AS MEMBER OF Free Flight Hall Fame have always questioned credentials simply because until now no design meets SAMs cut-off date old-time machines Free Flight jobs although com petition far mind few sport machines made contest record selves Now present mode flying SAM rules mean nothing Ijust like watch things soarsport comp After guys asked about Vagabond could swear SAM 1942 Maybe Probably WOG came mind since predated Vagabond Same deal Hurst Bowers gave us copies old Air Trails first gassie Old Square Sides published late Thirties made winter/spring 1936-37 forgotten Pay dirt Meanwhile Bob Larsh Don Jenkins turned things upside down helpif wed say word said some character named Sprague pirated design name Old Square Sides article wanted hang himbut Sprague happens middle name gosh used pseudonym guys like Charlie Grant Joe Kovel Carl Goldberg around wed timid about throwing hat ring aware real great like Ray Glow Plug Arden flown gassie mile 1904 eight years before born Bassett Vernon Boehle Leo Weiss etc would have timid too Hardly anyone money days $2150 Brown might just well have thousand 10 years three kids before got Baby Cyclone wholesale $900 Old Square Sides throw-away model supposed contest job Tom Dick Harry designer billed crate world beater thing box detachable wing panels exactly today gliders made long straight takeoffs climbed gently sweeping left circlestoday would make nice RC would great fun fly provided airplane watcher docile sport thing should last forever Wed love build Clukey 3-view tempts want build everything sight Grapevine time mention crate wed love build place lights up like bloody pinball machine Having just phoned MA office please delete statement last column Boeing 100 kind report now some heady stuff about 100 Bellanca CF Connie dream four electrics POWERBABY CYCLONE 4 II 476 ALUM TUBING OLD SQUARE SIDESFUSELAGEBALSAG~ WIRE FIRST GAS MODEL DESIGNED BYSHEETCOVERDELETEDSTRUT DETAIL BILL WINTER 1937 \FUSE STRUT F TT NG IIII II COLOR SPAN 763/4LENGTH 461/2FUSELAGE 8 FINBLUE AREA 696 SO INSWING STAB 8 FUSE STRIPE 2 LBS 70Z5 B OZ LOADING LOW NOTES MODEL FEATURED PLUG-IN TYPE WINGS HELD INTERNALLY VIA RUBBER BANDS WITH ALUM TUBING/DOWEL SYSTEM ACCESS VIA CABIN DOOR ON LEFT SIDE WING STRUTS ARE FUNCTIONAL Bill Winters forgotten gas model detachable panels 1936 Ia present gliders cross-cabin wires too thin todays standards struts workingleading fatigue fail ure strut total RC sport 3-ch ship could have onepiece wing bolted banded consult glider guys wire sizes Bill thinks least 3/16 case struts would working could carry light load beef up fittings RC fun show Baby Cyclone tank up high over ignition motor Bill says starting experience hand-cranking Model T Ford lieve Baby Cyke never flooded Naturally gravity made 0 24BB ID IS 14 16 I I I II I II I I INCHES fuel run knowing nothing says little Cyke always started Ignorance bliss says rock-back tendency large di hedral would good foil play heavy rudder trim against set up tight soaring circles K&B 19 recommendation anything up 25 would realistic Flies wide left Free Flight perhaps some right thrust Did need down 2 deg downthrust 9-4 10-6 depending engine should perk merrily Leave nose heavy stick batteries far forward 450 mAh pack minimum Inci dentally Model Builder magazine promises publish Winters Old Square Sides 0T Month future issue 1 6 Model Aviation \J2Lt Bill Winter International Radio Control Service PO Box 1643 San Juan Capistrano CA 92083 servo-charger milliamp analyzer according Winter better mousetrap few years ago friend George Myers raw idea George made Bill cheap Lafayette mA meterwhich example Bill showed twice before Now commerciallyavailable unit reads radio servos drain orcharge rate know ifa servo linkage isgiving troublebecause high readings alsowhat mysteriouscharger doing picture showing charger may able see meter needle Agatha Christie mishmash follows have advantage knowing murderer plot come out way wish may momentarily make guys feel like trailer park after tornado passed So lets get electric stuff out way concede now electric works stilt say aint us Motor runs limited batteries heavy have build light Well something has happened dramatize well use Kraft Chipmunk Cessna known fly one-and-a-half two minutes might nurse two-and-a-half per haps three minutes thats new 05s now Astro Flight Leisure Electronics sub-C batteries push Cessna up 12 13 minutes understand Phil Kraft rubbed eyes after watching Roland Boucher Leisure push Cardinal 13 minutes including aerobatics inverted flight cant estimate now what imaginary Connie would cruises two motors 15 minutes Lightness no problem message airplanes bricks just dont throw around acres plywood keep 6-lb shaker giving monster St Vitus dance remember have fuse way switch on/off transmitter preferably cruise control doesnt dissipate too much juice dropping resistor Astro Flights catalog shows everything need Roland Boucher Leisure entered Electric Pattern Meet on/off switch having completed pattern could get crate down judges commanded him get down others could fly three judges ended up flying iton single flight Leisure Electronics primarily car outfit bottom dropping out car racing because handful experts can lap anyone country old slot-car malaise has set now have Pro class races bucks winner gets half gate entrant puts up good stakeso big boys disdain race kid-stuff trophies hope will cure problem So Leisure 05 far has moved over airplane field car motor technology Meanwhile Bob Boucher Astro Flight now offers 075 system ups power 50% 50% duration October1981 17 indicating charge rate uses gismos Ace Digipace Taylor charger/cycler after31/2 years batteries 3-yearold Futaba system read new battery values another Futaba being off 50 mAb Batteries Airtronics Cox/Sanwa Silver Seven World Engines Expert sundry Kraft systems have yet show cell failure As IRCS unitof Georges homemade gifthe says would leave home Plane sTop Flite Head master II Capt Frank T Courtney Warren Shipps Peanut Cierva C6C very same ship Courtney flight-tested England Led alloway supplied rare old shot Constellation powered four turbines Probably Connie turbine-powered Craftsman Richard D Horigan OT severai wno ressorea mis eIIanca CF atthe Smithsonians Garber Facility formerlySilver Hill remark ably efficient 5-place 90-hp 2-row Anzani-powered monoplane won 11 national international efficiency awards eventually led famous Whirlwind-powered Columbia dark area veneer inside box four passengers fitted like sardines very slight curvature visible just behind trailing edge cockpit passengers benefit windshield sorts turns 7 x 4 13500 rpm eight nine minuteswith on/off sky limit write both companies latest poop sheets Ced Galloway Great Lakes man knows end airplane other showed us rare Connie powered four turbines suggests Electra nacelles came Fowler flaps run out tad down give break hard-put camera plane Connie may have worlds ulti mate prop airliner its earliest form could outrun Zero Connies best altitude 707 jet appeared definitive Connie within seven knots 707 point-to-point superior economics airlines al though 707 doubled its passenger figure jets denied What performance suppose turbine Connie will make spectacular electric Connies fly great models Ned Kragness top flight engineer/test pilot/et al shocked us low speed figure explained figure indicated Indicated true airspeeds differ widely altitude know what crate really doing have multiply indicated airspeed 1 % per thousand feet altitude absolute ceiling youll indicating stall speed whereas crate going like gangbusters through thin air will shake up indicated airspeed 100 mph 10000 would 117 true 20000 low indicated would 134 true mess up may some high-time pilot write letter editor set down facts mutual edification absolute ceiling extremely difficult attain crate indicated speed drops until meets stall speed ats slightest quiver will send tumbling 6 7000 feet until heavier air permits recovery convert true airspeed formula goes altitude x 0175 x Indicated turn around True___Indicated altitude x 0175 1000 flying speed model Perhaps bit area Warren Shipp chips Boeing 100we 1/5th scale mind confusing built Akromaster 20 atsk Obviously models flown higher altitudes ~ng lunch hours using HotStuff Fifty lunches should lightiy loaded too just think nose OS Max 25 power Formsof big engines accept greater observed gloss Coverite Sig paints lunch sony fourth production F4B- 1 administrative transport Asst Sec Air Davis S Ingalls blue fuselage yellow wings tall tail stripes First went Bureau Air Commerce NS-21 Second model 200 P 2514-B NX872H P&W test bed French gray Boeing green trim Milo Burcham air show work 1933 WW II modified red silver NC-872H Tallmantz supposed four third 873H went through C NC NR NX N Boeing test demoMantz 1936-64 Fourth NX874H demo sold Japan 100A converted two-seater Hughes Two 1 OOEs went Thai land export P-i 2E old friend Gordon Williams shot Thailand museum 1 OOF became Army P-12F Clear mud suppose best can may have Proto type 33 1928 100 Kragness log book} lovely picture Bellanca CF 13 thanks Jay Spencer Smithsonian Jay has finished book truly remarkable air craft Smithsonianwed guess could buy few months contains great drawing George Clapp Jay says far single out CF Silver Hill Warren Shipp gets story notation AAHS Journal Vol 10 No 1 pg 42 relates CF 1921 5-seat Anzani 90 hp 1922 won 13 prizes efficiency national international eventsup 1925 followed WB-l 1925 Wright-Bellancathe remembered found Janes Worlds Aircraft 1925 WB 2 CF country mile ahead anything world phenomenal Wright Whirlwind ap peared scene things began happen Soon Bellanca Columbia evolved Youll remember Lindberg tried buy before turned Ryan Bellanca feared such hare brained scheme transatlantic flight could ruin reputation What mistake Bellanca Columbia estimation superior aircraft named Spirt Just look CF picture think 1921 tale mystery now turns Frank Court neys log book Now old folks home West Coast Courtney sharp tack Shipp Hannan et al ask him about old airplanes Courtney has flown probably airplanes Continued page 105 18 Model Aviation Dick Sarpolus 5-ft BC Free Flight has two servos ruaaerana elevator engine hot K&B Schnuerle 40 Pylon Racing prop 25% nitrO pipe case pressure Scares Dlckto start takes brave helperto hand-launch itstraight up After 20 25 seconds screaming climb smail tank becomes true contest-type FF circles soars lands Dicks feet flies honker funhis type relaxation Space Shuttle mild compared lift-off 20000 rpm music Dicks ears Well play harmonica thank Safety Preston Continued page 12 unable find out fumes potentially harmful readers can throw some light would welcome letter Finally case thinking hobby paints can cause us some bodily harm consider following story also extracted Family Health article sent Russell weeks dragging around wishing whatever coming down would hurry up happen theres nothing worse day-before-you-get-the-flu feeling thats Id felt too days Maybe its allergy friends suggested Could thought what pollen tree grass mold flourishes middle March Still did finally chalk up allergy just because thing seemed feasible weeks went began feel worse distinct pain bottom spine needle inserted having increasing difficulty urinating legs ached way have ached Ive fever evening after getting off commuter train decided ill just allergy fluill got home felt urinate couldnt panic called doctor As turned out doctor writer above story diagnosed problem toxic exposure paint used pro fessional painters engaged paint bedroom paint apparently nothing exotic just run-of-the-mill oil-based enamel So whether contemplating spray painting latest Pattern Scale creation merely going some home renovations alert allergy-like symptoms through could having toxic reaction paint Time now leave another month get back bathroom redecorating writing weve decided return methy lene-chloride-containing Old Tile Remover store reason contained following account again Family Health magazine Consider case 66-year-old Wisconsin man took up furniture refinishing basement After three-hour session used paint stripper containing METHYLENE CHLORIDE emphasis JDP remove paint varnish chest drawers suffered heart attack rushed hospital Though mentioned hobby attending physicians doctors made no con nection Soon after being released hospital man returned project suffered another heart attack convalesced slowly second time once again returned hobby third heart attack however fatal John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 man aliveover 350 types log book seems contain everything ask about Aristocrat CF Courtney says Bellancas always efficient airplanes Courtney began career 1 913 Grahame-White Flying School England struction consisted straight flight takeoffs landings Constant repair made machines Continued page 110 keueIF NEED6ot 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Kennedy Giant off groundslightly never flown again tested demo-flew Above Astro Flight Velie onocoupe ny Ionn Boyd 049 powered flies slowly antenna doesnt unfurl slipstream Silkspan covered Sig doped has realistic 1927 climb-out dead-stick John says exper ienced thermal flier could keep up day Below nicely framed job Boyd evolved Sig Scamp slightly changed moments increased area a15 ozIsq ft loading has 195 flights last March Boyd gets 1012-mm glides AIRSCRIW PRESENTS BALSA STRIPPER PRECISION STRIP WOOD TO INS FROM BALSA SHEET ALSO FOR DRAFTING AND PHOTO MATS USES TYPE II BLADE SUPER TOOLGREAT PRICE WINDSOR PROPELLER Co PO BOX 112WINDSOR CA 95492 uur recent coiumn about tne great uo Palmer prompted Ron Parkas send fine shot RC version Palmer Chief top CL Stunter right after war Bob advised Ron 4-channel conversion gratifying project especially since One-of-a-kind Featured August1980 Flying Models Bill remembers Ken Willard omniscient proved over 25 years ago CL Stunt jobs era made advanced aerobatic RC machines Cierva autogyro before crowned heads Europe lost blade getting away broken ribs bruises won Kings Cup 1921 flying Martinsyde Semiquaver Siskin fighter repeated 1923 1928 two crew members tackled Atlantic Lisbon Newfoundland Dornier Wal boat Halfway middle dark stormy night rear engine caught fire Courtney managed ocean landing huge waves drifted two days before being picked up steamer area New York crew became heroes Test pilot Courtney remained caused mods Curtiss Condors Kingfishers make flyable Free Flighters dig him because says almost plane ever built has too small vertical tail Courtney amphib built Curtiss Wright cleanest best performing amphibs ever built although bipe trike retract gear oil tank formed nacelle leading edge extension shaft forward engine pusher prop CW after building five sold jigs rights Japan Courtney consulted pilots history rare breed engineering/hightime pilots learn survival have practical answers engineers com puters can 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AS MEMBER OF Free Flight Hall Fame have always questioned credentials simply because until now no design meets SAMs cut-off date old-time machines Free Flight jobs although com petition far mind few sport machines made contest record selves Now present mode flying SAM rules mean nothing Ijust like watch things soarsport comp After guys asked about Vagabond could swear SAM 1942 Maybe Probably WOG came mind since predated Vagabond Same deal Hurst Bowers gave us copies old Air Trails first gassie Old Square Sides published late Thirties made winter/spring 1936-37 forgotten Pay dirt Meanwhile Bob Larsh Don Jenkins turned things upside down helpif wed say word said some character named Sprague pirated design name Old Square Sides article wanted hang himbut Sprague happens middle name gosh used pseudonym guys like Charlie Grant Joe Kovel Carl Goldberg around wed timid about throwing hat ring aware real great like Ray Glow Plug Arden flown gassie mile 1904 eight years before born Bassett Vernon Boehle Leo Weiss etc would have timid too Hardly anyone money days $2150 Brown might just well have thousand 10 years three kids before got Baby Cyclone wholesale $900 Old Square Sides throw-away model supposed contest job Tom Dick Harry designer billed crate world beater thing box detachable wing panels exactly today gliders made long straight takeoffs climbed gently sweeping left circlestoday would make nice RC would great fun fly provided airplane watcher docile sport thing should last forever Wed love build Clukey 3-view tempts want build everything sight Grapevine time mention crate wed love build place lights up like bloody pinball machine Having just phoned MA office please delete statement last column Boeing 100 kind report now some heady stuff about 100 Bellanca CF Connie dream four electrics POWERBABY CYCLONE 4 II 476 ALUM TUBING OLD SQUARE SIDESFUSELAGEBALSAG~ WIRE FIRST GAS MODEL DESIGNED BYSHEETCOVERDELETEDSTRUT DETAIL BILL WINTER 1937 \FUSE STRUT F TT NG IIII II COLOR SPAN 763/4LENGTH 461/2FUSELAGE 8 FINBLUE AREA 696 SO INSWING STAB 8 FUSE STRIPE 2 LBS 70Z5 B OZ LOADING LOW NOTES MODEL FEATURED PLUG-IN TYPE WINGS HELD INTERNALLY VIA RUBBER BANDS WITH ALUM TUBING/DOWEL SYSTEM ACCESS VIA CABIN DOOR ON LEFT SIDE WING STRUTS ARE FUNCTIONAL Bill Winters forgotten gas model detachable panels 1936 Ia present gliders cross-cabin wires too thin todays standards struts workingleading fatigue fail ure strut total RC sport 3-ch ship could have onepiece wing bolted banded consult glider guys wire sizes Bill thinks least 3/16 case struts would working could carry light load beef up fittings RC fun show Baby Cyclone tank up high over ignition motor Bill says starting experience hand-cranking Model T Ford lieve Baby Cyke never flooded Naturally gravity made 0 24BB ID IS 14 16 I I I II I II I I INCHES fuel run knowing nothing says little Cyke always started Ignorance bliss says rock-back tendency large di hedral would good foil play heavy rudder trim against set up tight soaring circles K&B 19 recommendation anything up 25 would realistic Flies wide left Free Flight perhaps some right thrust Did need down 2 deg downthrust 9-4 10-6 depending engine should perk merrily Leave nose heavy stick batteries far forward 450 mAh pack minimum Inci dentally Model Builder magazine promises publish Winters Old Square Sides 0T Month future issue 1 6 Model Aviation \J2Lt Bill Winter International Radio Control Service PO Box 1643 San Juan Capistrano CA 92083 servo-charger milliamp analyzer according Winter better mousetrap few years ago friend George Myers raw idea George made Bill cheap Lafayette mA meterwhich example Bill showed twice before Now commerciallyavailable unit reads radio servos drain orcharge rate know ifa servo linkage isgiving troublebecause high readings alsowhat mysteriouscharger doing picture showing charger may able see meter needle Agatha Christie mishmash follows have advantage knowing murderer plot come out way wish may momentarily make guys feel like trailer park after tornado passed So lets get electric stuff out way concede now electric works stilt say aint us Motor runs limited batteries heavy have build light Well something has happened dramatize well use Kraft Chipmunk Cessna known fly one-and-a-half two minutes might nurse two-and-a-half per haps three minutes thats new 05s now Astro Flight Leisure Electronics sub-C batteries push Cessna up 12 13 minutes understand Phil Kraft rubbed eyes after watching Roland Boucher Leisure push Cardinal 13 minutes including aerobatics inverted flight cant estimate now what imaginary Connie would cruises two motors 15 minutes Lightness no problem message airplanes bricks just dont throw around acres plywood keep 6-lb shaker giving monster St Vitus dance remember have fuse way switch on/off transmitter preferably cruise control doesnt dissipate too much juice dropping resistor Astro Flights catalog shows everything need Roland Boucher Leisure entered Electric Pattern Meet on/off switch having completed pattern could get crate down judges commanded him get down others could fly three judges ended up flying iton single flight Leisure Electronics primarily car outfit bottom dropping out car racing because handful experts can lap anyone country old slot-car malaise has set now have Pro class races bucks winner gets half gate entrant puts up good stakeso big boys disdain race kid-stuff trophies hope will cure problem So Leisure 05 far has moved over airplane field car motor technology Meanwhile Bob Boucher Astro Flight now offers 075 system ups power 50% 50% duration October1981 17 indicating charge rate uses gismos Ace Digipace Taylor charger/cycler after31/2 years batteries 3-yearold Futaba system read new battery values another Futaba being off 50 mAb Batteries Airtronics Cox/Sanwa Silver Seven World Engines Expert sundry Kraft systems have yet show cell failure As IRCS unitof Georges homemade gifthe says would leave home Plane sTop Flite Head master II Capt Frank T Courtney Warren Shipps Peanut Cierva C6C very same ship Courtney flight-tested England Led alloway supplied rare old shot Constellation powered four turbines Probably Connie turbine-powered Craftsman Richard D Horigan OT severai wno ressorea mis eIIanca CF atthe Smithsonians Garber Facility formerlySilver Hill remark ably efficient 5-place 90-hp 2-row Anzani-powered monoplane won 11 national international efficiency awards eventually led famous Whirlwind-powered Columbia dark area veneer inside box four passengers fitted like sardines very slight curvature visible just behind trailing edge cockpit passengers benefit windshield sorts turns 7 x 4 13500 rpm eight nine minuteswith on/off sky limit write both companies latest poop sheets Ced Galloway Great Lakes man knows end airplane other showed us rare Connie powered four turbines suggests Electra nacelles came Fowler flaps run out tad down give break hard-put camera plane Connie may have worlds ulti mate prop airliner its earliest form could outrun Zero Connies best altitude 707 jet appeared definitive Connie within seven knots 707 point-to-point superior economics airlines al though 707 doubled its passenger figure jets denied What performance suppose turbine Connie will make spectacular electric Connies fly great models Ned Kragness top flight engineer/test pilot/et al shocked us low speed figure explained figure indicated Indicated true airspeeds differ widely altitude know what crate really doing have multiply indicated airspeed 1 % per thousand feet altitude absolute ceiling youll indicating stall speed whereas crate going like gangbusters through thin air will shake up indicated airspeed 100 mph 10000 would 117 true 20000 low indicated would 134 true mess up may some high-time pilot write letter editor set down facts mutual edification absolute ceiling extremely difficult attain crate indicated speed drops until meets stall speed ats slightest quiver will send tumbling 6 7000 feet until heavier air permits recovery convert true airspeed formula goes altitude x 0175 x Indicated turn around True___Indicated altitude x 0175 1000 flying speed model Perhaps bit area Warren Shipp chips Boeing 100we 1/5th scale mind confusing built Akromaster 20 atsk Obviously models flown higher altitudes ~ng lunch hours using HotStuff Fifty lunches should lightiy loaded too just think nose OS Max 25 power Formsof big engines accept greater observed gloss Coverite Sig paints lunch sony fourth production F4B- 1 administrative transport Asst Sec Air Davis S Ingalls blue fuselage yellow wings tall tail stripes First went Bureau Air Commerce NS-21 Second model 200 P 2514-B NX872H P&W test bed French gray Boeing green trim Milo Burcham air show work 1933 WW II modified red silver NC-872H Tallmantz supposed four third 873H went through C NC NR NX N Boeing test demoMantz 1936-64 Fourth NX874H demo sold Japan 100A converted two-seater Hughes Two 1 OOEs went Thai land export P-i 2E old friend Gordon Williams shot Thailand museum 1 OOF became Army P-12F Clear mud suppose best can may have Proto type 33 1928 100 Kragness log book} lovely picture Bellanca CF 13 thanks Jay Spencer Smithsonian Jay has finished book truly remarkable air craft Smithsonianwed guess could buy few months contains great drawing George Clapp Jay says far single out CF Silver Hill Warren Shipp gets story notation AAHS Journal Vol 10 No 1 pg 42 relates CF 1921 5-seat Anzani 90 hp 1922 won 13 prizes efficiency national international eventsup 1925 followed WB-l 1925 Wright-Bellancathe remembered found Janes Worlds Aircraft 1925 WB 2 CF country mile ahead anything world phenomenal Wright Whirlwind ap peared scene things began happen Soon Bellanca Columbia evolved Youll remember Lindberg tried buy before turned Ryan Bellanca feared such hare brained scheme transatlantic flight could ruin reputation What mistake Bellanca Columbia estimation superior aircraft named Spirt Just look CF picture think 1921 tale mystery now turns Frank Court neys log book Now old folks home West Coast Courtney sharp tack Shipp Hannan et al ask him about old airplanes Courtney has flown probably airplanes Continued page 105 18 Model Aviation Dick Sarpolus 5-ft BC Free Flight has two servos ruaaerana elevator engine hot K&B Schnuerle 40 Pylon Racing prop 25% nitrO pipe case pressure Scares Dlckto start takes brave helperto hand-launch itstraight up After 20 25 seconds screaming climb smail tank becomes true contest-type FF circles soars lands Dicks feet flies honker funhis type relaxation Space Shuttle mild compared lift-off 20000 rpm music Dicks ears Well play harmonica thank Safety Preston Continued page 12 unable find out fumes potentially harmful readers can throw some light would welcome letter Finally case thinking hobby paints can cause us some bodily harm consider following story also extracted Family Health article sent Russell weeks dragging around wishing whatever coming down would hurry up happen theres nothing worse day-before-you-get-the-flu feeling thats Id felt too days Maybe its allergy friends suggested Could thought what pollen tree grass mold flourishes middle March Still did finally chalk up allergy just because thing seemed feasible weeks went began feel worse distinct pain bottom spine needle inserted having increasing difficulty urinating legs ached way have ached Ive fever evening after getting off commuter train decided ill just allergy fluill got home felt urinate couldnt panic called doctor As turned out doctor writer above story diagnosed problem toxic exposure paint used pro fessional painters engaged paint bedroom paint apparently nothing exotic just run-of-the-mill oil-based enamel So whether contemplating spray painting latest Pattern Scale creation merely going some home renovations alert allergy-like symptoms through could having toxic reaction paint Time now leave another month get back bathroom redecorating writing weve decided return methy lene-chloride-containing Old Tile Remover store reason contained following account again Family Health magazine Consider case 66-year-old Wisconsin man took up furniture refinishing basement After three-hour session used paint stripper containing METHYLENE CHLORIDE emphasis JDP remove paint varnish chest drawers suffered heart attack rushed hospital Though mentioned hobby attending physicians doctors made no con nection Soon after being released hospital man returned project suffered another heart attack convalesced slowly second time once again returned hobby third heart attack however fatal John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 man aliveover 350 types log book seems contain everything ask about Aristocrat CF Courtney says Bellancas always efficient airplanes Courtney began career 1 913 Grahame-White Flying School England struction consisted straight flight takeoffs landings Constant repair made machines Continued page 110 keueIF NEED6ot BALSASt BALSA SHEETS 48 long 4x/is 53 4x3/32 66 4x1/875 4 x /i86 4x/494 4 x 1/2 150 6xl/1e100 6x3/32115 6x/s127 6x/is146 6xl/4165 6x12200 PLYWOOD 648144 1/16156 Ia2180 185 /16240 /4 280 BALSA BLOCKS 24 long 1x2 92 1 x3 140 1x4 188 2x2 130 2x3 190 3x3 275 BALSA STICKS 48 long Sold packs 5 /16 x /470 /32 x /470 x /475 1/4 x 3/95 /4 X /2110 70 sq.70 3/~ sq.75 /4 sq.85 3/ sq1 40 /2 sq 190 Write complete product listing Manufacturers dealers Inquiries invited Special sizes available Add $350 postage handling No minimum reciuirements NNG NODELS INC P 0 BOX 396 Y MARylAND October 1981 105 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER Al RSCREW jASRj~ IMPROVED THROUGH FOUR YEARS OF PRODUCTION THE G/F SERIES IS UNEQUALED FOR PERFORMANCE & DURABILITY AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE THROUGH 131 DISTRIBUTORS WINDSOR PROPELLER CO WINDSOR CA 95492 CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS Presents Dip Stick FAST QUICK EASY TO FINISH DS 40 55 SPAN 560 SQ IN WING LOADING 165-20 OZ 29-45 ENGINE 43 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 4995 ADD 4 SHIPPING CHARGE DS 60 641/2 SPAN 672 SQ IN WING LOADING 20-22 OZ 46-60 ENGINE 48 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 5995 EXTREMELY ADD 6 SHIPPING RUGGED TRAINER CHARGE WITH SYMMETRICAL AIRFOIL FOR AEROBATIC FLYING HIGHLY PRE-FABRICATED KIT INCLUDES PRE-SHEETED BALSA FOAM WINGS PRE-BUILT JIG ASSEMBLED WOOD FUSELAGE PRE-SHAPED BALSA TAIL ASSEMBLY PRE-FORMED LANDING GEAR TAIL WHEEL AND AILERON WIRES INSTRUCTION SHEET WITH FULLY ILLUSTRATED ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS overweight engines pooped until instructor climbed out student soloed encountered first turns Students often crashed chickened out flew straight until fuel gone Ichabod Crane physique glasses Courtney unlikely pilot subject tried enter RFC 1914 other Boom Trenchard enraged young mans arrogance thinking could pilot actually threw Courtney out office Court ney wormed way mechanic flying such tricky aircraft Morane-Saulnier tangled famed Max Inimelmann shot down three times bullets anti aircraft shrapnel legs As post-war test pilot got infamous Kennedy Giant off groundslightly never flown again tested demo-flew Above Astro Flight Velie onocoupe ny Ionn Boyd 049 powered flies slowly antenna doesnt unfurl slipstream Silkspan covered Sig doped has realistic 1927 climb-out dead-stick John says exper ienced thermal flier could keep up day Below nicely framed job Boyd evolved Sig Scamp slightly changed moments increased area a15 ozIsq ft loading has 195 flights last March Boyd gets 1012-mm glides AIRSCRIW PRESENTS BALSA STRIPPER PRECISION STRIP WOOD TO INS FROM BALSA SHEET ALSO FOR DRAFTING AND PHOTO MATS USES TYPE II BLADE SUPER TOOLGREAT PRICE WINDSOR PROPELLER Co PO BOX 112WINDSOR CA 95492 uur recent coiumn about tne great uo Palmer prompted Ron Parkas send fine shot RC version Palmer Chief top CL Stunter right after war Bob advised Ron 4-channel conversion gratifying project especially since One-of-a-kind Featured August1980 Flying Models Bill remembers Ken Willard omniscient proved over 25 years ago CL Stunt jobs era made advanced aerobatic RC machines Cierva autogyro before crowned heads Europe lost blade getting away broken ribs bruises won Kings Cup 1921 flying Martinsyde Semiquaver Siskin fighter repeated 1923 1928 two crew members tackled Atlantic Lisbon Newfoundland Dornier Wal boat Halfway middle dark stormy night rear engine caught fire Courtney managed ocean landing huge waves drifted two days before being picked up steamer area New York crew became heroes Test pilot Courtney remained caused mods Curtiss Condors Kingfishers make flyable Free Flighters dig him because says almost plane ever built has too small vertical tail Courtney amphib built Curtiss Wright cleanest best performing amphibs ever built although bipe trike retract gear oil tank formed nacelle leading edge extension shaft forward engine pusher prop CW after building five sold jigs rights Japan Courtney consulted pilots history rare breed engineering/hightime pilots learn survival have practical answers engineers com puters can never fathom Kragness describes cats thinks world wide number less 200 Consider boats Courtney consulted everthing China Clippers Hercules worked places Convair during WW II flew everything B-24s huge 4-engined CoronaContinued page 114 110 Model Aviation AiSWV BJSW4 PO BOX 112 TO ORDER SEND BANK CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS PO BOX 6063 CANTON OHIO 44706 OR CALL 216 4541539 FOR IMMEDIATE COD SHIPMENT SCALE WH RADIO CONTROL ROL-UNE EELS FREE-FLIGHT 0000 VINTAGESMOOTHGOLDEN AGENEW sizes21/2CONTOURsizes214BALLOON 3/431/a"23/i"31/ 13341314132/24/z 1/443/i11/43%11/443/3/451/4 154 5 11/2 4 PA 5 3 PA 65/ 21/4 51/4 1 61/2 SCALE PILOTS CYUNDERS ENGINE KITS MACHINE GUN KITS PLASTIC DISPLAY MODELS ALLThJ SEND $1 FOR COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG DEPT MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 213 764-1490 I r CakQig 1981 QAeccggoktcg PO BOX R/C GOODIES 3 II 0 VAN NUYS CA 91408 IThis month Es.ie offering SPECIAL PRICES several accessory items RegularI 1prices shown small tvoe BARGAIN PRICES shown heavy typeI V CAPS$895UNIVERSAL SERVO TRAY isibility 2Color CapsV3 match 72 MHz Frec1 Specify size fits I$650 Shipping$279$209 $125 AIR-FLO HINGES21 tray Bantam Cannon \A OA CE3 CE4 CE5 Futaba Kraft KPS12 Midget servos1 ma,Mtg hardware included FREQUENCY FLAGS 051 Golden Bee etc Uses Iron Hinges easy chable holder standard 1/432 glow pluginstall Strips 36 Igpolyester ribbons $219SMALL 1 LARGE 11/2All Freq colors $159$139$159 69 $2500 $169$199 I7S4 ORAdd 75 Shipping Except Caps Calif Residents add inm rn MORE s Tax Catalog 6 USA $170 Foreign 11 l Aviation Would believe Quaker Flash 277 flights May19 92 hours logged time DG Marshall airline man quotes hours flights dream machine powered K&B 35 beefed up stand high times rough ground handling stolen equipment Marshalls station wagon So radios things have ripped off Bill mumbles Rip off everything America fellows its time Sting Don has another no time fly third being covered K&B 61 pumper big cantfind wheels large enough mayputiton floats Don runs rich dont cook keeps light spite going fordura bility pictured spans 7 ft has 1 2-oz tank Throttle back sure bring recliner sun umbrella plenty iced tea maybe 1000 mAh pack dos ferried PBYs San Diego Hawaii 19-hour non-stop night flights Now 86 hasnt flown since 1965 1972 wrote Eighth Sea 290-page thumbnail account career has kept day-by-day diary life racing trophies presented Queen 1977 display Hendon Museum Diaries flight logs licenses other papers donated San Diego Aero-Space Museum hardly notes day week has talk him about airplanes mind becomes alert years ago seems run off memory tape tiny details McArthur recalled bit about old soldiers simply fading away wasnt talking something glorious man like Courtney present circumstances unbear able youd like tell him much appreciated imagine letter addressed him via Warren Shipp Bill Hannan care ModelAviation would please him very much story Among model researchers turned Courtney through channels Don Srull needed color scheme rubber-powered Gannet took Nats sec ond 1923 London Daily Mail sponsored famous British Light Aeroplane Trials Lympne Gannet historic ultralights built major firms Naturally Gloster Gannet Courtneys log books Courtney color blind Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Electric Spitfire/SruII Con fin ued page 26 firewall making sure squared up accurately fuselage Fill nose section between stringers light soft t balsa wing saddle fillets will completed after wing has built Wing Tail Note leading trailing edges wing stab laminated soft balsa strip Moisten strips join thinned white glue fuselage keels Bend stack strips shape right over QUICK N EASY CUT-OUT PATTERN-PLANS Can Cut & Assembled Evening Stand-Up Flight Box $695 No Measuring Needed! TO BUILD 4TraceCut Assemble DESIGNED TO HOLD Fuel tank Trans Starter Battery Fuse Hold ladi Tools etc Legs Removable 21 12 39 Send SELECT PRODUCTS PO Box 259 Palo Cedro CA 96073 lifE FANT4STIC NELSON 15 detailed brochure send 25 cents Kus torn Kraftsmanship PO Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 Ph 714 830-5162 Dealer inquiries invited
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/10
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 105, 110, 114
AS MEMBER OF Free Flight Hall Fame have always questioned credentials simply because until now no design meets SAMs cut-off date old-time machines Free Flight jobs although com petition far mind few sport machines made contest record selves Now present mode flying SAM rules mean nothing Ijust like watch things soarsport comp After guys asked about Vagabond could swear SAM 1942 Maybe Probably WOG came mind since predated Vagabond Same deal Hurst Bowers gave us copies old Air Trails first gassie Old Square Sides published late Thirties made winter/spring 1936-37 forgotten Pay dirt Meanwhile Bob Larsh Don Jenkins turned things upside down helpif wed say word said some character named Sprague pirated design name Old Square Sides article wanted hang himbut Sprague happens middle name gosh used pseudonym guys like Charlie Grant Joe Kovel Carl Goldberg around wed timid about throwing hat ring aware real great like Ray Glow Plug Arden flown gassie mile 1904 eight years before born Bassett Vernon Boehle Leo Weiss etc would have timid too Hardly anyone money days $2150 Brown might just well have thousand 10 years three kids before got Baby Cyclone wholesale $900 Old Square Sides throw-away model supposed contest job Tom Dick Harry designer billed crate world beater thing box detachable wing panels exactly today gliders made long straight takeoffs climbed gently sweeping left circlestoday would make nice RC would great fun fly provided airplane watcher docile sport thing should last forever Wed love build Clukey 3-view tempts want build everything sight Grapevine time mention crate wed love build place lights up like bloody pinball machine Having just phoned MA office please delete statement last column Boeing 100 kind report now some heady stuff about 100 Bellanca CF Connie dream four electrics POWERBABY CYCLONE 4 II 476 ALUM TUBING OLD SQUARE SIDESFUSELAGEBALSAG~ WIRE FIRST GAS MODEL DESIGNED BYSHEETCOVERDELETEDSTRUT DETAIL BILL WINTER 1937 \FUSE STRUT F TT NG IIII II COLOR SPAN 763/4LENGTH 461/2FUSELAGE 8 FINBLUE AREA 696 SO INSWING STAB 8 FUSE STRIPE 2 LBS 70Z5 B OZ LOADING LOW NOTES MODEL FEATURED PLUG-IN TYPE WINGS HELD INTERNALLY VIA RUBBER BANDS WITH ALUM TUBING/DOWEL SYSTEM ACCESS VIA CABIN DOOR ON LEFT SIDE WING STRUTS ARE FUNCTIONAL Bill Winters forgotten gas model detachable panels 1936 Ia present gliders cross-cabin wires too thin todays standards struts workingleading fatigue fail ure strut total RC sport 3-ch ship could have onepiece wing bolted banded consult glider guys wire sizes Bill thinks least 3/16 case struts would working could carry light load beef up fittings RC fun show Baby Cyclone tank up high over ignition motor Bill says starting experience hand-cranking Model T Ford lieve Baby Cyke never flooded Naturally gravity made 0 24BB ID IS 14 16 I I I II I II I I INCHES fuel run knowing nothing says little Cyke always started Ignorance bliss says rock-back tendency large di hedral would good foil play heavy rudder trim against set up tight soaring circles K&B 19 recommendation anything up 25 would realistic Flies wide left Free Flight perhaps some right thrust Did need down 2 deg downthrust 9-4 10-6 depending engine should perk merrily Leave nose heavy stick batteries far forward 450 mAh pack minimum Inci dentally Model Builder magazine promises publish Winters Old Square Sides 0T Month future issue 1 6 Model Aviation \J2Lt Bill Winter International Radio Control Service PO Box 1643 San Juan Capistrano CA 92083 servo-charger milliamp analyzer according Winter better mousetrap few years ago friend George Myers raw idea George made Bill cheap Lafayette mA meterwhich example Bill showed twice before Now commerciallyavailable unit reads radio servos drain orcharge rate know ifa servo linkage isgiving troublebecause high readings alsowhat mysteriouscharger doing picture showing charger may able see meter needle Agatha Christie mishmash follows have advantage knowing murderer plot come out way wish may momentarily make guys feel like trailer park after tornado passed So lets get electric stuff out way concede now electric works stilt say aint us Motor runs limited batteries heavy have build light Well something has happened dramatize well use Kraft Chipmunk Cessna known fly one-and-a-half two minutes might nurse two-and-a-half per haps three minutes thats new 05s now Astro Flight Leisure Electronics sub-C batteries push Cessna up 12 13 minutes understand Phil Kraft rubbed eyes after watching Roland Boucher Leisure push Cardinal 13 minutes including aerobatics inverted flight cant estimate now what imaginary Connie would cruises two motors 15 minutes Lightness no problem message airplanes bricks just dont throw around acres plywood keep 6-lb shaker giving monster St Vitus dance remember have fuse way switch on/off transmitter preferably cruise control doesnt dissipate too much juice dropping resistor Astro Flights catalog shows everything need Roland Boucher Leisure entered Electric Pattern Meet on/off switch having completed pattern could get crate down judges commanded him get down others could fly three judges ended up flying iton single flight Leisure Electronics primarily car outfit bottom dropping out car racing because handful experts can lap anyone country old slot-car malaise has set now have Pro class races bucks winner gets half gate entrant puts up good stakeso big boys disdain race kid-stuff trophies hope will cure problem So Leisure 05 far has moved over airplane field car motor technology Meanwhile Bob Boucher Astro Flight now offers 075 system ups power 50% 50% duration October1981 17 indicating charge rate uses gismos Ace Digipace Taylor charger/cycler after31/2 years batteries 3-yearold Futaba system read new battery values another Futaba being off 50 mAb Batteries Airtronics Cox/Sanwa Silver Seven World Engines Expert sundry Kraft systems have yet show cell failure As IRCS unitof Georges homemade gifthe says would leave home Plane sTop Flite Head master II Capt Frank T Courtney Warren Shipps Peanut Cierva C6C very same ship Courtney flight-tested England Led alloway supplied rare old shot Constellation powered four turbines Probably Connie turbine-powered Craftsman Richard D Horigan OT severai wno ressorea mis eIIanca CF atthe Smithsonians Garber Facility formerlySilver Hill remark ably efficient 5-place 90-hp 2-row Anzani-powered monoplane won 11 national international efficiency awards eventually led famous Whirlwind-powered Columbia dark area veneer inside box four passengers fitted like sardines very slight curvature visible just behind trailing edge cockpit passengers benefit windshield sorts turns 7 x 4 13500 rpm eight nine minuteswith on/off sky limit write both companies latest poop sheets Ced Galloway Great Lakes man knows end airplane other showed us rare Connie powered four turbines suggests Electra nacelles came Fowler flaps run out tad down give break hard-put camera plane Connie may have worlds ulti mate prop airliner its earliest form could outrun Zero Connies best altitude 707 jet appeared definitive Connie within seven knots 707 point-to-point superior economics airlines al though 707 doubled its passenger figure jets denied What performance suppose turbine Connie will make spectacular electric Connies fly great models Ned Kragness top flight engineer/test pilot/et al shocked us low speed figure explained figure indicated Indicated true airspeeds differ widely altitude know what crate really doing have multiply indicated airspeed 1 % per thousand feet altitude absolute ceiling youll indicating stall speed whereas crate going like gangbusters through thin air will shake up indicated airspeed 100 mph 10000 would 117 true 20000 low indicated would 134 true mess up may some high-time pilot write letter editor set down facts mutual edification absolute ceiling extremely difficult attain crate indicated speed drops until meets stall speed ats slightest quiver will send tumbling 6 7000 feet until heavier air permits recovery convert true airspeed formula goes altitude x 0175 x Indicated turn around True___Indicated altitude x 0175 1000 flying speed model Perhaps bit area Warren Shipp chips Boeing 100we 1/5th scale mind confusing built Akromaster 20 atsk Obviously models flown higher altitudes ~ng lunch hours using HotStuff Fifty lunches should lightiy loaded too just think nose OS Max 25 power Formsof big engines accept greater observed gloss Coverite Sig paints lunch sony fourth production F4B- 1 administrative transport Asst Sec Air Davis S Ingalls blue fuselage yellow wings tall tail stripes First went Bureau Air Commerce NS-21 Second model 200 P 2514-B NX872H P&W test bed French gray Boeing green trim Milo Burcham air show work 1933 WW II modified red silver NC-872H Tallmantz supposed four third 873H went through C NC NR NX N Boeing test demoMantz 1936-64 Fourth NX874H demo sold Japan 100A converted two-seater Hughes Two 1 OOEs went Thai land export P-i 2E old friend Gordon Williams shot Thailand museum 1 OOF became Army P-12F Clear mud suppose best can may have Proto type 33 1928 100 Kragness log book} lovely picture Bellanca CF 13 thanks Jay Spencer Smithsonian Jay has finished book truly remarkable air craft Smithsonianwed guess could buy few months contains great drawing George Clapp Jay says far single out CF Silver Hill Warren Shipp gets story notation AAHS Journal Vol 10 No 1 pg 42 relates CF 1921 5-seat Anzani 90 hp 1922 won 13 prizes efficiency national international eventsup 1925 followed WB-l 1925 Wright-Bellancathe remembered found Janes Worlds Aircraft 1925 WB 2 CF country mile ahead anything world phenomenal Wright Whirlwind ap peared scene things began happen Soon Bellanca Columbia evolved Youll remember Lindberg tried buy before turned Ryan Bellanca feared such hare brained scheme transatlantic flight could ruin reputation What mistake Bellanca Columbia estimation superior aircraft named Spirt Just look CF picture think 1921 tale mystery now turns Frank Court neys log book Now old folks home West Coast Courtney sharp tack Shipp Hannan et al ask him about old airplanes Courtney has flown probably airplanes Continued page 105 18 Model Aviation Dick Sarpolus 5-ft BC Free Flight has two servos ruaaerana elevator engine hot K&B Schnuerle 40 Pylon Racing prop 25% nitrO pipe case pressure Scares Dlckto start takes brave helperto hand-launch itstraight up After 20 25 seconds screaming climb smail tank becomes true contest-type FF circles soars lands Dicks feet flies honker funhis type relaxation Space Shuttle mild compared lift-off 20000 rpm music Dicks ears Well play harmonica thank Safety Preston Continued page 12 unable find out fumes potentially harmful readers can throw some light would welcome letter Finally case thinking hobby paints can cause us some bodily harm consider following story also extracted Family Health article sent Russell weeks dragging around wishing whatever coming down would hurry up happen theres nothing worse day-before-you-get-the-flu feeling thats Id felt too days Maybe its allergy friends suggested Could thought what pollen tree grass mold flourishes middle March Still did finally chalk up allergy just because thing seemed feasible weeks went began feel worse distinct pain bottom spine needle inserted having increasing difficulty urinating legs ached way have ached Ive fever evening after getting off commuter train decided ill just allergy fluill got home felt urinate couldnt panic called doctor As turned out doctor writer above story diagnosed problem toxic exposure paint used pro fessional painters engaged paint bedroom paint apparently nothing exotic just run-of-the-mill oil-based enamel So whether contemplating spray painting latest Pattern Scale creation merely going some home renovations alert allergy-like symptoms through could having toxic reaction paint Time now leave another month get back bathroom redecorating writing weve decided return methy lene-chloride-containing Old Tile Remover store reason contained following account again Family Health magazine Consider case 66-year-old Wisconsin man took up furniture refinishing basement After three-hour session used paint stripper containing METHYLENE CHLORIDE emphasis JDP remove paint varnish chest drawers suffered heart attack rushed hospital Though mentioned hobby attending physicians doctors made no con nection Soon after being released hospital man returned project suffered another heart attack convalesced slowly second time once again returned hobby third heart attack however fatal John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 man aliveover 350 types log book seems contain everything ask about Aristocrat CF Courtney says Bellancas always efficient airplanes Courtney began career 1 913 Grahame-White Flying School England struction consisted straight flight takeoffs landings Constant repair made machines Continued page 110 keueIF NEED6ot BALSASt BALSA SHEETS 48 long 4x/is 53 4x3/32 66 4x1/875 4 x /i86 4x/494 4 x 1/2 150 6xl/1e100 6x3/32115 6x/s127 6x/is146 6xl/4165 6x12200 PLYWOOD 648144 1/16156 Ia2180 185 /16240 /4 280 BALSA BLOCKS 24 long 1x2 92 1 x3 140 1x4 188 2x2 130 2x3 190 3x3 275 BALSA STICKS 48 long Sold packs 5 /16 x /470 /32 x /470 x /475 1/4 x 3/95 /4 X /2110 70 sq.70 3/~ sq.75 /4 sq.85 3/ sq1 40 /2 sq 190 Write complete product listing Manufacturers dealers Inquiries invited Special sizes available Add $350 postage handling No minimum reciuirements NNG NODELS INC P 0 BOX 396 Y MARylAND October 1981 105 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER Al RSCREW jASRj~ IMPROVED THROUGH FOUR YEARS OF PRODUCTION THE G/F SERIES IS UNEQUALED FOR PERFORMANCE & DURABILITY AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE THROUGH 131 DISTRIBUTORS WINDSOR PROPELLER CO WINDSOR CA 95492 CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS Presents Dip Stick FAST QUICK EASY TO FINISH DS 40 55 SPAN 560 SQ IN WING LOADING 165-20 OZ 29-45 ENGINE 43 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 4995 ADD 4 SHIPPING CHARGE DS 60 641/2 SPAN 672 SQ IN WING LOADING 20-22 OZ 46-60 ENGINE 48 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 5995 EXTREMELY ADD 6 SHIPPING RUGGED TRAINER CHARGE WITH SYMMETRICAL AIRFOIL FOR AEROBATIC FLYING HIGHLY PRE-FABRICATED KIT INCLUDES PRE-SHEETED BALSA FOAM WINGS PRE-BUILT JIG ASSEMBLED WOOD FUSELAGE PRE-SHAPED BALSA TAIL ASSEMBLY PRE-FORMED LANDING GEAR TAIL WHEEL AND AILERON WIRES INSTRUCTION SHEET WITH FULLY ILLUSTRATED ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS overweight engines pooped until instructor climbed out student soloed encountered first turns Students often crashed chickened out flew straight until fuel gone Ichabod Crane physique glasses Courtney unlikely pilot subject tried enter RFC 1914 other Boom Trenchard enraged young mans arrogance thinking could pilot actually threw Courtney out office Court ney wormed way mechanic flying such tricky aircraft Morane-Saulnier tangled famed Max Inimelmann shot down three times bullets anti aircraft shrapnel legs As post-war test pilot got infamous Kennedy Giant off groundslightly never flown again tested demo-flew Above Astro Flight Velie onocoupe ny Ionn Boyd 049 powered flies slowly antenna doesnt unfurl slipstream Silkspan covered Sig doped has realistic 1927 climb-out dead-stick John says exper ienced thermal flier could keep up day Below nicely framed job Boyd evolved Sig Scamp slightly changed moments increased area a15 ozIsq ft loading has 195 flights last March Boyd gets 1012-mm glides AIRSCRIW PRESENTS BALSA STRIPPER PRECISION STRIP WOOD TO INS FROM BALSA SHEET ALSO FOR DRAFTING AND PHOTO MATS USES TYPE II BLADE SUPER TOOLGREAT PRICE WINDSOR PROPELLER Co PO BOX 112WINDSOR CA 95492 uur recent coiumn about tne great uo Palmer prompted Ron Parkas send fine shot RC version Palmer Chief top CL Stunter right after war Bob advised Ron 4-channel conversion gratifying project especially since One-of-a-kind Featured August1980 Flying Models Bill remembers Ken Willard omniscient proved over 25 years ago CL Stunt jobs era made advanced aerobatic RC machines Cierva autogyro before crowned heads Europe lost blade getting away broken ribs bruises won Kings Cup 1921 flying Martinsyde Semiquaver Siskin fighter repeated 1923 1928 two crew members tackled Atlantic Lisbon Newfoundland Dornier Wal boat Halfway middle dark stormy night rear engine caught fire Courtney managed ocean landing huge waves drifted two days before being picked up steamer area New York crew became heroes Test pilot Courtney remained caused mods Curtiss Condors Kingfishers make flyable Free Flighters dig him because says almost plane ever built has too small vertical tail Courtney amphib built Curtiss Wright cleanest best performing amphibs ever built although bipe trike retract gear oil tank formed nacelle leading edge extension shaft forward engine pusher prop CW after building five sold jigs rights Japan Courtney consulted pilots history rare breed engineering/hightime pilots learn survival have practical answers engineers com puters can never fathom Kragness describes cats thinks world wide number less 200 Consider boats Courtney consulted everthing China Clippers Hercules worked places Convair during WW II flew everything B-24s huge 4-engined CoronaContinued page 114 110 Model Aviation AiSWV BJSW4 PO BOX 112 TO ORDER SEND BANK CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS PO BOX 6063 CANTON OHIO 44706 OR CALL 216 4541539 FOR IMMEDIATE COD SHIPMENT SCALE WH RADIO CONTROL ROL-UNE EELS FREE-FLIGHT 0000 VINTAGESMOOTHGOLDEN AGENEW sizes21/2CONTOURsizes214BALLOON 3/431/a"23/i"31/ 13341314132/24/z 1/443/i11/43%11/443/3/451/4 154 5 11/2 4 PA 5 3 PA 65/ 21/4 51/4 1 61/2 SCALE PILOTS CYUNDERS ENGINE KITS MACHINE GUN KITS PLASTIC DISPLAY MODELS ALLThJ SEND $1 FOR COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG DEPT MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 213 764-1490 I r CakQig 1981 QAeccggoktcg PO BOX R/C GOODIES 3 II 0 VAN NUYS CA 91408 IThis month Es.ie offering SPECIAL PRICES several accessory items RegularI 1prices shown small tvoe BARGAIN PRICES shown heavy typeI V CAPS$895UNIVERSAL SERVO TRAY isibility 2Color CapsV3 match 72 MHz Frec1 Specify size fits I$650 Shipping$279$209 $125 AIR-FLO HINGES21 tray Bantam Cannon \A OA CE3 CE4 CE5 Futaba Kraft KPS12 Midget servos1 ma,Mtg hardware included FREQUENCY FLAGS 051 Golden Bee etc Uses Iron Hinges easy chable holder standard 1/432 glow pluginstall Strips 36 Igpolyester ribbons $219SMALL 1 LARGE 11/2All Freq colors $159$139$159 69 $2500 $169$199 I7S4 ORAdd 75 Shipping Except Caps Calif Residents add inm rn MORE s Tax Catalog 6 USA $170 Foreign 11 l Aviation Would believe Quaker Flash 277 flights May19 92 hours logged time DG Marshall airline man quotes hours flights dream machine powered K&B 35 beefed up stand high times rough ground handling stolen equipment Marshalls station wagon So radios things have ripped off Bill mumbles Rip off everything America fellows its time Sting Don has another no time fly third being covered K&B 61 pumper big cantfind wheels large enough mayputiton floats Don runs rich dont cook keeps light spite going fordura bility pictured spans 7 ft has 1 2-oz tank Throttle back sure bring recliner sun umbrella plenty iced tea maybe 1000 mAh pack dos ferried PBYs San Diego Hawaii 19-hour non-stop night flights Now 86 hasnt flown since 1965 1972 wrote Eighth Sea 290-page thumbnail account career has kept day-by-day diary life racing trophies presented Queen 1977 display Hendon Museum Diaries flight logs licenses other papers donated San Diego Aero-Space Museum hardly notes day week has talk him about airplanes mind becomes alert years ago seems run off memory tape tiny details McArthur recalled bit about old soldiers simply fading away wasnt talking something glorious man like Courtney present circumstances unbear able youd like tell him much appreciated imagine letter addressed him via Warren Shipp Bill Hannan care ModelAviation would please him very much story Among model researchers turned Courtney through channels Don Srull needed color scheme rubber-powered Gannet took Nats sec ond 1923 London Daily Mail sponsored famous British Light Aeroplane Trials Lympne Gannet historic ultralights built major firms Naturally Gloster Gannet Courtneys log books Courtney color blind Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Electric Spitfire/SruII Con fin ued page 26 firewall making sure squared up accurately fuselage Fill nose section between stringers light soft t balsa wing saddle fillets will completed after wing has built Wing Tail Note leading trailing edges wing stab laminated soft balsa strip Moisten strips join thinned white glue fuselage keels Bend stack strips shape right over QUICK N EASY CUT-OUT PATTERN-PLANS Can Cut & Assembled Evening Stand-Up Flight Box $695 No Measuring Needed! TO BUILD 4TraceCut Assemble DESIGNED TO HOLD Fuel tank Trans Starter Battery Fuse Hold ladi Tools etc Legs Removable 21 12 39 Send SELECT PRODUCTS PO Box 259 Palo Cedro CA 96073 lifE FANT4STIC NELSON 15 detailed brochure send 25 cents Kus torn Kraftsmanship PO Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 Ph 714 830-5162 Dealer inquiries invited
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/10
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 105, 110, 114
AS MEMBER OF Free Flight Hall Fame have always questioned credentials simply because until now no design meets SAMs cut-off date old-time machines Free Flight jobs although com petition far mind few sport machines made contest record selves Now present mode flying SAM rules mean nothing Ijust like watch things soarsport comp After guys asked about Vagabond could swear SAM 1942 Maybe Probably WOG came mind since predated Vagabond Same deal Hurst Bowers gave us copies old Air Trails first gassie Old Square Sides published late Thirties made winter/spring 1936-37 forgotten Pay dirt Meanwhile Bob Larsh Don Jenkins turned things upside down helpif wed say word said some character named Sprague pirated design name Old Square Sides article wanted hang himbut Sprague happens middle name gosh used pseudonym guys like Charlie Grant Joe Kovel Carl Goldberg around wed timid about throwing hat ring aware real great like Ray Glow Plug Arden flown gassie mile 1904 eight years before born Bassett Vernon Boehle Leo Weiss etc would have timid too Hardly anyone money days $2150 Brown might just well have thousand 10 years three kids before got Baby Cyclone wholesale $900 Old Square Sides throw-away model supposed contest job Tom Dick Harry designer billed crate world beater thing box detachable wing panels exactly today gliders made long straight takeoffs climbed gently sweeping left circlestoday would make nice RC would great fun fly provided airplane watcher docile sport thing should last forever Wed love build Clukey 3-view tempts want build everything sight Grapevine time mention crate wed love build place lights up like bloody pinball machine Having just phoned MA office please delete statement last column Boeing 100 kind report now some heady stuff about 100 Bellanca CF Connie dream four electrics POWERBABY CYCLONE 4 II 476 ALUM TUBING OLD SQUARE SIDESFUSELAGEBALSAG~ WIRE FIRST GAS MODEL DESIGNED BYSHEETCOVERDELETEDSTRUT DETAIL BILL WINTER 1937 \FUSE STRUT F TT NG IIII II COLOR SPAN 763/4LENGTH 461/2FUSELAGE 8 FINBLUE AREA 696 SO INSWING STAB 8 FUSE STRIPE 2 LBS 70Z5 B OZ LOADING LOW NOTES MODEL FEATURED PLUG-IN TYPE WINGS HELD INTERNALLY VIA RUBBER BANDS WITH ALUM TUBING/DOWEL SYSTEM ACCESS VIA CABIN DOOR ON LEFT SIDE WING STRUTS ARE FUNCTIONAL Bill Winters forgotten gas model detachable panels 1936 Ia present gliders cross-cabin wires too thin todays standards struts workingleading fatigue fail ure strut total RC sport 3-ch ship could have onepiece wing bolted banded consult glider guys wire sizes Bill thinks least 3/16 case struts would working could carry light load beef up fittings RC fun show Baby Cyclone tank up high over ignition motor Bill says starting experience hand-cranking Model T Ford lieve Baby Cyke never flooded Naturally gravity made 0 24BB ID IS 14 16 I I I II I II I I INCHES fuel run knowing nothing says little Cyke always started Ignorance bliss says rock-back tendency large di hedral would good foil play heavy rudder trim against set up tight soaring circles K&B 19 recommendation anything up 25 would realistic Flies wide left Free Flight perhaps some right thrust Did need down 2 deg downthrust 9-4 10-6 depending engine should perk merrily Leave nose heavy stick batteries far forward 450 mAh pack minimum Inci dentally Model Builder magazine promises publish Winters Old Square Sides 0T Month future issue 1 6 Model Aviation \J2Lt Bill Winter International Radio Control Service PO Box 1643 San Juan Capistrano CA 92083 servo-charger milliamp analyzer according Winter better mousetrap few years ago friend George Myers raw idea George made Bill cheap Lafayette mA meterwhich example Bill showed twice before Now commerciallyavailable unit reads radio servos drain orcharge rate know ifa servo linkage isgiving troublebecause high readings alsowhat mysteriouscharger doing picture showing charger may able see meter needle Agatha Christie mishmash follows have advantage knowing murderer plot come out way wish may momentarily make guys feel like trailer park after tornado passed So lets get electric stuff out way concede now electric works stilt say aint us Motor runs limited batteries heavy have build light Well something has happened dramatize well use Kraft Chipmunk Cessna known fly one-and-a-half two minutes might nurse two-and-a-half per haps three minutes thats new 05s now Astro Flight Leisure Electronics sub-C batteries push Cessna up 12 13 minutes understand Phil Kraft rubbed eyes after watching Roland Boucher Leisure push Cardinal 13 minutes including aerobatics inverted flight cant estimate now what imaginary Connie would cruises two motors 15 minutes Lightness no problem message airplanes bricks just dont throw around acres plywood keep 6-lb shaker giving monster St Vitus dance remember have fuse way switch on/off transmitter preferably cruise control doesnt dissipate too much juice dropping resistor Astro Flights catalog shows everything need Roland Boucher Leisure entered Electric Pattern Meet on/off switch having completed pattern could get crate down judges commanded him get down others could fly three judges ended up flying iton single flight Leisure Electronics primarily car outfit bottom dropping out car racing because handful experts can lap anyone country old slot-car malaise has set now have Pro class races bucks winner gets half gate entrant puts up good stakeso big boys disdain race kid-stuff trophies hope will cure problem So Leisure 05 far has moved over airplane field car motor technology Meanwhile Bob Boucher Astro Flight now offers 075 system ups power 50% 50% duration October1981 17 indicating charge rate uses gismos Ace Digipace Taylor charger/cycler after31/2 years batteries 3-yearold Futaba system read new battery values another Futaba being off 50 mAb Batteries Airtronics Cox/Sanwa Silver Seven World Engines Expert sundry Kraft systems have yet show cell failure As IRCS unitof Georges homemade gifthe says would leave home Plane sTop Flite Head master II Capt Frank T Courtney Warren Shipps Peanut Cierva C6C very same ship Courtney flight-tested England Led alloway supplied rare old shot Constellation powered four turbines Probably Connie turbine-powered Craftsman Richard D Horigan OT severai wno ressorea mis eIIanca CF atthe Smithsonians Garber Facility formerlySilver Hill remark ably efficient 5-place 90-hp 2-row Anzani-powered monoplane won 11 national international efficiency awards eventually led famous Whirlwind-powered Columbia dark area veneer inside box four passengers fitted like sardines very slight curvature visible just behind trailing edge cockpit passengers benefit windshield sorts turns 7 x 4 13500 rpm eight nine minuteswith on/off sky limit write both companies latest poop sheets Ced Galloway Great Lakes man knows end airplane other showed us rare Connie powered four turbines suggests Electra nacelles came Fowler flaps run out tad down give break hard-put camera plane Connie may have worlds ulti mate prop airliner its earliest form could outrun Zero Connies best altitude 707 jet appeared definitive Connie within seven knots 707 point-to-point superior economics airlines al though 707 doubled its passenger figure jets denied What performance suppose turbine Connie will make spectacular electric Connies fly great models Ned Kragness top flight engineer/test pilot/et al shocked us low speed figure explained figure indicated Indicated true airspeeds differ widely altitude know what crate really doing have multiply indicated airspeed 1 % per thousand feet altitude absolute ceiling youll indicating stall speed whereas crate going like gangbusters through thin air will shake up indicated airspeed 100 mph 10000 would 117 true 20000 low indicated would 134 true mess up may some high-time pilot write letter editor set down facts mutual edification absolute ceiling extremely difficult attain crate indicated speed drops until meets stall speed ats slightest quiver will send tumbling 6 7000 feet until heavier air permits recovery convert true airspeed formula goes altitude x 0175 x Indicated turn around True___Indicated altitude x 0175 1000 flying speed model Perhaps bit area Warren Shipp chips Boeing 100we 1/5th scale mind confusing built Akromaster 20 atsk Obviously models flown higher altitudes ~ng lunch hours using HotStuff Fifty lunches should lightiy loaded too just think nose OS Max 25 power Formsof big engines accept greater observed gloss Coverite Sig paints lunch sony fourth production F4B- 1 administrative transport Asst Sec Air Davis S Ingalls blue fuselage yellow wings tall tail stripes First went Bureau Air Commerce NS-21 Second model 200 P 2514-B NX872H P&W test bed French gray Boeing green trim Milo Burcham air show work 1933 WW II modified red silver NC-872H Tallmantz supposed four third 873H went through C NC NR NX N Boeing test demoMantz 1936-64 Fourth NX874H demo sold Japan 100A converted two-seater Hughes Two 1 OOEs went Thai land export P-i 2E old friend Gordon Williams shot Thailand museum 1 OOF became Army P-12F Clear mud suppose best can may have Proto type 33 1928 100 Kragness log book} lovely picture Bellanca CF 13 thanks Jay Spencer Smithsonian Jay has finished book truly remarkable air craft Smithsonianwed guess could buy few months contains great drawing George Clapp Jay says far single out CF Silver Hill Warren Shipp gets story notation AAHS Journal Vol 10 No 1 pg 42 relates CF 1921 5-seat Anzani 90 hp 1922 won 13 prizes efficiency national international eventsup 1925 followed WB-l 1925 Wright-Bellancathe remembered found Janes Worlds Aircraft 1925 WB 2 CF country mile ahead anything world phenomenal Wright Whirlwind ap peared scene things began happen Soon Bellanca Columbia evolved Youll remember Lindberg tried buy before turned Ryan Bellanca feared such hare brained scheme transatlantic flight could ruin reputation What mistake Bellanca Columbia estimation superior aircraft named Spirt Just look CF picture think 1921 tale mystery now turns Frank Court neys log book Now old folks home West Coast Courtney sharp tack Shipp Hannan et al ask him about old airplanes Courtney has flown probably airplanes Continued page 105 18 Model Aviation Dick Sarpolus 5-ft BC Free Flight has two servos ruaaerana elevator engine hot K&B Schnuerle 40 Pylon Racing prop 25% nitrO pipe case pressure Scares Dlckto start takes brave helperto hand-launch itstraight up After 20 25 seconds screaming climb smail tank becomes true contest-type FF circles soars lands Dicks feet flies honker funhis type relaxation Space Shuttle mild compared lift-off 20000 rpm music Dicks ears Well play harmonica thank Safety Preston Continued page 12 unable find out fumes potentially harmful readers can throw some light would welcome letter Finally case thinking hobby paints can cause us some bodily harm consider following story also extracted Family Health article sent Russell weeks dragging around wishing whatever coming down would hurry up happen theres nothing worse day-before-you-get-the-flu feeling thats Id felt too days Maybe its allergy friends suggested Could thought what pollen tree grass mold flourishes middle March Still did finally chalk up allergy just because thing seemed feasible weeks went began feel worse distinct pain bottom spine needle inserted having increasing difficulty urinating legs ached way have ached Ive fever evening after getting off commuter train decided ill just allergy fluill got home felt urinate couldnt panic called doctor As turned out doctor writer above story diagnosed problem toxic exposure paint used pro fessional painters engaged paint bedroom paint apparently nothing exotic just run-of-the-mill oil-based enamel So whether contemplating spray painting latest Pattern Scale creation merely going some home renovations alert allergy-like symptoms through could having toxic reaction paint Time now leave another month get back bathroom redecorating writing weve decided return methy lene-chloride-containing Old Tile Remover store reason contained following account again Family Health magazine Consider case 66-year-old Wisconsin man took up furniture refinishing basement After three-hour session used paint stripper containing METHYLENE CHLORIDE emphasis JDP remove paint varnish chest drawers suffered heart attack rushed hospital Though mentioned hobby attending physicians doctors made no con nection Soon after being released hospital man returned project suffered another heart attack convalesced slowly second time once again returned hobby third heart attack however fatal John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 man aliveover 350 types log book seems contain everything ask about Aristocrat CF Courtney says Bellancas always efficient airplanes Courtney began career 1 913 Grahame-White Flying School England struction consisted straight flight takeoffs landings Constant repair made machines Continued page 110 keueIF NEED6ot 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Kennedy Giant off groundslightly never flown again tested demo-flew Above Astro Flight Velie onocoupe ny Ionn Boyd 049 powered flies slowly antenna doesnt unfurl slipstream Silkspan covered Sig doped has realistic 1927 climb-out dead-stick John says exper ienced thermal flier could keep up day Below nicely framed job Boyd evolved Sig Scamp slightly changed moments increased area a15 ozIsq ft loading has 195 flights last March Boyd gets 1012-mm glides AIRSCRIW PRESENTS BALSA STRIPPER PRECISION STRIP WOOD TO INS FROM BALSA SHEET ALSO FOR DRAFTING AND PHOTO MATS USES TYPE II BLADE SUPER TOOLGREAT PRICE WINDSOR PROPELLER Co PO BOX 112WINDSOR CA 95492 uur recent coiumn about tne great uo Palmer prompted Ron Parkas send fine shot RC version Palmer Chief top CL Stunter right after war Bob advised Ron 4-channel conversion gratifying project especially since One-of-a-kind Featured August1980 Flying Models Bill remembers Ken Willard omniscient proved over 25 years ago CL Stunt jobs era made advanced aerobatic RC machines Cierva autogyro before crowned heads Europe lost blade getting away broken ribs bruises won Kings Cup 1921 flying Martinsyde Semiquaver Siskin fighter repeated 1923 1928 two crew members tackled Atlantic Lisbon Newfoundland Dornier Wal boat Halfway middle dark stormy night rear engine caught fire Courtney managed ocean landing huge waves drifted two days before being picked up steamer area New York crew became heroes Test pilot Courtney remained caused mods Curtiss Condors Kingfishers make flyable Free Flighters dig him because says almost plane ever built has too small vertical tail Courtney amphib built Curtiss Wright cleanest best performing amphibs ever built although bipe trike retract gear oil tank formed nacelle leading edge extension shaft forward engine pusher prop CW after building five sold jigs rights Japan Courtney consulted pilots history rare breed engineering/hightime pilots learn survival have practical answers engineers com puters can 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AS MEMBER OF Free Flight Hall Fame have always questioned credentials simply because until now no design meets SAMs cut-off date old-time machines Free Flight jobs although com petition far mind few sport machines made contest record selves Now present mode flying SAM rules mean nothing Ijust like watch things soarsport comp After guys asked about Vagabond could swear SAM 1942 Maybe Probably WOG came mind since predated Vagabond Same deal Hurst Bowers gave us copies old Air Trails first gassie Old Square Sides published late Thirties made winter/spring 1936-37 forgotten Pay dirt Meanwhile Bob Larsh Don Jenkins turned things upside down helpif wed say word said some character named Sprague pirated design name Old Square Sides article wanted hang himbut Sprague happens middle name gosh used pseudonym guys like Charlie Grant Joe Kovel Carl Goldberg around wed timid about throwing hat ring aware real great like Ray Glow Plug Arden flown gassie mile 1904 eight years before born Bassett Vernon Boehle Leo Weiss etc would have timid too Hardly anyone money days $2150 Brown might just well have thousand 10 years three kids before got Baby Cyclone wholesale $900 Old Square Sides throw-away model supposed contest job Tom Dick Harry designer billed crate world beater thing box detachable wing panels exactly today gliders made long straight takeoffs climbed gently sweeping left circlestoday would make nice RC would great fun fly provided airplane watcher docile sport thing should last forever Wed love build Clukey 3-view tempts want build everything sight Grapevine time mention crate wed love build place lights up like bloody pinball machine Having just phoned MA office please delete statement last column Boeing 100 kind report now some heady stuff about 100 Bellanca CF Connie dream four electrics POWERBABY CYCLONE 4 II 476 ALUM TUBING OLD SQUARE SIDESFUSELAGEBALSAG~ WIRE FIRST GAS MODEL DESIGNED BYSHEETCOVERDELETEDSTRUT DETAIL BILL WINTER 1937 \FUSE STRUT F TT NG IIII II COLOR SPAN 763/4LENGTH 461/2FUSELAGE 8 FINBLUE AREA 696 SO INSWING STAB 8 FUSE STRIPE 2 LBS 70Z5 B OZ LOADING LOW NOTES MODEL FEATURED PLUG-IN TYPE WINGS HELD INTERNALLY VIA RUBBER BANDS WITH ALUM TUBING/DOWEL SYSTEM ACCESS VIA CABIN DOOR ON LEFT SIDE WING STRUTS ARE FUNCTIONAL Bill Winters forgotten gas model detachable panels 1936 Ia present gliders cross-cabin wires too thin todays standards struts workingleading fatigue fail ure strut total RC sport 3-ch ship could have onepiece wing bolted banded consult glider guys wire sizes Bill thinks least 3/16 case struts would working could carry light load beef up fittings RC fun show Baby Cyclone tank up high over ignition motor Bill says starting experience hand-cranking Model T Ford lieve Baby Cyke never flooded Naturally gravity made 0 24BB ID IS 14 16 I I I II I II I I INCHES fuel run knowing nothing says little Cyke always started Ignorance bliss says rock-back tendency large di hedral would good foil play heavy rudder trim against set up tight soaring circles K&B 19 recommendation anything up 25 would realistic Flies wide left Free Flight perhaps some right thrust Did need down 2 deg downthrust 9-4 10-6 depending engine should perk merrily Leave nose heavy stick batteries far forward 450 mAh pack minimum Inci dentally Model Builder magazine promises publish Winters Old Square Sides 0T Month future issue 1 6 Model Aviation \J2Lt Bill Winter International Radio Control Service PO Box 1643 San Juan Capistrano CA 92083 servo-charger milliamp analyzer according Winter better mousetrap few years ago friend George Myers raw idea George made Bill cheap Lafayette mA meterwhich example Bill showed twice before Now commerciallyavailable unit reads radio servos drain orcharge rate know ifa servo linkage isgiving troublebecause high readings alsowhat mysteriouscharger doing picture showing charger may able see meter needle Agatha Christie mishmash follows have advantage knowing murderer plot come out way wish may momentarily make guys feel like trailer park after tornado passed So lets get electric stuff out way concede now electric works stilt say aint us Motor runs limited batteries heavy have build light Well something has happened dramatize well use Kraft Chipmunk Cessna known fly one-and-a-half two minutes might nurse two-and-a-half per haps three minutes thats new 05s now Astro Flight Leisure Electronics sub-C batteries push Cessna up 12 13 minutes understand Phil Kraft rubbed eyes after watching Roland Boucher Leisure push Cardinal 13 minutes including aerobatics inverted flight cant estimate now what imaginary Connie would cruises two motors 15 minutes Lightness no problem message airplanes bricks just dont throw around acres plywood keep 6-lb shaker giving monster St Vitus dance remember have fuse way switch on/off transmitter preferably cruise control doesnt dissipate too much juice dropping resistor Astro Flights catalog shows everything need Roland Boucher Leisure entered Electric Pattern Meet on/off switch having completed pattern could get crate down judges commanded him get down others could fly three judges ended up flying iton single flight Leisure Electronics primarily car outfit bottom dropping out car racing because handful experts can lap anyone country old slot-car malaise has set now have Pro class races bucks winner gets half gate entrant puts up good stakeso big boys disdain race kid-stuff trophies hope will cure problem So Leisure 05 far has moved over airplane field car motor technology Meanwhile Bob Boucher Astro Flight now offers 075 system ups power 50% 50% duration October1981 17 indicating charge rate uses gismos Ace Digipace Taylor charger/cycler after31/2 years batteries 3-yearold Futaba system read new battery values another Futaba being off 50 mAb Batteries Airtronics Cox/Sanwa Silver Seven World Engines Expert sundry Kraft systems have yet show cell failure As IRCS unitof Georges homemade gifthe says would leave home Plane sTop Flite Head master II Capt Frank T Courtney Warren Shipps Peanut Cierva C6C very same ship Courtney flight-tested England Led alloway supplied rare old shot Constellation powered four turbines Probably Connie turbine-powered Craftsman Richard D Horigan OT severai wno ressorea mis eIIanca CF atthe Smithsonians Garber Facility formerlySilver Hill remark ably efficient 5-place 90-hp 2-row Anzani-powered monoplane won 11 national international efficiency awards eventually led famous Whirlwind-powered Columbia dark area veneer inside box four passengers fitted like sardines very slight curvature visible just behind trailing edge cockpit passengers benefit windshield sorts turns 7 x 4 13500 rpm eight nine minuteswith on/off sky limit write both companies latest poop sheets Ced Galloway Great Lakes man knows end airplane other showed us rare Connie powered four turbines suggests Electra nacelles came Fowler flaps run out tad down give break hard-put camera plane Connie may have worlds ulti mate prop airliner its earliest form could outrun Zero Connies best altitude 707 jet appeared definitive Connie within seven knots 707 point-to-point superior economics airlines al though 707 doubled its passenger figure jets denied What performance suppose turbine Connie will make spectacular electric Connies fly great models Ned Kragness top flight engineer/test pilot/et al shocked us low speed figure explained figure indicated Indicated true airspeeds differ widely altitude know what crate really doing have multiply indicated airspeed 1 % per thousand feet altitude absolute ceiling youll indicating stall speed whereas crate going like gangbusters through thin air will shake up indicated airspeed 100 mph 10000 would 117 true 20000 low indicated would 134 true mess up may some high-time pilot write letter editor set down facts mutual edification absolute ceiling extremely difficult attain crate indicated speed drops until meets stall speed ats slightest quiver will send tumbling 6 7000 feet until heavier air permits recovery convert true airspeed formula goes altitude x 0175 x Indicated turn around True___Indicated altitude x 0175 1000 flying speed model Perhaps bit area Warren Shipp chips Boeing 100we 1/5th scale mind confusing built Akromaster 20 atsk Obviously models flown higher altitudes ~ng lunch hours using HotStuff Fifty lunches should lightiy loaded too just think nose OS Max 25 power Formsof big engines accept greater observed gloss Coverite Sig paints lunch sony fourth production F4B- 1 administrative transport Asst Sec Air Davis S Ingalls blue fuselage yellow wings tall tail stripes First went Bureau Air Commerce NS-21 Second model 200 P 2514-B NX872H P&W test bed French gray Boeing green trim Milo Burcham air show work 1933 WW II modified red silver NC-872H Tallmantz supposed four third 873H went through C NC NR NX N Boeing test demoMantz 1936-64 Fourth NX874H demo sold Japan 100A converted two-seater Hughes Two 1 OOEs went Thai land export P-i 2E old friend Gordon Williams shot Thailand museum 1 OOF became Army P-12F Clear mud suppose best can may have Proto type 33 1928 100 Kragness log book} lovely picture Bellanca CF 13 thanks Jay Spencer Smithsonian Jay has finished book truly remarkable air craft Smithsonianwed guess could buy few months contains great drawing George Clapp Jay says far single out CF Silver Hill Warren Shipp gets story notation AAHS Journal Vol 10 No 1 pg 42 relates CF 1921 5-seat Anzani 90 hp 1922 won 13 prizes efficiency national international eventsup 1925 followed WB-l 1925 Wright-Bellancathe remembered found Janes Worlds Aircraft 1925 WB 2 CF country mile ahead anything world phenomenal Wright Whirlwind ap peared scene things began happen Soon Bellanca Columbia evolved Youll remember Lindberg tried buy before turned Ryan Bellanca feared such hare brained scheme transatlantic flight could ruin reputation What mistake Bellanca Columbia estimation superior aircraft named Spirt Just look CF picture think 1921 tale mystery now turns Frank Court neys log book Now old folks home West Coast Courtney sharp tack Shipp Hannan et al ask him about old airplanes Courtney has flown probably airplanes Continued page 105 18 Model Aviation Dick Sarpolus 5-ft BC Free Flight has two servos ruaaerana elevator engine hot K&B Schnuerle 40 Pylon Racing prop 25% nitrO pipe case pressure Scares Dlckto start takes brave helperto hand-launch itstraight up After 20 25 seconds screaming climb smail tank becomes true contest-type FF circles soars lands Dicks feet flies honker funhis type relaxation Space Shuttle mild compared lift-off 20000 rpm music Dicks ears Well play harmonica thank Safety Preston Continued page 12 unable find out fumes potentially harmful readers can throw some light would welcome letter Finally case thinking hobby paints can cause us some bodily harm consider following story also extracted Family Health article sent Russell weeks dragging around wishing whatever coming down would hurry up happen theres nothing worse day-before-you-get-the-flu feeling thats Id felt too days Maybe its allergy friends suggested Could thought what pollen tree grass mold flourishes middle March Still did finally chalk up allergy just because thing seemed feasible weeks went began feel worse distinct pain bottom spine needle inserted having increasing difficulty urinating legs ached way have ached Ive fever evening after getting off commuter train decided ill just allergy fluill got home felt urinate couldnt panic called doctor As turned out doctor writer above story diagnosed problem toxic exposure paint used pro fessional painters engaged paint bedroom paint apparently nothing exotic just run-of-the-mill oil-based enamel So whether contemplating spray painting latest Pattern Scale creation merely going some home renovations alert allergy-like symptoms through could having toxic reaction paint Time now leave another month get back bathroom redecorating writing weve decided return methy lene-chloride-containing Old Tile Remover store reason contained following account again Family Health magazine Consider case 66-year-old Wisconsin man took up furniture refinishing basement After three-hour session used paint stripper containing METHYLENE CHLORIDE emphasis JDP remove paint varnish chest drawers suffered heart attack rushed hospital Though mentioned hobby attending physicians doctors made no con nection Soon after being released hospital man returned project suffered another heart attack convalesced slowly second time once again returned hobby third heart attack however fatal John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 man aliveover 350 types log book seems contain everything ask about Aristocrat CF Courtney says Bellancas always efficient airplanes Courtney began career 1 913 Grahame-White Flying School England struction consisted straight flight takeoffs landings Constant repair made machines Continued page 110 keueIF NEED6ot BALSASt BALSA SHEETS 48 long 4x/is 53 4x3/32 66 4x1/875 4 x /i86 4x/494 4 x 1/2 150 6xl/1e100 6x3/32115 6x/s127 6x/is146 6xl/4165 6x12200 PLYWOOD 648144 1/16156 Ia2180 185 /16240 /4 280 BALSA BLOCKS 24 long 1x2 92 1 x3 140 1x4 188 2x2 130 2x3 190 3x3 275 BALSA STICKS 48 long Sold packs 5 /16 x /470 /32 x /470 x /475 1/4 x 3/95 /4 X /2110 70 sq.70 3/~ sq.75 /4 sq.85 3/ sq1 40 /2 sq 190 Write complete product listing Manufacturers dealers Inquiries invited Special sizes available Add $350 postage handling No minimum reciuirements NNG NODELS INC P 0 BOX 396 Y MARylAND October 1981 105 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER Al RSCREW jASRj~ IMPROVED THROUGH FOUR YEARS OF PRODUCTION THE G/F SERIES IS UNEQUALED FOR PERFORMANCE & DURABILITY AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE THROUGH 131 DISTRIBUTORS WINDSOR PROPELLER CO WINDSOR CA 95492 CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS Presents Dip Stick FAST QUICK EASY TO FINISH DS 40 55 SPAN 560 SQ IN WING LOADING 165-20 OZ 29-45 ENGINE 43 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 4995 ADD 4 SHIPPING CHARGE DS 60 641/2 SPAN 672 SQ IN WING LOADING 20-22 OZ 46-60 ENGINE 48 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 5995 EXTREMELY ADD 6 SHIPPING RUGGED TRAINER CHARGE WITH SYMMETRICAL AIRFOIL FOR AEROBATIC FLYING HIGHLY PRE-FABRICATED KIT INCLUDES PRE-SHEETED BALSA FOAM WINGS PRE-BUILT JIG ASSEMBLED WOOD FUSELAGE PRE-SHAPED BALSA TAIL ASSEMBLY PRE-FORMED LANDING GEAR TAIL WHEEL AND AILERON WIRES INSTRUCTION SHEET WITH FULLY ILLUSTRATED ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS overweight engines pooped until instructor climbed out student soloed encountered first turns Students often crashed chickened out flew straight until fuel gone Ichabod Crane physique glasses Courtney unlikely pilot subject tried enter RFC 1914 other Boom Trenchard enraged young mans arrogance thinking could pilot actually threw Courtney out office Court ney wormed way mechanic flying such tricky aircraft Morane-Saulnier tangled famed Max Inimelmann shot down three times bullets anti aircraft shrapnel legs As post-war test pilot got infamous Kennedy Giant off groundslightly never flown again tested demo-flew Above Astro Flight Velie onocoupe ny Ionn Boyd 049 powered flies slowly antenna doesnt unfurl slipstream Silkspan covered Sig doped has realistic 1927 climb-out dead-stick John says exper ienced thermal flier could keep up day Below nicely framed job Boyd evolved Sig Scamp slightly changed moments increased area a15 ozIsq ft loading has 195 flights last March Boyd gets 1012-mm glides AIRSCRIW PRESENTS BALSA STRIPPER PRECISION STRIP WOOD TO INS FROM BALSA SHEET ALSO FOR DRAFTING AND PHOTO MATS USES TYPE II BLADE SUPER TOOLGREAT PRICE WINDSOR PROPELLER Co PO BOX 112WINDSOR CA 95492 uur recent coiumn about tne great uo Palmer prompted Ron Parkas send fine shot RC version Palmer Chief top CL Stunter right after war Bob advised Ron 4-channel conversion gratifying project especially since One-of-a-kind Featured August1980 Flying Models Bill remembers Ken Willard omniscient proved over 25 years ago CL Stunt jobs era made advanced aerobatic RC machines Cierva autogyro before crowned heads Europe lost blade getting away broken ribs bruises won Kings Cup 1921 flying Martinsyde Semiquaver Siskin fighter repeated 1923 1928 two crew members tackled Atlantic Lisbon Newfoundland Dornier Wal boat Halfway middle dark stormy night rear engine caught fire Courtney managed ocean landing huge waves drifted two days before being picked up steamer area New York crew became heroes Test pilot Courtney remained caused mods Curtiss Condors Kingfishers make flyable Free Flighters dig him because says almost plane ever built has too small vertical tail Courtney amphib built Curtiss Wright cleanest best performing amphibs ever built although bipe trike retract gear oil tank formed nacelle leading edge extension shaft forward engine pusher prop CW after building five sold jigs rights Japan Courtney consulted pilots history rare breed engineering/hightime pilots learn survival have practical answers engineers com puters can never fathom Kragness describes cats thinks world wide number less 200 Consider boats Courtney consulted everthing China Clippers Hercules worked places Convair during WW II flew everything B-24s huge 4-engined CoronaContinued page 114 110 Model Aviation AiSWV BJSW4 PO BOX 112 TO ORDER SEND BANK CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS PO BOX 6063 CANTON OHIO 44706 OR CALL 216 4541539 FOR IMMEDIATE COD SHIPMENT SCALE WH RADIO CONTROL ROL-UNE EELS FREE-FLIGHT 0000 VINTAGESMOOTHGOLDEN AGENEW sizes21/2CONTOURsizes214BALLOON 3/431/a"23/i"31/ 13341314132/24/z 1/443/i11/43%11/443/3/451/4 154 5 11/2 4 PA 5 3 PA 65/ 21/4 51/4 1 61/2 SCALE PILOTS CYUNDERS ENGINE KITS MACHINE GUN KITS PLASTIC DISPLAY MODELS ALLThJ SEND $1 FOR COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG DEPT MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 213 764-1490 I r CakQig 1981 QAeccggoktcg PO BOX R/C GOODIES 3 II 0 VAN NUYS CA 91408 IThis month Es.ie offering SPECIAL PRICES several accessory items RegularI 1prices shown small tvoe BARGAIN PRICES shown heavy typeI V CAPS$895UNIVERSAL SERVO TRAY isibility 2Color CapsV3 match 72 MHz Frec1 Specify size fits I$650 Shipping$279$209 $125 AIR-FLO HINGES21 tray Bantam Cannon \A OA CE3 CE4 CE5 Futaba Kraft KPS12 Midget servos1 ma,Mtg hardware included FREQUENCY FLAGS 051 Golden Bee etc Uses Iron Hinges easy chable holder standard 1/432 glow pluginstall Strips 36 Igpolyester ribbons $219SMALL 1 LARGE 11/2All Freq colors $159$139$159 69 $2500 $169$199 I7S4 ORAdd 75 Shipping Except Caps Calif Residents add inm rn MORE s Tax Catalog 6 USA $170 Foreign 11 l Aviation Would believe Quaker Flash 277 flights May19 92 hours logged time DG Marshall airline man quotes hours flights dream machine powered K&B 35 beefed up stand high times rough ground handling stolen equipment Marshalls station wagon So radios things have ripped off Bill mumbles Rip off everything America fellows its time Sting Don has another no time fly third being covered K&B 61 pumper big cantfind wheels large enough mayputiton floats Don runs rich dont cook keeps light spite going fordura bility pictured spans 7 ft has 1 2-oz tank Throttle back sure bring recliner sun umbrella plenty iced tea maybe 1000 mAh pack dos ferried PBYs San Diego Hawaii 19-hour non-stop night flights Now 86 hasnt flown since 1965 1972 wrote Eighth Sea 290-page thumbnail account career has kept day-by-day diary life racing trophies presented Queen 1977 display Hendon Museum Diaries flight logs licenses other papers donated San Diego Aero-Space Museum hardly notes day week has talk him about airplanes mind becomes alert years ago seems run off memory tape tiny details McArthur recalled bit about old soldiers simply fading away wasnt talking something glorious man like Courtney present circumstances unbear able youd like tell him much appreciated imagine letter addressed him via Warren Shipp Bill Hannan care ModelAviation would please him very much story Among model researchers turned Courtney through channels Don Srull needed color scheme rubber-powered Gannet took Nats sec ond 1923 London Daily Mail sponsored famous British Light Aeroplane Trials Lympne Gannet historic ultralights built major firms Naturally Gloster Gannet Courtneys log books Courtney color blind Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Electric Spitfire/SruII Con fin ued page 26 firewall making sure squared up accurately fuselage Fill nose section between stringers light soft t balsa wing saddle fillets will completed after wing has built Wing Tail Note leading trailing edges wing stab laminated soft balsa strip Moisten strips join thinned white glue fuselage keels Bend stack strips shape right over QUICK N EASY CUT-OUT PATTERN-PLANS Can Cut & Assembled Evening Stand-Up Flight Box $695 No Measuring Needed! TO BUILD 4TraceCut Assemble DESIGNED TO HOLD Fuel tank Trans Starter Battery Fuse Hold ladi Tools etc Legs Removable 21 12 39 Send SELECT PRODUCTS PO Box 259 Palo Cedro CA 96073 lifE FANT4STIC NELSON 15 detailed brochure send 25 cents Kus torn Kraftsmanship PO Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 Ph 714 830-5162 Dealer inquiries invited
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/10
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 105, 110, 114
AS MEMBER OF Free Flight Hall Fame have always questioned credentials simply because until now no design meets SAMs cut-off date old-time machines Free Flight jobs although com petition far mind few sport machines made contest record selves Now present mode flying SAM rules mean nothing Ijust like watch things soarsport comp After guys asked about Vagabond could swear SAM 1942 Maybe Probably WOG came mind since predated Vagabond Same deal Hurst Bowers gave us copies old Air Trails first gassie Old Square Sides published late Thirties made winter/spring 1936-37 forgotten Pay dirt Meanwhile Bob Larsh Don Jenkins turned things upside down helpif wed say word said some character named Sprague pirated design name Old Square Sides article wanted hang himbut Sprague happens middle name gosh used pseudonym guys like Charlie Grant Joe Kovel Carl Goldberg around wed timid about throwing hat ring aware real great like Ray Glow Plug Arden flown gassie mile 1904 eight years before born Bassett Vernon Boehle Leo Weiss etc would have timid too Hardly anyone money days $2150 Brown might just well have thousand 10 years three kids before got Baby Cyclone wholesale $900 Old Square Sides throw-away model supposed contest job Tom Dick Harry designer billed crate world beater thing box detachable wing panels exactly today gliders made long straight takeoffs climbed gently sweeping left circlestoday would make nice RC would great fun fly provided airplane watcher docile sport thing should last forever Wed love build Clukey 3-view tempts want build everything sight Grapevine time mention crate wed love build place lights up like bloody pinball machine Having just phoned MA office please delete statement last column Boeing 100 kind report now some heady stuff about 100 Bellanca CF Connie dream four electrics POWERBABY CYCLONE 4 II 476 ALUM TUBING OLD SQUARE SIDESFUSELAGEBALSAG~ WIRE FIRST GAS MODEL DESIGNED BYSHEETCOVERDELETEDSTRUT DETAIL BILL WINTER 1937 \FUSE STRUT F TT NG IIII II COLOR SPAN 763/4LENGTH 461/2FUSELAGE 8 FINBLUE AREA 696 SO INSWING STAB 8 FUSE STRIPE 2 LBS 70Z5 B OZ LOADING LOW NOTES MODEL FEATURED PLUG-IN TYPE WINGS HELD INTERNALLY VIA RUBBER BANDS WITH ALUM TUBING/DOWEL SYSTEM ACCESS VIA CABIN DOOR ON LEFT SIDE WING STRUTS ARE FUNCTIONAL Bill Winters forgotten gas model detachable panels 1936 Ia present gliders cross-cabin wires too thin todays standards struts workingleading fatigue fail ure strut total RC sport 3-ch ship could have onepiece wing bolted banded consult glider guys wire sizes Bill thinks least 3/16 case struts would working could carry light load beef up fittings RC fun show Baby Cyclone tank up high over ignition motor Bill says starting experience hand-cranking Model T Ford lieve Baby Cyke never flooded Naturally gravity made 0 24BB ID IS 14 16 I I I II I II I I INCHES fuel run knowing nothing says little Cyke always started Ignorance bliss says rock-back tendency large di hedral would good foil play heavy rudder trim against set up tight soaring circles K&B 19 recommendation anything up 25 would realistic Flies wide left Free Flight perhaps some right thrust Did need down 2 deg downthrust 9-4 10-6 depending engine should perk merrily Leave nose heavy stick batteries far forward 450 mAh pack minimum Inci dentally Model Builder magazine promises publish Winters Old Square Sides 0T Month future issue 1 6 Model Aviation \J2Lt Bill Winter International Radio Control Service PO Box 1643 San Juan Capistrano CA 92083 servo-charger milliamp analyzer according Winter better mousetrap few years ago friend George Myers raw idea George made Bill cheap Lafayette mA meterwhich example Bill showed twice before Now commerciallyavailable unit reads radio servos drain orcharge rate know ifa servo linkage isgiving troublebecause high readings alsowhat mysteriouscharger doing picture showing charger may able see meter needle Agatha Christie mishmash follows have advantage knowing murderer plot come out way wish may momentarily make guys feel like trailer park after tornado passed So lets get electric stuff out way concede now electric works stilt say aint us Motor runs limited batteries heavy have build light Well something has happened dramatize well use Kraft Chipmunk Cessna known fly one-and-a-half two minutes might nurse two-and-a-half per haps three minutes thats new 05s now Astro Flight Leisure Electronics sub-C batteries push Cessna up 12 13 minutes understand Phil Kraft rubbed eyes after watching Roland Boucher Leisure push Cardinal 13 minutes including aerobatics inverted flight cant estimate now what imaginary Connie would cruises two motors 15 minutes Lightness no problem message airplanes bricks just dont throw around acres plywood keep 6-lb shaker giving monster St Vitus dance remember have fuse way switch on/off transmitter preferably cruise control doesnt dissipate too much juice dropping resistor Astro Flights catalog shows everything need Roland Boucher Leisure entered Electric Pattern Meet on/off switch having completed pattern could get crate down judges commanded him get down others could fly three judges ended up flying iton single flight Leisure Electronics primarily car outfit bottom dropping out car racing because handful experts can lap anyone country old slot-car malaise has set now have Pro class races bucks winner gets half gate entrant puts up good stakeso big boys disdain race kid-stuff trophies hope will cure problem So Leisure 05 far has moved over airplane field car motor technology Meanwhile Bob Boucher Astro Flight now offers 075 system ups power 50% 50% duration October1981 17 indicating charge rate uses gismos Ace Digipace Taylor charger/cycler after31/2 years batteries 3-yearold Futaba system read new battery values another Futaba being off 50 mAb Batteries Airtronics Cox/Sanwa Silver Seven World Engines Expert sundry Kraft systems have yet show cell failure As IRCS unitof Georges homemade gifthe says would leave home Plane sTop Flite Head master II Capt Frank T Courtney Warren Shipps Peanut Cierva C6C very same ship Courtney flight-tested England Led alloway supplied rare old shot Constellation powered four turbines Probably Connie turbine-powered Craftsman Richard D Horigan OT severai wno ressorea mis eIIanca CF atthe Smithsonians Garber Facility formerlySilver Hill remark ably efficient 5-place 90-hp 2-row Anzani-powered monoplane won 11 national international efficiency awards eventually led famous Whirlwind-powered Columbia dark area veneer inside box four passengers fitted like sardines very slight curvature visible just behind trailing edge cockpit passengers benefit windshield sorts turns 7 x 4 13500 rpm eight nine minuteswith on/off sky limit write both companies latest poop sheets Ced Galloway Great Lakes man knows end airplane other showed us rare Connie powered four turbines suggests Electra nacelles came Fowler flaps run out tad down give break hard-put camera plane Connie may have worlds ulti mate prop airliner its earliest form could outrun Zero Connies best altitude 707 jet appeared definitive Connie within seven knots 707 point-to-point superior economics airlines al though 707 doubled its passenger figure jets denied What performance suppose turbine Connie will make spectacular electric Connies fly great models Ned Kragness top flight engineer/test pilot/et al shocked us low speed figure explained figure indicated Indicated true airspeeds differ widely altitude know what crate really doing have multiply indicated airspeed 1 % per thousand feet altitude absolute ceiling youll indicating stall speed whereas crate going like gangbusters through thin air will shake up indicated airspeed 100 mph 10000 would 117 true 20000 low indicated would 134 true mess up may some high-time pilot write letter editor set down facts mutual edification absolute ceiling extremely difficult attain crate indicated speed drops until meets stall speed ats slightest quiver will send tumbling 6 7000 feet until heavier air permits recovery convert true airspeed formula goes altitude x 0175 x Indicated turn around True___Indicated altitude x 0175 1000 flying speed model Perhaps bit area Warren Shipp chips Boeing 100we 1/5th scale mind confusing built Akromaster 20 atsk Obviously models flown higher altitudes ~ng lunch hours using HotStuff Fifty lunches should lightiy loaded too just think nose OS Max 25 power Formsof big engines accept greater observed gloss Coverite Sig paints lunch sony fourth production F4B- 1 administrative transport Asst Sec Air Davis S Ingalls blue fuselage yellow wings tall tail stripes First went Bureau Air Commerce NS-21 Second model 200 P 2514-B NX872H P&W test bed French gray Boeing green trim Milo Burcham air show work 1933 WW II modified red silver NC-872H Tallmantz supposed four third 873H went through C NC NR NX N Boeing test demoMantz 1936-64 Fourth NX874H demo sold Japan 100A converted two-seater Hughes Two 1 OOEs went Thai land export P-i 2E old friend Gordon Williams shot Thailand museum 1 OOF became Army P-12F Clear mud suppose best can may have Proto type 33 1928 100 Kragness log book} lovely picture Bellanca CF 13 thanks Jay Spencer Smithsonian Jay has finished book truly remarkable air craft Smithsonianwed guess could buy few months contains great drawing George Clapp Jay says far single out CF Silver Hill Warren Shipp gets story notation AAHS Journal Vol 10 No 1 pg 42 relates CF 1921 5-seat Anzani 90 hp 1922 won 13 prizes efficiency national international eventsup 1925 followed WB-l 1925 Wright-Bellancathe remembered found Janes Worlds Aircraft 1925 WB 2 CF country mile ahead anything world phenomenal Wright Whirlwind ap peared scene things began happen Soon Bellanca Columbia evolved Youll remember Lindberg tried buy before turned Ryan Bellanca feared such hare brained scheme transatlantic flight could ruin reputation What mistake Bellanca Columbia estimation superior aircraft named Spirt Just look CF picture think 1921 tale mystery now turns Frank Court neys log book Now old folks home West Coast Courtney sharp tack Shipp Hannan et al ask him about old airplanes Courtney has flown probably airplanes Continued page 105 18 Model Aviation Dick Sarpolus 5-ft BC Free Flight has two servos ruaaerana elevator engine hot K&B Schnuerle 40 Pylon Racing prop 25% nitrO pipe case pressure Scares Dlckto start takes brave helperto hand-launch itstraight up After 20 25 seconds screaming climb smail tank becomes true contest-type FF circles soars lands Dicks feet flies honker funhis type relaxation Space Shuttle mild compared lift-off 20000 rpm music Dicks ears Well play harmonica thank Safety Preston Continued page 12 unable find out fumes potentially harmful readers can throw some light would welcome letter Finally case thinking hobby paints can cause us some bodily harm consider following story also extracted Family Health article sent Russell weeks dragging around wishing whatever coming down would hurry up happen theres nothing worse day-before-you-get-the-flu feeling thats Id felt too days Maybe its allergy friends suggested Could thought what pollen tree grass mold flourishes middle March Still did finally chalk up allergy just because thing seemed feasible weeks went began feel worse distinct pain bottom spine needle inserted having increasing difficulty urinating legs ached way have ached Ive fever evening after getting off commuter train decided ill just allergy fluill got home felt urinate couldnt panic called doctor As turned out doctor writer above story diagnosed problem toxic exposure paint used pro fessional painters engaged paint bedroom paint apparently nothing exotic just run-of-the-mill oil-based enamel So whether contemplating spray painting latest Pattern Scale creation merely going some home renovations alert allergy-like symptoms through could having toxic reaction paint Time now leave another month get back bathroom redecorating writing weve decided return methy lene-chloride-containing Old Tile Remover store reason contained following account again Family Health magazine Consider case 66-year-old Wisconsin man took up furniture refinishing basement After three-hour session used paint stripper containing METHYLENE CHLORIDE emphasis JDP remove paint varnish chest drawers suffered heart attack rushed hospital Though mentioned hobby attending physicians doctors made no con nection Soon after being released hospital man returned project suffered another heart attack convalesced slowly second time once again returned hobby third heart attack however fatal John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 man aliveover 350 types log book seems contain everything ask about Aristocrat CF Courtney says Bellancas always efficient airplanes Courtney began career 1 913 Grahame-White Flying School England struction consisted straight flight takeoffs landings Constant repair made machines Continued page 110 keueIF NEED6ot BALSASt BALSA SHEETS 48 long 4x/is 53 4x3/32 66 4x1/875 4 x /i86 4x/494 4 x 1/2 150 6xl/1e100 6x3/32115 6x/s127 6x/is146 6xl/4165 6x12200 PLYWOOD 648144 1/16156 Ia2180 185 /16240 /4 280 BALSA BLOCKS 24 long 1x2 92 1 x3 140 1x4 188 2x2 130 2x3 190 3x3 275 BALSA STICKS 48 long Sold packs 5 /16 x /470 /32 x /470 x /475 1/4 x 3/95 /4 X /2110 70 sq.70 3/~ sq.75 /4 sq.85 3/ sq1 40 /2 sq 190 Write complete product listing Manufacturers dealers Inquiries invited Special sizes available Add $350 postage handling No minimum reciuirements NNG NODELS INC P 0 BOX 396 Y MARylAND October 1981 105 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER Al RSCREW jASRj~ IMPROVED THROUGH FOUR YEARS OF PRODUCTION THE G/F SERIES IS UNEQUALED FOR PERFORMANCE & DURABILITY AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE THROUGH 131 DISTRIBUTORS WINDSOR PROPELLER CO WINDSOR CA 95492 CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS Presents Dip Stick FAST QUICK EASY TO FINISH DS 40 55 SPAN 560 SQ IN WING LOADING 165-20 OZ 29-45 ENGINE 43 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 4995 ADD 4 SHIPPING CHARGE DS 60 641/2 SPAN 672 SQ IN WING LOADING 20-22 OZ 46-60 ENGINE 48 LENGTH 3 OR 4 CHANNEL PRICE 5995 EXTREMELY ADD 6 SHIPPING RUGGED TRAINER CHARGE WITH SYMMETRICAL AIRFOIL FOR AEROBATIC FLYING HIGHLY PRE-FABRICATED KIT INCLUDES PRE-SHEETED BALSA FOAM WINGS PRE-BUILT JIG ASSEMBLED WOOD FUSELAGE PRE-SHAPED BALSA TAIL ASSEMBLY PRE-FORMED LANDING GEAR TAIL WHEEL AND AILERON WIRES INSTRUCTION SHEET WITH FULLY ILLUSTRATED ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS overweight engines pooped until instructor climbed out student soloed encountered first turns Students often crashed chickened out flew straight until fuel gone Ichabod Crane physique glasses Courtney unlikely pilot subject tried enter RFC 1914 other Boom Trenchard enraged young mans arrogance thinking could pilot actually threw Courtney out office Court ney wormed way mechanic flying such tricky aircraft Morane-Saulnier tangled famed Max Inimelmann shot down three times bullets anti aircraft shrapnel legs As post-war test pilot got infamous Kennedy Giant off groundslightly never flown again tested demo-flew Above Astro Flight Velie onocoupe ny Ionn Boyd 049 powered flies slowly antenna doesnt unfurl slipstream Silkspan covered Sig doped has realistic 1927 climb-out dead-stick John says exper ienced thermal flier could keep up day Below nicely framed job Boyd evolved Sig Scamp slightly changed moments increased area a15 ozIsq ft loading has 195 flights last March Boyd gets 1012-mm glides AIRSCRIW PRESENTS BALSA STRIPPER PRECISION STRIP WOOD TO INS FROM BALSA SHEET ALSO FOR DRAFTING AND PHOTO MATS USES TYPE II BLADE SUPER TOOLGREAT PRICE WINDSOR PROPELLER Co PO BOX 112WINDSOR CA 95492 uur recent coiumn about tne great uo Palmer prompted Ron Parkas send fine shot RC version Palmer Chief top CL Stunter right after war Bob advised Ron 4-channel conversion gratifying project especially since One-of-a-kind Featured August1980 Flying Models Bill remembers Ken Willard omniscient proved over 25 years ago CL Stunt jobs era made advanced aerobatic RC machines Cierva autogyro before crowned heads Europe lost blade getting away broken ribs bruises won Kings Cup 1921 flying Martinsyde Semiquaver Siskin fighter repeated 1923 1928 two crew members tackled Atlantic Lisbon Newfoundland Dornier Wal boat Halfway middle dark stormy night rear engine caught fire Courtney managed ocean landing huge waves drifted two days before being picked up steamer area New York crew became heroes Test pilot Courtney remained caused mods Curtiss Condors Kingfishers make flyable Free Flighters dig him because says almost plane ever built has too small vertical tail Courtney amphib built Curtiss Wright cleanest best performing amphibs ever built although bipe trike retract gear oil tank formed nacelle leading edge extension shaft forward engine pusher prop CW after building five sold jigs rights Japan Courtney consulted pilots history rare breed engineering/hightime pilots learn survival have practical answers engineers com puters can never fathom Kragness describes cats thinks world wide number less 200 Consider boats Courtney consulted everthing China Clippers Hercules worked places Convair during WW II flew everything B-24s huge 4-engined CoronaContinued page 114 110 Model Aviation AiSWV BJSW4 PO BOX 112 TO ORDER SEND BANK CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO CANTON MODEL PRODUCTS PO BOX 6063 CANTON OHIO 44706 OR CALL 216 4541539 FOR IMMEDIATE COD SHIPMENT SCALE WH RADIO CONTROL ROL-UNE EELS FREE-FLIGHT 0000 VINTAGESMOOTHGOLDEN AGENEW sizes21/2CONTOURsizes214BALLOON 3/431/a"23/i"31/ 13341314132/24/z 1/443/i11/43%11/443/3/451/4 154 5 11/2 4 PA 5 3 PA 65/ 21/4 51/4 1 61/2 SCALE PILOTS CYUNDERS ENGINE KITS MACHINE GUN KITS PLASTIC DISPLAY MODELS ALLThJ SEND $1 FOR COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG DEPT MA PAWNEE ST SAN MARCOS CA 9 213 764-1490 I r CakQig 1981 QAeccggoktcg PO BOX R/C GOODIES 3 II 0 VAN NUYS CA 91408 IThis month Es.ie offering SPECIAL PRICES several accessory items RegularI 1prices shown small tvoe BARGAIN PRICES shown heavy typeI V CAPS$895UNIVERSAL SERVO TRAY isibility 2Color CapsV3 match 72 MHz Frec1 Specify size fits I$650 Shipping$279$209 $125 AIR-FLO HINGES21 tray Bantam Cannon \A OA CE3 CE4 CE5 Futaba Kraft KPS12 Midget servos1 ma,Mtg hardware included FREQUENCY FLAGS 051 Golden Bee etc Uses Iron Hinges easy chable holder standard 1/432 glow pluginstall Strips 36 Igpolyester ribbons $219SMALL 1 LARGE 11/2All Freq colors $159$139$159 69 $2500 $169$199 I7S4 ORAdd 75 Shipping Except Caps Calif Residents add inm rn MORE s Tax Catalog 6 USA $170 Foreign 11 l Aviation Would believe Quaker Flash 277 flights May19 92 hours logged time DG Marshall airline man quotes hours flights dream machine powered K&B 35 beefed up stand high times rough ground handling stolen equipment Marshalls station wagon So radios things have ripped off Bill mumbles Rip off everything America fellows its time Sting Don has another no time fly third being covered K&B 61 pumper big cantfind wheels large enough mayputiton floats Don runs rich dont cook keeps light spite going fordura bility pictured spans 7 ft has 1 2-oz tank Throttle back sure bring recliner sun umbrella plenty iced tea maybe 1000 mAh pack dos ferried PBYs San Diego Hawaii 19-hour non-stop night flights Now 86 hasnt flown since 1965 1972 wrote Eighth Sea 290-page thumbnail account career has kept day-by-day diary life racing trophies presented Queen 1977 display Hendon Museum Diaries flight logs licenses other papers donated San Diego Aero-Space Museum hardly notes day week has talk him about airplanes mind becomes alert years ago seems run off memory tape tiny details McArthur recalled bit about old soldiers simply fading away wasnt talking something glorious man like Courtney present circumstances unbear able youd like tell him much appreciated imagine letter addressed him via Warren Shipp Bill Hannan care ModelAviation would please him very much story Among model researchers turned Courtney through channels Don Srull needed color scheme rubber-powered Gannet took Nats sec ond 1923 London Daily Mail sponsored famous British Light Aeroplane Trials Lympne Gannet historic ultralights built major firms Naturally Gloster Gannet Courtneys log books Courtney color blind Bill Winter 4330Alta Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Electric Spitfire/SruII Con fin ued page 26 firewall making sure squared up accurately fuselage Fill nose section between stringers light soft t balsa wing saddle fillets will completed after wing has built Wing Tail Note leading trailing edges wing stab laminated soft balsa strip Moisten strips join thinned white glue fuselage keels Bend stack strips shape right over QUICK N EASY CUT-OUT PATTERN-PLANS Can Cut & Assembled Evening Stand-Up Flight Box $695 No Measuring Needed! TO BUILD 4TraceCut Assemble DESIGNED TO HOLD Fuel tank Trans Starter Battery Fuse Hold ladi Tools etc Legs Removable 21 12 39 Send SELECT PRODUCTS PO Box 259 Palo Cedro CA 96073 lifE FANT4STIC NELSON 15 detailed brochure send 25 cents Kus torn Kraftsmanship PO Box 2699 Laguna Hills CA 92653 Ph 714 830-5162 Dealer inquiries invited