FORLEE3 Photography never strong suit would feel alone crowd Swahili intalk about lens films exposures breeds empathy Biblical hermits lived desert caves first exposure honest-to-good ness pro late great Rudy Ar nold work appeared regularly national magazine covers newspapers field old Air Trails covers centerspreads air-to-air shots AT mind-blowing wing tip P-40 stuck eye resorted Zoom cropped print got close Standby days old Speed Graphic todays older pros light up whenever mentioned Rudy went back days magnesium flares lighting stuff tabloids held trough-like tray overhead hand powdered magnesium went off great whoof blinding light frightening cloud smoke ear sewed back after jar went off hand minus two fingers same occupational haz ard now have motor drive can take five pictures second enough hairy dog stories top months agenda lead articlewith pictures can bring tears eye author Monty Groves puts Practically everybody takes pic tures days natural question cant get decent shots models Montys spectacular action shotsmostly taken beautiful Morgan Hill scale meetshave filled pages pages model mags own backyard John Preston makes seem easy falling off log snap takeoffs flybys landings hypnotize viewer us would love have such pictures us try take thembut results run indifferent bad ponder realize virtually almost 1300 AMA chartered clubs least photographer could serve func tion Encourage him hell love Just see out pocket service mankind missing technique perfected men like Groves Preston So asked Monty tell us does include some hand-picked samples illustrate glories no-nos poor picture Montys eyes could wall mural living room now look forward great pic tures magazine articles have camera Monty telling does can learn too learned fly ailerons didnt together now Cheese THE MAGAZINE YOU HOLD hands commonplace object end product world never see lastinglike engineto used over over like fuelbut has read cover cover scanned riffled through can hope saved perhaps reference hopefully because sense intrinsic value editors level relief labor 30 days goes off printer sees picture no means panorama sees rack upon rack material piles layouts reams copy people rush ing aboutas devil after looks upstream theres glimpse tributaries river information vanishing over hori zon An editor awed quantity material boils down pretty package words pictures can bought store like box oatmeal loaf bread What doing patient reader getting ready George Clapp does deal blithely monumental guys like George Like people synthesize years work what perceive soeasy-to-read printed page George virtual computer bank specialty pursuit history re lates given aircraft type world revolves around Fokker Tn Motors Fairchild FCssee page 54 remark able RC Fokker Model Builder has donated AMAs some day museumalong John Kikers Owen Morris NASA-Houston RC flying test model 747 mated Space Shuttle Andy Shebers onethird scale Pitts etc George starting another Fokker variant Like FO watched first Colo nial Airways Fokkers later Fairchilds fly overhead what guess Newark Montreal run though George saw about hour before after did depending way classics heading spent dozen years researching Fairchild drew himself issue Oldtimers Fairchild museums abroad have verified detailthough modestly says isnt perfect year now George has phone sometimes several times week office home letters fill thick folderwitness coral-reef-building process turning out accurate job best hu man can George fought lit tle thingeven wording plan done early factory draw ing drawing see practically computer enhanced long series steps took produce nice print what really rough pen cil Dont ask us months arti cle plan appetizer Next month its glory George presents greatest ever RC scale pro jects two huge drawingsthe Fair child FC-2 reason FO survived years head-to-head perfection ist George own great love Fairchild built rubberfrom 36 inches six feetand performance truly superb tunate have miracle modern reliable radio put such dreams majestically sky So FO awed sum total individual efforts add up package like humble March sue Consider Fred Pearce rubber Kuhnles work autogiro etc man-years work things What holding pinheadupon angels have danced Continued page 92 4 Model Aviation FOR FREE BROCHURE WRITE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC PO Box 229-A Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 EAA aI T Al RCRAFT YOU CAN BUILD$495 pp XPERIMENI E AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION long can really afford miss out fun Openers/Winter continued page 4 EDITORS ARE FLAKY CHARAC ters sit war room trends developmens swirl about us would common good took oath silence prone talk ex cathedra famous fight manager Damon Runyon-type character named Mike Jacobs famous Stengelese malopropisms told press after stink-bomb fight should have stood bed FO should have known better knobby kneed hoss lance hand drawing bead windmill simply asking Hot letters about Novice Pattern goaded him solvents evaporated left proposed editorial pipsqueak observation Pattern flying might benefit equivalent Quickie 500for dubs like us naturally did observe four classes Novice Advanced Expert Masterhad devised encourage competition different levels expertise existent airplanes planes powerplants gadgets expense followed natural evolution Schnuerle en gines pipes retracts ulti mate airplanesjust buy Phoenix Dirty Birdy Curare etc Aside cost continuous practice fuel gobbling 60s Novices say hell trying climb Pattern competition ladder because crackerjack fli ers stalled lower classes may never get good enough climb over themif theyd move up Any guy seriously flies competition re gardless class darn good seems natural order things now have editors recommending Novice class non-Schnuerle engines no retracts no pipesand flat bot tomed wings Proposals exist crying changes no considers law cause effectwhich usually equates modeling cure being worse bite successful op eration dead patient FO realized thinking airplane identical Falcon 56 ship still great thereby turning clock back 1 5 years would dynamite tinker Pattern fliers world So cut up lance trim shims melted down old hoss money saving Cold Stuff Now took bouncing tough things Ron VanPuttes court Ron resident Pattern expert let ters him began bang end ed whimper Only continued delivery monthly column suggest ed maybe still talking us Finally last months column dealt touchy matter think took logical stand FO said have thinking about changes Novice Pat tern long time As CD Jim Kirkland Memorial have begin ner Novice class past two years really think best way go have special Editor Note word Special limited airplane fixed gear loop-scavenged en gines Perry porting no tuned pipes Next years Kirkland will have such event PS Falcon first Pattern airplane AFTER LAST MONTHS episode Southern Spy leaking picture RC Special ole Georges column gleefully report midnight skulker did photograph se cret papers gosh youll find flight picture another odd-ball fly ing machine get picture Openers stood over prostrate art director sharp blue pencil point ed throat sporty-looking low winger spans six feet Veco 19 engine turn ing l0-3 takes up light weight well probably could well similar ship scaled up 8 9 feet cross between powered glider ordinary sport model pur pose achieve easy almost auto matic takeoffs taildragger cinch landings combined high alti 92 Model Aviation SAVE $150 ON YOUR NEXT RADIO Buy Di0taI Commander Flite Pack Kit Save Money out Compromising Quality Performance Three Servo Options Two Receiver Options Kit Prices Start $7496 details send Si latest catalog Add 550 1st Class return $1 hand ling direct orders 815 584-7121 [AE E/IrnEI BOX SuE HIGGINSVILLE MO 64037 GET ORGANIZEDHazelnutMBH-1 s set 4 stordy tiles holds soer 4 years YOUi favorite 8i ft magazinesCSD-1 4 MAG FILES $49522A ws Send $495 plan $100 postage handling tooAmerican Eagle DON INDUSTRIESCatalog 25c PO BOX 388-KMODERNISTIC MODELS DOVER NH 03820PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 tude soaring surprising success beginning trait winding downward power turns no correction opposite stick experts advice reshaped tall fin lowered its profile no change Pappa Ehling guru cited Nordic ex perience 5 6 degrees decalage noseweight needed avoid characteristics upon entering thermal said add incidence nose weight almost did trick fine tuned CC incidence hoping dedicated test pilot would run out hair pull thought great way left its own devices once glide turn trim set up high altitude work andered bit times going left right turns back again prolonged soaring fly little bit added pair sub rudders under stab took out bal last Right Speed penetration surprisingly good glide should please Skip Miller Power approaches airliner idle fast wont stay ground guarantee youll pleased kind sport flier did sustain bad cartwheel merely loosening fixed tailand wing bolted cartwheeled rock-solid RC Special major repair replacing entire mid-fuselage section new crate has lightening holes fuselage sides factor credit possibly saving fuselage top bottom sheeting angled 45 degrees cross ships per standard practice Weve got great list projects buildjust cant wait present rate building will 105 years old before built thats truth fact both radio systems now have unused servoswe havent touched aileron years flying suggests something Ailerons either configurations unless modified something else en tirely differentwould ruin need ailerons pattern-type flying indispensable aerobatics include axial rolls neededas scale models wide range sport models would far better configured eliminate aileronsand expense extra work aileron syndrome typical sport model anything smooth flight jerk flit unlike aircraft can bear watch People confine aircraft long narrow box air space Back forth ad nauseum course have train aileron-oriented events need wing warpers high flying soaring times merely smooth technique seen ship calls extensive use trim rather stick bending RC Special three-position flaps takeoff landing would enhance performance ailer ons lightweight spoilers would nice have Instead making yet another RC airplaneweve 107 spite 13 year hiatusthis winter well install flaps spoilers other Oh Spring Letters Editor continued page 9 viation am sending letter copies AMA District VP Contest Board HQ Engine displacement has never good method limiting aircraft sizes free flight U-Control does give relative power outputs RC horse power has increased order hp 60 toI guess2 hp over years Horsepower valid meas ure output would constant Whether flier uses 60 about 2 hp Quadra about 2 hp actually makes no difference although rules dont recognize true 60 will likely have geared belted reduce prop rpm give required torque turn allowing engine develop peak power high rpm means max engine shouldby logic hp re lated area weight size sticky out field First believe damage quotient ki netic energy means damage directly proportional 94 Model Aviation hybrid poweredglider/sport deadstick See above Two sub-fins have since added under stabilizer Easy takeoffs landings extended soaring ability goalsVeco 19 would fly much larger ultimate gliding would severely limited windy weather whereas 6-ft span shown secure winds up 10 mphor so
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/03
Page Numbers: 4, 92, 94
FORLEE3 Photography never strong suit would feel alone crowd Swahili intalk about lens films exposures breeds empathy Biblical hermits lived desert caves first exposure honest-to-good ness pro late great Rudy Ar nold work appeared regularly national magazine covers newspapers field old Air Trails covers centerspreads air-to-air shots AT mind-blowing wing tip P-40 stuck eye resorted Zoom cropped print got close Standby days old Speed Graphic todays older pros light up whenever mentioned Rudy went back days magnesium flares lighting stuff tabloids held trough-like tray overhead hand powdered magnesium went off great whoof blinding light frightening cloud smoke ear sewed back after jar went off hand minus two fingers same occupational haz ard now have motor drive can take five pictures second enough hairy dog stories top months agenda lead articlewith pictures can bring tears eye author Monty Groves puts Practically everybody takes pic tures days natural question cant get decent shots models Montys spectacular action shotsmostly taken beautiful Morgan Hill scale meetshave filled pages pages model mags own backyard John Preston makes seem easy falling off log snap takeoffs flybys landings hypnotize viewer us would love have such pictures us try take thembut results run indifferent bad ponder realize virtually almost 1300 AMA chartered clubs least photographer could serve func tion Encourage him hell love Just see out pocket service mankind missing technique perfected men like Groves Preston So asked Monty tell us does include some hand-picked samples illustrate glories no-nos poor picture Montys eyes could wall mural living room now look forward great pic tures magazine articles have camera Monty telling does can learn too learned fly ailerons didnt together now Cheese THE MAGAZINE YOU HOLD hands commonplace object end product world never see lastinglike engineto used over over like fuelbut has read cover cover scanned riffled through can hope saved perhaps reference hopefully because sense intrinsic value editors level relief labor 30 days goes off printer sees picture no means panorama sees rack upon rack material piles layouts reams copy people rush ing aboutas devil after looks upstream theres glimpse tributaries river information vanishing over hori zon An editor awed quantity material boils down pretty package words pictures can bought store like box oatmeal loaf bread What doing patient reader getting ready George Clapp does deal blithely monumental guys like George Like people synthesize years work what perceive soeasy-to-read printed page George virtual computer bank specialty pursuit history re lates given aircraft type world revolves around Fokker Tn Motors Fairchild FCssee page 54 remark able RC Fokker Model Builder has donated AMAs some day museumalong John Kikers Owen Morris NASA-Houston RC flying test model 747 mated Space Shuttle Andy Shebers onethird scale Pitts etc George starting another Fokker variant Like FO watched first Colo nial Airways Fokkers later Fairchilds fly overhead what guess Newark Montreal run though George saw about hour before after did depending way classics heading spent dozen years researching Fairchild drew himself issue Oldtimers Fairchild museums abroad have verified detailthough modestly says isnt perfect year now George has phone sometimes several times week office home letters fill thick folderwitness coral-reef-building process turning out accurate job best hu man can George fought lit tle thingeven wording plan done early factory draw ing drawing see practically computer enhanced long series steps took produce nice print what really rough pen cil Dont ask us months arti cle plan appetizer Next month its glory George presents greatest ever RC scale pro jects two huge drawingsthe Fair child FC-2 reason FO survived years head-to-head perfection ist George own great love Fairchild built rubberfrom 36 inches six feetand performance truly superb tunate have miracle modern reliable radio put such dreams majestically sky So FO awed sum total individual efforts add up package like humble March sue Consider Fred Pearce rubber Kuhnles work autogiro etc man-years work things What holding pinheadupon angels have danced Continued page 92 4 Model Aviation FOR FREE BROCHURE WRITE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC PO Box 229-A Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 EAA aI T Al RCRAFT YOU CAN BUILD$495 pp XPERIMENI E AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION long can really afford miss out fun Openers/Winter continued page 4 EDITORS ARE FLAKY CHARAC ters sit war room trends developmens swirl about us would common good took oath silence prone talk ex cathedra famous fight manager Damon Runyon-type character named Mike Jacobs famous Stengelese malopropisms told press after stink-bomb fight should have stood bed FO should have known better knobby kneed hoss lance hand drawing bead windmill simply asking Hot letters about Novice Pattern goaded him solvents evaporated left proposed editorial pipsqueak observation Pattern flying might benefit equivalent Quickie 500for dubs like us naturally did observe four classes Novice Advanced Expert Masterhad devised encourage competition different levels expertise existent airplanes planes powerplants gadgets expense followed natural evolution Schnuerle en gines pipes retracts ulti mate airplanesjust buy Phoenix Dirty Birdy Curare etc Aside cost continuous practice fuel gobbling 60s Novices say hell trying climb Pattern competition ladder because crackerjack fli ers stalled lower classes may never get good enough climb over themif theyd move up Any guy seriously flies competition re gardless class darn good seems natural order things now have editors recommending Novice class non-Schnuerle engines no retracts no pipesand flat bot tomed wings Proposals exist crying changes no considers law cause effectwhich usually equates modeling cure being worse bite successful op eration dead patient FO realized thinking airplane identical Falcon 56 ship still great thereby turning clock back 1 5 years would dynamite tinker Pattern fliers world So cut up lance trim shims melted down old hoss money saving Cold Stuff Now took bouncing tough things Ron VanPuttes court Ron resident Pattern expert let ters him began bang end ed whimper Only continued delivery monthly column suggest ed maybe still talking us Finally last months column dealt touchy matter think took logical stand FO said have thinking about changes Novice Pat tern long time As CD Jim Kirkland Memorial have begin ner Novice class past two years really think best way go have special Editor Note word Special limited airplane fixed gear loop-scavenged en gines Perry porting no tuned pipes Next years Kirkland will have such event PS Falcon first Pattern airplane AFTER LAST MONTHS episode Southern Spy leaking picture RC Special ole Georges column gleefully report midnight skulker did photograph se cret papers gosh youll find flight picture another odd-ball fly ing machine get picture Openers stood over prostrate art director sharp blue pencil point ed throat sporty-looking low winger spans six feet Veco 19 engine turn ing l0-3 takes up light weight well probably could well similar ship scaled up 8 9 feet cross between powered glider ordinary sport model pur pose achieve easy almost auto matic takeoffs taildragger cinch landings combined high alti 92 Model Aviation SAVE $150 ON YOUR NEXT RADIO Buy Di0taI Commander Flite Pack Kit Save Money out Compromising Quality Performance Three Servo Options Two Receiver Options Kit Prices Start $7496 details send Si latest catalog Add 550 1st Class return $1 hand ling direct orders 815 584-7121 [AE E/IrnEI BOX SuE HIGGINSVILLE MO 64037 GET ORGANIZEDHazelnutMBH-1 s set 4 stordy tiles holds soer 4 years YOUi favorite 8i ft magazinesCSD-1 4 MAG FILES $49522A ws Send $495 plan $100 postage handling tooAmerican Eagle DON INDUSTRIESCatalog 25c PO BOX 388-KMODERNISTIC MODELS DOVER NH 03820PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 tude soaring surprising success beginning trait winding downward power turns no correction opposite stick experts advice reshaped tall fin lowered its profile no change Pappa Ehling guru cited Nordic ex perience 5 6 degrees decalage noseweight needed avoid characteristics upon entering thermal said add incidence nose weight almost did trick fine tuned CC incidence hoping dedicated test pilot would run out hair pull thought great way left its own devices once glide turn trim set up high altitude work andered bit times going left right turns back again prolonged soaring fly little bit added pair sub rudders under stab took out bal last Right Speed penetration surprisingly good glide should please Skip Miller Power approaches airliner idle fast wont stay ground guarantee youll pleased kind sport flier did sustain bad cartwheel merely loosening fixed tailand wing bolted cartwheeled rock-solid RC Special major repair replacing entire mid-fuselage section new crate has lightening holes fuselage sides factor credit possibly saving fuselage top bottom sheeting angled 45 degrees cross ships per standard practice Weve got great list projects buildjust cant wait present rate building will 105 years old before built thats truth fact both radio systems now have unused servoswe havent touched aileron years flying suggests something Ailerons either configurations unless modified something else en tirely differentwould ruin need ailerons pattern-type flying indispensable aerobatics include axial rolls neededas scale models wide range sport models would far better configured eliminate aileronsand expense extra work aileron syndrome typical sport model anything smooth flight jerk flit unlike aircraft can bear watch People confine aircraft long narrow box air space Back forth ad nauseum course have train aileron-oriented events need wing warpers high flying soaring times merely smooth technique seen ship calls extensive use trim rather stick bending RC Special three-position flaps takeoff landing would enhance performance ailer ons lightweight spoilers would nice have Instead making yet another RC airplaneweve 107 spite 13 year hiatusthis winter well install flaps spoilers other Oh Spring Letters Editor continued page 9 viation am sending letter copies AMA District VP Contest Board HQ Engine displacement has never good method limiting aircraft sizes free flight U-Control does give relative power outputs RC horse power has increased order hp 60 toI guess2 hp over years Horsepower valid meas ure output would constant Whether flier uses 60 about 2 hp Quadra about 2 hp actually makes no difference although rules dont recognize true 60 will likely have geared belted reduce prop rpm give required torque turn allowing engine develop peak power high rpm means max engine shouldby logic hp re lated area weight size sticky out field First believe damage quotient ki netic energy means damage directly proportional 94 Model Aviation hybrid poweredglider/sport deadstick See above Two sub-fins have since added under stabilizer Easy takeoffs landings extended soaring ability goalsVeco 19 would fly much larger ultimate gliding would severely limited windy weather whereas 6-ft span shown secure winds up 10 mphor so
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/03
Page Numbers: 4, 92, 94
FORLEE3 Photography never strong suit would feel alone crowd Swahili intalk about lens films exposures breeds empathy Biblical hermits lived desert caves first exposure honest-to-good ness pro late great Rudy Ar nold work appeared regularly national magazine covers newspapers field old Air Trails covers centerspreads air-to-air shots AT mind-blowing wing tip P-40 stuck eye resorted Zoom cropped print got close Standby days old Speed Graphic todays older pros light up whenever mentioned Rudy went back days magnesium flares lighting stuff tabloids held trough-like tray overhead hand powdered magnesium went off great whoof blinding light frightening cloud smoke ear sewed back after jar went off hand minus two fingers same occupational haz ard now have motor drive can take five pictures second enough hairy dog stories top months agenda lead articlewith pictures can bring tears eye author Monty Groves puts Practically everybody takes pic tures days natural question cant get decent shots models Montys spectacular action shotsmostly taken beautiful Morgan Hill scale meetshave filled pages pages model mags own backyard John Preston makes seem easy falling off log snap takeoffs flybys landings hypnotize viewer us would love have such pictures us try take thembut results run indifferent bad ponder realize virtually almost 1300 AMA chartered clubs least photographer could serve func tion Encourage him hell love Just see out pocket service mankind missing technique perfected men like Groves Preston So asked Monty tell us does include some hand-picked samples illustrate glories no-nos poor picture Montys eyes could wall mural living room now look forward great pic tures magazine articles have camera Monty telling does can learn too learned fly ailerons didnt together now Cheese THE MAGAZINE YOU HOLD hands commonplace object end product world never see lastinglike engineto used over over like fuelbut has read cover cover scanned riffled through can hope saved perhaps reference hopefully because sense intrinsic value editors level relief labor 30 days goes off printer sees picture no means panorama sees rack upon rack material piles layouts reams copy people rush ing aboutas devil after looks upstream theres glimpse tributaries river information vanishing over hori zon An editor awed quantity material boils down pretty package words pictures can bought store like box oatmeal loaf bread What doing patient reader getting ready George Clapp does deal blithely monumental guys like George Like people synthesize years work what perceive soeasy-to-read printed page George virtual computer bank specialty pursuit history re lates given aircraft type world revolves around Fokker Tn Motors Fairchild FCssee page 54 remark able RC Fokker Model Builder has donated AMAs some day museumalong John Kikers Owen Morris NASA-Houston RC flying test model 747 mated Space Shuttle Andy Shebers onethird scale Pitts etc George starting another Fokker variant Like FO watched first Colo nial Airways Fokkers later Fairchilds fly overhead what guess Newark Montreal run though George saw about hour before after did depending way classics heading spent dozen years researching Fairchild drew himself issue Oldtimers Fairchild museums abroad have verified detailthough modestly says isnt perfect year now George has phone sometimes several times week office home letters fill thick folderwitness coral-reef-building process turning out accurate job best hu man can George fought lit tle thingeven wording plan done early factory draw ing drawing see practically computer enhanced long series steps took produce nice print what really rough pen cil Dont ask us months arti cle plan appetizer Next month its glory George presents greatest ever RC scale pro jects two huge drawingsthe Fair child FC-2 reason FO survived years head-to-head perfection ist George own great love Fairchild built rubberfrom 36 inches six feetand performance truly superb tunate have miracle modern reliable radio put such dreams majestically sky So FO awed sum total individual efforts add up package like humble March sue Consider Fred Pearce rubber Kuhnles work autogiro etc man-years work things What holding pinheadupon angels have danced Continued page 92 4 Model Aviation FOR FREE BROCHURE WRITE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC PO Box 229-A Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 EAA aI T Al RCRAFT YOU CAN BUILD$495 pp XPERIMENI E AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION long can really afford miss out fun Openers/Winter continued page 4 EDITORS ARE FLAKY CHARAC ters sit war room trends developmens swirl about us would common good took oath silence prone talk ex cathedra famous fight manager Damon Runyon-type character named Mike Jacobs famous Stengelese malopropisms told press after stink-bomb fight should have stood bed FO should have known better knobby kneed hoss lance hand drawing bead windmill simply asking Hot letters about Novice Pattern goaded him solvents evaporated left proposed editorial pipsqueak observation Pattern flying might benefit equivalent Quickie 500for dubs like us naturally did observe four classes Novice Advanced Expert Masterhad devised encourage competition different levels expertise existent airplanes planes powerplants gadgets expense followed natural evolution Schnuerle en gines pipes retracts ulti mate airplanesjust buy Phoenix Dirty Birdy Curare etc Aside cost continuous practice fuel gobbling 60s Novices say hell trying climb Pattern competition ladder because crackerjack fli ers stalled lower classes may never get good enough climb over themif theyd move up Any guy seriously flies competition re gardless class darn good seems natural order things now have editors recommending Novice class non-Schnuerle engines no retracts no pipesand flat bot tomed wings Proposals exist crying changes no considers law cause effectwhich usually equates modeling cure being worse bite successful op eration dead patient FO realized thinking airplane identical Falcon 56 ship still great thereby turning clock back 1 5 years would dynamite tinker Pattern fliers world So cut up lance trim shims melted down old hoss money saving Cold Stuff Now took bouncing tough things Ron VanPuttes court Ron resident Pattern expert let ters him began bang end ed whimper Only continued delivery monthly column suggest ed maybe still talking us Finally last months column dealt touchy matter think took logical stand FO said have thinking about changes Novice Pat tern long time As CD Jim Kirkland Memorial have begin ner Novice class past two years really think best way go have special Editor Note word Special limited airplane fixed gear loop-scavenged en gines Perry porting no tuned pipes Next years Kirkland will have such event PS Falcon first Pattern airplane AFTER LAST MONTHS episode Southern Spy leaking picture RC Special ole Georges column gleefully report midnight skulker did photograph se cret papers gosh youll find flight picture another odd-ball fly ing machine get picture Openers stood over prostrate art director sharp blue pencil point ed throat sporty-looking low winger spans six feet Veco 19 engine turn ing l0-3 takes up light weight well probably could well similar ship scaled up 8 9 feet cross between powered glider ordinary sport model pur pose achieve easy almost auto matic takeoffs taildragger cinch landings combined high alti 92 Model Aviation SAVE $150 ON YOUR NEXT RADIO Buy Di0taI Commander Flite Pack Kit Save Money out Compromising Quality Performance Three Servo Options Two Receiver Options Kit Prices Start $7496 details send Si latest catalog Add 550 1st Class return $1 hand ling direct orders 815 584-7121 [AE E/IrnEI BOX SuE HIGGINSVILLE MO 64037 GET ORGANIZEDHazelnutMBH-1 s set 4 stordy tiles holds soer 4 years YOUi favorite 8i ft magazinesCSD-1 4 MAG FILES $49522A ws Send $495 plan $100 postage handling tooAmerican Eagle DON INDUSTRIESCatalog 25c PO BOX 388-KMODERNISTIC MODELS DOVER NH 03820PO BOX 6974 ALBUQ NM 87197 tude soaring surprising success beginning trait winding downward power turns no correction opposite stick experts advice reshaped tall fin lowered its profile no change Pappa Ehling guru cited Nordic ex perience 5 6 degrees decalage noseweight needed avoid characteristics upon entering thermal said add incidence nose weight almost did trick fine tuned CC incidence hoping dedicated test pilot would run out hair pull thought great way left its own devices once glide turn trim set up high altitude work andered bit times going left right turns back again prolonged soaring fly little bit added pair sub rudders under stab took out bal last Right Speed penetration surprisingly good glide should please Skip Miller Power approaches airliner idle fast wont stay ground guarantee youll pleased kind sport flier did sustain bad cartwheel merely loosening fixed tailand wing bolted cartwheeled rock-solid RC Special major repair replacing entire mid-fuselage section new crate has lightening holes fuselage sides factor credit possibly saving fuselage top bottom sheeting angled 45 degrees cross ships per standard practice Weve got great list projects buildjust cant wait present rate building will 105 years old before built thats truth fact both radio systems now have unused servoswe havent touched aileron years flying suggests something Ailerons either configurations unless modified something else en tirely differentwould ruin need ailerons pattern-type flying indispensable aerobatics include axial rolls neededas scale models wide range sport models would far better configured eliminate aileronsand expense extra work aileron syndrome typical sport model anything smooth flight jerk flit unlike aircraft can bear watch People confine aircraft long narrow box air space Back forth ad nauseum course have train aileron-oriented events need wing warpers high flying soaring times merely smooth technique seen ship calls extensive use trim rather stick bending RC Special three-position flaps takeoff landing would enhance performance ailer ons lightweight spoilers would nice have Instead making yet another RC airplaneweve 107 spite 13 year hiatusthis winter well install flaps spoilers other Oh Spring Letters Editor continued page 9 viation am sending letter copies AMA District VP Contest Board HQ Engine displacement has never good method limiting aircraft sizes free flight U-Control does give relative power outputs RC horse power has increased order hp 60 toI guess2 hp over years Horsepower valid meas ure output would constant Whether flier uses 60 about 2 hp Quadra about 2 hp actually makes no difference although rules dont recognize true 60 will likely have geared belted reduce prop rpm give required torque turn allowing engine develop peak power high rpm means max engine shouldby logic hp re lated area weight size sticky out field First believe damage quotient ki netic energy means damage directly proportional 94 Model Aviation hybrid poweredglider/sport deadstick See above Two sub-fins have since added under stabilizer Easy takeoffs landings extended soaring ability goalsVeco 19 would fly much larger ultimate gliding would severely limited windy weather whereas 6-ft span shown secure winds up 10 mphor so