NEARLY ALL categories found governing pages AMA rule book have subject revisions new ideas concepts relating form model aircraft gradually evolve com petitive events Five years ago RC heli copters impractical Martian landing today skeptics eating hats would have believed P-nut scale would rage pylon freaks building Whatever case new concepts modifica tions old make hobby-sport interesting largest widening single category recent years appears have come scale events such P-nut elec tric scale Model viation Aug 76 top charts Scale modelers other type modeler seem thrive adversity whether culti vating new event searching design out norm havent already will probably run across modeler slaps down set self-drawn 3-views aircraft no has heard supposedly made short flight ah pick year year tucked away some barn Eastern Siberia sincere enthusiast threatens build man-size Sleek Streak may long before innova tive Xacto twiddlers have event fly being scale models manpowered aircraft MPA true comparatively few MPAs have built let alone flown growing interest man-powered flight movement United States dumb-founded modeler very likely find such project stimulating enough duplicate small such pioject now being tested Southern California Icarus manpowered aircraft designed Taras Ki ceniuk engineering student designer popular Icarus series rigid wing hand gliders have seen skim ming slopes across country Fellow aeronaut Bill Watson also played large 32 Model Aviation Dave Sacks controls Icarus towed above hard dry surface El Mirage dry lake about 20 mph Ship will cruise 3-foot alti tude designed skid around turns rather bankhence no ailerons Left Taras Kiceniuk inventor eyes small hole wing designer rigid wing Icarus hang gliders Right talented P-Nut RC glider flier Bill Watson tapes plastic drop bottom Icarus attempt reduce drag Below takeoff position Icarus wing barely clears ground JCAQUS Right constant-speed prop mounted metal tail boom through passes Joel Riemantail surface control cables prop drive serious contender win long-standing $87000 prize first man-powered craft achieve specified task unique California-built craft role creation aircraft putting nearly 600 hours some good ideas construction two ingenious avi ators hope become first accom plish unassisted man-powered flight United States goes well make attempt Kremer prize man-powered flight being offered Eng land through Royal Aeronautical Society Henry Kremer British industrialist first offered 5000 prize 1959 time could won citizens British Commonwealth ex plains British have great est success MPAs Today Kremer prize stands 50000 approximately $87000 US money depends continued page 86 Above Making prop adjustment Bill Wat son Taras 1 Sacks R Right Stands built make bottom ship accessible Below cabin its hot sitting closed car Death Valley Watson pumps fresh air cockpit keep Dave Sacks dehydrating 41 -foot wing consists 56 styrofoam blocks lightened glued together plus tapering 1-inch fir spar Above On tow deadstick prop Icarus skimming along ground effect Rules stipu late unassisted takeoff flight Fig 8 course around pylons 1/2 mile apart altitude 10 feet start finish current value English pound being offered anyone group can accomplish task rules stipulate unassisted man-powered take off flight figure-eight course around pylons set apart alti tude ten feet start finish course its superb dimensions clude huge stab Icarus should make fine flying scale model draw back would seem lack dihedral scale modelers gluttons punishment would probably over look minor detail fuselage full-size aircraft well model acts forward vertical fin tends keep aircraft overbanking somewhatjust dihedral would Icarus am happy say does have striking resemblance manpowered aircraft yet built airplane matter fact uniquely dif ferent respects obvious obvious just about slaps face being its low-lying wing designed fly ground effect Theo retically after aircraft crosses start height ten feet pre scribed Kremer rules will drop below three feet until reaching finish course pilot must again climb ten feet Because low cruise altitude intent aircraft skid around turns rather bank reason ailerons omitted design construction like everything else about Icarus bit unorthodox Most MPAs built up point have made balsa other woods exotic aircraft itself other hand Icarus employs some new tech niques Aside shape fuselage fairly basic its construction alumi num some foam used frame canopy section cabin home made pedalling device connected wheels also made aluminum built rigid structure large diameter aluminum tube extends rear cabin serve tail boom stabilizer made foam sheeting mounted end tube control cables running through control-handle bars tail boom also serves shaft around wide bladed constant-rpm airscrew rotates prop connected bicycle sprocket array plastic chains do-dads running directions inside fuselage shell As pilot increases power prop swings out increasing pitch holding rpm constant speed reverse true pilot slows down pace reducing power wing another story completely made up 56 individual styrofoam blocks cut out hot wire around tem plates Bill Watson Lightening holes cut both sides hollow block glued together time completed wing spanned 41 feet planned wing tip supported small wheel built tip spar wing piece X /2 Douglas Fir tapering spar said good two 6s shall see entire wing fuselage covered total 60 rolls red blue transparent solarfilm re spectively graciously donated project Pactra fine company deserves lot credit kind support helps make aero nautical endeavors such possible El Mirage dry lake Californias Mojave Desert set scene August 1st testing Taras Kiceniuks flying machine first time out Icarus fitted high-aspect wood prop turned out very inefficient stalled about its expected thrust prop replaced aforementioned foam propeller proved much efficient Several little things done such modifying wing fillets fairings resulted less drag Since search still suitable pilot flying experience strength endurance Tarzan fitting proportions jockey Taras Bill closest thing above de scription available Dave Sacks suffice Dave bicycling enthusiast now then now glider pilot some practice will defi nitely able get Icarus off ground Taras Bill Dave flew craft towed off ground small motorcycle about 20 mph method gives pilot chance feel out air craft get used controls thing gone planned Icarus seemed very stable willing fly As Dave Sacks began accelerate attempt unassisted flight sprocket broke put ting end days testing time writing yet unassisted man-powered flight United States time article print Icarus may have accom plished goal Turner Racer/Berliner continued page 50 plans kits models racing planes drawings shipped Barlow Browns California plant expected build winner six months give take few panics very first panic erupted package plans opened Brown chief engineer Dan Halloway thunder-struck design considered totally impractical put politely Despite Turners insistence designed airplane much tested wind tun nel Brown flatly refused build little time left Roscoe aware Browns fine reputation gave First go tubby fuselage replaced slim tapered full four feet longer Brown retained original Barlow wing little en thusiasm knowing lack both area stabilitybut Turner insist ent least until grand argument began led smashing old wing designing new greater span greater area effi 86 Model Aviation Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST B/C BASIC TBAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BA Yand dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Ete 1& North St Topsfield Mass 01883 887-8541 Icarus/Rieman continued page 33 Price $3495 kit per dollar bar em alt
Edition: Model Aviation - 1977/03
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 86
NEARLY ALL categories found governing pages AMA rule book have subject revisions new ideas concepts relating form model aircraft gradually evolve com petitive events Five years ago RC heli copters impractical Martian landing today skeptics eating hats would have believed P-nut scale would rage pylon freaks building Whatever case new concepts modifica tions old make hobby-sport interesting largest widening single category recent years appears have come scale events such P-nut elec tric scale Model viation Aug 76 top charts Scale modelers other type modeler seem thrive adversity whether culti vating new event searching design out norm havent already will probably run across modeler slaps down set self-drawn 3-views aircraft no has heard supposedly made short flight ah pick year year tucked away some barn Eastern Siberia sincere enthusiast threatens build man-size Sleek Streak may long before innova tive Xacto twiddlers have event fly being scale models manpowered aircraft MPA true comparatively few MPAs have built let alone flown growing interest man-powered flight movement United States dumb-founded modeler very likely find such project stimulating enough duplicate small such pioject now being tested Southern California Icarus manpowered aircraft designed Taras Ki ceniuk engineering student designer popular Icarus series rigid wing hand gliders have seen skim ming slopes across country Fellow aeronaut Bill Watson also played large 32 Model Aviation Dave Sacks controls Icarus towed above hard dry surface El Mirage dry lake about 20 mph Ship will cruise 3-foot alti tude designed skid around turns rather bankhence no ailerons Left Taras Kiceniuk inventor eyes small hole wing designer rigid wing Icarus hang gliders Right talented P-Nut RC glider flier Bill Watson tapes plastic drop bottom Icarus attempt reduce drag Below takeoff position Icarus wing barely clears ground JCAQUS Right constant-speed prop mounted metal tail boom through passes Joel Riemantail surface control cables prop drive serious contender win long-standing $87000 prize first man-powered craft achieve specified task unique California-built craft role creation aircraft putting nearly 600 hours some good ideas construction two ingenious avi ators hope become first accom plish unassisted man-powered flight United States goes well make attempt Kremer prize man-powered flight being offered Eng land through Royal Aeronautical Society Henry Kremer British industrialist first offered 5000 prize 1959 time could won citizens British Commonwealth ex plains British have great est success MPAs Today Kremer prize stands 50000 approximately $87000 US money depends continued page 86 Above Making prop adjustment Bill Wat son Taras 1 Sacks R Right Stands built make bottom ship accessible Below cabin its hot sitting closed car Death Valley Watson pumps fresh air cockpit keep Dave Sacks dehydrating 41 -foot wing consists 56 styrofoam blocks lightened glued together plus tapering 1-inch fir spar Above On tow deadstick prop Icarus skimming along ground effect Rules stipu late unassisted takeoff flight Fig 8 course around pylons 1/2 mile apart altitude 10 feet start finish current value English pound being offered anyone group can accomplish task rules stipulate unassisted man-powered take off flight figure-eight course around pylons set apart alti tude ten feet start finish course its superb dimensions clude huge stab Icarus should make fine flying scale model draw back would seem lack dihedral scale modelers gluttons punishment would probably over look minor detail fuselage full-size aircraft well model acts forward vertical fin tends keep aircraft overbanking somewhatjust dihedral would Icarus am happy say does have striking resemblance manpowered aircraft yet built airplane matter fact uniquely dif ferent respects obvious obvious just about slaps face being its low-lying wing designed fly ground effect Theo retically after aircraft crosses start height ten feet pre scribed Kremer rules will drop below three feet until reaching finish course pilot must again climb ten feet Because low cruise altitude intent aircraft skid around turns rather bank reason ailerons omitted design construction like everything else about Icarus bit unorthodox Most MPAs built up point have made balsa other woods exotic aircraft itself other hand Icarus employs some new tech niques Aside shape fuselage fairly basic its construction alumi num some foam used frame canopy section cabin home made pedalling device connected wheels also made aluminum built rigid structure large diameter aluminum tube extends rear cabin serve tail boom stabilizer made foam sheeting mounted end tube control cables running through control-handle bars tail boom also serves shaft around wide bladed constant-rpm airscrew rotates prop connected bicycle sprocket array plastic chains do-dads running directions inside fuselage shell As pilot increases power prop swings out increasing pitch holding rpm constant speed reverse true pilot slows down pace reducing power wing another story completely made up 56 individual styrofoam blocks cut out hot wire around tem plates Bill Watson Lightening holes cut both sides hollow block glued together time completed wing spanned 41 feet planned wing tip supported small wheel built tip spar wing piece X /2 Douglas Fir tapering spar said good two 6s shall see entire wing fuselage covered total 60 rolls red blue transparent solarfilm re spectively graciously donated project Pactra fine company deserves lot credit kind support helps make aero nautical endeavors such possible El Mirage dry lake Californias Mojave Desert set scene August 1st testing Taras Kiceniuks flying machine first time out Icarus fitted high-aspect wood prop turned out very inefficient stalled about its expected thrust prop replaced aforementioned foam propeller proved much efficient Several little things done such modifying wing fillets fairings resulted less drag Since search still suitable pilot flying experience strength endurance Tarzan fitting proportions jockey Taras Bill closest thing above de scription available Dave Sacks suffice Dave bicycling enthusiast now then now glider pilot some practice will defi nitely able get Icarus off ground Taras Bill Dave flew craft towed off ground small motorcycle about 20 mph method gives pilot chance feel out air craft get used controls thing gone planned Icarus seemed very stable willing fly As Dave Sacks began accelerate attempt unassisted flight sprocket broke put ting end days testing time writing yet unassisted man-powered flight United States time article print Icarus may have accom plished goal Turner Racer/Berliner continued page 50 plans kits models racing planes drawings shipped Barlow Browns California plant expected build winner six months give take few panics very first panic erupted package plans opened Brown chief engineer Dan Halloway thunder-struck design considered totally impractical put politely Despite Turners insistence designed airplane much tested wind tun nel Brown flatly refused build little time left Roscoe aware Browns fine reputation gave First go tubby fuselage replaced slim tapered full four feet longer Brown retained original Barlow wing little en thusiasm knowing lack both area stabilitybut Turner insist ent least until grand argument began led smashing old wing designing new greater span greater area effi 86 Model Aviation Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST B/C BASIC TBAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BA Yand dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Ete 1& North St Topsfield Mass 01883 887-8541 Icarus/Rieman continued page 33 Price $3495 kit per dollar bar em alt
Edition: Model Aviation - 1977/03
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 86
NEARLY ALL categories found governing pages AMA rule book have subject revisions new ideas concepts relating form model aircraft gradually evolve com petitive events Five years ago RC heli copters impractical Martian landing today skeptics eating hats would have believed P-nut scale would rage pylon freaks building Whatever case new concepts modifica tions old make hobby-sport interesting largest widening single category recent years appears have come scale events such P-nut elec tric scale Model viation Aug 76 top charts Scale modelers other type modeler seem thrive adversity whether culti vating new event searching design out norm havent already will probably run across modeler slaps down set self-drawn 3-views aircraft no has heard supposedly made short flight ah pick year year tucked away some barn Eastern Siberia sincere enthusiast threatens build man-size Sleek Streak may long before innova tive Xacto twiddlers have event fly being scale models manpowered aircraft MPA true comparatively few MPAs have built let alone flown growing interest man-powered flight movement United States dumb-founded modeler very likely find such project stimulating enough duplicate small such pioject now being tested Southern California Icarus manpowered aircraft designed Taras Ki ceniuk engineering student designer popular Icarus series rigid wing hand gliders have seen skim ming slopes across country Fellow aeronaut Bill Watson also played large 32 Model Aviation Dave Sacks controls Icarus towed above hard dry surface El Mirage dry lake about 20 mph Ship will cruise 3-foot alti tude designed skid around turns rather bankhence no ailerons Left Taras Kiceniuk inventor eyes small hole wing designer rigid wing Icarus hang gliders Right talented P-Nut RC glider flier Bill Watson tapes plastic drop bottom Icarus attempt reduce drag Below takeoff position Icarus wing barely clears ground JCAQUS Right constant-speed prop mounted metal tail boom through passes Joel Riemantail surface control cables prop drive serious contender win long-standing $87000 prize first man-powered craft achieve specified task unique California-built craft role creation aircraft putting nearly 600 hours some good ideas construction two ingenious avi ators hope become first accom plish unassisted man-powered flight United States goes well make attempt Kremer prize man-powered flight being offered Eng land through Royal Aeronautical Society Henry Kremer British industrialist first offered 5000 prize 1959 time could won citizens British Commonwealth ex plains British have great est success MPAs Today Kremer prize stands 50000 approximately $87000 US money depends continued page 86 Above Making prop adjustment Bill Wat son Taras 1 Sacks R Right Stands built make bottom ship accessible Below cabin its hot sitting closed car Death Valley Watson pumps fresh air cockpit keep Dave Sacks dehydrating 41 -foot wing consists 56 styrofoam blocks lightened glued together plus tapering 1-inch fir spar Above On tow deadstick prop Icarus skimming along ground effect Rules stipu late unassisted takeoff flight Fig 8 course around pylons 1/2 mile apart altitude 10 feet start finish current value English pound being offered anyone group can accomplish task rules stipulate unassisted man-powered take off flight figure-eight course around pylons set apart alti tude ten feet start finish course its superb dimensions clude huge stab Icarus should make fine flying scale model draw back would seem lack dihedral scale modelers gluttons punishment would probably over look minor detail fuselage full-size aircraft well model acts forward vertical fin tends keep aircraft overbanking somewhatjust dihedral would Icarus am happy say does have striking resemblance manpowered aircraft yet built airplane matter fact uniquely dif ferent respects obvious obvious just about slaps face being its low-lying wing designed fly ground effect Theo retically after aircraft crosses start height ten feet pre scribed Kremer rules will drop below three feet until reaching finish course pilot must again climb ten feet Because low cruise altitude intent aircraft skid around turns rather bank reason ailerons omitted design construction like everything else about Icarus bit unorthodox Most MPAs built up point have made balsa other woods exotic aircraft itself other hand Icarus employs some new tech niques Aside shape fuselage fairly basic its construction alumi num some foam used frame canopy section cabin home made pedalling device connected wheels also made aluminum built rigid structure large diameter aluminum tube extends rear cabin serve tail boom stabilizer made foam sheeting mounted end tube control cables running through control-handle bars tail boom also serves shaft around wide bladed constant-rpm airscrew rotates prop connected bicycle sprocket array plastic chains do-dads running directions inside fuselage shell As pilot increases power prop swings out increasing pitch holding rpm constant speed reverse true pilot slows down pace reducing power wing another story completely made up 56 individual styrofoam blocks cut out hot wire around tem plates Bill Watson Lightening holes cut both sides hollow block glued together time completed wing spanned 41 feet planned wing tip supported small wheel built tip spar wing piece X /2 Douglas Fir tapering spar said good two 6s shall see entire wing fuselage covered total 60 rolls red blue transparent solarfilm re spectively graciously donated project Pactra fine company deserves lot credit kind support helps make aero nautical endeavors such possible El Mirage dry lake Californias Mojave Desert set scene August 1st testing Taras Kiceniuks flying machine first time out Icarus fitted high-aspect wood prop turned out very inefficient stalled about its expected thrust prop replaced aforementioned foam propeller proved much efficient Several little things done such modifying wing fillets fairings resulted less drag Since search still suitable pilot flying experience strength endurance Tarzan fitting proportions jockey Taras Bill closest thing above de scription available Dave Sacks suffice Dave bicycling enthusiast now then now glider pilot some practice will defi nitely able get Icarus off ground Taras Bill Dave flew craft towed off ground small motorcycle about 20 mph method gives pilot chance feel out air craft get used controls thing gone planned Icarus seemed very stable willing fly As Dave Sacks began accelerate attempt unassisted flight sprocket broke put ting end days testing time writing yet unassisted man-powered flight United States time article print Icarus may have accom plished goal Turner Racer/Berliner continued page 50 plans kits models racing planes drawings shipped Barlow Browns California plant expected build winner six months give take few panics very first panic erupted package plans opened Brown chief engineer Dan Halloway thunder-struck design considered totally impractical put politely Despite Turners insistence designed airplane much tested wind tun nel Brown flatly refused build little time left Roscoe aware Browns fine reputation gave First go tubby fuselage replaced slim tapered full four feet longer Brown retained original Barlow wing little en thusiasm knowing lack both area stabilitybut Turner insist ent least until grand argument began led smashing old wing designing new greater span greater area effi 86 Model Aviation Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST B/C BASIC TBAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BA Yand dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Ete 1& North St Topsfield Mass 01883 887-8541 Icarus/Rieman continued page 33 Price $3495 kit per dollar bar em alt