THERES traditional form power has us years goes unnoticed field sometimes hears old magazine articles recalled modeling exhibit Smithsonian Newsletters sometimes discuss profoundly About five years pub lished new discovery just reinvent wheel Fly power first exposure high-performance flypowered aircraft lobby Hotel Fort Shelby aDetroitNats during Thirties thin ribbon tissue sailed across lobby like towed banner tow plane Some 012345678 INCHES II II w 1A -IIgenius stuck fly end strip Soon lobby arena World War melee ribbons darting directions War fare breeds technical progress Within hour streamers gave way tiny paper gliders Model Airplane News rushed press serious article subject fly-power swept country Although has no improve ment power plants nearly 50 years has unrelenting development airframes Fly-powered models made TV show missed epic covering editor Scale Staffels Squadron Flyer observed maNOTE WING TIPS TAIL SURFACES & TAIL SKID OUTLINES FROM BAMBOO 4 I I K \WII \ii m NOTEWINGS ATTACH VIA WIRE CLIPS RIDING ON RAILS TO ACHIEVE PROPER BALANCE POSITION CABANE STRUTS GLUED TO TOP WING ONLY FOR SHOW B TO PREVENT SWAYING OUT BOARD STRUTS CEMENTED TO TOP B BOTTOM WINGS BOTTOM WING RESTS SNUG AGAINST FUSELAGE BOTTOM SLEZ5 DESIGNED LATE 1920S BY JOE OTT chine first fly-powered bipe seen area between cabane struts seemed covered dab clay nose presented edification profile drawings 1930 model half century later refined 1980 model Youll note early job years before streamer discovered Shelby sur prisingly modem parasol underslung fin englne up front ultimate fly machine tandem like Langley Aerodrome powerful fly sits amidships just Manley radial englne located Aero drome Are trying tell us something submit obvious importance analyz ing matter What fly-brained genius began technical revolution does catch fliesso too capture tempts render delicate englnes unusable Will some group shout stamp out cruelty flies What about fly swatters sticky stuff poison mists cans Verily weighty matter Horses excellent source flies winged Quadras have high weight-to-power ratio thats supposed other way around What need 02 fly better yet 01 can still find Squadron Flyers editor warned training bumblebee Scare tactics think Raised possibility gluing stick tall itto end dragonfly Would Dragon Fly Mark eligible Ornithopter events AMA must its duty Limits must set before flies out control power limit Displace ment answer flypower unit should defined have horsepower wrong flies remember 33000 foot pounds per second What standard fly come down firmly against pull-tests modifications highsugar content fuel Before reluctantly go consider 1980 tandem winged job fully six inches 50% bigger 1930 Thats quantum jump area quite bit gross provoking example seemingly impossible lower power merely proves Monster Scale engine should oraithopter Schnuerle wings could have missed amazing progress What future Multi flies Obviously tandem Ten tan dem engines Look out lamps Nine Lived Stability Stability keystone means forward wing tail \/\/------,-/ POWER-I/32 XI/8XIO RUBBER 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter Lfl Dickinson retired Peelu, u-unther upurnug Doc Mathews MA Webre 23 swung lOx 31/2 prop Yellow silk clear dope green trim George says old-timers match nis 65 years fun feathers proper CG see occasional deltas few canards tail first perhaps rare flying wing J van Hattum Holland sends nine accom panying sketches No 9 tricky vertical stick stabilizes wing means high center drag course propor tionate air speed little gliders derive lectures students Aeronautical Dept DeIft University Technology Van got training DeHavilland England earned Associate Fellowship Royal Aero nautical Society Learned fly 1933 1934 worked Fokkers Holland design de partment Koolhoven Rotterdam project englneer two-seat FK-35 light plane 1937 joined Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society take charge rejuvenated model aircraft activities leave account ofNazi interference 1945 returned time also running Private Pilots section Still active modeler Van has turned out 147 model designs since 1923 cause work international modeling holds Diplome Paul Tissandier presented Federation Aeronautique Internationale Retiring Delft University 1972 now translates literary works bemoans lack time modeling Flying Stick widespread campaign save old Bills piloting technique perdi tion long time ago could escapements anyone else world soon out phase simply because required about five years patriarch youthful brood catch up rising costs advanc ing technology time got rubber gas Free Flighters ran away went escapements until could vertical horizontal eights fly inverted axial rolls outside loops came reeds time hot rock son joined buying two used Orbit 8-channel reed systems guys flying 10-channels obtained beat-up 10-channel systems mob propor tional got Cliff Weirick already run up highest ever score Nats After laying off 12 years fight battles American Modeler few MA picked up 3-channel RC Special 1948 published later MA drifted innocently Old-Timers lovely-to-watch soaring things reality guided Free Flights Though once done consecutive rolls inverted etc reeds forgotten fly stick Flying stick know means making crate go want itall time say never lose touch thats true An ex-pattern-whiz son would stand runway flying wring hands saying Dad proportional Once become plane watcher dont want push George Myers keeps saying after too know going hand overpowered little bombs tell die Another air-force-type son built lovely Sig Kadet Ilso can learn push Shoot touch-and-goes sez brat stuck 11oz tank thing make sure Id plenty Now keep thinking wear tear lovely servos last plane watchers years batteries So am back pushing club member walked up flight line plugged buddy box old Futaba using handed secondary transmitter Just know ing made big improvement day equalling month own Another friendly expert talks through approaches sit down regain cool top get going gotta fight sez Strangers advise ears buzz tips An old guy just cant let folks down November1981 17 Three First-Rate Books Building Flying Indoor Model Airplanes Ron Williams $1250 paper-bound $1950 cloth-bound Simon Schuster 1230 Avenue Americas New York NY 10020 authors opinion moat outstanding model book ever done Williams airline pilot ardent Indoor flier has turned out magazine-size 201 pg volume crammed absolutely brilliant drawingsincluding plans skillfully organized text leaves no stone unturned matters dont build Indoorthis fascinat ing experience us over 200 illustrations Books like sell like crazyto public witness fantastic publicity Scientific Americans Paper Airplane chase back 1960s Youll never regret buying have Hannan Peanuts Higley Engines now Indoor masterpiece others try AMAs Supply & Service Aircraft NationalAir& Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Press send orders Program Director Dept AIR National Air Space Museum Washington DC 20560 $350 plus $175 postage/handling mag size 166 pg covers text pictures drawings 64 aircraft now display total 275 know has first-rate Scale modelers airplane buffs really need Deadly Duo B-25 B-26 WW II Charles Mendenhall $1995 Specialty Press Osceola WI 54020 166-page mag-size hardback loaded excellent photos great warbirds authentic drawingsprofiles 3-views running text should fulfill dedicated collector/Scale modeler well organized treatnient day both planes anything need know about either cant imagine what want details facts Look no further Bob Proctors 261/2 span Fairchild colors Curtiss Flying ServIce 1 928-30 drove Bill bananas says great est rubber-oldies suited RC Scale too witness George Clapps monster MA April 79 fact Bob built cutle right scale verification drawing MA -4 Engineering drawings Squadron Flyer Newsletter reflect 50 years progress fly-power airframes ultimate Langley Aerodrome type right Langley incidentally flew steam-powered -scale model 68 sq ft 3000 ft 100 ft altitude 1896 gas-engined version 4000 ft 1902 As Charlie Grant credits him book Gateway Aen-Scianca Langley true father Free Flight Gas model 6 7617 8Il J Van Hattum used small balsa gliders like demonstrate aero students Holland some ways obtain longitudinal stability world-renowned Swedish fighter looks like Number Three its noted Its short field abilities Number Nine will tickle fancya vertical stick stabilizer flying wingl Any good pilot makes approachesfrom height distancein smooth easy-looking curve beginner guy has lost touch approach breaks down text book segments downwind legs go rather far out different distance downwind leg smooth throttle does match should airplanes desirable speed altitude downwind lt pushing downwind must smooth altitude held throttle fly stick smoothness h fact hot shots arent aware longer fly stick should natural point retard throttle varies far out farther out Combined different pattern widths altitudes sure have mess variables contend too easy turn onto final before youve swung wide enough truly line times hit spot unfortunately weeds off far side runway pit conscious guys give trees line up Great Since finals begin too close country mile out find have decide whether drag aim fence down Fiddling throttle approach requires smoothness jabs dub erratic balloon bit pushand pulland fuss fence gets closer closer Maybe float over thing too high balloon bit forget fly stick lose heading correcting elect go around again ever-varying locations dub doesnt give himself time set up calmly over again finds crate back turn final too low too high too fast too slow coming back segments begin blend will slowly become relaxed need fly Kadet another reason dont land -scale Aristocrat doesnt give troubles since seems like real plane psychology different because dont want overshoot small field over fence drop 28-lb monster repairs would killing aim fly 14scale Vagabond way ff1 become cone sistent Kadet can handle own monsterthis smaller lighter Aristo No has trouble Kadet I baffle experts first block course getting used rudder left stick because 3-channel have right nose strut tight file flat spot wheelsteering adjustments seldom gave straight run meant see-sawing rudder stick flexible pushrod steering moving servo connector steering arm lock screw tight Now crate would run straight its own takeoffs automatic just tiny touch up realistic lift-off Having pilot does help Ned Kragness thousands hours says needs refresher after flying Kadet just regain confidence can still fly real everything went haywire began check pilots reported needed up aileron left trim Trouble needed morethat reduces response left took out warp Still adjustment Now up aileron doesnt much alldown other side does 2 times much work hot-shot found no left aileron unless nose put down Takeoffs mean turned maverick ship would fade right could stop Huge wild ground loops weeds No would believe until tried Finally chap said wing straight youve got look something else Something else proved vertical tail eyeballed everyone sight used metal straightedge check suspicion gosh may teeny bit right Only Superman could have seen So adjusted rudder tiny bit left Eureka flabbergasted Kadet breathed sigh relief got rid aileron trim basic trainers have bit dihedral can flown either rudder aileronor can coordinate want practice forthe monsters two factors influencing turn adjustments proper responses can go bananas get mixed up priorities whether fiddle aileron and/or rudder adjustments mathematical chances doing things improperly Anyway sure wing look vertical tail no matter acurate seems Continued page 61 18 Model Aviation / 2 3 4 7 IN THE BAG What Peck-Polymers Pony Blimp might lead anyones guess 11-ft treated vinyl envelope big enough lift 28 ounces small enough economical filling heliumavailable welding supply shops Designed indoor use powered two small VL Hytork Astro 02 motorswe think see prop slot forward bottom rudderwhich should effective thrust control system takes care turning elevation forward/off/reverse Only fins gondola need constructed broken down sub-assemblies fits deflatedl 1 x 2 x 2 ft box quality kit includes such niceties real microswitches appropriate-sized wiring servo extensions Deans plugs hardware Requires three channels four five channels suggested water-ballast control helium release Kit sells $249 helium envelope alone $129so can design own gas wed say suspect before long monster Goodyear blimps glow engines will barging around flying site reasonably calm days Letters Editor Continued page 8 slides made cost guy Fleet Oshkosh 1979 St Joseph MO claims color scheme designed son some Nica raguan dictator actually used airplane Actual its absolutely wild Wouldnt make unusual Fleet model Dee B Mathews 506 South Walnut Greensburg KS 67054 picture shown quick-and-dirty con ver sion color slide Onto B& W Polaroid film unfortunately doesnt give proper gray tones some colors top fuselage instance appears orangey red four 35mm slides djfferent views set Safety Preston Continued page 12 going work today just like did last week range check might have saved friends Scale model receiver antenna coiled up inside fuselage Now can go flybut sure wiggle control surfaces last time before takeoff could didnt check biorhythms just isnt day anything let along flying model aircraft anyone has check list additional items missed lets hear Have safe month John Prestoz 7012 Elvira Couri Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 trouble can really slow-fly Kadet Throttled back up elevator held makes descend like Luther Huxs parafoil can cruise about like Old-Timer isnt over weightmine has 05 35 instead 40 would have little trouble doing simple aerobatics reborn find takeoffs mental block again vanishes begin worry about approaches have trouble fly pants off endless circuits Fortunately have no left-right prob lems Last evening approaches began come back way thought after first circuit climbing out engine faded perhaps giitch fearing stretch go-round elected put down fast downwind weeds off runway end gave slight up tore through weeds fast pulled off three wheels nose strut came out leaving everything intact front tire off 11ounce tank still full Some hot-shot could have used trim slow quickminded Will lever get act together Fellows dont give up need ya heavenly evening drove 50 miles Shangrila put up 20-year-old Airknocker Just rudder engine smooth silk accurately responsive can contour-fly rolling terrain working power needed can circle high blue vault sail half hour idle giide forever Rubber Scale guys frequent spot love Airknocker its reliable old Enya 09 Some times guest RCer thinks flying stick Continued page 66 PONYBLIMPIl-h RADIO CONTROLLED NON RI OlD AIRSHIP PRACTICAL SIZE con lift 20 Oc Uoe 5tandard Radios 3 4 channel Roquires 00 cable Ft Helium Helium Available Welding Supply Shops FULL CONTROL Modern ThrustAerodynamic control Forward Hover Backward Elevolion Turn Ballad Helium Release COMPUTE KIT Formed Plootic DioCat Bolsa oed Plymood Porte Mounting Hardmare $24900 Wire Plugs Smitches Booh Eoptaln log Blimp Operation Detailed Piano Photon completely Fabri cated Vinyl Helium Envelope EIvctic Motors Radio Bytteries Included COMPLETE CATALOG $100 NOW YOU CAN FLY YOUR OWN ELECTRIC POWERED BLIMP PO BOX 2498 -MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 4898675 714 442-4636 1110 Littlest Miracle Workshop AP SUITABLE FOR ALL HOBBIES AND CRAFTS Makers of. 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say 50000 French men cant wrong am pestered death Rubber Scale guys come home Having published things distant past experts now revive know realism CO-2 Scale looks better Airknocker makes nostalgic taste what old stuff can like asked Herb Clukey draw up Joe Otts SE-S 1920s Otts designs flew like birds dont under stand rubber freaks get such fun campy~ things dont run Joe Ott event writer scaled up Ott designs old Popular Aviation later Flyingbusiness air craft alas MAN born until couple years laterin 1929 nation Joe Ott mad blessing slow walk under thing like SE 5 sedately chugged across large field calm summers eve have burned braln picture something imperishable its original size SE-5 lovely flierit kind way-off stand-off scale rubber job CO-2 would nice Scaled up bit lightly built would fine 02 Free Flight RC mini radiomaybe elevators though dont need Bigger still 049 Joe Ott made modeling life him Charlie Grant bit later MAN would writing today would wondering what about Maxecuters locked up until gave newsletter article old days Rubber Scale full mentions six-foot Bellancas old jobs MAN Flying Aces Flying Models et al 9-ft Cessna 1928 form modeling worth shot -scale Aristocrat turns slowly low motor see rubber job Airplane watching fulfilling Id prefer others fly planes can really see what enjoy Thats living Things Go Bump Night Hats off Bob Boucher Astro Flight continuing contributions both modeling full-scale via electric solar panels electric motors enabled DuPont Solar Challenger fly Pontoise near Paris Manston RAF Base near Dover England altitude 11000 feet average ground speed 47 mph hoped DuPont will approve attempt set altitude record 30000 feet Edwards Air Base would like six miles high feathery flying machine Bobs new 05-XL system now shipping has 20% power 50% duration already popular 05 Hes done 075 too sure hope d6es 15 Spitfire love along Srulland pre sented MA last month Wont some thing Leisure Electronics supplied us racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive Well test formerly 049-powered large peppy glider Srulls Roland Boucher Leisure says has done some 13 minutes Kraft Cardinal 400% least Kraft got Continued page 68 66 Model Aviation ZONA SAWS The one wood handle good blade Outstanding Big Scale Aerobatics LEISURE takes AIR DOUBLES yourflight time SEND SASE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Now 8-10 mm ot electric power per flight LEISURE ELECTRONICS 0 11 Deerspring Irvine CA92714 0714 552-4540 Iof NORTHERN CALIFORNIA S LARGESTU IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI IF well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest quality ingredientsI IJ Deteroent action cut varnish I I II II II II II II II II II IHOURS ,U inursoay CT rnooy YU-OUUI L m m 8 Model Aviation Astros new 05 turns 6 x 4 Cox 13000 8-to 9-mm flights 7 x 4 11000perfect 6-ft sailplane hot-wind featuring special ball bearing 6-cell 12 amp battery Miscellany Doug Pratt video tape crazy play Prince Valiant adventures through color TV guys go ape have no idea what see after session gab between guys flying fascinating overheard conversa tions Video will animate club think clubs should have least buddy box system rate learning fantastic Confidence comes quickly good pilot better can sharpen up can believeeven maneuvers think impossible Local show team has Tartan Cub act plagued take-off engine failures As said two months ago smoke does always mean engine rich chaps tached engine opened valve three turns rpm came up 1000to 7000 think engine should tached max rpm rich side backed off tadand mon sters need held nose-up lean test Bill Winter 433OAlta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Dakota Grande/Wrisley Continued page 26 Final assembly Mount radio route pushrods before cover fuselage Dont epoxy wing hold down dowels until after cover Install windows windshield after no longer need reach through holes used Williams Brothers 3-in pilot added realism Now time get critical Does balance everything aligned properly surfaces move freely right directions wiggle rudder does pushrod flex Does engine idle properly flying Mere words cant describe feeling gets before test flight such magnitude Go slowly Make some fast taxi runs before ease model air Once airborne will pleasantly surprised Ive found can fly rudder alone Control climb power Trim model tad nose heavy control float final ap proach Until get feel flying bird make wheel landings As little sister Grandes forte fly-by Time time again will find yourself flying down runway low slow drinking character true classic Write care editor send picture Dakota Grande Nats General Continued page 29 shifting Nats activities San Antonio area tremendously aided availability another club closer Se gum Tn-Cities RC Flyers under leadership Russ Bear Snyder normally flew weekends Seguin better position San Antonio ARCS coordinate Nats matters Air Force physically assist Nats prepara tions Russ together other key Tn-Cities Club leadersKai Jensen Jack Matlock Kelso Barnettdid bulk pre-Nats work also during 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THERES traditional form power has us years goes unnoticed field sometimes hears old magazine articles recalled modeling exhibit Smithsonian Newsletters sometimes discuss profoundly About five years pub lished new discovery just reinvent wheel Fly power first exposure high-performance flypowered aircraft lobby Hotel Fort Shelby aDetroitNats during Thirties thin ribbon tissue sailed across lobby like towed banner tow plane Some 012345678 INCHES II II w 1A -IIgenius stuck fly end strip Soon lobby arena World War melee ribbons darting directions War fare breeds technical progress Within hour streamers gave way tiny paper gliders Model Airplane News rushed press serious article subject fly-power swept country Although has no improve ment power plants nearly 50 years has unrelenting development airframes Fly-powered models made TV show missed epic covering editor Scale Staffels Squadron Flyer observed maNOTE WING TIPS TAIL SURFACES & TAIL SKID OUTLINES FROM BAMBOO 4 I I K \WII \ii m NOTEWINGS ATTACH VIA WIRE CLIPS RIDING ON RAILS TO ACHIEVE PROPER BALANCE POSITION CABANE STRUTS GLUED TO TOP WING ONLY FOR SHOW B TO PREVENT SWAYING OUT BOARD STRUTS CEMENTED TO TOP B BOTTOM WINGS BOTTOM WING RESTS SNUG AGAINST FUSELAGE BOTTOM SLEZ5 DESIGNED LATE 1920S BY JOE OTT chine first fly-powered bipe seen area between cabane struts seemed covered dab clay nose presented edification profile drawings 1930 model half century later refined 1980 model Youll note early job years before streamer discovered Shelby sur prisingly modem parasol underslung fin englne up front ultimate fly machine tandem like Langley Aerodrome powerful fly sits amidships just Manley radial englne located Aero drome Are trying tell us something submit obvious importance analyz ing matter What fly-brained genius began technical revolution does catch fliesso too capture tempts render delicate englnes unusable Will some group shout stamp out cruelty flies What about fly swatters sticky stuff poison mists cans Verily weighty matter Horses excellent source flies winged Quadras have high weight-to-power ratio thats supposed other way around What need 02 fly better yet 01 can still find Squadron Flyers editor warned training bumblebee Scare tactics think Raised possibility gluing stick tall itto end dragonfly Would Dragon Fly Mark eligible Ornithopter events AMA must its duty Limits must set before flies out control power limit Displace ment answer flypower unit should defined have horsepower wrong flies remember 33000 foot pounds per second What standard fly come down firmly against pull-tests modifications highsugar content fuel Before reluctantly go consider 1980 tandem winged job fully six inches 50% bigger 1930 Thats quantum jump area quite bit gross provoking example seemingly impossible lower power merely proves Monster Scale engine should oraithopter Schnuerle wings could have missed amazing progress What future Multi flies Obviously tandem Ten tan dem engines Look out lamps Nine Lived Stability Stability keystone means forward wing tail \/\/------,-/ POWER-I/32 XI/8XIO RUBBER 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter Lfl Dickinson retired Peelu, u-unther upurnug Doc Mathews MA Webre 23 swung lOx 31/2 prop Yellow silk clear dope green trim George says old-timers match nis 65 years fun feathers proper CG see occasional deltas few canards tail first perhaps rare flying wing J van Hattum Holland sends nine accom panying sketches No 9 tricky vertical stick stabilizes wing means high center drag course propor tionate air speed little gliders derive lectures students Aeronautical Dept DeIft University Technology Van got training DeHavilland England earned Associate Fellowship Royal Aero nautical Society Learned fly 1933 1934 worked Fokkers Holland design de partment Koolhoven Rotterdam project englneer two-seat FK-35 light plane 1937 joined Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society take charge rejuvenated model aircraft activities leave account ofNazi interference 1945 returned time also running Private Pilots section Still active modeler Van has turned out 147 model designs since 1923 cause work international modeling holds Diplome Paul Tissandier presented Federation Aeronautique Internationale Retiring Delft University 1972 now translates literary works bemoans lack time modeling Flying Stick widespread campaign save old Bills piloting technique perdi tion long time ago could escapements anyone else world soon out phase simply because required about five years patriarch youthful brood catch up rising costs advanc ing technology time got rubber gas Free Flighters ran away went escapements until could vertical horizontal eights fly inverted axial rolls outside loops came reeds time hot rock son joined buying two used Orbit 8-channel reed systems guys flying 10-channels obtained beat-up 10-channel systems mob propor tional got Cliff Weirick already run up highest ever score Nats After laying off 12 years fight battles American Modeler few MA picked up 3-channel RC Special 1948 published later MA drifted innocently Old-Timers lovely-to-watch soaring things reality guided Free Flights Though once done consecutive rolls inverted etc reeds forgotten fly stick Flying stick know means making crate go want itall time say never lose touch thats true An ex-pattern-whiz son would stand runway flying wring hands saying Dad proportional Once become plane watcher dont want push George Myers keeps saying after too know going hand overpowered little bombs tell die Another air-force-type son built lovely Sig Kadet Ilso can learn push Shoot touch-and-goes sez brat stuck 11oz tank thing make sure Id plenty Now keep thinking wear tear lovely servos last plane watchers years batteries So am back pushing club member walked up flight line plugged buddy box old Futaba using handed secondary transmitter Just know ing made big improvement day equalling month own Another friendly expert talks through approaches sit down regain cool top get going gotta fight sez Strangers advise ears buzz tips An old guy just cant let folks down November1981 17 Three First-Rate Books Building Flying Indoor Model Airplanes Ron Williams $1250 paper-bound $1950 cloth-bound Simon Schuster 1230 Avenue Americas New York NY 10020 authors opinion moat outstanding model book ever done Williams airline pilot ardent Indoor flier has turned out magazine-size 201 pg volume crammed absolutely brilliant drawingsincluding plans skillfully organized text leaves no stone unturned matters dont build Indoorthis fascinat ing experience us over 200 illustrations Books like sell like crazyto public witness fantastic publicity Scientific Americans Paper Airplane chase back 1960s Youll never regret buying have Hannan Peanuts Higley Engines now Indoor masterpiece others try AMAs Supply & Service Aircraft NationalAir& Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Press send orders Program Director Dept AIR National Air Space Museum Washington DC 20560 $350 plus $175 postage/handling mag size 166 pg covers text pictures drawings 64 aircraft now display total 275 know has first-rate Scale modelers airplane buffs really need Deadly Duo B-25 B-26 WW II Charles Mendenhall $1995 Specialty Press Osceola WI 54020 166-page mag-size hardback loaded excellent photos great warbirds authentic drawingsprofiles 3-views running text should fulfill dedicated collector/Scale modeler well organized treatnient day both planes anything need know about either cant imagine what want details facts Look no further Bob Proctors 261/2 span Fairchild colors Curtiss Flying ServIce 1 928-30 drove Bill bananas says great est rubber-oldies suited RC Scale too witness George Clapps monster MA April 79 fact Bob built cutle right scale verification drawing MA -4 Engineering drawings Squadron Flyer Newsletter reflect 50 years progress fly-power airframes ultimate Langley Aerodrome type right Langley incidentally flew steam-powered -scale model 68 sq ft 3000 ft 100 ft altitude 1896 gas-engined version 4000 ft 1902 As Charlie Grant credits him book Gateway Aen-Scianca Langley true father Free Flight Gas model 6 7617 8Il J Van Hattum used small balsa gliders like demonstrate aero students Holland some ways obtain longitudinal stability world-renowned Swedish fighter looks like Number Three its noted Its short field abilities Number Nine will tickle fancya vertical stick stabilizer flying wingl Any good pilot makes approachesfrom height distancein smooth easy-looking curve beginner guy has lost touch approach breaks down text book segments downwind legs go rather far out different distance downwind leg smooth throttle does match should airplanes desirable speed altitude downwind lt pushing downwind must smooth altitude held throttle fly stick smoothness h fact hot shots arent aware longer fly stick should natural point retard throttle varies far out farther out Combined different pattern widths altitudes sure have mess variables contend too easy turn onto final before youve swung wide enough truly line times hit spot unfortunately weeds off far side runway pit conscious guys give trees line up Great Since finals begin too close country mile out find have decide whether drag aim fence down Fiddling throttle approach requires smoothness jabs dub erratic balloon bit pushand pulland fuss fence gets closer closer Maybe float over thing too high balloon bit forget fly stick lose heading correcting elect go around again ever-varying locations dub doesnt give himself time set up calmly over again finds crate back turn final too low too high too fast too slow coming back segments begin blend will slowly become relaxed need fly Kadet another reason dont land -scale Aristocrat doesnt give troubles since seems like real plane psychology different because dont want overshoot small field over fence drop 28-lb monster repairs would killing aim fly 14scale Vagabond way ff1 become cone sistent Kadet can handle own monsterthis smaller lighter Aristo No has trouble Kadet I baffle experts first block course getting used rudder left stick because 3-channel have right nose strut tight file flat spot wheelsteering adjustments seldom gave straight run meant see-sawing rudder stick flexible pushrod steering moving servo connector steering arm lock screw tight Now crate would run straight its own takeoffs automatic just tiny touch up realistic lift-off Having pilot does help Ned Kragness thousands hours says needs refresher after flying Kadet just regain confidence can still fly real everything went haywire began check pilots reported needed up aileron left trim Trouble needed morethat reduces response left took out warp Still adjustment Now up aileron doesnt much alldown other side does 2 times much work hot-shot found no left aileron unless nose put down Takeoffs mean turned maverick ship would fade right could stop Huge wild ground loops weeds No would believe until tried Finally chap said wing straight youve got look something else Something else proved vertical tail eyeballed everyone sight used metal straightedge check suspicion gosh may teeny bit right Only Superman could have seen So adjusted rudder tiny bit left Eureka flabbergasted Kadet breathed sigh relief got rid aileron trim basic trainers have bit dihedral can flown either rudder aileronor can coordinate want practice forthe monsters two factors influencing turn adjustments proper responses can go bananas get mixed up priorities whether fiddle aileron and/or rudder adjustments mathematical chances doing things improperly Anyway sure wing look vertical tail no matter acurate seems Continued page 61 18 Model Aviation / 2 3 4 7 IN THE BAG What Peck-Polymers Pony Blimp might lead anyones guess 11-ft treated vinyl envelope big enough lift 28 ounces small enough economical filling heliumavailable welding supply shops Designed indoor use powered two small VL Hytork Astro 02 motorswe think see prop slot forward bottom rudderwhich should effective thrust control system takes care turning elevation forward/off/reverse Only fins gondola need constructed broken down sub-assemblies fits deflatedl 1 x 2 x 2 ft box quality kit includes such niceties real microswitches appropriate-sized wiring servo extensions Deans plugs hardware Requires three channels four five channels suggested water-ballast control helium release Kit sells $249 helium envelope alone $129so can design own gas wed say suspect before long monster Goodyear blimps glow engines will barging around flying site reasonably calm days Letters Editor Continued page 8 slides made cost guy Fleet Oshkosh 1979 St Joseph MO claims color scheme designed son some Nica raguan dictator actually used airplane Actual its absolutely wild Wouldnt make unusual Fleet model Dee B Mathews 506 South Walnut Greensburg KS 67054 picture shown quick-and-dirty con ver sion color slide Onto B& W Polaroid film unfortunately doesnt give proper gray tones some colors top fuselage instance appears orangey red four 35mm slides djfferent views set Safety Preston Continued page 12 going work today just like did last week range check might have saved friends Scale model receiver antenna coiled up inside fuselage Now can go flybut sure wiggle control surfaces last time before takeoff could didnt check biorhythms just isnt day anything let along flying model aircraft anyone has check list additional items missed lets hear Have safe month John Prestoz 7012 Elvira Couri Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 trouble can really slow-fly Kadet Throttled back up elevator held makes descend like Luther Huxs parafoil can cruise about like Old-Timer isnt over weightmine has 05 35 instead 40 would have little trouble doing simple aerobatics reborn find takeoffs mental block again vanishes begin worry about approaches have trouble fly pants off endless circuits Fortunately have no left-right prob lems Last evening approaches began come back way thought after first circuit climbing out engine faded perhaps giitch fearing stretch go-round elected put down fast downwind weeds off runway end gave slight up tore through weeds fast pulled off three wheels nose strut came out leaving everything intact front tire off 11ounce tank still full Some hot-shot could have used trim slow quickminded Will lever get act together Fellows dont give up need ya heavenly evening drove 50 miles Shangrila put up 20-year-old Airknocker Just rudder engine smooth silk accurately responsive can contour-fly rolling terrain working power needed can circle high blue vault sail half hour idle giide forever Rubber Scale guys frequent spot love Airknocker its reliable old Enya 09 Some times guest RCer thinks flying stick Continued page 66 PONYBLIMPIl-h RADIO CONTROLLED NON RI OlD AIRSHIP PRACTICAL SIZE con lift 20 Oc Uoe 5tandard Radios 3 4 channel Roquires 00 cable Ft Helium Helium Available Welding Supply Shops FULL CONTROL Modern ThrustAerodynamic control Forward Hover Backward Elevolion Turn Ballad Helium Release COMPUTE KIT Formed Plootic DioCat Bolsa oed Plymood Porte Mounting Hardmare $24900 Wire Plugs Smitches Booh Eoptaln log Blimp Operation Detailed Piano Photon completely Fabri cated Vinyl Helium Envelope EIvctic Motors Radio Bytteries Included COMPLETE CATALOG $100 NOW YOU CAN FLY YOUR OWN ELECTRIC POWERED BLIMP PO BOX 2498 -MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 4898675 714 442-4636 1110 Littlest Miracle Workshop AP SUITABLE FOR ALL HOBBIES AND CRAFTS Makers of. Mini-Glue Tips Stray- Tray Tee Bar Mini-Saw Ruff-Stuff & Jewel Stroes 138 Penn Street El SeRundo CA 90245 Novembef 1981 61 Peck-PeIymes 2 I{6 APPLIED DESIGN CORP RANDYS UNIFLOW STINT TANKS PROFI LE*COMBAT* RAT* WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 2-- 6 oz Capacities Standard vent available CUSTOM BLEND FUEL 5 40% Nitro Send 25cents specs CAROLINA- TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405 Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 $185 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAt Model Supply PO Box 3957 Tawance CA 10510 USA * % STAND OFF SCALE SIZE * 92 WINGSPAN l5tF SO IN * WEIGHT 19 21 LBS * FIBERGLAS COWL 8 WHEELPANTS * QUADRA ENGINE * AVAILABLE NOW * OhI@ h -f UIIEU & WAU mimi i elevatorhe doesnt note until tries flare out wheel landing dream-like flying aileron obscenity Old-time escapement men have tears eyes Bill Cann actually shoots touch-and-goes Fancy urging buy Kadet fine sport/trainer So Falcon 56 lots others Locally common plane Ugly Stick its cousins session brings out six 10 As say 50000 French men cant wrong am pestered death Rubber Scale guys come home Having published things distant past experts now revive know realism CO-2 Scale looks better Airknocker makes nostalgic taste what old stuff can like asked Herb Clukey draw up Joe Otts SE-S 1920s Otts designs flew like birds dont under stand rubber freaks get such fun campy~ things dont run Joe Ott event writer scaled up Ott designs old Popular Aviation later Flyingbusiness air craft alas MAN born until couple years laterin 1929 nation Joe Ott mad blessing slow walk under thing like SE 5 sedately chugged across large field calm summers eve have burned braln picture something imperishable its original size SE-5 lovely flierit kind way-off stand-off scale rubber job CO-2 would nice Scaled up bit lightly built would fine 02 Free Flight RC mini radiomaybe elevators though dont need Bigger still 049 Joe Ott made modeling life him Charlie Grant bit later MAN would writing today would wondering what about Maxecuters locked up until gave newsletter article old days Rubber Scale full mentions six-foot Bellancas old jobs MAN Flying Aces Flying Models et al 9-ft Cessna 1928 form modeling worth shot -scale Aristocrat turns slowly low motor see rubber job Airplane watching fulfilling Id prefer others fly planes can really see what enjoy Thats living Things Go Bump Night Hats off Bob Boucher Astro Flight continuing contributions both modeling full-scale via electric solar panels electric motors enabled DuPont Solar Challenger fly Pontoise near Paris Manston RAF Base near Dover England altitude 11000 feet average ground speed 47 mph hoped DuPont will approve attempt set altitude record 30000 feet Edwards Air Base would like six miles high feathery flying machine Bobs new 05-XL system now shipping has 20% power 50% duration already popular 05 Hes done 075 too sure hope d6es 15 Spitfire love along Srulland pre sented MA last month Wont some thing Leisure Electronics supplied us racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive Well test formerly 049-powered large peppy glider Srulls Roland Boucher Leisure says has done some 13 minutes Kraft Cardinal 400% least Kraft got Continued page 68 66 Model Aviation ZONA SAWS The one wood handle good blade Outstanding Big Scale Aerobatics LEISURE takes AIR DOUBLES yourflight time SEND SASE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Now 8-10 mm ot electric power per flight LEISURE ELECTRONICS 0 11 Deerspring Irvine CA92714 0714 552-4540 Iof NORTHERN CALIFORNIA S LARGESTU IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI IF well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest quality ingredientsI IJ Deteroent action cut varnish I I II II II II II II II II II IHOURS ,U inursoay CT rnooy YU-OUUI L m m 8 Model Aviation Astros new 05 turns 6 x 4 Cox 13000 8-to 9-mm flights 7 x 4 11000perfect 6-ft sailplane hot-wind featuring special ball bearing 6-cell 12 amp battery Miscellany Doug Pratt video tape crazy play Prince Valiant adventures through color TV guys go ape have no idea what see after session gab between guys flying fascinating overheard conversa tions Video will animate club think clubs should have least buddy box system rate learning fantastic Confidence comes quickly good pilot better can sharpen up can believeeven maneuvers think impossible Local show team has Tartan Cub act plagued take-off engine failures As said two months ago smoke does always mean engine rich chaps tached engine opened valve three turns rpm came up 1000to 7000 think engine should tached max rpm rich side backed off tadand mon sters need held nose-up lean test Bill Winter 433OAlta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Dakota Grande/Wrisley Continued page 26 Final assembly Mount radio route pushrods before cover fuselage Dont epoxy wing hold down dowels until after cover Install windows windshield after no longer need reach through holes used Williams Brothers 3-in pilot added realism Now time get critical Does balance everything aligned properly surfaces move freely right directions wiggle rudder does pushrod flex Does engine idle properly flying Mere words cant describe feeling gets before test flight such magnitude Go slowly Make some fast taxi runs before ease model air Once airborne will pleasantly surprised Ive found can fly rudder alone Control climb power Trim model tad nose heavy control float final ap proach Until get feel flying bird make wheel landings As little sister Grandes forte fly-by Time time again will find yourself flying down runway low slow drinking character true classic Write care editor send picture Dakota Grande Nats General Continued page 29 shifting Nats activities San Antonio area tremendously aided availability another club closer Se gum Tn-Cities RC Flyers under leadership Russ Bear Snyder normally flew weekends Seguin better position San Antonio ARCS coordinate Nats matters Air Force physically assist Nats prepara tions Russ together other key Tn-Cities Club leadersKai Jensen Jack Matlock Kelso Barnettdid bulk pre-Nats work also during Nats end however area clubs contributed significantly Tn-Cities ARCS San Antonio Continued page 103 Giant Scale 1911 BLE RIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan 108 Engine 6015 Weight 11 lbs MA I1 LKAI- Rt 3 Box 201 Hillsboro OR 97123 648 -4888
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/11
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 61, 66, 68
THERES traditional form power has us years goes unnoticed field sometimes hears old magazine articles recalled modeling exhibit Smithsonian Newsletters sometimes discuss profoundly About five years pub lished new discovery just reinvent wheel Fly power first exposure high-performance flypowered aircraft lobby Hotel Fort Shelby aDetroitNats during Thirties thin ribbon tissue sailed across lobby like towed banner tow plane Some 012345678 INCHES II II w 1A -IIgenius stuck fly end strip Soon lobby arena World War melee ribbons darting directions War fare breeds technical progress Within hour streamers gave way tiny paper gliders Model Airplane News rushed press serious article subject fly-power swept country Although has no improve ment power plants nearly 50 years has unrelenting development airframes Fly-powered models made TV show missed epic covering editor Scale Staffels Squadron Flyer observed maNOTE WING TIPS TAIL SURFACES & TAIL SKID OUTLINES FROM BAMBOO 4 I I K \WII \ii m NOTEWINGS ATTACH VIA WIRE CLIPS RIDING ON RAILS TO ACHIEVE PROPER BALANCE POSITION CABANE STRUTS GLUED TO TOP WING ONLY FOR SHOW B TO PREVENT SWAYING OUT BOARD STRUTS CEMENTED TO TOP B BOTTOM WINGS BOTTOM WING RESTS SNUG AGAINST FUSELAGE BOTTOM SLEZ5 DESIGNED LATE 1920S BY JOE OTT chine first fly-powered bipe seen area between cabane struts seemed covered dab clay nose presented edification profile drawings 1930 model half century later refined 1980 model Youll note early job years before streamer discovered Shelby sur prisingly modem parasol underslung fin englne up front ultimate fly machine tandem like Langley Aerodrome powerful fly sits amidships just Manley radial englne located Aero drome Are trying tell us something submit obvious importance analyz ing matter What fly-brained genius began technical revolution does catch fliesso too capture tempts render delicate englnes unusable Will some group shout stamp out cruelty flies What about fly swatters sticky stuff poison mists cans Verily weighty matter Horses excellent source flies winged Quadras have high weight-to-power ratio thats supposed other way around What need 02 fly better yet 01 can still find Squadron Flyers editor warned training bumblebee Scare tactics think Raised possibility gluing stick tall itto end dragonfly Would Dragon Fly Mark eligible Ornithopter events AMA must its duty Limits must set before flies out control power limit Displace ment answer flypower unit should defined have horsepower wrong flies remember 33000 foot pounds per second What standard fly come down firmly against pull-tests modifications highsugar content fuel Before reluctantly go consider 1980 tandem winged job fully six inches 50% bigger 1930 Thats quantum jump area quite bit gross provoking example seemingly impossible lower power merely proves Monster Scale engine should oraithopter Schnuerle wings could have missed amazing progress What future Multi flies Obviously tandem Ten tan dem engines Look out lamps Nine Lived Stability Stability keystone means forward wing tail \/\/------,-/ POWER-I/32 XI/8XIO RUBBER 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter Lfl Dickinson retired Peelu, u-unther upurnug Doc Mathews MA Webre 23 swung lOx 31/2 prop Yellow silk clear dope green trim George says old-timers match nis 65 years fun feathers proper CG see occasional deltas few canards tail first perhaps rare flying wing J van Hattum Holland sends nine accom panying sketches No 9 tricky vertical stick stabilizes wing means high center drag course propor tionate air speed little gliders derive lectures students Aeronautical Dept DeIft University Technology Van got training DeHavilland England earned Associate Fellowship Royal Aero nautical Society Learned fly 1933 1934 worked Fokkers Holland design de partment Koolhoven Rotterdam project englneer two-seat FK-35 light plane 1937 joined Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society take charge rejuvenated model aircraft activities leave account ofNazi interference 1945 returned time also running Private Pilots section Still active modeler Van has turned out 147 model designs since 1923 cause work international modeling holds Diplome Paul Tissandier presented Federation Aeronautique Internationale Retiring Delft University 1972 now translates literary works bemoans lack time modeling Flying Stick widespread campaign save old Bills piloting technique perdi tion long time ago could escapements anyone else world soon out phase simply because required about five years patriarch youthful brood catch up rising costs advanc ing technology time got rubber gas Free Flighters ran away went escapements until could vertical horizontal eights fly inverted axial rolls outside loops came reeds time hot rock son joined buying two used Orbit 8-channel reed systems guys flying 10-channels obtained beat-up 10-channel systems mob propor tional got Cliff Weirick already run up highest ever score Nats After laying off 12 years fight battles American Modeler few MA picked up 3-channel RC Special 1948 published later MA drifted innocently Old-Timers lovely-to-watch soaring things reality guided Free Flights Though once done consecutive rolls inverted etc reeds forgotten fly stick Flying stick know means making crate go want itall time say never lose touch thats true An ex-pattern-whiz son would stand runway flying wring hands saying Dad proportional Once become plane watcher dont want push George Myers keeps saying after too know going hand overpowered little bombs tell die Another air-force-type son built lovely Sig Kadet Ilso can learn push Shoot touch-and-goes sez brat stuck 11oz tank thing make sure Id plenty Now keep thinking wear tear lovely servos last plane watchers years batteries So am back pushing club member walked up flight line plugged buddy box old Futaba using handed secondary transmitter Just know ing made big improvement day equalling month own Another friendly expert talks through approaches sit down regain cool top get going gotta fight sez Strangers advise ears buzz tips An old guy just cant let folks down November1981 17 Three First-Rate Books Building Flying Indoor Model Airplanes Ron Williams $1250 paper-bound $1950 cloth-bound Simon Schuster 1230 Avenue Americas New York NY 10020 authors opinion moat outstanding model book ever done Williams airline pilot ardent Indoor flier has turned out magazine-size 201 pg volume crammed absolutely brilliant drawingsincluding plans skillfully organized text leaves no stone unturned matters dont build Indoorthis fascinat ing experience us over 200 illustrations Books like sell like crazyto public witness fantastic publicity Scientific Americans Paper Airplane chase back 1960s Youll never regret buying have Hannan Peanuts Higley Engines now Indoor masterpiece others try AMAs Supply & Service Aircraft NationalAir& Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Press send orders Program Director Dept AIR National Air Space Museum Washington DC 20560 $350 plus $175 postage/handling mag size 166 pg covers text pictures drawings 64 aircraft now display total 275 know has first-rate Scale modelers airplane buffs really need Deadly Duo B-25 B-26 WW II Charles Mendenhall $1995 Specialty Press Osceola WI 54020 166-page mag-size hardback loaded excellent photos great warbirds authentic drawingsprofiles 3-views running text should fulfill dedicated collector/Scale modeler well organized treatnient day both planes anything need know about either cant imagine what want details facts Look no further Bob Proctors 261/2 span Fairchild colors Curtiss Flying ServIce 1 928-30 drove Bill bananas says great est rubber-oldies suited RC Scale too witness George Clapps monster MA April 79 fact Bob built cutle right scale verification drawing MA -4 Engineering drawings Squadron Flyer Newsletter reflect 50 years progress fly-power airframes ultimate Langley Aerodrome type right Langley incidentally flew steam-powered -scale model 68 sq ft 3000 ft 100 ft altitude 1896 gas-engined version 4000 ft 1902 As Charlie Grant credits him book Gateway Aen-Scianca Langley true father Free Flight Gas model 6 7617 8Il J Van Hattum used small balsa gliders like demonstrate aero students Holland some ways obtain longitudinal stability world-renowned Swedish fighter looks like Number Three its noted Its short field abilities Number Nine will tickle fancya vertical stick stabilizer flying wingl Any good pilot makes approachesfrom height distancein smooth easy-looking curve beginner guy has lost touch approach breaks down text book segments downwind legs go rather far out different distance downwind leg smooth throttle does match should airplanes desirable speed altitude downwind lt pushing downwind must smooth altitude held throttle fly stick smoothness h fact hot shots arent aware longer fly stick should natural point retard throttle varies far out farther out Combined different pattern widths altitudes sure have mess variables contend too easy turn onto final before youve swung wide enough truly line times hit spot unfortunately weeds off far side runway pit conscious guys give trees line up Great Since finals begin too close country mile out find have decide whether drag aim fence down Fiddling throttle approach requires smoothness jabs dub erratic balloon bit pushand pulland fuss fence gets closer closer Maybe float over thing too high balloon bit forget fly stick lose heading correcting elect go around again ever-varying locations dub doesnt give himself time set up calmly over again finds crate back turn final too low too high too fast too slow coming back segments begin blend will slowly become relaxed need fly Kadet another reason dont land -scale Aristocrat doesnt give troubles since seems like real plane psychology different because dont want overshoot small field over fence drop 28-lb monster repairs would killing aim fly 14scale Vagabond way ff1 become cone sistent Kadet can handle own monsterthis smaller lighter Aristo No has trouble Kadet I baffle experts first block course getting used rudder left stick because 3-channel have right nose strut tight file flat spot wheelsteering adjustments seldom gave straight run meant see-sawing rudder stick flexible pushrod steering moving servo connector steering arm lock screw tight Now crate would run straight its own takeoffs automatic just tiny touch up realistic lift-off Having pilot does help Ned Kragness thousands hours says needs refresher after flying Kadet just regain confidence can still fly real everything went haywire began check pilots reported needed up aileron left trim Trouble needed morethat reduces response left took out warp Still adjustment Now up aileron doesnt much alldown other side does 2 times much work hot-shot found no left aileron unless nose put down Takeoffs mean turned maverick ship would fade right could stop Huge wild ground loops weeds No would believe until tried Finally chap said wing straight youve got look something else Something else proved vertical tail eyeballed everyone sight used metal straightedge check suspicion gosh may teeny bit right Only Superman could have seen So adjusted rudder tiny bit left Eureka flabbergasted Kadet breathed sigh relief got rid aileron trim basic trainers have bit dihedral can flown either rudder aileronor can coordinate want practice forthe monsters two factors influencing turn adjustments proper responses can go bananas get mixed up priorities whether fiddle aileron and/or rudder adjustments mathematical chances doing things improperly Anyway sure wing look vertical tail no matter acurate seems Continued page 61 18 Model Aviation / 2 3 4 7 IN THE BAG What Peck-Polymers Pony Blimp might lead anyones guess 11-ft treated vinyl envelope big enough lift 28 ounces small enough economical filling heliumavailable welding supply shops Designed indoor use powered two small VL Hytork Astro 02 motorswe think see prop slot forward bottom rudderwhich should effective thrust control system takes care turning elevation forward/off/reverse Only fins gondola need constructed broken down sub-assemblies fits deflatedl 1 x 2 x 2 ft box quality kit includes such niceties real microswitches appropriate-sized wiring servo extensions Deans plugs hardware Requires three channels four five channels suggested water-ballast control helium release Kit sells $249 helium envelope alone $129so can design own gas wed say suspect before long monster Goodyear blimps glow engines will barging around flying site reasonably calm days Letters Editor Continued page 8 slides made cost guy Fleet Oshkosh 1979 St Joseph MO claims color scheme designed son some Nica raguan dictator actually used airplane Actual its absolutely wild Wouldnt make unusual Fleet model Dee B Mathews 506 South Walnut Greensburg KS 67054 picture shown quick-and-dirty con ver sion color slide Onto B& W Polaroid film unfortunately doesnt give proper gray tones some colors top fuselage instance appears orangey red four 35mm slides djfferent views set Safety Preston Continued page 12 going work today just like did last week range check might have saved friends Scale model receiver antenna coiled up inside fuselage Now can go flybut sure wiggle control surfaces last time before takeoff could didnt check biorhythms just isnt day anything let along flying model aircraft anyone has check list additional items missed lets hear Have safe month John Prestoz 7012 Elvira Couri Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 trouble can really slow-fly Kadet Throttled back up elevator held makes descend like Luther Huxs parafoil can cruise about like Old-Timer isnt over weightmine has 05 35 instead 40 would have little trouble doing simple aerobatics reborn find takeoffs mental block again vanishes begin worry about approaches have trouble fly pants off endless circuits Fortunately have no left-right prob lems Last evening approaches began come back way thought after first circuit climbing out engine faded perhaps giitch fearing stretch go-round elected put down fast downwind weeds off runway end gave slight up tore through weeds fast pulled off three wheels nose strut came out leaving everything intact front tire off 11ounce tank still full Some hot-shot could have used trim slow quickminded Will lever get act together Fellows dont give up need ya heavenly evening drove 50 miles Shangrila put up 20-year-old Airknocker Just rudder engine smooth silk accurately responsive can contour-fly rolling terrain working power needed can circle high blue vault sail half hour idle giide forever Rubber Scale guys frequent spot love Airknocker its reliable old Enya 09 Some times guest RCer thinks flying stick Continued page 66 PONYBLIMPIl-h RADIO CONTROLLED NON RI OlD AIRSHIP PRACTICAL SIZE con lift 20 Oc Uoe 5tandard Radios 3 4 channel Roquires 00 cable Ft Helium Helium Available Welding Supply Shops FULL CONTROL Modern ThrustAerodynamic control Forward Hover Backward Elevolion Turn Ballad Helium Release COMPUTE KIT Formed Plootic DioCat Bolsa oed Plymood Porte Mounting Hardmare $24900 Wire Plugs Smitches Booh Eoptaln log Blimp Operation Detailed Piano Photon completely Fabri cated Vinyl Helium Envelope EIvctic Motors Radio Bytteries Included COMPLETE CATALOG $100 NOW YOU CAN FLY YOUR OWN ELECTRIC POWERED BLIMP PO BOX 2498 -MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 4898675 714 442-4636 1110 Littlest Miracle Workshop AP SUITABLE FOR ALL HOBBIES AND CRAFTS Makers of. Mini-Glue Tips Stray- Tray Tee Bar Mini-Saw Ruff-Stuff & Jewel Stroes 138 Penn Street El SeRundo CA 90245 Novembef 1981 61 Peck-PeIymes 2 I{6 APPLIED DESIGN CORP RANDYS UNIFLOW STINT TANKS PROFI LE*COMBAT* RAT* WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 2-- 6 oz Capacities Standard vent available CUSTOM BLEND FUEL 5 40% Nitro Send 25cents specs CAROLINA- TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405 Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 $185 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAt Model Supply PO Box 3957 Tawance CA 10510 USA * % STAND OFF SCALE SIZE * 92 WINGSPAN l5tF SO IN * WEIGHT 19 21 LBS * FIBERGLAS COWL 8 WHEELPANTS * QUADRA ENGINE * AVAILABLE NOW * OhI@ h -f UIIEU & WAU mimi i elevatorhe doesnt note until tries flare out wheel landing dream-like flying aileron obscenity Old-time escapement men have tears eyes Bill Cann actually shoots touch-and-goes Fancy urging buy Kadet fine sport/trainer So Falcon 56 lots others Locally common plane Ugly Stick its cousins session brings out six 10 As say 50000 French men cant wrong am pestered death Rubber Scale guys come home Having published things distant past experts now revive know realism CO-2 Scale looks better Airknocker makes nostalgic taste what old stuff can like asked Herb Clukey draw up Joe Otts SE-S 1920s Otts designs flew like birds dont under stand rubber freaks get such fun campy~ things dont run Joe Ott event writer scaled up Ott designs old Popular Aviation later Flyingbusiness air craft alas MAN born until couple years laterin 1929 nation Joe Ott mad blessing slow walk under thing like SE 5 sedately chugged across large field calm summers eve have burned braln picture something imperishable its original size SE-5 lovely flierit kind way-off stand-off scale rubber job CO-2 would nice Scaled up bit lightly built would fine 02 Free Flight RC mini radiomaybe elevators though dont need Bigger still 049 Joe Ott made modeling life him Charlie Grant bit later MAN would writing today would wondering what about Maxecuters locked up until gave newsletter article old days Rubber Scale full mentions six-foot Bellancas old jobs MAN Flying Aces Flying Models et al 9-ft Cessna 1928 form modeling worth shot -scale Aristocrat turns slowly low motor see rubber job Airplane watching fulfilling Id prefer others fly planes can really see what enjoy Thats living Things Go Bump Night Hats off Bob Boucher Astro Flight continuing contributions both modeling full-scale via electric solar panels electric motors enabled DuPont Solar Challenger fly Pontoise near Paris Manston RAF Base near Dover England altitude 11000 feet average ground speed 47 mph hoped DuPont will approve attempt set altitude record 30000 feet Edwards Air Base would like six miles high feathery flying machine Bobs new 05-XL system now shipping has 20% power 50% duration already popular 05 Hes done 075 too sure hope d6es 15 Spitfire love along Srulland pre sented MA last month Wont some thing Leisure Electronics supplied us racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive Well test formerly 049-powered large peppy glider Srulls Roland Boucher Leisure says has done some 13 minutes Kraft Cardinal 400% least Kraft got Continued page 68 66 Model Aviation ZONA SAWS The one wood handle good blade Outstanding Big Scale Aerobatics LEISURE takes AIR DOUBLES yourflight time SEND SASE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Now 8-10 mm ot electric power per flight LEISURE ELECTRONICS 0 11 Deerspring Irvine CA92714 0714 552-4540 Iof NORTHERN CALIFORNIA S LARGESTU IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI IF well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest quality ingredientsI IJ Deteroent action cut varnish I I II II II II II II II II II IHOURS ,U inursoay CT rnooy YU-OUUI L m m 8 Model Aviation Astros new 05 turns 6 x 4 Cox 13000 8-to 9-mm flights 7 x 4 11000perfect 6-ft sailplane hot-wind featuring special ball bearing 6-cell 12 amp battery Miscellany Doug Pratt video tape crazy play Prince Valiant adventures through color TV guys go ape have no idea what see after session gab between guys flying fascinating overheard conversa tions Video will animate club think clubs should have least buddy box system rate learning fantastic Confidence comes quickly good pilot better can sharpen up can believeeven maneuvers think impossible Local show team has Tartan Cub act plagued take-off engine failures As said two months ago smoke does always mean engine rich chaps tached engine opened valve three turns rpm came up 1000to 7000 think engine should tached max rpm rich side backed off tadand mon sters need held nose-up lean test Bill Winter 433OAlta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Dakota Grande/Wrisley Continued page 26 Final assembly Mount radio route pushrods before cover fuselage Dont epoxy wing hold down dowels until after cover Install windows windshield after no longer need reach through holes used Williams Brothers 3-in pilot added realism Now time get critical Does balance everything aligned properly surfaces move freely right directions wiggle rudder does pushrod flex Does engine idle properly flying Mere words cant describe feeling gets before test flight such magnitude Go slowly Make some fast taxi runs before ease model air Once airborne will pleasantly surprised Ive found can fly rudder alone Control climb power Trim model tad nose heavy control float final ap proach Until get feel flying bird make wheel landings As little sister Grandes forte fly-by Time time again will find yourself flying down runway low slow drinking character true classic Write care editor send picture Dakota Grande Nats General Continued page 29 shifting Nats activities San Antonio area tremendously aided availability another club closer Se gum Tn-Cities RC Flyers under leadership Russ Bear Snyder normally flew weekends Seguin better position San Antonio ARCS coordinate Nats matters Air Force physically assist Nats prepara tions Russ together other key Tn-Cities Club leadersKai Jensen Jack Matlock Kelso Barnettdid bulk pre-Nats work also during Nats end however area clubs contributed significantly Tn-Cities ARCS San Antonio Continued page 103 Giant Scale 1911 BLE RIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan 108 Engine 6015 Weight 11 lbs MA I1 LKAI- Rt 3 Box 201 Hillsboro OR 97123 648 -4888
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/11
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 61, 66, 68
THERES traditional form power has us years goes unnoticed field sometimes hears old magazine articles recalled modeling exhibit Smithsonian Newsletters sometimes discuss profoundly About five years pub lished new discovery just reinvent wheel Fly power first exposure high-performance flypowered aircraft lobby Hotel Fort Shelby aDetroitNats during Thirties thin ribbon tissue sailed across lobby like towed banner tow plane Some 012345678 INCHES II II w 1A -IIgenius stuck fly end strip Soon lobby arena World War melee ribbons darting directions War fare breeds technical progress Within hour streamers gave way tiny paper gliders Model Airplane News rushed press serious article subject fly-power swept country Although has no improve ment power plants nearly 50 years has unrelenting development airframes Fly-powered models made TV show missed epic covering editor Scale Staffels Squadron Flyer observed maNOTE WING TIPS TAIL SURFACES & TAIL SKID OUTLINES FROM BAMBOO 4 I I K \WII \ii m NOTEWINGS ATTACH VIA WIRE CLIPS RIDING ON RAILS TO ACHIEVE PROPER BALANCE POSITION CABANE STRUTS GLUED TO TOP WING ONLY FOR SHOW B TO PREVENT SWAYING OUT BOARD STRUTS CEMENTED TO TOP B BOTTOM WINGS BOTTOM WING RESTS SNUG AGAINST FUSELAGE BOTTOM SLEZ5 DESIGNED LATE 1920S BY JOE OTT chine first fly-powered bipe seen area between cabane struts seemed covered dab clay nose presented edification profile drawings 1930 model half century later refined 1980 model Youll note early job years before streamer discovered Shelby sur prisingly modem parasol underslung fin englne up front ultimate fly machine tandem like Langley Aerodrome powerful fly sits amidships just Manley radial englne located Aero drome Are trying tell us something submit obvious importance analyz ing matter What fly-brained genius began technical revolution does catch fliesso too capture tempts render delicate englnes unusable Will some group shout stamp out cruelty flies What about fly swatters sticky stuff poison mists cans Verily weighty matter Horses excellent source flies winged Quadras have high weight-to-power ratio thats supposed other way around What need 02 fly better yet 01 can still find Squadron Flyers editor warned training bumblebee Scare tactics think Raised possibility gluing stick tall itto end dragonfly Would Dragon Fly Mark eligible Ornithopter events AMA must its duty Limits must set before flies out control power limit Displace ment answer flypower unit should defined have horsepower wrong flies remember 33000 foot pounds per second What standard fly come down firmly against pull-tests modifications highsugar content fuel Before reluctantly go consider 1980 tandem winged job fully six inches 50% bigger 1930 Thats quantum jump area quite bit gross provoking example seemingly impossible lower power merely proves Monster Scale engine should oraithopter Schnuerle wings could have missed amazing progress What future Multi flies Obviously tandem Ten tan dem engines Look out lamps Nine Lived Stability Stability keystone means forward wing tail \/\/------,-/ POWER-I/32 XI/8XIO RUBBER 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter Lfl Dickinson retired Peelu, u-unther upurnug Doc Mathews MA Webre 23 swung lOx 31/2 prop Yellow silk clear dope green trim George says old-timers match nis 65 years fun feathers proper CG see occasional deltas few canards tail first perhaps rare flying wing J van Hattum Holland sends nine accom panying sketches No 9 tricky vertical stick stabilizes wing means high center drag course propor tionate air speed little gliders derive lectures students Aeronautical Dept DeIft University Technology Van got training DeHavilland England earned Associate Fellowship Royal Aero nautical Society Learned fly 1933 1934 worked Fokkers Holland design de partment Koolhoven Rotterdam project englneer two-seat FK-35 light plane 1937 joined Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society take charge rejuvenated model aircraft activities leave account ofNazi interference 1945 returned time also running Private Pilots section Still active modeler Van has turned out 147 model designs since 1923 cause work international modeling holds Diplome Paul Tissandier presented Federation Aeronautique Internationale Retiring Delft University 1972 now translates literary works bemoans lack time modeling Flying Stick widespread campaign save old Bills piloting technique perdi tion long time ago could escapements anyone else world soon out phase simply because required about five years patriarch youthful brood catch up rising costs advanc ing technology time got rubber gas Free Flighters ran away went escapements until could vertical horizontal eights fly inverted axial rolls outside loops came reeds time hot rock son joined buying two used Orbit 8-channel reed systems guys flying 10-channels obtained beat-up 10-channel systems mob propor tional got Cliff Weirick already run up highest ever score Nats After laying off 12 years fight battles American Modeler few MA picked up 3-channel RC Special 1948 published later MA drifted innocently Old-Timers lovely-to-watch soaring things reality guided Free Flights Though once done consecutive rolls inverted etc reeds forgotten fly stick Flying stick know means making crate go want itall time say never lose touch thats true An ex-pattern-whiz son would stand runway flying wring hands saying Dad proportional Once become plane watcher dont want push George Myers keeps saying after too know going hand overpowered little bombs tell die Another air-force-type son built lovely Sig Kadet Ilso can learn push Shoot touch-and-goes sez brat stuck 11oz tank thing make sure Id plenty Now keep thinking wear tear lovely servos last plane watchers years batteries So am back pushing club member walked up flight line plugged buddy box old Futaba using handed secondary transmitter Just know ing made big improvement day equalling month own Another friendly expert talks through approaches sit down regain cool top get going gotta fight sez Strangers advise ears buzz tips An old guy just cant let folks down November1981 17 Three First-Rate Books Building Flying Indoor Model Airplanes Ron Williams $1250 paper-bound $1950 cloth-bound Simon Schuster 1230 Avenue Americas New York NY 10020 authors opinion moat outstanding model book ever done Williams airline pilot ardent Indoor flier has turned out magazine-size 201 pg volume crammed absolutely brilliant drawingsincluding plans skillfully organized text leaves no stone unturned matters dont build Indoorthis fascinat ing experience us over 200 illustrations Books like sell like crazyto public witness fantastic publicity Scientific Americans Paper Airplane chase back 1960s Youll never regret buying have Hannan Peanuts Higley Engines now Indoor masterpiece others try AMAs Supply & Service Aircraft NationalAir& Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Press send orders Program Director Dept AIR National Air Space Museum Washington DC 20560 $350 plus $175 postage/handling mag size 166 pg covers text pictures drawings 64 aircraft now display total 275 know has first-rate Scale modelers airplane buffs really need Deadly Duo B-25 B-26 WW II Charles Mendenhall $1995 Specialty Press Osceola WI 54020 166-page mag-size hardback loaded excellent photos great warbirds authentic drawingsprofiles 3-views running text should fulfill dedicated collector/Scale modeler well organized treatnient day both planes anything need know about either cant imagine what want details facts Look no further Bob Proctors 261/2 span Fairchild colors Curtiss Flying ServIce 1 928-30 drove Bill bananas says great est rubber-oldies suited RC Scale too witness George Clapps monster MA April 79 fact Bob built cutle right scale verification drawing MA -4 Engineering drawings Squadron Flyer Newsletter reflect 50 years progress fly-power airframes ultimate Langley Aerodrome type right Langley incidentally flew steam-powered -scale model 68 sq ft 3000 ft 100 ft altitude 1896 gas-engined version 4000 ft 1902 As Charlie Grant credits him book Gateway Aen-Scianca Langley true father Free Flight Gas model 6 7617 8Il J Van Hattum used small balsa gliders like demonstrate aero students Holland some ways obtain longitudinal stability world-renowned Swedish fighter looks like Number Three its noted Its short field abilities Number Nine will tickle fancya vertical stick stabilizer flying wingl Any good pilot makes approachesfrom height distancein smooth easy-looking curve beginner guy has lost touch approach breaks down text book segments downwind legs go rather far out different distance downwind leg smooth throttle does match should airplanes desirable speed altitude downwind lt pushing downwind must smooth altitude held throttle fly stick smoothness h fact hot shots arent aware longer fly stick should natural point retard throttle varies far out farther out Combined different pattern widths altitudes sure have mess variables contend too easy turn onto final before youve swung wide enough truly line times hit spot unfortunately weeds off far side runway pit conscious guys give trees line up Great Since finals begin too close country mile out find have decide whether drag aim fence down Fiddling throttle approach requires smoothness jabs dub erratic balloon bit pushand pulland fuss fence gets closer closer Maybe float over thing too high balloon bit forget fly stick lose heading correcting elect go around again ever-varying locations dub doesnt give himself time set up calmly over again finds crate back turn final too low too high too fast too slow coming back segments begin blend will slowly become relaxed need fly Kadet another reason dont land -scale Aristocrat doesnt give troubles since seems like real plane psychology different because dont want overshoot small field over fence drop 28-lb monster repairs would killing aim fly 14scale Vagabond way ff1 become cone sistent Kadet can handle own monsterthis smaller lighter Aristo No has trouble Kadet I baffle experts first block course getting used rudder left stick because 3-channel have right nose strut tight file flat spot wheelsteering adjustments seldom gave straight run meant see-sawing rudder stick flexible pushrod steering moving servo connector steering arm lock screw tight Now crate would run straight its own takeoffs automatic just tiny touch up realistic lift-off Having pilot does help Ned Kragness thousands hours says needs refresher after flying Kadet just regain confidence can still fly real everything went haywire began check pilots reported needed up aileron left trim Trouble needed morethat reduces response left took out warp Still adjustment Now up aileron doesnt much alldown other side does 2 times much work hot-shot found no left aileron unless nose put down Takeoffs mean turned maverick ship would fade right could stop Huge wild ground loops weeds No would believe until tried Finally chap said wing straight youve got look something else Something else proved vertical tail eyeballed everyone sight used metal straightedge check suspicion gosh may teeny bit right Only Superman could have seen So adjusted rudder tiny bit left Eureka flabbergasted Kadet breathed sigh relief got rid aileron trim basic trainers have bit dihedral can flown either rudder aileronor can coordinate want practice forthe monsters two factors influencing turn adjustments proper responses can go bananas get mixed up priorities whether fiddle aileron and/or rudder adjustments mathematical chances doing things improperly Anyway sure wing look vertical tail no matter acurate seems Continued page 61 18 Model Aviation / 2 3 4 7 IN THE BAG What Peck-Polymers Pony Blimp might lead anyones guess 11-ft treated vinyl envelope big enough lift 28 ounces small enough economical filling heliumavailable welding supply shops Designed indoor use powered two small VL Hytork Astro 02 motorswe think see prop slot forward bottom rudderwhich should effective thrust control system takes care turning elevation forward/off/reverse Only fins gondola need constructed broken down sub-assemblies fits deflatedl 1 x 2 x 2 ft box quality kit includes such niceties real microswitches appropriate-sized wiring servo extensions Deans plugs hardware Requires three channels four five channels suggested water-ballast control helium release Kit sells $249 helium envelope alone $129so can design own gas wed say suspect before long monster Goodyear blimps glow engines will barging around flying site reasonably calm days Letters Editor Continued page 8 slides made cost guy Fleet Oshkosh 1979 St Joseph MO claims color scheme designed son some Nica raguan dictator actually used airplane Actual its absolutely wild Wouldnt make unusual Fleet model Dee B Mathews 506 South Walnut Greensburg KS 67054 picture shown quick-and-dirty con ver sion color slide Onto B& W Polaroid film unfortunately doesnt give proper gray tones some colors top fuselage instance appears orangey red four 35mm slides djfferent views set Safety Preston Continued page 12 going work today just like did last week range check might have saved friends Scale model receiver antenna coiled up inside fuselage Now can go flybut sure wiggle control surfaces last time before takeoff could didnt check biorhythms just isnt day anything let along flying model aircraft anyone has check list additional items missed lets hear Have safe month John Prestoz 7012 Elvira Couri Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 trouble can really slow-fly Kadet Throttled back up elevator held makes descend like Luther Huxs parafoil can cruise about like Old-Timer isnt over weightmine has 05 35 instead 40 would have little trouble doing simple aerobatics reborn find takeoffs mental block again vanishes begin worry about approaches have trouble fly pants off endless circuits Fortunately have no left-right prob lems Last evening approaches began come back way thought after first circuit climbing out engine faded perhaps giitch fearing stretch go-round elected put down fast downwind weeds off runway end gave slight up tore through weeds fast pulled off three wheels nose strut came out leaving everything intact front tire off 11ounce tank still full Some hot-shot could have used trim slow quickminded Will lever get act together Fellows dont give up need ya heavenly evening drove 50 miles Shangrila put up 20-year-old Airknocker Just rudder engine smooth silk accurately responsive can contour-fly rolling terrain working power needed can circle high blue vault sail half hour idle giide forever Rubber Scale guys frequent spot love Airknocker its reliable old Enya 09 Some times guest RCer thinks flying stick Continued page 66 PONYBLIMPIl-h RADIO CONTROLLED NON RI OlD AIRSHIP PRACTICAL SIZE con lift 20 Oc Uoe 5tandard Radios 3 4 channel Roquires 00 cable Ft Helium Helium Available Welding Supply Shops FULL CONTROL Modern ThrustAerodynamic control Forward Hover Backward Elevolion Turn Ballad Helium Release COMPUTE KIT Formed Plootic DioCat Bolsa oed Plymood Porte Mounting Hardmare $24900 Wire Plugs Smitches Booh Eoptaln log Blimp Operation Detailed Piano Photon completely Fabri cated Vinyl Helium Envelope EIvctic Motors Radio Bytteries Included COMPLETE CATALOG $100 NOW YOU CAN FLY YOUR OWN ELECTRIC POWERED BLIMP PO BOX 2498 -MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 4898675 714 442-4636 1110 Littlest Miracle Workshop AP SUITABLE FOR ALL HOBBIES AND CRAFTS Makers of. Mini-Glue Tips Stray- Tray Tee Bar Mini-Saw Ruff-Stuff & Jewel Stroes 138 Penn Street El SeRundo CA 90245 Novembef 1981 61 Peck-PeIymes 2 I{6 APPLIED DESIGN CORP RANDYS UNIFLOW STINT TANKS PROFI LE*COMBAT* RAT* WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 2-- 6 oz Capacities Standard vent available CUSTOM BLEND FUEL 5 40% Nitro Send 25cents specs CAROLINA- TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405 Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 $185 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAt Model Supply PO Box 3957 Tawance CA 10510 USA * % STAND OFF SCALE SIZE * 92 WINGSPAN l5tF SO IN * WEIGHT 19 21 LBS * FIBERGLAS COWL 8 WHEELPANTS * QUADRA ENGINE * AVAILABLE NOW * OhI@ h -f UIIEU & WAU mimi i elevatorhe doesnt note until tries flare out wheel landing dream-like flying aileron obscenity Old-time escapement men have tears eyes Bill Cann actually shoots touch-and-goes Fancy urging buy Kadet fine sport/trainer So Falcon 56 lots others Locally common plane Ugly Stick its cousins session brings out six 10 As say 50000 French men cant wrong am pestered death Rubber Scale guys come home Having published things distant past experts now revive know realism CO-2 Scale looks better Airknocker makes nostalgic taste what old stuff can like asked Herb Clukey draw up Joe Otts SE-S 1920s Otts designs flew like birds dont under stand rubber freaks get such fun campy~ things dont run Joe Ott event writer scaled up Ott designs old Popular Aviation later Flyingbusiness air craft alas MAN born until couple years laterin 1929 nation Joe Ott mad blessing slow walk under thing like SE 5 sedately chugged across large field calm summers eve have burned braln picture something imperishable its original size SE-5 lovely flierit kind way-off stand-off scale rubber job CO-2 would nice Scaled up bit lightly built would fine 02 Free Flight RC mini radiomaybe elevators though dont need Bigger still 049 Joe Ott made modeling life him Charlie Grant bit later MAN would writing today would wondering what about Maxecuters locked up until gave newsletter article old days Rubber Scale full mentions six-foot Bellancas old jobs MAN Flying Aces Flying Models et al 9-ft Cessna 1928 form modeling worth shot -scale Aristocrat turns slowly low motor see rubber job Airplane watching fulfilling Id prefer others fly planes can really see what enjoy Thats living Things Go Bump Night Hats off Bob Boucher Astro Flight continuing contributions both modeling full-scale via electric solar panels electric motors enabled DuPont Solar Challenger fly Pontoise near Paris Manston RAF Base near Dover England altitude 11000 feet average ground speed 47 mph hoped DuPont will approve attempt set altitude record 30000 feet Edwards Air Base would like six miles high feathery flying machine Bobs new 05-XL system now shipping has 20% power 50% duration already popular 05 Hes done 075 too sure hope d6es 15 Spitfire love along Srulland pre sented MA last month Wont some thing Leisure Electronics supplied us racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive Well test formerly 049-powered large peppy glider Srulls Roland Boucher Leisure says has done some 13 minutes Kraft Cardinal 400% least Kraft got Continued page 68 66 Model Aviation ZONA SAWS The one wood handle good blade Outstanding Big Scale Aerobatics LEISURE takes AIR DOUBLES yourflight time SEND SASE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Now 8-10 mm ot electric power per flight LEISURE ELECTRONICS 0 11 Deerspring Irvine CA92714 0714 552-4540 Iof NORTHERN CALIFORNIA S LARGESTU IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI IF well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest quality ingredientsI IJ Deteroent action cut varnish I I II II II II II II II II II IHOURS ,U inursoay CT rnooy YU-OUUI L m m 8 Model Aviation Astros new 05 turns 6 x 4 Cox 13000 8-to 9-mm flights 7 x 4 11000perfect 6-ft sailplane hot-wind featuring special ball bearing 6-cell 12 amp battery Miscellany Doug Pratt video tape crazy play Prince Valiant adventures through color TV guys go ape have no idea what see after session gab between guys flying fascinating overheard conversa tions Video will animate club think clubs should have least buddy box system rate learning fantastic Confidence comes quickly good pilot better can sharpen up can believeeven maneuvers think impossible Local show team has Tartan Cub act plagued take-off engine failures As said two months ago smoke does always mean engine rich chaps tached engine opened valve three turns rpm came up 1000to 7000 think engine should tached max rpm rich side backed off tadand mon sters need held nose-up lean test Bill Winter 433OAlta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Dakota Grande/Wrisley Continued page 26 Final assembly Mount radio route pushrods before cover fuselage Dont epoxy wing hold down dowels until after cover Install windows windshield after no longer need reach through holes used Williams Brothers 3-in pilot added realism Now time get critical Does balance everything aligned properly surfaces move freely right directions wiggle rudder does pushrod flex Does engine idle properly flying Mere words cant describe feeling gets before test flight such magnitude Go slowly Make some fast taxi runs before ease model air Once airborne will pleasantly surprised Ive found can fly rudder alone Control climb power Trim model tad nose heavy control float final ap proach Until get feel flying bird make wheel landings As little sister Grandes forte fly-by Time time again will find yourself flying down runway low slow drinking character true classic Write care editor send picture Dakota Grande Nats General Continued page 29 shifting Nats activities San Antonio area tremendously aided availability another club closer Se gum Tn-Cities RC Flyers under leadership Russ Bear Snyder normally flew weekends Seguin better position San Antonio ARCS coordinate Nats matters Air Force physically assist Nats prepara tions Russ together other key Tn-Cities Club leadersKai Jensen Jack Matlock Kelso Barnettdid bulk pre-Nats work also during Nats end however area clubs contributed significantly Tn-Cities ARCS San Antonio Continued page 103 Giant Scale 1911 BLE RIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan 108 Engine 6015 Weight 11 lbs MA I1 LKAI- Rt 3 Box 201 Hillsboro OR 97123 648 -4888
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/11
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 61, 66, 68
THERES traditional form power has us years goes unnoticed field sometimes hears old magazine articles recalled modeling exhibit Smithsonian Newsletters sometimes discuss profoundly About five years pub lished new discovery just reinvent wheel Fly power first exposure high-performance flypowered aircraft lobby Hotel Fort Shelby aDetroitNats during Thirties thin ribbon tissue sailed across lobby like towed banner tow plane Some 012345678 INCHES II II w 1A -IIgenius stuck fly end strip Soon lobby arena World War melee ribbons darting directions War fare breeds technical progress Within hour streamers gave way tiny paper gliders Model Airplane News rushed press serious article subject fly-power swept country Although has no improve ment power plants nearly 50 years has unrelenting development airframes Fly-powered models made TV show missed epic covering editor Scale Staffels Squadron Flyer observed maNOTE WING TIPS TAIL SURFACES & TAIL SKID OUTLINES FROM BAMBOO 4 I I K \WII \ii m NOTEWINGS ATTACH VIA WIRE CLIPS RIDING ON RAILS TO ACHIEVE PROPER BALANCE POSITION CABANE STRUTS GLUED TO TOP WING ONLY FOR SHOW B TO PREVENT SWAYING OUT BOARD STRUTS CEMENTED TO TOP B BOTTOM WINGS BOTTOM WING RESTS SNUG AGAINST FUSELAGE BOTTOM SLEZ5 DESIGNED LATE 1920S BY JOE OTT chine first fly-powered bipe seen area between cabane struts seemed covered dab clay nose presented edification profile drawings 1930 model half century later refined 1980 model Youll note early job years before streamer discovered Shelby sur prisingly modem parasol underslung fin englne up front ultimate fly machine tandem like Langley Aerodrome powerful fly sits amidships just Manley radial englne located Aero drome Are trying tell us something submit obvious importance analyz ing matter What fly-brained genius began technical revolution does catch fliesso too capture tempts render delicate englnes unusable Will some group shout stamp out cruelty flies What about fly swatters sticky stuff poison mists cans Verily weighty matter Horses excellent source flies winged Quadras have high weight-to-power ratio thats supposed other way around What need 02 fly better yet 01 can still find Squadron Flyers editor warned training bumblebee Scare tactics think Raised possibility gluing stick tall itto end dragonfly Would Dragon Fly Mark eligible Ornithopter events AMA must its duty Limits must set before flies out control power limit Displace ment answer flypower unit should defined have horsepower wrong flies remember 33000 foot pounds per second What standard fly come down firmly against pull-tests modifications highsugar content fuel Before reluctantly go consider 1980 tandem winged job fully six inches 50% bigger 1930 Thats quantum jump area quite bit gross provoking example seemingly impossible lower power merely proves Monster Scale engine should oraithopter Schnuerle wings could have missed amazing progress What future Multi flies Obviously tandem Ten tan dem engines Look out lamps Nine Lived Stability Stability keystone means forward wing tail \/\/------,-/ POWER-I/32 XI/8XIO RUBBER 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter Lfl Dickinson retired Peelu, u-unther upurnug Doc Mathews MA Webre 23 swung lOx 31/2 prop Yellow silk clear dope green trim George says old-timers match nis 65 years fun feathers proper CG see occasional deltas few canards tail first perhaps rare flying wing J van Hattum Holland sends nine accom panying sketches No 9 tricky vertical stick stabilizes wing means high center drag course propor tionate air speed little gliders derive lectures students Aeronautical Dept DeIft University Technology Van got training DeHavilland England earned Associate Fellowship Royal Aero nautical Society Learned fly 1933 1934 worked Fokkers Holland design de partment Koolhoven Rotterdam project englneer two-seat FK-35 light plane 1937 joined Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society take charge rejuvenated model aircraft activities leave account ofNazi interference 1945 returned time also running Private Pilots section Still active modeler Van has turned out 147 model designs since 1923 cause work international modeling holds Diplome Paul Tissandier presented Federation Aeronautique Internationale Retiring Delft University 1972 now translates literary works bemoans lack time modeling Flying Stick widespread campaign save old Bills piloting technique perdi tion long time ago could escapements anyone else world soon out phase simply because required about five years patriarch youthful brood catch up rising costs advanc ing technology time got rubber gas Free Flighters ran away went escapements until could vertical horizontal eights fly inverted axial rolls outside loops came reeds time hot rock son joined buying two used Orbit 8-channel reed systems guys flying 10-channels obtained beat-up 10-channel systems mob propor tional got Cliff Weirick already run up highest ever score Nats After laying off 12 years fight battles American Modeler few MA picked up 3-channel RC Special 1948 published later MA drifted innocently Old-Timers lovely-to-watch soaring things reality guided Free Flights Though once done consecutive rolls inverted etc reeds forgotten fly stick Flying stick know means making crate go want itall time say never lose touch thats true An ex-pattern-whiz son would stand runway flying wring hands saying Dad proportional Once become plane watcher dont want push George Myers keeps saying after too know going hand overpowered little bombs tell die Another air-force-type son built lovely Sig Kadet Ilso can learn push Shoot touch-and-goes sez brat stuck 11oz tank thing make sure Id plenty Now keep thinking wear tear lovely servos last plane watchers years batteries So am back pushing club member walked up flight line plugged buddy box old Futaba using handed secondary transmitter Just know ing made big improvement day equalling month own Another friendly expert talks through approaches sit down regain cool top get going gotta fight sez Strangers advise ears buzz tips An old guy just cant let folks down November1981 17 Three First-Rate Books Building Flying Indoor Model Airplanes Ron Williams $1250 paper-bound $1950 cloth-bound Simon Schuster 1230 Avenue Americas New York NY 10020 authors opinion moat outstanding model book ever done Williams airline pilot ardent Indoor flier has turned out magazine-size 201 pg volume crammed absolutely brilliant drawingsincluding plans skillfully organized text leaves no stone unturned matters dont build Indoorthis fascinat ing experience us over 200 illustrations Books like sell like crazyto public witness fantastic publicity Scientific Americans Paper Airplane chase back 1960s Youll never regret buying have Hannan Peanuts Higley Engines now Indoor masterpiece others try AMAs Supply & Service Aircraft NationalAir& Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Press send orders Program Director Dept AIR National Air Space Museum Washington DC 20560 $350 plus $175 postage/handling mag size 166 pg covers text pictures drawings 64 aircraft now display total 275 know has first-rate Scale modelers airplane buffs really need Deadly Duo B-25 B-26 WW II Charles Mendenhall $1995 Specialty Press Osceola WI 54020 166-page mag-size hardback loaded excellent photos great warbirds authentic drawingsprofiles 3-views running text should fulfill dedicated collector/Scale modeler well organized treatnient day both planes anything need know about either cant imagine what want details facts Look no further Bob Proctors 261/2 span Fairchild colors Curtiss Flying ServIce 1 928-30 drove Bill bananas says great est rubber-oldies suited RC Scale too witness George Clapps monster MA April 79 fact Bob built cutle right scale verification drawing MA -4 Engineering drawings Squadron Flyer Newsletter reflect 50 years progress fly-power airframes ultimate Langley Aerodrome type right Langley incidentally flew steam-powered -scale model 68 sq ft 3000 ft 100 ft altitude 1896 gas-engined version 4000 ft 1902 As Charlie Grant credits him book Gateway Aen-Scianca Langley true father Free Flight Gas model 6 7617 8Il J Van Hattum used small balsa gliders like demonstrate aero students Holland some ways obtain longitudinal stability world-renowned Swedish fighter looks like Number Three its noted Its short field abilities Number Nine will tickle fancya vertical stick stabilizer flying wingl Any good pilot makes approachesfrom height distancein smooth easy-looking curve beginner guy has lost touch approach breaks down text book segments downwind legs go rather far out different distance downwind leg smooth throttle does match should airplanes desirable speed altitude downwind lt pushing downwind must smooth altitude held throttle fly stick smoothness h fact hot shots arent aware longer fly stick should natural point retard throttle varies far out farther out Combined different pattern widths altitudes sure have mess variables contend too easy turn onto final before youve swung wide enough truly line times hit spot unfortunately weeds off far side runway pit conscious guys give trees line up Great Since finals begin too close country mile out find have decide whether drag aim fence down Fiddling throttle approach requires smoothness jabs dub erratic balloon bit pushand pulland fuss fence gets closer closer Maybe float over thing too high balloon bit forget fly stick lose heading correcting elect go around again ever-varying locations dub doesnt give himself time set up calmly over again finds crate back turn final too low too high too fast too slow coming back segments begin blend will slowly become relaxed need fly Kadet another reason dont land -scale Aristocrat doesnt give troubles since seems like real plane psychology different because dont want overshoot small field over fence drop 28-lb monster repairs would killing aim fly 14scale Vagabond way ff1 become cone sistent Kadet can handle own monsterthis smaller lighter Aristo No has trouble Kadet I baffle experts first block course getting used rudder left stick because 3-channel have right nose strut tight file flat spot wheelsteering adjustments seldom gave straight run meant see-sawing rudder stick flexible pushrod steering moving servo connector steering arm lock screw tight Now crate would run straight its own takeoffs automatic just tiny touch up realistic lift-off Having pilot does help Ned Kragness thousands hours says needs refresher after flying Kadet just regain confidence can still fly real everything went haywire began check pilots reported needed up aileron left trim Trouble needed morethat reduces response left took out warp Still adjustment Now up aileron doesnt much alldown other side does 2 times much work hot-shot found no left aileron unless nose put down Takeoffs mean turned maverick ship would fade right could stop Huge wild ground loops weeds No would believe until tried Finally chap said wing straight youve got look something else Something else proved vertical tail eyeballed everyone sight used metal straightedge check suspicion gosh may teeny bit right Only Superman could have seen So adjusted rudder tiny bit left Eureka flabbergasted Kadet breathed sigh relief got rid aileron trim basic trainers have bit dihedral can flown either rudder aileronor can coordinate want practice forthe monsters two factors influencing turn adjustments proper responses can go bananas get mixed up priorities whether fiddle aileron and/or rudder adjustments mathematical chances doing things improperly Anyway sure wing look vertical tail no matter acurate seems Continued page 61 18 Model Aviation / 2 3 4 7 IN THE BAG What Peck-Polymers Pony Blimp might lead anyones guess 11-ft treated vinyl envelope big enough lift 28 ounces small enough economical filling heliumavailable welding supply shops Designed indoor use powered two small VL Hytork Astro 02 motorswe think see prop slot forward bottom rudderwhich should effective thrust control system takes care turning elevation forward/off/reverse Only fins gondola need constructed broken down sub-assemblies fits deflatedl 1 x 2 x 2 ft box quality kit includes such niceties real microswitches appropriate-sized wiring servo extensions Deans plugs hardware Requires three channels four five channels suggested water-ballast control helium release Kit sells $249 helium envelope alone $129so can design own gas wed say suspect before long monster Goodyear blimps glow engines will barging around flying site reasonably calm days Letters Editor Continued page 8 slides made cost guy Fleet Oshkosh 1979 St Joseph MO claims color scheme designed son some Nica raguan dictator actually used airplane Actual its absolutely wild Wouldnt make unusual Fleet model Dee B Mathews 506 South Walnut Greensburg KS 67054 picture shown quick-and-dirty con ver sion color slide Onto B& W Polaroid film unfortunately doesnt give proper gray tones some colors top fuselage instance appears orangey red four 35mm slides djfferent views set Safety Preston Continued page 12 going work today just like did last week range check might have saved friends Scale model receiver antenna coiled up inside fuselage Now can go flybut sure wiggle control surfaces last time before takeoff could didnt check biorhythms just isnt day anything let along flying model aircraft anyone has check list additional items missed lets hear Have safe month John Prestoz 7012 Elvira Couri Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 trouble can really slow-fly Kadet Throttled back up elevator held makes descend like Luther Huxs parafoil can cruise about like Old-Timer isnt over weightmine has 05 35 instead 40 would have little trouble doing simple aerobatics reborn find takeoffs mental block again vanishes begin worry about approaches have trouble fly pants off endless circuits Fortunately have no left-right prob lems Last evening approaches began come back way thought after first circuit climbing out engine faded perhaps giitch fearing stretch go-round elected put down fast downwind weeds off runway end gave slight up tore through weeds fast pulled off three wheels nose strut came out leaving everything intact front tire off 11ounce tank still full Some hot-shot could have used trim slow quickminded Will lever get act together Fellows dont give up need ya heavenly evening drove 50 miles Shangrila put up 20-year-old Airknocker Just rudder engine smooth silk accurately responsive can contour-fly rolling terrain working power needed can circle high blue vault sail half hour idle giide forever Rubber Scale guys frequent spot love Airknocker its reliable old Enya 09 Some times guest RCer thinks flying stick Continued page 66 PONYBLIMPIl-h RADIO CONTROLLED NON RI OlD AIRSHIP PRACTICAL SIZE con lift 20 Oc Uoe 5tandard Radios 3 4 channel Roquires 00 cable Ft Helium Helium Available Welding Supply Shops FULL CONTROL Modern ThrustAerodynamic control Forward Hover Backward Elevolion Turn Ballad Helium Release COMPUTE KIT Formed Plootic DioCat Bolsa oed Plymood Porte Mounting Hardmare $24900 Wire Plugs Smitches Booh Eoptaln log Blimp Operation Detailed Piano Photon completely Fabri cated Vinyl Helium Envelope EIvctic Motors Radio Bytteries Included COMPLETE CATALOG $100 NOW YOU CAN FLY YOUR OWN ELECTRIC POWERED BLIMP PO BOX 2498 -MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 4898675 714 442-4636 1110 Littlest Miracle Workshop AP SUITABLE FOR ALL HOBBIES AND CRAFTS Makers of. Mini-Glue Tips Stray- Tray Tee Bar Mini-Saw Ruff-Stuff & Jewel Stroes 138 Penn Street El SeRundo CA 90245 Novembef 1981 61 Peck-PeIymes 2 I{6 APPLIED DESIGN CORP RANDYS UNIFLOW STINT TANKS PROFI LE*COMBAT* RAT* WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 2-- 6 oz Capacities Standard vent available CUSTOM BLEND FUEL 5 40% Nitro Send 25cents specs CAROLINA- TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405 Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 $185 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAt Model Supply PO Box 3957 Tawance CA 10510 USA * % STAND OFF SCALE SIZE * 92 WINGSPAN l5tF SO IN * WEIGHT 19 21 LBS * FIBERGLAS COWL 8 WHEELPANTS * QUADRA ENGINE * AVAILABLE NOW * OhI@ h -f UIIEU & WAU mimi i elevatorhe doesnt note until tries flare out wheel landing dream-like flying aileron obscenity Old-time escapement men have tears eyes Bill Cann actually shoots touch-and-goes Fancy urging buy Kadet fine sport/trainer So Falcon 56 lots others Locally common plane Ugly Stick its cousins session brings out six 10 As say 50000 French men cant wrong am pestered death Rubber Scale guys come home Having published things distant past experts now revive know realism CO-2 Scale looks better Airknocker makes nostalgic taste what old stuff can like asked Herb Clukey draw up Joe Otts SE-S 1920s Otts designs flew like birds dont under stand rubber freaks get such fun campy~ things dont run Joe Ott event writer scaled up Ott designs old Popular Aviation later Flyingbusiness air craft alas MAN born until couple years laterin 1929 nation Joe Ott mad blessing slow walk under thing like SE 5 sedately chugged across large field calm summers eve have burned braln picture something imperishable its original size SE-5 lovely flierit kind way-off stand-off scale rubber job CO-2 would nice Scaled up bit lightly built would fine 02 Free Flight RC mini radiomaybe elevators though dont need Bigger still 049 Joe Ott made modeling life him Charlie Grant bit later MAN would writing today would wondering what about Maxecuters locked up until gave newsletter article old days Rubber Scale full mentions six-foot Bellancas old jobs MAN Flying Aces Flying Models et al 9-ft Cessna 1928 form modeling worth shot -scale Aristocrat turns slowly low motor see rubber job Airplane watching fulfilling Id prefer others fly planes can really see what enjoy Thats living Things Go Bump Night Hats off Bob Boucher Astro Flight continuing contributions both modeling full-scale via electric solar panels electric motors enabled DuPont Solar Challenger fly Pontoise near Paris Manston RAF Base near Dover England altitude 11000 feet average ground speed 47 mph hoped DuPont will approve attempt set altitude record 30000 feet Edwards Air Base would like six miles high feathery flying machine Bobs new 05-XL system now shipping has 20% power 50% duration already popular 05 Hes done 075 too sure hope d6es 15 Spitfire love along Srulland pre sented MA last month Wont some thing Leisure Electronics supplied us racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive Well test formerly 049-powered large peppy glider Srulls Roland Boucher Leisure says has done some 13 minutes Kraft Cardinal 400% least Kraft got Continued page 68 66 Model Aviation ZONA SAWS The one wood handle good blade Outstanding Big Scale Aerobatics LEISURE takes AIR DOUBLES yourflight time SEND SASE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Now 8-10 mm ot electric power per flight LEISURE ELECTRONICS 0 11 Deerspring Irvine CA92714 0714 552-4540 Iof NORTHERN CALIFORNIA S LARGESTU IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI IF well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest quality ingredientsI IJ Deteroent action cut varnish I I II II II II II II II II II IHOURS ,U inursoay CT rnooy YU-OUUI L m m 8 Model Aviation Astros new 05 turns 6 x 4 Cox 13000 8-to 9-mm flights 7 x 4 11000perfect 6-ft sailplane hot-wind featuring special ball bearing 6-cell 12 amp battery Miscellany Doug Pratt video tape crazy play Prince Valiant adventures through color TV guys go ape have no idea what see after session gab between guys flying fascinating overheard conversa tions Video will animate club think clubs should have least buddy box system rate learning fantastic Confidence comes quickly good pilot better can sharpen up can believeeven maneuvers think impossible Local show team has Tartan Cub act plagued take-off engine failures As said two months ago smoke does always mean engine rich chaps tached engine opened valve three turns rpm came up 1000to 7000 think engine should tached max rpm rich side backed off tadand mon sters need held nose-up lean test Bill Winter 433OAlta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Dakota Grande/Wrisley Continued page 26 Final assembly Mount radio route pushrods before cover fuselage Dont epoxy wing hold down dowels until after cover Install windows windshield after no longer need reach through holes used Williams Brothers 3-in pilot added realism Now time get critical Does balance everything aligned properly surfaces move freely right directions wiggle rudder does pushrod flex Does engine idle properly flying Mere words cant describe feeling gets before test flight such magnitude Go slowly Make some fast taxi runs before ease model air Once airborne will pleasantly surprised Ive found can fly rudder alone Control climb power Trim model tad nose heavy control float final ap proach Until get feel flying bird make wheel landings As little sister Grandes forte fly-by Time time again will find yourself flying down runway low slow drinking character true classic Write care editor send picture Dakota Grande Nats General Continued page 29 shifting Nats activities San Antonio area tremendously aided availability another club closer Se gum Tn-Cities RC Flyers under leadership Russ Bear Snyder normally flew weekends Seguin better position San Antonio ARCS coordinate Nats matters Air Force physically assist Nats prepara tions Russ together other key Tn-Cities Club leadersKai Jensen Jack Matlock Kelso Barnettdid bulk pre-Nats work also during Nats end however area clubs contributed significantly Tn-Cities ARCS San Antonio Continued page 103 Giant Scale 1911 BLE RIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan 108 Engine 6015 Weight 11 lbs MA I1 LKAI- Rt 3 Box 201 Hillsboro OR 97123 648 -4888
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/11
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 61, 66, 68
THERES traditional form power has us years goes unnoticed field sometimes hears old magazine articles recalled modeling exhibit Smithsonian Newsletters sometimes discuss profoundly About five years pub lished new discovery just reinvent wheel Fly power first exposure high-performance flypowered aircraft lobby Hotel Fort Shelby aDetroitNats during Thirties thin ribbon tissue sailed across lobby like towed banner tow plane Some 012345678 INCHES II II w 1A -IIgenius stuck fly end strip Soon lobby arena World War melee ribbons darting directions War fare breeds technical progress Within hour streamers gave way tiny paper gliders Model Airplane News rushed press serious article subject fly-power swept country Although has no improve ment power plants nearly 50 years has unrelenting development airframes Fly-powered models made TV show missed epic covering editor Scale Staffels Squadron Flyer observed maNOTE WING TIPS TAIL SURFACES & TAIL SKID OUTLINES FROM BAMBOO 4 I I K \WII \ii m NOTEWINGS ATTACH VIA WIRE CLIPS RIDING ON RAILS TO ACHIEVE PROPER BALANCE POSITION CABANE STRUTS GLUED TO TOP WING ONLY FOR SHOW B TO PREVENT SWAYING OUT BOARD STRUTS CEMENTED TO TOP B BOTTOM WINGS BOTTOM WING RESTS SNUG AGAINST FUSELAGE BOTTOM SLEZ5 DESIGNED LATE 1920S BY JOE OTT chine first fly-powered bipe seen area between cabane struts seemed covered dab clay nose presented edification profile drawings 1930 model half century later refined 1980 model Youll note early job years before streamer discovered Shelby sur prisingly modem parasol underslung fin englne up front ultimate fly machine tandem like Langley Aerodrome powerful fly sits amidships just Manley radial englne located Aero drome Are trying tell us something submit obvious importance analyz ing matter What fly-brained genius began technical revolution does catch fliesso too capture tempts render delicate englnes unusable Will some group shout stamp out cruelty flies What about fly swatters sticky stuff poison mists cans Verily weighty matter Horses excellent source flies winged Quadras have high weight-to-power ratio thats supposed other way around What need 02 fly better yet 01 can still find Squadron Flyers editor warned training bumblebee Scare tactics think Raised possibility gluing stick tall itto end dragonfly Would Dragon Fly Mark eligible Ornithopter events AMA must its duty Limits must set before flies out control power limit Displace ment answer flypower unit should defined have horsepower wrong flies remember 33000 foot pounds per second What standard fly come down firmly against pull-tests modifications highsugar content fuel Before reluctantly go consider 1980 tandem winged job fully six inches 50% bigger 1930 Thats quantum jump area quite bit gross provoking example seemingly impossible lower power merely proves Monster Scale engine should oraithopter Schnuerle wings could have missed amazing progress What future Multi flies Obviously tandem Ten tan dem engines Look out lamps Nine Lived Stability Stability keystone means forward wing tail \/\/------,-/ POWER-I/32 XI/8XIO RUBBER 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter Lfl Dickinson retired Peelu, u-unther upurnug Doc Mathews MA Webre 23 swung lOx 31/2 prop Yellow silk clear dope green trim George says old-timers match nis 65 years fun feathers proper CG see occasional deltas few canards tail first perhaps rare flying wing J van Hattum Holland sends nine accom panying sketches No 9 tricky vertical stick stabilizes wing means high center drag course propor tionate air speed little gliders derive lectures students Aeronautical Dept DeIft University Technology Van got training DeHavilland England earned Associate Fellowship Royal Aero nautical Society Learned fly 1933 1934 worked Fokkers Holland design de partment Koolhoven Rotterdam project englneer two-seat FK-35 light plane 1937 joined Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society take charge rejuvenated model aircraft activities leave account ofNazi interference 1945 returned time also running Private Pilots section Still active modeler Van has turned out 147 model designs since 1923 cause work international modeling holds Diplome Paul Tissandier presented Federation Aeronautique Internationale Retiring Delft University 1972 now translates literary works bemoans lack time modeling Flying Stick widespread campaign save old Bills piloting technique perdi tion long time ago could escapements anyone else world soon out phase simply because required about five years patriarch youthful brood catch up rising costs advanc ing technology time got rubber gas Free Flighters ran away went escapements until could vertical horizontal eights fly inverted axial rolls outside loops came reeds time hot rock son joined buying two used Orbit 8-channel reed systems guys flying 10-channels obtained beat-up 10-channel systems mob propor tional got Cliff Weirick already run up highest ever score Nats After laying off 12 years fight battles American Modeler few MA picked up 3-channel RC Special 1948 published later MA drifted innocently Old-Timers lovely-to-watch soaring things reality guided Free Flights Though once done consecutive rolls inverted etc reeds forgotten fly stick Flying stick know means making crate go want itall time say never lose touch thats true An ex-pattern-whiz son would stand runway flying wring hands saying Dad proportional Once become plane watcher dont want push George Myers keeps saying after too know going hand overpowered little bombs tell die Another air-force-type son built lovely Sig Kadet Ilso can learn push Shoot touch-and-goes sez brat stuck 11oz tank thing make sure Id plenty Now keep thinking wear tear lovely servos last plane watchers years batteries So am back pushing club member walked up flight line plugged buddy box old Futaba using handed secondary transmitter Just know ing made big improvement day equalling month own Another friendly expert talks through approaches sit down regain cool top get going gotta fight sez Strangers advise ears buzz tips An old guy just cant let folks down November1981 17 Three First-Rate Books Building Flying Indoor Model Airplanes Ron Williams $1250 paper-bound $1950 cloth-bound Simon Schuster 1230 Avenue Americas New York NY 10020 authors opinion moat outstanding model book ever done Williams airline pilot ardent Indoor flier has turned out magazine-size 201 pg volume crammed absolutely brilliant drawingsincluding plans skillfully organized text leaves no stone unturned matters dont build Indoorthis fascinat ing experience us over 200 illustrations Books like sell like crazyto public witness fantastic publicity Scientific Americans Paper Airplane chase back 1960s Youll never regret buying have Hannan Peanuts Higley Engines now Indoor masterpiece others try AMAs Supply & Service Aircraft NationalAir& Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Press send orders Program Director Dept AIR National Air Space Museum Washington DC 20560 $350 plus $175 postage/handling mag size 166 pg covers text pictures drawings 64 aircraft now display total 275 know has first-rate Scale modelers airplane buffs really need Deadly Duo B-25 B-26 WW II Charles Mendenhall $1995 Specialty Press Osceola WI 54020 166-page mag-size hardback loaded excellent photos great warbirds authentic drawingsprofiles 3-views running text should fulfill dedicated collector/Scale modeler well organized treatnient day both planes anything need know about either cant imagine what want details facts Look no further Bob Proctors 261/2 span Fairchild colors Curtiss Flying ServIce 1 928-30 drove Bill bananas says great est rubber-oldies suited RC Scale too witness George Clapps monster MA April 79 fact Bob built cutle right scale verification drawing MA -4 Engineering drawings Squadron Flyer Newsletter reflect 50 years progress fly-power airframes ultimate Langley Aerodrome type right Langley incidentally flew steam-powered -scale model 68 sq ft 3000 ft 100 ft altitude 1896 gas-engined version 4000 ft 1902 As Charlie Grant credits him book Gateway Aen-Scianca Langley true father Free Flight Gas model 6 7617 8Il J Van Hattum used small balsa gliders like demonstrate aero students Holland some ways obtain longitudinal stability world-renowned Swedish fighter looks like Number Three its noted Its short field abilities Number Nine will tickle fancya vertical stick stabilizer flying wingl Any good pilot makes approachesfrom height distancein smooth easy-looking curve beginner guy has lost touch approach breaks down text book segments downwind legs go rather far out different distance downwind leg smooth throttle does match should airplanes desirable speed altitude downwind lt pushing downwind must smooth altitude held throttle fly stick smoothness h fact hot shots arent aware longer fly stick should natural point retard throttle varies far out farther out Combined different pattern widths altitudes sure have mess variables contend too easy turn onto final before youve swung wide enough truly line times hit spot unfortunately weeds off far side runway pit conscious guys give trees line up Great Since finals begin too close country mile out find have decide whether drag aim fence down Fiddling throttle approach requires smoothness jabs dub erratic balloon bit pushand pulland fuss fence gets closer closer Maybe float over thing too high balloon bit forget fly stick lose heading correcting elect go around again ever-varying locations dub doesnt give himself time set up calmly over again finds crate back turn final too low too high too fast too slow coming back segments begin blend will slowly become relaxed need fly Kadet another reason dont land -scale Aristocrat doesnt give troubles since seems like real plane psychology different because dont want overshoot small field over fence drop 28-lb monster repairs would killing aim fly 14scale Vagabond way ff1 become cone sistent Kadet can handle own monsterthis smaller lighter Aristo No has trouble Kadet I baffle experts first block course getting used rudder left stick because 3-channel have right nose strut tight file flat spot wheelsteering adjustments seldom gave straight run meant see-sawing rudder stick flexible pushrod steering moving servo connector steering arm lock screw tight Now crate would run straight its own takeoffs automatic just tiny touch up realistic lift-off Having pilot does help Ned Kragness thousands hours says needs refresher after flying Kadet just regain confidence can still fly real everything went haywire began check pilots reported needed up aileron left trim Trouble needed morethat reduces response left took out warp Still adjustment Now up aileron doesnt much alldown other side does 2 times much work hot-shot found no left aileron unless nose put down Takeoffs mean turned maverick ship would fade right could stop Huge wild ground loops weeds No would believe until tried Finally chap said wing straight youve got look something else Something else proved vertical tail eyeballed everyone sight used metal straightedge check suspicion gosh may teeny bit right Only Superman could have seen So adjusted rudder tiny bit left Eureka flabbergasted Kadet breathed sigh relief got rid aileron trim basic trainers have bit dihedral can flown either rudder aileronor can coordinate want practice forthe monsters two factors influencing turn adjustments proper responses can go bananas get mixed up priorities whether fiddle aileron and/or rudder adjustments mathematical chances doing things improperly Anyway sure wing look vertical tail no matter acurate seems Continued page 61 18 Model Aviation / 2 3 4 7 IN THE BAG What Peck-Polymers Pony Blimp might lead anyones guess 11-ft treated vinyl envelope big enough lift 28 ounces small enough economical filling heliumavailable welding supply shops Designed indoor use powered two small VL Hytork Astro 02 motorswe think see prop slot forward bottom rudderwhich should effective thrust control system takes care turning elevation forward/off/reverse Only fins gondola need constructed broken down sub-assemblies fits deflatedl 1 x 2 x 2 ft box quality kit includes such niceties real microswitches appropriate-sized wiring servo extensions Deans plugs hardware Requires three channels four five channels suggested water-ballast control helium release Kit sells $249 helium envelope alone $129so can design own gas wed say suspect before long monster Goodyear blimps glow engines will barging around flying site reasonably calm days Letters Editor Continued page 8 slides made cost guy Fleet Oshkosh 1979 St Joseph MO claims color scheme designed son some Nica raguan dictator actually used airplane Actual its absolutely wild Wouldnt make unusual Fleet model Dee B Mathews 506 South Walnut Greensburg KS 67054 picture shown quick-and-dirty con ver sion color slide Onto B& W Polaroid film unfortunately doesnt give proper gray tones some colors top fuselage instance appears orangey red four 35mm slides djfferent views set Safety Preston Continued page 12 going work today just like did last week range check might have saved friends Scale model receiver antenna coiled up inside fuselage Now can go flybut sure wiggle control surfaces last time before takeoff could didnt check biorhythms just isnt day anything let along flying model aircraft anyone has check list additional items missed lets hear Have safe month John Prestoz 7012 Elvira Couri Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 trouble can really slow-fly Kadet Throttled back up elevator held makes descend like Luther Huxs parafoil can cruise about like Old-Timer isnt over weightmine has 05 35 instead 40 would have little trouble doing simple aerobatics reborn find takeoffs mental block again vanishes begin worry about approaches have trouble fly pants off endless circuits Fortunately have no left-right prob lems Last evening approaches began come back way thought after first circuit climbing out engine faded perhaps giitch fearing stretch go-round elected put down fast downwind weeds off runway end gave slight up tore through weeds fast pulled off three wheels nose strut came out leaving everything intact front tire off 11ounce tank still full Some hot-shot could have used trim slow quickminded Will lever get act together Fellows dont give up need ya heavenly evening drove 50 miles Shangrila put up 20-year-old Airknocker Just rudder engine smooth silk accurately responsive can contour-fly rolling terrain working power needed can circle high blue vault sail half hour idle giide forever Rubber Scale guys frequent spot love Airknocker its reliable old Enya 09 Some times guest RCer thinks flying stick Continued page 66 PONYBLIMPIl-h RADIO CONTROLLED NON RI OlD AIRSHIP PRACTICAL SIZE con lift 20 Oc Uoe 5tandard Radios 3 4 channel Roquires 00 cable Ft Helium Helium Available Welding Supply Shops FULL CONTROL Modern ThrustAerodynamic control Forward Hover Backward Elevolion Turn Ballad Helium Release COMPUTE KIT Formed Plootic DioCat 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say 50000 French men cant wrong am pestered death Rubber Scale guys come home Having published things distant past experts now revive know realism CO-2 Scale looks better Airknocker makes nostalgic taste what old stuff can like asked Herb Clukey draw up Joe Otts SE-S 1920s Otts designs flew like birds dont under stand rubber freaks get such fun campy~ things dont run Joe Ott event writer scaled up Ott designs old Popular Aviation later Flyingbusiness air craft alas MAN born until couple years laterin 1929 nation Joe Ott mad blessing slow walk under thing like SE 5 sedately chugged across large field calm summers eve have burned braln picture something imperishable its original size SE-5 lovely flierit kind way-off stand-off scale rubber job CO-2 would nice Scaled up bit lightly built would fine 02 Free Flight RC mini radiomaybe elevators though dont need Bigger still 049 Joe Ott made modeling life him Charlie Grant bit later MAN would writing today would wondering what about Maxecuters locked up until gave newsletter article old days Rubber Scale full mentions six-foot Bellancas old jobs MAN Flying Aces Flying Models et al 9-ft Cessna 1928 form modeling worth shot -scale Aristocrat turns slowly low motor see rubber job Airplane watching fulfilling Id prefer others fly planes can really see what enjoy Thats living Things Go Bump Night Hats off Bob Boucher Astro Flight continuing contributions both modeling full-scale via electric solar panels electric motors enabled DuPont Solar Challenger fly Pontoise near Paris Manston RAF Base near Dover England altitude 11000 feet average ground speed 47 mph hoped DuPont will approve attempt set altitude record 30000 feet Edwards Air Base would like six miles high feathery flying machine Bobs new 05-XL system now shipping has 20% power 50% duration already popular 05 Hes done 075 too sure hope d6es 15 Spitfire love along Srulland pre sented MA last month Wont some thing Leisure Electronics supplied us racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive Well test formerly 049-powered large peppy glider Srulls Roland Boucher Leisure says has done some 13 minutes Kraft Cardinal 400% least Kraft got Continued page 68 66 Model Aviation ZONA SAWS The one wood handle good blade Outstanding Big Scale Aerobatics LEISURE takes AIR DOUBLES yourflight time SEND SASE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Now 8-10 mm ot electric power per flight LEISURE ELECTRONICS 0 11 Deerspring Irvine CA92714 0714 552-4540 Iof NORTHERN CALIFORNIA S LARGESTU IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI IF well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest quality ingredientsI IJ Deteroent action cut varnish I I II II II II II II II II II IHOURS ,U inursoay CT rnooy YU-OUUI L m m 8 Model Aviation Astros new 05 turns 6 x 4 Cox 13000 8-to 9-mm flights 7 x 4 11000perfect 6-ft sailplane hot-wind featuring special ball bearing 6-cell 12 amp battery Miscellany Doug Pratt video tape crazy play Prince Valiant adventures through color TV guys go ape have no idea what see after session gab between guys flying fascinating overheard conversa tions Video will animate club think clubs should have least buddy box system rate learning fantastic Confidence comes quickly good pilot better can sharpen up can believeeven maneuvers think impossible Local show team has Tartan Cub act plagued take-off engine failures As said two months ago smoke does always mean engine rich chaps tached engine opened valve three turns rpm came up 1000to 7000 think engine should tached max rpm rich side backed off tadand mon sters need held nose-up lean test Bill Winter 433OAlta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Dakota Grande/Wrisley Continued page 26 Final assembly Mount radio route pushrods before cover fuselage Dont epoxy wing hold down dowels until after cover Install windows windshield after no longer need reach through holes used Williams Brothers 3-in pilot added realism Now time get critical Does balance everything aligned properly surfaces move freely right directions wiggle rudder does pushrod flex Does engine idle properly flying Mere words cant describe feeling gets before test flight such magnitude Go slowly Make some fast taxi runs before ease model air Once airborne will pleasantly surprised Ive found can fly rudder alone Control climb power Trim model tad nose heavy control float final ap proach Until get feel flying bird make wheel landings As little sister Grandes forte fly-by Time time again will find yourself flying down runway low slow drinking character true classic Write care editor send picture Dakota Grande Nats General Continued page 29 shifting Nats activities San Antonio area tremendously aided availability another club closer Se gum Tn-Cities RC Flyers under leadership Russ Bear Snyder normally flew weekends Seguin better position San Antonio ARCS coordinate Nats matters Air Force physically assist Nats prepara tions Russ together other key Tn-Cities Club leadersKai Jensen Jack Matlock Kelso Barnettdid bulk pre-Nats work also during Nats end however area clubs contributed significantly Tn-Cities ARCS San Antonio Continued page 103 Giant Scale 1911 BLE RIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan 108 Engine 6015 Weight 11 lbs MA I1 LKAI- Rt 3 Box 201 Hillsboro OR 97123 648 -4888