I am building what flying buddies call rubber ducky Once would build nothing ON MONDAY MORNINGS Garfield car toon cat pulls blanket over head talk about fun rain coming down buckets dank wind howling 907 least Im stuck rush-hour traf fic As briefing guy Hill Street Blues says careful out Before AC air-conditioning tamed Au gust DC District Columbia smart old Pols survived spending time Atlan tic beaches August flying sessions few far between mostly early morn late afternoon Shangri-la lazy Vagabond RC-Assist caught thermals flight five consecutive low-key ses sions September slipped through fingers dreary wind-up book After would October bit luck golden haze little wind Novem ber book publisher sent back 7-lb manu script including Xerox copies 200 illustra tions us check wonders wrought copy editor answer zillion queries Deadstick What Please describe Like short-tailed hoss couldnt swat flies called ye MA editor said No wont write name Oh dear said am possible millions man-days modeling experience have gone hobby/sport us remain collectively confused about what make things tick tantalizing mystery doesnt someone write book people have always left high dry Until now page introduction Bob Under wood remarkable 122-page mag-size paperback authored Ray Wiederhold pub lished Midwest Technical Publications Inc 1741 Big Bend Blvd St Louis MO 63117 pleasant surprise Its called Fly 180 simple professional ly-done illustrations tells us exactly what neec-to knowno no less Beginner hacker expert alike will find enioyable well-written very wellorganized veritable builder pilot manual intro begins primary motivations publication assist fliers RC airplanes know little nothing about basic aerodynamics teach fascinating subiect uncom plicated commonsense manner does exactly No long-hair stuff no giddy math no mumbo-iumbo aerodynamics has everything $995 may best investment youll ever make ICover price $1 195 repriced $995 l Winter 16 Model Aviation jUSt fun Bill Winter Seeing believing Allan Schanzle makes tirst test tlight 66in Fairchild PT-22 Its rubber-powered lof coursell Passing overhead picture below left Fairchild extended glide power flight three loops 1-in rubber As floats huge prop stopped camera like Indoor model Below Right happy gentleman left Earl Stahl all-time master Rubber Scale magazine projects Seen its bare bones PT scaled up Stahls numerous plans Without rubber model weighs 17 oz Winter would have know sort far-out stuff goes time Shangrila three pictures Tom Schmitt HOW THEY FLY did design Kits made teel too, hated prefabrication wouldnt use die-cut rib Fiberglass shells 105 shells MonoKote tinsel stuff guys couldnt swing silk-and-d ope letter less epoxy would four-letter word days avoid drawing board beat curds out hapless Kadet have Eaglet hold have conned son Mike crossed fingers making Lagle next year Once did Pattern reeds now cant bothered rolls inverted bores meand Im now lousy Going inverted off half-loop either finish loop execute inverted stall chase ghost riders sky Yes will spot glassing MonoKote everything Coverite Micafilm has rapt tention Time essence Flying building now counts takes rubber ducky count inc remember Flitecraft ad tltat showed guy standing wing panel stretched across two blocks two years could get back Don Srull flew ST 46 practice aerobatics tise way equipped early Cox-Sanwa rite first radio got after 13-year hiatus seven years ago flying never missed beat no servo developed quiver also Futaba RTU complete K&B Veco 19 ancient Futaba system three channels pleased well now gathers dust watched young guys Flite crafts Wilga may eye beholder liked its Polish looks joke son its coordination flight want rubber ducky good aileron trainer Kadet advanced old age Also am sentimental Hows Gary Leonard Flitecraft genius now Jayhawk reorganized guess calls Jayhawk Little Airplane Com pany grabs pop ma two kids see picture crates stacked like cordwood makes wonder just much family can live work play together Little Airplane Fac tory indeed instruction booklet filled won derful pix bit like Harry Higley picturejammed book dont have Harrys books loser once asked Gary K&B 40 mounted such small crate said wild men insisted 40 Some guys have told broke wings tried breaking over kneethe Futaba RTF wing tooand have Samson presumes guys dive past red line haul back sticka stupid way fly So crate Cardinal now has beefy joiner huge cut-to-outline timber slips two holes foam epoxied extending way out wing balsa skin gonebutt-joined balsa gives trouble skinned wings because glue joint seems lift Actually think such wings work better turbulation guys think something wrong Soft foam stretches underneath Skinning now piece thin hard plastic-like finish tail surfaces now die-cut foam-core board first worry about sur face layers something hard tough what looks like flat open edge sealed did add balsa front piece both fin stab cant leave anything way sup posed found Top Elite Juicy Hatfield atmosphere electric Third Annual KRC Electric Fly September 18-19 Hatfield PA Nothing Electric flown siteno noise prob lems sure Forty top-notch Electrics eight states thrilled 300 spectators radar gun caught 95 mph tops Keith Shaw Ann Arbor Ml supplied biggest thrills highly aerobatic Barbarian outside Cuban 8s such stuffl twin Aerocommander Shrike did four-pointers snaps spins knife-edge Sorts Scale usual gravity-defying Sailpianes Electric Helicopter iron can set 2 easily whatever takes no sign damage foam core put bigger wheels everything cluding Eaglet because grass run ways billiard-table smooth Replace ment parts Cardinal available nominal cost example can buy assembled fuselage trim $1695a tempting way quickly build otherwise original want fool around have 05 35 red fuselage white flying surfaces Cardinal purty February 1983 17 Left Thirteen-year-old Kris Kopski dad Bob pioneer Electric Heinz Koerners 98-in Connie TWA colors Has one-piece wing four Mabuchi 550 motors 76-in fuselage weighs less 10 lb Right AMA Executive Director John Worth flew RTF Airtronics Kitty times finds Electric fascinating pictures Bob Kopski Left about China Clipper Jim Pentimall flies 47-oz Martin four Astro 02s Ten Fenstermacher holding isa member KRC Right Leon Shulman Keith Shaw Zombie Old-Timer Leisure racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive six 12 Ah cells 11-7% prop mounted above motor puts higher Leon did gas Nelson Whitman 05 Simsbury CT readies Shag II hydro model Astro motor Isize unknown pylon mount flying boat got off grass using hi-start assist RAM speed control 67 oz 6-ft Astro Porterfield foreground probably has Astro 15 belt reduction wed guess 13-8 prop An Electric future other interesting good RTFs ARFs hurry Please see competitors ads now guys must feel like philosophical bartenders fell love own Krack erjac after seeing Herb Clukeys drawing recent Fun column decided scale up ailerons less dihedral K&B 40 get emotional about engines too have pet engines general know almost make just great dont want bothered facts dont yearn Schnuerles because leisurely sport flying preference using generous props combos demand Schnuerles non-Schnuerle nothing potent baffled K&B 40 K&B also makes Schnuerles After Arden 09 19 spark-ignition glow enjoyed years flying tireless K&B 32 perhaps first sample K&B 15 engine put US FAI FF picture early SOs enjoyed first K&B 19 broadest yet fine tuning needle ever sawand started prime first flip always needed 27 MHz previous flier set up final first guy start up next always won selfish race Came greenheads23 35 WINGSPAN-65 WING AREA-51550INS WEIGHT- 38 OZS POWERROCKET45 WING CHORD- 9 1i SCALE IN INCHES TIMER0246810 12 14 16 hjo After Peter Miller England told Bill Winter about outstanding results Skybo Old-Timer Bill asked him whats Skybothen ended up gifted plans via Ben Buckles Old Time Plan Service 9 Islay Crescent Highwood Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Adventure some visitors ol Bills inner sanctum rumor hes really laying out Skybo Leisure geared 05 electricplus Old Square Sides Antique either Astros 15 belt reduction OS 4-cycle latter still box Winter fiddles watching TV 45 numero uno RC days Astro Hog So now still run K&B 19s 40s love Enya lapped 09 need break-in forever Dont care Its small venturi gives suction wouldnt believe reliable runs whole tanks theyre peculiar places Mine still flies after 20 years OS 30 another pet Id settle baffled lapped engine day feel better ball bearings mans meat - STs great too Ive run Fox hard indeed find bad engine today So yesterday framed two sides big Krackerjac kid Claude McCullough think will go better Kadet men tioned bit about flat-bottom airfoil nearly symmetrical forward front spar says thinks thats what great Fletcher Scale model forgot onefor shame Hes Missouri mean Iowa know Sig might make 90 Kadet way fly Kadets wont have cut weeds runway overruns turn loose Kadet Grande Hope pro duce knew guy 18-ft Falcon gave Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Norm Rosenstock demo Moustique during black August said cover wings Ill trust test fly itbut careful beloved 05 90 expect get shot flying next year Meanwhile mag wanted plans nothing world could get drawing board fix up crude working drawings Meanwhile giant Aristocrat stood idle year am whitewashing fences again hope persuade guys Freder icksburg store dont know yet can flown twice year visit said yes have so-nice long runway too can swing good landing have 560 feet nice short grass Pilot Srull will die thousand deaths mut ter hey let land Running its Tartan 28 lb peppy 132 cu earths great pleasures electric guys have snowed should see stuff Ive sent checking Old Square Sides plans authenticated Antique Bob Boucher Astro Flight would perfect 15 belt reduc tionmaybe direct drive have two Old Square Sides has 6-ft spanin Continued page 20 18 Model Aviation Shawne Kirkland son Jaysonand John Wayne doll cockpitshow off Less Putnams great big beautiful DH Tiger Moth scale-like flying job Winter 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updating futt tine motors word cobatt flies around Hett mark up ptans return Meanwhite Ive sent ptans Skybo see Ctukey drawing Rotand Boucher Leisure check out geared 05 think Im serious Theres revotution now electrics have reached point new 1982 05 almost equat last years 15s course alt sizes wilt soon take quantum jump Srult tried Leisure 05 Gotdberg alt-foam RTF Ranger 42 appropriated crate too After takeoff fights its way through ground turbutence tears around break-neck speed gets high has bring down before goes out sight Switching off ptays ittike fiddte Coming power fadingif avoid running batteries way down deadstick batteries big favorit really skims touches down smoothly pavement like F-15 coming home enough elevator power ease ptunk-down grass tt flew fine 6-3 prop improvement 6-4 fan tastic Pitch all-important electric must play pitch going get peak performance much gas engine Worth AMA executive director put Astro Ftight 15 bett drive ancient Buzzard Bombshell flew Enya 35 now 20 years otd Dear Bob Harrah built crate appeard RCM about 1972 realty started popular Old-Timer RC movement best-seller among plans Bob sent huge crate un covered RCM 40 1975packed excelsior colored jelly beans stood around tong engine froze So John Worth took over flew just everywhere near boardwalk beach electric Worth suddenly needed props next day best prop combo Zinger 13-8 few hobby shops stock such oddball sizes about 14-6 05 90 might work John coupte eso off went Shangri-la tall grass rolling hills flew off hand using 14-6 managed five-plus minutes may 10 minutes gets 13-8 Zingers Like flying newly soloed pilot writing flight path grows zig-zag getting down piece counts Two days turned 10 days passed since last sentence Absolutely perfect flying wea ther know what means Warni sunny calm near calm weekday fliers thinking spring returned Kadet 40 goes like blue blazes approaches suddenly seem easy Today unbelievable ache over writing easier Just minute Hurst Bowers dropped 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bit smooth groovy Fast skimming finals nice touchdowns remarkably long run-out Curious perhaps momentum plus ground effect low wing small size Noon yesterday some desk jockey appeared local field Pilot Acrostar mod eled after Henry Haighs ship outscored Loudenslager 1982 World Champs Loudenslager heavily modified old Stephens Akro suit own requirements see Don Berliners article November 1982 MA Haigh too did own thing similar-looking ships popping up over world copycats Haigh still flies Pitts mono makes better picture judges Sound familiar Another taildragger model OS 25-powered chap ran out lunch hour before flew high-speed taxi tests ran arrow straight touch right beginning runand getting briefly airborne off short grass strip remained seen lovely aerobatic Scaler would have enough power suit its pilot throughout aerobatic regime thought 40 wouldnt fit messing up cowl now have planes truly re quire new hot engine between 30 probably 35 displacement have Pilot Aero Sport Srull flies 25 lovely looking mini-Pattern thing experi ence wed like slightly longer gear bigger wheels grass Don says wishes tad power supposed 19 powered old 25 didnt attain its promising potential aerobaticsand 40 again just too big week later installed OS 25quite lively says powerful old 05 30 beauti fully made finish decorated chap Haigh said everything fits gether extreme precision Aero Spurt 1-in goof cowl length great otherwise Two chaps flying problems Christen Eagle get whatever existed real aircraft go Scale Vague talk some doctor California wrote definitive paper rigging Eagle cor rection degree upthrust stop slight climb trimmed inverted no ill effects otherwise have noted number bipes model form started out dogs flew like dreams CG moved far forward beyond what books say 40-powered EAA Bipe blown prominent Scaler CG inch front lower wing leading edge take offs bipe erratic similar jazz try Ratty takeoffs get groove strange-looking delta slot through wing prop engine being well 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three-wheel bi cycle first marginally powered Quad ra stub pipe carried exhaust outside removed rpm jumped 1000 Weight 30 pounds Speaking CG location noted balanced front end last fullchord rib bottom wing Both wings have generous sweep-back CG front center section cut-out floated Asked test fly Don Sruil fascinated kept two hours Incidentally CB Quadra exhaust system plug big scale tube exit cured power problem Loops rollsmajestic did 120 Model Aviation REPAIR SEHviu i-uR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE 1 SALES RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOS THE 3EA- 68 Wingspan / 19 35 EnginesPlan N Pattern Set classic Seaplane design first appeared early 1952 era beautiful water performer FI3 $1995 will make hydra enthusiast Out modeler Wheel positions suggested Amphibious Land use 116 Size PUSS MOTH DH 80 Puss MOTH beautifully proportioned flight Plan & Pattern St RC6S-3 @ $1495 Wingipant 73/ 20 40 Engine Please add $200 3 Fall Si. 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learn OK OK give up going crash-land sermonette phone keeps ringing things keep happeningand might well put pillow lap cradle head Another flying sessiongoing two weeks now fantastic weather today broke heat record November barely NVRC has nearly 250 members now trying fly once guy witls Sportster 20 does well began flying year Iseard must have trainer until summer flying genuine 1950 Live Wire Trainer fits perfectly ajet jockey tlse Air Force developed restart flame-out land ing techniques joked ed name base after hjtTtr said name bases after dead peoplenot opted airline piloting longer life owned two Pitts third aerobatic job forget Flew air shows grounded hence Live Wire Live Wire auctioned off club tuceting So out comes kid no higher belt buckle mother support man spotted Isis Live Wire slsowed kid flew Its slow said little guy Everything flies faster time turned around crate way up gawd kid tooling around like veter love Live Wires talked deBolt kitting trainermaybe first true RC kit ever Doug Pratt found camera get picture column veteran pilot tiny kid ma incredible ancient Live Wire danged camera out film Another jingle Sons Mike Bob Long Island back club Sunday session flown Evans Simitar Deuce de signed K&B 20 has superb OS Schnuerle 25 Right off board flew no trimtning Inverted rolls works within 30 seconds So easy fly said can handle 40 Kadet could enjoy Simitar Another jingle Would go down Ilyline Models Saturday night Halloween After family get-together staggered late evening Maxecuters what Allan Schanzles Stz ft rubber-powered Fairchild PT-22 low wing Allan intrigued tny stories about 6-ft Rubber Scale old days 9-ft Cessna giant lovely PT blue yellow stars red-whitc-blue-striped rud der top quality tlsese Maxecuter experts test Told him used put giant smooth pavement wind few turns hand let taxi Kept adding turns until tail lifted until wheels barely showing daylight Ballast needed Just add low power turns ex tended glide go have sneak up rubber 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Wa 982q WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Coxand Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT Eox division Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies W 785I Minneapolis MN 55135 ports next day said flying concensus gets up 75 feet hell lose eventually Weight rubber 17 oz tests stopped broke rubber Hows Must have heck extended glide No damage Remember Sruils Jungmeister MAN 049 aileron elevator controls Now has old Max 10 Schnuerlewe miss grand 10 Its also full-house So early morn nar row quiet road foot Shangri-la eight quick flights Somewhat fast doesnt trouble eye Darting over hill valley looping rolling steering around scattered trees shooting lovely touchand-goes long power approaches Years ago classic moviein Twenties probably Ernst Udet gracefully tooling around Flamingo near water level winding out towering white icebergs must have taken quite camera pilot chase him around Swooping end less turns banks hypnotically dream-like Well thats souped-up Jungmeister didnt talk want superb small Scale matches biggies Get plan MANand modify 2 should know long last Society Electric Aircraft Modelers mail today came 10-page newslettera minimagazine its treatment Top-notch writing organization Articles tips drawingsfull stuff electric beginners need have about 100 members already want electric stuff nutshell write group 11632 Flamingo Dr Garden Grove CA 92644 Membership bargain $10 Presi dent Frank Heacox can reached phone 714 539-3450 Now new frequencies fact youll interested know AMA testflying two systems 926 MHz UHF After hearing some guy ask Bill Hershberger going fly today asked Bill what has stub antenna transmitter about 6-in long another short receiver antenna sticks out fuselage equipment 459-MHz British system has modified Performance sensationalto limit vision directional no glitches far Blil operated test plane inside car hatchback open After cold test inside frige hour noted acci dent scope picking up perfect signals inside refrigerator Some down line application will made AMA FCC approval perhaps spot likely range frequencies Theres space up thar Did hear thud column just crashed After repairs hope better flight next month Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 RC Scale/Wischers Continued page 45 Jomar module rudder coupled aileron channel rudder stick centered module dc-coupled whenever rudder stick transmitter off center permits model flown through slips point rolls require crossed controls No trans mitter modifications internal linkages plane needed Another Jomar product may interest accessory controller can used electric brakes Unfortunately Aeropiccola elec Brie brakes Italy now off market type use controller know would substitute operation rudder stick moved off center brake side energized permit selective application ground maneuvers apply both brakes simultaneously down-elevator used controller can also used spare channel available transmitter receiver operate two scale functions model such lights bomb parachute drop within its amp capacity Jomar Products 2028 Knights bridge Dr Cincinnati OH 45224 word about Aeropiccola electric brakes used Emeraude Beryl mod els micro switch actuated full downelevator energize both brakes simultaneously three 500 mAh nickel-cadmium batteries brakes applied speed above fast taxi tail-dragger models will nose over same will result higher voltage used speed useful stop model com pletely before takeoff maximum points contest never use after landing shorten roll also used certain stopping main wheels hangar square Pinto Taxi Return maneuver contests now optional maneuver Sport Scale class Brakes kind quite unnecessary flying grass field Scale modelers carve wood plastic parts using Dremel tool will find have cutters lose effectiveness loading up chips will burn wood whether balsa harder materials Robart displayed line almost indestructible carbide cutters elimi nate problem wont overheat load up wood fiber plastic fiberglass Six shapes including ball disc cone cylinder avail able both coarse fine grit /g-in diameter shanks fit Dremel military paint colors Petit Paint Co mak ers Hobbypoxy products has released formulas two Navy colors Matte White Light Gull Gray Matte White Federal Standard 37875 duplicateN flat undersurface World War II Navy aircraft completes presentation early WW II Navy three-color camouflage scheme See December 1982 column Sea Blue Intermediate Blue 122 Model Aviation K
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I am building what flying buddies call rubber ducky Once would build nothing ON MONDAY MORNINGS Garfield car toon cat pulls blanket over head talk about fun rain coming down buckets dank wind howling 907 least Im stuck rush-hour traf fic As briefing guy Hill Street Blues says careful out Before AC air-conditioning tamed Au gust DC District Columbia smart old Pols survived spending time Atlan tic beaches August flying sessions few far between mostly early morn late afternoon Shangri-la lazy Vagabond RC-Assist caught thermals flight five consecutive low-key ses sions September slipped through fingers dreary wind-up book After would October bit luck golden haze little wind Novem ber book publisher sent back 7-lb manu script including Xerox copies 200 illustra tions us check wonders wrought copy editor answer zillion queries Deadstick What Please describe Like short-tailed hoss couldnt swat flies called ye MA editor said No wont write name Oh dear said am possible millions man-days modeling experience have gone hobby/sport us remain collectively confused about what make things tick tantalizing mystery doesnt someone write book people have always left high dry Until now page introduction Bob Under wood remarkable 122-page mag-size paperback authored Ray Wiederhold pub lished Midwest Technical Publications Inc 1741 Big Bend Blvd St Louis MO 63117 pleasant surprise Its called Fly 180 simple professional ly-done illustrations tells us exactly what neec-to knowno no less Beginner hacker expert alike will find enioyable well-written very wellorganized veritable builder pilot manual intro begins primary motivations publication assist fliers RC airplanes know little nothing about basic aerodynamics teach fascinating subiect uncom plicated commonsense manner does exactly No long-hair stuff no giddy math no mumbo-iumbo aerodynamics has everything $995 may best investment youll ever make ICover price $1 195 repriced $995 l Winter 16 Model Aviation jUSt fun Bill Winter Seeing believing Allan Schanzle makes tirst test tlight 66in Fairchild PT-22 Its rubber-powered lof coursell Passing overhead picture below left Fairchild extended glide power flight three loops 1-in rubber As floats huge prop stopped camera like Indoor model Below Right happy gentleman left Earl Stahl all-time master Rubber Scale magazine projects Seen its bare bones PT scaled up Stahls numerous plans Without rubber model weighs 17 oz Winter would have know sort far-out stuff goes time Shangrila three pictures Tom Schmitt HOW THEY FLY did design Kits made teel too, hated prefabrication wouldnt use die-cut rib Fiberglass shells 105 shells MonoKote tinsel stuff guys couldnt swing silk-and-d ope letter less epoxy would four-letter word days avoid drawing board beat curds out hapless Kadet have Eaglet hold have conned son Mike crossed fingers making Lagle next year Once did Pattern reeds now cant bothered rolls inverted bores meand Im now lousy Going inverted off half-loop either finish loop execute inverted stall chase ghost riders sky Yes will spot glassing MonoKote everything Coverite Micafilm has rapt tention Time essence Flying building now counts takes rubber ducky count inc remember Flitecraft ad tltat showed guy standing wing panel stretched across two blocks two years could get back Don Srull flew ST 46 practice aerobatics tise way equipped early Cox-Sanwa rite first radio got after 13-year hiatus seven years ago flying never missed beat no servo developed quiver also Futaba RTU complete K&B Veco 19 ancient Futaba system three channels pleased well now gathers dust watched young guys Flite crafts Wilga may eye beholder liked its Polish looks joke son its coordination flight want rubber ducky good aileron trainer Kadet advanced old age Also am sentimental Hows Gary Leonard Flitecraft genius now Jayhawk reorganized guess calls Jayhawk Little Airplane Com pany grabs pop ma two kids see picture crates stacked like cordwood makes wonder just much family can live work play together Little Airplane Fac tory indeed instruction booklet filled won derful pix bit like Harry Higley picturejammed book dont have Harrys books loser once asked Gary K&B 40 mounted such small crate said wild men insisted 40 Some guys have told broke wings tried breaking over kneethe Futaba RTF wing tooand have Samson presumes guys dive past red line haul back sticka stupid way fly So crate Cardinal now has beefy joiner huge cut-to-outline timber slips two holes foam epoxied extending way out wing balsa skin gonebutt-joined balsa gives trouble skinned wings because glue joint seems lift Actually think such wings work better turbulation guys think something wrong Soft foam stretches underneath Skinning now piece thin hard plastic-like finish tail surfaces now die-cut foam-core board first worry about sur face layers something hard tough what looks like flat open edge sealed did add balsa front piece both fin stab cant leave anything way sup posed found Top Elite Juicy Hatfield atmosphere electric Third Annual KRC Electric Fly September 18-19 Hatfield PA Nothing Electric flown siteno noise prob lems sure Forty top-notch Electrics eight states thrilled 300 spectators radar gun caught 95 mph tops Keith Shaw Ann Arbor Ml supplied biggest thrills highly aerobatic Barbarian outside Cuban 8s such stuffl twin Aerocommander Shrike did four-pointers snaps spins knife-edge Sorts Scale usual gravity-defying Sailpianes Electric Helicopter iron can set 2 easily whatever takes no sign damage foam core put bigger wheels everything cluding Eaglet because grass run ways billiard-table smooth Replace ment parts Cardinal available nominal cost example can buy assembled fuselage trim $1695a tempting way quickly build otherwise original want fool around have 05 35 red fuselage white flying surfaces Cardinal purty February 1983 17 Left Thirteen-year-old Kris Kopski dad Bob pioneer Electric Heinz Koerners 98-in Connie TWA colors Has one-piece wing four Mabuchi 550 motors 76-in fuselage weighs less 10 lb Right AMA Executive Director John Worth flew RTF Airtronics Kitty times finds Electric fascinating pictures Bob Kopski Left about China Clipper Jim Pentimall flies 47-oz Martin four Astro 02s Ten Fenstermacher holding isa member KRC Right Leon Shulman Keith Shaw Zombie Old-Timer Leisure racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive six 12 Ah cells 11-7% prop mounted above motor puts higher Leon did gas Nelson Whitman 05 Simsbury CT readies Shag II hydro model Astro motor Isize unknown pylon mount flying boat got off grass using hi-start assist RAM speed control 67 oz 6-ft Astro Porterfield foreground probably has Astro 15 belt reduction wed guess 13-8 prop An Electric future other interesting good RTFs ARFs hurry Please see competitors ads now guys must feel like philosophical bartenders fell love own Krack erjac after seeing Herb Clukeys drawing recent Fun column decided scale up ailerons less dihedral K&B 40 get emotional about engines too have pet engines general know almost make just great dont want bothered facts dont yearn Schnuerles because leisurely sport flying preference using generous props combos demand Schnuerles non-Schnuerle nothing potent baffled K&B 40 K&B also makes Schnuerles After Arden 09 19 spark-ignition glow enjoyed years flying tireless K&B 32 perhaps first sample K&B 15 engine put US FAI FF picture early SOs enjoyed first K&B 19 broadest yet fine tuning needle ever sawand started prime first flip always needed 27 MHz previous flier set up final first guy start up next always won selfish race Came greenheads23 35 WINGSPAN-65 WING AREA-51550INS WEIGHT- 38 OZS POWERROCKET45 WING CHORD- 9 1i SCALE IN INCHES TIMER0246810 12 14 16 hjo After Peter Miller England told Bill Winter about outstanding results Skybo Old-Timer Bill asked him whats Skybothen ended up gifted plans via Ben Buckles Old Time Plan Service 9 Islay Crescent Highwood Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Adventure some visitors ol Bills inner sanctum rumor hes really laying out Skybo Leisure geared 05 electricplus Old Square Sides Antique either Astros 15 belt reduction OS 4-cycle latter still box Winter fiddles watching TV 45 numero uno RC days Astro Hog So now still run K&B 19s 40s love Enya lapped 09 need break-in forever Dont care Its small venturi gives suction wouldnt believe reliable runs whole tanks theyre peculiar places Mine still flies after 20 years OS 30 another pet Id settle baffled lapped engine day feel better ball bearings mans meat - STs great too Ive run Fox hard indeed find bad engine today So yesterday framed two sides big Krackerjac kid Claude McCullough think will go better Kadet men tioned bit about flat-bottom airfoil nearly symmetrical forward front spar says thinks thats what great Fletcher Scale model forgot onefor shame Hes Missouri mean Iowa know Sig might make 90 Kadet way fly Kadets wont have cut weeds runway overruns turn loose Kadet Grande Hope pro duce knew guy 18-ft Falcon gave Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Norm Rosenstock demo Moustique during black August said cover wings Ill trust test fly itbut careful beloved 05 90 expect get shot flying next year Meanwhile mag wanted plans nothing world could get drawing board fix up crude working drawings Meanwhile giant Aristocrat stood idle year am whitewashing fences again hope persuade guys Freder icksburg store dont know yet can flown twice year visit said yes have so-nice long runway too can swing good landing have 560 feet nice short grass Pilot Srull will die thousand deaths mut ter hey let land Running its Tartan 28 lb peppy 132 cu earths great pleasures electric guys have snowed should see stuff Ive sent checking Old Square Sides plans authenticated Antique Bob Boucher Astro Flight would perfect 15 belt reduc tionmaybe direct drive have two Old Square Sides has 6-ft spanin Continued page 20 18 Model Aviation Shawne Kirkland son Jaysonand John Wayne doll cockpitshow off Less Putnams great big beautiful DH Tiger Moth scale-like flying job Winter 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updating futt tine motors word cobatt flies around Hett mark up ptans return Meanwhite Ive sent ptans Skybo see Ctukey drawing Rotand Boucher Leisure check out geared 05 think Im serious Theres revotution now electrics have reached point new 1982 05 almost equat last years 15s course alt sizes wilt soon take quantum jump Srult tried Leisure 05 Gotdberg alt-foam RTF Ranger 42 appropriated crate too After takeoff fights its way through ground turbutence tears around break-neck speed gets high has bring down before goes out sight Switching off ptays ittike fiddte Coming power fadingif avoid running batteries way down deadstick batteries big favorit really skims touches down smoothly pavement like F-15 coming home enough elevator power ease ptunk-down grass tt flew fine 6-3 prop improvement 6-4 fan tastic Pitch all-important electric must play pitch going get peak performance much gas engine Worth AMA executive director put Astro Ftight 15 bett drive ancient Buzzard Bombshell flew Enya 35 now 20 years otd Dear Bob Harrah built crate appeard RCM about 1972 realty started popular Old-Timer RC movement best-seller among plans Bob sent huge crate un covered RCM 40 1975packed excelsior colored jelly beans stood around tong engine froze So John Worth took over flew just everywhere near boardwalk beach electric Worth suddenly needed props next day best prop combo Zinger 13-8 few hobby shops stock such oddball sizes about 14-6 05 90 might work John coupte eso off went Shangri-la tall grass rolling hills flew off hand using 14-6 managed five-plus minutes may 10 minutes gets 13-8 Zingers Like flying newly soloed pilot writing flight path grows zig-zag getting down piece counts Two days turned 10 days passed since last sentence Absolutely perfect flying wea ther know what means Warni sunny calm near calm weekday fliers thinking spring returned Kadet 40 goes like blue blazes approaches suddenly seem easy Today unbelievable ache over writing easier Just minute Hurst Bowers dropped 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bit smooth groovy Fast skimming finals nice touchdowns remarkably long run-out Curious perhaps momentum plus ground effect low wing small size Noon yesterday some desk jockey appeared local field Pilot Acrostar mod eled after Henry Haighs ship outscored Loudenslager 1982 World Champs Loudenslager heavily modified old Stephens Akro suit own requirements see Don Berliners article November 1982 MA Haigh too did own thing similar-looking ships popping up over world copycats Haigh still flies Pitts mono makes better picture judges Sound familiar Another taildragger model OS 25-powered chap ran out lunch hour before flew high-speed taxi tests ran arrow straight touch right beginning runand getting briefly airborne off short grass strip remained seen lovely aerobatic Scaler would have enough power suit its pilot throughout aerobatic regime thought 40 wouldnt fit messing up cowl now have planes truly re quire new hot engine between 30 probably 35 displacement have Pilot Aero Sport Srull flies 25 lovely looking mini-Pattern thing experi ence wed like slightly longer gear bigger wheels grass Don says wishes tad power supposed 19 powered old 25 didnt attain its promising potential aerobaticsand 40 again just too big week later installed OS 25quite lively says powerful old 05 30 beauti fully made finish decorated chap Haigh said everything fits gether extreme precision Aero Spurt 1-in goof cowl length great otherwise Two chaps flying problems Christen Eagle get whatever existed real aircraft go Scale Vague talk some doctor California wrote definitive paper rigging Eagle cor rection degree upthrust stop slight climb trimmed inverted no ill effects otherwise have noted number bipes model form started out dogs flew like dreams CG moved far forward beyond what books say 40-powered EAA Bipe blown prominent Scaler CG inch front lower wing leading edge take offs bipe erratic similar jazz try Ratty takeoffs get groove strange-looking delta slot through wing prop engine being well 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three-wheel bi cycle first marginally powered Quad ra stub pipe carried exhaust outside removed rpm jumped 1000 Weight 30 pounds Speaking CG location noted balanced front end last fullchord rib bottom wing Both wings have generous sweep-back CG front center section cut-out floated Asked test fly Don Sruil fascinated kept two hours Incidentally CB Quadra exhaust system plug big scale tube exit cured power problem Loops rollsmajestic did 120 Model Aviation REPAIR SEHviu i-uR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE 1 SALES RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOS THE 3EA- 68 Wingspan / 19 35 EnginesPlan N Pattern Set classic Seaplane design first appeared early 1952 era beautiful water performer FI3 $1995 will make hydra enthusiast Out modeler Wheel positions suggested Amphibious Land use 116 Size PUSS MOTH DH 80 Puss MOTH beautifully proportioned flight Plan & Pattern St RC6S-3 @ $1495 Wingipant 73/ 20 40 Engine Please add $200 3 Fall Si. 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Full size PLAN N PATTERN SET RCFF7 $1495 Prices Complete Plans Sub Assembly Detailed Parts Lists Add $200 Mailing Tube Details new designs & greaf things come Send OthS Iretondablel information snap two lift wires45-lb-test fishing leader tat fittings Now has 65-lb-test wires Lven broken wires structural integrity wing panel attachment good crate stayed piece An Antic-type job has load-carrying wires broke both wires under its stabilizer warned guys breaks occurring fittings seems obvious some form bushing eyelet Control Line style might used Brittle wire must sharp ly bent Dont ask know build ing anything really big usc rugged powerful servos can find carry pack really does job loads dont see hear flutter time working rapid tiny move mentsthat will eventually get servo boy mans errand Control surtaces should mass-balanced faster modern aircraft should Isave aerodynamic balancing lots antiques classics have allyway found real crates hinge lines back surfaces chord stitl dont know must learn OK OK give up going crash-land sermonette phone keeps ringing things keep happeningand might well put pillow lap cradle head Another flying sessiongoing two weeks now fantastic weather today broke heat record November barely NVRC has nearly 250 members now trying fly once guy witls Sportster 20 does well began flying year Iseard must have trainer until summer flying genuine 1950 Live Wire Trainer fits perfectly ajet jockey tlse Air Force developed restart flame-out land ing techniques joked ed name base after hjtTtr said name bases after dead peoplenot opted airline piloting longer life owned two Pitts third aerobatic job forget Flew air shows grounded hence Live Wire Live Wire auctioned off club tuceting So out comes kid no higher belt buckle mother support man spotted Isis Live Wire slsowed kid flew Its slow said little guy Everything flies faster time turned around crate way up gawd kid tooling around like veter love Live Wires talked deBolt kitting trainermaybe first true RC kit ever Doug Pratt found camera get picture column veteran pilot tiny kid ma incredible ancient Live Wire danged camera out film Another jingle Sons Mike Bob Long Island back club Sunday session flown Evans Simitar Deuce de signed K&B 20 has superb OS Schnuerle 25 Right off board flew no trimtning Inverted rolls works within 30 seconds So easy fly said can handle 40 Kadet could enjoy Simitar Another jingle Would go down Ilyline Models Saturday night Halloween After family get-together staggered late evening Maxecuters what Allan Schanzles Stz ft rubber-powered Fairchild PT-22 low wing Allan intrigued tny stories about 6-ft Rubber Scale old days 9-ft Cessna giant lovely PT blue yellow stars red-whitc-blue-striped rud der top quality tlsese Maxecuter experts test Told him used put giant smooth pavement wind few turns hand let taxi Kept adding turns until tail lifted until wheels barely showing daylight Ballast needed Just add low power turns ex tended glide go have sneak up rubber biggies because wind-in ends pile sticks Allen tall grass Shangri-la mid night strategy early morn extended glides three loops -in rubber launelsed front brow depression ReATTENTION ERS February 1983 121 Plan Form tifully detailed Henry Strucks original plans EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA SIO MORGAN BALSA USA P/A U CONCEPT FLEET 1OSTETLER ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER P/US / & SCALE SUPER CUB FOEKER 0-7 BOEING P-f 2 P-2e F4B2 F4B4 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOO Y MACBR/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLE BRISIGHELLAS SrAROUSTER II /x SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIRCAMPER PILOT JUNGMANN f35 SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECA THAL ON PIPER PA-tB S OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR CITABRIA STAROUS TEA II PIUS SKYBOLT LINER U SPORT CHRISTEN EAGLE PB E HA WK STEARMAN STINSON SR-B MULLIGAN ft OTHERS BRtZEDft HEAT-TREATED WIREGEARS&CABANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send SASE latest lIst supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWrite call us T Et D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CITY Ml 40135 PHONE 313 421-6358 STEARMAN PT-I 7 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Wa 982q WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Coxand Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT Eox division Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies W 785I Minneapolis MN 55135 ports next day said flying concensus gets up 75 feet hell lose eventually Weight rubber 17 oz tests stopped broke rubber Hows Must have heck extended glide No damage Remember Sruils Jungmeister MAN 049 aileron elevator controls Now has old Max 10 Schnuerlewe miss grand 10 Its also full-house So early morn nar row quiet road foot Shangri-la eight quick flights Somewhat fast doesnt trouble eye Darting over hill valley looping rolling steering around scattered trees shooting lovely touchand-goes long power approaches Years ago classic moviein Twenties probably Ernst Udet gracefully tooling around Flamingo near water level winding out towering white icebergs must have taken quite camera pilot chase him around Swooping end less turns banks hypnotically dream-like Well thats souped-up Jungmeister didnt talk want superb small Scale matches biggies Get plan MANand modify 2 should know long last Society Electric Aircraft Modelers mail today came 10-page newslettera minimagazine its treatment Top-notch writing organization Articles tips drawingsfull stuff electric beginners need have about 100 members already want electric stuff nutshell write group 11632 Flamingo Dr Garden Grove CA 92644 Membership bargain $10 Presi dent Frank Heacox can reached phone 714 539-3450 Now new frequencies fact youll interested know AMA testflying two systems 926 MHz UHF After hearing some guy ask Bill Hershberger going fly today asked Bill what has stub antenna transmitter about 6-in long another short receiver antenna sticks out fuselage equipment 459-MHz British system has modified Performance sensationalto limit vision directional no glitches far Blil operated test plane inside car hatchback open After cold test inside frige hour noted acci dent scope picking up perfect signals inside refrigerator Some down line application will made AMA FCC approval perhaps spot likely range frequencies Theres space up thar Did hear thud column just crashed After repairs hope better flight next month Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 RC Scale/Wischers Continued page 45 Jomar module rudder coupled aileron channel rudder stick centered module dc-coupled whenever rudder stick transmitter off center permits model flown through slips point rolls require crossed controls No trans mitter modifications internal linkages plane needed Another Jomar product may interest accessory controller can used electric brakes Unfortunately Aeropiccola elec Brie brakes Italy now off market type use controller know would substitute operation rudder stick moved off center brake side energized permit selective application ground maneuvers apply both brakes simultaneously down-elevator used controller can also used spare channel available transmitter receiver operate two scale functions model such lights bomb parachute drop within its amp capacity Jomar Products 2028 Knights bridge Dr Cincinnati OH 45224 word about Aeropiccola electric brakes used Emeraude Beryl mod els micro switch actuated full downelevator energize both brakes simultaneously three 500 mAh nickel-cadmium batteries brakes applied speed above fast taxi tail-dragger models will nose over same will result higher voltage used speed useful stop model com pletely before takeoff maximum points contest never use after landing shorten roll also used certain stopping main wheels hangar square Pinto Taxi Return maneuver contests now optional maneuver Sport Scale class Brakes kind quite unnecessary flying grass field Scale modelers carve wood plastic parts using Dremel tool will find have cutters lose effectiveness loading up chips will burn wood whether balsa harder materials Robart displayed line almost indestructible carbide cutters elimi nate problem wont overheat load up wood fiber plastic fiberglass Six shapes including ball disc cone cylinder avail able both coarse fine grit /g-in diameter shanks fit Dremel military paint colors Petit Paint Co mak ers Hobbypoxy products has released formulas two Navy colors Matte White Light Gull Gray Matte White Federal Standard 37875 duplicateN flat undersurface World War II Navy aircraft completes presentation early WW II Navy three-color camouflage scheme See December 1982 column Sea Blue Intermediate Blue 122 Model Aviation K
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I am building what flying buddies call rubber ducky Once would build nothing ON MONDAY MORNINGS Garfield car toon cat pulls blanket over head talk about fun rain coming down buckets dank wind howling 907 least Im stuck rush-hour traf fic As briefing guy Hill Street Blues says careful out Before AC air-conditioning tamed Au gust DC District Columbia smart old Pols survived spending time Atlan tic beaches August flying sessions few far between mostly early morn late afternoon Shangri-la lazy Vagabond RC-Assist caught thermals flight five consecutive low-key ses sions September slipped through fingers dreary wind-up book After would October bit luck golden haze little wind Novem ber book publisher sent back 7-lb manu script including Xerox copies 200 illustra tions us check wonders wrought copy editor answer zillion queries Deadstick What Please describe Like short-tailed hoss couldnt swat flies called ye MA editor said No wont write name Oh dear said am possible millions man-days modeling experience have gone hobby/sport us remain collectively confused about what make things tick tantalizing mystery doesnt someone write book people have always left high dry Until now page introduction Bob Under wood remarkable 122-page mag-size paperback authored Ray Wiederhold pub lished Midwest Technical Publications Inc 1741 Big Bend Blvd St Louis MO 63117 pleasant surprise Its called Fly 180 simple professional ly-done illustrations tells us exactly what neec-to knowno no less Beginner hacker expert alike will find enioyable well-written very wellorganized veritable builder pilot manual intro begins primary motivations publication assist fliers RC airplanes know little nothing about basic aerodynamics teach fascinating subiect uncom plicated commonsense manner does exactly No long-hair stuff no giddy math no mumbo-iumbo aerodynamics has everything $995 may best investment youll ever make ICover price $1 195 repriced $995 l Winter 16 Model Aviation jUSt fun Bill Winter Seeing believing Allan Schanzle makes tirst test tlight 66in Fairchild PT-22 Its rubber-powered lof coursell Passing overhead picture below left Fairchild extended glide power flight three loops 1-in rubber As floats huge prop stopped camera like Indoor model Below Right happy gentleman left Earl Stahl all-time master Rubber Scale magazine projects Seen its bare bones PT scaled up Stahls numerous plans Without rubber model weighs 17 oz Winter would have know sort far-out stuff goes time Shangrila three pictures Tom Schmitt HOW THEY FLY did design Kits made teel too, hated prefabrication wouldnt use die-cut rib Fiberglass shells 105 shells MonoKote tinsel stuff guys couldnt swing silk-and-d ope letter less epoxy would four-letter word days avoid drawing board beat curds out hapless Kadet have Eaglet hold have conned son Mike crossed fingers making Lagle next year Once did Pattern reeds now cant bothered rolls inverted bores meand Im now lousy Going inverted off half-loop either finish loop execute inverted stall chase ghost riders sky Yes will spot glassing MonoKote everything Coverite Micafilm has rapt tention Time essence Flying building now counts takes rubber ducky count inc remember Flitecraft ad tltat showed guy standing wing panel stretched across two blocks two years could get back Don Srull flew ST 46 practice aerobatics tise way equipped early Cox-Sanwa rite first radio got after 13-year hiatus seven years ago flying never missed beat no servo developed quiver also Futaba RTU complete K&B Veco 19 ancient Futaba system three channels pleased well now gathers dust watched young guys Flite crafts Wilga may eye beholder liked its Polish looks joke son its coordination flight want rubber ducky good aileron trainer Kadet advanced old age Also am sentimental Hows Gary Leonard Flitecraft genius now Jayhawk reorganized guess calls Jayhawk Little Airplane Com pany grabs pop ma two kids see picture crates stacked like cordwood makes wonder just much family can live work play together Little Airplane Fac tory indeed instruction booklet filled won derful pix bit like Harry Higley picturejammed book dont have Harrys books loser once asked Gary K&B 40 mounted such small crate said wild men insisted 40 Some guys have told broke wings tried breaking over kneethe Futaba RTF wing tooand have Samson presumes guys dive past red line haul back sticka stupid way fly So crate Cardinal now has beefy joiner huge cut-to-outline timber slips two holes foam epoxied extending way out wing balsa skin gonebutt-joined balsa gives trouble skinned wings because glue joint seems lift Actually think such wings work better turbulation guys think something wrong Soft foam stretches underneath Skinning now piece thin hard plastic-like finish tail surfaces now die-cut foam-core board first worry about sur face layers something hard tough what looks like flat open edge sealed did add balsa front piece both fin stab cant leave anything way sup posed found Top Elite Juicy Hatfield atmosphere electric Third Annual KRC Electric Fly September 18-19 Hatfield PA Nothing Electric flown siteno noise prob lems sure Forty top-notch Electrics eight states thrilled 300 spectators radar gun caught 95 mph tops Keith Shaw Ann Arbor Ml supplied biggest thrills highly aerobatic Barbarian outside Cuban 8s such stuffl twin Aerocommander Shrike did four-pointers snaps spins knife-edge Sorts Scale usual gravity-defying Sailpianes Electric Helicopter iron can set 2 easily whatever takes no sign damage foam core put bigger wheels everything cluding Eaglet because grass run ways billiard-table smooth Replace ment parts Cardinal available nominal cost example can buy assembled fuselage trim $1695a tempting way quickly build otherwise original want fool around have 05 35 red fuselage white flying surfaces Cardinal purty February 1983 17 Left Thirteen-year-old Kris Kopski dad Bob pioneer Electric Heinz Koerners 98-in Connie TWA colors Has one-piece wing four Mabuchi 550 motors 76-in fuselage weighs less 10 lb Right AMA Executive Director John Worth flew RTF Airtronics Kitty times finds Electric fascinating pictures Bob Kopski Left about China Clipper Jim Pentimall flies 47-oz Martin four Astro 02s Ten Fenstermacher holding isa member KRC Right Leon Shulman Keith Shaw Zombie Old-Timer Leisure racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive six 12 Ah cells 11-7% prop mounted above motor puts higher Leon did gas Nelson Whitman 05 Simsbury CT readies Shag II hydro model Astro motor Isize unknown pylon mount flying boat got off grass using hi-start assist RAM speed control 67 oz 6-ft Astro Porterfield foreground probably has Astro 15 belt reduction wed guess 13-8 prop An Electric future other interesting good RTFs ARFs hurry Please see competitors ads now guys must feel like philosophical bartenders fell love own Krack erjac after seeing Herb Clukeys drawing recent Fun column decided scale up ailerons less dihedral K&B 40 get emotional about engines too have pet engines general know almost make just great dont want bothered facts dont yearn Schnuerles because leisurely sport flying preference using generous props combos demand Schnuerles non-Schnuerle nothing potent baffled K&B 40 K&B also makes Schnuerles After Arden 09 19 spark-ignition glow enjoyed years flying tireless K&B 32 perhaps first sample K&B 15 engine put US FAI FF picture early SOs enjoyed first K&B 19 broadest yet fine tuning needle ever sawand started prime first flip always needed 27 MHz previous flier set up final first guy start up next always won selfish race Came greenheads23 35 WINGSPAN-65 WING AREA-51550INS WEIGHT- 38 OZS POWERROCKET45 WING CHORD- 9 1i SCALE IN INCHES TIMER0246810 12 14 16 hjo After Peter Miller England told Bill Winter about outstanding results Skybo Old-Timer Bill asked him whats Skybothen ended up gifted plans via Ben Buckles Old Time Plan Service 9 Islay Crescent Highwood Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Adventure some visitors ol Bills inner sanctum rumor hes really laying out Skybo Leisure geared 05 electricplus Old Square Sides Antique either Astros 15 belt reduction OS 4-cycle latter still box Winter fiddles watching TV 45 numero uno RC days Astro Hog So now still run K&B 19s 40s love Enya lapped 09 need break-in forever Dont care Its small venturi gives suction wouldnt believe reliable runs whole tanks theyre peculiar places Mine still flies after 20 years OS 30 another pet Id settle baffled lapped engine day feel better ball bearings mans meat - STs great too Ive run Fox hard indeed find bad engine today So yesterday framed two sides big Krackerjac kid Claude McCullough think will go better Kadet men tioned bit about flat-bottom airfoil nearly symmetrical forward front spar says thinks thats what great Fletcher Scale model forgot onefor shame Hes Missouri mean Iowa know Sig might make 90 Kadet way fly Kadets wont have cut weeds runway overruns turn loose Kadet Grande Hope pro duce knew guy 18-ft Falcon gave Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Norm Rosenstock demo Moustique during black August said cover wings Ill trust test fly itbut careful beloved 05 90 expect get shot flying next year Meanwhile mag wanted plans nothing world could get drawing board fix up crude working drawings Meanwhile giant Aristocrat stood idle year am whitewashing fences again hope persuade guys Freder icksburg store dont know yet can flown twice year visit said yes have so-nice long runway too can swing good landing have 560 feet nice short grass Pilot Srull will die thousand deaths mut ter hey let land Running its Tartan 28 lb peppy 132 cu earths great pleasures electric guys have snowed should see stuff Ive sent checking Old Square Sides plans authenticated Antique Bob Boucher Astro Flight would perfect 15 belt reduc tionmaybe direct drive have two Old Square Sides has 6-ft spanin Continued page 20 18 Model Aviation Shawne Kirkland son Jaysonand John Wayne doll cockpitshow off Less Putnams great big beautiful DH Tiger Moth scale-like flying job Winter 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updating futt tine motors word cobatt flies around Hett mark up ptans return Meanwhite Ive sent ptans Skybo see Ctukey drawing Rotand Boucher Leisure check out geared 05 think Im serious Theres revotution now electrics have reached point new 1982 05 almost equat last years 15s course alt sizes wilt soon take quantum jump Srult tried Leisure 05 Gotdberg alt-foam RTF Ranger 42 appropriated crate too After takeoff fights its way through ground turbutence tears around break-neck speed gets high has bring down before goes out sight Switching off ptays ittike fiddte Coming power fadingif avoid running batteries way down deadstick batteries big favorit really skims touches down smoothly pavement like F-15 coming home enough elevator power ease ptunk-down grass tt flew fine 6-3 prop improvement 6-4 fan tastic Pitch all-important electric must play pitch going get peak performance much gas engine Worth AMA executive director put Astro Ftight 15 bett drive ancient Buzzard Bombshell flew Enya 35 now 20 years otd Dear Bob Harrah built crate appeard RCM about 1972 realty started popular Old-Timer RC movement best-seller among plans Bob sent huge crate un covered RCM 40 1975packed excelsior colored jelly beans stood around tong engine froze So John Worth took over flew just everywhere near boardwalk beach electric Worth suddenly needed props next day best prop combo Zinger 13-8 few hobby shops stock such oddball sizes about 14-6 05 90 might work John coupte eso off went Shangri-la tall grass rolling hills flew off hand using 14-6 managed five-plus minutes may 10 minutes gets 13-8 Zingers Like flying newly soloed pilot writing flight path grows zig-zag getting down piece counts Two days turned 10 days passed since last sentence Absolutely perfect flying wea ther know what means Warni sunny calm near calm weekday fliers thinking spring returned Kadet 40 goes like blue blazes approaches suddenly seem easy Today unbelievable ache over writing easier Just minute Hurst Bowers dropped museum-quality /2A Pee Wee looked terribly familiar Old Square Sides Antique 1936-37 gotten AMA number7 19 got over shock said sure will nice see fly Shangri-la said Well yours Like winning state lottery Im going put Ace magnetic actuator enjoy no must hang up Im speechless. going tell about some interesting planes Ive seen kits ARFs wild magazine things Three turned out Pilot modContinued page 120 20 Model Aviation NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS FUSELAGE FIXTURE FOURMOST FUSELAGE FIXTURE S designed AeOo,stieIIy tlign futelage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Simply slide four centering brackets track until aligo firewall tail foist two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubberbands structure will thee straight track ussumsedatstuctusuptutuutt Price 2995 Miter Master Miter Mestor stool designed enable crafts man make perfect sints wood accurately sanding gre-entangles sguaringfenceA ollowsfsrprncisehOu angles retracts below surface Any angle can beset triangular guide using 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bit smooth groovy Fast skimming finals nice touchdowns remarkably long run-out Curious perhaps momentum plus ground effect low wing small size Noon yesterday some desk jockey appeared local field Pilot Acrostar mod eled after Henry Haighs ship outscored Loudenslager 1982 World Champs Loudenslager heavily modified old Stephens Akro suit own requirements see Don Berliners article November 1982 MA Haigh too did own thing similar-looking ships popping up over world copycats Haigh still flies Pitts mono makes better picture judges Sound familiar Another taildragger model OS 25-powered chap ran out lunch hour before flew high-speed taxi tests ran arrow straight touch right beginning runand getting briefly airborne off short grass strip remained seen lovely aerobatic Scaler would have enough power suit its pilot throughout aerobatic regime thought 40 wouldnt fit messing up cowl now have planes truly re quire new hot engine between 30 probably 35 displacement have Pilot Aero Sport Srull flies 25 lovely looking mini-Pattern thing experi ence wed like slightly longer gear bigger wheels grass Don says wishes tad power supposed 19 powered old 25 didnt attain its promising potential aerobaticsand 40 again just too big week later installed OS 25quite lively says powerful old 05 30 beauti fully made finish decorated chap Haigh said everything fits gether extreme precision Aero Spurt 1-in goof cowl length great otherwise Two chaps flying problems Christen Eagle get whatever existed real aircraft go Scale Vague talk some doctor California wrote definitive paper rigging Eagle cor rection degree upthrust stop slight climb trimmed inverted no ill effects otherwise have noted number bipes model form started out dogs flew like dreams CG moved far forward beyond what books say 40-powered EAA Bipe blown prominent Scaler CG inch front lower wing leading edge take offs bipe erratic similar jazz try Ratty takeoffs get groove strange-looking delta slot through wing prop engine being well 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three-wheel bi cycle first marginally powered Quad ra stub pipe carried exhaust outside removed rpm jumped 1000 Weight 30 pounds Speaking CG location noted balanced front end last fullchord rib bottom wing Both wings have generous sweep-back CG front center section cut-out floated Asked test fly Don Sruil fascinated kept two hours Incidentally CB Quadra exhaust system plug big scale tube exit cured power problem Loops rollsmajestic did 120 Model Aviation REPAIR SEHviu i-uR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE 1 SALES RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOS THE 3EA- 68 Wingspan / 19 35 EnginesPlan N Pattern Set classic Seaplane design first appeared early 1952 era beautiful water performer FI3 $1995 will make hydra enthusiast Out modeler Wheel positions suggested Amphibious Land use 116 Size PUSS MOTH DH 80 Puss MOTH beautifully proportioned flight Plan & Pattern St RC6S-3 @ $1495 Wingipant 73/ 20 40 Engine Please add $200 3 Fall Si. 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Full size PLAN N PATTERN SET RCFF7 $1495 Prices Complete Plans Sub Assembly Detailed Parts Lists Add $200 Mailing Tube Details new designs & greaf things come Send OthS Iretondablel information snap two lift wires45-lb-test fishing leader tat fittings Now has 65-lb-test wires Lven broken wires structural integrity wing panel attachment good crate stayed piece An Antic-type job has load-carrying wires broke both wires under its stabilizer warned guys breaks occurring fittings seems obvious some form bushing eyelet Control Line style might used Brittle wire must sharp ly bent Dont ask know build ing anything really big usc rugged powerful servos can find carry pack really does job loads dont see hear flutter time working rapid tiny move mentsthat will eventually get servo boy mans errand Control surtaces should mass-balanced faster modern aircraft should Isave aerodynamic balancing lots antiques classics have allyway found real crates hinge lines back surfaces chord stitl dont know must learn OK OK give up going crash-land sermonette phone keeps ringing things keep happeningand might well put pillow lap cradle head Another flying sessiongoing two weeks now fantastic weather today broke heat record November barely NVRC has nearly 250 members now trying fly once guy witls Sportster 20 does well began flying year Iseard must have trainer until summer flying genuine 1950 Live Wire Trainer fits perfectly ajet jockey tlse Air Force developed restart flame-out land ing techniques joked ed name base after hjtTtr said name bases after dead peoplenot opted airline piloting longer life owned two Pitts third aerobatic job forget Flew air shows grounded hence Live Wire Live Wire auctioned off club tuceting So out comes kid no higher belt buckle mother support man spotted Isis Live Wire slsowed kid flew Its slow said little guy Everything flies faster time turned around crate way up gawd kid tooling around like veter love Live Wires talked deBolt kitting trainermaybe first true RC kit ever Doug Pratt found camera get picture column veteran pilot tiny kid ma incredible ancient Live Wire danged camera out film Another jingle Sons Mike Bob Long Island back club Sunday session flown Evans Simitar Deuce de signed K&B 20 has superb OS Schnuerle 25 Right off board flew no trimtning Inverted rolls works within 30 seconds So easy fly said can handle 40 Kadet could enjoy Simitar Another jingle Would go down Ilyline Models Saturday night Halloween After family get-together staggered late evening Maxecuters what Allan Schanzles Stz ft rubber-powered Fairchild PT-22 low wing Allan intrigued tny stories about 6-ft Rubber Scale old days 9-ft Cessna giant lovely PT blue yellow stars red-whitc-blue-striped rud der top quality tlsese Maxecuter experts test Told him used put giant smooth pavement wind few turns hand let taxi Kept adding turns until tail lifted until wheels barely showing daylight Ballast needed Just add low power turns ex tended glide go have sneak up rubber 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Wa 982q WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Coxand Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT Eox division Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies W 785I Minneapolis MN 55135 ports next day said flying concensus gets up 75 feet hell lose eventually Weight rubber 17 oz tests stopped broke rubber Hows Must have heck extended glide No damage Remember Sruils Jungmeister MAN 049 aileron elevator controls Now has old Max 10 Schnuerlewe miss grand 10 Its also full-house So early morn nar row quiet road foot Shangri-la eight quick flights Somewhat fast doesnt trouble eye Darting over hill valley looping rolling steering around scattered trees shooting lovely touchand-goes long power approaches Years ago classic moviein Twenties probably Ernst Udet gracefully tooling around Flamingo near water level winding out towering white icebergs must have taken quite camera pilot chase him around Swooping end less turns banks hypnotically dream-like Well thats souped-up Jungmeister didnt talk want superb small Scale matches biggies Get plan MANand modify 2 should know long last Society Electric Aircraft Modelers mail today came 10-page newslettera minimagazine its treatment Top-notch writing organization Articles tips drawingsfull stuff electric beginners need have about 100 members already want electric stuff nutshell write group 11632 Flamingo Dr Garden Grove CA 92644 Membership bargain $10 Presi dent Frank Heacox can reached phone 714 539-3450 Now new frequencies fact youll interested know AMA testflying two systems 926 MHz UHF After hearing some guy ask Bill Hershberger going fly today asked Bill what has stub antenna transmitter about 6-in long another short receiver antenna sticks out fuselage equipment 459-MHz British system has modified Performance sensationalto limit vision directional no glitches far Blil operated test plane inside car hatchback open After cold test inside frige hour noted acci dent scope picking up perfect signals inside refrigerator Some down line application will made AMA FCC approval perhaps spot likely range frequencies Theres space up thar Did hear thud column just crashed After repairs hope better flight next month Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 RC Scale/Wischers Continued page 45 Jomar module rudder coupled aileron channel rudder stick centered module dc-coupled whenever rudder stick transmitter off center permits model flown through slips point rolls require crossed controls No trans mitter modifications internal linkages plane needed Another Jomar product may interest accessory controller can used electric brakes Unfortunately Aeropiccola elec Brie brakes Italy now off market type use controller know would substitute operation rudder stick moved off center brake side energized permit selective application ground maneuvers apply both brakes simultaneously down-elevator used controller can also used spare channel available transmitter receiver operate two scale functions model such lights bomb parachute drop within its amp capacity Jomar Products 2028 Knights bridge Dr Cincinnati OH 45224 word about Aeropiccola electric brakes used Emeraude Beryl mod els micro switch actuated full downelevator energize both brakes simultaneously three 500 mAh nickel-cadmium batteries brakes applied speed above fast taxi tail-dragger models will nose over same will result higher voltage used speed useful stop model com pletely before takeoff maximum points contest never use after landing shorten roll also used certain stopping main wheels hangar square Pinto Taxi Return maneuver contests now optional maneuver Sport Scale class Brakes kind quite unnecessary flying grass field Scale modelers carve wood plastic parts using Dremel tool will find have cutters lose effectiveness loading up chips will burn wood whether balsa harder materials Robart displayed line almost indestructible carbide cutters elimi nate problem wont overheat load up wood fiber plastic fiberglass Six shapes including ball disc cone cylinder avail able both coarse fine grit /g-in diameter shanks fit Dremel military paint colors Petit Paint Co mak ers Hobbypoxy products has released formulas two Navy colors Matte White Light Gull Gray Matte White Federal Standard 37875 duplicateN flat undersurface World War II Navy aircraft completes presentation early WW II Navy three-color camouflage scheme See December 1982 column Sea Blue Intermediate Blue 122 Model Aviation K
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I am building what flying buddies call rubber ducky Once would build nothing ON MONDAY MORNINGS Garfield car toon cat pulls blanket over head talk about fun rain coming down buckets dank wind howling 907 least Im stuck rush-hour traf fic As briefing guy Hill Street Blues says careful out Before AC air-conditioning tamed Au gust DC District Columbia smart old Pols survived spending time Atlan tic beaches August flying sessions few far between mostly early morn late afternoon Shangri-la lazy Vagabond RC-Assist caught thermals flight five consecutive low-key ses sions September slipped through fingers dreary wind-up book After would October bit luck golden haze little wind Novem ber book publisher sent back 7-lb manu script including Xerox copies 200 illustra tions us check wonders wrought copy editor answer zillion queries Deadstick What Please describe Like short-tailed hoss couldnt swat flies called ye MA editor said No wont write name Oh dear said am possible millions man-days modeling experience have gone hobby/sport us remain collectively confused about what make things tick tantalizing mystery doesnt someone write book people have always left high dry Until now page introduction Bob Under wood remarkable 122-page mag-size paperback authored Ray Wiederhold pub lished Midwest Technical Publications Inc 1741 Big Bend Blvd St Louis MO 63117 pleasant surprise Its called Fly 180 simple professional ly-done illustrations tells us exactly what neec-to knowno no less Beginner hacker expert alike will find enioyable well-written very wellorganized veritable builder pilot manual intro begins primary motivations publication assist fliers RC airplanes know little nothing about basic aerodynamics teach fascinating subiect uncom plicated commonsense manner does exactly No long-hair stuff no giddy math no mumbo-iumbo aerodynamics has everything $995 may best investment youll ever make ICover price $1 195 repriced $995 l Winter 16 Model Aviation jUSt fun Bill Winter Seeing believing Allan Schanzle makes tirst test tlight 66in Fairchild PT-22 Its rubber-powered lof coursell Passing overhead picture below left Fairchild extended glide power flight three loops 1-in rubber As floats huge prop stopped camera like Indoor model Below Right happy gentleman left Earl Stahl all-time master Rubber Scale magazine projects Seen its bare bones PT scaled up Stahls numerous plans Without rubber model weighs 17 oz Winter would have know sort far-out stuff goes time Shangrila three pictures Tom Schmitt HOW THEY FLY did design Kits made teel too, hated prefabrication wouldnt use die-cut rib Fiberglass shells 105 shells MonoKote tinsel stuff guys couldnt swing silk-and-d ope letter less epoxy would four-letter word days avoid drawing board beat curds out hapless Kadet have Eaglet hold have conned son Mike crossed fingers making Lagle next year Once did Pattern reeds now cant bothered rolls inverted bores meand Im now lousy Going inverted off half-loop either finish loop execute inverted stall chase ghost riders sky Yes will spot glassing MonoKote everything Coverite Micafilm has rapt tention Time essence Flying building now counts takes rubber ducky count inc remember Flitecraft ad tltat showed guy standing wing panel stretched across two blocks two years could get back Don Srull flew ST 46 practice aerobatics tise way equipped early Cox-Sanwa rite first radio got after 13-year hiatus seven years ago flying never missed beat no servo developed quiver also Futaba RTU complete K&B Veco 19 ancient Futaba system three channels pleased well now gathers dust watched young guys Flite crafts Wilga may eye beholder liked its Polish looks joke son its coordination flight want rubber ducky good aileron trainer Kadet advanced old age Also am sentimental Hows Gary Leonard Flitecraft genius now Jayhawk reorganized guess calls Jayhawk Little Airplane Com pany grabs pop ma two kids see picture crates stacked like cordwood makes wonder just much family can live work play together Little Airplane Fac tory indeed instruction booklet filled won derful pix bit like Harry Higley picturejammed book dont have Harrys books loser once asked Gary K&B 40 mounted such small crate said wild men insisted 40 Some guys have told broke wings tried breaking over kneethe Futaba RTF wing tooand have Samson presumes guys dive past red line haul back sticka stupid way fly So crate Cardinal now has beefy joiner huge cut-to-outline timber slips two holes foam epoxied extending way out wing balsa skin gonebutt-joined balsa gives trouble skinned wings because glue joint seems lift Actually think such wings work better turbulation guys think something wrong Soft foam stretches underneath Skinning now piece thin hard plastic-like finish tail surfaces now die-cut foam-core board first worry about sur face layers something hard tough what looks like flat open edge sealed did add balsa front piece both fin stab cant leave anything way sup posed found Top Elite Juicy Hatfield atmosphere electric Third Annual KRC Electric Fly September 18-19 Hatfield PA Nothing Electric flown siteno noise prob lems sure Forty top-notch Electrics eight states thrilled 300 spectators radar gun caught 95 mph tops Keith Shaw Ann Arbor Ml supplied biggest thrills highly aerobatic Barbarian outside Cuban 8s such stuffl twin Aerocommander Shrike did four-pointers snaps spins knife-edge Sorts Scale usual gravity-defying Sailpianes Electric Helicopter iron can set 2 easily whatever takes no sign damage foam core put bigger wheels everything cluding Eaglet because grass run ways billiard-table smooth Replace ment parts Cardinal available nominal cost example can buy assembled fuselage trim $1695a tempting way quickly build otherwise original want fool around have 05 35 red fuselage white flying surfaces Cardinal purty February 1983 17 Left Thirteen-year-old Kris Kopski dad Bob pioneer Electric Heinz Koerners 98-in Connie TWA colors Has one-piece wing four Mabuchi 550 motors 76-in fuselage weighs less 10 lb Right AMA Executive Director John Worth flew RTF Airtronics Kitty times finds Electric fascinating pictures Bob Kopski Left about China Clipper Jim Pentimall flies 47-oz Martin four Astro 02s Ten Fenstermacher holding isa member KRC Right Leon Shulman Keith Shaw Zombie Old-Timer Leisure racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive six 12 Ah cells 11-7% prop mounted above motor puts higher Leon did gas Nelson Whitman 05 Simsbury CT readies Shag II hydro model Astro motor Isize unknown pylon mount flying boat got off grass using hi-start assist RAM speed control 67 oz 6-ft Astro Porterfield foreground probably has Astro 15 belt reduction wed guess 13-8 prop An Electric future other interesting good RTFs ARFs hurry Please see competitors ads now guys must feel like philosophical bartenders fell love own Krack erjac after seeing Herb Clukeys drawing recent Fun column decided scale up ailerons less dihedral K&B 40 get emotional about engines too have pet engines general know almost make just great dont want bothered facts dont yearn Schnuerles because leisurely sport flying preference using generous props combos demand Schnuerles non-Schnuerle nothing potent baffled K&B 40 K&B also makes Schnuerles After Arden 09 19 spark-ignition glow enjoyed years flying tireless K&B 32 perhaps first sample K&B 15 engine put US FAI FF picture early SOs enjoyed first K&B 19 broadest yet fine tuning needle ever sawand started prime first flip always needed 27 MHz previous flier set up final first guy start up next always won selfish race Came greenheads23 35 WINGSPAN-65 WING AREA-51550INS WEIGHT- 38 OZS POWERROCKET45 WING CHORD- 9 1i SCALE IN INCHES TIMER0246810 12 14 16 hjo After Peter Miller England told Bill Winter about outstanding results Skybo Old-Timer Bill asked him whats Skybothen ended up gifted plans via Ben Buckles Old Time Plan Service 9 Islay Crescent Highwood Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Adventure some visitors ol Bills inner sanctum rumor hes really laying out Skybo Leisure geared 05 electricplus Old Square Sides Antique either Astros 15 belt reduction OS 4-cycle latter still box Winter fiddles watching TV 45 numero uno RC days Astro Hog So now still run K&B 19s 40s love Enya lapped 09 need break-in forever Dont care Its small venturi gives suction wouldnt believe reliable runs whole tanks theyre peculiar places Mine still flies after 20 years OS 30 another pet Id settle baffled lapped engine day feel better ball bearings mans meat - STs great too Ive run Fox hard indeed find bad engine today So yesterday framed two sides big Krackerjac kid Claude McCullough think will go better Kadet men tioned bit about flat-bottom airfoil nearly symmetrical forward front spar says thinks thats what great Fletcher Scale model forgot onefor shame Hes Missouri mean Iowa know Sig might make 90 Kadet way fly Kadets wont have cut weeds runway overruns turn loose Kadet Grande Hope pro duce knew guy 18-ft Falcon gave Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Norm Rosenstock demo Moustique during black August said cover wings Ill trust test fly itbut careful beloved 05 90 expect get shot flying next year Meanwhile mag wanted plans nothing world could get drawing board fix up crude working drawings Meanwhile giant Aristocrat stood idle year am whitewashing fences again hope persuade guys Freder icksburg store dont know yet can flown twice year visit said yes have so-nice long runway too can swing good landing have 560 feet nice short grass Pilot Srull will die thousand deaths mut ter hey let land Running its Tartan 28 lb peppy 132 cu earths great pleasures electric guys have snowed should see stuff Ive sent checking Old Square Sides plans authenticated Antique Bob Boucher Astro Flight would perfect 15 belt reduc tionmaybe direct drive have two Old Square Sides has 6-ft spanin Continued page 20 18 Model Aviation Shawne Kirkland son Jaysonand John Wayne doll cockpitshow off Less Putnams great big beautiful DH Tiger Moth scale-like flying job Winter 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updating futt tine motors word cobatt flies around Hett mark up ptans return Meanwhite Ive sent ptans Skybo see Ctukey drawing Rotand Boucher Leisure check out geared 05 think Im serious Theres revotution now electrics have reached point new 1982 05 almost equat last years 15s course alt sizes wilt soon take quantum jump Srult tried Leisure 05 Gotdberg alt-foam RTF Ranger 42 appropriated crate too After takeoff fights its way through ground turbutence tears around break-neck speed gets high has bring down before goes out sight Switching off ptays ittike fiddte Coming power fadingif avoid running batteries way down deadstick batteries big favorit really skims touches down smoothly pavement like F-15 coming home enough elevator power ease ptunk-down grass tt flew fine 6-3 prop improvement 6-4 fan tastic Pitch all-important electric must play pitch going get peak performance much gas engine Worth AMA executive director put Astro Ftight 15 bett drive ancient Buzzard Bombshell flew Enya 35 now 20 years otd Dear Bob Harrah built crate appeard RCM about 1972 realty started popular Old-Timer RC movement best-seller among plans Bob sent huge crate un covered RCM 40 1975packed excelsior colored jelly beans stood around tong engine froze So John Worth took over flew just everywhere near boardwalk beach electric Worth suddenly needed props next day best prop combo Zinger 13-8 few hobby shops stock such oddball sizes about 14-6 05 90 might work John coupte eso off went Shangri-la tall grass rolling hills flew off hand using 14-6 managed five-plus minutes may 10 minutes gets 13-8 Zingers Like flying newly soloed pilot writing flight path grows zig-zag getting down piece counts Two days turned 10 days passed since last sentence Absolutely perfect flying wea ther know what means Warni sunny calm near calm weekday fliers thinking spring returned Kadet 40 goes like blue blazes approaches suddenly seem easy Today unbelievable ache over writing easier Just minute Hurst Bowers dropped museum-quality /2A Pee Wee looked terribly familiar Old Square Sides Antique 1936-37 gotten AMA number7 19 got over shock said sure will nice see fly Shangri-la said Well yours Like winning state lottery Im going put Ace magnetic actuator enjoy no must hang up Im speechless. going tell about some interesting planes Ive seen kits ARFs wild magazine things Three turned out Pilot modContinued page 120 20 Model Aviation NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS FUSELAGE FIXTURE FOURMOST FUSELAGE FIXTURE S designed AeOo,stieIIy tlign futelage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Simply slide four centering brackets track until aligo firewall tail foist two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubberbands structure will thee straight track ussumsedatstuctusuptutuutt Price 2995 Miter Master Miter Mestor stool designed enable crafts man make perfect sints wood accurately sanding gre-entangles sguaringfenceA ollowsfsrprncisehOu angles retracts below surface Any angle can beset triangular guide using 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bit smooth groovy Fast skimming finals nice touchdowns remarkably long run-out Curious perhaps momentum plus ground effect low wing small size Noon yesterday some desk jockey appeared local field Pilot Acrostar mod eled after Henry Haighs ship outscored Loudenslager 1982 World Champs Loudenslager heavily modified old Stephens Akro suit own requirements see Don Berliners article November 1982 MA Haigh too did own thing similar-looking ships popping up over world copycats Haigh still flies Pitts mono makes better picture judges Sound familiar Another taildragger model OS 25-powered chap ran out lunch hour before flew high-speed taxi tests ran arrow straight touch right beginning runand getting briefly airborne off short grass strip remained seen lovely aerobatic Scaler would have enough power suit its pilot throughout aerobatic regime thought 40 wouldnt fit messing up cowl now have planes truly re quire new hot engine between 30 probably 35 displacement have Pilot Aero Sport Srull flies 25 lovely looking mini-Pattern thing experi ence wed like slightly longer gear bigger wheels grass Don says wishes tad power supposed 19 powered old 25 didnt attain its promising potential aerobaticsand 40 again just too big week later installed OS 25quite lively says powerful old 05 30 beauti fully made finish decorated chap Haigh said everything fits gether extreme precision Aero Spurt 1-in goof cowl length great otherwise Two chaps flying problems Christen Eagle get whatever existed real aircraft go Scale Vague talk some doctor California wrote definitive paper rigging Eagle cor rection degree upthrust stop slight climb trimmed inverted no ill effects otherwise have noted number bipes model form started out dogs flew like dreams CG moved far forward beyond what books say 40-powered EAA Bipe blown prominent Scaler CG inch front lower wing leading edge take offs bipe erratic similar jazz try Ratty takeoffs get groove strange-looking delta slot through wing prop engine being well 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three-wheel bi cycle first marginally powered Quad ra stub pipe carried exhaust outside removed rpm jumped 1000 Weight 30 pounds Speaking CG location noted balanced front end last fullchord rib bottom wing Both wings have generous sweep-back CG front center section cut-out floated Asked test fly Don Sruil fascinated kept two hours Incidentally CB Quadra exhaust system plug big scale tube exit cured power problem Loops rollsmajestic did 120 Model Aviation REPAIR SEHviu i-uR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE 1 SALES RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOS THE 3EA- 68 Wingspan / 19 35 EnginesPlan N Pattern Set classic Seaplane design first appeared early 1952 era beautiful water performer FI3 $1995 will make hydra enthusiast Out modeler Wheel positions suggested Amphibious Land use 116 Size PUSS MOTH DH 80 Puss MOTH beautifully proportioned flight Plan & Pattern St RC6S-3 @ $1495 Wingipant 73/ 20 40 Engine Please add $200 3 Fall Si. 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Full size PLAN N PATTERN SET RCFF7 $1495 Prices Complete Plans Sub Assembly Detailed Parts Lists Add $200 Mailing Tube Details new designs & greaf things come Send OthS Iretondablel information snap two lift wires45-lb-test fishing leader tat fittings Now has 65-lb-test wires Lven broken wires structural integrity wing panel attachment good crate stayed piece An Antic-type job has load-carrying wires broke both wires under its stabilizer warned guys breaks occurring fittings seems obvious some form bushing eyelet Control Line style might used Brittle wire must sharp ly bent Dont ask know build ing anything really big usc rugged powerful servos can find carry pack really does job loads dont see hear flutter time working rapid tiny move mentsthat will eventually get servo boy mans errand Control surtaces should mass-balanced faster modern aircraft should Isave aerodynamic balancing lots antiques classics have allyway found real crates hinge lines back surfaces chord stitl dont know must learn OK OK give up going crash-land sermonette phone keeps ringing things keep happeningand might well put pillow lap cradle head Another flying sessiongoing two weeks now fantastic weather today broke heat record November barely NVRC has nearly 250 members now trying fly once guy witls Sportster 20 does well began flying year Iseard must have trainer until summer flying genuine 1950 Live Wire Trainer fits perfectly ajet jockey tlse Air Force developed restart flame-out land ing techniques joked ed name base after hjtTtr said name bases after dead peoplenot opted airline piloting longer life owned two Pitts third aerobatic job forget Flew air shows grounded hence Live Wire Live Wire auctioned off club tuceting So out comes kid no higher belt buckle mother support man spotted Isis Live Wire slsowed kid flew Its slow said little guy Everything flies faster time turned around crate way up gawd kid tooling around like veter love Live Wires talked deBolt kitting trainermaybe first true RC kit ever Doug Pratt found camera get picture column veteran pilot tiny kid ma incredible ancient Live Wire danged camera out film Another jingle Sons Mike Bob Long Island back club Sunday session flown Evans Simitar Deuce de signed K&B 20 has superb OS Schnuerle 25 Right off board flew no trimtning Inverted rolls works within 30 seconds So easy fly said can handle 40 Kadet could enjoy Simitar Another jingle Would go down Ilyline Models Saturday night Halloween After family get-together staggered late evening Maxecuters what Allan Schanzles Stz ft rubber-powered Fairchild PT-22 low wing Allan intrigued tny stories about 6-ft Rubber Scale old days 9-ft Cessna giant lovely PT blue yellow stars red-whitc-blue-striped rud der top quality tlsese Maxecuter experts test Told him used put giant smooth pavement wind few turns hand let taxi Kept adding turns until tail lifted until wheels barely showing daylight Ballast needed Just add low power turns ex tended glide go have sneak up rubber 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Wa 982q WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Coxand Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT Eox division Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies W 785I Minneapolis MN 55135 ports next day said flying concensus gets up 75 feet hell lose eventually Weight rubber 17 oz tests stopped broke rubber Hows Must have heck extended glide No damage Remember Sruils Jungmeister MAN 049 aileron elevator controls Now has old Max 10 Schnuerlewe miss grand 10 Its also full-house So early morn nar row quiet road foot Shangri-la eight quick flights Somewhat fast doesnt trouble eye Darting over hill valley looping rolling steering around scattered trees shooting lovely touchand-goes long power approaches Years ago classic moviein Twenties probably Ernst Udet gracefully tooling around Flamingo near water level winding out towering white icebergs must have taken quite camera pilot chase him around Swooping end less turns banks hypnotically dream-like Well thats souped-up Jungmeister didnt talk want superb small Scale matches biggies Get plan MANand modify 2 should know long last Society Electric Aircraft Modelers mail today came 10-page newslettera minimagazine its treatment Top-notch writing organization Articles tips drawingsfull stuff electric beginners need have about 100 members already want electric stuff nutshell write group 11632 Flamingo Dr Garden Grove CA 92644 Membership bargain $10 Presi dent Frank Heacox can reached phone 714 539-3450 Now new frequencies fact youll interested know AMA testflying two systems 926 MHz UHF After hearing some guy ask Bill Hershberger going fly today asked Bill what has stub antenna transmitter about 6-in long another short receiver antenna sticks out fuselage equipment 459-MHz British system has modified Performance sensationalto limit vision directional no glitches far Blil operated test plane inside car hatchback open After cold test inside frige hour noted acci dent scope picking up perfect signals inside refrigerator Some down line application will made AMA FCC approval perhaps spot likely range frequencies Theres space up thar Did hear thud column just crashed After repairs hope better flight next month Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 RC Scale/Wischers Continued page 45 Jomar module rudder coupled aileron channel rudder stick centered module dc-coupled whenever rudder stick transmitter off center permits model flown through slips point rolls require crossed controls No trans mitter modifications internal linkages plane needed Another Jomar product may interest accessory controller can used electric brakes Unfortunately Aeropiccola elec Brie brakes Italy now off market type use controller know would substitute operation rudder stick moved off center brake side energized permit selective application ground maneuvers apply both brakes simultaneously down-elevator used controller can also used spare channel available transmitter receiver operate two scale functions model such lights bomb parachute drop within its amp capacity Jomar Products 2028 Knights bridge Dr Cincinnati OH 45224 word about Aeropiccola electric brakes used Emeraude Beryl mod els micro switch actuated full downelevator energize both brakes simultaneously three 500 mAh nickel-cadmium batteries brakes applied speed above fast taxi tail-dragger models will nose over same will result higher voltage used speed useful stop model com pletely before takeoff maximum points contest never use after landing shorten roll also used certain stopping main wheels hangar square Pinto Taxi Return maneuver contests now optional maneuver Sport Scale class Brakes kind quite unnecessary flying grass field Scale modelers carve wood plastic parts using Dremel tool will find have cutters lose effectiveness loading up chips will burn wood whether balsa harder materials Robart displayed line almost indestructible carbide cutters elimi nate problem wont overheat load up wood fiber plastic fiberglass Six shapes including ball disc cone cylinder avail able both coarse fine grit /g-in diameter shanks fit Dremel military paint colors Petit Paint Co mak ers Hobbypoxy products has released formulas two Navy colors Matte White Light Gull Gray Matte White Federal Standard 37875 duplicateN flat undersurface World War II Navy aircraft completes presentation early WW II Navy three-color camouflage scheme See December 1982 column Sea Blue Intermediate Blue 122 Model Aviation K
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I am building what flying buddies call rubber ducky Once would build nothing ON MONDAY MORNINGS Garfield car toon cat pulls blanket over head talk about fun rain coming down buckets dank wind howling 907 least Im stuck rush-hour traf fic As briefing guy Hill Street Blues says careful out Before AC air-conditioning tamed Au gust DC District Columbia smart old Pols survived spending time Atlan tic beaches August flying sessions few far between mostly early morn late afternoon Shangri-la lazy Vagabond RC-Assist caught thermals flight five consecutive low-key ses sions September slipped through fingers dreary wind-up book After would October bit luck golden haze little wind Novem ber book publisher sent back 7-lb manu script including Xerox copies 200 illustra tions us check wonders wrought copy editor answer zillion queries Deadstick What Please describe Like short-tailed hoss couldnt swat flies called ye MA editor said No wont write name Oh dear said am possible millions man-days modeling experience have gone hobby/sport us remain collectively confused about what make things tick tantalizing mystery doesnt someone write book people have always left high dry Until now page introduction Bob Under wood remarkable 122-page mag-size paperback authored Ray Wiederhold pub lished Midwest Technical Publications Inc 1741 Big Bend Blvd St Louis MO 63117 pleasant surprise Its called Fly 180 simple professional ly-done illustrations tells us exactly what neec-to knowno no less Beginner hacker expert alike will find enioyable well-written very wellorganized veritable builder pilot manual intro begins primary motivations publication assist fliers RC airplanes know little nothing about basic aerodynamics teach fascinating subiect uncom plicated commonsense manner does exactly No long-hair stuff no giddy math no mumbo-iumbo aerodynamics has everything $995 may best investment youll ever make ICover price $1 195 repriced $995 l Winter 16 Model Aviation jUSt fun Bill Winter Seeing believing Allan Schanzle makes tirst test tlight 66in Fairchild PT-22 Its rubber-powered lof coursell Passing overhead picture below left Fairchild extended glide power flight three loops 1-in rubber As floats huge prop stopped camera like Indoor model Below Right happy gentleman left Earl Stahl all-time master Rubber Scale magazine projects Seen its bare bones PT scaled up Stahls numerous plans Without rubber model weighs 17 oz Winter would have know sort far-out stuff goes time Shangrila three pictures Tom Schmitt HOW THEY FLY did design Kits made teel too, hated prefabrication wouldnt use die-cut rib Fiberglass shells 105 shells MonoKote tinsel stuff guys couldnt swing silk-and-d ope letter less epoxy would four-letter word days avoid drawing board beat curds out hapless Kadet have Eaglet hold have conned son Mike crossed fingers making Lagle next year Once did Pattern reeds now cant bothered rolls inverted bores meand Im now lousy Going inverted off half-loop either finish loop execute inverted stall chase ghost riders sky Yes will spot glassing MonoKote everything Coverite Micafilm has rapt tention Time essence Flying building now counts takes rubber ducky count inc remember Flitecraft ad tltat showed guy standing wing panel stretched across two blocks two years could get back Don Srull flew ST 46 practice aerobatics tise way equipped early Cox-Sanwa rite first radio got after 13-year hiatus seven years ago flying never missed beat no servo developed quiver also Futaba RTU complete K&B Veco 19 ancient Futaba system three channels pleased well now gathers dust watched young guys Flite crafts Wilga may eye beholder liked its Polish looks joke son its coordination flight want rubber ducky good aileron trainer Kadet advanced old age Also am sentimental Hows Gary Leonard Flitecraft genius now Jayhawk reorganized guess calls Jayhawk Little Airplane Com pany grabs pop ma two kids see picture crates stacked like cordwood makes wonder just much family can live work play together Little Airplane Fac tory indeed instruction booklet filled won derful pix bit like Harry Higley picturejammed book dont have Harrys books loser once asked Gary K&B 40 mounted such small crate said wild men insisted 40 Some guys have told broke wings tried breaking over kneethe Futaba RTF wing tooand have Samson presumes guys dive past red line haul back sticka stupid way fly So crate Cardinal now has beefy joiner huge cut-to-outline timber slips two holes foam epoxied extending way out wing balsa skin gonebutt-joined balsa gives trouble skinned wings because glue joint seems lift Actually think such wings work better turbulation guys think something wrong Soft foam stretches underneath Skinning now piece thin hard plastic-like finish tail surfaces now die-cut foam-core board first worry about sur face layers something hard tough what looks like flat open edge sealed did add balsa front piece both fin stab cant leave anything way sup posed found Top Elite Juicy Hatfield atmosphere electric Third Annual KRC Electric Fly September 18-19 Hatfield PA Nothing Electric flown siteno noise prob lems sure Forty top-notch Electrics eight states thrilled 300 spectators radar gun caught 95 mph tops Keith Shaw Ann Arbor Ml supplied biggest thrills highly aerobatic Barbarian outside Cuban 8s such stuffl twin Aerocommander Shrike did four-pointers snaps spins knife-edge Sorts Scale usual gravity-defying Sailpianes Electric Helicopter iron can set 2 easily whatever takes no sign damage foam core put bigger wheels everything cluding Eaglet because grass run ways billiard-table smooth Replace ment parts Cardinal available nominal cost example can buy assembled fuselage trim $1695a tempting way quickly build otherwise original want fool around have 05 35 red fuselage white flying surfaces Cardinal purty February 1983 17 Left Thirteen-year-old Kris Kopski dad Bob pioneer Electric Heinz Koerners 98-in Connie TWA colors Has one-piece wing four Mabuchi 550 motors 76-in fuselage weighs less 10 lb Right AMA Executive Director John Worth flew RTF Airtronics Kitty times finds Electric fascinating pictures Bob Kopski Left about China Clipper Jim Pentimall flies 47-oz Martin four Astro 02s Ten Fenstermacher holding isa member KRC Right Leon Shulman Keith Shaw Zombie Old-Timer Leisure racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive six 12 Ah cells 11-7% prop mounted above motor puts higher Leon did gas Nelson Whitman 05 Simsbury CT readies Shag II hydro model Astro motor Isize unknown pylon mount flying boat got off grass using hi-start assist RAM speed control 67 oz 6-ft Astro Porterfield foreground probably has Astro 15 belt reduction wed guess 13-8 prop An Electric future other interesting good RTFs ARFs hurry Please see competitors ads now guys must feel like philosophical bartenders fell love own Krack erjac after seeing Herb Clukeys drawing recent Fun column decided scale up ailerons less dihedral K&B 40 get emotional about engines too have pet engines general know almost make just great dont want bothered facts dont yearn Schnuerles because leisurely sport flying preference using generous props combos demand Schnuerles non-Schnuerle nothing potent baffled K&B 40 K&B also makes Schnuerles After Arden 09 19 spark-ignition glow enjoyed years flying tireless K&B 32 perhaps first sample K&B 15 engine put US FAI FF picture early SOs enjoyed first K&B 19 broadest yet fine tuning needle ever sawand started prime first flip always needed 27 MHz previous flier set up final first guy start up next always won selfish race Came greenheads23 35 WINGSPAN-65 WING AREA-51550INS WEIGHT- 38 OZS POWERROCKET45 WING CHORD- 9 1i SCALE IN INCHES TIMER0246810 12 14 16 hjo After Peter Miller England told Bill Winter about outstanding results Skybo Old-Timer Bill asked him whats Skybothen ended up gifted plans via Ben Buckles Old Time Plan Service 9 Islay Crescent Highwood Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Adventure some visitors ol Bills inner sanctum rumor hes really laying out Skybo Leisure geared 05 electricplus Old Square Sides Antique either Astros 15 belt reduction OS 4-cycle latter still box Winter fiddles watching TV 45 numero uno RC days Astro Hog So now still run K&B 19s 40s love Enya lapped 09 need break-in forever Dont care Its small venturi gives suction wouldnt believe reliable runs whole tanks theyre peculiar places Mine still flies after 20 years OS 30 another pet Id settle baffled lapped engine day feel better ball bearings mans meat - STs great too Ive run Fox hard indeed find bad engine today So yesterday framed two sides big Krackerjac kid Claude McCullough think will go better Kadet men tioned bit about flat-bottom airfoil nearly symmetrical forward front spar says thinks thats what great Fletcher Scale model forgot onefor shame Hes Missouri mean Iowa know Sig might make 90 Kadet way fly Kadets wont have cut weeds runway overruns turn loose Kadet Grande Hope pro duce knew guy 18-ft Falcon gave Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Norm Rosenstock demo Moustique during black August said cover wings Ill trust test fly itbut careful beloved 05 90 expect get shot flying next year Meanwhile mag wanted plans nothing world could get drawing board fix up crude working drawings Meanwhile giant Aristocrat stood idle year am whitewashing fences again hope persuade guys Freder icksburg store dont know yet can flown twice year visit said yes have so-nice long runway too can swing good landing have 560 feet nice short grass Pilot Srull will die thousand deaths mut ter hey let land Running its Tartan 28 lb peppy 132 cu earths great pleasures electric guys have snowed should see stuff Ive sent checking Old Square Sides plans authenticated Antique Bob Boucher Astro Flight would perfect 15 belt reduc tionmaybe direct drive have two Old Square Sides has 6-ft spanin Continued page 20 18 Model Aviation Shawne Kirkland son Jaysonand John Wayne doll cockpitshow off Less Putnams great big beautiful DH Tiger Moth scale-like flying job Winter 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updating futt tine motors word cobatt flies around Hett mark up ptans return Meanwhite Ive sent ptans Skybo see Ctukey drawing Rotand Boucher Leisure check out geared 05 think Im serious Theres revotution now electrics have reached point new 1982 05 almost equat last years 15s course alt sizes wilt soon take quantum jump Srult tried Leisure 05 Gotdberg alt-foam RTF Ranger 42 appropriated crate too After takeoff fights its way through ground turbutence tears around break-neck speed gets high has bring down before goes out sight Switching off ptays ittike fiddte Coming power fadingif avoid running batteries way down deadstick batteries big favorit really skims touches down smoothly pavement like F-15 coming home enough elevator power ease ptunk-down grass tt flew fine 6-3 prop improvement 6-4 fan tastic Pitch all-important electric must play pitch going get peak performance much gas engine Worth AMA executive director put Astro Ftight 15 bett drive ancient Buzzard Bombshell flew Enya 35 now 20 years otd Dear Bob Harrah built crate appeard RCM about 1972 realty started popular Old-Timer RC movement best-seller among plans Bob sent huge crate un covered RCM 40 1975packed excelsior colored jelly beans stood around tong engine froze So John Worth took over flew just everywhere near boardwalk beach electric Worth suddenly needed props next day best prop combo Zinger 13-8 few hobby shops stock such oddball sizes about 14-6 05 90 might work John coupte eso off went Shangri-la tall grass rolling hills flew off hand using 14-6 managed five-plus minutes may 10 minutes gets 13-8 Zingers Like flying newly soloed pilot writing flight path grows zig-zag getting down piece counts Two days turned 10 days passed since last sentence Absolutely perfect flying wea ther know what means Warni sunny calm near calm weekday fliers thinking spring returned Kadet 40 goes like blue blazes approaches suddenly seem easy Today unbelievable ache over writing easier Just minute Hurst Bowers dropped museum-quality /2A Pee Wee looked terribly familiar Old Square Sides Antique 1936-37 gotten AMA number7 19 got over shock said sure will nice see fly Shangri-la said Well yours Like winning state lottery Im going put Ace magnetic actuator enjoy no must hang up Im speechless. going tell about some interesting planes Ive seen kits ARFs wild magazine things Three turned out Pilot modContinued page 120 20 Model Aviation NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS FUSELAGE FIXTURE FOURMOST FUSELAGE FIXTURE S designed AeOo,stieIIy tlign futelage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Simply slide four centering brackets track until aligo firewall tail foist two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubberbands structure will thee straight track ussumsedatstuctusuptutuutt Price 2995 Miter Master Miter Mestor stool designed enable crafts man make perfect sints wood accurately sanding gre-entangles sguaringfenceA ollowsfsrprncisehOu angles retracts below surface Any angle can beset triangular guide using 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bit smooth groovy Fast skimming finals nice touchdowns remarkably long run-out Curious perhaps momentum plus ground effect low wing small size Noon yesterday some desk jockey appeared local field Pilot Acrostar mod eled after Henry Haighs ship outscored Loudenslager 1982 World Champs Loudenslager heavily modified old Stephens Akro suit own requirements see Don Berliners article November 1982 MA Haigh too did own thing similar-looking ships popping up over world copycats Haigh still flies Pitts mono makes better picture judges Sound familiar Another taildragger model OS 25-powered chap ran out lunch hour before flew high-speed taxi tests ran arrow straight touch right beginning runand getting briefly airborne off short grass strip remained seen lovely aerobatic Scaler would have enough power suit its pilot throughout aerobatic regime thought 40 wouldnt fit messing up cowl now have planes truly re quire new hot engine between 30 probably 35 displacement have Pilot Aero Sport Srull flies 25 lovely looking mini-Pattern thing experi ence wed like slightly longer gear bigger wheels grass Don says wishes tad power supposed 19 powered old 25 didnt attain its promising potential aerobaticsand 40 again just too big week later installed OS 25quite lively says powerful old 05 30 beauti fully made finish decorated chap Haigh said everything fits gether extreme precision Aero Spurt 1-in goof cowl length great otherwise Two chaps flying problems Christen Eagle get whatever existed real aircraft go Scale Vague talk some doctor California wrote definitive paper rigging Eagle cor rection degree upthrust stop slight climb trimmed inverted no ill effects otherwise have noted number bipes model form started out dogs flew like dreams CG moved far forward beyond what books say 40-powered EAA Bipe blown prominent Scaler CG inch front lower wing leading edge take offs bipe erratic similar jazz try Ratty takeoffs get groove strange-looking delta slot through wing prop engine being well 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three-wheel bi cycle first marginally powered Quad ra stub pipe carried exhaust outside removed rpm jumped 1000 Weight 30 pounds Speaking CG location noted balanced front end last fullchord rib bottom wing Both wings have generous sweep-back CG front center section cut-out floated Asked test fly Don Sruil fascinated kept two hours Incidentally CB Quadra exhaust system plug big scale tube exit cured power problem Loops rollsmajestic did 120 Model Aviation REPAIR SEHviu i-uR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE 1 SALES RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOS THE 3EA- 68 Wingspan / 19 35 EnginesPlan N Pattern Set classic Seaplane design first appeared early 1952 era beautiful water performer FI3 $1995 will make hydra enthusiast Out modeler Wheel positions suggested Amphibious Land use 116 Size PUSS MOTH DH 80 Puss MOTH beautifully proportioned flight Plan & Pattern St RC6S-3 @ $1495 Wingipant 73/ 20 40 Engine Please add $200 3 Fall Si. 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Full size PLAN N PATTERN SET RCFF7 $1495 Prices Complete Plans Sub Assembly Detailed Parts Lists Add $200 Mailing Tube Details new designs & greaf things come Send OthS Iretondablel information snap two lift wires45-lb-test fishing leader tat fittings Now has 65-lb-test wires Lven broken wires structural integrity wing panel attachment good crate stayed piece An Antic-type job has load-carrying wires broke both wires under its stabilizer warned guys breaks occurring fittings seems obvious some form bushing eyelet Control Line style might used Brittle wire must sharp ly bent Dont ask know build ing anything really big usc rugged powerful servos can find carry pack really does job loads dont see hear flutter time working rapid tiny move mentsthat will eventually get servo boy mans errand Control surtaces should mass-balanced faster modern aircraft should Isave aerodynamic balancing lots antiques classics have allyway found real crates hinge lines back surfaces chord stitl dont know must learn OK OK give up going crash-land sermonette phone keeps ringing things keep happeningand might well put pillow lap cradle head Another flying sessiongoing two weeks now fantastic weather today broke heat record November barely NVRC has nearly 250 members now trying fly once guy witls Sportster 20 does well began flying year Iseard must have trainer until summer flying genuine 1950 Live Wire Trainer fits perfectly ajet jockey tlse Air Force developed restart flame-out land ing techniques joked ed name base after hjtTtr said name bases after dead peoplenot opted airline piloting longer life owned two Pitts third aerobatic job forget Flew air shows grounded hence Live Wire Live Wire auctioned off club tuceting So out comes kid no higher belt buckle mother support man spotted Isis Live Wire slsowed kid flew Its slow said little guy Everything flies faster time turned around crate way up gawd kid tooling around like veter love Live Wires talked deBolt kitting trainermaybe first true RC kit ever Doug Pratt found camera get picture column veteran pilot tiny kid ma incredible ancient Live Wire danged camera out film Another jingle Sons Mike Bob Long Island back club Sunday session flown Evans Simitar Deuce de signed K&B 20 has superb OS Schnuerle 25 Right off board flew no trimtning Inverted rolls works within 30 seconds So easy fly said can handle 40 Kadet could enjoy Simitar Another jingle Would go down Ilyline Models Saturday night Halloween After family get-together staggered late evening Maxecuters what Allan Schanzles Stz ft rubber-powered Fairchild PT-22 low wing Allan intrigued tny stories about 6-ft Rubber Scale old days 9-ft Cessna giant lovely PT blue yellow stars red-whitc-blue-striped rud der top quality tlsese Maxecuter experts test Told him used put giant smooth pavement wind few turns hand let taxi Kept adding turns until tail lifted until wheels barely showing daylight Ballast needed Just add low power turns ex tended glide go have sneak up rubber 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Wa 982q WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Coxand Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT Eox division Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies W 785I Minneapolis MN 55135 ports next day said flying concensus gets up 75 feet hell lose eventually Weight rubber 17 oz tests stopped broke rubber Hows Must have heck extended glide No damage Remember Sruils Jungmeister MAN 049 aileron elevator controls Now has old Max 10 Schnuerlewe miss grand 10 Its also full-house So early morn nar row quiet road foot Shangri-la eight quick flights Somewhat fast doesnt trouble eye Darting over hill valley looping rolling steering around scattered trees shooting lovely touchand-goes long power approaches Years ago classic moviein Twenties probably Ernst Udet gracefully tooling around Flamingo near water level winding out towering white icebergs must have taken quite camera pilot chase him around Swooping end less turns banks hypnotically dream-like Well thats souped-up Jungmeister didnt talk want superb small Scale matches biggies Get plan MANand modify 2 should know long last Society Electric Aircraft Modelers mail today came 10-page newslettera minimagazine its treatment Top-notch writing organization Articles tips drawingsfull stuff electric beginners need have about 100 members already want electric stuff nutshell write group 11632 Flamingo Dr Garden Grove CA 92644 Membership bargain $10 Presi dent Frank Heacox can reached phone 714 539-3450 Now new frequencies fact youll interested know AMA testflying two systems 926 MHz UHF After hearing some guy ask Bill Hershberger going fly today asked Bill what has stub antenna transmitter about 6-in long another short receiver antenna sticks out fuselage equipment 459-MHz British system has modified Performance sensationalto limit vision directional no glitches far Blil operated test plane inside car hatchback open After cold test inside frige hour noted acci dent scope picking up perfect signals inside refrigerator Some down line application will made AMA FCC approval perhaps spot likely range frequencies Theres space up thar Did hear thud column just crashed After repairs hope better flight next month Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 RC Scale/Wischers Continued page 45 Jomar module rudder coupled aileron channel rudder stick centered module dc-coupled whenever rudder stick transmitter off center permits model flown through slips point rolls require crossed controls No trans mitter modifications internal linkages plane needed Another Jomar product may interest accessory controller can used electric brakes Unfortunately Aeropiccola elec Brie brakes Italy now off market type use controller know would substitute operation rudder stick moved off center brake side energized permit selective application ground maneuvers apply both brakes simultaneously down-elevator used controller can also used spare channel available transmitter receiver operate two scale functions model such lights bomb parachute drop within its amp capacity Jomar Products 2028 Knights bridge Dr Cincinnati OH 45224 word about Aeropiccola electric brakes used Emeraude Beryl mod els micro switch actuated full downelevator energize both brakes simultaneously three 500 mAh nickel-cadmium batteries brakes applied speed above fast taxi tail-dragger models will nose over same will result higher voltage used speed useful stop model com pletely before takeoff maximum points contest never use after landing shorten roll also used certain stopping main wheels hangar square Pinto Taxi Return maneuver contests now optional maneuver Sport Scale class Brakes kind quite unnecessary flying grass field Scale modelers carve wood plastic parts using Dremel tool will find have cutters lose effectiveness loading up chips will burn wood whether balsa harder materials Robart displayed line almost indestructible carbide cutters elimi nate problem wont overheat load up wood fiber plastic fiberglass Six shapes including ball disc cone cylinder avail able both coarse fine grit /g-in diameter shanks fit Dremel military paint colors Petit Paint Co mak ers Hobbypoxy products has released formulas two Navy colors Matte White Light Gull Gray Matte White Federal Standard 37875 duplicateN flat undersurface World War II Navy aircraft completes presentation early WW II Navy three-color camouflage scheme See December 1982 column Sea Blue Intermediate Blue 122 Model Aviation K
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I am building what flying buddies call rubber ducky Once would build nothing ON MONDAY MORNINGS Garfield car toon cat pulls blanket over head talk about fun rain coming down buckets dank wind howling 907 least Im stuck rush-hour traf fic As briefing guy Hill Street Blues says careful out Before AC air-conditioning tamed Au gust DC District Columbia smart old Pols survived spending time Atlan tic beaches August flying sessions few far between mostly early morn late afternoon Shangri-la lazy Vagabond RC-Assist caught thermals flight five consecutive low-key ses sions September slipped through fingers dreary wind-up book After would October bit luck golden haze little wind Novem ber book publisher sent back 7-lb manu script including Xerox copies 200 illustra tions us check wonders wrought copy editor answer zillion queries Deadstick What Please describe Like short-tailed hoss couldnt swat flies called ye MA editor said No wont write name Oh dear said am possible millions man-days modeling experience have gone hobby/sport us remain collectively confused about what make things tick tantalizing mystery doesnt someone write book people have always left high dry Until now page introduction Bob Under wood remarkable 122-page mag-size paperback authored Ray Wiederhold pub lished Midwest Technical Publications Inc 1741 Big Bend Blvd St Louis MO 63117 pleasant surprise Its called Fly 180 simple professional ly-done illustrations tells us exactly what neec-to knowno no less Beginner hacker expert alike will find enioyable well-written very wellorganized veritable builder pilot manual intro begins primary motivations publication assist fliers RC airplanes know little nothing about basic aerodynamics teach fascinating subiect uncom plicated commonsense manner does exactly No long-hair stuff no giddy math no mumbo-iumbo aerodynamics has everything $995 may best investment youll ever make ICover price $1 195 repriced $995 l Winter 16 Model Aviation jUSt fun Bill Winter Seeing believing Allan Schanzle makes tirst test tlight 66in Fairchild PT-22 Its rubber-powered lof coursell Passing overhead picture below left Fairchild extended glide power flight three loops 1-in rubber As floats huge prop stopped camera like Indoor model Below Right happy gentleman left Earl Stahl all-time master Rubber Scale magazine projects Seen its bare bones PT scaled up Stahls numerous plans Without rubber model weighs 17 oz Winter would have know sort far-out stuff goes time Shangrila three pictures Tom Schmitt HOW THEY FLY did design Kits made teel too, hated prefabrication wouldnt use die-cut rib Fiberglass shells 105 shells MonoKote tinsel stuff guys couldnt swing silk-and-d ope letter less epoxy would four-letter word days avoid drawing board beat curds out hapless Kadet have Eaglet hold have conned son Mike crossed fingers making Lagle next year Once did Pattern reeds now cant bothered rolls inverted bores meand Im now lousy Going inverted off half-loop either finish loop execute inverted stall chase ghost riders sky Yes will spot glassing MonoKote everything Coverite Micafilm has rapt tention Time essence Flying building now counts takes rubber ducky count inc remember Flitecraft ad tltat showed guy standing wing panel stretched across two blocks two years could get back Don Srull flew ST 46 practice aerobatics tise way equipped early Cox-Sanwa rite first radio got after 13-year hiatus seven years ago flying never missed beat no servo developed quiver also Futaba RTU complete K&B Veco 19 ancient Futaba system three channels pleased well now gathers dust watched young guys Flite crafts Wilga may eye beholder liked its Polish looks joke son its coordination flight want rubber ducky good aileron trainer Kadet advanced old age Also am sentimental Hows Gary Leonard Flitecraft genius now Jayhawk reorganized guess calls Jayhawk Little Airplane Com pany grabs pop ma two kids see picture crates stacked like cordwood makes wonder just much family can live work play together Little Airplane Fac tory indeed instruction booklet filled won derful pix bit like Harry Higley picturejammed book dont have Harrys books loser once asked Gary K&B 40 mounted such small crate said wild men insisted 40 Some guys have told broke wings tried breaking over kneethe Futaba RTF wing tooand have Samson presumes guys dive past red line haul back sticka stupid way fly So crate Cardinal now has beefy joiner huge cut-to-outline timber slips two holes foam epoxied extending way out wing balsa skin gonebutt-joined balsa gives trouble skinned wings because glue joint seems lift Actually think such wings work better turbulation guys think something wrong Soft foam stretches underneath Skinning now piece thin hard plastic-like finish tail surfaces now die-cut foam-core board first worry about sur face layers something hard tough what looks like flat open edge sealed did add balsa front piece both fin stab cant leave anything way sup posed found Top Elite Juicy Hatfield atmosphere electric Third Annual KRC Electric Fly September 18-19 Hatfield PA Nothing Electric flown siteno noise prob lems sure Forty top-notch Electrics eight states thrilled 300 spectators radar gun caught 95 mph tops Keith Shaw Ann Arbor Ml supplied biggest thrills highly aerobatic Barbarian outside Cuban 8s such stuffl twin Aerocommander Shrike did four-pointers snaps spins knife-edge Sorts Scale usual gravity-defying Sailpianes Electric Helicopter iron can set 2 easily whatever takes no sign damage foam core put bigger wheels everything cluding Eaglet because grass run ways billiard-table smooth Replace ment parts Cardinal available nominal cost example can buy assembled fuselage trim $1695a tempting way quickly build otherwise original want fool around have 05 35 red fuselage white flying surfaces Cardinal purty February 1983 17 Left Thirteen-year-old Kris Kopski dad Bob pioneer Electric Heinz Koerners 98-in Connie TWA colors Has one-piece wing four Mabuchi 550 motors 76-in fuselage weighs less 10 lb Right AMA Executive Director John Worth flew RTF Airtronics Kitty times finds Electric fascinating pictures Bob Kopski Left about China Clipper Jim Pentimall flies 47-oz Martin four Astro 02s Ten Fenstermacher holding isa member KRC Right Leon Shulman Keith Shaw Zombie Old-Timer Leisure racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive six 12 Ah cells 11-7% prop mounted above motor puts higher Leon did gas Nelson Whitman 05 Simsbury CT readies Shag II hydro model Astro motor Isize unknown pylon mount flying boat got off grass using hi-start assist RAM speed control 67 oz 6-ft Astro Porterfield foreground probably has Astro 15 belt reduction wed guess 13-8 prop An Electric future other interesting good RTFs ARFs hurry Please see competitors ads now guys must feel like philosophical bartenders fell love own Krack erjac after seeing Herb Clukeys drawing recent Fun column decided scale up ailerons less dihedral K&B 40 get emotional about engines too have pet engines general know almost make just great dont want bothered facts dont yearn Schnuerles because leisurely sport flying preference using generous props combos demand Schnuerles non-Schnuerle nothing potent baffled K&B 40 K&B also makes Schnuerles After Arden 09 19 spark-ignition glow enjoyed years flying tireless K&B 32 perhaps first sample K&B 15 engine put US FAI FF picture early SOs enjoyed first K&B 19 broadest yet fine tuning needle ever sawand started prime first flip always needed 27 MHz previous flier set up final first guy start up next always won selfish race Came greenheads23 35 WINGSPAN-65 WING AREA-51550INS WEIGHT- 38 OZS POWERROCKET45 WING CHORD- 9 1i SCALE IN INCHES TIMER0246810 12 14 16 hjo After Peter Miller England told Bill Winter about outstanding results Skybo Old-Timer Bill asked him whats Skybothen ended up gifted plans via Ben Buckles Old Time Plan Service 9 Islay Crescent Highwood Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Adventure some visitors ol Bills inner sanctum rumor hes really laying out Skybo Leisure geared 05 electricplus Old Square Sides Antique either Astros 15 belt reduction OS 4-cycle latter still box Winter fiddles watching TV 45 numero uno RC days Astro Hog So now still run K&B 19s 40s love Enya lapped 09 need break-in forever Dont care Its small venturi gives suction wouldnt believe reliable runs whole tanks theyre peculiar places Mine still flies after 20 years OS 30 another pet Id settle baffled lapped engine day feel better ball bearings mans meat - STs great too Ive run Fox hard indeed find bad engine today So yesterday framed two sides big Krackerjac kid Claude McCullough think will go better Kadet men tioned bit about flat-bottom airfoil nearly symmetrical forward front spar says thinks thats what great Fletcher Scale model forgot onefor shame Hes Missouri mean Iowa know Sig might make 90 Kadet way fly Kadets wont have cut weeds runway overruns turn loose Kadet Grande Hope pro duce knew guy 18-ft Falcon gave Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Norm Rosenstock demo Moustique during black August said cover wings Ill trust test fly itbut careful beloved 05 90 expect get shot flying next year Meanwhile mag wanted plans nothing world could get drawing board fix up crude working drawings Meanwhile giant Aristocrat stood idle year am whitewashing fences again hope persuade guys Freder icksburg store dont know yet can flown twice year visit said yes have so-nice long runway too can swing good landing have 560 feet nice short grass Pilot Srull will die thousand deaths mut ter hey let land Running its Tartan 28 lb peppy 132 cu earths great pleasures electric guys have snowed should see stuff Ive sent checking Old Square Sides plans authenticated Antique Bob Boucher Astro Flight would perfect 15 belt reduc tionmaybe direct drive have two Old Square Sides has 6-ft spanin Continued page 20 18 Model Aviation Shawne Kirkland son Jaysonand John Wayne doll cockpitshow off Less Putnams great big beautiful DH Tiger Moth scale-like flying job Winter 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updating futt tine motors word cobatt flies around Hett mark up ptans return Meanwhite Ive sent ptans Skybo see Ctukey drawing Rotand Boucher Leisure check out geared 05 think Im serious Theres revotution now electrics have reached point new 1982 05 almost equat last years 15s course alt sizes wilt soon take quantum jump Srult tried Leisure 05 Gotdberg alt-foam RTF Ranger 42 appropriated crate too After takeoff fights its way through ground turbutence tears around break-neck speed gets high has bring down before goes out sight Switching off ptays ittike fiddte Coming power fadingif avoid running batteries way down deadstick batteries big favorit really skims touches down smoothly pavement like F-15 coming home enough elevator power ease ptunk-down grass tt flew fine 6-3 prop improvement 6-4 fan tastic Pitch all-important electric must play pitch going get peak performance much gas engine Worth AMA executive director put Astro Ftight 15 bett drive ancient Buzzard Bombshell flew Enya 35 now 20 years otd Dear Bob Harrah built crate appeard RCM about 1972 realty started popular Old-Timer RC movement best-seller among plans Bob sent huge crate un covered RCM 40 1975packed excelsior colored jelly beans stood around tong engine froze So John Worth took over flew just everywhere near boardwalk beach electric Worth suddenly needed props next day best prop combo Zinger 13-8 few hobby shops stock such oddball sizes about 14-6 05 90 might work John coupte eso off went Shangri-la tall grass rolling hills flew off hand using 14-6 managed five-plus minutes may 10 minutes gets 13-8 Zingers Like flying newly soloed pilot writing flight path grows zig-zag getting down piece counts Two days turned 10 days passed since last sentence Absolutely perfect flying wea ther know what means Warni sunny calm near calm weekday fliers thinking spring returned Kadet 40 goes like blue blazes approaches suddenly seem easy Today unbelievable ache over writing easier Just minute Hurst Bowers dropped museum-quality /2A Pee Wee looked terribly familiar Old Square Sides Antique 1936-37 gotten AMA number7 19 got over shock said sure will nice see fly Shangri-la said Well yours Like winning state lottery Im going put Ace magnetic actuator enjoy no must hang up Im speechless. going tell about some interesting planes Ive seen kits ARFs wild magazine things Three turned out Pilot modContinued page 120 20 Model Aviation NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS FUSELAGE FIXTURE FOURMOST FUSELAGE FIXTURE S designed AeOo,stieIIy tlign futelage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Simply slide four centering brackets track until aligo firewall tail foist two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubberbands structure will thee straight track ussumsedatstuctusuptutuutt Price 2995 Miter Master Miter Mestor stool designed enable crafts man make perfect sints wood accurately sanding gre-entangles sguaringfenceA ollowsfsrprncisehOu angles retracts below surface Any angle can beset triangular guide using 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bit smooth groovy Fast skimming finals nice touchdowns remarkably long run-out Curious perhaps momentum plus ground effect low wing small size Noon yesterday some desk jockey appeared local field Pilot Acrostar mod eled after Henry Haighs ship outscored Loudenslager 1982 World Champs Loudenslager heavily modified old Stephens Akro suit own requirements see Don Berliners article November 1982 MA Haigh too did own thing similar-looking ships popping up over world copycats Haigh still flies Pitts mono makes better picture judges Sound familiar Another taildragger model OS 25-powered chap ran out lunch hour before flew high-speed taxi tests ran arrow straight touch right beginning runand getting briefly airborne off short grass strip remained seen lovely aerobatic Scaler would have enough power suit its pilot throughout aerobatic regime thought 40 wouldnt fit messing up cowl now have planes truly re quire new hot engine between 30 probably 35 displacement have Pilot Aero Sport Srull flies 25 lovely looking mini-Pattern thing experi ence wed like slightly longer gear bigger wheels grass Don says wishes tad power supposed 19 powered old 25 didnt attain its promising potential aerobaticsand 40 again just too big week later installed OS 25quite lively says powerful old 05 30 beauti fully made finish decorated chap Haigh said everything fits gether extreme precision Aero Spurt 1-in goof cowl length great otherwise Two chaps flying problems Christen Eagle get whatever existed real aircraft go Scale Vague talk some doctor California wrote definitive paper rigging Eagle cor rection degree upthrust stop slight climb trimmed inverted no ill effects otherwise have noted number bipes model form started out dogs flew like dreams CG moved far forward beyond what books say 40-powered EAA Bipe blown prominent Scaler CG inch front lower wing leading edge take offs bipe erratic similar jazz try Ratty takeoffs get groove strange-looking delta slot through wing prop engine being well 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three-wheel bi cycle first marginally powered Quad ra stub pipe carried exhaust outside removed rpm jumped 1000 Weight 30 pounds Speaking CG location noted balanced front end last fullchord rib bottom wing Both wings have generous sweep-back CG front center section cut-out floated Asked test fly Don Sruil fascinated kept two hours Incidentally CB Quadra exhaust system plug big scale tube exit cured power problem Loops rollsmajestic did 120 Model Aviation REPAIR SEHviu i-uR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE 1 SALES RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOS THE 3EA- 68 Wingspan / 19 35 EnginesPlan N Pattern Set classic Seaplane design first appeared early 1952 era beautiful water performer FI3 $1995 will make hydra enthusiast Out modeler Wheel positions suggested Amphibious Land use 116 Size PUSS MOTH DH 80 Puss MOTH beautifully proportioned flight Plan & Pattern St RC6S-3 @ $1495 Wingipant 73/ 20 40 Engine Please add $200 3 Fall Si. 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Full size PLAN N PATTERN SET RCFF7 $1495 Prices Complete Plans Sub Assembly Detailed Parts Lists Add $200 Mailing Tube Details new designs & greaf things come Send OthS Iretondablel information snap two lift wires45-lb-test fishing leader tat fittings Now has 65-lb-test wires Lven broken wires structural integrity wing panel attachment good crate stayed piece An Antic-type job has load-carrying wires broke both wires under its stabilizer warned guys breaks occurring fittings seems obvious some form bushing eyelet Control Line style might used Brittle wire must sharp ly bent Dont ask know build ing anything really big usc rugged powerful servos can find carry pack really does job loads dont see hear flutter time working rapid tiny move mentsthat will eventually get servo boy mans errand Control surtaces should mass-balanced faster modern aircraft should Isave aerodynamic balancing lots antiques classics have allyway found real crates hinge lines back surfaces chord stitl dont know must learn OK OK give up going crash-land sermonette phone keeps ringing things keep happeningand might well put pillow lap cradle head Another flying sessiongoing two weeks now fantastic weather today broke heat record November barely NVRC has nearly 250 members now trying fly once guy witls Sportster 20 does well began flying year Iseard must have trainer until summer flying genuine 1950 Live Wire Trainer fits perfectly ajet jockey tlse Air Force developed restart flame-out land ing techniques joked ed name base after hjtTtr said name bases after dead peoplenot opted airline piloting longer life owned two Pitts third aerobatic job forget Flew air shows grounded hence Live Wire Live Wire auctioned off club tuceting So out comes kid no higher belt buckle mother support man spotted Isis Live Wire slsowed kid flew Its slow said little guy Everything flies faster time turned around crate way up gawd kid tooling around like veter love Live Wires talked deBolt kitting trainermaybe first true RC kit ever Doug Pratt found camera get picture column veteran pilot tiny kid ma incredible ancient Live Wire danged camera out film Another jingle Sons Mike Bob Long Island back club Sunday session flown Evans Simitar Deuce de signed K&B 20 has superb OS Schnuerle 25 Right off board flew no trimtning Inverted rolls works within 30 seconds So easy fly said can handle 40 Kadet could enjoy Simitar Another jingle Would go down Ilyline Models Saturday night Halloween After family get-together staggered late evening Maxecuters what Allan Schanzles Stz ft rubber-powered Fairchild PT-22 low wing Allan intrigued tny stories about 6-ft Rubber Scale old days 9-ft Cessna giant lovely PT blue yellow stars red-whitc-blue-striped rud der top quality tlsese Maxecuter experts test Told him used put giant smooth pavement wind few turns hand let taxi Kept adding turns until tail lifted until wheels barely showing daylight Ballast needed Just add low power turns ex tended glide go have sneak up rubber biggies because wind-in ends pile sticks Allen tall grass Shangri-la mid night strategy early morn extended glides three loops -in rubber launelsed front brow depression ReATTENTION ERS February 1983 121 Plan Form tifully detailed Henry Strucks original plans EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA SIO MORGAN BALSA USA P/A U CONCEPT FLEET 1OSTETLER ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER P/US / & SCALE SUPER CUB FOEKER 0-7 BOEING P-f 2 P-2e F4B2 F4B4 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOO Y MACBR/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLE BRISIGHELLAS SrAROUSTER II /x SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIRCAMPER PILOT JUNGMANN f35 SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECA THAL ON PIPER PA-tB S OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR CITABRIA STAROUS TEA II PIUS SKYBOLT LINER U SPORT CHRISTEN EAGLE PB E HA WK STEARMAN STINSON SR-B MULLIGAN ft OTHERS BRtZEDft HEAT-TREATED WIREGEARS&CABANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send SASE latest lIst supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWrite call us T Et D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CITY Ml 40135 PHONE 313 421-6358 STEARMAN PT-I 7 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Wa 982q WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Coxand Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT Eox division Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies W 785I Minneapolis MN 55135 ports next day said flying concensus gets up 75 feet hell lose eventually Weight rubber 17 oz tests stopped broke rubber Hows Must have heck extended glide No damage Remember Sruils Jungmeister MAN 049 aileron elevator controls Now has old Max 10 Schnuerlewe miss grand 10 Its also full-house So early morn nar row quiet road foot Shangri-la eight quick flights Somewhat fast doesnt trouble eye Darting over hill valley looping rolling steering around scattered trees shooting lovely touchand-goes long power approaches Years ago classic moviein Twenties probably Ernst Udet gracefully tooling around Flamingo near water level winding out towering white icebergs must have taken quite camera pilot chase him around Swooping end less turns banks hypnotically dream-like Well thats souped-up Jungmeister didnt talk want superb small Scale matches biggies Get plan MANand modify 2 should know long last Society Electric Aircraft Modelers mail today came 10-page newslettera minimagazine its treatment Top-notch writing organization Articles tips drawingsfull stuff electric beginners need have about 100 members already want electric stuff nutshell write group 11632 Flamingo Dr Garden Grove CA 92644 Membership bargain $10 Presi dent Frank Heacox can reached phone 714 539-3450 Now new frequencies fact youll interested know AMA testflying two systems 926 MHz UHF After hearing some guy ask Bill Hershberger going fly today asked Bill what has stub antenna transmitter about 6-in long another short receiver antenna sticks out fuselage equipment 459-MHz British system has modified Performance sensationalto limit vision directional no glitches far Blil operated test plane inside car hatchback open After cold test inside frige hour noted acci dent scope picking up perfect signals inside refrigerator Some down line application will made AMA FCC approval perhaps spot likely range frequencies Theres space up thar Did hear thud column just crashed After repairs hope better flight next month Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 RC Scale/Wischers Continued page 45 Jomar module rudder coupled aileron channel rudder stick centered module dc-coupled whenever rudder stick transmitter off center permits model flown through slips point rolls require crossed controls No trans mitter modifications internal linkages plane needed Another Jomar product may interest accessory controller can used electric brakes Unfortunately Aeropiccola elec Brie brakes Italy now off market type use controller know would substitute operation rudder stick moved off center brake side energized permit selective application ground maneuvers apply both brakes simultaneously down-elevator used controller can also used spare channel available transmitter receiver operate two scale functions model such lights bomb parachute drop within its amp capacity Jomar Products 2028 Knights bridge Dr Cincinnati OH 45224 word about Aeropiccola electric brakes used Emeraude Beryl mod els micro switch actuated full downelevator energize both brakes simultaneously three 500 mAh nickel-cadmium batteries brakes applied speed above fast taxi tail-dragger models will nose over same will result higher voltage used speed useful stop model com pletely before takeoff maximum points contest never use after landing shorten roll also used certain stopping main wheels hangar square Pinto Taxi Return maneuver contests now optional maneuver Sport Scale class Brakes kind quite unnecessary flying grass field Scale modelers carve wood plastic parts using Dremel tool will find have cutters lose effectiveness loading up chips will burn wood whether balsa harder materials Robart displayed line almost indestructible carbide cutters elimi nate problem wont overheat load up wood fiber plastic fiberglass Six shapes including ball disc cone cylinder avail able both coarse fine grit /g-in diameter shanks fit Dremel military paint colors Petit Paint Co mak ers Hobbypoxy products has released formulas two Navy colors Matte White Light Gull Gray Matte White Federal Standard 37875 duplicateN flat undersurface World War II Navy aircraft completes presentation early WW II Navy three-color camouflage scheme See December 1982 column Sea Blue Intermediate Blue 122 Model Aviation K
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I am building what flying buddies call rubber ducky Once would build nothing ON MONDAY MORNINGS Garfield car toon cat pulls blanket over head talk about fun rain coming down buckets dank wind howling 907 least Im stuck rush-hour traf fic As briefing guy Hill Street Blues says careful out Before AC air-conditioning tamed Au gust DC District Columbia smart old Pols survived spending time Atlan tic beaches August flying sessions few far between mostly early morn late afternoon Shangri-la lazy Vagabond RC-Assist caught thermals flight five consecutive low-key ses sions September slipped through fingers dreary wind-up book After would October bit luck golden haze little wind Novem ber book publisher sent back 7-lb manu script including Xerox copies 200 illustra tions us check wonders wrought copy editor answer zillion queries Deadstick What Please describe Like short-tailed hoss couldnt swat flies called ye MA editor said No wont write name Oh dear said am possible millions man-days modeling experience have gone hobby/sport us remain collectively confused about what make things tick tantalizing mystery doesnt someone write book people have always left high dry Until now page introduction Bob Under wood remarkable 122-page mag-size paperback authored Ray Wiederhold pub lished Midwest Technical Publications Inc 1741 Big Bend Blvd St Louis MO 63117 pleasant surprise Its called Fly 180 simple professional ly-done illustrations tells us exactly what neec-to knowno no less Beginner hacker expert alike will find enioyable well-written very wellorganized veritable builder pilot manual intro begins primary motivations publication assist fliers RC airplanes know little nothing about basic aerodynamics teach fascinating subiect uncom plicated commonsense manner does exactly No long-hair stuff no giddy math no mumbo-iumbo aerodynamics has everything $995 may best investment youll ever make ICover price $1 195 repriced $995 l Winter 16 Model Aviation jUSt fun Bill Winter Seeing believing Allan Schanzle makes tirst test tlight 66in Fairchild PT-22 Its rubber-powered lof coursell Passing overhead picture below left Fairchild extended glide power flight three loops 1-in rubber As floats huge prop stopped camera like Indoor model Below Right happy gentleman left Earl Stahl all-time master Rubber Scale magazine projects Seen its bare bones PT scaled up Stahls numerous plans Without rubber model weighs 17 oz Winter would have know sort far-out stuff goes time Shangrila three pictures Tom Schmitt HOW THEY FLY did design Kits made teel too, hated prefabrication wouldnt use die-cut rib Fiberglass shells 105 shells MonoKote tinsel stuff guys couldnt swing silk-and-d ope letter less epoxy would four-letter word days avoid drawing board beat curds out hapless Kadet have Eaglet hold have conned son Mike crossed fingers making Lagle next year Once did Pattern reeds now cant bothered rolls inverted bores meand Im now lousy Going inverted off half-loop either finish loop execute inverted stall chase ghost riders sky Yes will spot glassing MonoKote everything Coverite Micafilm has rapt tention Time essence Flying building now counts takes rubber ducky count inc remember Flitecraft ad tltat showed guy standing wing panel stretched across two blocks two years could get back Don Srull flew ST 46 practice aerobatics tise way equipped early Cox-Sanwa rite first radio got after 13-year hiatus seven years ago flying never missed beat no servo developed quiver also Futaba RTU complete K&B Veco 19 ancient Futaba system three channels pleased well now gathers dust watched young guys Flite crafts Wilga may eye beholder liked its Polish looks joke son its coordination flight want rubber ducky good aileron trainer Kadet advanced old age Also am sentimental Hows Gary Leonard Flitecraft genius now Jayhawk reorganized guess calls Jayhawk Little Airplane Com pany grabs pop ma two kids see picture crates stacked like cordwood makes wonder just much family can live work play together Little Airplane Fac tory indeed instruction booklet filled won derful pix bit like Harry Higley picturejammed book dont have Harrys books loser once asked Gary K&B 40 mounted such small crate said wild men insisted 40 Some guys have told broke wings tried breaking over kneethe Futaba RTF wing tooand have Samson presumes guys dive past red line haul back sticka stupid way fly So crate Cardinal now has beefy joiner huge cut-to-outline timber slips two holes foam epoxied extending way out wing balsa skin gonebutt-joined balsa gives trouble skinned wings because glue joint seems lift Actually think such wings work better turbulation guys think something wrong Soft foam stretches underneath Skinning now piece thin hard plastic-like finish tail surfaces now die-cut foam-core board first worry about sur face layers something hard tough what looks like flat open edge sealed did add balsa front piece both fin stab cant leave anything way sup posed found Top Elite Juicy Hatfield atmosphere electric Third Annual KRC Electric Fly September 18-19 Hatfield PA Nothing Electric flown siteno noise prob lems sure Forty top-notch Electrics eight states thrilled 300 spectators radar gun caught 95 mph tops Keith Shaw Ann Arbor Ml supplied biggest thrills highly aerobatic Barbarian outside Cuban 8s such stuffl twin Aerocommander Shrike did four-pointers snaps spins knife-edge Sorts Scale usual gravity-defying Sailpianes Electric Helicopter iron can set 2 easily whatever takes no sign damage foam core put bigger wheels everything cluding Eaglet because grass run ways billiard-table smooth Replace ment parts Cardinal available nominal cost example can buy assembled fuselage trim $1695a tempting way quickly build otherwise original want fool around have 05 35 red fuselage white flying surfaces Cardinal purty February 1983 17 Left Thirteen-year-old Kris Kopski dad Bob pioneer Electric Heinz Koerners 98-in Connie TWA colors Has one-piece wing four Mabuchi 550 motors 76-in fuselage weighs less 10 lb Right AMA Executive Director John Worth flew RTF Airtronics Kitty times finds Electric fascinating pictures Bob Kopski Left about China Clipper Jim Pentimall flies 47-oz Martin four Astro 02s Ten Fenstermacher holding isa member KRC Right Leon Shulman Keith Shaw Zombie Old-Timer Leisure racing-wind 05 Astro belt drive six 12 Ah cells 11-7% prop mounted above motor puts higher Leon did gas Nelson Whitman 05 Simsbury CT readies Shag II hydro model Astro motor Isize unknown pylon mount flying boat got off grass using hi-start assist RAM speed control 67 oz 6-ft Astro Porterfield foreground probably has Astro 15 belt reduction wed guess 13-8 prop An Electric future other interesting good RTFs ARFs hurry Please see competitors ads now guys must feel like philosophical bartenders fell love own Krack erjac after seeing Herb Clukeys drawing recent Fun column decided scale up ailerons less dihedral K&B 40 get emotional about engines too have pet engines general know almost make just great dont want bothered facts dont yearn Schnuerles because leisurely sport flying preference using generous props combos demand Schnuerles non-Schnuerle nothing potent baffled K&B 40 K&B also makes Schnuerles After Arden 09 19 spark-ignition glow enjoyed years flying tireless K&B 32 perhaps first sample K&B 15 engine put US FAI FF picture early SOs enjoyed first K&B 19 broadest yet fine tuning needle ever sawand started prime first flip always needed 27 MHz previous flier set up final first guy start up next always won selfish race Came greenheads23 35 WINGSPAN-65 WING AREA-51550INS WEIGHT- 38 OZS POWERROCKET45 WING CHORD- 9 1i SCALE IN INCHES TIMER0246810 12 14 16 hjo After Peter Miller England told Bill Winter about outstanding results Skybo Old-Timer Bill asked him whats Skybothen ended up gifted plans via Ben Buckles Old Time Plan Service 9 Islay Crescent Highwood Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Adventure some visitors ol Bills inner sanctum rumor hes really laying out Skybo Leisure geared 05 electricplus Old Square Sides Antique either Astros 15 belt reduction OS 4-cycle latter still box Winter fiddles watching TV 45 numero uno RC days Astro Hog So now still run K&B 19s 40s love Enya lapped 09 need break-in forever Dont care Its small venturi gives suction wouldnt believe reliable runs whole tanks theyre peculiar places Mine still flies after 20 years OS 30 another pet Id settle baffled lapped engine day feel better ball bearings mans meat - STs great too Ive run Fox hard indeed find bad engine today So yesterday framed two sides big Krackerjac kid Claude McCullough think will go better Kadet men tioned bit about flat-bottom airfoil nearly symmetrical forward front spar says thinks thats what great Fletcher Scale model forgot onefor shame Hes Missouri mean Iowa know Sig might make 90 Kadet way fly Kadets wont have cut weeds runway overruns turn loose Kadet Grande Hope pro duce knew guy 18-ft Falcon gave Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Norm Rosenstock demo Moustique during black August said cover wings Ill trust test fly itbut careful beloved 05 90 expect get shot flying next year Meanwhile mag wanted plans nothing world could get drawing board fix up crude working drawings Meanwhile giant Aristocrat stood idle year am whitewashing fences again hope persuade guys Freder icksburg store dont know yet can flown twice year visit said yes have so-nice long runway too can swing good landing have 560 feet nice short grass Pilot Srull will die thousand deaths mut ter hey let land Running its Tartan 28 lb peppy 132 cu earths great pleasures electric guys have snowed should see stuff Ive sent checking Old Square Sides plans authenticated Antique Bob Boucher Astro Flight would perfect 15 belt reduc tionmaybe direct drive have two Old Square Sides has 6-ft spanin Continued page 20 18 Model Aviation Shawne Kirkland son Jaysonand John Wayne doll cockpitshow off Less Putnams great big beautiful DH Tiger Moth scale-like flying job Winter 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updating futt tine motors word cobatt flies around Hett mark up ptans return Meanwhite Ive sent ptans Skybo see Ctukey drawing Rotand Boucher Leisure check out geared 05 think Im serious Theres revotution now electrics have reached point new 1982 05 almost equat last years 15s course alt sizes wilt soon take quantum jump Srult tried Leisure 05 Gotdberg alt-foam RTF Ranger 42 appropriated crate too After takeoff fights its way through ground turbutence tears around break-neck speed gets high has bring down before goes out sight Switching off ptays ittike fiddte Coming power fadingif avoid running batteries way down deadstick batteries big favorit really skims touches down smoothly pavement like F-15 coming home enough elevator power ease ptunk-down grass tt flew fine 6-3 prop improvement 6-4 fan tastic Pitch all-important electric must play pitch going get peak performance much gas engine Worth AMA executive director put Astro Ftight 15 bett drive ancient Buzzard Bombshell flew Enya 35 now 20 years otd Dear Bob Harrah built crate appeard RCM about 1972 realty started popular Old-Timer RC movement best-seller among plans Bob sent huge crate un covered RCM 40 1975packed excelsior colored jelly beans stood around tong engine froze So John Worth took over flew just everywhere near boardwalk beach electric Worth suddenly needed props next day best prop combo Zinger 13-8 few hobby shops stock such oddball sizes about 14-6 05 90 might work John coupte eso off went Shangri-la tall grass rolling hills flew off hand using 14-6 managed five-plus minutes may 10 minutes gets 13-8 Zingers Like flying newly soloed pilot writing flight path grows zig-zag getting down piece counts Two days turned 10 days passed since last sentence Absolutely perfect flying wea ther know what means Warni sunny calm near calm weekday fliers thinking spring returned Kadet 40 goes like blue blazes approaches suddenly seem easy Today unbelievable ache over writing easier Just minute Hurst Bowers dropped museum-quality /2A Pee Wee looked terribly familiar Old Square Sides Antique 1936-37 gotten AMA number7 19 got over shock said sure will nice see fly Shangri-la said Well yours Like winning state lottery Im going put Ace magnetic actuator enjoy no must hang up Im speechless. going tell about some interesting planes Ive seen kits ARFs wild magazine things Three turned out Pilot modContinued page 120 20 Model Aviation NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS FUSELAGE FIXTURE FOURMOST FUSELAGE FIXTURE S designed AeOo,stieIIy tlign futelage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Simply slide four centering brackets track until aligo firewall tail foist two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubberbands structure will thee straight track ussumsedatstuctusuptutuutt Price 2995 Miter Master Miter Mestor stool designed enable crafts man make perfect sints wood accurately sanding gre-entangles sguaringfenceA ollowsfsrprncisehOu angles retracts below surface Any angle can beset triangular guide using adlaceet sde complement angle will formed waking incaluable truss constmctiun new cyanoacrylate adhesions require accurately fitted joints achiene full strength Miter Master will enable make easily FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24th Ave Forest Grove OR 97116 APrice $950 Assembled booed 503 357-2732 i~I4Ir So Gallatin Rd son TN 37115 615 868 6811 Mon thru Sat 900am 500 pm RIC SALES AND SERVICE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTERIES & CHARGERS SCALE DOCUMENTATIONCUSTOM FOAM WINGS S SCALE DRAWINGSAPIfOTOS-BOOKLETSCUSTOM SAILPLANE WINGSd TAILS MODEL PLANSSPRAY ADHESIVES 1982-LFIBERGLASS FUSELAGES AIftPLANE CATALoGS * 200HI STARTS / REPLA-TECHBALSA d PLYWOOD ~INTERNATIONAL 48E00 MCKENZIE jpjySEND 5O d IOSASE FOR INFO VIDA OREGON 6748EESS80X437LEMONTPA 1685/ Fun/Winter Continued page 20 els via Hobby Shack FredericKsburg Bill Kaluf mint-condition Zlinn Czech aerobatic low-wing swept-back lead ing edge being tested son Steve looked small its OS 35not something could handle well flies superbly knife-edge whole bit smooth groovy Fast skimming finals nice touchdowns remarkably long run-out Curious perhaps momentum plus ground effect low wing small size Noon yesterday some desk jockey appeared local field Pilot Acrostar mod eled after Henry Haighs ship outscored Loudenslager 1982 World Champs Loudenslager heavily modified old Stephens Akro suit own requirements see Don Berliners article November 1982 MA Haigh too did own thing similar-looking ships popping up over world copycats Haigh still flies Pitts mono makes better picture judges Sound familiar Another taildragger model OS 25-powered chap ran out lunch hour before flew high-speed taxi tests ran arrow straight touch right beginning runand getting briefly airborne off short grass strip remained seen lovely aerobatic Scaler would have enough power suit its pilot throughout aerobatic regime thought 40 wouldnt fit messing up cowl now have planes truly re quire new hot engine between 30 probably 35 displacement have Pilot Aero Sport Srull flies 25 lovely looking mini-Pattern thing experi ence wed like slightly longer gear bigger wheels grass Don says wishes tad power supposed 19 powered old 25 didnt attain its promising potential aerobaticsand 40 again just too big week later installed OS 25quite lively says powerful old 05 30 beauti fully made finish decorated chap Haigh said everything fits gether extreme precision Aero Spurt 1-in goof cowl length great otherwise Two chaps flying problems Christen Eagle get whatever existed real aircraft go Scale Vague talk some doctor California wrote definitive paper rigging Eagle cor rection degree upthrust stop slight climb trimmed inverted no ill effects otherwise have noted number bipes model form started out dogs flew like dreams CG moved far forward beyond what books say 40-powered EAA Bipe blown prominent Scaler CG inch front lower wing leading edge take offs bipe erratic similar jazz try Ratty takeoffs get groove strange-looking delta slot through wing prop engine being well forward trailing edge proved Force RCM Very sensitive roll An unusual tricky looking bird goes like mad gets off comes down well likes stay power divesso careful Man dont use much aileron traveL nice 25-powered shoulder-wing proved Sportster 20 Dick Sarpolus ap peared MAN also kitted Quiet very fast fine aerobatics ease Easy flying pretty bird has top hatch designed canopy extends back over wing Eye-catching feature Lifted off everything up front fully exposed What looked like Goldberg Eagle turned Estes Skyhawk ap proached tapered wing made us think another Flitecraft fuselage shell suggests Little Airplane Factory fluence gets around An impressive nice-fly ing three-channel trainer-sport What must worlds realistic fly ing Mammoth Scaler built Les Putnam proved 106-in DH Moth 3-1/3in-to-the-ft scale kitted Practical Scale Germany imported Doe Brooke two-time World Champion Pattern flier mere $415 well worth anyone doesnt count cost fnr absolutely perfect flights looked safe three-wheel bi cycle first marginally powered Quad ra stub pipe carried exhaust outside removed rpm jumped 1000 Weight 30 pounds Speaking CG location noted balanced front end last fullchord rib bottom wing Both wings have generous sweep-back CG front center section cut-out floated Asked test fly Don Sruil fascinated kept two hours Incidentally CB Quadra exhaust system plug big scale tube exit cured power problem Loops rollsmajestic did 120 Model Aviation REPAIR SEHviu i-uR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA HOBBY SHACK ROYAL PRO LINE 1 SALES RADIO SYSTEMS FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOS THE 3EA- 68 Wingspan / 19 35 EnginesPlan N Pattern Set classic Seaplane design first appeared early 1952 era beautiful water performer FI3 $1995 will make hydra enthusiast Out modeler Wheel positions suggested Amphibious Land use 116 Size PUSS MOTH DH 80 Puss MOTH beautifully proportioned flight Plan & Pattern St RC6S-3 @ $1495 Wingipant 73/ 20 40 Engine Please add $200 3 Fall Si. 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Full size PLAN N PATTERN SET RCFF7 $1495 Prices Complete Plans Sub Assembly Detailed Parts Lists Add $200 Mailing Tube Details new designs & greaf things come Send OthS Iretondablel information snap two lift wires45-lb-test fishing leader tat fittings Now has 65-lb-test wires Lven broken wires structural integrity wing panel attachment good crate stayed piece An Antic-type job has load-carrying wires broke both wires under its stabilizer warned guys breaks occurring fittings seems obvious some form bushing eyelet Control Line style might used Brittle wire must sharp ly bent Dont ask know build ing anything really big usc rugged powerful servos can find carry pack really does job loads dont see hear flutter time working rapid tiny move mentsthat will eventually get servo boy mans errand Control surtaces should mass-balanced faster modern aircraft should Isave aerodynamic balancing lots antiques classics have allyway found real crates hinge lines back surfaces chord stitl dont know must learn OK OK give up going crash-land sermonette phone keeps ringing things keep happeningand might well put pillow lap cradle head Another flying sessiongoing two weeks now fantastic weather today broke heat record November barely NVRC has nearly 250 members now trying fly once guy witls Sportster 20 does well began flying year Iseard must have trainer until summer flying genuine 1950 Live Wire Trainer fits perfectly ajet jockey tlse Air Force developed restart flame-out land ing techniques joked ed name base after hjtTtr said name bases after dead peoplenot opted airline piloting longer life owned two Pitts third aerobatic job forget Flew air shows grounded hence Live Wire Live Wire auctioned off club tuceting So out comes kid no higher belt buckle mother support man spotted Isis Live Wire slsowed kid flew Its slow said little guy Everything flies faster time turned around crate way up gawd kid tooling around like veter love Live Wires talked deBolt kitting trainermaybe first true RC kit ever Doug Pratt found camera get picture column veteran pilot tiny kid ma incredible ancient Live Wire danged camera out film Another jingle Sons Mike Bob Long Island back club Sunday session flown Evans Simitar Deuce de signed K&B 20 has superb OS Schnuerle 25 Right off board flew no trimtning Inverted rolls works within 30 seconds So easy fly said can handle 40 Kadet could enjoy Simitar Another jingle Would go down Ilyline Models Saturday night Halloween After family get-together staggered late evening Maxecuters what Allan Schanzles Stz ft rubber-powered Fairchild PT-22 low wing Allan intrigued tny stories about 6-ft Rubber Scale old days 9-ft Cessna giant lovely PT blue yellow stars red-whitc-blue-striped rud der top quality tlsese Maxecuter experts test Told him used put giant smooth pavement wind few turns hand let taxi Kept adding turns until tail lifted until wheels barely showing daylight Ballast needed Just add low power turns ex tended glide go have sneak up rubber 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