WE HAVE MIXED EMOTIONS about monster airplane Sheer size smoothes things out flying has uncanny feeling being real aircraft although left left right right Kipling put never two shall meet Perhaps Aristocrat will get us before flying season over have just two flights year late May turned 1943 Vagabond FF RC assist modified cruise soar rather spiral upwards days yore sight sound big electric Spitfire really Srulls Astro 15 belt-drive Airtronics radio small servoswhich does nothing fly around greater majesty sounding like muted Merlin up 10 minutes now switch switch ofttouches us mysterious way focused Sig Kadet II because years lazy flying have ruined ability fly stick thrill Aristocrat comes taxies Out little throttle spurts rumbling Tartan think its designer test pilots folks lived real ones 1929-30 have brought life something another day Spooky people Notes Tartan have letters delightful engine ever owned machined extension shaft permit scale Warner engine greatly smoothes out small amount vibration engine small light compact runs starts like charmand flies huge Aristocrat quiver Like big engines does require much oil can run nitro though low percen tage 2 3% makes reliable idle have using K&B 5% glow fuel normal oil contentwhich very high Tartan Tartan requires 8% oil Last year since 6800 rpm 18 x 6 sparkling red-and-white Vagabond second owned RO pioneerHarveyThomasianofNorthboro MAhasjustbeenrelicensed after one-year rebuild Its much better new says Harvey got rid old tires partsold tires go close $100 change pants wheels picked up 4 mph bring attention some strange features described text Harvey holding back stick spring-loaded stick makes Vagabonds sit flippers up Note wing sits flat 4 degrees negative stab severe wing twist imparted rear-struts Youll never drop tipl Bill Winters shop pix note L-shaped piece aluminum hardware store clamped along front edge cabin serving excellent sighting point lining up stab extending back measuring stickat right anglestrom measured points aluminum precise alignment stabilizer wing spars readily checked manyangularbreaks longeronathata lightweightT shaped keel run down middle jig checking points leave place added strength Harvey shared design adventures Bill Winter Hal deBolt nearly 30 years ago Vagabond frolic brought together again As member Flying Aces gang Connecticut has building Peanut Embryo stuff now back RO 16 Model Aviation BillWinter41UM Anyone prop carving John Walker spotted 110-ft diametertwo-bladerat Boone NC Word big fan replaced fiberglass because raises hob TV reception area note what appears power lines overhead Myron Pickard Fiberglass Master recently spent two days Bill Winter Maule Quarter Scale recalled experimental glass Control Line Stunter built up such charge fiberglass builds up retains charge painful hang onto handleturns taken may long way Walkers propwed drive nine-cylinder Kiorltzbut some folks grow suspicious about distance power line arc jumping model wires wonder model doesnt contribute something say less can see power lines dont fly Maybe should forget non-conductive linesif juice acquires direction thats seem know less did 25 years ago about problem Guys still get zapped Cedric Galloway man cant afford know trails have crossed times remarkable Californian seems like distant memberof family long ago pushed off Gold Rush always has After built first model 1915 author three-year-old toddler say Great Lakes us well answer instantly Ced Galloway say Galloway well respond Great Lakes perhaps betterpre-kit story before put together word warning pieces Goldberg used Valkyrie left AMA sought time compile forAMAfiles data significant old-timers inevitable departures much treasure frittered away modeling has created its own Lost Dutchman Mine Alas Patriarchs dont come forward own handful old-timers now know hazily pioneers what did So can help dozen tried Ced does about everyfive years wrote us mentioning another overlooked great chap Jim Home successful contractor model lover pilot collector basket-case real aircraft rebuilds side Jim operates Historic Aviation r supplier aeronautical books ads catalogues must have seen fact just bought forsi 250 remarkable book four-color 3-views An Encyclopedia Propeller Driven Airliners knowing whence came Jim turn put us onto Ced Gallowayl So days says Ced inspired piano-top picture Army Signal Corps pilot thats what airforce called generals considered airplane tripod married dads cousin National Geographic pictures WW airplanes eager look through issue search new airplane picture Austin MN didnt havean airport didntsee real airplane until kindergarten Across street school Ced continues old auto repair shop out back remains old biplane uncovered wings leaned against wall bare-bones fuselage engine wheels lay next spent great deal time crawling around framework always got scolding coming straight home school no model shop days before magazine communica tions Ced sent away Ideal some other mail order firm Later American Boy source construction plans Before Model Airplane News came out 1929 read American Boy 16 Jim Home opened basement model shop fact Ced taught him make ROG Fifty-one years ago Ced soloed Kinner powered Swallow biplane Ced gave Jim first ridein Great Lakes course Whenever Jim 50 cents hed come out airport Ced would give him dollar ride Ced retired six years spent 34 years Lockheed first construction department during war final assembly customer service last 20 years spent model departmentwe may assume Ced Bob Palmer knew other because Bobs great love working preliminary design engineering Ced has afewfirsts credit model form built first 104 C-i 30 53A Ced RC Scale stretch 1955 1975 relates building solid-scale sol didnt participate flying contests put out know-how came building flying models have great deal learn get model built will fly well RC dont think has much problem Laterthis year will have finished -Scale Travelair Mystery Ship R61 4K After comes 1/5th-scale Great Lakes Reminded Great Lakes Ced allows Yes Great Lakes timefavorite airplanesThe photo have present onetaken friend trying out roll high-speed film light flourescent lamp over head drawing plans 1/5th-scale RC Great Lakes Great Lakes beside 1/10th-scale electricpowered Free Flight Youll note GL olderthan bulbous-nosed ones common kits evidently Ceds favoriteand story reason sweep GL got CG wrong place sweep possible fix Some fixl Some airplanel Biplane sweep figures great aerobatics fighteraircraft As Ced says Enjoy allowed run bit rich smoked Yesterday leaned out revs found already peaked rich high oil content causes smoke confuses familiar signals can lean too much still smokesand presumably guys screw needle too much cant get full power Harry Roe World Engines says have interesting theory prefers run tests check Weve purchased two gallons 15% nitro fuel two gallons straight methanol mixed cut oil content half methanol achieved greater economy 7% nitro resulting should offset two additional pounds dummy engine etc gross 28 pounds run straight glow lots oil get good rpm rich side use tach monitor rpm set leaner max rpm drop off bit would glow engine definitive yet standhappily add Note now ignition Tartan well building Piper Vagabond -scale September 1981 17 Ced built tfliS 1/2-ln solid ireat Lakes 21-I Aalter full-scale jobfor good friend Jim Home Made 1935 suggests Ced made progress 17 years imaginative wood crate Great Lakes Man mw photo nail-together water-colored biplanes L R Howard Bailey Cedric Galloway Warren Galloway front Howard Chuck Hall Chuck awaits Delta Dartl two Hall boys cousins Jim Home story still live Austin aero minded March 1979 Ced drawing 1/5-scale RC Great Lakes beside him 1/10-scale electric Free Flight Hes almost finished 1/4-scale Travel-Air Mystery Ship 110w tong does Jumbo Rubber job last Bill Gough has flying stick-and-tissue Monocoupe yellow red license numbers 16 years Hasnt used first pint fuel Below interesting design impressive flyer Illinois Model Airplane Club Boston ian event early year Goughs V4-oz biplane huge box tail stubby 4-bladed 6-in paddle turning 600 rpm Bostonian brings Out greatest assortment original brain storms loads fun gremlins howl rule changes Good beginnings dont necessarily make good endingsendless rule changes top medieval alchemists dreams make stones out gold seven feet plus hopefully no 1518 pounds 0 S 90 goes quickly shop small reduction size reduces work time least third suspect still model-like straight 60 say 15 lbs would better suited psychology fly just well blood oath will finish thing must fly building pay off youre like build enjoy flying Piper Vagabond unique strange beast What makes unique its universality good flier types sizes short would like plans forthis nifty blue yellow bird escapement rudder-only job built Hank Bourgeois 1952 entered 53 Nats never chance due unreliable radio today itwould great asathree-channei less dihedral ailerons well anyone knows Hanks whereabouts please advise Willow Grove Nats Hank Marine Major top rank station put Admirals suite frig full cold cold beer N N N-N -N N- N SHOWMASTER Fred Fehlings redesigned Willard Showmaster full-span flaps gilds lily because Kens model flew out driveway maneuvers tiny tree-lined space landed slowly dime Fred trims flaps slightly up high-speed cruise will make rub eyes descends 2-to 3-to-i LD approach deadstick Full bore its TD 049 maximum flaps can imagined Flap range 10 degrees reflex up 70 degrees down Since M E N Trainer first cousin Kens Showmaster produced low-wing Minimousestang bananawing could makea magnificentSTOLaircraftbycopying Fehlingsflapsand playing around some tie-in elevator portion trim associated flap movement Flaps real high-wing cabin jobs notably late Stinsons produce servere nose-up requires stiffarming wheel furiously crank trim guaranteed way drive fellow fliers ga-ga Fehling photos coupled wide chord generous wing area Tail surfaces can scale Peanut almost unbeatable rubber competitive Lacey Fike Ailerons practically full span almost strip-like stable Free Flight good Control Line subject made order Radio Control aerobatics Its box no ever made Scale model thing worth hoot insofar measurements detailing etc concerned sides parallel 3-views show us Width bottom longerons greater top forward cabin area narrower rear cabin Longerons break sharply inwards top roughly i chord bottom also breaks farther forward gear profile long sweeping curve build numerous sharp longeron breaks both side top bottom Structure virtually devoid 90-degree cross pieces Scale incidence stabilizer fat negative four degrees wing set flat Tips twisted three degrees negative built rear struts just know CG has far forward probably 20% chord such angular difference good trim speed can upset power variations Piper cut eight feet off Cub wing hence low-aspect wing Vagabond nose heavy stick spring -loaded Vagabonds sit ground up elevator Wed call over-stable problem having enough elevator power hold nose off landing Rear stick loads must have heavy Oddly hours real Vagabond ship among 25 perhaps 30 lightplanes flying characteristics now blank thing prevented abandoning good -Scalen rigging scared daylights Out ofus have mimic Aeronca Continued page 105 purIwnu .uui arouna Pompan aeach FL pink ck~ . unique pod-and-boom Pelican r 72-in Top Cat solid balsa undercambered wing Tail boom hardwood pod balsa Power exhaust-restrictor throttled Cox Medallion 15 wanted keep engine out dirt theres will theres way 18 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will 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got things sorted out Flaps marvy eye-catching write-up Ken Willards Showmaster prompted scrounge up photos Suspender writes Fred Fehling Massapequa NY original based Kens delightful lightweight After friend worn out two Sbowmasters figured something special about bird goofy airfoil little little undercamber good lot could interesting wrote MEN already did something about expressed wish 19powered banana-wing 6-footer slow-fly trainer saw 60-powered bomb bananawing original trace trim problems wide power variations went master himself Ken advises design conceived close-flying want high maneuverability low landing speed Landing street front house meant threading model through trees either side requiring approach fairly good speed could react quickly side gusts might throw model toward branch Ken told us other thing end street 100 feet driveway model able slow down rapidly thats high undercamber became effective coincidence page facing item Top Flite bad full-page ad Trainaire series designed have family resemblance Showmaster main difference being wing sections MEN did buy Minimousetang nothing low-wing Showmaster exactly same wing Febling redesigned wing full-span nononsense flaps controlled separate servo reflex about 10 degrees droop about 70 effect plane light devastating love exclaims aircraft flown rudder elevator flaps TD 049 throttle Fred explains Takeoffs moderate flap deflec don instantaneous although climb-out best zero flaps Top end increased remarkably slight reflex full flaps full power well now know named Suspender Full-flap deadstick ap proaches would produce LD about 2- 3to-i full control plane can truly flown anywhere next design Fred continues though flapless still banana-winged sort plane can fly day after day tiring its habits still flying after six years As related original story opportunity flying diesel-powered Showmas ter withjust rudder elevators trimmed went like blue blazes step responses delightfully smooth genuine sense tooling things about came fast firm parafoil-like depending elevator still think far best 2- 3-channel machine have seen including own Authors Note As go press Harry Roe advises few Tartans came through undersized muffler holes hence did yield full power proper hole size 1/4 Out curiosity removed thinwalled exhaust extension picked up immediate 100 rpm evident monster engines introduce elements dont deal ordinary models witnessed near-crash Quadra-powered Stinson due lack power replace ment engine used result same Experts offered no answers learned some Quadras came through improper gap settings under 005 almost closed Opened 015 both engines ran perfectly gap-checked Quadra 025we told should 015 consulted Beckman shouldnot Winter says ignition engines should gap-checked before use Quadra excellent engine wide use comments engine dont guarantee wont require some analysis part Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfa VA 22030 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT 106 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/09
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 105, 106
WE HAVE MIXED EMOTIONS about monster airplane Sheer size smoothes things out flying has uncanny feeling being real aircraft although left left right right Kipling put never two shall meet Perhaps Aristocrat will get us before flying season over have just two flights year late May turned 1943 Vagabond FF RC assist modified cruise soar rather spiral upwards days yore sight sound big electric Spitfire really Srulls Astro 15 belt-drive Airtronics radio small servoswhich does nothing fly around greater majesty sounding like muted Merlin up 10 minutes now switch switch ofttouches us mysterious way focused Sig Kadet II because years lazy flying have ruined ability fly stick thrill Aristocrat comes taxies Out little throttle spurts rumbling Tartan think its designer test pilots folks lived real ones 1929-30 have brought life something another day Spooky people Notes Tartan have letters delightful engine ever owned machined extension shaft permit scale Warner engine greatly smoothes out small amount vibration engine small light compact runs starts like charmand flies huge Aristocrat quiver Like big engines does require much oil can run nitro though low percen tage 2 3% makes reliable idle have using K&B 5% glow fuel normal oil contentwhich very high Tartan Tartan requires 8% oil Last year since 6800 rpm 18 x 6 sparkling red-and-white Vagabond second owned RO pioneerHarveyThomasianofNorthboro MAhasjustbeenrelicensed after one-year rebuild Its much better new says Harvey got rid old tires partsold tires go close $100 change pants wheels picked up 4 mph bring attention some strange features described text Harvey holding back stick spring-loaded stick makes Vagabonds sit flippers up Note wing sits flat 4 degrees negative stab severe wing twist imparted rear-struts Youll never drop tipl Bill Winters shop pix note L-shaped piece aluminum hardware store clamped along front edge cabin serving excellent sighting point lining up stab extending back measuring stickat right anglestrom measured points aluminum precise alignment stabilizer wing spars readily checked manyangularbreaks longeronathata lightweightT shaped keel run down middle jig checking points leave place added strength Harvey shared design adventures Bill Winter Hal deBolt nearly 30 years ago Vagabond frolic brought together again As member Flying Aces gang Connecticut has building Peanut Embryo stuff now back RO 16 Model Aviation BillWinter41UM Anyone prop carving John Walker spotted 110-ft diametertwo-bladerat Boone NC Word big fan replaced fiberglass because raises hob TV reception area note what appears power lines overhead Myron Pickard Fiberglass Master recently spent two days Bill Winter Maule Quarter Scale recalled experimental glass Control Line Stunter built up such charge fiberglass builds up retains charge painful hang onto handleturns taken may long way Walkers propwed drive nine-cylinder Kiorltzbut some folks grow suspicious about distance power line arc jumping model wires wonder model doesnt contribute something say less can see power lines dont fly Maybe should forget non-conductive linesif juice acquires direction thats seem know less did 25 years ago about problem Guys still get zapped Cedric Galloway man cant afford know trails have crossed times remarkable Californian seems like distant memberof family long ago pushed off Gold Rush always has After built first model 1915 author three-year-old toddler say Great Lakes us well answer instantly Ced Galloway say Galloway well respond Great Lakes perhaps betterpre-kit story before put together word warning pieces Goldberg used Valkyrie left AMA sought time compile forAMAfiles data significant old-timers inevitable departures much treasure frittered away modeling has created its own Lost Dutchman Mine Alas Patriarchs dont come forward own handful old-timers now know hazily pioneers what did So can help dozen tried Ced does about everyfive years wrote us mentioning another overlooked great chap Jim Home successful contractor model lover pilot collector basket-case real aircraft rebuilds side Jim operates Historic Aviation r supplier aeronautical books ads catalogues must have seen fact just bought forsi 250 remarkable book four-color 3-views An Encyclopedia Propeller Driven Airliners knowing whence came Jim turn put us onto Ced Gallowayl So days says Ced inspired piano-top picture Army Signal Corps pilot thats what airforce called generals considered airplane tripod married dads cousin National Geographic pictures WW airplanes eager look through issue search new airplane picture Austin MN didnt havean airport didntsee real airplane until kindergarten Across street school Ced continues old auto repair shop out back remains old biplane uncovered wings leaned against wall bare-bones fuselage engine wheels lay next spent great deal time crawling around framework always got scolding coming straight home school no model shop days before magazine communica tions Ced sent away Ideal some other mail order firm Later American Boy source construction plans Before Model Airplane News came out 1929 read American Boy 16 Jim Home opened basement model shop fact Ced taught him make ROG Fifty-one years ago Ced soloed Kinner powered Swallow biplane Ced gave Jim first ridein Great Lakes course Whenever Jim 50 cents hed come out airport Ced would give him dollar ride Ced retired six years spent 34 years Lockheed first construction department during war final assembly customer service last 20 years spent model departmentwe may assume Ced Bob Palmer knew other because Bobs great love working preliminary design engineering Ced has afewfirsts credit model form built first 104 C-i 30 53A Ced RC Scale stretch 1955 1975 relates building solid-scale sol didnt participate flying contests put out know-how came building flying models have great deal learn get model built will fly well RC dont think has much problem Laterthis year will have finished -Scale Travelair Mystery Ship R61 4K After comes 1/5th-scale Great Lakes Reminded Great Lakes Ced allows Yes Great Lakes timefavorite airplanesThe photo have present onetaken friend trying out roll high-speed film light flourescent lamp over head drawing plans 1/5th-scale RC Great Lakes Great Lakes beside 1/10th-scale electricpowered Free Flight Youll note GL olderthan bulbous-nosed ones common kits evidently Ceds favoriteand story reason sweep GL got CG wrong place sweep possible fix Some fixl Some airplanel Biplane sweep figures great aerobatics fighteraircraft As Ced says Enjoy allowed run bit rich smoked Yesterday leaned out revs found already peaked rich high oil content causes smoke confuses familiar signals can lean too much still smokesand presumably guys screw needle too much cant get full power Harry Roe World Engines says have interesting theory prefers run tests check Weve purchased two gallons 15% nitro fuel two gallons straight methanol mixed cut oil content half methanol achieved greater economy 7% nitro resulting should offset two additional pounds dummy engine etc gross 28 pounds run straight glow lots oil get good rpm rich side use tach monitor rpm set leaner max rpm drop off bit would glow engine definitive yet standhappily add Note now ignition Tartan well building Piper Vagabond -scale September 1981 17 Ced built tfliS 1/2-ln solid ireat Lakes 21-I Aalter full-scale jobfor good friend Jim Home Made 1935 suggests Ced made progress 17 years imaginative wood crate Great Lakes Man mw photo nail-together water-colored biplanes L R Howard Bailey Cedric Galloway Warren Galloway front Howard Chuck Hall Chuck awaits Delta Dartl two Hall boys cousins Jim Home story still live Austin aero minded March 1979 Ced drawing 1/5-scale RC Great Lakes beside him 1/10-scale electric Free Flight Hes almost finished 1/4-scale Travel-Air Mystery Ship 110w tong does Jumbo Rubber job last Bill Gough has flying stick-and-tissue Monocoupe yellow red license numbers 16 years Hasnt used first pint fuel Below interesting design impressive flyer Illinois Model Airplane Club Boston ian event early year Goughs V4-oz biplane huge box tail stubby 4-bladed 6-in paddle turning 600 rpm Bostonian brings Out greatest assortment original brain storms loads fun gremlins howl rule changes Good beginnings dont necessarily make good endingsendless rule changes top medieval alchemists dreams make stones out gold seven feet plus hopefully no 1518 pounds 0 S 90 goes quickly shop small reduction size reduces work time least third suspect still model-like straight 60 say 15 lbs would better suited psychology fly just well blood oath will finish thing must fly building pay off youre like build enjoy flying Piper Vagabond unique strange beast What makes unique its universality good flier types sizes short would like plans forthis nifty blue yellow bird escapement rudder-only job built Hank Bourgeois 1952 entered 53 Nats never chance due unreliable radio today itwould great asathree-channei less dihedral ailerons well anyone knows Hanks whereabouts please advise Willow Grove Nats Hank Marine Major top rank station put Admirals suite frig full cold cold beer N N N-N -N N- N SHOWMASTER Fred Fehlings redesigned Willard Showmaster full-span flaps gilds lily because Kens model flew out driveway maneuvers tiny tree-lined space landed slowly dime Fred trims flaps slightly up high-speed cruise will make rub eyes descends 2-to 3-to-i LD approach deadstick Full bore its TD 049 maximum flaps can imagined Flap range 10 degrees reflex up 70 degrees down Since M E N Trainer first cousin Kens Showmaster produced low-wing Minimousestang bananawing could makea magnificentSTOLaircraftbycopying Fehlingsflapsand playing around some tie-in elevator portion trim associated flap movement Flaps real high-wing cabin jobs notably late Stinsons produce servere nose-up requires stiffarming wheel furiously crank trim guaranteed way drive fellow fliers ga-ga Fehling photos coupled wide chord generous wing area Tail surfaces can scale Peanut almost unbeatable rubber competitive Lacey Fike Ailerons practically full span almost strip-like stable Free Flight good Control Line subject made order Radio Control aerobatics Its box no ever made Scale model thing worth hoot insofar measurements detailing etc concerned sides parallel 3-views show us Width bottom longerons greater top forward cabin area narrower rear cabin Longerons break sharply inwards top roughly i chord bottom also breaks farther forward gear profile long sweeping curve build numerous sharp longeron breaks both side top bottom Structure virtually devoid 90-degree cross pieces Scale incidence stabilizer fat negative four degrees wing set flat Tips twisted three degrees negative built rear struts just know CG has far forward probably 20% chord such angular difference good trim speed can upset power variations Piper cut eight feet off Cub wing hence low-aspect wing Vagabond nose heavy stick spring -loaded Vagabonds sit ground up elevator Wed call over-stable problem having enough elevator power hold nose off landing Rear stick loads must have heavy Oddly hours real Vagabond ship among 25 perhaps 30 lightplanes flying characteristics now blank thing prevented abandoning good -Scalen rigging scared daylights Out ofus have mimic Aeronca Continued page 105 purIwnu .uui arouna Pompan aeach FL pink ck~ . unique pod-and-boom Pelican r 72-in Top Cat solid balsa undercambered wing Tail boom hardwood pod balsa Power exhaust-restrictor throttled Cox Medallion 15 wanted keep engine out dirt theres will theres way 18 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will build thatPolling says heh wont build Connie will go TWA colors silver red depress flaps slightly higher CL LD gives wing twist effect Fowler flap ships run out flaps fix very slight down weve Silver Hill saw Bellanca CF CF granddaddy Bellancas sprung ones know especially Chamberlin-piloted trans-Atlantic Columbia Old Giuseppe early-day Steve Wittman note similarity tips between Bellanca Wittman designs Giuseppe wanted everything lift fuselages airfoil profiles Wing struts wide lifting 1923 CF powered 90-hp two-row 10cylinder Anzani Wing well undercambered forward airfoil single immense wing strut ribs like wing strut roughly triangular planform narrow fuselage almost wide wing attaches cabin four passengers covered veneer easily obtained modeling thicknesses lumberyard has windshield pilot seated behind cabin open cockpit simple landing gear pre-split-axle type axle running sraight across easily rubber shock-mounted Silver Hill restore historic birds now dig deeper fossil strata machines will rotated through Air Space Museum proper mini-museum Silver Hill things like CF Pesco Special Waco 9 can seen another building clean can eat off floor follow-on projects coming life Langley machine snagged wire plunged Potomac finished Leonardo daVinci greeted us would have said Hi bare-bones DH 4 important original almost complete Craftsmen make careers projects guys charge different restorations have time schedules must keep other locked build ings wait nirvana things done holds engines beginning time came across Langleys packing crate transported machine Lying loose within September 1981 105 Giant Scale 1911 BLERIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan lOW Engine 60 15 Weight 11 lbs MASTEIi LKAI Rt 3 Box 201 H Hillaboro OR 97123 1 545 45U5 ZONA SAWS flOdO H AR DWA RE WORKING TURNBUCKLES RIGGING & CONTROL CABLE CONTROLHORNSJi STRUT FITTINGS j K CORDfljJ OPULLEYSTRIM AINSTRUMENTHOUSINGS — ranurdIdIUYUu send $100 riDdor ENT CORP PC BOX 9641 SAN DIEGOCA32109 The one wood handle good blade Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAX Model SupplyPO Box 3957 ITorrance CA 90510 USA Littlest Miracle Workshop PROFESSIONAL TOOL SUITABLE FOR ALL HOBBIES AND CRAFTS Makers of. Mini-Glue Tips Stray-Tray Tee yff-Stuff & Jewel Stripes cvsroiv TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Specialists custom TD 049/051 reed engines Throttled TD available Complete Inventory individual stock custom parts Cox TD 020 049 051 809 engines ExclusIve distributor Nelson 15 engine parts Hard-to-get items such custom needle valves racing wheeis quick fills fuel shut-offs solid control lines others detailed brochure send 25 cents Kuatom Kraftsmanship Box 2899 Laguna Hills CA 92653 Ph 714 830-5102 built-up Indoor type props played Blows mind Airplanes assemblies loom shadows like World War Curtiss boat chap managing DH-4 showed us next three projectshe should live long Fowler never heard either has few deteriorated panels bunch ragged scrap no self-respecting garbage collector would bother Yet someday will stand again Some projects depend just few old photos dusty scraps restorers research beyond human ability make pieces whole chaps Things like Horton flying-wing gliders last early-early days up jet anti-bomber attempts World War Two tucked away long-nosed 190 Dornier 235 push-pull Shinden ad infinitum hibernating unseen human eyes Stuff arrives endlessly Silver Hill curators pursue faint trails locate things SPAD tattersso novel stands way big room finished projects museum folks massive computer program tell what planes engines parts etc have Programmers have bard 2 years saw dated crates still unopened going back 1932 stood quietly exhibit hall before leaving Given chance rest hand CF close eyes blank out mind aid let spirits talk thats Aristocrat taxies mind floats among spheresmore reason require pilot fly Museum speciAists write fabulous books about projects raagazine has reviewed couple Walt Boynewho took us through laby rinth Silver Hill chap doing CF APPLIED DESIGN CORP Bar Mini-Saw 138 Penn Street El Segundo CA 90245 * *** * * * **** ** * * ** * ** * ** *** * *K **K * * WANDITTM PAT *Peel off Stick AbrasivesK K *K *K *K *K * orDtyK * *K * ar warrantyK * CORDK *Accurate power finishing both beginnerK *and expert alikeK 99S5* Basic md flat Wand oneK * S gritsK *1 29 Deluxe mcI 3 fiat 2 half-roundK * 1 buffing Wands 10 olK * 6grltsK * Additional Wands Abrasives availableK ** Add $600 shIppingTexas 5% Sales TaxK * ave $$ order direct froni mfgK *AlliS ELMORE Eve No 214 288-5789K * ox 266 e Mesquite Texas 75149K *K finishing book about MA contributor George Clapp made special drawing George cant give us print until book done have CF plans build Boeing 100 next winter ABC Robin electric airliner yogurt makes live beyond 100 shall bathe Bellanca CF Bear mind 1923 CF carried five people power equivalent Jennywhich dragged itself off ground CF did snappy 100mph What magic did Giuseppe work must find out Things Go Bump Night Are seeing flapped airplanes Weve just watched 6-ft Goldberg Cessna 6-ft Telemaster shooting flapped landings Telemaster pilot told us forgot pull up flaps emergency go-round did two 10-ft diameter loops before got things sorted out Flaps marvy eye-catching write-up Ken Willards Showmaster prompted scrounge up photos Suspender writes Fred Fehling Massapequa NY original based Kens delightful lightweight After friend worn out two Sbowmasters figured something special about bird goofy airfoil little little undercamber good lot could interesting wrote MEN already did something about expressed wish 19powered banana-wing 6-footer slow-fly trainer saw 60-powered bomb bananawing original trace trim problems wide power variations went master himself Ken advises design conceived close-flying want high maneuverability low landing speed Landing street front house meant threading model through trees either side requiring approach fairly good speed could react quickly side gusts might throw model toward branch Ken told us other thing end street 100 feet driveway model able slow down rapidly thats high undercamber became effective coincidence page facing item Top Flite bad full-page ad Trainaire series designed have family resemblance Showmaster main difference being wing sections MEN did buy Minimousetang nothing low-wing Showmaster exactly same wing Febling redesigned wing full-span nononsense flaps controlled separate servo reflex about 10 degrees droop about 70 effect plane light devastating love exclaims aircraft flown rudder elevator flaps TD 049 throttle Fred explains Takeoffs moderate flap deflec don instantaneous although climb-out best zero flaps Top end increased remarkably slight reflex full flaps full power well now know named Suspender Full-flap deadstick ap proaches would produce LD about 2- 3to-i full control plane can truly flown anywhere next design Fred continues though flapless still banana-winged sort plane can fly day after day tiring its habits still flying after six years As related original story opportunity flying diesel-powered Showmas ter withjust rudder elevators trimmed went like blue blazes step responses delightfully smooth genuine sense tooling things about came fast firm parafoil-like depending elevator still think far best 2- 3-channel machine have seen including own Authors Note As go press Harry Roe advises few Tartans came through undersized muffler holes hence did yield full power proper hole size 1/4 Out curiosity removed thinwalled exhaust extension picked up immediate 100 rpm evident monster engines introduce elements dont deal ordinary models witnessed near-crash Quadra-powered Stinson due lack power replace ment engine used result same Experts offered no answers learned some Quadras came through improper gap settings under 005 almost closed Opened 015 both engines ran perfectly gap-checked Quadra 025we told should 015 consulted Beckman shouldnot Winter says ignition engines should gap-checked before use Quadra excellent engine wide use comments engine dont guarantee wont require some analysis part Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfa VA 22030 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT 106 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/09
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 105, 106
WE HAVE MIXED EMOTIONS about monster airplane Sheer size smoothes things out flying has uncanny feeling being real aircraft although left left right right Kipling put never two shall meet Perhaps Aristocrat will get us before flying season over have just two flights year late May turned 1943 Vagabond FF RC assist modified cruise soar rather spiral upwards days yore sight sound big electric Spitfire really Srulls Astro 15 belt-drive Airtronics radio small servoswhich does nothing fly around greater majesty sounding like muted Merlin up 10 minutes now switch switch ofttouches us mysterious way focused Sig Kadet II because years lazy flying have ruined ability fly stick thrill Aristocrat comes taxies Out little throttle spurts rumbling Tartan think its designer test pilots folks lived real ones 1929-30 have brought life something another day Spooky people Notes Tartan have letters delightful engine ever owned machined extension shaft permit scale Warner engine greatly smoothes out small amount vibration engine small light compact runs starts like charmand flies huge Aristocrat quiver Like big engines does require much oil can run nitro though low percen tage 2 3% makes reliable idle have using K&B 5% glow fuel normal oil contentwhich very high Tartan Tartan requires 8% oil Last year since 6800 rpm 18 x 6 sparkling red-and-white Vagabond second owned RO pioneerHarveyThomasianofNorthboro MAhasjustbeenrelicensed after one-year rebuild Its much better new says Harvey got rid old tires partsold tires go close $100 change pants wheels picked up 4 mph bring attention some strange features described text Harvey holding back stick spring-loaded stick makes Vagabonds sit flippers up Note wing sits flat 4 degrees negative stab severe wing twist imparted rear-struts Youll never drop tipl Bill Winters shop pix note L-shaped piece aluminum hardware store clamped along front edge cabin serving excellent sighting point lining up stab extending back measuring stickat right anglestrom measured points aluminum precise alignment stabilizer wing spars readily checked manyangularbreaks longeronathata lightweightT shaped keel run down middle jig checking points leave place added strength Harvey shared design adventures Bill Winter Hal deBolt nearly 30 years ago Vagabond frolic brought together again As member Flying Aces gang Connecticut has building Peanut Embryo stuff now back RO 16 Model Aviation BillWinter41UM Anyone prop carving John Walker spotted 110-ft diametertwo-bladerat Boone NC Word big fan replaced fiberglass because raises hob TV reception area note what appears power lines overhead Myron Pickard Fiberglass Master recently spent two days Bill Winter Maule Quarter Scale recalled experimental glass Control Line Stunter built up such charge fiberglass builds up retains charge painful hang onto handleturns taken may long way Walkers propwed drive nine-cylinder Kiorltzbut some folks grow suspicious about distance power line arc jumping model wires wonder model doesnt contribute something say less can see power lines dont fly Maybe should forget non-conductive linesif juice acquires direction thats seem know less did 25 years ago about problem Guys still get zapped Cedric Galloway man cant afford know trails have crossed times remarkable Californian seems like distant memberof family long ago pushed off Gold Rush always has After built first model 1915 author three-year-old toddler say Great Lakes us well answer instantly Ced Galloway say Galloway well respond Great Lakes perhaps betterpre-kit story before put together word warning pieces Goldberg used Valkyrie left AMA sought time compile forAMAfiles data significant old-timers inevitable departures much treasure frittered away modeling has created its own Lost Dutchman Mine Alas Patriarchs dont come forward own handful old-timers now know hazily pioneers what did So can help dozen tried Ced does about everyfive years wrote us mentioning another overlooked great chap Jim Home successful contractor model lover pilot collector basket-case real aircraft rebuilds side Jim operates Historic Aviation r supplier aeronautical books ads catalogues must have seen fact just bought forsi 250 remarkable book four-color 3-views An Encyclopedia Propeller Driven Airliners knowing whence came Jim turn put us onto Ced Gallowayl So days says Ced inspired piano-top picture Army Signal Corps pilot thats what airforce called generals considered airplane tripod married dads cousin National Geographic pictures WW airplanes eager look through issue search new airplane picture Austin MN didnt havean airport didntsee real airplane until kindergarten Across street school Ced continues old auto repair shop out back remains old biplane uncovered wings leaned against wall bare-bones fuselage engine wheels lay next spent great deal time crawling around framework always got scolding coming straight home school no model shop days before magazine communica tions Ced sent away Ideal some other mail order firm Later American Boy source construction plans Before Model Airplane News came out 1929 read American Boy 16 Jim Home opened basement model shop fact Ced taught him make ROG Fifty-one years ago Ced soloed Kinner powered Swallow biplane Ced gave Jim first ridein Great Lakes course Whenever Jim 50 cents hed come out airport Ced would give him dollar ride Ced retired six years spent 34 years Lockheed first construction department during war final assembly customer service last 20 years spent model departmentwe may assume Ced Bob Palmer knew other because Bobs great love working preliminary design engineering Ced has afewfirsts credit model form built first 104 C-i 30 53A Ced RC Scale stretch 1955 1975 relates building solid-scale sol didnt participate flying contests put out know-how came building flying models have great deal learn get model built will fly well RC dont think has much problem Laterthis year will have finished -Scale Travelair Mystery Ship R61 4K After comes 1/5th-scale Great Lakes Reminded Great Lakes Ced allows Yes Great Lakes timefavorite airplanesThe photo have present onetaken friend trying out roll high-speed film light flourescent lamp over head drawing plans 1/5th-scale RC Great Lakes Great Lakes beside 1/10th-scale electricpowered Free Flight Youll note GL olderthan bulbous-nosed ones common kits evidently Ceds favoriteand story reason sweep GL got CG wrong place sweep possible fix Some fixl Some airplanel Biplane sweep figures great aerobatics fighteraircraft As Ced says Enjoy allowed run bit rich smoked Yesterday leaned out revs found already peaked rich high oil content causes smoke confuses familiar signals can lean too much still smokesand presumably guys screw needle too much cant get full power Harry Roe World Engines says have interesting theory prefers run tests check Weve purchased two gallons 15% nitro fuel two gallons straight methanol mixed cut oil content half methanol achieved greater economy 7% nitro resulting should offset two additional pounds dummy engine etc gross 28 pounds run straight glow lots oil get good rpm rich side use tach monitor rpm set leaner max rpm drop off bit would glow engine definitive yet standhappily add Note now ignition Tartan well building Piper Vagabond -scale September 1981 17 Ced built tfliS 1/2-ln solid ireat Lakes 21-I Aalter full-scale jobfor good friend Jim Home Made 1935 suggests Ced made progress 17 years imaginative wood crate Great Lakes Man mw photo nail-together water-colored biplanes L R Howard Bailey Cedric Galloway Warren Galloway front Howard Chuck Hall Chuck awaits Delta Dartl two Hall boys cousins Jim Home story still live Austin aero minded March 1979 Ced drawing 1/5-scale RC Great Lakes beside him 1/10-scale electric Free Flight Hes almost finished 1/4-scale Travel-Air Mystery Ship 110w tong does Jumbo Rubber job last Bill Gough has flying stick-and-tissue Monocoupe yellow red license numbers 16 years Hasnt used first pint fuel Below interesting design impressive flyer Illinois Model Airplane Club Boston ian event early year Goughs V4-oz biplane huge box tail stubby 4-bladed 6-in paddle turning 600 rpm Bostonian brings Out greatest assortment original brain storms loads fun gremlins howl rule changes Good beginnings dont necessarily make good endingsendless rule changes top medieval alchemists dreams make stones out gold seven feet plus hopefully no 1518 pounds 0 S 90 goes quickly shop small reduction size reduces work time least third suspect still model-like straight 60 say 15 lbs would better suited psychology fly just well blood oath will finish thing must fly building pay off youre like build enjoy flying Piper Vagabond unique strange beast What makes unique its universality good flier types sizes short would like plans forthis nifty blue yellow bird escapement rudder-only job built Hank Bourgeois 1952 entered 53 Nats never chance due unreliable radio today itwould great asathree-channei less dihedral ailerons well anyone knows Hanks whereabouts please advise Willow Grove Nats Hank Marine Major top rank station put Admirals suite frig full cold cold beer N N N-N -N N- N SHOWMASTER Fred Fehlings redesigned Willard Showmaster full-span flaps gilds lily because Kens model flew out driveway maneuvers tiny tree-lined space landed slowly dime Fred trims flaps slightly up high-speed cruise will make rub eyes descends 2-to 3-to-i LD approach deadstick Full bore its TD 049 maximum flaps can imagined Flap range 10 degrees reflex up 70 degrees down Since M E N Trainer first cousin Kens Showmaster produced low-wing Minimousestang bananawing could makea magnificentSTOLaircraftbycopying Fehlingsflapsand playing around some tie-in elevator portion trim associated flap movement Flaps real high-wing cabin jobs notably late Stinsons produce servere nose-up requires stiffarming wheel furiously crank trim guaranteed way drive fellow fliers ga-ga Fehling photos coupled wide chord generous wing area Tail surfaces can scale Peanut almost unbeatable rubber competitive Lacey Fike Ailerons practically full span almost strip-like stable Free Flight good Control Line subject made order Radio Control aerobatics Its box no ever made Scale model thing worth hoot insofar measurements detailing etc concerned sides parallel 3-views show us Width bottom longerons greater top forward cabin area narrower rear cabin Longerons break sharply inwards top roughly i chord bottom also breaks farther forward gear profile long sweeping curve build numerous sharp longeron breaks both side top bottom Structure virtually devoid 90-degree cross pieces Scale incidence stabilizer fat negative four degrees wing set flat Tips twisted three degrees negative built rear struts just know CG has far forward probably 20% chord such angular difference good trim speed can upset power variations Piper cut eight feet off Cub wing hence low-aspect wing Vagabond nose heavy stick spring -loaded Vagabonds sit ground up elevator Wed call over-stable problem having enough elevator power hold nose off landing Rear stick loads must have heavy Oddly hours real Vagabond ship among 25 perhaps 30 lightplanes flying characteristics now blank thing prevented abandoning good -Scalen rigging scared daylights Out ofus have mimic Aeronca Continued page 105 purIwnu .uui arouna Pompan aeach FL pink ck~ . unique pod-and-boom Pelican r 72-in Top Cat solid balsa undercambered wing Tail boom hardwood pod balsa Power exhaust-restrictor throttled Cox Medallion 15 wanted keep engine out dirt theres will theres way 18 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will build thatPolling says heh wont build Connie will go TWA colors silver red depress flaps slightly higher CL LD gives wing twist effect Fowler flap ships run out flaps fix very slight down weve Silver Hill saw Bellanca CF CF granddaddy Bellancas sprung ones know especially Chamberlin-piloted trans-Atlantic Columbia Old Giuseppe early-day Steve Wittman note similarity tips between Bellanca Wittman designs Giuseppe wanted everything lift fuselages airfoil profiles Wing struts wide lifting 1923 CF powered 90-hp two-row 10cylinder Anzani Wing well undercambered forward airfoil single immense wing strut ribs like wing strut roughly triangular planform narrow fuselage almost wide wing attaches cabin four passengers covered veneer easily obtained modeling thicknesses lumberyard has windshield pilot seated behind cabin open cockpit simple landing gear pre-split-axle type axle running sraight across easily rubber shock-mounted Silver Hill restore historic birds now dig deeper fossil strata machines will rotated through Air Space Museum proper mini-museum Silver Hill things like CF Pesco Special Waco 9 can seen another building clean can eat off floor follow-on projects coming life Langley machine snagged wire plunged Potomac finished Leonardo daVinci greeted us would have said Hi bare-bones DH 4 important original almost complete Craftsmen make careers projects guys charge different restorations have time schedules must keep other locked build ings wait nirvana things done holds engines beginning time came across Langleys packing crate transported machine Lying loose within September 1981 105 Giant Scale 1911 BLERIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan lOW Engine 60 15 Weight 11 lbs MASTEIi LKAI Rt 3 Box 201 H Hillaboro OR 97123 1 545 45U5 ZONA SAWS flOdO H AR DWA RE WORKING TURNBUCKLES RIGGING & CONTROL CABLE CONTROLHORNSJi STRUT FITTINGS j K CORDfljJ OPULLEYSTRIM AINSTRUMENTHOUSINGS — ranurdIdIUYUu send $100 riDdor ENT CORP PC BOX 9641 SAN DIEGOCA32109 The one wood handle good blade Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAX Model SupplyPO Box 3957 ITorrance CA 90510 USA Littlest Miracle Workshop PROFESSIONAL TOOL SUITABLE FOR ALL HOBBIES AND CRAFTS Makers of. Mini-Glue Tips Stray-Tray Tee yff-Stuff & Jewel Stripes cvsroiv TUNED ENGINES COMPETITION ACCESSORIES Specialists custom TD 049/051 reed engines Throttled TD available Complete Inventory individual stock custom parts Cox TD 020 049 051 809 engines ExclusIve distributor Nelson 15 engine parts Hard-to-get items such custom needle valves racing wheeis quick fills fuel shut-offs solid control lines others detailed brochure send 25 cents Kuatom Kraftsmanship Box 2899 Laguna Hills CA 92653 Ph 714 830-5102 built-up Indoor type props played Blows mind Airplanes assemblies loom shadows like World War Curtiss boat chap managing DH-4 showed us next three projectshe should live long Fowler never heard either has few deteriorated panels bunch ragged scrap no self-respecting garbage collector would bother Yet someday will stand again Some projects depend just few old photos dusty scraps restorers research beyond human ability make pieces whole chaps Things like Horton flying-wing gliders last early-early days up jet anti-bomber attempts World War Two tucked away long-nosed 190 Dornier 235 push-pull Shinden ad infinitum hibernating unseen human eyes Stuff arrives endlessly Silver Hill curators pursue faint trails locate things SPAD tattersso novel stands way big room finished projects museum folks massive computer program tell what planes engines parts etc have Programmers have bard 2 years saw dated crates still unopened going back 1932 stood quietly exhibit hall before leaving Given chance rest hand CF close eyes blank out mind aid let spirits talk thats Aristocrat taxies mind floats among spheresmore reason require pilot fly Museum speciAists write fabulous books about projects raagazine has reviewed couple Walt Boynewho took us through laby rinth Silver Hill chap doing CF APPLIED DESIGN CORP Bar Mini-Saw 138 Penn Street El Segundo CA 90245 * *** * * * **** ** * * ** * ** * ** *** * *K **K * * WANDITTM PAT *Peel off Stick AbrasivesK K *K *K *K *K * orDtyK * *K * ar warrantyK * CORDK *Accurate power finishing both beginnerK *and expert alikeK 99S5* Basic md flat Wand oneK * S gritsK *1 29 Deluxe mcI 3 fiat 2 half-roundK * 1 buffing Wands 10 olK * 6grltsK * Additional Wands Abrasives availableK ** Add $600 shIppingTexas 5% Sales TaxK * ave $$ order direct froni mfgK *AlliS ELMORE Eve No 214 288-5789K * ox 266 e Mesquite Texas 75149K *K finishing book about MA contributor George Clapp made special drawing George cant give us print until book done have CF plans build Boeing 100 next winter ABC Robin electric airliner yogurt makes live beyond 100 shall bathe Bellanca CF Bear mind 1923 CF carried five people power equivalent Jennywhich dragged itself off ground CF did snappy 100mph What magic did Giuseppe work must find out Things Go Bump Night Are seeing flapped airplanes Weve just watched 6-ft Goldberg Cessna 6-ft Telemaster shooting flapped landings Telemaster pilot told us forgot pull up flaps emergency go-round did two 10-ft diameter loops before got things sorted out Flaps marvy eye-catching write-up Ken Willards Showmaster prompted scrounge up photos Suspender writes Fred Fehling Massapequa NY original based Kens delightful lightweight After friend worn out two Sbowmasters figured something special about bird goofy airfoil little little undercamber good lot could interesting wrote MEN already did something about expressed wish 19powered banana-wing 6-footer slow-fly trainer saw 60-powered bomb bananawing original trace trim problems wide power variations went master himself Ken advises design conceived close-flying want high maneuverability low landing speed Landing street front house meant threading model through trees either side requiring approach fairly good speed could react quickly side gusts might throw model toward branch Ken told us other thing end street 100 feet driveway model able slow down rapidly thats high undercamber became effective coincidence page facing item Top Flite bad full-page ad Trainaire series designed have family resemblance Showmaster main difference being wing sections MEN did buy Minimousetang nothing low-wing Showmaster exactly same wing Febling redesigned wing full-span nononsense flaps controlled separate servo reflex about 10 degrees droop about 70 effect plane light devastating love exclaims aircraft flown rudder elevator flaps TD 049 throttle Fred explains Takeoffs moderate flap deflec don instantaneous although climb-out best zero flaps Top end increased remarkably slight reflex full flaps full power well now know named Suspender Full-flap deadstick ap proaches would produce LD about 2- 3to-i full control plane can truly flown anywhere next design Fred continues though flapless still banana-winged sort plane can fly day after day tiring its habits still flying after six years As related original story opportunity flying diesel-powered Showmas ter withjust rudder elevators trimmed went like blue blazes step responses delightfully smooth genuine sense tooling things about came fast firm parafoil-like depending elevator still think far best 2- 3-channel machine have seen including own Authors Note As go press Harry Roe advises few Tartans came through undersized muffler holes hence did yield full power proper hole size 1/4 Out curiosity removed thinwalled exhaust extension picked up immediate 100 rpm evident monster engines introduce elements dont deal ordinary models witnessed near-crash Quadra-powered Stinson due lack power replace ment engine used result same Experts offered no answers learned some Quadras came through improper gap settings under 005 almost closed Opened 015 both engines ran perfectly gap-checked Quadra 025we told should 015 consulted Beckman shouldnot Winter says ignition engines should gap-checked before use Quadra excellent engine wide use comments engine dont guarantee wont require some analysis part Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfa VA 22030 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT 106 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/09
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 105, 106
WE HAVE MIXED EMOTIONS about monster airplane Sheer size smoothes things out flying has uncanny feeling being real aircraft although left left right right Kipling put never two shall meet Perhaps Aristocrat will get us before flying season over have just two flights year late May turned 1943 Vagabond FF RC assist modified cruise soar rather spiral upwards days yore sight sound big electric Spitfire really Srulls Astro 15 belt-drive Airtronics radio small servoswhich does nothing fly around greater majesty sounding like muted Merlin up 10 minutes now switch switch ofttouches us mysterious way focused Sig Kadet II because years lazy flying have ruined ability fly stick thrill Aristocrat comes taxies Out little throttle spurts rumbling Tartan think its designer test pilots folks lived real ones 1929-30 have brought life something another day Spooky people Notes Tartan have letters delightful engine ever owned machined extension shaft permit scale Warner engine greatly smoothes out small amount vibration engine small light compact runs starts like charmand flies huge Aristocrat quiver Like big engines does require much oil can run nitro though low percen tage 2 3% makes reliable idle have using K&B 5% glow fuel normal oil contentwhich very high Tartan Tartan requires 8% oil Last year since 6800 rpm 18 x 6 sparkling red-and-white Vagabond second owned RO pioneerHarveyThomasianofNorthboro MAhasjustbeenrelicensed after one-year rebuild Its much better new says Harvey got rid old tires partsold tires go close $100 change pants wheels picked up 4 mph bring attention some strange features described text Harvey holding back stick spring-loaded stick makes Vagabonds sit flippers up Note wing sits flat 4 degrees negative stab severe wing twist imparted rear-struts Youll never drop tipl Bill Winters shop pix note L-shaped piece aluminum hardware store clamped along front edge cabin serving excellent sighting point lining up stab extending back measuring stickat right anglestrom measured points aluminum precise alignment stabilizer wing spars readily checked manyangularbreaks longeronathata lightweightT shaped keel run down middle jig checking points leave place added strength Harvey shared design adventures Bill Winter Hal deBolt nearly 30 years ago Vagabond frolic brought together again As member Flying Aces gang Connecticut has building Peanut Embryo stuff now back RO 16 Model Aviation BillWinter41UM Anyone prop carving John Walker spotted 110-ft diametertwo-bladerat Boone NC Word big fan replaced fiberglass because raises hob TV reception area note what appears power lines overhead Myron Pickard Fiberglass Master recently spent two days Bill Winter Maule Quarter Scale recalled experimental glass Control Line Stunter built up such charge fiberglass builds up retains charge painful hang onto handleturns taken may long way Walkers propwed drive nine-cylinder Kiorltzbut some folks grow suspicious about distance power line arc jumping model wires wonder model doesnt contribute something say less can see power lines dont fly Maybe should forget non-conductive linesif juice acquires direction thats seem know less did 25 years ago about problem Guys still get zapped Cedric Galloway man cant afford know trails have crossed times remarkable Californian seems like distant memberof family long ago pushed off Gold Rush always has After built first model 1915 author three-year-old toddler say Great Lakes us well answer instantly Ced Galloway say Galloway well respond Great Lakes perhaps betterpre-kit story before put together word warning pieces Goldberg used Valkyrie left AMA sought time compile forAMAfiles data significant old-timers inevitable departures much treasure frittered away modeling has created its own Lost Dutchman Mine Alas Patriarchs dont come forward own handful old-timers now know hazily pioneers what did So can help dozen tried Ced does about everyfive years wrote us mentioning another overlooked great chap Jim Home successful contractor model lover pilot collector basket-case real aircraft rebuilds side Jim operates Historic Aviation r supplier aeronautical books ads catalogues must have seen fact just bought forsi 250 remarkable book four-color 3-views An Encyclopedia Propeller Driven Airliners knowing whence came Jim turn put us onto Ced Gallowayl So days says Ced inspired piano-top picture Army Signal Corps pilot thats what airforce called generals considered airplane tripod married dads cousin National Geographic pictures WW airplanes eager look through issue search new airplane picture Austin MN didnt havean airport didntsee real airplane until kindergarten Across street school Ced continues old auto repair shop out back remains old biplane uncovered wings leaned against wall bare-bones fuselage engine wheels lay next spent great deal time crawling around framework always got scolding coming straight home school no model shop days before magazine communica tions Ced sent away Ideal some other mail order firm Later American Boy source construction plans Before Model Airplane News came out 1929 read American Boy 16 Jim Home opened basement model shop fact Ced taught him make ROG Fifty-one years ago Ced soloed Kinner powered Swallow biplane Ced gave Jim first ridein Great Lakes course Whenever Jim 50 cents hed come out airport Ced would give him dollar ride Ced retired six years spent 34 years Lockheed first construction department during war final assembly customer service last 20 years spent model departmentwe may assume Ced Bob Palmer knew other because Bobs great love working preliminary design engineering Ced has afewfirsts credit model form built first 104 C-i 30 53A Ced RC Scale stretch 1955 1975 relates building solid-scale sol didnt participate flying contests put out know-how came building flying models have great deal learn get model built will fly well RC dont think has much problem Laterthis year will have finished -Scale Travelair Mystery Ship R61 4K After comes 1/5th-scale Great Lakes Reminded Great Lakes Ced allows Yes Great Lakes timefavorite airplanesThe photo have present onetaken friend trying out roll high-speed film light flourescent lamp over head drawing plans 1/5th-scale RC Great Lakes Great Lakes beside 1/10th-scale electricpowered Free Flight Youll note GL olderthan bulbous-nosed ones common kits evidently Ceds favoriteand story reason sweep GL got CG wrong place sweep possible fix Some fixl Some airplanel Biplane sweep figures great aerobatics fighteraircraft As Ced says Enjoy allowed run bit rich smoked Yesterday leaned out revs found already peaked rich high oil content causes smoke confuses familiar signals can lean too much still smokesand presumably guys screw needle too much cant get full power Harry Roe World Engines says have interesting theory prefers run tests check Weve purchased two gallons 15% nitro fuel two gallons straight methanol mixed cut oil content half methanol achieved greater economy 7% nitro resulting should offset two additional pounds dummy engine etc gross 28 pounds run straight glow lots oil get good rpm rich side use tach monitor rpm set leaner max rpm drop off bit would glow engine definitive yet standhappily add Note now ignition Tartan well building Piper Vagabond -scale September 1981 17 Ced built tfliS 1/2-ln solid ireat Lakes 21-I Aalter full-scale jobfor good friend Jim Home Made 1935 suggests Ced made progress 17 years imaginative wood crate Great Lakes Man mw photo nail-together water-colored biplanes L R Howard Bailey Cedric Galloway Warren Galloway front Howard Chuck Hall Chuck awaits Delta Dartl two Hall boys cousins Jim Home story still live Austin aero minded March 1979 Ced drawing 1/5-scale RC Great Lakes beside him 1/10-scale electric Free Flight Hes almost finished 1/4-scale Travel-Air Mystery Ship 110w tong does Jumbo Rubber job last Bill Gough has flying stick-and-tissue Monocoupe yellow red license numbers 16 years Hasnt used first pint fuel Below interesting design impressive flyer Illinois Model Airplane Club Boston ian event early year Goughs V4-oz biplane huge box tail stubby 4-bladed 6-in paddle turning 600 rpm Bostonian brings Out greatest assortment original brain storms loads fun gremlins howl rule changes Good beginnings dont necessarily make good endingsendless rule changes top medieval alchemists dreams make stones out gold seven feet plus hopefully no 1518 pounds 0 S 90 goes quickly shop small reduction size reduces work time least third suspect still model-like straight 60 say 15 lbs would better suited psychology fly just well blood oath will finish thing must fly building pay off youre like build enjoy flying Piper Vagabond unique strange beast What makes unique its universality good flier types sizes short would like plans forthis nifty blue yellow bird escapement rudder-only job built Hank Bourgeois 1952 entered 53 Nats never chance due unreliable radio today itwould great asathree-channei less dihedral ailerons well anyone knows Hanks whereabouts please advise Willow Grove Nats Hank Marine Major top rank station put Admirals suite frig full cold cold beer N N N-N -N N- N SHOWMASTER Fred Fehlings redesigned Willard Showmaster full-span flaps gilds lily because Kens model flew out driveway maneuvers tiny tree-lined space landed slowly dime Fred trims flaps slightly up high-speed cruise will make rub eyes descends 2-to 3-to-i LD approach deadstick Full bore its TD 049 maximum flaps can imagined Flap range 10 degrees reflex up 70 degrees down Since M E N Trainer first cousin Kens Showmaster produced low-wing Minimousestang bananawing could makea magnificentSTOLaircraftbycopying Fehlingsflapsand playing around some tie-in elevator portion trim associated flap movement Flaps real high-wing cabin jobs notably late Stinsons produce servere nose-up requires stiffarming wheel furiously crank trim guaranteed way drive fellow fliers ga-ga Fehling photos coupled wide chord generous wing area Tail surfaces can scale Peanut almost unbeatable rubber competitive Lacey Fike Ailerons practically full span almost strip-like stable Free Flight good Control Line subject made order Radio Control aerobatics Its box no ever made Scale model thing worth hoot insofar measurements detailing etc concerned sides parallel 3-views show us Width bottom longerons greater top forward cabin area narrower rear cabin Longerons break sharply inwards top roughly i chord bottom also breaks farther forward gear profile long sweeping curve build numerous sharp longeron breaks both side top bottom Structure virtually devoid 90-degree cross pieces Scale incidence stabilizer fat negative four degrees wing set flat Tips twisted three degrees negative built rear struts just know CG has far forward probably 20% chord such angular difference good trim speed can upset power variations Piper cut eight feet off Cub wing hence low-aspect wing Vagabond nose heavy stick spring -loaded Vagabonds sit ground up elevator Wed call over-stable problem having enough elevator power hold nose off landing Rear stick loads must have heavy Oddly hours real Vagabond ship among 25 perhaps 30 lightplanes flying characteristics now blank thing prevented abandoning good -Scalen rigging scared daylights Out ofus have mimic Aeronca Continued page 105 purIwnu .uui arouna Pompan aeach FL pink ck~ . unique pod-and-boom Pelican r 72-in Top Cat solid balsa undercambered wing Tail boom hardwood pod balsa Power exhaust-restrictor throttled Cox Medallion 15 wanted keep engine out dirt theres will theres way 18 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will 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got things sorted out Flaps marvy eye-catching write-up Ken Willards Showmaster prompted scrounge up photos Suspender writes Fred Fehling Massapequa NY original based Kens delightful lightweight After friend worn out two Sbowmasters figured something special about bird goofy airfoil little little undercamber good lot could interesting wrote MEN already did something about expressed wish 19powered banana-wing 6-footer slow-fly trainer saw 60-powered bomb bananawing original trace trim problems wide power variations went master himself Ken advises design conceived close-flying want high maneuverability low landing speed Landing street front house meant threading model through trees either side requiring approach fairly good speed could react quickly side gusts might throw model toward branch Ken told us other thing end street 100 feet driveway model able slow down rapidly thats high undercamber became effective coincidence page facing item Top Flite bad full-page ad Trainaire series designed have family resemblance Showmaster main difference being wing sections MEN did buy Minimousetang nothing low-wing Showmaster exactly same wing Febling redesigned wing full-span nononsense flaps controlled separate servo reflex about 10 degrees droop about 70 effect plane light devastating love exclaims aircraft flown rudder elevator flaps TD 049 throttle Fred explains Takeoffs moderate flap deflec don instantaneous although climb-out best zero flaps Top end increased remarkably slight reflex full flaps full power well now know named Suspender Full-flap deadstick ap proaches would produce LD about 2- 3to-i full control plane can truly flown anywhere next design Fred continues though flapless still banana-winged sort plane can fly day after day tiring its habits still flying after six years As related original story opportunity flying diesel-powered Showmas ter withjust rudder elevators trimmed went like blue blazes step responses delightfully smooth genuine sense tooling things about came fast firm parafoil-like depending elevator still think far best 2- 3-channel machine have seen including own Authors Note As go press Harry Roe advises few Tartans came through undersized muffler holes hence did yield full power proper hole size 1/4 Out curiosity removed thinwalled exhaust extension picked up immediate 100 rpm evident monster engines introduce elements dont deal ordinary models witnessed near-crash Quadra-powered Stinson due lack power replace ment engine used result same Experts offered no answers learned some Quadras came through improper gap settings under 005 almost closed Opened 015 both engines ran perfectly gap-checked Quadra 025we told should 015 consulted Beckman shouldnot Winter says ignition engines should gap-checked before use Quadra excellent engine wide use comments engine dont guarantee wont require some analysis part Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfa VA 22030 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT 106 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/09
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 105, 106
WE HAVE MIXED EMOTIONS about monster airplane Sheer size smoothes things out flying has uncanny feeling being real aircraft although left left right right Kipling put never two shall meet Perhaps Aristocrat will get us before flying season over have just two flights year late May turned 1943 Vagabond FF RC assist modified cruise soar rather spiral upwards days yore sight sound big electric Spitfire really Srulls Astro 15 belt-drive Airtronics radio small servoswhich does nothing fly around greater majesty sounding like muted Merlin up 10 minutes now switch switch ofttouches us mysterious way focused Sig Kadet II because years lazy flying have ruined ability fly stick thrill Aristocrat comes taxies Out little throttle spurts rumbling Tartan think its designer test pilots folks lived real ones 1929-30 have brought life something another day Spooky people Notes Tartan have letters delightful engine ever owned machined extension shaft permit scale Warner engine greatly smoothes out small amount vibration engine small light compact runs starts like charmand flies huge Aristocrat quiver Like big engines does require much oil can run nitro though low percen tage 2 3% makes reliable idle have using K&B 5% glow fuel normal oil contentwhich very high Tartan Tartan requires 8% oil Last year since 6800 rpm 18 x 6 sparkling red-and-white Vagabond second owned RO pioneerHarveyThomasianofNorthboro MAhasjustbeenrelicensed after one-year rebuild Its much better new says Harvey got rid old tires partsold tires go close $100 change pants wheels picked up 4 mph bring attention some strange features described text Harvey holding back stick spring-loaded stick makes Vagabonds sit flippers up Note wing sits flat 4 degrees negative stab severe wing twist imparted rear-struts Youll never drop tipl Bill Winters shop pix note L-shaped piece aluminum hardware store clamped along front edge cabin serving excellent sighting point lining up stab extending back measuring stickat right anglestrom measured points aluminum precise alignment stabilizer wing spars readily checked manyangularbreaks longeronathata lightweightT shaped keel run down middle jig checking points leave place added strength Harvey shared design adventures Bill Winter Hal deBolt nearly 30 years ago Vagabond frolic brought together again As member Flying Aces gang Connecticut has building Peanut Embryo stuff now back RO 16 Model Aviation BillWinter41UM Anyone prop carving John Walker spotted 110-ft diametertwo-bladerat Boone NC Word big fan replaced fiberglass because raises hob TV reception area note what appears power lines overhead Myron Pickard Fiberglass Master recently spent two days Bill Winter Maule Quarter Scale recalled experimental glass Control Line Stunter built up such charge fiberglass builds up retains charge painful hang onto handleturns taken may long way Walkers propwed drive nine-cylinder Kiorltzbut some folks grow suspicious about distance power line arc jumping model wires wonder model doesnt contribute something say less can see power lines dont fly Maybe should forget non-conductive linesif juice acquires direction thats seem know less did 25 years ago about problem Guys still get zapped Cedric Galloway man cant afford know trails have crossed times remarkable Californian seems like distant memberof family long ago pushed off Gold Rush always has After built first model 1915 author three-year-old toddler say Great Lakes us well answer instantly Ced Galloway say Galloway well respond Great Lakes perhaps betterpre-kit story before put together word warning pieces Goldberg used Valkyrie left AMA sought time compile forAMAfiles data significant old-timers inevitable departures much treasure frittered away modeling has created its own Lost Dutchman Mine Alas Patriarchs dont come forward own handful old-timers now know hazily pioneers what did So can help dozen tried Ced does about everyfive years wrote us mentioning another overlooked great chap Jim Home successful contractor model lover pilot collector basket-case real aircraft rebuilds side Jim operates Historic Aviation r supplier aeronautical books ads catalogues must have seen fact just bought forsi 250 remarkable book four-color 3-views An Encyclopedia Propeller Driven Airliners knowing whence came Jim turn put us onto Ced Gallowayl So days says Ced inspired piano-top picture Army Signal Corps pilot thats what airforce called generals considered airplane tripod married dads cousin National Geographic pictures WW airplanes eager look through issue search new airplane picture Austin MN didnt havean airport didntsee real airplane until kindergarten Across street school Ced continues old auto repair shop out back remains old biplane uncovered wings leaned against wall bare-bones fuselage engine wheels lay next spent great deal time crawling around framework always got scolding coming straight home school no model shop days before magazine communica tions Ced sent away Ideal some other mail order firm Later American Boy source construction plans Before Model Airplane News came out 1929 read American Boy 16 Jim Home opened basement model shop fact Ced taught him make ROG Fifty-one years ago Ced soloed Kinner powered Swallow biplane Ced gave Jim first ridein Great Lakes course Whenever Jim 50 cents hed come out airport Ced would give him dollar ride Ced retired six years spent 34 years Lockheed first construction department during war final assembly customer service last 20 years spent model departmentwe may assume Ced Bob Palmer knew other because Bobs great love working preliminary design engineering Ced has afewfirsts credit model form built first 104 C-i 30 53A Ced RC Scale stretch 1955 1975 relates building solid-scale sol didnt participate flying contests put out know-how came building flying models have great deal learn get model built will fly well RC dont think has much problem Laterthis year will have finished -Scale Travelair Mystery Ship R61 4K After comes 1/5th-scale Great Lakes Reminded Great Lakes Ced allows Yes Great Lakes timefavorite airplanesThe photo have present onetaken friend trying out roll high-speed film light flourescent lamp over head drawing plans 1/5th-scale RC Great Lakes Great Lakes beside 1/10th-scale electricpowered Free Flight Youll note GL olderthan bulbous-nosed ones common kits evidently Ceds favoriteand story reason sweep GL got CG wrong place sweep possible fix Some fixl Some airplanel Biplane sweep figures great aerobatics fighteraircraft As Ced says Enjoy allowed run bit rich smoked Yesterday leaned out revs found already peaked rich high oil content causes smoke confuses familiar signals can lean too much still smokesand presumably guys screw needle too much cant get full power Harry Roe World Engines says have interesting theory prefers run tests check Weve purchased two gallons 15% nitro fuel two gallons straight methanol mixed cut oil content half methanol achieved greater economy 7% nitro resulting should offset two additional pounds dummy engine etc gross 28 pounds run straight glow lots oil get good rpm rich side use tach monitor rpm set leaner max rpm drop off bit would glow engine definitive yet standhappily add Note now ignition Tartan well building Piper Vagabond -scale September 1981 17 Ced built tfliS 1/2-ln solid ireat Lakes 21-I Aalter full-scale jobfor good friend Jim Home Made 1935 suggests Ced made progress 17 years imaginative wood crate Great Lakes Man mw photo nail-together water-colored biplanes L R Howard Bailey Cedric Galloway Warren Galloway front Howard Chuck Hall Chuck awaits Delta Dartl two Hall boys cousins Jim Home story still live Austin aero minded March 1979 Ced drawing 1/5-scale RC Great Lakes beside him 1/10-scale electric Free Flight Hes almost finished 1/4-scale Travel-Air Mystery Ship 110w tong does Jumbo Rubber job last Bill Gough has flying stick-and-tissue Monocoupe yellow red license numbers 16 years Hasnt used first pint fuel Below interesting design impressive flyer Illinois Model Airplane Club Boston ian event early year Goughs V4-oz biplane huge box tail stubby 4-bladed 6-in paddle turning 600 rpm Bostonian brings Out greatest assortment original brain storms loads fun gremlins howl rule changes Good beginnings dont necessarily make good endingsendless rule changes top medieval alchemists dreams make stones out gold seven feet plus hopefully no 1518 pounds 0 S 90 goes quickly shop small reduction size reduces work time least third suspect still model-like straight 60 say 15 lbs would better suited psychology fly just well blood oath will finish thing must fly building pay off youre like build enjoy flying Piper Vagabond unique strange beast What makes unique its universality good flier types sizes short would like plans forthis nifty blue yellow bird escapement rudder-only job built Hank Bourgeois 1952 entered 53 Nats never chance due unreliable radio today itwould great asathree-channei less dihedral ailerons well anyone knows Hanks whereabouts please advise Willow Grove Nats Hank Marine Major top rank station put Admirals suite frig full cold cold beer N N N-N -N N- N SHOWMASTER Fred Fehlings redesigned Willard Showmaster full-span flaps gilds lily because Kens model flew out driveway maneuvers tiny tree-lined space landed slowly dime Fred trims flaps slightly up high-speed cruise will make rub eyes descends 2-to 3-to-i LD approach deadstick Full bore its TD 049 maximum flaps can imagined Flap range 10 degrees reflex up 70 degrees down Since M E N Trainer first cousin Kens Showmaster produced low-wing Minimousestang bananawing could makea magnificentSTOLaircraftbycopying Fehlingsflapsand playing around some tie-in elevator portion trim associated flap movement Flaps real high-wing cabin jobs notably late Stinsons produce servere nose-up requires stiffarming wheel furiously crank trim guaranteed way drive fellow fliers ga-ga Fehling photos coupled wide chord generous wing area Tail surfaces can scale Peanut almost unbeatable rubber competitive Lacey Fike Ailerons practically full span almost strip-like stable Free Flight good Control Line subject made order Radio Control aerobatics Its box no ever made Scale model thing worth hoot insofar measurements detailing etc concerned sides parallel 3-views show us Width bottom longerons greater top forward cabin area narrower rear cabin Longerons break sharply inwards top roughly i chord bottom also breaks farther forward gear profile long sweeping curve build numerous sharp longeron breaks both side top bottom Structure virtually devoid 90-degree cross pieces Scale incidence stabilizer fat negative four degrees wing set flat Tips twisted three degrees negative built rear struts just know CG has far forward probably 20% chord such angular difference good trim speed can upset power variations Piper cut eight feet off Cub wing hence low-aspect wing Vagabond nose heavy stick spring -loaded Vagabonds sit ground up elevator Wed call over-stable problem having enough elevator power hold nose off landing Rear stick loads must have heavy Oddly hours real Vagabond ship among 25 perhaps 30 lightplanes flying characteristics now blank thing prevented abandoning good -Scalen rigging scared daylights Out ofus have mimic Aeronca Continued page 105 purIwnu .uui arouna Pompan aeach FL pink ck~ . unique pod-and-boom Pelican r 72-in Top Cat solid balsa undercambered wing Tail boom hardwood pod balsa Power exhaust-restrictor throttled Cox Medallion 15 wanted keep engine out dirt theres will theres way 18 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will build thatPolling says heh wont build Connie will go TWA colors silver red depress flaps slightly higher CL LD gives wing twist effect Fowler flap ships run out flaps fix very slight down weve Silver Hill saw Bellanca CF CF granddaddy Bellancas sprung ones know especially Chamberlin-piloted trans-Atlantic Columbia Old Giuseppe early-day Steve Wittman note similarity tips between Bellanca Wittman designs Giuseppe wanted everything lift fuselages airfoil profiles Wing struts wide lifting 1923 CF powered 90-hp two-row 10cylinder Anzani Wing well undercambered forward airfoil single immense wing strut ribs like wing strut roughly triangular planform narrow fuselage almost wide wing attaches cabin four passengers covered veneer easily obtained modeling thicknesses lumberyard has windshield pilot seated behind cabin open cockpit simple landing gear pre-split-axle type axle running sraight across easily rubber shock-mounted Silver Hill restore historic birds now dig deeper fossil strata machines will rotated through Air Space Museum proper mini-museum Silver Hill things like CF Pesco Special Waco 9 can seen another building clean can eat off floor follow-on projects coming life Langley machine snagged wire plunged Potomac finished Leonardo daVinci greeted us would have said Hi bare-bones DH 4 important original almost complete Craftsmen make careers projects guys charge different restorations have time schedules must keep other locked build ings wait nirvana things done holds engines beginning time came across Langleys packing crate transported machine Lying loose within September 1981 105 Giant Scale 1911 BLERIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan lOW Engine 60 15 Weight 11 lbs MASTEIi LKAI Rt 3 Box 201 H Hillaboro OR 97123 1 545 45U5 ZONA SAWS flOdO H AR DWA RE WORKING TURNBUCKLES RIGGING & CONTROL CABLE CONTROLHORNSJi STRUT FITTINGS j K CORDfljJ OPULLEYSTRIM AINSTRUMENTHOUSINGS — ranurdIdIUYUu send $100 riDdor ENT CORP PC BOX 9641 SAN DIEGOCA32109 The one wood 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got things sorted out Flaps marvy eye-catching write-up Ken Willards Showmaster prompted scrounge up photos Suspender writes Fred Fehling Massapequa NY original based Kens delightful lightweight After friend worn out two Sbowmasters figured something special about bird goofy airfoil little little undercamber good lot could interesting wrote MEN already did something about expressed wish 19powered banana-wing 6-footer slow-fly trainer saw 60-powered bomb bananawing original trace trim problems wide power variations went master himself Ken advises design conceived close-flying want high maneuverability low landing speed Landing street front house meant threading model through trees either side requiring approach fairly good speed could react quickly side gusts might throw model toward branch Ken told us other thing end street 100 feet driveway model able slow down rapidly thats high undercamber became effective coincidence page facing item Top Flite bad full-page ad Trainaire series designed have family resemblance Showmaster main difference being wing sections MEN did buy Minimousetang nothing low-wing Showmaster exactly same wing Febling redesigned wing full-span nononsense flaps controlled separate servo reflex about 10 degrees droop about 70 effect plane light devastating love exclaims aircraft flown rudder elevator flaps TD 049 throttle Fred explains Takeoffs moderate flap deflec don instantaneous although climb-out best zero flaps Top end increased remarkably slight reflex full flaps full power well now know named Suspender Full-flap deadstick ap proaches would produce LD about 2- 3to-i full control plane can truly flown anywhere next design Fred continues though flapless still banana-winged sort plane can fly day after day tiring its habits still flying after six years As related original story opportunity flying diesel-powered Showmas ter withjust rudder elevators trimmed went like blue blazes step responses delightfully smooth genuine sense tooling things about came fast firm parafoil-like depending elevator still think far best 2- 3-channel machine have seen including own Authors Note As go press Harry Roe advises few Tartans came through undersized muffler holes hence did yield full power proper hole size 1/4 Out curiosity removed thinwalled exhaust extension picked up immediate 100 rpm evident monster engines introduce elements dont deal ordinary models witnessed near-crash Quadra-powered Stinson due lack power replace ment engine used result same Experts offered no answers learned some Quadras came through improper gap settings under 005 almost closed Opened 015 both engines ran perfectly gap-checked Quadra 025we told should 015 consulted Beckman shouldnot Winter says ignition engines should gap-checked before use Quadra excellent engine wide use comments engine dont guarantee wont require some analysis part Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfa VA 22030 SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT 106 Model Aviation