method lateral lateral stability relying upon dihedral system vertical cells eventually found direct application full-size Voisins Goupys Farmans Hargraves models included canards flying wings powered rubber com pressed-air motors told constructed over 20 rubber-powered models 100 kites gliders some 42 engines Today Hargrave has unique distinction among model builders portrait appears Australian 20-dollar bill postage stamp Modelers present have tremen dous advantage over forbears addition benefits 20/20 hindsight have modem materials quality adhe sives well designed tools power plants Thus possible improve upon performances originalsno mat ter what scale way example authors reproduction Penaud plano phore flew 58 seconds proxy-flown Doug Walt Mooney whereas Penaud could manage about 13 seconds take Santos-Dumont 14-Bis canard full-size original credited best flight about 21 seconds duration contrast small models model builders Fulton Hungerford Dr John Martin Mark Hinton Don Srull have far exceeded performance Some have topped times tiny Peanut-size version Bill Stroman California Flightmasters constructed flew model 1910 Fabre hydroaeroplane first aircraft take off water under its own power share marvelous experi ence recreating aviation history minia ture have favorite designer would like champion cause can start First some research order list books end article consulted doing research make fascinating reading should make good place begin work Dick Johnson modeler Dallas TX talks about approach fascinated Leonardo da Vincis heli copter design eventual result rubber-powered Peanut model Dick says Leonardo has always quite hero me.. studied drawing helicopter design long time before starting construction extremely curious about big machine would have what mind far construction materials concerned clue size fact planned use four stout souls run ning around platform turn screw Scaling drawing set total height about 15 ft elected make central tube 1A-in balsa didnt have patience taper Dick next encountered several physical well philosophical mysteries about machine chose press anyway came to making helix itself Continued page 174 December 1986 81 nis originai 1 1 onmon aAmecourt steam-powered helicopter model Musee de lAir Paris France Picture collection Georges Chaulet L JAMI SAMUE SAMU Bill ultimate pleasure receiving letter personal congratulations Henri Fabre himself Henri over 100 years old staunch supporter model building few qualified give eye-witness accounts pioneer aviation activities SHIPPING & HANDLING USA AZ RESIDENTS ADD $400 TAX JoGsErBoosTERTM PACE AGE CHARGING HAS ARRIVED Convenient solar charging will solve battery charging problems flying sight boosting batteries between flights SAFE 100 MA CHARGE RATE AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF AT FULL CHARGE HIGH EFFICIENCY UNDER CLOUDY CONDITIONS 4 CHARGES BOTH RX AND TX SIMULTANEOUSLY i FOR ALL POPULAR RADIO SYSTEMS USING 48 AND 96 VOLTS SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO Bell Rock Industries Sedona Arizona 86336 HANDY PLUG-IN CHARGING CORD # ADJUSTABLE ANGLE BRACKET i BUILT FOR EVERYDAY USE . RUGGED TWEIGHT EASY CARRY HANDLE FULL WARRANTY DEALERS INVITED 6486 Hwy 179 Suite 108 602 284-1808 powered three Ni-Cds turning 3-in prop Regarding green stuff commutator have tearing apart tiny motor can get hands lately find have similar problems Some come factory grease area have no brushes merely using spring-brass rubbers instead some have such small wire wound arma tures will barely turn over power applied have found some parts interchangeable Art Overn suggested Radio Shack motors find Stomper toy car motor much improved replacing rear end motor uses brushes instead brass leaves Jerryco 601 Linden Place Evanston IL 62204 neat surplus mail-order house sug gested reader name have misplaced am eternally grateful stocks little Mabuchi motors Stock No 4374 six two bucks have interchangeable assem bly fits Mabuchi unit Stomper type four-wheel-drive toy cars catch deal Jerryco charges three bucks postage handling has minimum order $10 However send catalog guarantee youll find 10 clams worth stuff just have have gear trains make winders WW II British helmets wear flying field Need inspiration John Grega Classic Era Modelpians 355 Grand Blvd Bedford OH 44146 will send Sample plan illustrated plans list send him dollar wont sorry doI guarantee kit fancier Dave Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 has just supplemented plan line Boeing F4B/P-12C rubber kit having 15-in span Its dandy hes working kit No 2 Lavochkin LA-S FN/LA-7 124 scale Carlo Godel Velivoli 5726 Case Ave No Hollywood CA 91601 has drawn up eight aircraft three-views various Fikes should complete collection Send SASE complete list interesting three-views Italian accent flyer Rev W 0 Anderson RD 4 Box 4349 Mercer PA 16137 will send threepage rubber Weedhopper JC-24C plans Id say price bit high its too hard build capable QOS flights Its cutie-pie anyway Scale alive well Czechoslovakia Lubomir Koutny sends along results very impressive photos Scale ships us will never get see person Czech/Soviet Cup contest Nove Mesto Hall Slovakia saw 50 Peanuts topped Koutnys Monnet Sonerai doing 101 seconds son Peter won Junior 80 seconds Kalinin K-5 Other meets Indoors Prague Boleradice Hradec Kralove well-attended wide variety subjects flown including seaplanes vying Special Elbe Cup won HE-i 14 doing over 50 seconds outdoor Scale season e-scale rub ber ships started 28 high-quality models fighting wind Medlanky including Stran iks fine McDonnell XP-67 Kunert Vyso cans MC-202s Mertas Wildcat Sinoniks Arsenal VG-39c1 being representative variety hats off group terrific Scale modelers Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 Models History/Hannan Continued page 81 experienced difficulties found him self fabricating elaborate jigs fixtures required hours work made three attempts before finally com pleting workable assembly Applying tissue covering also proved formid able challenge eventually task completed model assembled rubber motor installed winding thing tricky First tests made models base taped drawing board Watching helix rotate rewarding looked like old-fashioned barber pole did displace air downward spite power increases other changes model would ascend Just fun Dick entered da Vinci Peanut Scale contest fared well static judging could manage official flight Its best slow descent 6-ft hand-launch about 25 sec As Johnny Clemens somewhat uncharitably remarked Inverted would make gcod well-digger project waste time Dick considers itto interesting modeling experiences firmly believe says proper Continued page 176 AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&8 FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Mlcrs-BaIIosss FILLER K&B SUPER POXY RESIN KaB SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT SB MIXING CUPS 174Model Aviation $7995 $450 FREE FLIGHT SUPPLIES FAI Rubber Japanese Tissue Rubber Lube Nitrate Dope Front End Bearings Assemblies Crocket Hooks DT Fuse KSB Timers Cox Engines & Parts Kits Blue Ridge Peck Midway Micro-x others PO Box 5996 Lake Worth FL 33461 CATALOG 5100 CONTIOLIII TEND PROFILECOMBA RA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE UNIILOI&ITIID3D Custom iig lush Ingredients detailed hrochura5OC stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8346 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-563-7169 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO APRIL 1O 11 & 12 1987 presented Weak Signals RIO Club Toledo Ohio power reaction provisions thing will climb am seriously considering addition Cox 0 10 run roadblocks meager undertakings get feeling Leonardo telling have much draw did shouldnt give up youre modeler youre part illustrious group has around least 2000 years includes some greatest minds world has known Its easy get touch modeling roots just take advice offered Law rence Hargrave 1907 Come boys read up subject make things fly author extends grateful thanks following valuable research sistance Richard Miller Domineck Pisano George Chaulet Hewitt Phillips JF Fm goli Leo Opdycke Bert Pond Eugene Husting Lauren S McCready Reg Parham John Brown Dr Robert B Allen Bill Stroman Dick Johnson Bruce Car michael Progress Flying Machines Octave Chanute 1894 reprinted 1976 Lawrence Hargrave Explorer Inventor & Aviation Experimenter W Hudson Shaw Olaf Ruhen 1977 Jai vu naitre L Aviation 1980 Henri Fabre exposition inrormation avaiiaoie D contacting Wayne Yeager co-director ticket address shown below ADVANCED TICKETS may ordered sending self-addressed-stamped busi ness size 4 x 9 envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 phone 313 941-6661 Canadian orders must contain International Postal Cou pon US Stamps orders above 5 tickets must contain extra postage Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club along 25 cents per order handling charge must state expo days tickets used prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under Deadline ticket orders March 31 1987 Ticket sales final non rfr nrIhIQ Complete Book Model Aircraft Spacecraft Rockets Louis H Hertz 1967 Sir George Cayleys Aeronautics 17961855 CH Gibbs-Smith 1962 James Means problem Manflight James Howard Means 1964 Langley Memoir Mechanical Flight Part 1 SP Langley 1911 Commemorative Book Semi-Centennial Model Aviation Bert Pond 1976 Alphonse Penauds Letters Aeronau tics Pearl Young 1968 Langleys Model Aero Engine 1903 Robert B Meyer Jr 1976 FAC Nats/Noonan Continued page 92 limited rubber said Dennis pilot mechanics took time out adjustments last mass launch WW II Combat always popular 3 pm Goodnow called participants bullhorn Guys came points care fully carrying Thunderbolts Helicats Wildcats Mustangs sorts lesserknown designs gained fame between 1940 1945 Within hour heats completed Allan Lawton orders program will returned near mid-March Tickets also available door COMPETITION CLASS NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT HELICOPTER PLEASURE POWER BOAT R/C CAR WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED beautiful colorful Kawasaki KI-6 1 Hem declared winner afternoon slowly drew close long shafts filtered sun cast bright green ribbons soft grass 6 pm field officials tabulated scores Bob Clemens called remaining modelers winners circle receive handsome Flying Aces Club award plaques Co-director Vet Thomas handed out plaques along sentimental handshake winner Lavender twi light closed silent field next day us would return present two days just spent time warp back 1 930s 1 940s will have pleasant memory Thanks Flying Aces CLWC General/Perkins Continued page 96 general gloom happily never present After dumping luggage quickly took off get look official com petition site about five kilometers hotel main com plex shows what can done club enthusiastic modelers some political fluence dose state sponsorship Two permanent model aircraft circles tethered-car circle lay edge Continued page 178 VERI #ERSA VIAL h 1 450A SOLID STATE DEVICE THAT WILL a& m Kit Vary Speed Brush Type Plus $250 Handling Motor Tools Ship per Unit ary Temperature Irons MANY USES AROUND THE HOME OR SHOP ISend Check orDealer Inquiries Invited Money Order Today No COD please 12OVACBRECHIN ENTERPRISES L~Ps 3514 Cardenis Ave imore Maryland 3-1129 176 Model Aviation US,AA7 AZROIA L-16fl/OIUP Open 8J Such. pewer 6090 U8AA1 VIJLTER N3-13 VALIABT open 8i juehes power 90-120 56 aquw foot plan aet S2d ca FThEROUSS C3LS120 ea AIRO PLANS N PARTS PO BdYL 939 NY 114760 372 CASE CHUCK 140hZ C2DER add 10% ahippLig
Edition: Model Aviation - 1986/12
Page Numbers: 78, 79, 80, 81, 174, 176
Emmanuel Fillon Francewith 1909 Givaudan-Vermorel Flilons rubber-powered model flewwell thoughthefull-size onedidnt HISTORY IN MODELS MODELS IN HISTORY As come end AMAs 50th anniversary year fitting include article highlights role played models days long gone U Bill Hannan SO THE PHARAOH folded papyrus wedge cast atop pyramid whence sailed forth over valley Nile.. Well materials available time placeand what glorious setting fly glider As launcher say certain has often noticed history collection myths commonly agreed upon nowhere evident aviation history published Still argue endlessly pointlessly about got off ground first would well heed words Romanian aircraft de signer Trajan Vuia does matter has made thing said What important exists has made Model aircraft have played vital role throughout aviation history serving test new ideas theories risk builders bones As Octave Chanute 19th century authority gliders aptly put Nothing beats ocular demon stration Present-day model builders especial ly fortunate can create recreate aviation history through time machine hobby can bring historical alrcraft back life put designers intendednot books dusty museums sky dont underestimate accom plishments yesterdays modelers Much what seems new really quite ancient Kites spiraliferes example have around much longer aviation historians themselves yet have fur nished ideas employed modem aircraft Helicopters Naturalist Launoy machinist/physician Bienvenu made public demonstrations contraro tating models 1784 Sailplanes man-made object thought glider found Egyptian tomb tentatively dated 200 BC Al though archaeologists opinions differ carved wooded bird may well have Free Flight model Certainly unique featuring vertical tail surfacesomething found known species bird matter vertical tails lack thereof has bone contention among aviation historians trying prove dis prove flight capabilities certain con troversial designs Both models full size craft have flown such appendages Sir George Cayley seems have established advantage early 78 Model Aviation 1804 first glider model amounted kite equipped cruci form tail Perhaps best-known pioneer model builder Alphonse Penaud French man experimented manner flying machines shared findings freely rubber-powered helicopters planophores ornithopters dem onstrated both indoors out during 1 870s Some sent England proxy-flown Like other modelers Penaud gen erated ideas faster could put practice some models parts constructed others including Jobert Pline Victor Tatin Consequently designs differed intent natural differences workmanship interpretation built Although frequently repro duced illustrations planophore mon oplane design show vertical tail Penaud did employ fact adjustable steering purposes Among models propeller-in-front twinprop variations aptly illustrating satiable curiosity common modelers eras Penaud also seems have direct well indirect influence upon Wright brothers 1878 still boys father Bishop Milton Wright brought home flying toy author long student model aviation history has accumulat ing material subject years Numerous books magazines museum booklets have con sulted have other enthusiasts historians However surprising num ber discrepancies controversies have encountered final analysis history personally wit nessed recorded soon thereafter can represent opinions Perhaps should regard word storyBill Hannan really set imaginations work Soon making own versions December1986 79 Left Bill Hannans later-day reproaucTlonns OT renauas puanopnore ana neuicupter designs night Wait Mooney launches Penaud planophore reproduction model has achieved 58-sec flight duration flown indoors Early modelers less choice materials Escondido CA Almost everyone has seen drawings Leonardo da Vinci 1500 AO aerial screw helicopter DickJohnson did something about constructing intricate rubber-powered model No model will take off ground will lower itself slowly hand launched quite accomplishment Hes now considering engine-powered version two pictures Bill Caidwell called bats Years later Orville adamant contention toy given father Penauds de sign Samuel Pierpont Langley third secre tary Smithsonian Institution re portedly brought some French terfly toys back him Paris during 1 800s brand purchased probably Dandrieux pro lific manufacturers items firm believer miniatures concept testing Langley investigated models configurations including Penauds before deciding tandem-wing layout used aerodromes power examined rubber compressed-air CO-2 steam gasoline engines gas job Quarter Scale incidentally may think recent idea Penauds friend colleague Victor Tatin accomplished watchmaker unusually clever craftsman Although constructed flew various models free flight much early acclaim re sulted 1879 twin-prop com pressed-air-powered monoplane model flown tethered central bearingno doubt grandaddy Con trol Line Spanning about six feet fourpound machine part collection Musee de lAir Le Bourget outside Paris individuals seems grossly underrated history books Au gustus Moore Herring did produce successful flying models con tribute significantly work both Langley Chanute may have first American leave ground powered fixed-wing aircraft experimental 1898 biplane propelled compressed-air motor though originally intended powered gasoline engine Control dependent pilots ability shift weight Herring t time doubtless worlds experienced hang-glider pilot should have little difficulty Apart personal accomplish ments Herrings influence upon others indirect far-reaching effect model aviation assistants during early 1 900s Walter Laurence Brock became accomplished pilot air racer subsequently worked Illinois Model Aero Club helped establish governing organization model fliers served team manager during first National Contest Another innovator inspired Augustus Herringpar ticularly work gas engineswas make mark model engines important glow plugs would eliminate need heavy oom plex ignition systems name Ray Arden Lawrence Hargrave towering figure among early modelers Englishman lived life Australia Like Octave Chanute Hargrave corresponded Left Benno Sabel Germany examines Goupy No 1 triplane design usesthe Hargrave box kite theoryof lateral stability Right Ken Johnson rubber-powered reproduction Gustave Whiteheads *21 monoplane 1901 plane some claim achievement successful man-carrying powered flight before Wright brothers Ken flew before TVS Believe cameras 80 Model Aviation other experimenters world-wide shared results freely invented box kite providing method lateral lateral stability relying upon dihedral system vertical cells eventually found direct application full-size Voisins Goupys Farmans Hargraves models included canards flying wings powered rubber com pressed-air motors told constructed over 20 rubber-powered models 100 kites gliders some 42 engines Today Hargrave has unique distinction among model builders portrait appears Australian 20-dollar bill postage stamp Modelers present have tremen dous advantage over forbears addition benefits 20/20 hindsight have modem materials quality adhe sives well designed tools power plants Thus possible improve upon performances originalsno mat ter what scale way example authors reproduction Penaud plano phore flew 58 seconds proxy-flown Doug Walt Mooney whereas Penaud could manage about 13 seconds take Santos-Dumont 14-Bis canard full-size original credited best flight about 21 seconds duration contrast small models model builders Fulton Hungerford Dr John Martin Mark Hinton Don Srull have far exceeded performance Some have topped times tiny Peanut-size version Bill Stroman California Flightmasters constructed flew model 1910 Fabre hydroaeroplane first aircraft take off water under its own power share marvelous experi ence recreating aviation history minia ture have favorite designer would like champion cause can start First some research order list books end article consulted doing research make fascinating reading should make good place begin work Dick Johnson modeler Dallas TX talks about approach fascinated Leonardo da Vincis heli copter design eventual result rubber-powered Peanut model Dick says Leonardo has always quite hero me.. studied drawing helicopter design long time before starting construction extremely curious about big machine would have what mind far construction materials concerned clue size fact planned use four stout souls run ning around platform turn screw Scaling drawing set total height about 15 ft elected make central tube 1A-in balsa didnt have patience taper Dick next encountered several physical well philosophical mysteries about machine chose press anyway came to making helix itself Continued page 174 December 1986 81 nis originai 1 1 onmon aAmecourt steam-powered helicopter model Musee de lAir Paris France Picture collection Georges Chaulet L JAMI SAMUE SAMU Bill ultimate pleasure receiving letter personal congratulations Henri Fabre himself Henri over 100 years old staunch supporter model building few qualified give eye-witness accounts pioneer aviation activities SHIPPING & HANDLING USA AZ RESIDENTS ADD $400 TAX JoGsErBoosTERTM PACE AGE CHARGING HAS ARRIVED Convenient solar charging will solve battery charging problems flying sight boosting batteries between flights SAFE 100 MA CHARGE RATE AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF AT FULL CHARGE HIGH EFFICIENCY UNDER CLOUDY CONDITIONS 4 CHARGES BOTH RX AND TX SIMULTANEOUSLY i FOR ALL POPULAR RADIO SYSTEMS USING 48 AND 96 VOLTS SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO Bell Rock Industries Sedona Arizona 86336 HANDY PLUG-IN CHARGING CORD # ADJUSTABLE ANGLE BRACKET i BUILT FOR EVERYDAY USE . RUGGED TWEIGHT EASY CARRY HANDLE FULL WARRANTY DEALERS INVITED 6486 Hwy 179 Suite 108 602 284-1808 powered three Ni-Cds turning 3-in prop Regarding green stuff commutator have tearing apart tiny motor can get hands lately find have similar problems Some come factory grease area have no brushes merely using spring-brass rubbers instead some have such small wire wound arma tures will barely turn over power applied have found some parts interchangeable Art Overn suggested Radio Shack motors find Stomper toy car motor much improved replacing rear end motor uses brushes instead brass leaves Jerryco 601 Linden Place Evanston IL 62204 neat surplus mail-order house sug gested reader name have misplaced am eternally grateful stocks little Mabuchi motors Stock No 4374 six two bucks have interchangeable assem bly fits Mabuchi unit Stomper type four-wheel-drive toy cars catch deal Jerryco charges three bucks postage handling has minimum order $10 However send catalog guarantee youll find 10 clams worth stuff just have have gear trains make winders WW II British helmets wear flying field Need inspiration John Grega Classic Era Modelpians 355 Grand Blvd Bedford OH 44146 will send Sample plan illustrated plans list send him dollar wont sorry doI guarantee kit fancier Dave Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 has just supplemented plan line Boeing F4B/P-12C rubber kit having 15-in span Its dandy hes working kit No 2 Lavochkin LA-S FN/LA-7 124 scale Carlo Godel Velivoli 5726 Case Ave No Hollywood CA 91601 has drawn up eight aircraft three-views various Fikes should complete collection Send SASE complete list interesting three-views Italian accent flyer Rev W 0 Anderson RD 4 Box 4349 Mercer PA 16137 will send threepage rubber Weedhopper JC-24C plans Id say price bit high its too hard build capable QOS flights Its cutie-pie anyway Scale alive well Czechoslovakia Lubomir Koutny sends along results very impressive photos Scale ships us will never get see person Czech/Soviet Cup contest Nove Mesto Hall Slovakia saw 50 Peanuts topped Koutnys Monnet Sonerai doing 101 seconds son Peter won Junior 80 seconds Kalinin K-5 Other meets Indoors Prague Boleradice Hradec Kralove well-attended wide variety subjects flown including seaplanes vying Special Elbe Cup won HE-i 14 doing over 50 seconds outdoor Scale season e-scale rub ber ships started 28 high-quality models fighting wind Medlanky including Stran iks fine McDonnell XP-67 Kunert Vyso cans MC-202s Mertas Wildcat Sinoniks Arsenal VG-39c1 being representative variety hats off group terrific Scale modelers Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 Models History/Hannan Continued page 81 experienced difficulties found him self fabricating elaborate jigs fixtures required hours work made three attempts before finally com pleting workable assembly Applying tissue covering also proved formid able challenge eventually task completed model assembled rubber motor installed winding thing tricky First tests made models base taped drawing board Watching helix rotate rewarding looked like old-fashioned barber pole did displace air downward spite power increases other changes model would ascend Just fun Dick entered da Vinci Peanut Scale contest fared well static judging could manage official flight Its best slow descent 6-ft hand-launch about 25 sec As Johnny Clemens somewhat uncharitably remarked Inverted would make gcod well-digger project waste time Dick considers itto interesting modeling experiences firmly believe says proper Continued page 176 AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&8 FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Mlcrs-BaIIosss FILLER K&B SUPER POXY RESIN KaB SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT SB MIXING CUPS 174Model Aviation $7995 $450 FREE FLIGHT SUPPLIES FAI Rubber Japanese Tissue Rubber Lube Nitrate Dope Front End Bearings Assemblies Crocket Hooks DT Fuse KSB Timers Cox Engines & Parts Kits Blue Ridge Peck Midway Micro-x others PO Box 5996 Lake Worth FL 33461 CATALOG 5100 CONTIOLIII TEND PROFILECOMBA RA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE UNIILOI&ITIID3D Custom iig lush Ingredients detailed hrochura5OC stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8346 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-563-7169 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO APRIL 1O 11 & 12 1987 presented Weak Signals RIO Club Toledo Ohio power reaction provisions thing will climb am seriously considering addition Cox 0 10 run roadblocks meager undertakings get feeling Leonardo telling have much draw did shouldnt give up youre modeler youre part illustrious group has around least 2000 years includes some greatest minds world has known Its easy get touch modeling roots just take advice offered Law rence Hargrave 1907 Come boys read up subject make things fly author extends grateful thanks following valuable research sistance Richard Miller Domineck Pisano George Chaulet Hewitt Phillips JF Fm goli Leo Opdycke Bert Pond Eugene Husting Lauren S McCready Reg Parham John Brown Dr Robert B Allen Bill Stroman Dick Johnson Bruce Car michael Progress Flying Machines Octave Chanute 1894 reprinted 1976 Lawrence Hargrave Explorer Inventor & Aviation Experimenter W Hudson Shaw Olaf Ruhen 1977 Jai vu naitre L Aviation 1980 Henri Fabre exposition inrormation avaiiaoie D contacting Wayne Yeager co-director ticket address shown below ADVANCED TICKETS may ordered sending self-addressed-stamped busi ness size 4 x 9 envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 phone 313 941-6661 Canadian orders must contain International Postal Cou pon US Stamps orders above 5 tickets must contain extra postage Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club along 25 cents per order handling charge must state expo days tickets used prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under Deadline ticket orders March 31 1987 Ticket sales final non rfr nrIhIQ Complete Book Model Aircraft Spacecraft Rockets Louis H Hertz 1967 Sir George Cayleys Aeronautics 17961855 CH Gibbs-Smith 1962 James Means problem Manflight James Howard Means 1964 Langley Memoir Mechanical Flight Part 1 SP Langley 1911 Commemorative Book Semi-Centennial Model Aviation Bert Pond 1976 Alphonse Penauds Letters Aeronau tics Pearl Young 1968 Langleys Model Aero Engine 1903 Robert B Meyer Jr 1976 FAC Nats/Noonan Continued page 92 limited rubber said Dennis pilot mechanics took time out adjustments last mass launch WW II Combat always popular 3 pm Goodnow called participants bullhorn Guys came points care fully carrying Thunderbolts Helicats Wildcats Mustangs sorts lesserknown designs gained fame between 1940 1945 Within hour heats completed Allan Lawton orders program will returned near mid-March Tickets also available door COMPETITION CLASS NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT HELICOPTER PLEASURE POWER BOAT R/C CAR WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED beautiful colorful Kawasaki KI-6 1 Hem declared winner afternoon slowly drew close long shafts filtered sun cast bright green ribbons soft grass 6 pm field officials tabulated scores Bob Clemens called remaining modelers winners circle receive handsome Flying Aces Club award plaques Co-director Vet Thomas handed out plaques along sentimental handshake winner Lavender twi light closed silent field next day us would return present two days just spent time warp back 1 930s 1 940s will have pleasant memory Thanks Flying Aces CLWC General/Perkins Continued page 96 general gloom happily never present After dumping luggage quickly took off get look official com petition site about five kilometers hotel main com plex shows what can done club enthusiastic modelers some political fluence dose state sponsorship Two permanent model aircraft circles tethered-car circle lay edge Continued page 178 VERI #ERSA VIAL h 1 450A SOLID STATE DEVICE THAT WILL a& m Kit Vary Speed Brush Type Plus $250 Handling Motor Tools Ship per Unit ary Temperature Irons MANY USES AROUND THE HOME OR SHOP ISend Check orDealer Inquiries Invited Money Order Today No COD please 12OVACBRECHIN ENTERPRISES L~Ps 3514 Cardenis Ave imore Maryland 3-1129 176 Model Aviation US,AA7 AZROIA L-16fl/OIUP Open 8J Such. pewer 6090 U8AA1 VIJLTER N3-13 VALIABT open 8i juehes power 90-120 56 aquw foot plan aet S2d ca FThEROUSS C3LS120 ea AIRO PLANS N PARTS PO BdYL 939 NY 114760 372 CASE CHUCK 140hZ C2DER add 10% ahippLig
Edition: Model Aviation - 1986/12
Page Numbers: 78, 79, 80, 81, 174, 176
Emmanuel Fillon Francewith 1909 Givaudan-Vermorel Flilons rubber-powered model flewwell thoughthefull-size onedidnt HISTORY IN MODELS MODELS IN HISTORY As come end AMAs 50th anniversary year fitting include article highlights role played models days long gone U Bill Hannan SO THE PHARAOH folded papyrus wedge cast atop pyramid whence sailed forth over valley Nile.. Well materials available time placeand what glorious setting fly glider As launcher say certain has often noticed history collection myths commonly agreed upon nowhere evident aviation history published Still argue endlessly pointlessly about got off ground first would well heed words Romanian aircraft de signer Trajan Vuia does matter has made thing said What important exists has made Model aircraft have played vital role throughout aviation history serving test new ideas theories risk builders bones As Octave Chanute 19th century authority gliders aptly put Nothing beats ocular demon stration Present-day model builders especial ly fortunate can create recreate aviation history through time machine hobby can bring historical alrcraft back life put designers intendednot books dusty museums sky dont underestimate accom plishments yesterdays modelers Much what seems new really quite ancient Kites spiraliferes example have around much longer aviation historians themselves yet have fur nished ideas employed modem aircraft Helicopters Naturalist Launoy machinist/physician Bienvenu made public demonstrations contraro tating models 1784 Sailplanes man-made object thought glider found Egyptian tomb tentatively dated 200 BC Al though archaeologists opinions differ carved wooded bird may well have Free Flight model Certainly unique featuring vertical tail surfacesomething found known species bird matter vertical tails lack thereof has bone contention among aviation historians trying prove dis prove flight capabilities certain con troversial designs Both models full size craft have flown such appendages Sir George Cayley seems have established advantage early 78 Model Aviation 1804 first glider model amounted kite equipped cruci form tail Perhaps best-known pioneer model builder Alphonse Penaud French man experimented manner flying machines shared findings freely rubber-powered helicopters planophores ornithopters dem onstrated both indoors out during 1 870s Some sent England proxy-flown Like other modelers Penaud gen erated ideas faster could put practice some models parts constructed others including Jobert Pline Victor Tatin Consequently designs differed intent natural differences workmanship interpretation built Although frequently repro duced illustrations planophore mon oplane design show vertical tail Penaud did employ fact adjustable steering purposes Among models propeller-in-front twinprop variations aptly illustrating satiable curiosity common modelers eras Penaud also seems have direct well indirect influence upon Wright brothers 1878 still boys father Bishop Milton Wright brought home flying toy author long student model aviation history has accumulat ing material subject years Numerous books magazines museum booklets have con sulted have other enthusiasts historians However surprising num ber discrepancies controversies have encountered final analysis history personally wit nessed recorded soon thereafter can represent opinions Perhaps should regard word storyBill Hannan really set imaginations work Soon making own versions December1986 79 Left Bill Hannans later-day reproaucTlonns OT renauas puanopnore ana neuicupter designs night Wait Mooney launches Penaud planophore reproduction model has achieved 58-sec flight duration flown indoors Early modelers less choice materials Escondido CA Almost everyone has seen drawings Leonardo da Vinci 1500 AO aerial screw helicopter DickJohnson did something about constructing intricate rubber-powered model No model will take off ground will lower itself slowly hand launched quite accomplishment Hes now considering engine-powered version two pictures Bill Caidwell called bats Years later Orville adamant contention toy given father Penauds de sign Samuel Pierpont Langley third secre tary Smithsonian Institution re portedly brought some French terfly toys back him Paris during 1 800s brand purchased probably Dandrieux pro lific manufacturers items firm believer miniatures concept testing Langley investigated models configurations including Penauds before deciding tandem-wing layout used aerodromes power examined rubber compressed-air CO-2 steam gasoline engines gas job Quarter Scale incidentally may think recent idea Penauds friend colleague Victor Tatin accomplished watchmaker unusually clever craftsman Although constructed flew various models free flight much early acclaim re sulted 1879 twin-prop com pressed-air-powered monoplane model flown tethered central bearingno doubt grandaddy Con trol Line Spanning about six feet fourpound machine part collection Musee de lAir Le Bourget outside Paris individuals seems grossly underrated history books Au gustus Moore Herring did produce successful flying models con tribute significantly work both Langley Chanute may have first American leave ground powered fixed-wing aircraft experimental 1898 biplane propelled compressed-air motor though originally intended powered gasoline engine Control dependent pilots ability shift weight Herring t time doubtless worlds experienced hang-glider pilot should have little difficulty Apart personal accomplish ments Herrings influence upon others indirect far-reaching effect model aviation assistants during early 1 900s Walter Laurence Brock became accomplished pilot air racer subsequently worked Illinois Model Aero Club helped establish governing organization model fliers served team manager during first National Contest Another innovator inspired Augustus Herringpar ticularly work gas engineswas make mark model engines important glow plugs would eliminate need heavy oom plex ignition systems name Ray Arden Lawrence Hargrave towering figure among early modelers Englishman lived life Australia Like Octave Chanute Hargrave corresponded Left Benno Sabel Germany examines Goupy No 1 triplane design usesthe Hargrave box kite theoryof lateral stability Right Ken Johnson rubber-powered reproduction Gustave Whiteheads *21 monoplane 1901 plane some claim achievement successful man-carrying powered flight before Wright brothers Ken flew before TVS Believe cameras 80 Model Aviation other experimenters world-wide shared results freely invented box kite providing method lateral lateral stability relying upon dihedral system vertical cells eventually found direct application full-size Voisins Goupys Farmans Hargraves models included canards flying wings powered rubber com pressed-air motors told constructed over 20 rubber-powered models 100 kites gliders some 42 engines Today Hargrave has unique distinction among model builders portrait appears Australian 20-dollar bill postage stamp Modelers present have tremen dous advantage over forbears addition benefits 20/20 hindsight have modem materials quality adhe sives well designed tools power plants Thus possible improve upon performances originalsno mat ter what scale way example authors reproduction Penaud plano phore flew 58 seconds proxy-flown Doug Walt Mooney whereas Penaud could manage about 13 seconds take Santos-Dumont 14-Bis canard full-size original credited best flight about 21 seconds duration contrast small models model builders Fulton Hungerford Dr John Martin Mark Hinton Don Srull have far exceeded performance Some have topped times tiny Peanut-size version Bill Stroman California Flightmasters constructed flew model 1910 Fabre hydroaeroplane first aircraft take off water under its own power share marvelous experi ence recreating aviation history minia ture have favorite designer would like champion cause can start First some research order list books end article consulted doing research make fascinating reading should make good place begin work Dick Johnson modeler Dallas TX talks about approach fascinated Leonardo da Vincis heli copter design eventual result rubber-powered Peanut model Dick says Leonardo has always quite hero me.. studied drawing helicopter design long time before starting construction extremely curious about big machine would have what mind far construction materials concerned clue size fact planned use four stout souls run ning around platform turn screw Scaling drawing set total height about 15 ft elected make central tube 1A-in balsa didnt have patience taper Dick next encountered several physical well philosophical mysteries about machine chose press anyway came to making helix itself Continued page 174 December 1986 81 nis originai 1 1 onmon aAmecourt steam-powered helicopter model Musee de lAir Paris France Picture collection Georges Chaulet L JAMI SAMUE SAMU Bill ultimate pleasure receiving letter personal congratulations Henri Fabre himself Henri over 100 years old staunch supporter model building few qualified give eye-witness accounts pioneer aviation activities SHIPPING & HANDLING USA AZ RESIDENTS ADD $400 TAX JoGsErBoosTERTM PACE AGE CHARGING HAS ARRIVED Convenient solar charging will solve battery charging problems flying sight boosting batteries between flights SAFE 100 MA CHARGE RATE AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF AT FULL CHARGE HIGH EFFICIENCY UNDER CLOUDY CONDITIONS 4 CHARGES BOTH RX AND TX SIMULTANEOUSLY i FOR ALL POPULAR RADIO SYSTEMS USING 48 AND 96 VOLTS SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO Bell Rock Industries Sedona Arizona 86336 HANDY PLUG-IN CHARGING CORD # ADJUSTABLE ANGLE BRACKET i BUILT FOR EVERYDAY USE . RUGGED TWEIGHT EASY CARRY HANDLE FULL WARRANTY DEALERS INVITED 6486 Hwy 179 Suite 108 602 284-1808 powered three Ni-Cds turning 3-in prop Regarding green stuff commutator have tearing apart tiny motor can get hands lately find have similar problems Some come factory grease area have no brushes merely using spring-brass rubbers instead some have such small wire wound arma tures will barely turn over power applied have found some parts interchangeable Art Overn suggested Radio Shack motors find Stomper toy car motor much improved replacing rear end motor uses brushes instead brass leaves Jerryco 601 Linden Place Evanston IL 62204 neat surplus mail-order house sug gested reader name have misplaced am eternally grateful stocks little Mabuchi motors Stock No 4374 six two bucks have interchangeable assem bly fits Mabuchi unit Stomper type four-wheel-drive toy cars catch deal Jerryco charges three bucks postage handling has minimum order $10 However send catalog guarantee youll find 10 clams worth stuff just have have gear trains make winders WW II British helmets wear flying field Need inspiration John Grega Classic Era Modelpians 355 Grand Blvd Bedford OH 44146 will send Sample plan illustrated plans list send him dollar wont sorry doI guarantee kit fancier Dave Diels Engineering PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 has just supplemented plan line Boeing F4B/P-12C rubber kit having 15-in span Its dandy hes working kit No 2 Lavochkin LA-S FN/LA-7 124 scale Carlo Godel Velivoli 5726 Case Ave No Hollywood CA 91601 has drawn up eight aircraft three-views various Fikes should complete collection Send SASE complete list interesting three-views Italian accent flyer Rev W 0 Anderson RD 4 Box 4349 Mercer PA 16137 will send threepage rubber Weedhopper JC-24C plans Id say price bit high its too hard build capable QOS flights Its cutie-pie anyway Scale alive well Czechoslovakia Lubomir Koutny sends along results very impressive photos Scale ships us will never get see person Czech/Soviet Cup contest Nove Mesto Hall Slovakia saw 50 Peanuts topped Koutnys Monnet Sonerai doing 101 seconds son Peter won Junior 80 seconds Kalinin K-5 Other meets Indoors Prague Boleradice Hradec Kralove well-attended wide variety subjects flown including seaplanes vying Special Elbe Cup won HE-i 14 doing over 50 seconds outdoor Scale season e-scale rub ber ships started 28 high-quality models fighting wind Medlanky including Stran iks fine McDonnell XP-67 Kunert Vyso cans MC-202s Mertas Wildcat Sinoniks Arsenal VG-39c1 being representative variety hats off group terrific Scale modelers Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 Models History/Hannan Continued page 81 experienced difficulties found him self fabricating elaborate jigs fixtures required hours work made three attempts before finally com pleting workable assembly Applying tissue covering also proved formid able challenge eventually task completed model assembled rubber motor installed winding thing tricky First tests made models base taped drawing board Watching helix rotate rewarding looked like old-fashioned barber pole did displace air downward spite power increases other changes model would ascend Just fun Dick entered da Vinci Peanut Scale contest fared well static judging could manage official flight Its best slow descent 6-ft hand-launch about 25 sec As Johnny Clemens somewhat uncharitably remarked Inverted would make gcod well-digger project waste time Dick considers itto interesting modeling experiences firmly believe says proper Continued page 176 AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&8 FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Mlcrs-BaIIosss FILLER K&B SUPER POXY RESIN KaB SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT SB MIXING CUPS 174Model Aviation $7995 $450 FREE FLIGHT SUPPLIES FAI Rubber Japanese Tissue Rubber Lube Nitrate Dope Front End Bearings Assemblies Crocket Hooks DT Fuse KSB Timers Cox Engines & Parts Kits Blue Ridge Peck Midway Micro-x others PO Box 5996 Lake Worth FL 33461 CATALOG 5100 CONTIOLIII TEND PROFILECOMBA RA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE UNIILOI&ITIID3D Custom iig lush Ingredients detailed hrochura5OC stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8346 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-563-7169 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO APRIL 1O 11 & 12 1987 presented Weak Signals RIO Club Toledo Ohio power reaction provisions thing will climb am seriously considering addition Cox 0 10 run roadblocks meager undertakings get feeling Leonardo telling have much draw did shouldnt give up youre modeler youre part illustrious group has around least 2000 years includes some greatest minds world has known Its easy get touch modeling roots just take advice offered Law rence Hargrave 1907 Come boys read up subject make things fly author extends grateful thanks following valuable research sistance Richard Miller Domineck Pisano George Chaulet Hewitt Phillips JF Fm goli Leo Opdycke Bert Pond Eugene Husting Lauren S McCready Reg Parham John Brown Dr Robert B Allen Bill Stroman Dick Johnson Bruce Car michael Progress Flying Machines Octave Chanute 1894 reprinted 1976 Lawrence Hargrave Explorer Inventor & Aviation Experimenter W Hudson Shaw Olaf Ruhen 1977 Jai vu naitre L Aviation 1980 Henri Fabre exposition inrormation avaiiaoie D contacting Wayne Yeager co-director ticket address shown below ADVANCED TICKETS may ordered sending self-addressed-stamped busi ness size 4 x 9 envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 phone 313 941-6661 Canadian orders must contain International Postal Cou pon US Stamps orders above 5 tickets must contain extra postage Include check money order US funds made payable Weak Signals R/C Club along 25 cents per order handling charge must state expo days tickets used prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under Deadline ticket orders March 31 1987 Ticket sales final non rfr nrIhIQ Complete Book Model Aircraft Spacecraft Rockets Louis H Hertz 1967 Sir George Cayleys Aeronautics 17961855 CH Gibbs-Smith 1962 James Means problem Manflight James Howard Means 1964 Langley Memoir Mechanical Flight Part 1 SP Langley 1911 Commemorative Book Semi-Centennial Model Aviation Bert Pond 1976 Alphonse Penauds Letters Aeronau tics Pearl Young 1968 Langleys Model Aero Engine 1903 Robert B Meyer Jr 1976 FAC Nats/Noonan Continued page 92 limited rubber said Dennis pilot mechanics took time out adjustments last mass launch WW II Combat always popular 3 pm Goodnow called participants bullhorn Guys came points care fully carrying Thunderbolts Helicats Wildcats Mustangs sorts lesserknown designs gained fame between 1940 1945 Within hour heats completed Allan Lawton orders program will returned near mid-March Tickets also available door COMPETITION CLASS NON-MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules MILITARY SPORT SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PRECISION SCALE PLANE AMA Rules PATTERN PLANE SPORT MONO-PLANE non-scale models SPORT BI-PLANE non-scale models OLD TIMER FREE FLIGHT R/C ASSIST R/C SAILPLANE non-scale models COMPETITION BOAT MILITARY SCALE BOAT HELICOPTER PLEASURE POWER BOAT R/C CAR WORKING VESSEL-UNARMED beautiful colorful Kawasaki KI-6 1 Hem declared winner afternoon slowly drew close long shafts filtered sun cast bright green ribbons soft grass 6 pm field officials tabulated scores Bob Clemens called remaining modelers winners circle receive handsome Flying Aces Club award plaques Co-director Vet Thomas handed out plaques along sentimental handshake winner Lavender twi light closed silent field next day us would return present two days just spent time warp back 1 930s 1 940s will have pleasant memory Thanks Flying Aces CLWC General/Perkins Continued page 96 general gloom happily never present After dumping luggage quickly took off get look official com petition site about five kilometers hotel main com plex shows what can done club enthusiastic modelers some political fluence dose state sponsorship Two permanent model aircraft circles tethered-car circle lay edge Continued page 178 VERI #ERSA VIAL h 1 450A SOLID STATE DEVICE THAT WILL a& m Kit Vary Speed Brush Type Plus $250 Handling Motor Tools Ship per Unit ary Temperature Irons MANY USES AROUND THE HOME OR SHOP ISend Check orDealer Inquiries Invited Money Order Today No COD please 12OVACBRECHIN ENTERPRISES L~Ps 3514 Cardenis Ave imore Maryland 3-1129 176 Model Aviation US,AA7 AZROIA L-16fl/OIUP Open 8J Such. pewer 6090 U8AA1 VIJLTER N3-13 VALIABT open 8i juehes power 90-120 56 aquw foot plan aet S2d ca FThEROUSS C3LS120 ea AIRO PLANS N PARTS PO BdYL 939 NY 114760 372 CASE CHUCK 140hZ C2DER add 10% ahippLig