There involved Art Think ing Big Lee Taylor page 8 has brought out far anything published MA its contemporaries subhead blurb introduces Lees fine article word different appears several times Construction powerplants flying techniques different biggest difference must attitude bigger heavier powerful mod els comes new kind responsibility What pilot thinking pre pares take off 18-foot 75-pound Champion such ship Toledo Quadra-powered one-third scale Pitts Senior Falcon Phoenix merely assures himself frequency clear taxis out lines up knowing spectators pit locatedand enjoys freedom skies mon ster has other sen sations well im mense amount work perhaps cost match must make him sober-minded yond anything has experienced before everything really OK anything might get way What will once ship air cruise establishedFrom will approach howand things ground mind Per haps first thought dent marvelous machine becomesor should becomeconservative senses movement stick knows must govern air space takeoff touchdown such way wont uproot parked car tangle tree position crate close people AMA fliers have amassed fantastic safety record weekend tens thousands RC pilots make astro nomical number flights under automatic self-discipline shall con tinue may well builder big fast model condition himself think like real air plane owner/pilot Would fly ma chine required ride Oh course cant ride refer attitude already check models before flying session big models should become like pilots traditional walk around fore first flight examine facet ship mechanics view fore flight perform equivalent walk-around Deep full-scale pilots mind constant awareness should never take chance instru ment sharp stays out weather skilled equipped night flying wont chance race against darkness knows must capable staying ahead ship should chance flying plane could get ahead him may run red light car dont risk neck air May suggest rule Just before open throttle airplane say yourself owethis hobby ves twinge find out get act together BEFORE let HANK CLARK WHOSE wonderful cut away drawings MA has privileged publish see pages 16-17 chal lenge would-be biographer Weve wanted introduce him months now comes much larger lifelike Jim Walker Cal Smiththat typewriter turns chick en Now 64 builds models like crazy owns flies ancient Cub floats designs houses boats sells plans over world illustrates books newspapers magazines Hes also railroading Talking him like trying hold conversation OHare tower Like oldtimers inspired Lindbergh like us rode bike airports NY model meets see Max Basset sez far 40 miles home 616 camera amassed 3500 negatives now classic airplanes sold pho tos through mail spent WW II Grumman doing art Navy man ualson side selling own lithos combat aircraft Specializing howto art descriptions Hank free lanced Mechanix Illustrated 10 years parent company Faw cett 30 years bought 37-hp Aeronca K after 75 hours giving local CAP De signed 10 boatssix hand-built garage 1960 designed scratchbuilt large lake cottage Lake George NYand course sold plans travels between north Jersey home 1947 Cub Edos still based Hackensack River Little Ferry NJ Did numerous home-built cutaways late Al Lewis Air Trails Air Progress Currently ing home-handyman stuff Eisinger Communications Larry E model editor pre-war Air Trails pioneered CL scale model plans AT appears New York Times Another pro ject lengthy series acrylic paintings old 30s classic planes hopes hang ers Hank ac tive watersportslike fast skiing sail ing scuba diving rowing own de signed built racing scull winter cant always reach him phone apt ski slopes vast HO railroad being replaced Photography big himmovies carton Cub shoots zil lions air views ancient Leica Wants build 130 mph cruise Osprey amphib made scale models Coot far Trouble has finish canoe first build surf-sailer new foun dation permanent home May resurrect old comic strip called Chuck Wood Star Wars era will titillate guys new cut-away 30 daysor will steal Cub IN LAST MONTHS thrilling episode RCThe Way Ed Lorenz father light-weight airborne systems enthralled pioneers gas Continued page 56 4 Model Aviation go THE LEADER IN TITION PROPELLERS PLACE WINNERS 1977 NATIONALS MANUFACTURERS AT THE THAN THE OTHER MAJOR COMBINED IN FACT SPECIAL PRO SERIES 2 FOR RCFREE FLIGHT CONTROL LINE DIAPITCHPRICE 5%3489 63489 733/4119 833%456 129 8%77%139 94566% 77%139 104567149 106W EVIl149 106EW159 114877/ 7A7%8159 116EW169 11%67189 126179 125V4179 1356239 145 6279 1556349 184Y6449 1756599 1856699 -w WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE SERIES 400 B FOR SPEED NG ADVANCED DESIGN NO 1 IN PYLON RACING LEADING SPEED RECORD HOLDER OP ALL TIMES RC PYLON RACING DIAPITCHPRICE 53%4129 756149 75N6N149 8%6% 6% 7%7%189 977%7%188 CONTROL LINE SPEED& RACING DIA PITCHPRICE 4/6%7129 4%55%129 6788%149 77%1G%11169 889189 89N 9%N189 91213229 N NARROW Openers continued page 4 tube two-tuber RC now like space capsule way moon lingering lightly between powerful pull gravity past guiling pull future As Red tons used cry time Strange things happening ward McEntee flying true single-channel proportional system appeared new popular electronics mag azines Walt Good again mysterious multi-channel proportional systems designated strange sounding initial names involving tones pulses yield propo elevator rudder plus engine Frank Adams George Tram mell put magnetic actuator mapand still us popu lar Ace pulse-rudder system Everybody seeking cheap ways get elevatorand engineout simple single-channel receiver cascaded escapementsyou blipped once right twice left three up four down quick blip yielded either high low motor strains credibility say such Mickey Mouse set up performed outside loops flew inverted did vertical eights rolled Galloping Ghost wild wooly setup pioneered several innovators including own John Worth hung years took Adams-type sys tern giant step forward varying pulse width length beep box attached simple one-chan nel transmitter mechanical link age both flippers rudder could vary positions surfaces coordinated proportional manner rudder flapped back forth flippers flapped up downon ground sounded like small threshing machine Up Erie PA Frank Schmidt al ready oldtimer exasperated ancient Rockwood reed systems forever welding reed contacts together would soon market first reliable 5-channel reed system Inspired thisbut particularly Good number West Coast pioneers fiddling things would turn todays ultimate proportional sys temsSpace Control being first gain national prominence announced 1956 Grand Rapids HIAA show $600 price tag Bob Dunham having won Aerotrol prize free flight contest disenchanted thing decided develop own radios first Orbit 8channel reed system would some years totally dominate field piling up horizon still 3channel Babcock first mass-produced multi-channel system Babcock remarkably sensitive reliable piece equipment hitched Bonner compound es capement rudder trim servo looked like miniature Quonset hut receiver about size small brick kind build houses five count em hard tubes three sealed relays sticking up air reminded archi tects model proposed factory five smoke stacks jutting through roof its batteries system probab ly weighed about 1 pounds Wonder wonders transmitter stick big indents permitted stick move four positions right left down up electronics Babcock eliminated necessity squeez ing hand switch trigger escape ment Now five vacuum tubes have enor mous battery drain flew four C cells filaments two escapements servo also small B battery C battery escapement weak rudder could turned air unless aerodynamically balanced receiver noise-sen sitive engine touched metal spout priming escapement would cycle rudder moving metal-to-metal parts grounded metal torque rods used hook-up wire pig tail tached escapement torque rod cold weather stiff ness its insulation would halt es capement its tracks electronical ly Babcock system wizard tried persuade us throw receiver against wall prove sturdy waswith vacuum tubes yet did next best thing flying craft car trunkparked cor ner 100-acre field ship disin tegrated pieces flying over under around car entire control sys tem sailed through air smashing earth about 50 feet away walked up keyed transmitter es capement clicked merrily trim servo ran back forth remember think ing God reliable can get Jim Wilsons extraordinary job invest igative reportingGlider Flying Russian Style page 38 gives us yet another sight eastern European approach international competition Going Roskilde Denmark 1977 Free Flight World Championships own expense virtually live Russian Nordic fliers both off field perceptive observations convey utter seriousness dedication individuals Issaenko Chopp Lepp sense what nationalistic pro gram really entails article will speak itself Continued page 81 56 Model Aviation MORE FIRST USED OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS MORE NAT IONALS WINNERS HAVE REV-UP PROPS THAN ANY OTHER BRAND Rev-Up better 1 The efficient design con stant upgrading testing program 2 Better quality control better selection hard maple wood 3 The best infinishcompletelyfuel proof New Improved 1978 ERA WHERE THE ACTION IS missing lot involved exciting world FAA sport aviation Heres action can realize dreams flying e building designing raft have always dreamed about Aerobatics soaring rotary wing warbirds antiques homebuilts classics represented EAA Membership $2000 annually includes monthly SPORT AVIATION Junior 18 younger $1000 Information packsend $150 Eli/Sport Aviation Experimental Aircraft Association Inc PO Box 229/Hales Corners Wis 53130 W HAS IT Milwaukee Suburb Phone 4144254860 ALL recent article Speed Rac ing Gazette entitled Modeling Soviet Union noted Russians phe nomenal record successes Team Racing Quoting famous designer S Yakovlev said 1921 .. model glider glider air plane writer tells us shortly after WW importance model airplanes aviation national de fense recognized Russia Today DOSAAF Union Voluntary Society Cooperation Army Air Force Navy fills role AMA NAA sponsors clubs coaches provides building meeting facilities organizes produc tion materials like arti cle quotes four references including books Russians Henrick Smith Ballantine Books NY Soviet Air Force Asher Lee G Duckworth & Co Ltd London 1961 show modeling state activity serves re cruitment pool people interested Air Force Aeroflot national air line Recently Russian experts invited Korea work Korean modelers Korean record Wakefield Nordic World Cham pionships spectacular leading speculation might see North Korean entry Team Racing Russians compete events have possibility win ning may soon inaccurate lump together Iron Curtain countries nations typically display govern ment support regimented programs Mainland China has expressed interest FAI programspossibly becoming FAI member Hidden behind Great Wall China known have massive programs parachuting gliding airplane modelingshe claims 350000 model clubs estimated 3000000 parachutistsoutside mil itary developing full-scale aero batic program word shed like go Russians Americans sporting competition Like Russia China sees aeronautical pro grams vital part defense picture Boy modelers may someday end up Chinese Air Force girls airline industry knows days AMA may sending teams World Cham pionship meetsin China Letters Editor continued page 7 found Yes expensive airplane $3900 exact still can much other plane Still dont write anything going write something H-Ray Kevin Delmolino Age II Richmond Mass H-Ray indeed great stand-by trainer sport kit airplanes Any Lou Andrews design first rate built H-Ray early 60s first came outrudder Webra 15 Diesel rudder elevator en gine controls H-Ray nice airplane respect Electric Turned Him am especially interested Insid er economical interesting ap proach both R/C electric flight Mr Leo Vartanian has done great job am enclosing letter him re quest will address forward him As soon get something ready put air will become member AMA Although have model builder better part fifty years varied reasons have kept compe tition flying past marvel nice goodies have build built first models pine shaved down 1/16 sq block plane covered Christmas tissue powered rubber bands cut automobile inner-tubes things bought piano wire dope July 1978 81 Openers continued page 56
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/07
Page Numbers: 4, 56, 81
There involved Art Think ing Big Lee Taylor page 8 has brought out far anything published MA its contemporaries subhead blurb introduces Lees fine article word different appears several times Construction powerplants flying techniques different biggest difference must attitude bigger heavier powerful mod els comes new kind responsibility What pilot thinking pre pares take off 18-foot 75-pound Champion such ship Toledo Quadra-powered one-third scale Pitts Senior Falcon Phoenix merely assures himself frequency clear taxis out lines up knowing spectators pit locatedand enjoys freedom skies mon ster has other sen sations well im mense amount work perhaps cost match must make him sober-minded yond anything has experienced before everything really OK anything might get way What will once ship air cruise establishedFrom will approach howand things ground mind Per haps first thought dent marvelous machine becomesor should becomeconservative senses movement stick knows must govern air space takeoff touchdown such way wont uproot parked car tangle tree position crate close people AMA fliers have amassed fantastic safety record weekend tens thousands RC pilots make astro nomical number flights under automatic self-discipline shall con tinue may well builder big fast model condition himself think like real air plane owner/pilot Would fly ma chine required ride Oh course cant ride refer attitude already check models before flying session big models should become like pilots traditional walk around fore first flight examine facet ship mechanics view fore flight perform equivalent walk-around Deep full-scale pilots mind constant awareness should never take chance instru ment sharp stays out weather skilled equipped night flying wont chance race against darkness knows must capable staying ahead ship should chance flying plane could get ahead him may run red light car dont risk neck air May suggest rule Just before open throttle airplane say yourself owethis hobby ves twinge find out get act together BEFORE let HANK CLARK WHOSE wonderful cut away drawings MA has privileged publish see pages 16-17 chal lenge would-be biographer Weve wanted introduce him months now comes much larger lifelike Jim Walker Cal Smiththat typewriter turns chick en Now 64 builds models like crazy owns flies ancient Cub floats designs houses boats sells plans over world illustrates books newspapers magazines Hes also railroading Talking him like trying hold conversation OHare tower Like oldtimers inspired Lindbergh like us rode bike airports NY model meets see Max Basset sez far 40 miles home 616 camera amassed 3500 negatives now classic airplanes sold pho tos through mail spent WW II Grumman doing art Navy man ualson side selling own lithos combat aircraft Specializing howto art descriptions Hank free lanced Mechanix Illustrated 10 years parent company Faw cett 30 years bought 37-hp Aeronca K after 75 hours giving local CAP De signed 10 boatssix hand-built garage 1960 designed scratchbuilt large lake cottage Lake George NYand course sold plans travels between north Jersey home 1947 Cub Edos still based Hackensack River Little Ferry NJ Did numerous home-built cutaways late Al Lewis Air Trails Air Progress Currently ing home-handyman stuff Eisinger Communications Larry E model editor pre-war Air Trails pioneered CL scale model plans AT appears New York Times Another pro ject lengthy series acrylic paintings old 30s classic planes hopes hang ers Hank ac tive watersportslike fast skiing sail ing scuba diving rowing own de signed built racing scull winter cant always reach him phone apt ski slopes vast HO railroad being replaced Photography big himmovies carton Cub shoots zil lions air views ancient Leica Wants build 130 mph cruise Osprey amphib made scale models Coot far Trouble has finish canoe first build surf-sailer new foun dation permanent home May resurrect old comic strip called Chuck Wood Star Wars era will titillate guys new cut-away 30 daysor will steal Cub IN LAST MONTHS thrilling episode RCThe Way Ed Lorenz father light-weight airborne systems enthralled pioneers gas Continued page 56 4 Model Aviation go THE LEADER IN TITION PROPELLERS PLACE WINNERS 1977 NATIONALS MANUFACTURERS AT THE THAN THE OTHER MAJOR COMBINED IN FACT SPECIAL PRO SERIES 2 FOR RCFREE FLIGHT CONTROL LINE DIAPITCHPRICE 5%3489 63489 733/4119 833%456 129 8%77%139 94566% 77%139 104567149 106W EVIl149 106EW159 114877/ 7A7%8159 116EW169 11%67189 126179 125V4179 1356239 145 6279 1556349 184Y6449 1756599 1856699 -w WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE SERIES 400 B FOR SPEED NG ADVANCED DESIGN NO 1 IN PYLON RACING LEADING SPEED RECORD HOLDER OP ALL TIMES RC PYLON RACING DIAPITCHPRICE 53%4129 756149 75N6N149 8%6% 6% 7%7%189 977%7%188 CONTROL LINE SPEED& RACING DIA PITCHPRICE 4/6%7129 4%55%129 6788%149 77%1G%11169 889189 89N 9%N189 91213229 N NARROW Openers continued page 4 tube two-tuber RC now like space capsule way moon lingering lightly between powerful pull gravity past guiling pull future As Red tons used cry time Strange things happening ward McEntee flying true single-channel proportional system appeared new popular electronics mag azines Walt Good again mysterious multi-channel proportional systems designated strange sounding initial names involving tones pulses yield propo elevator rudder plus engine Frank Adams George Tram mell put magnetic actuator mapand still us popu lar Ace pulse-rudder system Everybody seeking cheap ways get elevatorand engineout simple single-channel receiver cascaded escapementsyou blipped once right twice left three up four down quick blip yielded either high low motor strains credibility say such Mickey Mouse set up performed outside loops flew inverted did vertical eights rolled Galloping Ghost wild wooly setup pioneered several innovators including own John Worth hung years took Adams-type sys tern giant step forward varying pulse width length beep box attached simple one-chan nel transmitter mechanical link age both flippers rudder could vary positions surfaces coordinated proportional manner rudder flapped back forth flippers flapped up downon ground sounded like small threshing machine Up Erie PA Frank Schmidt al ready oldtimer exasperated ancient Rockwood reed systems forever welding reed contacts together would soon market first reliable 5-channel reed system Inspired thisbut particularly Good number West Coast pioneers fiddling things would turn todays ultimate proportional sys temsSpace Control being first gain national prominence announced 1956 Grand Rapids HIAA show $600 price tag Bob Dunham having won Aerotrol prize free flight contest disenchanted thing decided develop own radios first Orbit 8channel reed system would some years totally dominate field piling up horizon still 3channel Babcock first mass-produced multi-channel system Babcock remarkably sensitive reliable piece equipment hitched Bonner compound es capement rudder trim servo looked like miniature Quonset hut receiver about size small brick kind build houses five count em hard tubes three sealed relays sticking up air reminded archi tects model proposed factory five smoke stacks jutting through roof its batteries system probab ly weighed about 1 pounds Wonder wonders transmitter stick big indents permitted stick move four positions right left down up electronics Babcock eliminated necessity squeez ing hand switch trigger escape ment Now five vacuum tubes have enor mous battery drain flew four C cells filaments two escapements servo also small B battery C battery escapement weak rudder could turned air unless aerodynamically balanced receiver noise-sen sitive engine touched metal spout priming escapement would cycle rudder moving metal-to-metal parts grounded metal torque rods used hook-up wire pig tail tached escapement torque rod cold weather stiff ness its insulation would halt es capement its tracks electronical ly Babcock system wizard tried persuade us throw receiver against wall prove sturdy waswith vacuum tubes yet did next best thing flying craft car trunkparked cor ner 100-acre field ship disin tegrated pieces flying over under around car entire control sys tem sailed through air smashing earth about 50 feet away walked up keyed transmitter es capement clicked merrily trim servo ran back forth remember think ing God reliable can get Jim Wilsons extraordinary job invest igative reportingGlider Flying Russian Style page 38 gives us yet another sight eastern European approach international competition Going Roskilde Denmark 1977 Free Flight World Championships own expense virtually live Russian Nordic fliers both off field perceptive observations convey utter seriousness dedication individuals Issaenko Chopp Lepp sense what nationalistic pro gram really entails article will speak itself Continued page 81 56 Model Aviation MORE FIRST USED OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS MORE NAT IONALS WINNERS HAVE REV-UP PROPS THAN ANY OTHER BRAND Rev-Up better 1 The efficient design con stant upgrading testing program 2 Better quality control better selection hard maple wood 3 The best infinishcompletelyfuel proof New Improved 1978 ERA WHERE THE ACTION IS missing lot involved exciting world FAA sport aviation Heres action can realize dreams flying e building designing raft have always dreamed about Aerobatics soaring rotary wing warbirds antiques homebuilts classics represented EAA Membership $2000 annually includes monthly SPORT AVIATION Junior 18 younger $1000 Information packsend $150 Eli/Sport Aviation Experimental Aircraft Association Inc PO Box 229/Hales Corners Wis 53130 W HAS IT Milwaukee Suburb Phone 4144254860 ALL recent article Speed Rac ing Gazette entitled Modeling Soviet Union noted Russians phe nomenal record successes Team Racing Quoting famous designer S Yakovlev said 1921 .. model glider glider air plane writer tells us shortly after WW importance model airplanes aviation national de fense recognized Russia Today DOSAAF Union Voluntary Society Cooperation Army Air Force Navy fills role AMA NAA sponsors clubs coaches provides building meeting facilities organizes produc tion materials like arti cle quotes four references including books Russians Henrick Smith Ballantine Books NY Soviet Air Force Asher Lee G Duckworth & Co Ltd London 1961 show modeling state activity serves re cruitment pool people interested Air Force Aeroflot national air line Recently Russian experts invited Korea work Korean modelers Korean record Wakefield Nordic World Cham pionships spectacular leading speculation might see North Korean entry Team Racing Russians compete events have possibility win ning may soon inaccurate lump together Iron Curtain countries nations typically display govern ment support regimented programs Mainland China has expressed interest FAI programspossibly becoming FAI member Hidden behind Great Wall China known have massive programs parachuting gliding airplane modelingshe claims 350000 model clubs estimated 3000000 parachutistsoutside mil itary developing full-scale aero batic program word shed like go Russians Americans sporting competition Like Russia China sees aeronautical pro grams vital part defense picture Boy modelers may someday end up Chinese Air Force girls airline industry knows days AMA may sending teams World Cham pionship meetsin China Letters Editor continued page 7 found Yes expensive airplane $3900 exact still can much other plane Still dont write anything going write something H-Ray Kevin Delmolino Age II Richmond Mass H-Ray indeed great stand-by trainer sport kit airplanes Any Lou Andrews design first rate built H-Ray early 60s first came outrudder Webra 15 Diesel rudder elevator en gine controls H-Ray nice airplane respect Electric Turned Him am especially interested Insid er economical interesting ap proach both R/C electric flight Mr Leo Vartanian has done great job am enclosing letter him re quest will address forward him As soon get something ready put air will become member AMA Although have model builder better part fifty years varied reasons have kept compe tition flying past marvel nice goodies have build built first models pine shaved down 1/16 sq block plane covered Christmas tissue powered rubber bands cut automobile inner-tubes things bought piano wire dope July 1978 81 Openers continued page 56
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/07
Page Numbers: 4, 56, 81
There involved Art Think ing Big Lee Taylor page 8 has brought out far anything published MA its contemporaries subhead blurb introduces Lees fine article word different appears several times Construction powerplants flying techniques different biggest difference must attitude bigger heavier powerful mod els comes new kind responsibility What pilot thinking pre pares take off 18-foot 75-pound Champion such ship Toledo Quadra-powered one-third scale Pitts Senior Falcon Phoenix merely assures himself frequency clear taxis out lines up knowing spectators pit locatedand enjoys freedom skies mon ster has other sen sations well im mense amount work perhaps cost match must make him sober-minded yond anything has experienced before everything really OK anything might get way What will once ship air cruise establishedFrom will approach howand things ground mind Per haps first thought dent marvelous machine becomesor should becomeconservative senses movement stick knows must govern air space takeoff touchdown such way wont uproot parked car tangle tree position crate close people AMA fliers have amassed fantastic safety record weekend tens thousands RC pilots make astro nomical number flights under automatic self-discipline shall con tinue may well builder big fast model condition himself think like real air plane owner/pilot Would fly ma chine required ride Oh course cant ride refer attitude already check models before flying session big models should become like pilots traditional walk around fore first flight examine facet ship mechanics view fore flight perform equivalent walk-around Deep full-scale pilots mind constant awareness should never take chance instru ment sharp stays out weather skilled equipped night flying wont chance race against darkness knows must capable staying ahead ship should chance flying plane could get ahead him may run red light car dont risk neck air May suggest rule Just before open throttle airplane say yourself owethis hobby ves twinge find out get act together BEFORE let HANK CLARK WHOSE wonderful cut away drawings MA has privileged publish see pages 16-17 chal lenge would-be biographer Weve wanted introduce him months now comes much larger lifelike Jim Walker Cal Smiththat typewriter turns chick en Now 64 builds models like crazy owns flies ancient Cub floats designs houses boats sells plans over world illustrates books newspapers magazines Hes also railroading Talking him like trying hold conversation OHare tower Like oldtimers inspired Lindbergh like us rode bike airports NY model meets see Max Basset sez far 40 miles home 616 camera amassed 3500 negatives now classic airplanes sold pho tos through mail spent WW II Grumman doing art Navy man ualson side selling own lithos combat aircraft Specializing howto art descriptions Hank free lanced Mechanix Illustrated 10 years parent company Faw cett 30 years bought 37-hp Aeronca K after 75 hours giving local CAP De signed 10 boatssix hand-built garage 1960 designed scratchbuilt large lake cottage Lake George NYand course sold plans travels between north Jersey home 1947 Cub Edos still based Hackensack River Little Ferry NJ Did numerous home-built cutaways late Al Lewis Air Trails Air Progress Currently ing home-handyman stuff Eisinger Communications Larry E model editor pre-war Air Trails pioneered CL scale model plans AT appears New York Times Another pro ject lengthy series acrylic paintings old 30s classic planes hopes hang ers Hank ac tive watersportslike fast skiing sail ing scuba diving rowing own de signed built racing scull winter cant always reach him phone apt ski slopes vast HO railroad being replaced Photography big himmovies carton Cub shoots zil lions air views ancient Leica Wants build 130 mph cruise Osprey amphib made scale models Coot far Trouble has finish canoe first build surf-sailer new foun dation permanent home May resurrect old comic strip called Chuck Wood Star Wars era will titillate guys new cut-away 30 daysor will steal Cub IN LAST MONTHS thrilling episode RCThe Way Ed Lorenz father light-weight airborne systems enthralled pioneers gas Continued page 56 4 Model Aviation go THE LEADER IN TITION PROPELLERS PLACE WINNERS 1977 NATIONALS MANUFACTURERS AT THE THAN THE OTHER MAJOR COMBINED IN FACT SPECIAL PRO SERIES 2 FOR RCFREE FLIGHT CONTROL LINE DIAPITCHPRICE 5%3489 63489 733/4119 833%456 129 8%77%139 94566% 77%139 104567149 106W EVIl149 106EW159 114877/ 7A7%8159 116EW169 11%67189 126179 125V4179 1356239 145 6279 1556349 184Y6449 1756599 1856699 -w WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE SERIES 400 B FOR SPEED NG ADVANCED DESIGN NO 1 IN PYLON RACING LEADING SPEED RECORD HOLDER OP ALL TIMES RC PYLON RACING DIAPITCHPRICE 53%4129 756149 75N6N149 8%6% 6% 7%7%189 977%7%188 CONTROL LINE SPEED& RACING DIA PITCHPRICE 4/6%7129 4%55%129 6788%149 77%1G%11169 889189 89N 9%N189 91213229 N NARROW Openers continued page 4 tube two-tuber RC now like space capsule way moon lingering lightly between powerful pull gravity past guiling pull future As Red tons used cry time Strange things happening ward McEntee flying true single-channel proportional system appeared new popular electronics mag azines Walt Good again mysterious multi-channel proportional systems designated strange sounding initial names involving tones pulses yield propo elevator rudder plus engine Frank Adams George Tram mell put magnetic actuator mapand still us popu lar Ace pulse-rudder system Everybody seeking cheap ways get elevatorand engineout simple single-channel receiver cascaded escapementsyou blipped once right twice left three up four down quick blip yielded either high low motor strains credibility say such Mickey Mouse set up performed outside loops flew inverted did vertical eights rolled Galloping Ghost wild wooly setup pioneered several innovators including own John Worth hung years took Adams-type sys tern giant step forward varying pulse width length beep box attached simple one-chan nel transmitter mechanical link age both flippers rudder could vary positions surfaces coordinated proportional manner rudder flapped back forth flippers flapped up downon ground sounded like small threshing machine Up Erie PA Frank Schmidt al ready oldtimer exasperated ancient Rockwood reed systems forever welding reed contacts together would soon market first reliable 5-channel reed system Inspired thisbut particularly Good number West Coast pioneers fiddling things would turn todays ultimate proportional sys temsSpace Control being first gain national prominence announced 1956 Grand Rapids HIAA show $600 price tag Bob Dunham having won Aerotrol prize free flight contest disenchanted thing decided develop own radios first Orbit 8channel reed system would some years totally dominate field piling up horizon still 3channel Babcock first mass-produced multi-channel system Babcock remarkably sensitive reliable piece equipment hitched Bonner compound es capement rudder trim servo looked like miniature Quonset hut receiver about size small brick kind build houses five count em hard tubes three sealed relays sticking up air reminded archi tects model proposed factory five smoke stacks jutting through roof its batteries system probab ly weighed about 1 pounds Wonder wonders transmitter stick big indents permitted stick move four positions right left down up electronics Babcock eliminated necessity squeez ing hand switch trigger escape ment Now five vacuum tubes have enor mous battery drain flew four C cells filaments two escapements servo also small B battery C battery escapement weak rudder could turned air unless aerodynamically balanced receiver noise-sen sitive engine touched metal spout priming escapement would cycle rudder moving metal-to-metal parts grounded metal torque rods used hook-up wire pig tail tached escapement torque rod cold weather stiff ness its insulation would halt es capement its tracks electronical ly Babcock system wizard tried persuade us throw receiver against wall prove sturdy waswith vacuum tubes yet did next best thing flying craft car trunkparked cor ner 100-acre field ship disin tegrated pieces flying over under around car entire control sys tem sailed through air smashing earth about 50 feet away walked up keyed transmitter es capement clicked merrily trim servo ran back forth remember think ing God reliable can get Jim Wilsons extraordinary job invest igative reportingGlider Flying Russian Style page 38 gives us yet another sight eastern European approach international competition Going Roskilde Denmark 1977 Free Flight World Championships own expense virtually live Russian Nordic fliers both off field perceptive observations convey utter seriousness dedication individuals Issaenko Chopp Lepp sense what nationalistic pro gram really entails article will speak itself Continued page 81 56 Model Aviation MORE FIRST USED OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS MORE NAT IONALS WINNERS HAVE REV-UP PROPS THAN ANY OTHER BRAND Rev-Up better 1 The efficient design con stant upgrading testing program 2 Better quality control better selection hard maple wood 3 The best infinishcompletelyfuel proof New Improved 1978 ERA WHERE THE ACTION IS missing lot involved exciting world FAA sport aviation Heres action can realize dreams flying e building designing raft have always dreamed about Aerobatics soaring rotary wing warbirds antiques homebuilts classics represented EAA Membership $2000 annually includes monthly SPORT AVIATION Junior 18 younger $1000 Information packsend $150 Eli/Sport Aviation Experimental Aircraft Association Inc PO Box 229/Hales Corners Wis 53130 W HAS IT Milwaukee Suburb Phone 4144254860 ALL recent article Speed Rac ing Gazette entitled Modeling Soviet Union noted Russians phe nomenal record successes Team Racing Quoting famous designer S Yakovlev said 1921 .. model glider glider air plane writer tells us shortly after WW importance model airplanes aviation national de fense recognized Russia Today DOSAAF Union Voluntary Society Cooperation Army Air Force Navy fills role AMA NAA sponsors clubs coaches provides building meeting facilities organizes produc tion materials like arti cle quotes four references including books Russians Henrick Smith Ballantine Books NY Soviet Air Force Asher Lee G Duckworth & Co Ltd London 1961 show modeling state activity serves re cruitment pool people interested Air Force Aeroflot national air line Recently Russian experts invited Korea work Korean modelers Korean record Wakefield Nordic World Cham pionships spectacular leading speculation might see North Korean entry Team Racing Russians compete events have possibility win ning may soon inaccurate lump together Iron Curtain countries nations typically display govern ment support regimented programs Mainland China has expressed interest FAI programspossibly becoming FAI member Hidden behind Great Wall China known have massive programs parachuting gliding airplane modelingshe claims 350000 model clubs estimated 3000000 parachutistsoutside mil itary developing full-scale aero batic program word shed like go Russians Americans sporting competition Like Russia China sees aeronautical pro grams vital part defense picture Boy modelers may someday end up Chinese Air Force girls airline industry knows days AMA may sending teams World Cham pionship meetsin China Letters Editor continued page 7 found Yes expensive airplane $3900 exact still can much other plane Still dont write anything going write something H-Ray Kevin Delmolino Age II Richmond Mass H-Ray indeed great stand-by trainer sport kit airplanes Any Lou Andrews design first rate built H-Ray early 60s first came outrudder Webra 15 Diesel rudder elevator en gine controls H-Ray nice airplane respect Electric Turned Him am especially interested Insid er economical interesting ap proach both R/C electric flight Mr Leo Vartanian has done great job am enclosing letter him re quest will address forward him As soon get something ready put air will become member AMA Although have model builder better part fifty years varied reasons have kept compe tition flying past marvel nice goodies have build built first models pine shaved down 1/16 sq block plane covered Christmas tissue powered rubber bands cut automobile inner-tubes things bought piano wire dope July 1978 81 Openers continued page 56