5115atsTa le Twoities What Dickens author spins tantalizing tale best times U Fred Berman THOUGH WORLDS away fabled European capitals Dickenss great clas sic two cities title have own stories tell Lawrenceville Illinois Vincennes Indiana hosts 1990 MidAmerican Nats places wont quickly forget Anyone attended years Nats went home passel memories Let share some thing lucky Lawrenceville Vincennes straddle boundary line between eastern central time zones clocks two cities read same Scheduling might have turned night mare otherwise subject bad dreams want know Nats contestant did chapter verse begin arrive late day transmitter processing Whether theyre Gold-stickered transmitters must have cardiogram read before being used Nats tumbled few minutes past deadline flying site headquarters also known White Whale learn wrong place After 10 minutes breakneck driving Vincennes found Holiday Innbut no transmitter processing station Evidently busy spectrum analyzer crew fin ished timelier contestants struck its tent sure what glad see AMA President Don Lowe advised George Field WWiI legacy 1990 Nats site Young Barrett Hill dad just touched down Piper Pawnee home base Newton IL satellite airports make up Georges vast air training complex Biggest spectator appeal Its shared pretty evenly Scale CL Combat Would look immaculate flight line No contest category yet Nats guys Ronald Reagan almost made off Bob Vances Beer Can Stearmans Tech-cellence George Steiner Ur gently needed badly wanted obligingly available ever quaiifiedmore can said track down George Steiner room motel Several anxious hours later did connect George returned motel room George Steiner coin pleat scientist room bulging expensive-looking equipment cases full records stickers other contest par aphernalia showed Bright-eyed viva cious friendly George truly AMAs blessingssharp dedicated totally interested willing give himself get impression him way ward radio waves vibrating around ozone actually visible George retired western utility company question new fam ily car came up vetoed idea favor personal spectrum analyzeryou know five-digit price tag same story Georges offspring left coop wifes fantasy using va cated space guestroom didnt stand chance George solution obvi ous Instruments equipment collec tions storageyes bunk facilitiesno Shades Edwin Henry Armstrong way George has added antique vintage radios list collections So dont throw outsend George Youll giving pleasure genius though probably wife As modeler flier Georges ingenuity takes another twist kind Sherlock radio waves hes wonderfully clever thinking up ways stalking favorite quarry Radio signals can tricky find out just much signal strength lost tween transmitter airborne receiver George set up battery test equipment pilots station piggybacked live transmitter onto Miss America re leased like carrier pigeon George has measured tested tried dissected equipment buy hobby counter reasons protect ing industry though notes cant made public conversation led deduce RC equipment made equal fact no longer produced Pro-Line RC devices almost 1991ready15 years ago much sought after advisor AMA also Radio Control indus 86 Model Aviation Gerry Skreckoski Appalachia NY built Cessna Citation Royal kit flies great looks Wilga 80 beautifully modeled Bill Logan Ontario Canada Though CL flier Polish charmer has throttle control can drop parachute Charlie Chambers Scale Masters winner 1988 Dave Platt Mustang eloquently tells super realistic performer Former National Guard maintenance officer Bob McDonald drawn magnetism Nats chartered full-scale ride search vagrant FF model try George could further described high-tech roustabout stayed Vin cennes two days beyond contest closing just help load Nats properties return trip storage Reston believe helping hands hard come especially after meet shuts down Sun day Naturally George willingly radio graphed transmitter 10-grand analyzer just hundreds others week Back perils Paulineer trials tribulations read stupidity humble author Notified sign headquar ters tent pilots meeting sched uled 1000 am following morning arrived bright shining 15 minutes spare problem no else Though ladies Headquarters confirmed meet ing indeed scheduled ap pointed hour came went no other arrivals Contest Director Chip Smith finally en lightened meeting progress alrightat Holiday Inn Vincennes Betty Stream all-around make-it go official confirmed noted meeting locale sign Evidently reading skills added always practiced contestant requirement Too late schmart too soon old About hour later preparations event category under way flight assignment sheets posted name conspicuous its absence What Didnt check event director No thought picking up badge bumper sticker registration desk enough Go find Greg Frohreich now experienced hunter feet succeeded brain failed Busy Event Director Frohreich big man heart match Possibly cause compassion fellow Hun Greg allowed name added flight roster Home safely long shot transmitter though nearly missed impounded recruited December 1990 87 sleek Viojett Super Sabre string Vup Chicago magician Charlie Bauer per formed sleight hand Hes programmed flaps retracts aileron trim throttle tank drop functions through controi lines What cant littie black boxes has wider grinJoe Techirgi Santa AnaCA piump 1916 Deutsches Flug werk Bipe former engineer Douglas Joe reports OF bear fly Relay three out four pylon racers ready wrap around stakes snarling ships have souped up engines turning 30000 rpm Though RC club disbanded model ing spirit hasnt left Nats Spectator Norm Jones Harrisburg IL mechanic Flying under way after three hours baking sun turn ready box three-minute clock main engine started easilybut no throttle control cant quick fix dont know problem nothing scratch round flight haul everything back dug out hit like sledgehammer radio using super-reliable Id borrowed semiretired Heli copter repeated handling trans mitter little hold switch top inadvertently tripped killing normal throt tle function Ouch double ouch sultry afternoon wore Murphy still around evidently scouting fairer game Noticing search-and-rescue expedition headed boonies soon learned cause FAI contestants Wayne Apostolico Texas National Champion Chip Hyde suffered midair Both planes absolutely totaled Later Don told fellow competitors Watts Dallas Rog ers Fife Birch immediately offered loan him models components Doubtless Chip shown same generosity saw him fly shortly after crash Thats spirit camaraderie Nats known well past midday time round two category began mornings reserved Pylon Racing al ready original plan completing six Continued page 188 88 Model Aviation inimitable Larry Kruse FF modeler col lege dean AMA reporter extreordinaire Self-propelled Bud Grider super interested interesting Nets spectator AMA member Fairview Heights IL can smile amidst shambles Wayne Apostoilco Arlington TX midaired Chip-the-Champ Both market replacements Perfectly good pattern ship tall anyone Shirley Sheeks Indianapolis retrains un cowled 1929 Travelair Mystery Ship hubby Jack sorts out engine problem CL Scale entry set identi cal twins Spectators Howard Smith grandson Timmy enthusiasm unbounded certainly contagious Wedding first air show after Hoosiers Ruth Harold Hileman taking Nets sons modelers too Sally Ted Rohifing traveled 2000 miles California order see Nets both suffer incurable love-of-aviation virus Texans Edle Dick Oliver sadly bearing pieces pylon disaster steep bank racer snap-rolled ground An army hell pilot Dick shrugged happens Well build another FPEE / HANDLE N FORMATION 18007495942 NLZAD FThLD CHAHOEF $4495 TOP OF THE LINE DESIGNS FOR LESS BOTH UNITS DESIONED FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER BATTERIES NINETY DAY WARRANTY PRECiSION EXPANDED SCALE VOLT METER H DOUPER ELECTRONICS PO BOX 90171 AUSTIN TEXAS 78709 surfaced few come mind Lew Mahieu single-handedly conceptual ized designed original Zeeks never full responsibility kitting deriv atives despite fact worked Air-O Premium producing commercial Zeek kits worked K&B produced subsequent Kiwi de sign original Zeek kits first show fuse-operated pop-up DT also first tilting stab up side other would produce glide turn correspond ing direction noticeable effect power portion flight nothing else series has relit candles illuminate some heretofore fabled Zeeks yet see commercial print respon sible being have given proper credit list includes original 277-sq-in 1947 ignition-powered version drawn Stu Sit tig Lutz-produced 51 Class 09 deriva tive Cranford B/C 575 directly influenced Lew Mahieu though case recorded plans drawn another individ ual Obviously Lew Mahieu preferred work innovation standing still laurels de served hats off Lew Mahieu one-time associates making Free Flight legend thing certain People may eventu ally fade away hobby Zeeks ever Lastly am forever indebted Ive discussions correspondence phone conversations over past 10 years Prop er acknowledgment responsiveness good things have emerged colloquy would fill another chapter lieu shall simply close alphabetical listing names included 6-in-deep pile correspondence accumulated over 10 years individuals Lyman Armstrong Bill Cranford Ray Downs Gerald Fowler Russ Han sen FK Heeb Elmer Jordan Dan Lutz Lew Mahieu Ed Mate Chet Orrill Russ Snyder Bob Spink Carl Stokes Ed Toner heartfelt thanks Ive forgotten anyone humbly apologize oversight Obviously 10 years reliving Zeek designs turn contribution growth popularity Nostalgia Gas movement have acquired considerable inventory full size Zeek plans Should anyone require informa tion regard large SASE will get listing Thats aint no Till next time see downwind Nats Tale/Berman Continued page 88 rounds three afternoons looked logisti cally impossiblethere just too contestants Shadows grew long haze close IFR Just before 800 pm curfew turn couldnt put off longer Nerves thor oughly numbed now executed se quence either incident elegance think used ESP visual track ing Mercifully never caught up scoresheet After long-suffering wife made back motel dining room 30 miles away mere 10 minutes before locked door So Murphy dont win time Actually patience endurance dedication judges line officials other contest personnel old demon chaos cant get toehold Nats Dry roasting sun day varied crew did splendid job deserve thanks appreciation can express some Year after year Vince Mankowski Nats search committee come up good site Its amazing Mid-American Air Center flew off George Field World War II Army Air Force training base named after gen eral served its first commander Its 3000-acre facility mile-long run ways Ray Pickering genial veteran ser vice manager recalled hundreds Wacs well troop-carrying gliders part scene George Field dur ing forties As such air bases grisly dents sometimes occurred rookie pilot missed approach smacked house near field starting fire both adult residents perished fire men reached scene found threeyear-old girl unhurt wandering outside tears raised relatives another state visited Lawrenceville some 30 years later local folks gave big party Forgetfulness also causes accidents fullscale flying pilot lost life George Field after failing remove locks airplanes tail surfaces Economic survival large government facility difficult after Uncle Sam pulls out former military base low popula tion density limited fixed base operations dearth major industrial patronage scheduled airline stop hardly Five choose F-106 Delta Dart 71 Long F-20 Tigershark 88 Mig 25 Foxbat 75 U-2 Spyplane 52 F11F-1 Grumman Tiger 70 kits include Fiberglass fuselage foam wing cores balsa hardware color decals fuel tanks landing gear struts plans instructions *399 UPS U-2 $329 Cash check Money Order only4 8 weeks delivery Super Detailed Pilots molded four five parts lightweight ready assembly painting civilian Barnstormer /s US Navy &WWIIAAF st Full figures $1995 busts $795 PS 188 Model Aviation DID YOU KNOW Since 1982 Knights Air Inc has making great products scale modelers Thousands satis fied R/Cers have enjoyed scale pilot figures hundreds ducted fan jet kits hands happy jet modelers across country next time want great scale model product call upon Knights Air Inc - LAlNES fMILLS METALSB00S -PRECISION INSTRUMENTS OMPLETE OSTOLOC $200 L2ciEP1Eu FLS ce lOGOs stenos Zion C SIa Ra Sprrgf1o OZ 5505 COMPO513 3228562 I I AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES ij\x0R/C GOODIES AIR-FLO HINGES LITESPAN LITEWEIGHT COVERING IRON-ON CLOTh I FOR SMALLERSTRIP HINGES 3 AIRCRAFT TOWI DThS FIT1 SO WING 5PMSMALL MEDIUM AND LARGEI LITEWEIGHTAIRCRAFT -ON COVHinges eliminate gapsimprove control ERING NOWefficiencyEasy-to-installtoughflexible AVAILABLE IN1 SIZE 1-1/4 SIZE1-1/2 SIZE USA$185 $195$205 s Balsaloc Non-toxic Adhesive put onHINGES 36 LONG s & H$100 TO 6 small sponge Allow dry affix frame iron Shrink iron heat gun HEADADAPTERS UEL PROOF PAINTABLE WorksH compound curves easy apply very toughOR COXI Weight 1 oz/sqyd AVAILABLE NOW149/051 w FROM CHARLIES R/C GOODIESES COLORS Red Yellow White Orange Blue Black Silver Antique Ivory DarkL ye INS SAVE $ Green LITESPAN $300 Sheet 20 x 36Use Mandard now Plugs improve Engine SPEC $250 110 Gram Balsaloc adhesivePerformance RPMS applies 7-10 sheets $400 SPEC $325 SHIPPING & HANDLING Litespan up 7049/051 $250 09 $310 15 $325 sheets plus 1 Balsaloc $275S & H $100 TO 5 UNITS ICash Prices BOLD Type Charge Cards 6% NIore Under $100 5% VISAAbove Minimum Charge $2500 No CODs CALIF Add SALES TAX Catalog $100 USA $300 Foreign L 2828 Cochran St Suite 281 Simi Valley Ca 93065w ~8O52791CE 805 581-5061 J r LATHES ING MACHINES INE SHOP SUPPLIES I BLUE RIDGE IINE -~TheCoftmons ___ UAte rio ye P0 50X036YHLStRICANEW25526 ____CALL FOR PACKAGE PR CES CATALOG $100 [ 304 562-3538 BLIILDC D MODELS Sn titlamot makngmyatldtamoushsto Mate ynhmode pantavoabetot Fern 122 tot4tteytOCCLF FUSS stats Thee flatS ni els hi, anywheytASS lIonel Real Cot ecto t item Ask tid time mtdelet eoontehtrtOhaei ytueelt long, 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elsewhere space Rolling past lush green nearly flat midwestern farms homesteads less mile apart struck con trast home state Pennsylvania Though own town shows no identifiable symptoms exploding megalopolis Pennsylvania dotted mill towns mills often cold silent houses lean another yards postage stamp size nonexistent Such pop ulation density breeds number ills Like neighbors unavoidably aware others comings goings rugged open expanse Mid west brings its own problems farmers lot can severe ridden hardship Herds buffalo seem ever like cattle Still lifting gaze above limitless sweep unsullied horizon gave mute thanks great Creator bounti ful tranquil land different sprawling developments crowded cities clonelike monuments commerce technology eastern states needed reminding theres ro mance aeromodeling going Nats would Mankinds love affair aer ial vehicles live mechanical probably began long before Daedalus tried gluing feathers arms airplanes whether full-scale model deep hearts people commonly im agined fascination things aeronautical everywhere Nats Maybe dont need stadium yet accommodate spectators meets Nats draw lot folks enthusiastically committed hobby So lets turn backs shining stars modeldom meet some public Howard Smith Arizona retired Bendix guided missile engineer Though first Nats Howard snared model aviation early life began building flying young boy got ground floor RC little plane called rudder bug twitching rud der control available pi lot As RC matured Howard became ex pert Pattern flier started club taught others fly got hobby shop business sideline Howard no less three good reasons looking Nats least give boost fellow club member Chip Hyde Bob McDonald lives little over hours drive Nats venue Prince ton IN Though interest modeling reaches way back Bobs 41-year-long ca reer National Guard maintenance offi cer limited involvement Ukie Control Line flier Free Flight er Once Free Flight model became little too free Bob chartered full-scale plane try capture fugitive aircraft Bob equivalent sports fans likes watch rather compete him self Hes recently retired though ex pects accelerate modeling activities cap says allor does Bud Grider east St Louis area got start modeling rubber-powered P-40 age 10 As Bud tells later gave craft much-regretted Viking funerala boyish prank best left unelaborated models CL Baby Spitfire en gine refused start 11 years Some finally explained six-volt lantern batteries hazardous glow plugs health Bud took sabbatical modeling helping wife raise family seven fascination warbirds actively back track hes Pylon Racing military Scale models Bud once kept himself race recycling slightly used Popsicle sticks wing joiners Bud belongs Spirit St Louis RC Club never misses Oshkosh Fly Now hes tasted Nats never miss another either Harold Ruth Hileman both model ing enthusiasts Ruth already built flown rubber-powered models married didnt mind accompa nying husband two weeks Fort Wayne air show corpsman US Army Engineers Hal has touch mas ter mechanic Hes also skilled electron ics built own RC radios Hal planning retire soon looking forward hasnnt able put enough time workbench Skylane 62 project begun few years ago still isnt ready debut Hal bullish about com pleting Cessna Im sure will Ruth got kick out kibitzing Nats Norm Jones traveled hun dred miles rural community Har risburg IL unfortunately has no easy access modeling club fellow 192 Model Aviation ADVANCED AERO PRODUCTS CyLt os tTE Fy CFOReATe36o ynvANcoSAErePRsrsjcTS 366C ANT5 7so53 t2t4I9 4 obbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 85, 86, 87, 88, 188, 192, 193
5115atsTa le Twoities What Dickens author spins tantalizing tale best times U Fred Berman THOUGH WORLDS away fabled European capitals Dickenss great clas sic two cities title have own stories tell Lawrenceville Illinois Vincennes Indiana hosts 1990 MidAmerican Nats places wont quickly forget Anyone attended years Nats went home passel memories Let share some thing lucky Lawrenceville Vincennes straddle boundary line between eastern central time zones clocks two cities read same Scheduling might have turned night mare otherwise subject bad dreams want know Nats contestant did chapter verse begin arrive late day transmitter processing Whether theyre Gold-stickered transmitters must have cardiogram read before being used Nats tumbled few minutes past deadline flying site headquarters also known White Whale learn wrong place After 10 minutes breakneck driving Vincennes found Holiday Innbut no transmitter processing station Evidently busy spectrum analyzer crew fin ished timelier contestants struck its tent sure what glad see AMA President Don Lowe advised George Field WWiI legacy 1990 Nats site Young Barrett Hill dad just touched down Piper Pawnee home base Newton IL satellite airports make up Georges vast air training complex Biggest spectator appeal Its shared pretty evenly Scale CL Combat Would look immaculate flight line No contest category yet Nats guys Ronald Reagan almost made off Bob Vances Beer Can Stearmans Tech-cellence George Steiner Ur gently needed badly wanted obligingly available ever quaiifiedmore can said track down George Steiner room motel Several anxious hours later did connect George returned motel room George Steiner coin pleat scientist room bulging expensive-looking equipment cases full records stickers other contest par aphernalia showed Bright-eyed viva cious friendly George truly AMAs blessingssharp dedicated totally interested willing give himself get impression him way ward radio waves vibrating around ozone actually visible George retired western utility company question new fam ily car came up vetoed idea favor personal spectrum analyzeryou know five-digit price tag same story Georges offspring left coop wifes fantasy using va cated space guestroom didnt stand chance George solution obvi ous Instruments equipment collec tions storageyes bunk facilitiesno Shades Edwin Henry Armstrong way George has added antique vintage radios list collections So dont throw outsend George Youll giving pleasure genius though probably wife As modeler flier Georges ingenuity takes another twist kind Sherlock radio waves hes wonderfully clever thinking up ways stalking favorite quarry Radio signals can tricky find out just much signal strength lost tween transmitter airborne receiver George set up battery test equipment pilots station piggybacked live transmitter onto Miss America re leased like carrier pigeon George has measured tested tried dissected equipment buy hobby counter reasons protect ing industry though notes cant made public conversation led deduce RC equipment made equal fact no longer produced Pro-Line RC devices almost 1991ready15 years ago much sought after advisor AMA also Radio Control indus 86 Model Aviation Gerry Skreckoski Appalachia NY built Cessna Citation Royal kit flies great looks Wilga 80 beautifully modeled Bill Logan Ontario Canada Though CL flier Polish charmer has throttle control can drop parachute Charlie Chambers Scale Masters winner 1988 Dave Platt Mustang eloquently tells super realistic performer Former National Guard maintenance officer Bob McDonald drawn magnetism Nats chartered full-scale ride search vagrant FF model try George could further described high-tech roustabout stayed Vin cennes two days beyond contest closing just help load Nats properties return trip storage Reston believe helping hands hard come especially after meet shuts down Sun day Naturally George willingly radio graphed transmitter 10-grand analyzer just hundreds others week Back perils Paulineer trials tribulations read stupidity humble author Notified sign headquar ters tent pilots meeting sched uled 1000 am following morning arrived bright shining 15 minutes spare problem no else Though ladies Headquarters confirmed meet ing indeed scheduled ap pointed hour came went no other arrivals Contest Director Chip Smith finally en lightened meeting progress alrightat Holiday Inn Vincennes Betty Stream all-around make-it go official confirmed noted meeting locale sign Evidently reading skills added always practiced contestant requirement Too late schmart too soon old About hour later preparations event category under way flight assignment sheets posted name conspicuous its absence What Didnt check event director No thought picking up badge bumper sticker registration desk enough Go find Greg Frohreich now experienced hunter feet succeeded brain failed Busy Event Director Frohreich big man heart match Possibly cause compassion fellow Hun Greg allowed name added flight roster Home safely long shot transmitter though nearly missed impounded recruited December 1990 87 sleek Viojett Super Sabre string Vup Chicago magician Charlie Bauer per formed sleight hand Hes programmed flaps retracts aileron trim throttle tank drop functions through controi lines What cant littie black boxes has wider grinJoe Techirgi Santa AnaCA piump 1916 Deutsches Flug werk Bipe former engineer Douglas Joe reports OF bear fly Relay three out four pylon racers ready wrap around stakes snarling ships have souped up engines turning 30000 rpm Though RC club disbanded model ing spirit hasnt left Nats Spectator Norm Jones Harrisburg IL mechanic Flying under way after three hours baking sun turn ready box three-minute clock main engine started easilybut no throttle control cant quick fix dont know problem nothing scratch round flight haul everything back dug out hit like sledgehammer radio using super-reliable Id borrowed semiretired Heli copter repeated handling trans mitter little hold switch top inadvertently tripped killing normal throt tle function Ouch double ouch sultry afternoon wore Murphy still around evidently scouting fairer game Noticing search-and-rescue expedition headed boonies soon learned cause FAI contestants Wayne Apostolico Texas National Champion Chip Hyde suffered midair Both planes absolutely totaled Later Don told fellow competitors Watts Dallas Rog ers Fife Birch immediately offered loan him models components Doubtless Chip shown same generosity saw him fly shortly after crash Thats spirit camaraderie Nats known well past midday time round two category began mornings reserved Pylon Racing al ready original plan completing six Continued page 188 88 Model Aviation inimitable Larry Kruse FF modeler col lege dean AMA reporter extreordinaire Self-propelled Bud Grider super interested interesting Nets spectator AMA member Fairview Heights IL can smile amidst shambles Wayne Apostoilco Arlington TX midaired Chip-the-Champ Both market replacements Perfectly good pattern ship tall anyone Shirley Sheeks Indianapolis retrains un cowled 1929 Travelair Mystery Ship hubby Jack sorts out engine problem CL Scale entry set identi cal twins Spectators Howard Smith grandson Timmy enthusiasm unbounded certainly contagious Wedding first air show after Hoosiers Ruth Harold Hileman taking Nets sons modelers too Sally Ted Rohifing traveled 2000 miles California order see Nets both suffer incurable love-of-aviation virus Texans Edle Dick Oliver sadly bearing pieces pylon disaster steep bank racer snap-rolled ground An army hell pilot Dick shrugged happens Well build another FPEE / HANDLE N FORMATION 18007495942 NLZAD FThLD CHAHOEF $4495 TOP OF THE LINE DESIGNS FOR LESS BOTH UNITS DESIONED FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER BATTERIES NINETY DAY WARRANTY PRECiSION EXPANDED SCALE VOLT METER H DOUPER ELECTRONICS PO BOX 90171 AUSTIN TEXAS 78709 surfaced few come mind Lew Mahieu single-handedly conceptual ized designed original Zeeks never full responsibility kitting deriv atives despite fact worked Air-O Premium producing commercial Zeek kits worked K&B produced subsequent Kiwi de sign original Zeek kits first show fuse-operated pop-up DT also first tilting stab up side other would produce glide turn correspond ing direction noticeable effect power portion flight nothing else series has relit candles illuminate some heretofore fabled Zeeks yet see commercial print respon sible being have given proper credit list includes original 277-sq-in 1947 ignition-powered version drawn Stu Sit tig Lutz-produced 51 Class 09 deriva tive Cranford B/C 575 directly influenced Lew Mahieu though case recorded plans drawn another individ ual Obviously Lew Mahieu preferred work innovation standing still laurels de served hats off Lew Mahieu one-time associates making Free Flight legend thing certain People may eventu ally fade away hobby Zeeks ever Lastly am forever indebted Ive discussions correspondence phone conversations over past 10 years Prop er acknowledgment responsiveness good things have emerged colloquy would fill another chapter lieu shall simply close alphabetical listing names included 6-in-deep pile correspondence accumulated over 10 years individuals Lyman Armstrong Bill Cranford Ray Downs Gerald Fowler Russ Han sen FK Heeb Elmer Jordan Dan Lutz Lew Mahieu Ed Mate Chet Orrill Russ Snyder Bob Spink Carl Stokes Ed Toner heartfelt thanks Ive forgotten anyone humbly apologize oversight Obviously 10 years reliving Zeek designs turn contribution growth popularity Nostalgia Gas movement have acquired considerable inventory full size Zeek plans Should anyone require informa tion regard large SASE will get listing Thats aint no Till next time see downwind Nats Tale/Berman Continued page 88 rounds three afternoons looked logisti cally impossiblethere just too contestants Shadows grew long haze close IFR Just before 800 pm curfew turn couldnt put off longer Nerves thor oughly numbed now executed se quence either incident elegance think used ESP visual track ing Mercifully never caught up scoresheet After long-suffering wife made back motel dining room 30 miles away mere 10 minutes before locked door So Murphy dont win time Actually patience endurance dedication judges line officials other contest personnel old demon chaos cant get toehold Nats Dry roasting sun day varied crew did splendid job deserve thanks appreciation can express some Year after year Vince Mankowski Nats search committee come up good site Its amazing Mid-American Air Center flew off George Field World War II Army Air Force training base named after gen eral served its first commander Its 3000-acre facility mile-long run ways Ray Pickering genial veteran ser vice manager recalled hundreds Wacs well troop-carrying gliders part scene George Field dur ing forties As such air bases grisly dents sometimes occurred rookie pilot missed approach smacked house near field starting fire both adult residents perished fire men reached scene found threeyear-old girl unhurt wandering outside tears raised relatives another state visited Lawrenceville some 30 years later local folks gave big party Forgetfulness also causes accidents fullscale flying pilot lost life George Field after failing remove locks airplanes tail surfaces Economic survival large government facility difficult after Uncle Sam pulls out former military base low popula tion density limited fixed base operations dearth major industrial patronage scheduled airline stop hardly Five choose F-106 Delta Dart 71 Long F-20 Tigershark 88 Mig 25 Foxbat 75 U-2 Spyplane 52 F11F-1 Grumman Tiger 70 kits include Fiberglass fuselage foam wing cores balsa hardware color decals fuel tanks landing gear struts plans instructions *399 UPS U-2 $329 Cash check Money Order only4 8 weeks delivery Super Detailed Pilots molded four five parts lightweight ready assembly painting civilian Barnstormer /s US Navy &WWIIAAF st Full figures $1995 busts $795 PS 188 Model Aviation DID YOU KNOW Since 1982 Knights Air Inc has making great products scale modelers Thousands satis fied R/Cers have enjoyed scale pilot figures hundreds ducted fan jet kits hands happy jet modelers across country next time want great scale model product call upon Knights Air Inc - LAlNES fMILLS METALSB00S -PRECISION INSTRUMENTS OMPLETE OSTOLOC $200 L2ciEP1Eu FLS ce lOGOs stenos Zion C SIa Ra Sprrgf1o OZ 5505 COMPO513 3228562 I I AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES ij\x0R/C GOODIES AIR-FLO HINGES LITESPAN LITEWEIGHT COVERING IRON-ON CLOTh I FOR SMALLERSTRIP HINGES 3 AIRCRAFT TOWI DThS FIT1 SO WING 5PMSMALL MEDIUM AND LARGEI LITEWEIGHTAIRCRAFT -ON COVHinges eliminate gapsimprove control ERING NOWefficiencyEasy-to-installtoughflexible AVAILABLE IN1 SIZE 1-1/4 SIZE1-1/2 SIZE USA$185 $195$205 s Balsaloc Non-toxic Adhesive put onHINGES 36 LONG s & H$100 TO 6 small sponge Allow dry affix frame iron Shrink iron heat gun HEADADAPTERS UEL PROOF PAINTABLE WorksH compound curves easy apply very toughOR COXI Weight 1 oz/sqyd AVAILABLE NOW149/051 w FROM CHARLIES R/C GOODIESES COLORS Red Yellow White Orange Blue Black Silver Antique Ivory DarkL ye INS SAVE $ Green LITESPAN $300 Sheet 20 x 36Use Mandard now Plugs improve Engine SPEC $250 110 Gram Balsaloc adhesivePerformance RPMS applies 7-10 sheets $400 SPEC $325 SHIPPING & HANDLING Litespan up 7049/051 $250 09 $310 15 $325 sheets plus 1 Balsaloc $275S & H $100 TO 5 UNITS ICash Prices BOLD Type Charge Cards 6% NIore Under $100 5% VISAAbove Minimum Charge $2500 No CODs CALIF Add SALES TAX Catalog $100 USA $300 Foreign L 2828 Cochran St Suite 281 Simi Valley Ca 93065w ~8O52791CE 805 581-5061 J r LATHES ING MACHINES INE SHOP SUPPLIES I BLUE RIDGE IINE -~TheCoftmons ___ UAte rio ye P0 50X036YHLStRICANEW25526 ____CALL FOR PACKAGE PR CES CATALOG $100 [ 304 562-3538 BLIILDC D MODELS Sn titlamot makngmyatldtamoushsto Mate ynhmode pantavoabetot Fern 122 tot4tteytOCCLF FUSS stats Thee flatS ni els hi, anywheytASS lIonel Real Cot ecto t item Ask tid time mtdelet eoontehtrtOhaei ytueelt long, Sut snd $2 * to 5 CIoelandStignd pittOiat Catalog Sttktet o pet artaltylluotated prIce list Ftreign odd y yo Al Mal Sane ye Sam day terno tOo no deal, aaoepmueeuels EddTPU-hndAiotio5,IFi,dCLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY Cin 15357B_Detoi cleveland OH 44102 ~-PA--%* UIET YOUR ENGINE $395 KsoShInIr s lAsgO Ilesible rsbben/tabrlc laninate softens vihtslisn helmets engine md sisunt mssnl lirewall S heel 2thx4xtho Ssc tslswthbledesrsds slit Woths wltemner Stems cnmretnhi sstsfitd Send hed nmney snler tsr 8355 plssS5 P511 ISISSI MISAI5JSI POSos 78 NemSJrK NYlSS2l __ H4mpmeriemireaeehnmeeil teemkoee*hi4ilmamhsbypesideci destined vigorous growth main taming healthy status quo isnt assured Al ready shoe manufacturer oil refin ery have ceased local operations George Field airfield administered jointly states Illinois Indiana through ap pointed commission Theres hope revi talization told runway improve ments gradually being implemented funds become available area has ingredient often short supply elsewhere space Rolling past lush green nearly flat midwestern farms homesteads less mile apart struck con trast home state Pennsylvania Though own town shows no identifiable symptoms exploding megalopolis Pennsylvania dotted mill towns mills often cold silent houses lean another yards postage stamp size nonexistent Such pop ulation density breeds number ills Like neighbors unavoidably aware others comings goings rugged open expanse Mid west brings its own problems farmers lot can severe ridden hardship Herds buffalo seem ever like cattle Still lifting gaze above limitless sweep unsullied horizon gave mute thanks great Creator bounti ful tranquil land different sprawling developments crowded cities clonelike monuments commerce technology eastern states needed reminding theres ro mance aeromodeling going Nats would Mankinds love affair aer ial vehicles live mechanical probably began long before Daedalus tried gluing feathers arms airplanes whether full-scale model deep hearts people commonly im agined fascination things aeronautical everywhere Nats Maybe dont need stadium yet accommodate spectators meets Nats draw lot folks enthusiastically committed hobby So lets turn backs shining stars modeldom meet some public Howard Smith Arizona retired Bendix guided missile engineer Though first Nats Howard snared model aviation early life began building flying young boy got ground floor RC little plane called rudder bug twitching rud der control available pi lot As RC matured Howard became ex pert Pattern flier started club taught others fly got hobby shop business sideline Howard no less three good reasons looking Nats least give boost fellow club member Chip Hyde Bob McDonald lives little over hours drive Nats venue Prince ton IN Though interest modeling reaches way back Bobs 41-year-long ca reer National Guard maintenance offi cer limited involvement Ukie Control Line flier Free Flight er Once Free Flight model became little too free Bob chartered full-scale plane try capture fugitive aircraft Bob equivalent sports fans likes watch rather compete him self Hes recently retired though ex pects accelerate modeling activities cap says allor does Bud Grider east St Louis area got start modeling rubber-powered P-40 age 10 As Bud tells later gave craft much-regretted Viking funerala boyish prank best left unelaborated models CL Baby Spitfire en gine refused start 11 years Some finally explained six-volt lantern batteries hazardous glow plugs health Bud took sabbatical modeling helping wife raise family seven fascination warbirds actively back track hes Pylon Racing military Scale models Bud once kept himself race recycling slightly used Popsicle sticks wing joiners Bud belongs Spirit St Louis RC Club never misses Oshkosh Fly Now hes tasted Nats never miss another either Harold Ruth Hileman both model ing enthusiasts Ruth already built flown rubber-powered models married didnt mind accompa nying husband two weeks Fort Wayne air show corpsman US Army Engineers Hal has touch mas ter mechanic Hes also skilled electron ics built own RC radios Hal planning retire soon looking forward hasnnt able put enough time workbench Skylane 62 project begun few years ago still isnt ready debut Hal bullish about com pleting Cessna Im sure will Ruth got kick out kibitzing Nats Norm Jones traveled hun dred miles rural community Har risburg IL unfortunately has no easy access modeling club fellow 192 Model Aviation ADVANCED AERO PRODUCTS CyLt os tTE Fy CFOReATe36o ynvANcoSAErePRsrsjcTS 366C ANT5 7so53 t2t4I9 4 obbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 85, 86, 87, 88, 188, 192, 193
5115atsTa le Twoities What Dickens author spins tantalizing tale best times U Fred Berman THOUGH WORLDS away fabled European capitals Dickenss great clas sic two cities title have own stories tell Lawrenceville Illinois Vincennes Indiana hosts 1990 MidAmerican Nats places wont quickly forget Anyone attended years Nats went home passel memories Let share some thing lucky Lawrenceville Vincennes straddle boundary line between eastern central time zones clocks two cities read same Scheduling might have turned night mare otherwise subject bad dreams want know Nats contestant did chapter verse begin arrive late day transmitter processing Whether theyre Gold-stickered transmitters must have cardiogram read before being used Nats tumbled few minutes past deadline flying site headquarters also known White Whale learn wrong place After 10 minutes breakneck driving Vincennes found Holiday Innbut no transmitter processing station Evidently busy spectrum analyzer crew fin ished timelier contestants struck its tent sure what glad see AMA President Don Lowe advised George Field WWiI legacy 1990 Nats site Young Barrett Hill dad just touched down Piper Pawnee home base Newton IL satellite airports make up Georges vast air training complex Biggest spectator appeal Its shared pretty evenly Scale CL Combat Would look immaculate flight line No contest category yet Nats guys Ronald Reagan almost made off Bob Vances Beer Can Stearmans Tech-cellence George Steiner Ur gently needed badly wanted obligingly available ever quaiifiedmore can said track down George Steiner room motel Several anxious hours later did connect George returned motel room George Steiner coin pleat scientist room bulging expensive-looking equipment cases full records stickers other contest par aphernalia showed Bright-eyed viva cious friendly George truly AMAs blessingssharp dedicated totally interested willing give himself get impression him way ward radio waves vibrating around ozone actually visible George retired western utility company question new fam ily car came up vetoed idea favor personal spectrum analyzeryou know five-digit price tag same story Georges offspring left coop wifes fantasy using va cated space guestroom didnt stand chance George solution obvi ous Instruments equipment collec tions storageyes bunk facilitiesno Shades Edwin Henry Armstrong way George has added antique vintage radios list collections So dont throw outsend George Youll giving pleasure genius though probably wife As modeler flier Georges ingenuity takes another twist kind Sherlock radio waves hes wonderfully clever thinking up ways stalking favorite quarry Radio signals can tricky find out just much signal strength lost tween transmitter airborne receiver George set up battery test equipment pilots station piggybacked live transmitter onto Miss America re leased like carrier pigeon George has measured tested tried dissected equipment buy hobby counter reasons protect ing industry though notes cant made public conversation led deduce RC equipment made equal fact no longer produced Pro-Line RC devices almost 1991ready15 years ago much sought after advisor AMA also Radio Control indus 86 Model Aviation Gerry Skreckoski Appalachia NY built Cessna Citation Royal kit flies great looks Wilga 80 beautifully modeled Bill Logan Ontario Canada Though CL flier Polish charmer has throttle control can drop parachute Charlie Chambers Scale Masters winner 1988 Dave Platt Mustang eloquently tells super realistic performer Former National Guard maintenance officer Bob McDonald drawn magnetism Nats chartered full-scale ride search vagrant FF model try George could further described high-tech roustabout stayed Vin cennes two days beyond contest closing just help load Nats properties return trip storage Reston believe helping hands hard come especially after meet shuts down Sun day Naturally George willingly radio graphed transmitter 10-grand analyzer just hundreds others week Back perils Paulineer trials tribulations read stupidity humble author Notified sign headquar ters tent pilots meeting sched uled 1000 am following morning arrived bright shining 15 minutes spare problem no else Though ladies Headquarters confirmed meet ing indeed scheduled ap pointed hour came went no other arrivals Contest Director Chip Smith finally en lightened meeting progress alrightat Holiday Inn Vincennes Betty Stream all-around make-it go official confirmed noted meeting locale sign Evidently reading skills added always practiced contestant requirement Too late schmart too soon old About hour later preparations event category under way flight assignment sheets posted name conspicuous its absence What Didnt check event director No thought picking up badge bumper sticker registration desk enough Go find Greg Frohreich now experienced hunter feet succeeded brain failed Busy Event Director Frohreich big man heart match Possibly cause compassion fellow Hun Greg allowed name added flight roster Home safely long shot transmitter though nearly missed impounded recruited December 1990 87 sleek Viojett Super Sabre string Vup Chicago magician Charlie Bauer per formed sleight hand Hes programmed flaps retracts aileron trim throttle tank drop functions through controi lines What cant littie black boxes has wider grinJoe Techirgi Santa AnaCA piump 1916 Deutsches Flug werk Bipe former engineer Douglas Joe reports OF bear fly Relay three out four pylon racers ready wrap around stakes snarling ships have souped up engines turning 30000 rpm Though RC club disbanded model ing spirit hasnt left Nats Spectator Norm Jones Harrisburg IL mechanic Flying under way after three hours baking sun turn ready box three-minute clock main engine started easilybut no throttle control cant quick fix dont know problem nothing scratch round flight haul everything back dug out hit like sledgehammer radio using super-reliable Id borrowed semiretired Heli copter repeated handling trans mitter little hold switch top inadvertently tripped killing normal throt tle function Ouch double ouch sultry afternoon wore Murphy still around evidently scouting fairer game Noticing search-and-rescue expedition headed boonies soon learned cause FAI contestants Wayne Apostolico Texas National Champion Chip Hyde suffered midair Both planes absolutely totaled Later Don told fellow competitors Watts Dallas Rog ers Fife Birch immediately offered loan him models components Doubtless Chip shown same generosity saw him fly shortly after crash Thats spirit camaraderie Nats known well past midday time round two category began mornings reserved Pylon Racing al ready original plan completing six Continued page 188 88 Model Aviation inimitable Larry Kruse FF modeler col lege dean AMA reporter extreordinaire Self-propelled Bud Grider super interested interesting Nets spectator AMA member Fairview Heights IL can smile amidst shambles Wayne Apostoilco Arlington TX midaired Chip-the-Champ Both market replacements Perfectly good pattern ship tall anyone Shirley Sheeks Indianapolis retrains un cowled 1929 Travelair Mystery Ship hubby Jack sorts out engine problem CL Scale entry set identi cal twins Spectators Howard Smith grandson Timmy enthusiasm unbounded certainly contagious Wedding first air show after Hoosiers Ruth Harold Hileman taking Nets sons modelers too Sally Ted Rohifing traveled 2000 miles California order see Nets both suffer incurable love-of-aviation virus Texans Edle Dick Oliver sadly bearing pieces pylon disaster steep bank racer snap-rolled ground An army hell pilot Dick shrugged happens Well build another FPEE / HANDLE N FORMATION 18007495942 NLZAD FThLD CHAHOEF $4495 TOP OF THE LINE DESIGNS FOR LESS BOTH UNITS DESIONED FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER BATTERIES NINETY DAY WARRANTY PRECiSION EXPANDED SCALE VOLT METER H DOUPER ELECTRONICS PO BOX 90171 AUSTIN TEXAS 78709 surfaced few come mind Lew Mahieu single-handedly conceptual ized designed original Zeeks never full responsibility kitting deriv atives despite fact worked Air-O Premium producing commercial Zeek kits worked K&B produced subsequent Kiwi de sign original Zeek kits first show fuse-operated pop-up DT also first tilting stab up side other would produce glide turn correspond ing direction noticeable effect power portion flight nothing else series has relit candles illuminate some heretofore fabled Zeeks yet see commercial print respon sible being have given proper credit list includes original 277-sq-in 1947 ignition-powered version drawn Stu Sit tig Lutz-produced 51 Class 09 deriva tive Cranford B/C 575 directly influenced Lew Mahieu though case recorded plans drawn another individ ual Obviously Lew Mahieu preferred work innovation standing still laurels de served hats off Lew Mahieu one-time associates making Free Flight legend thing certain People may eventu ally fade away hobby Zeeks ever Lastly am forever indebted Ive discussions correspondence phone conversations over past 10 years Prop er acknowledgment responsiveness good things have emerged colloquy would fill another chapter lieu shall simply close alphabetical listing names included 6-in-deep pile correspondence accumulated over 10 years individuals Lyman Armstrong Bill Cranford Ray Downs Gerald Fowler Russ Han sen FK Heeb Elmer Jordan Dan Lutz Lew Mahieu Ed Mate Chet Orrill Russ Snyder Bob Spink Carl Stokes Ed Toner heartfelt thanks Ive forgotten anyone humbly apologize oversight Obviously 10 years reliving Zeek designs turn contribution growth popularity Nostalgia Gas movement have acquired considerable inventory full size Zeek plans Should anyone require informa tion regard large SASE will get listing Thats aint no Till next time see downwind Nats Tale/Berman Continued page 88 rounds three afternoons looked logisti cally impossiblethere just too contestants Shadows grew long haze close IFR Just before 800 pm curfew turn couldnt put off longer Nerves thor oughly numbed now executed se quence either incident elegance think used ESP visual track ing Mercifully never caught up scoresheet After long-suffering wife made back motel dining room 30 miles away mere 10 minutes before locked door So Murphy dont win time Actually patience endurance dedication judges line officials other contest personnel old demon chaos cant get toehold Nats Dry roasting sun day varied crew did splendid job deserve thanks appreciation can express some Year after year Vince Mankowski Nats search committee come up good site Its amazing Mid-American Air Center flew off George Field World War II Army Air Force training base named after gen eral served its first commander Its 3000-acre facility mile-long run ways Ray Pickering genial veteran ser vice manager recalled hundreds Wacs well troop-carrying gliders part scene George Field dur ing forties As such air bases grisly dents sometimes occurred rookie pilot missed approach smacked house near field starting fire both adult residents perished fire men reached scene found threeyear-old girl unhurt wandering outside tears raised relatives another state visited Lawrenceville some 30 years later local folks gave big party Forgetfulness also causes accidents fullscale flying pilot lost life George Field after failing remove locks airplanes tail surfaces Economic survival large government facility difficult after Uncle Sam pulls out former military base low popula tion density limited fixed base operations dearth major industrial patronage scheduled airline stop hardly Five choose F-106 Delta Dart 71 Long F-20 Tigershark 88 Mig 25 Foxbat 75 U-2 Spyplane 52 F11F-1 Grumman Tiger 70 kits include Fiberglass fuselage foam wing cores balsa hardware color decals fuel tanks landing gear struts plans instructions *399 UPS U-2 $329 Cash check Money Order only4 8 weeks delivery Super Detailed Pilots molded four five parts lightweight ready assembly painting civilian Barnstormer /s US Navy &WWIIAAF st Full figures $1995 busts $795 PS 188 Model Aviation DID YOU KNOW Since 1982 Knights Air Inc has making great products scale modelers Thousands satis fied R/Cers have enjoyed scale pilot figures hundreds ducted fan jet kits hands happy jet modelers across country next time want great scale model product call upon Knights Air Inc - LAlNES fMILLS METALSB00S -PRECISION INSTRUMENTS OMPLETE OSTOLOC $200 L2ciEP1Eu FLS ce lOGOs stenos Zion C SIa Ra Sprrgf1o OZ 5505 COMPO513 3228562 I I AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES ij\x0R/C GOODIES AIR-FLO HINGES LITESPAN LITEWEIGHT COVERING IRON-ON CLOTh I FOR SMALLERSTRIP HINGES 3 AIRCRAFT TOWI DThS FIT1 SO WING 5PMSMALL MEDIUM AND LARGEI LITEWEIGHTAIRCRAFT -ON COVHinges eliminate gapsimprove control ERING NOWefficiencyEasy-to-installtoughflexible AVAILABLE IN1 SIZE 1-1/4 SIZE1-1/2 SIZE USA$185 $195$205 s Balsaloc Non-toxic Adhesive put onHINGES 36 LONG s & H$100 TO 6 small sponge Allow dry affix frame iron Shrink iron heat gun HEADADAPTERS UEL PROOF PAINTABLE WorksH compound curves easy apply very toughOR COXI Weight 1 oz/sqyd AVAILABLE NOW149/051 w FROM CHARLIES R/C GOODIESES COLORS Red Yellow White Orange Blue Black Silver Antique Ivory DarkL ye INS SAVE $ Green LITESPAN $300 Sheet 20 x 36Use Mandard now Plugs improve Engine SPEC $250 110 Gram Balsaloc adhesivePerformance RPMS applies 7-10 sheets $400 SPEC $325 SHIPPING & HANDLING Litespan up 7049/051 $250 09 $310 15 $325 sheets plus 1 Balsaloc $275S & H $100 TO 5 UNITS ICash Prices BOLD Type Charge Cards 6% NIore Under $100 5% VISAAbove Minimum Charge $2500 No CODs CALIF Add SALES TAX Catalog $100 USA $300 Foreign L 2828 Cochran St Suite 281 Simi Valley Ca 93065w ~8O52791CE 805 581-5061 J r LATHES ING MACHINES INE SHOP SUPPLIES I BLUE RIDGE IINE -~TheCoftmons ___ UAte rio ye P0 50X036YHLStRICANEW25526 ____CALL FOR PACKAGE PR CES CATALOG $100 [ 304 562-3538 BLIILDC D MODELS Sn titlamot makngmyatldtamoushsto Mate ynhmode pantavoabetot Fern 122 tot4tteytOCCLF FUSS stats Thee flatS ni els hi, anywheytASS lIonel Real Cot ecto t item Ask tid time mtdelet eoontehtrtOhaei ytueelt long, Sut snd $2 * to 5 CIoelandStignd pittOiat Catalog Sttktet o pet artaltylluotated prIce list Ftreign odd y yo Al Mal Sane ye Sam day terno tOo no deal, aaoepmueeuels EddTPU-hndAiotio5,IFi,dCLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY Cin 15357B_Detoi cleveland OH 44102 ~-PA--%* UIET YOUR ENGINE $395 KsoShInIr s lAsgO Ilesible rsbben/tabrlc laninate softens vihtslisn helmets engine md sisunt mssnl lirewall S heel 2thx4xtho Ssc tslswthbledesrsds slit Woths wltemner Stems cnmretnhi sstsfitd Send hed nmney snler tsr 8355 plssS5 P511 ISISSI MISAI5JSI POSos 78 NemSJrK NYlSS2l __ H4mpmeriemireaeehnmeeil teemkoee*hi4ilmamhsbypesideci destined vigorous growth main taming healthy status quo isnt assured Al ready shoe manufacturer oil refin ery have ceased local operations George Field airfield administered jointly states Illinois Indiana through ap pointed commission Theres hope revi talization told runway improve ments gradually being implemented funds become available area has ingredient often short supply elsewhere space Rolling past lush green nearly flat midwestern farms homesteads less mile apart struck con trast home state Pennsylvania Though own town shows no identifiable symptoms exploding megalopolis Pennsylvania dotted mill towns mills often cold silent houses lean another yards postage stamp size nonexistent Such pop ulation density breeds number ills Like neighbors unavoidably aware others comings goings rugged open expanse Mid west brings its own problems farmers lot can severe ridden hardship Herds buffalo seem ever like cattle Still lifting gaze above limitless sweep unsullied horizon gave mute thanks great Creator bounti ful tranquil land different sprawling developments crowded cities clonelike monuments commerce technology eastern states needed reminding theres ro mance aeromodeling going Nats would Mankinds love affair aer ial vehicles live mechanical probably began long before Daedalus tried gluing feathers arms airplanes whether full-scale model deep hearts people commonly im agined fascination things aeronautical everywhere Nats Maybe dont need stadium yet accommodate spectators meets Nats draw lot folks enthusiastically committed hobby So lets turn backs shining stars modeldom meet some public Howard Smith Arizona retired Bendix guided missile engineer Though first Nats Howard snared model aviation early life began building flying young boy got ground floor RC little plane called rudder bug twitching rud der control available pi lot As RC matured Howard became ex pert Pattern flier started club taught others fly got hobby shop business sideline Howard no less three good reasons looking Nats least give boost fellow club member Chip Hyde Bob McDonald lives little over hours drive Nats venue Prince ton IN Though interest modeling reaches way back Bobs 41-year-long ca reer National Guard maintenance offi cer limited involvement Ukie Control Line flier Free Flight er Once Free Flight model became little too free Bob chartered full-scale plane try capture fugitive aircraft Bob equivalent sports fans likes watch rather compete him self Hes recently retired though ex pects accelerate modeling activities cap says allor does Bud Grider east St Louis area got start modeling rubber-powered P-40 age 10 As Bud tells later gave craft much-regretted Viking funerala boyish prank best left unelaborated models CL Baby Spitfire en gine refused start 11 years Some finally explained six-volt lantern batteries hazardous glow plugs health Bud took sabbatical modeling helping wife raise family seven fascination warbirds actively back track hes Pylon Racing military Scale models Bud once kept himself race recycling slightly used Popsicle sticks wing joiners Bud belongs Spirit St Louis RC Club never misses Oshkosh Fly Now hes tasted Nats never miss another either Harold Ruth Hileman both model ing enthusiasts Ruth already built flown rubber-powered models married didnt mind accompa nying husband two weeks Fort Wayne air show corpsman US Army Engineers Hal has touch mas ter mechanic Hes also skilled electron ics built own RC radios Hal planning retire soon looking forward hasnnt able put enough time workbench Skylane 62 project begun few years ago still isnt ready debut Hal bullish about com pleting Cessna Im sure will Ruth got kick out kibitzing Nats Norm Jones traveled hun dred miles rural community Har risburg IL unfortunately has no easy access modeling club fellow 192 Model Aviation ADVANCED AERO PRODUCTS CyLt os tTE Fy CFOReATe36o ynvANcoSAErePRsrsjcTS 366C ANT5 7so53 t2t4I9 4 obbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 85, 86, 87, 88, 188, 192, 193
5115atsTa le Twoities What Dickens author spins tantalizing tale best times U Fred Berman THOUGH WORLDS away fabled European capitals Dickenss great clas sic two cities title have own stories tell Lawrenceville Illinois Vincennes Indiana hosts 1990 MidAmerican Nats places wont quickly forget Anyone attended years Nats went home passel memories Let share some thing lucky Lawrenceville Vincennes straddle boundary line between eastern central time zones clocks two cities read same Scheduling might have turned night mare otherwise subject bad dreams want know Nats contestant did chapter verse begin arrive late day transmitter processing Whether theyre Gold-stickered transmitters must have cardiogram read before being used Nats tumbled few minutes past deadline flying site headquarters also known White Whale learn wrong place After 10 minutes breakneck driving Vincennes found Holiday Innbut no transmitter processing station Evidently busy spectrum analyzer crew fin ished timelier contestants struck its tent sure what glad see AMA President Don Lowe advised George Field WWiI legacy 1990 Nats site Young Barrett Hill dad just touched down Piper Pawnee home base Newton IL satellite airports make up Georges vast air training complex Biggest spectator appeal Its shared pretty evenly Scale CL Combat Would look immaculate flight line No contest category yet Nats guys Ronald Reagan almost made off Bob Vances Beer Can Stearmans Tech-cellence George Steiner Ur gently needed badly wanted obligingly available ever quaiifiedmore can said track down George Steiner room motel Several anxious hours later did connect George returned motel room George Steiner coin pleat scientist room bulging expensive-looking equipment cases full records stickers other contest par aphernalia showed Bright-eyed viva cious friendly George truly AMAs blessingssharp dedicated totally interested willing give himself get impression him way ward radio waves vibrating around ozone actually visible George retired western utility company question new fam ily car came up vetoed idea favor personal spectrum analyzeryou know five-digit price tag same story Georges offspring left coop wifes fantasy using va cated space guestroom didnt stand chance George solution obvi ous Instruments equipment collec tions storageyes bunk facilitiesno Shades Edwin Henry Armstrong way George has added antique vintage radios list collections So dont throw outsend George Youll giving pleasure genius though probably wife As modeler flier Georges ingenuity takes another twist kind Sherlock radio waves hes wonderfully clever thinking up ways stalking favorite quarry Radio signals can tricky find out just much signal strength lost tween transmitter airborne receiver George set up battery test equipment pilots station piggybacked live transmitter onto Miss America re leased like carrier pigeon George has measured tested tried dissected equipment buy hobby counter reasons protect ing industry though notes cant made public conversation led deduce RC equipment made equal fact no longer produced Pro-Line RC devices almost 1991ready15 years ago much sought after advisor AMA also Radio Control indus 86 Model Aviation Gerry Skreckoski Appalachia NY built Cessna Citation Royal kit flies great looks Wilga 80 beautifully modeled Bill Logan Ontario Canada Though CL flier Polish charmer has throttle control can drop parachute Charlie Chambers Scale Masters winner 1988 Dave Platt Mustang eloquently tells super realistic performer Former National Guard maintenance officer Bob McDonald drawn magnetism Nats chartered full-scale ride search vagrant FF model try George could further described high-tech roustabout stayed Vin cennes two days beyond contest closing just help load Nats properties return trip storage Reston believe helping hands hard come especially after meet shuts down Sun day Naturally George willingly radio graphed transmitter 10-grand analyzer just hundreds others week Back perils Paulineer trials tribulations read stupidity humble author Notified sign headquar ters tent pilots meeting sched uled 1000 am following morning arrived bright shining 15 minutes spare problem no else Though ladies Headquarters confirmed meet ing indeed scheduled ap pointed hour came went no other arrivals Contest Director Chip Smith finally en lightened meeting progress alrightat Holiday Inn Vincennes Betty Stream all-around make-it go official confirmed noted meeting locale sign Evidently reading skills added always practiced contestant requirement Too late schmart too soon old About hour later preparations event category under way flight assignment sheets posted name conspicuous its absence What Didnt check event director No thought picking up badge bumper sticker registration desk enough Go find Greg Frohreich now experienced hunter feet succeeded brain failed Busy Event Director Frohreich big man heart match Possibly cause compassion fellow Hun Greg allowed name added flight roster Home safely long shot transmitter though nearly missed impounded recruited December 1990 87 sleek Viojett Super Sabre string Vup Chicago magician Charlie Bauer per formed sleight hand Hes programmed flaps retracts aileron trim throttle tank drop functions through controi lines What cant littie black boxes has wider grinJoe Techirgi Santa AnaCA piump 1916 Deutsches Flug werk Bipe former engineer Douglas Joe reports OF bear fly Relay three out four pylon racers ready wrap around stakes snarling ships have souped up engines turning 30000 rpm Though RC club disbanded model ing spirit hasnt left Nats Spectator Norm Jones Harrisburg IL mechanic Flying under way after three hours baking sun turn ready box three-minute clock main engine started easilybut no throttle control cant quick fix dont know problem nothing scratch round flight haul everything back dug out hit like sledgehammer radio using super-reliable Id borrowed semiretired Heli copter repeated handling trans mitter little hold switch top inadvertently tripped killing normal throt tle function Ouch double ouch sultry afternoon wore Murphy still around evidently scouting fairer game Noticing search-and-rescue expedition headed boonies soon learned cause FAI contestants Wayne Apostolico Texas National Champion Chip Hyde suffered midair Both planes absolutely totaled Later Don told fellow competitors Watts Dallas Rog ers Fife Birch immediately offered loan him models components Doubtless Chip shown same generosity saw him fly shortly after crash Thats spirit camaraderie Nats known well past midday time round two category began mornings reserved Pylon Racing al ready original plan completing six Continued page 188 88 Model Aviation inimitable Larry Kruse FF modeler col lege dean AMA reporter extreordinaire Self-propelled Bud Grider super interested interesting Nets spectator AMA member Fairview Heights IL can smile amidst shambles Wayne Apostoilco Arlington TX midaired Chip-the-Champ Both market replacements Perfectly good pattern ship tall anyone Shirley Sheeks Indianapolis retrains un cowled 1929 Travelair Mystery Ship hubby Jack sorts out engine problem CL Scale entry set identi cal twins Spectators Howard Smith grandson Timmy enthusiasm unbounded certainly contagious Wedding first air show after Hoosiers Ruth Harold Hileman taking Nets sons modelers too Sally Ted Rohifing traveled 2000 miles California order see Nets both suffer incurable love-of-aviation virus Texans Edle Dick Oliver sadly bearing pieces pylon disaster steep bank racer snap-rolled ground An army hell pilot Dick shrugged happens Well build another FPEE / HANDLE N FORMATION 18007495942 NLZAD FThLD CHAHOEF $4495 TOP OF THE LINE DESIGNS FOR LESS BOTH UNITS DESIONED FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER BATTERIES NINETY DAY WARRANTY PRECiSION EXPANDED SCALE VOLT METER H DOUPER ELECTRONICS PO BOX 90171 AUSTIN TEXAS 78709 surfaced few come mind Lew Mahieu single-handedly conceptual ized designed original Zeeks never full responsibility kitting deriv atives despite fact worked Air-O Premium producing commercial Zeek kits worked K&B produced subsequent Kiwi de sign original Zeek kits first show fuse-operated pop-up DT also first tilting stab up side other would produce glide turn correspond ing direction noticeable effect power portion flight nothing else series has relit candles illuminate some heretofore fabled Zeeks yet see commercial print respon sible being have given proper credit list includes original 277-sq-in 1947 ignition-powered version drawn Stu Sit tig Lutz-produced 51 Class 09 deriva tive Cranford B/C 575 directly influenced Lew Mahieu though case recorded plans drawn another individ ual Obviously Lew Mahieu preferred work innovation standing still laurels de served hats off Lew Mahieu one-time associates making Free Flight legend thing certain People may eventu ally fade away hobby Zeeks ever Lastly am forever indebted Ive discussions correspondence phone conversations over past 10 years Prop er acknowledgment responsiveness good things have emerged colloquy would fill another chapter lieu shall simply close alphabetical listing names included 6-in-deep pile correspondence accumulated over 10 years individuals Lyman Armstrong Bill Cranford Ray Downs Gerald Fowler Russ Han sen FK Heeb Elmer Jordan Dan Lutz Lew Mahieu Ed Mate Chet Orrill Russ Snyder Bob Spink Carl Stokes Ed Toner heartfelt thanks Ive forgotten anyone humbly apologize oversight Obviously 10 years reliving Zeek designs turn contribution growth popularity Nostalgia Gas movement have acquired considerable inventory full size Zeek plans Should anyone require informa tion regard large SASE will get listing Thats aint no Till next time see downwind Nats Tale/Berman Continued page 88 rounds three afternoons looked logisti cally impossiblethere just too contestants Shadows grew long haze close IFR Just before 800 pm curfew turn couldnt put off longer Nerves thor oughly numbed now executed se quence either incident elegance think used ESP visual track ing Mercifully never caught up scoresheet After long-suffering wife made back motel dining room 30 miles away mere 10 minutes before locked door So Murphy dont win time Actually patience endurance dedication judges line officials other contest personnel old demon chaos cant get toehold Nats Dry roasting sun day varied crew did splendid job deserve thanks appreciation can express some Year after year Vince Mankowski Nats search committee come up good site Its amazing Mid-American Air Center flew off George Field World War II Army Air Force training base named after gen eral served its first commander Its 3000-acre facility mile-long run ways Ray Pickering genial veteran ser vice manager recalled hundreds Wacs well troop-carrying gliders part scene George Field dur ing forties As such air bases grisly dents sometimes occurred rookie pilot missed approach smacked house near field starting fire both adult residents perished fire men reached scene found threeyear-old girl unhurt wandering outside tears raised relatives another state visited Lawrenceville some 30 years later local folks gave big party Forgetfulness also causes accidents fullscale flying pilot lost life George Field after failing remove locks airplanes tail surfaces Economic survival large government facility difficult after Uncle Sam pulls out former military base low popula tion density limited fixed base operations dearth major industrial patronage scheduled airline stop hardly Five choose F-106 Delta Dart 71 Long F-20 Tigershark 88 Mig 25 Foxbat 75 U-2 Spyplane 52 F11F-1 Grumman Tiger 70 kits include Fiberglass fuselage foam wing cores balsa hardware color decals fuel tanks landing gear struts plans instructions *399 UPS U-2 $329 Cash check Money Order only4 8 weeks delivery Super Detailed Pilots molded four five parts lightweight ready assembly painting civilian Barnstormer /s US Navy &WWIIAAF st Full figures $1995 busts $795 PS 188 Model Aviation DID YOU KNOW Since 1982 Knights Air Inc has making great products scale modelers Thousands satis fied R/Cers have enjoyed scale pilot figures hundreds ducted fan jet kits hands happy jet modelers across country next time want great scale model product call upon Knights Air Inc - LAlNES fMILLS METALSB00S -PRECISION INSTRUMENTS OMPLETE OSTOLOC $200 L2ciEP1Eu FLS ce lOGOs stenos Zion C SIa Ra Sprrgf1o OZ 5505 COMPO513 3228562 I I AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES ij\x0R/C GOODIES AIR-FLO HINGES LITESPAN LITEWEIGHT COVERING IRON-ON CLOTh I FOR SMALLERSTRIP HINGES 3 AIRCRAFT TOWI DThS FIT1 SO WING 5PMSMALL MEDIUM AND LARGEI LITEWEIGHTAIRCRAFT -ON COVHinges eliminate gapsimprove control ERING NOWefficiencyEasy-to-installtoughflexible AVAILABLE IN1 SIZE 1-1/4 SIZE1-1/2 SIZE USA$185 $195$205 s Balsaloc Non-toxic Adhesive put onHINGES 36 LONG s & H$100 TO 6 small sponge Allow dry affix frame iron Shrink iron heat gun HEADADAPTERS UEL PROOF PAINTABLE WorksH compound curves easy apply very toughOR COXI Weight 1 oz/sqyd AVAILABLE NOW149/051 w FROM CHARLIES R/C GOODIESES COLORS Red Yellow White Orange Blue Black Silver Antique Ivory DarkL ye INS SAVE $ Green LITESPAN $300 Sheet 20 x 36Use Mandard now Plugs improve Engine SPEC $250 110 Gram Balsaloc adhesivePerformance RPMS applies 7-10 sheets $400 SPEC $325 SHIPPING & HANDLING Litespan up 7049/051 $250 09 $310 15 $325 sheets plus 1 Balsaloc $275S & H $100 TO 5 UNITS ICash Prices BOLD Type Charge Cards 6% NIore Under $100 5% VISAAbove Minimum Charge $2500 No CODs CALIF Add SALES TAX Catalog $100 USA $300 Foreign L 2828 Cochran St Suite 281 Simi Valley Ca 93065w ~8O52791CE 805 581-5061 J r LATHES ING MACHINES INE SHOP SUPPLIES I BLUE RIDGE IINE -~TheCoftmons ___ UAte rio ye P0 50X036YHLStRICANEW25526 ____CALL FOR PACKAGE PR CES CATALOG $100 [ 304 562-3538 BLIILDC D MODELS Sn titlamot makngmyatldtamoushsto Mate ynhmode pantavoabetot Fern 122 tot4tteytOCCLF FUSS stats Thee flatS ni els hi, anywheytASS lIonel Real Cot ecto t item Ask tid time mtdelet eoontehtrtOhaei ytueelt long, Sut snd $2 * to 5 CIoelandStignd pittOiat Catalog Sttktet o pet artaltylluotated prIce list Ftreign odd y yo Al Mal Sane ye Sam day terno tOo no deal, aaoepmueeuels EddTPU-hndAiotio5,IFi,dCLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY Cin 15357B_Detoi cleveland OH 44102 ~-PA--%* UIET YOUR ENGINE $395 KsoShInIr s lAsgO Ilesible rsbben/tabrlc laninate softens vihtslisn helmets engine md sisunt mssnl lirewall S heel 2thx4xtho Ssc tslswthbledesrsds slit Woths wltemner Stems cnmretnhi sstsfitd Send hed nmney snler tsr 8355 plssS5 P511 ISISSI MISAI5JSI POSos 78 NemSJrK NYlSS2l __ H4mpmeriemireaeehnmeeil teemkoee*hi4ilmamhsbypesideci destined vigorous growth main taming healthy status quo isnt assured Al ready shoe manufacturer oil refin ery have ceased local operations George Field airfield administered jointly states Illinois Indiana through ap pointed commission Theres hope revi talization told runway improve ments gradually being implemented funds become available area has ingredient often short supply elsewhere space Rolling past lush green nearly flat midwestern farms homesteads less mile apart struck con trast home state Pennsylvania Though own town shows no identifiable symptoms exploding megalopolis Pennsylvania dotted mill towns mills often cold silent houses lean another yards postage stamp size nonexistent Such pop ulation density breeds number ills Like neighbors unavoidably aware others comings goings rugged open expanse Mid west brings its own problems farmers lot can severe ridden hardship Herds buffalo seem ever like cattle Still lifting gaze above limitless sweep unsullied horizon gave mute thanks great Creator bounti ful tranquil land different sprawling developments crowded cities clonelike monuments commerce technology eastern states needed reminding theres ro mance aeromodeling going Nats would Mankinds love affair aer ial vehicles live mechanical probably began long before Daedalus tried gluing feathers arms airplanes whether full-scale model deep hearts people commonly im agined fascination things aeronautical everywhere Nats Maybe dont need stadium yet accommodate spectators meets Nats draw lot folks enthusiastically committed hobby So lets turn backs shining stars modeldom meet some public Howard Smith Arizona retired Bendix guided missile engineer Though first Nats Howard snared model aviation early life began building flying young boy got ground floor RC little plane called rudder bug twitching rud der control available pi lot As RC matured Howard became ex pert Pattern flier started club taught others fly got hobby shop business sideline Howard no less three good reasons looking Nats least give boost fellow club member Chip Hyde Bob McDonald lives little over hours drive Nats venue Prince ton IN Though interest modeling reaches way back Bobs 41-year-long ca reer National Guard maintenance offi cer limited involvement Ukie Control Line flier Free Flight er Once Free Flight model became little too free Bob chartered full-scale plane try capture fugitive aircraft Bob equivalent sports fans likes watch rather compete him self Hes recently retired though ex pects accelerate modeling activities cap says allor does Bud Grider east St Louis area got start modeling rubber-powered P-40 age 10 As Bud tells later gave craft much-regretted Viking funerala boyish prank best left unelaborated models CL Baby Spitfire en gine refused start 11 years Some finally explained six-volt lantern batteries hazardous glow plugs health Bud took sabbatical modeling helping wife raise family seven fascination warbirds actively back track hes Pylon Racing military Scale models Bud once kept himself race recycling slightly used Popsicle sticks wing joiners Bud belongs Spirit St Louis RC Club never misses Oshkosh Fly Now hes tasted Nats never miss another either Harold Ruth Hileman both model ing enthusiasts Ruth already built flown rubber-powered models married didnt mind accompa nying husband two weeks Fort Wayne air show corpsman US Army Engineers Hal has touch mas ter mechanic Hes also skilled electron ics built own RC radios Hal planning retire soon looking forward hasnnt able put enough time workbench Skylane 62 project begun few years ago still isnt ready debut Hal bullish about com pleting Cessna Im sure will Ruth got kick out kibitzing Nats Norm Jones traveled hun dred miles rural community Har risburg IL unfortunately has no easy access modeling club fellow 192 Model Aviation ADVANCED AERO PRODUCTS CyLt os tTE Fy CFOReATe36o ynvANcoSAErePRsrsjcTS 366C ANT5 7so53 t2t4I9 4 obbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 85, 86, 87, 88, 188, 192, 193
5115atsTa le Twoities What Dickens author spins tantalizing tale best times U Fred Berman THOUGH WORLDS away fabled European capitals Dickenss great clas sic two cities title have own stories tell Lawrenceville Illinois Vincennes Indiana hosts 1990 MidAmerican Nats places wont quickly forget Anyone attended years Nats went home passel memories Let share some thing lucky Lawrenceville Vincennes straddle boundary line between eastern central time zones clocks two cities read same Scheduling might have turned night mare otherwise subject bad dreams want know Nats contestant did chapter verse begin arrive late day transmitter processing Whether theyre Gold-stickered transmitters must have cardiogram read before being used Nats tumbled few minutes past deadline flying site headquarters also known White Whale learn wrong place After 10 minutes breakneck driving Vincennes found Holiday Innbut no transmitter processing station Evidently busy spectrum analyzer crew fin ished timelier contestants struck its tent sure what glad see AMA President Don Lowe advised George Field WWiI legacy 1990 Nats site Young Barrett Hill dad just touched down Piper Pawnee home base Newton IL satellite airports make up Georges vast air training complex Biggest spectator appeal Its shared pretty evenly Scale CL Combat Would look immaculate flight line No contest category yet Nats guys Ronald Reagan almost made off Bob Vances Beer Can Stearmans Tech-cellence George Steiner Ur gently needed badly wanted obligingly available ever quaiifiedmore can said track down George Steiner room motel Several anxious hours later did connect George returned motel room George Steiner coin pleat scientist room bulging expensive-looking equipment cases full records stickers other contest par aphernalia showed Bright-eyed viva cious friendly George truly AMAs blessingssharp dedicated totally interested willing give himself get impression him way ward radio waves vibrating around ozone actually visible George retired western utility company question new fam ily car came up vetoed idea favor personal spectrum analyzeryou know five-digit price tag same story Georges offspring left coop wifes fantasy using va cated space guestroom didnt stand chance George solution obvi ous Instruments equipment collec tions storageyes bunk facilitiesno Shades Edwin Henry Armstrong way George has added antique vintage radios list collections So dont throw outsend George Youll giving pleasure genius though probably wife As modeler flier Georges ingenuity takes another twist kind Sherlock radio waves hes wonderfully clever thinking up ways stalking favorite quarry Radio signals can tricky find out just much signal strength lost tween transmitter airborne receiver George set up battery test equipment pilots station piggybacked live transmitter onto Miss America re leased like carrier pigeon George has measured tested tried dissected equipment buy hobby counter reasons protect ing industry though notes cant made public conversation led deduce RC equipment made equal fact no longer produced Pro-Line RC devices almost 1991ready15 years ago much sought after advisor AMA also Radio Control indus 86 Model Aviation Gerry Skreckoski Appalachia NY built Cessna Citation Royal kit flies great looks Wilga 80 beautifully modeled Bill Logan Ontario Canada Though CL flier Polish charmer has throttle control can drop parachute Charlie Chambers Scale Masters winner 1988 Dave Platt Mustang eloquently tells super realistic performer Former National Guard maintenance officer Bob McDonald drawn magnetism Nats chartered full-scale ride search vagrant FF model try George could further described high-tech roustabout stayed Vin cennes two days beyond contest closing just help load Nats properties return trip storage Reston believe helping hands hard come especially after meet shuts down Sun day Naturally George willingly radio graphed transmitter 10-grand analyzer just hundreds others week Back perils Paulineer trials tribulations read stupidity humble author Notified sign headquar ters tent pilots meeting sched uled 1000 am following morning arrived bright shining 15 minutes spare problem no else Though ladies Headquarters confirmed meet ing indeed scheduled ap pointed hour came went no other arrivals Contest Director Chip Smith finally en lightened meeting progress alrightat Holiday Inn Vincennes Betty Stream all-around make-it go official confirmed noted meeting locale sign Evidently reading skills added always practiced contestant requirement Too late schmart too soon old About hour later preparations event category under way flight assignment sheets posted name conspicuous its absence What Didnt check event director No thought picking up badge bumper sticker registration desk enough Go find Greg Frohreich now experienced hunter feet succeeded brain failed Busy Event Director Frohreich big man heart match Possibly cause compassion fellow Hun Greg allowed name added flight roster Home safely long shot transmitter though nearly missed impounded recruited December 1990 87 sleek Viojett Super Sabre string Vup Chicago magician Charlie Bauer per formed sleight hand Hes programmed flaps retracts aileron trim throttle tank drop functions through controi lines What cant littie black boxes has wider grinJoe Techirgi Santa AnaCA piump 1916 Deutsches Flug werk Bipe former engineer Douglas Joe reports OF bear fly Relay three out four pylon racers ready wrap around stakes snarling ships have souped up engines turning 30000 rpm Though RC club disbanded model ing spirit hasnt left Nats Spectator Norm Jones Harrisburg IL mechanic Flying under way after three hours baking sun turn ready box three-minute clock main engine started easilybut no throttle control cant quick fix dont know problem nothing scratch round flight haul everything back dug out hit like sledgehammer radio using super-reliable Id borrowed semiretired Heli copter repeated handling trans mitter little hold switch top inadvertently tripped killing normal throt tle function Ouch double ouch sultry afternoon wore Murphy still around evidently scouting fairer game Noticing search-and-rescue expedition headed boonies soon learned cause FAI contestants Wayne Apostolico Texas National Champion Chip Hyde suffered midair Both planes absolutely totaled Later Don told fellow competitors Watts Dallas Rog ers Fife Birch immediately offered loan him models components Doubtless Chip shown same generosity saw him fly shortly after crash Thats spirit camaraderie Nats known well past midday time round two category began mornings reserved Pylon Racing al ready original plan completing six Continued page 188 88 Model Aviation inimitable Larry Kruse FF modeler col lege dean AMA reporter extreordinaire Self-propelled Bud Grider super interested interesting Nets spectator AMA member Fairview Heights IL can smile amidst shambles Wayne Apostoilco Arlington TX midaired Chip-the-Champ Both market replacements Perfectly good pattern ship tall anyone Shirley Sheeks Indianapolis retrains un cowled 1929 Travelair Mystery Ship hubby Jack sorts out engine problem CL Scale entry set identi cal twins Spectators Howard Smith grandson Timmy enthusiasm unbounded certainly contagious Wedding first air show after Hoosiers Ruth Harold Hileman taking Nets sons modelers too Sally Ted Rohifing traveled 2000 miles California order see Nets both suffer incurable love-of-aviation virus Texans Edle Dick Oliver sadly bearing pieces pylon disaster steep bank racer snap-rolled ground An army hell pilot Dick shrugged happens Well build another FPEE / HANDLE N FORMATION 18007495942 NLZAD FThLD CHAHOEF $4495 TOP OF THE LINE DESIGNS FOR LESS BOTH UNITS DESIONED FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER BATTERIES NINETY DAY WARRANTY PRECiSION EXPANDED SCALE VOLT METER H DOUPER ELECTRONICS PO BOX 90171 AUSTIN TEXAS 78709 surfaced few come mind Lew Mahieu single-handedly conceptual ized designed original Zeeks never full responsibility kitting deriv atives despite fact worked Air-O Premium producing commercial Zeek kits worked K&B produced subsequent Kiwi de sign original Zeek kits first show fuse-operated pop-up DT also first tilting stab up side other would produce glide turn correspond ing direction noticeable effect power portion flight nothing else series has relit candles illuminate some heretofore fabled Zeeks yet see commercial print respon sible being have given proper credit list includes original 277-sq-in 1947 ignition-powered version drawn Stu Sit tig Lutz-produced 51 Class 09 deriva tive Cranford B/C 575 directly influenced Lew Mahieu though case recorded plans drawn another individ ual Obviously Lew Mahieu preferred work innovation standing still laurels de served hats off Lew Mahieu one-time associates making Free Flight legend thing certain People may eventu ally fade away hobby Zeeks ever Lastly am forever indebted Ive discussions correspondence phone conversations over past 10 years Prop er acknowledgment responsiveness good things have emerged colloquy would fill another chapter lieu shall simply close alphabetical listing names included 6-in-deep pile correspondence accumulated over 10 years individuals Lyman Armstrong Bill Cranford Ray Downs Gerald Fowler Russ Han sen FK Heeb Elmer Jordan Dan Lutz Lew Mahieu Ed Mate Chet Orrill Russ Snyder Bob Spink Carl Stokes Ed Toner heartfelt thanks Ive forgotten anyone humbly apologize oversight Obviously 10 years reliving Zeek designs turn contribution growth popularity Nostalgia Gas movement have acquired considerable inventory full size Zeek plans Should anyone require informa tion regard large SASE will get listing Thats aint no Till next time see downwind Nats Tale/Berman Continued page 88 rounds three afternoons looked logisti cally impossiblethere just too contestants Shadows grew long haze close IFR Just before 800 pm curfew turn couldnt put off longer Nerves thor oughly numbed now executed se quence either incident elegance think used ESP visual track ing Mercifully never caught up scoresheet After long-suffering wife made back motel dining room 30 miles away mere 10 minutes before locked door So Murphy dont win time Actually patience endurance dedication judges line officials other contest personnel old demon chaos cant get toehold Nats Dry roasting sun day varied crew did splendid job deserve thanks appreciation can express some Year after year Vince Mankowski Nats search committee come up good site Its amazing Mid-American Air Center flew off George Field World War II Army Air Force training base named after gen eral served its first commander Its 3000-acre facility mile-long run ways Ray Pickering genial veteran ser vice manager recalled hundreds Wacs well troop-carrying gliders part scene George Field dur ing forties As such air bases grisly dents sometimes occurred rookie pilot missed approach smacked house near field starting fire both adult residents perished fire men reached scene found threeyear-old girl unhurt wandering outside tears raised relatives another state visited Lawrenceville some 30 years later local folks gave big party Forgetfulness also causes accidents fullscale flying pilot lost life George Field after failing remove locks airplanes tail surfaces Economic survival large government facility difficult after Uncle Sam pulls out former military base low popula tion density limited fixed base operations dearth major industrial patronage scheduled airline stop hardly Five choose F-106 Delta Dart 71 Long F-20 Tigershark 88 Mig 25 Foxbat 75 U-2 Spyplane 52 F11F-1 Grumman Tiger 70 kits include Fiberglass fuselage foam wing cores balsa hardware color decals fuel tanks landing gear struts plans instructions *399 UPS U-2 $329 Cash check Money Order only4 8 weeks delivery Super Detailed Pilots molded four five parts lightweight ready assembly painting civilian Barnstormer /s US Navy &WWIIAAF st Full figures $1995 busts $795 PS 188 Model Aviation DID YOU KNOW Since 1982 Knights Air Inc has making great products scale modelers Thousands satis fied R/Cers have enjoyed scale pilot figures hundreds ducted fan jet kits hands happy jet modelers across country next time want great scale model product call upon Knights Air Inc - LAlNES fMILLS METALSB00S -PRECISION INSTRUMENTS OMPLETE OSTOLOC $200 L2ciEP1Eu FLS ce lOGOs stenos Zion C SIa Ra Sprrgf1o OZ 5505 COMPO513 3228562 I I AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES ij\x0R/C GOODIES AIR-FLO HINGES LITESPAN LITEWEIGHT COVERING IRON-ON CLOTh I FOR SMALLERSTRIP HINGES 3 AIRCRAFT TOWI DThS FIT1 SO WING 5PMSMALL MEDIUM AND LARGEI LITEWEIGHTAIRCRAFT -ON COVHinges eliminate gapsimprove control ERING NOWefficiencyEasy-to-installtoughflexible AVAILABLE IN1 SIZE 1-1/4 SIZE1-1/2 SIZE USA$185 $195$205 s Balsaloc Non-toxic Adhesive put onHINGES 36 LONG s & H$100 TO 6 small sponge Allow dry affix frame iron Shrink iron heat gun HEADADAPTERS UEL PROOF PAINTABLE WorksH compound curves easy apply very toughOR COXI Weight 1 oz/sqyd AVAILABLE NOW149/051 w FROM CHARLIES R/C GOODIESES COLORS Red Yellow White Orange Blue Black Silver Antique Ivory DarkL ye INS SAVE $ Green LITESPAN $300 Sheet 20 x 36Use Mandard now Plugs improve Engine SPEC $250 110 Gram Balsaloc adhesivePerformance RPMS applies 7-10 sheets $400 SPEC $325 SHIPPING & HANDLING Litespan up 7049/051 $250 09 $310 15 $325 sheets plus 1 Balsaloc $275S & H $100 TO 5 UNITS ICash Prices BOLD Type Charge Cards 6% NIore Under $100 5% VISAAbove Minimum Charge $2500 No CODs CALIF Add SALES TAX Catalog $100 USA $300 Foreign L 2828 Cochran St Suite 281 Simi Valley Ca 93065w ~8O52791CE 805 581-5061 J r LATHES ING MACHINES INE SHOP SUPPLIES I BLUE RIDGE IINE -~TheCoftmons ___ UAte rio ye P0 50X036YHLStRICANEW25526 ____CALL FOR PACKAGE PR CES CATALOG $100 [ 304 562-3538 BLIILDC D MODELS Sn titlamot makngmyatldtamoushsto Mate ynhmode pantavoabetot Fern 122 tot4tteytOCCLF FUSS stats Thee flatS ni els hi, anywheytASS lIonel Real Cot ecto t item Ask tid time mtdelet eoontehtrtOhaei ytueelt long, Sut snd $2 * to 5 CIoelandStignd pittOiat Catalog Sttktet o pet artaltylluotated prIce list Ftreign odd y yo Al Mal Sane ye Sam day terno tOo no deal, aaoepmueeuels EddTPU-hndAiotio5,IFi,dCLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY Cin 15357B_Detoi cleveland OH 44102 ~-PA--%* UIET YOUR ENGINE $395 KsoShInIr s lAsgO Ilesible rsbben/tabrlc laninate softens vihtslisn helmets engine md sisunt mssnl lirewall S heel 2thx4xtho Ssc tslswthbledesrsds slit Woths wltemner Stems cnmretnhi sstsfitd Send hed nmney snler tsr 8355 plssS5 P511 ISISSI MISAI5JSI POSos 78 NemSJrK NYlSS2l __ H4mpmeriemireaeehnmeeil teemkoee*hi4ilmamhsbypesideci destined vigorous growth main taming healthy status quo isnt assured Al ready shoe manufacturer oil refin ery have ceased local operations George Field airfield administered jointly states Illinois Indiana through ap pointed commission Theres hope revi talization told runway improve ments gradually being implemented funds become available area has ingredient often short supply elsewhere space Rolling past lush green nearly flat midwestern farms homesteads less mile apart struck con trast home state Pennsylvania Though own town shows no identifiable symptoms exploding megalopolis Pennsylvania dotted mill towns mills often cold silent houses lean another yards postage stamp size nonexistent Such pop ulation density breeds number ills Like neighbors unavoidably aware others comings goings rugged open expanse Mid west brings its own problems farmers lot can severe ridden hardship Herds buffalo seem ever like cattle Still lifting gaze above limitless sweep unsullied horizon gave mute thanks great Creator bounti ful tranquil land different sprawling developments crowded cities clonelike monuments commerce technology eastern states needed reminding theres ro mance aeromodeling going Nats would Mankinds love affair aer ial vehicles live mechanical probably began long before Daedalus tried gluing feathers arms airplanes whether full-scale model deep hearts people commonly im agined fascination things aeronautical everywhere Nats Maybe dont need stadium yet accommodate spectators meets Nats draw lot folks enthusiastically committed hobby So lets turn backs shining stars modeldom meet some public Howard Smith Arizona retired Bendix guided missile engineer Though first Nats Howard snared model aviation early life began building flying young boy got ground floor RC little plane called rudder bug twitching rud der control available pi lot As RC matured Howard became ex pert Pattern flier started club taught others fly got hobby shop business sideline Howard no less three good reasons looking Nats least give boost fellow club member Chip Hyde Bob McDonald lives little over hours drive Nats venue Prince ton IN Though interest modeling reaches way back Bobs 41-year-long ca reer National Guard maintenance offi cer limited involvement Ukie Control Line flier Free Flight er Once Free Flight model became little too free Bob chartered full-scale plane try capture fugitive aircraft Bob equivalent sports fans likes watch rather compete him self Hes recently retired though ex pects accelerate modeling activities cap says allor does Bud Grider east St Louis area got start modeling rubber-powered P-40 age 10 As Bud tells later gave craft much-regretted Viking funerala boyish prank best left unelaborated models CL Baby Spitfire en gine refused start 11 years Some finally explained six-volt lantern batteries hazardous glow plugs health Bud took sabbatical modeling helping wife raise family seven fascination warbirds actively back track hes Pylon Racing military Scale models Bud once kept himself race recycling slightly used Popsicle sticks wing joiners Bud belongs Spirit St Louis RC Club never misses Oshkosh Fly Now hes tasted Nats never miss another either Harold Ruth Hileman both model ing enthusiasts Ruth already built flown rubber-powered models married didnt mind accompa nying husband two weeks Fort Wayne air show corpsman US Army Engineers Hal has touch mas ter mechanic Hes also skilled electron ics built own RC radios Hal planning retire soon looking forward hasnnt able put enough time workbench Skylane 62 project begun few years ago still isnt ready debut Hal bullish about com pleting Cessna Im sure will Ruth got kick out kibitzing Nats Norm Jones traveled hun dred miles rural community Har risburg IL unfortunately has no easy access modeling club fellow 192 Model Aviation ADVANCED AERO PRODUCTS CyLt os tTE Fy CFOReATe36o ynvANcoSAErePRsrsjcTS 366C ANT5 7so53 t2t4I9 4 obbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 85, 86, 87, 88, 188, 192, 193
5115atsTa le Twoities What Dickens author spins tantalizing tale best times U Fred Berman THOUGH WORLDS away fabled European capitals Dickenss great clas sic two cities title have own stories tell Lawrenceville Illinois Vincennes Indiana hosts 1990 MidAmerican Nats places wont quickly forget Anyone attended years Nats went home passel memories Let share some thing lucky Lawrenceville Vincennes straddle boundary line between eastern central time zones clocks two cities read same Scheduling might have turned night mare otherwise subject bad dreams want know Nats contestant did chapter verse begin arrive late day transmitter processing Whether theyre Gold-stickered transmitters must have cardiogram read before being used Nats tumbled few minutes past deadline flying site headquarters also known White Whale learn wrong place After 10 minutes breakneck driving Vincennes found Holiday Innbut no transmitter processing station Evidently busy spectrum analyzer crew fin ished timelier contestants struck its tent sure what glad see AMA President Don Lowe advised George Field WWiI legacy 1990 Nats site Young Barrett Hill dad just touched down Piper Pawnee home base Newton IL satellite airports make up Georges vast air training complex Biggest spectator appeal Its shared pretty evenly Scale CL Combat Would look immaculate flight line No contest category yet Nats guys Ronald Reagan almost made off Bob Vances Beer Can Stearmans Tech-cellence George Steiner Ur gently needed badly wanted obligingly available ever quaiifiedmore can said track down George Steiner room motel Several anxious hours later did connect George returned motel room George Steiner coin pleat scientist room bulging expensive-looking equipment cases full records stickers other contest par aphernalia showed Bright-eyed viva cious friendly George truly AMAs blessingssharp dedicated totally interested willing give himself get impression him way ward radio waves vibrating around ozone actually visible George retired western utility company question new fam ily car came up vetoed idea favor personal spectrum analyzeryou know five-digit price tag same story Georges offspring left coop wifes fantasy using va cated space guestroom didnt stand chance George solution obvi ous Instruments equipment collec tions storageyes bunk facilitiesno Shades Edwin Henry Armstrong way George has added antique vintage radios list collections So dont throw outsend George Youll giving pleasure genius though probably wife As modeler flier Georges ingenuity takes another twist kind Sherlock radio waves hes wonderfully clever thinking up ways stalking favorite quarry Radio signals can tricky find out just much signal strength lost tween transmitter airborne receiver George set up battery test equipment pilots station piggybacked live transmitter onto Miss America re leased like carrier pigeon George has measured tested tried dissected equipment buy hobby counter reasons protect ing industry though notes cant made public conversation led deduce RC equipment made equal fact no longer produced Pro-Line RC devices almost 1991ready15 years ago much sought after advisor AMA also Radio Control indus 86 Model Aviation Gerry Skreckoski Appalachia NY built Cessna Citation Royal kit flies great looks Wilga 80 beautifully modeled Bill Logan Ontario Canada Though CL flier Polish charmer has throttle control can drop parachute Charlie Chambers Scale Masters winner 1988 Dave Platt Mustang eloquently tells super realistic performer Former National Guard maintenance officer Bob McDonald drawn magnetism Nats chartered full-scale ride search vagrant FF model try George could further described high-tech roustabout stayed Vin cennes two days beyond contest closing just help load Nats properties return trip storage Reston believe helping hands hard come especially after meet shuts down Sun day Naturally George willingly radio graphed transmitter 10-grand analyzer just hundreds others week Back perils Paulineer trials tribulations read stupidity humble author Notified sign headquar ters tent pilots meeting sched uled 1000 am following morning arrived bright shining 15 minutes spare problem no else Though ladies Headquarters confirmed meet ing indeed scheduled ap pointed hour came went no other arrivals Contest Director Chip Smith finally en lightened meeting progress alrightat Holiday Inn Vincennes Betty Stream all-around make-it go official confirmed noted meeting locale sign Evidently reading skills added always practiced contestant requirement Too late schmart too soon old About hour later preparations event category under way flight assignment sheets posted name conspicuous its absence What Didnt check event director No thought picking up badge bumper sticker registration desk enough Go find Greg Frohreich now experienced hunter feet succeeded brain failed Busy Event Director Frohreich big man heart match Possibly cause compassion fellow Hun Greg allowed name added flight roster Home safely long shot transmitter though nearly missed impounded recruited December 1990 87 sleek Viojett Super Sabre string Vup Chicago magician Charlie Bauer per formed sleight hand Hes programmed flaps retracts aileron trim throttle tank drop functions through controi lines What cant littie black boxes has wider grinJoe Techirgi Santa AnaCA piump 1916 Deutsches Flug werk Bipe former engineer Douglas Joe reports OF bear fly Relay three out four pylon racers ready wrap around stakes snarling ships have souped up engines turning 30000 rpm Though RC club disbanded model ing spirit hasnt left Nats Spectator Norm Jones Harrisburg IL mechanic Flying under way after three hours baking sun turn ready box three-minute clock main engine started easilybut no throttle control cant quick fix dont know problem nothing scratch round flight haul everything back dug out hit like sledgehammer radio using super-reliable Id borrowed semiretired Heli copter repeated handling trans mitter little hold switch top inadvertently tripped killing normal throt tle function Ouch double ouch sultry afternoon wore Murphy still around evidently scouting fairer game Noticing search-and-rescue expedition headed boonies soon learned cause FAI contestants Wayne Apostolico Texas National Champion Chip Hyde suffered midair Both planes absolutely totaled Later Don told fellow competitors Watts Dallas Rog ers Fife Birch immediately offered loan him models components Doubtless Chip shown same generosity saw him fly shortly after crash Thats spirit camaraderie Nats known well past midday time round two category began mornings reserved Pylon Racing al ready original plan completing six Continued page 188 88 Model Aviation inimitable Larry Kruse FF modeler col lege dean AMA reporter extreordinaire Self-propelled Bud Grider super interested interesting Nets spectator AMA member Fairview Heights IL can smile amidst shambles Wayne Apostoilco Arlington TX midaired Chip-the-Champ Both market replacements Perfectly good pattern ship tall anyone Shirley Sheeks Indianapolis retrains un cowled 1929 Travelair Mystery Ship hubby Jack sorts out engine problem CL Scale entry set identi cal twins Spectators Howard Smith grandson Timmy enthusiasm unbounded certainly contagious Wedding first air show after Hoosiers Ruth Harold Hileman taking Nets sons modelers too Sally Ted Rohifing traveled 2000 miles California order see Nets both suffer incurable love-of-aviation virus Texans Edle Dick Oliver sadly bearing pieces pylon disaster steep bank racer snap-rolled ground An army hell pilot Dick shrugged happens Well build another FPEE / HANDLE N FORMATION 18007495942 NLZAD FThLD CHAHOEF $4495 TOP OF THE LINE DESIGNS FOR LESS BOTH UNITS DESIONED FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER BATTERIES NINETY DAY WARRANTY PRECiSION EXPANDED SCALE VOLT METER H DOUPER ELECTRONICS PO BOX 90171 AUSTIN TEXAS 78709 surfaced few come mind Lew Mahieu single-handedly conceptual ized designed original Zeeks never full responsibility kitting deriv atives despite fact worked Air-O Premium producing commercial Zeek kits worked K&B produced subsequent Kiwi de sign original Zeek kits first show fuse-operated pop-up DT also first tilting stab up side other would produce glide turn correspond ing direction noticeable effect power portion flight nothing else series has relit candles illuminate some heretofore fabled Zeeks yet see commercial print respon sible being have given proper credit list includes original 277-sq-in 1947 ignition-powered version drawn Stu Sit tig Lutz-produced 51 Class 09 deriva tive Cranford B/C 575 directly influenced Lew Mahieu though case recorded plans drawn another individ ual Obviously Lew Mahieu preferred work innovation standing still laurels de served hats off Lew Mahieu one-time associates making Free Flight legend thing certain People may eventu ally fade away hobby Zeeks ever Lastly am forever indebted Ive discussions correspondence phone conversations over past 10 years Prop er acknowledgment responsiveness good things have emerged colloquy would fill another chapter lieu shall simply close alphabetical listing names included 6-in-deep pile correspondence accumulated over 10 years individuals Lyman Armstrong Bill Cranford Ray Downs Gerald Fowler Russ Han sen FK Heeb Elmer Jordan Dan Lutz Lew Mahieu Ed Mate Chet Orrill Russ Snyder Bob Spink Carl Stokes Ed Toner heartfelt thanks Ive forgotten anyone humbly apologize oversight Obviously 10 years reliving Zeek designs turn contribution growth popularity Nostalgia Gas movement have acquired considerable inventory full size Zeek plans Should anyone require informa tion regard large SASE will get listing Thats aint no Till next time see downwind Nats Tale/Berman Continued page 88 rounds three afternoons looked logisti cally impossiblethere just too contestants Shadows grew long haze close IFR Just before 800 pm curfew turn couldnt put off longer Nerves thor oughly numbed now executed se quence either incident elegance think used ESP visual track ing Mercifully never caught up scoresheet After long-suffering wife made back motel dining room 30 miles away mere 10 minutes before locked door So Murphy dont win time Actually patience endurance dedication judges line officials other contest personnel old demon chaos cant get toehold Nats Dry roasting sun day varied crew did splendid job deserve thanks appreciation can express some Year after year Vince Mankowski Nats search committee come up good site Its amazing Mid-American Air Center flew off George Field World War II Army Air Force training base named after gen eral served its first commander Its 3000-acre facility mile-long run ways Ray Pickering genial veteran ser vice manager recalled hundreds Wacs well troop-carrying gliders part scene George Field dur ing forties As such air bases grisly dents sometimes occurred rookie pilot missed approach smacked house near field starting fire both adult residents perished fire men reached scene found threeyear-old girl unhurt wandering outside tears raised relatives another state visited Lawrenceville some 30 years later local folks gave big party Forgetfulness also causes accidents fullscale flying pilot lost life George Field after failing remove locks airplanes tail surfaces Economic survival large government facility difficult after Uncle Sam pulls out former military base low popula tion density limited fixed base operations dearth major industrial patronage scheduled airline stop hardly Five choose F-106 Delta Dart 71 Long F-20 Tigershark 88 Mig 25 Foxbat 75 U-2 Spyplane 52 F11F-1 Grumman Tiger 70 kits include Fiberglass fuselage foam wing cores balsa hardware color decals fuel tanks landing gear struts plans instructions *399 UPS U-2 $329 Cash check Money Order only4 8 weeks delivery Super Detailed Pilots molded four five parts lightweight ready assembly painting civilian Barnstormer /s US Navy &WWIIAAF st Full figures $1995 busts $795 PS 188 Model Aviation DID YOU KNOW Since 1982 Knights Air 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Sut snd $2 * to 5 CIoelandStignd pittOiat Catalog Sttktet o pet artaltylluotated prIce list Ftreign odd y yo Al Mal Sane ye Sam day terno tOo no deal, aaoepmueeuels EddTPU-hndAiotio5,IFi,dCLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY Cin 15357B_Detoi cleveland OH 44102 ~-PA--%* UIET YOUR ENGINE $395 KsoShInIr s lAsgO Ilesible rsbben/tabrlc laninate softens vihtslisn helmets engine md sisunt mssnl lirewall S heel 2thx4xtho Ssc tslswthbledesrsds slit Woths wltemner Stems cnmretnhi sstsfitd Send hed nmney snler tsr 8355 plssS5 P511 ISISSI MISAI5JSI POSos 78 NemSJrK NYlSS2l __ H4mpmeriemireaeehnmeeil teemkoee*hi4ilmamhsbypesideci destined vigorous growth main taming healthy status quo isnt assured Al ready shoe manufacturer oil refin ery have ceased local operations George Field airfield administered jointly states Illinois Indiana through ap pointed commission Theres hope revi talization told runway improve ments gradually being implemented funds become available area has ingredient often short supply elsewhere space Rolling past lush green nearly flat midwestern farms homesteads less mile apart struck con trast home state Pennsylvania Though own town shows no identifiable symptoms exploding megalopolis Pennsylvania dotted mill towns mills often cold silent houses lean another yards postage stamp size nonexistent Such pop ulation density breeds number ills Like neighbors unavoidably aware others comings goings rugged open expanse Mid west brings its own problems farmers lot can severe ridden hardship Herds buffalo seem ever like cattle Still lifting gaze above limitless sweep unsullied horizon gave mute thanks great Creator bounti ful tranquil land different sprawling developments crowded cities clonelike monuments commerce technology eastern states needed reminding theres ro mance aeromodeling going Nats would Mankinds love affair aer ial vehicles live mechanical probably began long before Daedalus tried gluing feathers arms airplanes whether full-scale model deep hearts people commonly im agined fascination things aeronautical everywhere Nats Maybe dont need stadium yet accommodate spectators meets Nats draw lot folks enthusiastically committed hobby So lets turn backs shining stars modeldom meet some public Howard Smith Arizona retired Bendix guided missile engineer Though first Nats Howard snared model aviation early life began building flying young boy got ground floor RC little plane called rudder bug twitching rud der control available pi lot As RC matured Howard became ex pert Pattern flier started club taught others fly got hobby shop business sideline Howard no less three good reasons looking Nats least give boost fellow club member Chip Hyde Bob McDonald lives little over hours drive Nats venue Prince ton IN Though interest modeling reaches way back Bobs 41-year-long ca reer National Guard maintenance offi cer limited involvement Ukie Control Line flier Free Flight er Once Free Flight model became little too free Bob chartered full-scale plane try capture fugitive aircraft Bob equivalent sports fans likes watch rather compete him self Hes recently retired though ex pects accelerate modeling activities cap says allor does Bud Grider east St Louis area got start modeling rubber-powered P-40 age 10 As Bud tells later gave craft much-regretted Viking funerala boyish prank best left unelaborated models CL Baby Spitfire en gine refused start 11 years Some finally explained six-volt lantern batteries hazardous glow plugs health Bud took sabbatical modeling helping wife raise family seven fascination warbirds actively back track hes Pylon Racing military Scale models Bud once kept himself race recycling slightly used Popsicle sticks wing joiners Bud belongs Spirit St Louis RC Club never misses Oshkosh Fly Now hes tasted Nats never miss another either Harold Ruth Hileman both model ing enthusiasts Ruth already built flown rubber-powered models married didnt mind accompa nying husband two weeks Fort Wayne air show corpsman US Army Engineers Hal has touch mas ter mechanic Hes also skilled electron ics built own RC radios Hal planning retire soon looking forward hasnnt able put enough time workbench Skylane 62 project begun few years ago still isnt ready debut Hal bullish about com pleting Cessna Im sure will Ruth got kick out kibitzing Nats Norm Jones traveled hun dred miles rural community Har risburg IL unfortunately has no easy access modeling club fellow 192 Model Aviation ADVANCED AERO PRODUCTS CyLt os tTE Fy CFOReATe36o ynvANcoSAErePRsrsjcTS 366C ANT5 7so53 t2t4I9 4 obbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 85, 86, 87, 88, 188, 192, 193
5115atsTa le Twoities What Dickens author spins tantalizing tale best times U Fred Berman THOUGH WORLDS away fabled European capitals Dickenss great clas sic two cities title have own stories tell Lawrenceville Illinois Vincennes Indiana hosts 1990 MidAmerican Nats places wont quickly forget Anyone attended years Nats went home passel memories Let share some thing lucky Lawrenceville Vincennes straddle boundary line between eastern central time zones clocks two cities read same Scheduling might have turned night mare otherwise subject bad dreams want know Nats contestant did chapter verse begin arrive late day transmitter processing Whether theyre Gold-stickered transmitters must have cardiogram read before being used Nats tumbled few minutes past deadline flying site headquarters also known White Whale learn wrong place After 10 minutes breakneck driving Vincennes found Holiday Innbut no transmitter processing station Evidently busy spectrum analyzer crew fin ished timelier contestants struck its tent sure what glad see AMA President Don Lowe advised George Field WWiI legacy 1990 Nats site Young Barrett Hill dad just touched down Piper Pawnee home base Newton IL satellite airports make up Georges vast air training complex Biggest spectator appeal Its shared pretty evenly Scale CL Combat Would look immaculate flight line No contest category yet Nats guys Ronald Reagan almost made off Bob Vances Beer Can Stearmans Tech-cellence George Steiner Ur gently needed badly wanted obligingly available ever quaiifiedmore can said track down George Steiner room motel Several anxious hours later did connect George returned motel room George Steiner coin pleat scientist room bulging expensive-looking equipment cases full records stickers other contest par aphernalia showed Bright-eyed viva cious friendly George truly AMAs blessingssharp dedicated totally interested willing give himself get impression him way ward radio waves vibrating around ozone actually visible George retired western utility company question new fam ily car came up vetoed idea favor personal spectrum analyzeryou know five-digit price tag same story Georges offspring left coop wifes fantasy using va cated space guestroom didnt stand chance George solution obvi ous Instruments equipment collec tions storageyes bunk facilitiesno Shades Edwin Henry Armstrong way George has added antique vintage radios list collections So dont throw outsend George Youll giving pleasure genius though probably wife As modeler flier Georges ingenuity takes another twist kind Sherlock radio waves hes wonderfully clever thinking up ways stalking favorite quarry Radio signals can tricky find out just much signal strength lost tween transmitter airborne receiver George set up battery test equipment pilots station piggybacked live transmitter onto Miss America re leased like carrier pigeon George has measured tested tried dissected equipment buy hobby counter reasons protect ing industry though notes cant made public conversation led deduce RC equipment made equal fact no longer produced Pro-Line RC devices almost 1991ready15 years ago much sought after advisor AMA also Radio Control indus 86 Model Aviation Gerry Skreckoski Appalachia NY built Cessna Citation Royal kit flies great looks Wilga 80 beautifully modeled Bill Logan Ontario Canada Though CL flier Polish charmer has throttle control can drop parachute Charlie Chambers Scale Masters winner 1988 Dave Platt Mustang eloquently tells super realistic performer Former National Guard maintenance officer Bob McDonald drawn magnetism Nats chartered full-scale ride search vagrant FF model try George could further described high-tech roustabout stayed Vin cennes two days beyond contest closing just help load Nats properties return trip storage Reston believe helping hands hard come especially after meet shuts down Sun day Naturally George willingly radio graphed transmitter 10-grand analyzer just hundreds others week Back perils Paulineer trials tribulations read stupidity humble author Notified sign headquar ters tent pilots meeting sched uled 1000 am following morning arrived bright shining 15 minutes spare problem no else Though ladies Headquarters confirmed meet ing indeed scheduled ap pointed hour came went no other arrivals Contest Director Chip Smith finally en lightened meeting progress alrightat Holiday Inn Vincennes Betty Stream all-around make-it go official confirmed noted meeting locale sign Evidently reading skills added always practiced contestant requirement Too late schmart too soon old About hour later preparations event category under way flight assignment sheets posted name conspicuous its absence What Didnt check event director No thought picking up badge bumper sticker registration desk enough Go find Greg Frohreich now experienced hunter feet succeeded brain failed Busy Event Director Frohreich big man heart match Possibly cause compassion fellow Hun Greg allowed name added flight roster Home safely long shot transmitter though nearly missed impounded recruited December 1990 87 sleek Viojett Super Sabre string Vup Chicago magician Charlie Bauer per formed sleight hand Hes programmed flaps retracts aileron trim throttle tank drop functions through controi lines What cant littie black boxes has wider grinJoe Techirgi Santa AnaCA piump 1916 Deutsches Flug werk Bipe former engineer Douglas Joe reports OF bear fly Relay three out four pylon racers ready wrap around stakes snarling ships have souped up engines turning 30000 rpm Though RC club disbanded model ing spirit hasnt left Nats Spectator Norm Jones Harrisburg IL mechanic Flying under way after three hours baking sun turn ready box three-minute clock main engine started easilybut no throttle control cant quick fix dont know problem nothing scratch round flight haul everything back dug out hit like sledgehammer radio using super-reliable Id borrowed semiretired Heli copter repeated handling trans mitter little hold switch top inadvertently tripped killing normal throt tle function Ouch double ouch sultry afternoon wore Murphy still around evidently scouting fairer game Noticing search-and-rescue expedition headed boonies soon learned cause FAI contestants Wayne Apostolico Texas National Champion Chip Hyde suffered midair Both planes absolutely totaled Later Don told fellow competitors Watts Dallas Rog ers Fife Birch immediately offered loan him models components Doubtless Chip shown same generosity saw him fly shortly after crash Thats spirit camaraderie Nats known well past midday time round two category began mornings reserved Pylon Racing al ready original plan completing six Continued page 188 88 Model Aviation inimitable Larry Kruse FF modeler col lege dean AMA reporter extreordinaire Self-propelled Bud Grider super interested interesting Nets spectator AMA member Fairview Heights IL can smile amidst shambles Wayne Apostoilco Arlington TX midaired Chip-the-Champ Both market replacements Perfectly good pattern ship tall anyone Shirley Sheeks Indianapolis retrains un cowled 1929 Travelair Mystery Ship hubby Jack sorts out engine problem CL Scale entry set identi cal twins Spectators Howard Smith grandson Timmy enthusiasm unbounded certainly contagious Wedding first air show after Hoosiers Ruth Harold Hileman taking Nets sons modelers too Sally Ted Rohifing traveled 2000 miles California order see Nets both suffer incurable love-of-aviation virus Texans Edle Dick Oliver sadly bearing pieces pylon disaster steep bank racer snap-rolled ground An army hell pilot Dick shrugged happens Well build another FPEE / HANDLE N FORMATION 18007495942 NLZAD FThLD CHAHOEF $4495 TOP OF THE LINE DESIGNS FOR LESS BOTH UNITS DESIONED FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER BATTERIES NINETY DAY WARRANTY PRECiSION EXPANDED SCALE VOLT METER H DOUPER ELECTRONICS PO BOX 90171 AUSTIN TEXAS 78709 surfaced few come mind Lew Mahieu single-handedly conceptual ized designed original Zeeks never full responsibility kitting deriv atives despite fact worked Air-O Premium producing commercial Zeek kits worked K&B produced subsequent Kiwi de sign original Zeek kits first show fuse-operated pop-up DT also first tilting stab up side other would produce glide turn correspond ing direction noticeable effect power portion flight nothing else series has relit candles illuminate some heretofore fabled Zeeks yet see commercial print respon sible being have given proper credit list includes original 277-sq-in 1947 ignition-powered version drawn Stu Sit tig Lutz-produced 51 Class 09 deriva tive Cranford B/C 575 directly influenced Lew Mahieu though case recorded plans drawn another individ ual Obviously Lew Mahieu preferred work innovation standing still laurels de served hats off Lew Mahieu one-time associates making Free Flight legend thing certain People may eventu ally fade away hobby Zeeks ever Lastly am forever indebted Ive discussions correspondence phone conversations over past 10 years Prop er acknowledgment responsiveness good things have emerged colloquy would fill another chapter lieu shall simply close alphabetical listing names included 6-in-deep pile correspondence accumulated over 10 years individuals Lyman Armstrong Bill Cranford Ray Downs Gerald Fowler Russ Han sen FK Heeb Elmer Jordan Dan Lutz Lew Mahieu Ed Mate Chet Orrill Russ Snyder Bob Spink Carl Stokes Ed Toner heartfelt thanks Ive forgotten anyone humbly apologize oversight Obviously 10 years reliving Zeek designs turn contribution growth popularity Nostalgia Gas movement have acquired considerable inventory full size Zeek plans Should anyone require informa tion regard large SASE will get listing Thats aint no Till next time see downwind Nats Tale/Berman Continued page 88 rounds three afternoons looked logisti cally impossiblethere just too contestants Shadows grew long haze close IFR Just before 800 pm curfew turn couldnt put off longer Nerves thor oughly numbed now executed se quence either incident elegance think used ESP visual track ing Mercifully never caught up scoresheet After long-suffering wife made back motel dining room 30 miles away mere 10 minutes before locked door So Murphy dont win time Actually patience endurance dedication judges line officials other contest personnel old demon chaos cant get toehold Nats Dry roasting sun day varied crew did splendid job deserve thanks appreciation can express some Year after year Vince Mankowski Nats search committee come up good site Its amazing Mid-American Air Center flew off George Field World War II Army Air Force training base named after gen eral served its first commander Its 3000-acre facility mile-long run ways Ray Pickering genial veteran ser vice manager recalled hundreds Wacs well troop-carrying gliders part scene George Field dur ing forties As such air bases grisly dents sometimes occurred rookie pilot missed approach smacked house near field starting fire both adult residents perished fire men reached scene found threeyear-old girl 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elsewhere space Rolling past lush green nearly flat midwestern farms homesteads less mile apart struck con trast home state Pennsylvania Though own town shows no identifiable symptoms exploding megalopolis Pennsylvania dotted mill towns mills often cold silent houses lean another yards postage stamp size nonexistent Such pop ulation density breeds number ills Like neighbors unavoidably aware others comings goings rugged open expanse Mid west brings its own problems farmers lot can severe ridden hardship Herds buffalo seem ever like cattle Still lifting gaze above limitless sweep unsullied horizon gave mute thanks great Creator bounti ful tranquil land different sprawling developments crowded cities clonelike monuments commerce technology eastern states needed reminding theres ro mance aeromodeling going Nats would Mankinds love affair aer ial vehicles live mechanical probably began long before Daedalus tried gluing feathers arms airplanes whether full-scale model deep hearts people commonly im agined fascination things aeronautical everywhere Nats Maybe dont need stadium yet accommodate spectators meets Nats draw lot folks enthusiastically committed hobby So lets turn backs shining stars modeldom meet some public Howard Smith Arizona retired Bendix guided missile engineer Though first Nats Howard snared model aviation early life began building flying young boy got ground floor RC little plane called rudder bug twitching rud der control available pi lot As RC matured Howard became ex pert Pattern flier started club taught others fly got hobby shop business sideline Howard no less three good reasons looking Nats least give boost fellow club member Chip Hyde Bob McDonald lives little over hours drive Nats venue Prince ton IN Though interest modeling reaches way back Bobs 41-year-long ca reer National Guard maintenance offi cer limited involvement Ukie Control Line flier Free Flight er Once Free Flight model became little too free Bob chartered full-scale plane try capture fugitive aircraft Bob equivalent sports fans likes watch rather compete him self Hes recently retired though ex pects accelerate modeling activities cap says allor does Bud Grider east St Louis area got start modeling rubber-powered P-40 age 10 As Bud tells later gave craft much-regretted Viking funerala boyish prank best left unelaborated models CL Baby Spitfire en gine refused start 11 years Some finally explained six-volt lantern batteries hazardous glow plugs health Bud took sabbatical modeling helping wife raise family seven fascination warbirds actively back track hes Pylon Racing military Scale models Bud once kept himself race recycling slightly used Popsicle sticks wing joiners Bud belongs Spirit St Louis RC Club never misses Oshkosh Fly Now hes tasted Nats never miss another either Harold Ruth Hileman both model ing enthusiasts Ruth already built flown rubber-powered models married didnt mind accompa nying husband two weeks Fort Wayne air show corpsman US Army Engineers Hal has touch mas ter mechanic Hes also skilled electron ics built own RC radios Hal planning retire soon looking forward hasnnt able put enough time workbench Skylane 62 project begun few years ago still isnt ready debut Hal bullish about com pleting Cessna Im sure will Ruth got kick out kibitzing Nats Norm Jones traveled hun dred miles rural community Har risburg IL unfortunately has no easy access modeling club fellow 192 Model Aviation ADVANCED AERO PRODUCTS CyLt os tTE Fy CFOReATe36o ynvANcoSAErePRsrsjcTS 366C ANT5 7so53 t2t4I9 4 obbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out 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