Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! 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attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! 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attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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Bill Winter Just For_the Fun MONDAY RAINING Im glad Cant go flying So dont have choose tween guys self-indulgence can avoid head-to-head messed-up fuel tank filler gadget defective new Eagle What will write about am thinking farmers leversand radio playing Sentimental Journey Bucky Taylor sang endlessly gallivanted Super Cruiser pearswriters code end Having tossed its rider Hermes heads barn andthe oats Sentences appear like printout some faraway computer pleaded insanity Farmers Levers subconscious puts wings anything What say shrink levers high school physics teacher banished looking out window know visualizing force diagrams Rubber models really scientific exer cise miffed now think because disputed statement engine failed airplane fell earth asked What about gliders did cope notion gravity power plant 14 modeler beyond understanding remember explan ation three classes levers Archi medes said gave him lever long enough could move world Nordic Glider man ultralong fuselage tiny tail Isnt force di agram tossed salad levers Presum ably Archie zillion-mile pole resting upon stone fulcrum world squatted short end pole seesaw Cub Tom Mahons 1 0-ft-span version Immortal KG Kovei-Grsnt published 1934 ModelAlrplane News hanging retirement until 08 40 four-cycle came along Tom lover big models has says KG now truly beautIful flight Movie special effects guys nothing Butterfly mutation 13-footer looks big 2000-ft altitude gets 08 25 10-3/a nylon prop Soaring flight l like best Sailpianes probably needs flying site see picture land Don Johnson builder just eight months fiabergasted local vetemna fast accu rste building Lone Oak Winter wonders guys hitthet windsock pole Johnson Installed aTower Hobbiesfllght packforward huge two-piece wing prodding barn door rudderrudderlevator-englne controls Futaba trenemitter exhaust extension effectively gets rid giop accessibility like thems no need remove wing Both pictures Canton Moiesworth 18 Model Aviation Its merely setup conventional aircraft center lift CL bit aft center gravity CG stab exerting its downward force Archie end infinite pole keeps whole shooting match equilibrium what about FF models Rubber Gas Gilder etc incorporate lift airfoiled stab locate CG tween CL both wing taillike 75 100% wing chord No modelers arent unique ap proach canard tail-first must does same thing since its CG must forward center aerodynamic lift entire aircraft puts between CL wing tail Consider Burt Rutan super-efficient aircraft get Archie think now wheelbar row Incidentally Dec Mathews tells Rutan won Jr-Sr Cargo 1960 Dallas Nats noble concept coming apart seams wheel fulcrum load middle force guy prying handles upward plane cant fly way Maybe action reac tion wheel fulcrum must fulcrum perhaps load middle back Free Flight Suspend levers air would take Einstein pinpoint fulcrum Confused Good equally Websters New Collegiate Dictionary describes three levers case cant sleep Ijust phoned scientist/modeler did nt know three classes leversstoneage stuff computer age said cant B forces applied whereever must equal load level flight C what about wedge piqued physics teacher said inclined plane screw inclined plane Are now talking about props Draw tri angle base representing distance traveled forward prop tip revolution back wedges inclined planes Before 10000 aerodynamicists rush forward pull out tar pit lets switch farmers Im city slicker Id prefer farm er dont like work town gentleman er county pa per ran obituary guy lived 93 years said course PLYWOOD Bill Winter keeps moanin about -Scale Piper vagabond stored Norm Rosenstocks car barn 200 miles away 18 ib 08 90 what Biil wanted forthe per formance visualizes Biii says hes turned timid think jurys stili out Vag looks simpie form Winter says its devilish strange some respects4 negative stab wing flat huge twist including ailerons Bill claims probably arent true-scale model Vags CG way way forward Figured out SeDtember 1984 19 Beneath surface attractive bipiane iurksan Eaglet John Hunton performed aichemywith further modsto Screamin Eaglet featured MA last month says reminds him Wacos et al supplies sketches below reveal secrets Natch flies well Effective gap plenty stagger smaller span/chord bottom wing easy-attach I-struts pragmatic solution quickie bipe conversion avoids normal fuselage cabanes cutting saddle too-slim fuselage text Olympia u ~ uuiujamins wingeu above suuny u mud equally-neat Buzzard Bombshell RC-Assist OldTimer packs rnu stall section crosses state lines share modeling joywith Clarence Haught Bou retro Benjamin has done numberofModelBulldercov er paintings Top Right active during Fifties early Sixties probably know about numerous classic sport FFs created Keith Laumer whosedifferenttouch has never equaled Bob wore out Pee Wee Laumers Twin Lizzie now hangs over bench inspiration Note exaggerated trim starboard tip Right distiliation forgotten FF classics Bobs orange-and-biue Thing four-footer isbors aloft ate 150 20 climb meager powerof ancientOK Cub 049 Hes got thing rotary-valve 1/2A enginesless cranky reed-valve jobs says FROM MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS OCTOBER 1949 344 WING CRADLE~ PYLON PYLON MOUNTN THEI FIRECRACKER designed BILL WINTER WINGSPAN 31 AREA140 SO INS 4 CHORD43/4POWERCUB049 CU INS AIRFOIL TOP CLARK Y BOTTOM RAF 32 II __ 4--___WING CRADLE TOP-I/8SHEET 1/850 TO CONFORM TOAIRFOIL irz T FILLET L G SANDWICH SUB FIN II NOTE CORRECT CG UNKNOWN ESTIMATED STARTING POINT FROM 50 TO 60% OF CHORD TRIM ACCORDINGLY SCALE IN INCHES OI2345 57S Julliii Bili lays success Firecracker FF lucky combination size moments airfoil weight powernotto mention perhaps some friendly warps Whatever nice wasnt native moved turee years age farm kids came down mumps brood included old boys formed pool time slicker would come down mumps farmers blossomed chipmunk cheeks slicker built flying machines local hero So sat around barns hot stoves win ter allowing Farmers equal model builders bull sessions sunny flying sites sit around hot stoves aeronautically al low Got straw chew Plastic pushrod works fine started model building 1930 Jimmy Hedges begins have never stopped 13 couple us Port Elizabeth entered 1st South Af rican Nationals sponsored Ford Motor Co held PE airfield flew Gas Rubber 6-ft Peer less Taylor Cub Baby Cyclone Model F came lovely dural tankyou must know cost 5 complete Au Baby Cyclone 45 powered Antique Old Square Sides first Gassie after got engine wholesale $900 $2150 Brown Tlush etc years might just well have Kavan four-cylinder Conti ______nentals up against big guys won no places fun Jimmy con tinues war began fulfilled dream since six years old qualified pilot SA Air Force went off fly Martin B-26 Marauders Italy After fracas joined RAF converted Bristol Brigand dive bombers two Centaurus 18-cyl 2750 hp radials 14-ft four-bladed props posted Iraq thence Singapore bomb Communist bandits Ma hjc n jungle carried model building Iraq Singapore forgot mention Hornet 60 1946 took UK 1947 built Speed job won Herts Open Speed Contest 1058 mphbut did 132 unofficial next 20 Model Aviation I 4----I---I--If ifi_ L 41 Left Bill Heyn read about Winters long-ago adventures Lincoln cabinwhich Winter wants makehe sent shot 1 81/a-in-span -in scale indoor Scale model already winner first two seconds three meets based upon Aero Digest three-view 5Oyears ago Having same three-view AMA Museum Director Hurst Bowers drew inked plans 28-in version now Hunt says Winter has no excuse making twice-up Lincoln cabin 05 10for smail-field flying Right Spiffy Spirit St Louisa 1 6-gram Embryo Endurance model no lessbears Biii Noonans artistic touch Read words nose youve got iti Likeness Lindy Xeroxed clear acetate picture ins bookimage flopped starboard side Wing attachment appears small ply tabs thin dowel running through Winter wonders theres tiny nylon screw cabin top trailing edge flight au 130 approximate win ning speed 1947 US Nats After finishing Overseas Tour Singapore Jimmy cruises took Airline Transport Nots License training Hamble Hampshire few months rejoined RAF advice Air Marshal Sir John Boothman made final trophy-winning flight Schneider Supermarine 56-B sea plane before war flew Vickers Var sity heavy twin-crew trainers course captain Vickers Valettors same Viking posted Egypt flew Free Flight 60 Speed plus some Rubber jobs just cant get enough aviation live ways Ive qualified 79 typessingles twins fours piston jet turboprop choppers etc big love Free Flight Hedges continues D jobs have flown several airlines eight wars Served Katanga Congo Leo pardville Air ForcesIraq Iran Yemen RAF SAAF recently became very lucky owner Brown Junior com plete original engine test stand spin ner C-clamp holding stand work bench Also Smith coil Brown Jr condenser spare Champion plug struction book bought Pretoria 1942 run idle year minute found through old modeler bought behalf original owner intend run until next year think probably least-run Brown B existence never plane Oh yes also have original 14-6 Brown prop decals almost impossible read has similar blade shape Flo Torqueswept leading edge straight trailing edge Also given good-con dition Anderson Spitfire Pacemaker 59 have Ohlsson 23 Fleetwind Au Brown Jr first massproduced gas engine came tall wooden box similar packing crates fullscale engines An Anstralian traded still crate pair escape ments low point life 1956 came disappeared ovearhead train rack way home Im busy flying 099 15 FF contest jobs Jimmy goes on weekends lose weekends due work meam extra money models motor bikes still fly Rubberand have ball may modeler SA has often flown fly-powered jobs carve lami nated wood props sizes up 24-10 Just finished two 20-lOs friend mounting home-built twin-engine heli copter engine end blade plan take Southwest African Nambian Kalahari Desert Continued page 22 September1984 21 No its RC version classic air piane variable iead-out guide tells us Tom Niebuhrs CP 50 i Control Line spans 58 has 640 sq wing area powered Super tigre 60 Toms model based Cisude Piels nice home-built acrobatic prototype Norm Rosenstock poses round-nose Great Lakes buiitfrom hisown plans At8O-in span gives 1820 sq area Quadra similar-size engine up 26 cu will weigh 16 19 lb depending much love paint very acrobatic especially good turnaround pattern smaller version lain works Norm says buggy Heres 011-road loadet fun excitement designet off-road operation no neei special track know will like buggy lts rugged withstand abuse fron hard operation rough terrain Its eas assemble Bayou Products car ries replacement parts ORDER DIRECT FROM PFiiI iii can pver can ttusiFor -arnBOX 8628 ORLEANS LOUISIANA 701f ervice call Toll Free Line 1-800-535-2568 except LA relocate certain very valuable mineral deposit should also have ready trip new ultra-light will take Free Flights trailer home caravan call So much little time just cant stop building havent built RC job Id love visit Taft would go mad best job moment Ranger powered German 15 diesel Taifun Orkan twin-ball-race high-speedreally gets up stairs 9-4 nylon Ive got 113 props Youll enjoy Jimmys PS ve total 20000 hoursjust captain Have British DFC US DFC find mineral deposit Ill buy turbo prop twin Ill get Taft Look out May add takes bit luck old aviatorand heaps opti mism Jimmy Hedges cup run neth over modelers polyglot lot creatures fancy generic term 22 Model Aviation model airplanes reality have dozens hobbies albeit involve wings Outdoor Free Flighters purists never shall contaminated Con trol Liners dont give hoot what benighted things rest us Indoor pristine culture practioners Druids over sized brains brain surgeons fingers RCers hew straight line let chips fall maythe world ac cording Garp Chopper addicts baffle us Sailplaners look down muddy plodders beyond lofty snow line Some build tiny peanutsized world Others build big deviled King Kong dreams Within us lurks ancient instinct think least once something gargantuan differ ent suffer such instincts Ive built 4-ft ROGs 9-ft Rubber jobs couple 10-ft RCs programmed birth scale down scale up Consider Don Johnson has making models eight months has never seen either FE CL model fly Hes big thinker AMA number huge 120328 Gosh have such numbers years paid AMA dues Nats St Pete stopped sinners like gate year standing joke gave number 20000 though once held again number 719 Twenty grand deemed safe since 12000 AMA members time no could conceive ever reaching 20000 Thanks Canton Molesworth life long flying buddy Bill Weaver No 2 thats 102 allowing august 100 re served presidential types able run down story about Don Johnson Butterfly Whats special about Butterfly somethin else spans 13 ft engine 0S Max 25F5R 103 prop really hums says Carlton Dons construction interesting particularly fuselage built up t reinforced Pineblock Continued page 24 Devil Kit #22195 2x4 Including four shocks CiDolIa CB jjjjSSOOIATESINC 21898 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 54545 Y83-4588 - / IRIS 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Transmitter Ni-Cad Battery$3000 Transmitter Ni-Cad Charger$ 895 BatterylCharger Combo$3500 RADIO SYSTEMSI FUTABA ROYAL ACCESSORIES FOR MOST RADIOSI 24 Model Aviation good compressed-wood material some potential Fairly light stiff very sturdy two-piece wing uses humongous amount balsa spruce Pineblock ed steel rod 15 long holds wing halves together 3 rolls bright red MonoKote cover works stili looks big 2000 ft up Radio stallation front wing works great Tower Series 500 flight pack Futaba transmitter wheels big rudder just tine has really great project Don Molesworth adds isnt finished yet preparing Davis Diesel conversion hoping will swing slightly bigger prop new builder Don semi-retired appliance business natural abilities amaze can build model airplane faster anyone have ever seen come out straight true Makes wonder chaps like just havent uncov ered Caution guys fancy big float ers soar like condors better think including spoilers unless have monstrous runway match Land Oz have fond mem ories Firecracker see three-view drawing late 1940s Already 20-year builder like stick-in-the-mud FF pioneers abhored wacky pylons didnt know beans about cant beat Beginners Luck Ive openminded since Flying does relate w narrow-minded impressions odd con figurations days FF ever published gobbled up contest model Since few sport jobs cleaned up hands obvious could adjust model peak its engine automatically became winner thermals being what Cub 049 Fire cracker pasture-tim job swiped Sniffer airfoil its Clark Y top RAF 32 bottom gave absolute glide perfection precise power wing load ing size consequently speed airfoil world-beater because such factors coincide happily flew thing among cows opportunity day apocket full propsfrom small large various pitches tiniest being one-blader K&B Infant less thrust macho fly Cub fit explode pylon model banked left wide fast shallow climb increase prop size opened left power circle tually propwash dominated torque ship went wide right power climb progressing eventually normal right corkscrew must have gone prop would have looped No adjustments made pylon model could fly either left right left nor mally suicide probably pylon height area fortunately able handle slipstream/torque combinations flukeContinued page 26 L REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOBBY LOBBY EK LOGICTROL FUTABA T HOBBY SHACK ROYAL LINE TOM DIXON AND HIS FOX 35 STUNT NAMED GRAND CHAMPION PRECISION AEROBATICS AT KING ORANGE MEET Tom Dixon Atlanta Georgia relied Fox 35-powered modified Thunderbird take top honors prestigious King Orange Meet including coveted Al Lewis Trophy Tom relied Fox fuel plugs well remarkable Fox 35 engine outstanding performance same meet three entries Old Time Stunt competition Fox-powered Jim Craig winner Fox 35-powered Barnstormer model Bore805 Stroke7011 Displacement352 _ RPM 10-6 prop 0tL Woigirt7 oz Fool Consumption nz m n n - too can winner time fly versatile dependable affordable Fox 35 Stunt engine 13500 Fox 35 Stunt standard needle naive assembly.. $3795 90222 Conventional Silencer995 90412 Prep Extension375 VISA MasterCard accepted F 0 X MANUFACTURING CO 15011 566-16565305 TOWSON AVEFORT SMITH ARK 72901 26 Model Aviation Model Company517 362-6078 Id like another Firecracker very much sized bit big OS 15 maybe 10 take electric motorOS cobalt geared jobsized bit small com pared Leisure Playboy Using new 800 mAh cells could reasonably simulate high corkscrew climb floating glide Firecracker wellmannered sport pylon ship Depending spirit will heal ulcers 800 utAh battery will give decent run climb will require shutting off time two Since battery weight down 12 Ah cells loading will nice glide perhaps coh la-la pow ered glow engine Id use throffle test feel out power later shutoff altitude rudder touch up path rudder flippers come home Rave McDuffl Around world 80 days Windy Urtnowsky world models wires colorful charac ters come down pike should have hurricane named after him Windy does column Flying Models contrib utes Stunt news Prop-Wash Garden State Circle Burners newsletter Anile Preszler asked Windy would take over Pro Stunt News now 21-page extro verted collection news results nouncements pictures hints tips dia grams cartcons quips stuff tanks nose rings lead-out guides beginner jazz etc Believe mad volunteers unsung though maybe make possible us interest area ride merrygo-round first issue Precision Aerobatic Model Pilots Assn PAMPA paper Windy went out 450 members written number reached well 500s Getting out such paper ajob Superman man cant lift copies Windy saved daughter suggested $20 increase weekly allowance wanted know Pro Stunt go Reno Nats may regret Windy says lifted spirits dismal March evening building iA F-16 just fun Its easy lose sight started building things first place Windy remarks CL ever did does now mean anything you can become PAMPA member sending $700 PAMPA 329 Lincoln P1 Brcoklyn NY 11238 Windy would especially like hear old-timers Goldbergs Eaglet fun thing described instructors being tco easy fly spires strange goings-on kit know very nice lowwing version RC Modeler plans avail able John Hunton came up highly-modified flapped tall-dragger last months ModelAviation have seen National Center Aeromodeling AMA HQ located know imaginative architect Now hes back again Eaglet biplane Continued page 28 Astounding ret om lnable plastics.. 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Darn Good Airmen .. complete NEW$5s LOW PRICES Scale 1/4 Scale $795 1/3 Scale 142 See Dealer add Dollar direct order handling NYS flsIdns add 7% SIS tax Great Lakes PO Box 308 Tawas lty ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS MI 487631MOLDED URETHANE FOAM * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkI2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25and UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75 shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 Center Line Michigan 48015 $225 $225 $195 $195 better get work Eaglet says John know will able resist nostalgia factor Doesnt remind old cabin Wacos Goldberg Eaglet course another set quick-attach wings Performance just what would expectsomewhat slower steeper angle climb slower stall landing floats lower wings continuous screwed fuselage strutbraced upper wing Structural calcu lations show stress upper wing less because lower V lift de pends V squared Whats lefta twin Eagle beat goes Maxwell Bassett may have changed things forever won early Nats Brown Jr fox among rubber-powered chickens publication 1934 Model Airplane News twop KG 8- 10-ft versions think brought world Gas age Charlie Grant manufactured models hun dreds thousands during Twenties engineer under Orville Wright Dayton Wright Army Air Corps under Virginius Clark Clark Y fame developed slots flaps retract-gear Dayton-Wright racing mono plane edited ModelAirplane News 10 years no other model magazine existed first hardly mattered homed years run boys camp using model planes educational tool old-timers like Wakefield-winner Gordon Light Joe Kovel K KG instructors timed mag nificent KG machine Teterboro 1935 numerous Rubber jobs being Strucks diamond cloud-blasting twin-pushers Time de creed present popularity Bassett Antiques great KG indif ferent interest As see Lee Taylors striking photo 50-year-old KG plane ages years old friend Tom Mahon yearned produce 10-ft KG Toms retired Air Force pilot chauffered VIPs out Washington DC 1975 fulfilled dreamhis KG took 11 months build hung ceiling until four-cycle craze 0S 40 four-cycle dream play around reports Tom Weve got Merwin Ranch 32 miles south San Francisco has 370-acre dichondra patch couldnt heav enlike owner big-time farmer also Antiquer Hes got two full-size Acrostars Corben Super Ace Cessna 172 big oak trees long south boundary can pull shade unlimber planes have picnic lunch spend day anytime permission sticker $600 year friendly rate too Tom says much good stuff came Continued page 136 28 Model Aviation ACCURATE ABLE EASY-TO-READ _ACCUTACH NOW IN TWO MODELS 3 FUNCTION ACCUTACH P 7995 Digital LCD tachometer has dual scale lOX-bOX stable RPM readout Full scale voltmeter can used check/cycle TIRX battery com bos Reads load up 20 volts ACCESSORIES QSA1- Quarter Scale Adaptor ATi & AT2-500ma load . 995 SCAl -Servo Current Adaptor Airtronics Futaba Kraft. 995 4 FUNCTION ACCU-TACH 2 &w 8995 Same useful capabilities ACCU-TACH 1 includes DC ammeter used check servo cur rent Will find worn bind ing stalled servo condi tions w/SCA1 Add function ATi AVIONRiS INC Send check MO NorCal AVIONICS Inc PO Box 70956 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Calif add 6% tax Add $2 S&H See dealer first SafetylPreson Continued page 133 Trying helpful quickly jumped up yelled Red white red white rapidly-changing series events followed reminder what hap pens row dominos start falling over what alleged happen group Chinese someone yells Fire Like jack-in-the-box pilot pit area jumped up yelled Red white red white Swizzle Stick however did respond helpful hints fell out sky com ing abrupt Thud upside down Pat immediately started assessing clues discover real reason behind stressful event First radio working fine maneu vers concluded radio failed Second normally no glitches interference field Third strong interference like someone turned another transmitter shot him down Fourth no else time except Don ______ brown white . BROWN AND WHITE denly Pat got odd look face Slowly reluc tantly turned see brown white flags dangling end transmitter antenna Sure enough excitement forgotten actu ally brown white just thought red white yelled out right colors Don could have turned Off Pat could have saved Swizzle Sticks spectacular smashup true story names have changed protect guil ty incident has twofold moral First behind dark cloud Murphys Law lurks darkness Second behind cloud silver lining Don ______ has prestigeous recognition winning Freddie Fudpucker trophy shoot ing down Pat Now Pat has rebuilt Swizzle Stick flies better ever note newsletter article neg lectedto tell us frequency pin brown white Did Pat have did have pin red white Perhaps because states Don received F-F trophy must assume turned first obtaining pin brown white Guess well never know sure ever thing feel sure using radios can syn thesize desired frequency going lot careless incidents Anybody care give us thoughts goof-proof frequency control system such radios John Preston 12235 Tildenwood Dr Rockvile MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 28 along 15 20 years too late catch him peak surprised himself finish ing Royal -scale Cub Tom has built real giants years long ago Hawaii among first later retired Californ ia Id sell soul devil Faust lousy reason have two giants gathering dust Rosenstocks ware house 200 miles north Norm promised fly Vag Id like Ill show pic club flying site 300-ft mowed strip fence bushes end wear figurative black band arm good field biggies incredibly beautiful sites Ive seen gone Noise say Actually sound tests proved noise wouldnt budge meter objecting neighbor hoodand planes subject noise tests before approval spoil-sport gathered petition 11 neighbors didnt expect say no petition did Park Board vote split politics rough member model flier another voted against him personal reasons Another town official critical precinct voted no because constituents things can happen us its always other drivers get racked-up road no problem killing noise 1935 KINNER SPORTWING size span Plans consist 4 sheets include construction booklet fin decals Plans 0 Postage WOODY FRANTZ 9126 E 67th Ct Tulsa OK 74133 918 250-0033 136 Model Aviation GOITIOIIII TANKS PROFILE0COMBA T0RA T WIDE 8 VARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 oz Capacities UNIFLOW & STIIDD Gustem 31mA huh Ingredients detailed bOchure50C stamps/check oni CAROLINA-TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road charleston Hgts. sc 29418 803-553-7169 Want REV-UP Props Quickie see Puffer t Quarter Midget Nuge laveatery I! Now About Custom Tuned Engines F Detailed Ire chure Sead 75 Fe Austea Aratsaiaaship PO lea 263k Laguaa Nil/s CA 92654 Ph 714 dJ05162 Last ision German Engineering Giant Scale Engines Ideal 1/ scale larger Warbirds Miniature Aircraft SACHS Since 1927 Sachs-Dolmar has worlds leader engineering high quality two-cycle engines Now association & M Aircraft Supply state-of-the-art technology available giant scale engines Superb performance combined Sachs-Dolmars commitment Miniature Aircraft market make engines number choice Complete parts inventory full service capabilities available through & M Aircraft Supply Remember Buy Sachs-Dolmar Youre Buying Best Plus sales tax applicable Free freight pre-paid orders Visa MasterCard accepted AsM AIRCRAFT SUPPLY 1801 South Crest Carrolton TX 75006 214 242 0984 modelers industry really wished takes determined person cost flying site Weve lost second nearby big-club site Some guys ran mufflers Olympia Air Force two sizes airplanes writes Bob Benjamin attenpt illustrate having best two worlds O-T RC Buzzard Bombshell flying winning well big job 12-in-to-the-foot 1946 Cess na 140 Its might say exact scale added wheel pants un fortunate late-model Cessna 150 also made some updates inside cockpit thoroughly lovable old airplane likely permanent member family bought own hangar sunset shot left seat 140 just enjoy Ill bet have own memories times like Au Ah yes Bob actually has best three worlds makes living artist has largely unfulfilled yen painting full-size planes magazine covers like Model Builder covers planes faithfully prettily depicted natural skyscape classic subjects flying along wasnt too years ago Joe Kotulas paint ings MAN covers especially WW strut-and-wire jobs framed us hang dens over work benches Bob incidentally member Air Force Art Acquisition Program hopes visit AMA HQ yours truly during trip Washington DC partici pate presentation artwork USAF March 1985 Well fly gether didnt say whether would models 140 Ill hope both have carried Buzzard disassembled 140s tail Idaho fly Clar ence Haught Bob Petro 140 doesnt mind Ive never lost fascination tiny sport Free Flight models Doodled dream ships synthesis countless admired ancient three-views Golden Age classic craft Creative fulfillment gosh knows little Stereo typed Age cute bugs forgotten hard times all-or-noth ing space ships mile-square postage stampand engines timers cost much some RC jobs field large enough 1 mm plus Rubber Scale ship tis large enough wee-pow ered cutie sedate performancewith tiny engine strict control long runs Some still carry torch Benjamin knows rewards Some time ago rambles ran several paragraphs Keith Laumer youll recognize Twin Lizzie Mine flies Pee Wee fed eye-dropper finally wore out plane now hangs quietly wall shop same column also mentioned dearth sport FF activity blue-and-orange thing answer see picture Its sort old ruler intended distillation good old planes Span 48 concave undercambered section stolen Brooklyn Dodger vener able Cub 049 giving its climb stately 15 20 degrees took some time get trim sorted out now flies rightvery nicely have thing Cubs Bob contin uesandamflyingthisoneas asparefrom collection like flying As Larry Renger mentioned Model Builder column rotary-valve As several years ago engines can sometimes seem less fussy run ubiquitous reed jobs latter have no nostalgia Bobs philosophy extends RC have another goodie bench ready cover about 44-in low-wing taildragger designed around G-Mark 12 Twin Four little Ace servos fit neatly am about find out what engine can Peter Chinns MAN articles great dont go flight evaluation Once 12 job going Ill start owiiprogram have G-Mark multis five-cylinder radial broken-in will tested Falcon 56 twin 30 sitting next SigHollinger 71-in J-3 kit Au Re alism requires light weight low power have flown Falcon 56 about size engine possible find out just what will luck Ill use G-Mark Continued page 140 September 1984 137 3137 51/2 lbs5 3/4 lbs 53 HP65 HP 31 OlD37 OlD 529500*$33000* Internally balanced low vibration engines Smooth throttle response low high speed Full ball bearing crankcase crankshaft construction Highest Horsepower weight ratio Industry LEOS LASER * World Aerobatic Champion Top Quality Epoxy Gloss Fuseloge Cowl & Wheel Pants inum Landing Gear loam Wing90 Span Win Area 1440 sq inchesg Weigbt Sc 12 lbs Balsa Finish Kit Engine Size 75 13 Complete Step Step InA 95 struct ons w lb p Ctures PLUS gbt 16 20 lbsSHIPPING Lag 2 4 Direct Sales Only 95 99 PLUSCOM ING SOON $1*40 SHIPPINGTurbo BD Trainer Direct Sales Only& 25 sIzes Manufacturers Quality Kits ROISH M Large Scale Engines JR STICK Ideal Trainer FunlWinter Continued page 137 Sport Scale rendition uncommon 1930s lightplane Hint five-cylin der radial Au Im sure youll like photos some rarities Olympia WA Air Force am Can Englishmen American Americans British oldtimers have thoroughly confused reviewed first SAM 35 Yearbook dedicated preservation vintage aircraft took issue stuffy review British magazine forgot about own SAM people have built wonder flil movement SAM leans toward competition us fly Old-Tim ers Antiques just pleasure argue endlessly over philosophy proper en gines rules Thats OK book too have nothing like SAM 35 Yearbook nor anything like world British other hand thrive arguments letters press seem serious afar dont overly mix historical planes competition Old-Timer/Antique historical buffs bunch jolly pirates Year book drips nostalgia Its mixed bag wonderful drawings sorts stuff across years charming articles unique drawings lovable flora fauna phone call Marty Schindler tells package addressed him Toledo RC Show found copy SAM 35 No 2 Yearbook Between its stiff green-and-black paper cover theres 144 pages simply priceless things copy inscribed David Baker saying Bill Winter great friend SAM 35 SAM 35 ffiers UK Three pages covered autographs dozens folks including writers design ers editors before time did manage signature belongs guy evidently has program called BAC TVModel World Dont look thing like Channel 4 9 Pub lic Service TVnot Educational Service TV Article by-lines signed too say truthfully youll never regret getting copy yourself Its good can get $700 SAM Speaks 2538 North Spurgeon St Santa Ana CA 92706 thats also what costs ordered Dave Baker 22 Ellington Rd Muswell Hill London N10 3DG England President John Grigg says have 22 AMA presidents stated recently column since Number 20 might say Thats higher authority Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation Gee Bee Z/Haffke Continued page 40 short takeoff area bounced along rough ground finally bounced air wasnt much runway left remember eyewitnesses telling Gee Bee 50th Anniversary Springfield few years ago Hall went under electric wires edge field first takeoff point ed out wires must have imagined As soon wheels left ground aircraft torqued abruptly left fast control movement skilled pilot got ship righted back its course hands lesser pilot glistening City Springfield could have instantly reduced pile rubble Hall lifted nose climbed sky craft performed well ex cept heaviness left wing little right aileron pressure corrected Hall figured wing wires would need adjusting glad know decision made land mile-long strip Bowles Airport did press speed first flight settled cruising speed 200 mph lots horsepower left air pressures created some damage cowl initial flight would have repaired brought little racer smooth landing Bowles field landing speed 80 mph touchdown waiting crew BYRON \IORIGINALStA4 SKYHAWK 117 SCALE Highly detailed fiberglass foam construction assures fast accurate assembly authentic scale appearance DIus minimal wing loading all-around flight stability Recent kit improve ments include retract ready wings Sure-Flow fuel system stabilized nose gear Blue Angels decal kit powered Rossi 81/Byro-Jet Perform ance Package A-4 offers realistic reliable jet flight Complete 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