NO OCR TEXT vich Yakovlev design bureau parked assigned spaces Unlimited class pit area Stead Airport outside Reno NV along 35 other ex-military airplanes home-built nothing 730-hp ASh-2 1 radial engine theres no way sturdy functional trainers could hold its own against some fastest piston-engined airplanes world Take second look Yak-i youll notice unexpectedly large cowlings wide four-bladed props suggest something 730 hp un der hood what became long greenhouse canopies gave Yakis look World War II Japanese tor pedo bombers Big engines big propel lers tiny canopies shiny paint jobs sure indications good deal just enjoyable novelty owning ob scure airplanes inspired makeovers new guise former Sovietdesigned trainers might just racers after fact flying around Renos nine-mile Unlimited racecourse Yak-i looked much like racers about third person compared late-1930s Marcoux-Bromberg Keith Rider design flown several Thompson Trophy races late Earl Ortman know Russians copied mass-produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress forced down Russian ter ritory during World War II Mar coux has recently emerged long slumber Cleveland garage re stored Connecticut aviation museum dont think Russians thats too far-fetched consider Theres another explanation two Yak-i entered 1988 Reno National Championship Air Races its about basic air racing youll find words crew member bought Yak because smalland cheap also likely new solution eternal challenge Unlimited air racing stuff largest possible engine smallest possible airframe days milk bottle-shaped Gee Bee Super Sportsters todays Pratt & Whitneypowered Sea Furys Corsairs appeal putting less has constant irresistible six feet less wing span four feet less length 40% less wing area 70% less empty weight Yak- 11 certainly smaller Mus tang Thats small part cheap part Mustangs running $300 102 Model Aviation LEI OT inc sniny new Tuselage Yanceys Yak original fuselage fabric covered large greenhouse cockpit New iormers stringers installed small blown-Plexiglas bubble canopy faired turtieback incorporated along all-aluminum skin Right front real modifications went Under cowling 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engine Yancey removed Corsair prop made up set cutdown blades Grumman F8F Bearcat spinner Douglas A-26 invader cowl French Breguet 763 airlIner mixing parts common Unlimited racing circles Yanceys Yak rear bought another Yak-Il near-junk French warbird dealer Jean Sails Yancey intends restore other Yak its original configuration An example now inc ai-ii ooea its originai state mis standard Yak-il display Polish Air Space Museum Krakow Poland photo taken 1971 Notice large greenhouse cockpit giving look Japanese torpedo bomber EXHAUST S TACKS7 SECTION ION C SECTION B SILVER STRIPES BLACK STRIPE SECTION E GLOSSY BLACK BLADES METERS FEET 1INSIDE OF COVER DOORS AND LANDING GEAR STRUTS ARE WHITE COLOR SCHEME POLISHED ALUMINUM WITH COLOR TRIM AS SHOWN LIME GREEN LIME GREEN 101 WITH BLACK OUTLINE BOB YANCEYS YAK RACER ROBERT F PAULEY July 1990 103 SECTION D Left The other Yak-li Reno 1988 named Mr Awesome belongs Bob Kasparoff Montebello CA As can seen fu selage like Yanceys has greatly modified all-metal skin new internal structure small bubble canopy Right vertical fin Yak-li made 18-in higher adding five sq ft effort counteract torque huge prop compensate new fuselage configuration Pilot Skip Hoim reportedly experienced some instability problems refused fly again Below Power bird nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 18-cylinder radial engine used DC-7 Super Constellation air liners go again prop Douglas Skyraider spinner Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation 000-and-up range today almost anything would cheaper Especially old Russian training planes generally seen little curiosities Yak-i used advanced training Soviet Bloc air forces mid- 1950s through 1960s recent ly China several Arab countries Albania have used airplane Altogether 4500 Yak- 1 built includ ing 700 produced license Czechoslo vakia designated C-i i maximum 730 hp modest i66-sq-ft wing area Yak-li fast trainer Several used set offi cial FAI speed records note worthy being 100km closed-circuit mark 298 mph aircrafts lineage decidedly performance oriented its im mediate predecessor having two-seat version World War II Yak-3 fighter similarity size shape cant missed rollicking openness Reno Air Races far cry indeed tense sus picious atmosphere Soviet-influenced air fields Eastern Europe Middle East long quest ever speed however Reno may turn out direct path promised land could wish two Yak- lls showed up 1987 Reno Air Races obviously sport plane racer other wasnt yet ready serious racing very different story i988 time pair Yaks full-blown rac ers equipped crews bent seeing show pretty little tails field big bullies less powerful two flown veteran Unlimited racer Bob Yancey Klamath Falls OR shiny aluminum craft pale green wings t*il wings tail essentially standard fuselage almost entirely new old fabric removed along formers stringers fuselage re shaped match greater diameter new cowling long greenhouse can opy replaced small blownPlexiglas bubble faired neat turtleback drastic modifications ward firewall engine now 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp removed Yanceys Corsair convert newfound power thrust Yancey attached set cutdown 104 Model Aviation propeller blades North American T 28 trainer prop hub taken Grum man F8F Bearcat spinner first seen use Douglas A-26 Invader bomb er cowl lifted obscure French Breguet 763 airliner interna tional mixing parts common Unlim ited racing airplane itself came Egypt some 40 purchased French warbird dealer Jean Salis Bob Yancey bought little junk 1986 along another will probably restored its original configuration current stage its modification racer process seems never end weighs 5200 lb empty 7300 lb ready race other Yak-il RenoNo 97 dubbed Mr Awesomewas reportedly built around i954 Czechoslovakia Cii sold Egyptian Air Force i964-65 Jean Salis bought part broad effort kept until 1985 went through series moves finally brought its present owner Joe Kaspa roff Montebello CA late 1987 wasnt completed test flown until about two weeks before 1988 Reno Air Races As Yanceys Yak its wings left basically original shape though wing root air intakes sealed off horizontal tail stock vertical stabilizer fin enlarged made 18 higher adding 5 sq ft area effort counterbalance huge increase other end new engine nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 8-cylinder radial used Douglas DC-7C Lockheed Super Constellation airliners prop Douglas AD Skyraider fighter-bomber spinner North American P-S iK Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation fuselage reconstructed much same way Yanceys Yak new metal formers stringers new shape alumi num skin 30 length Continued page 184 95129 1988 NFFS Symposium Report addition JH Maxwells article State of-the-Art Propeller report has piece Bob White called What Af ter Glue Dries classic Wakefield trimming competitive strategies must-see Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Phenolic motor tubes SPZ-l front end hard ware thermistors thermal detection Superior Props 2412 Tucson Ave Pensa cola FL 32526 Prop blades pitch blocks front end hardware Wilders Model Machine Works 2010 Boston Irving TX 75061 Precision wind ers torque meters custom accessories School/Hendry Continued page 96 kids learning academi cally theyre able see finished producta beautiful fully functional model airplane program getting quite reputa tion inquiries continue come parts country Canada Most inquiries about other areas might repli cate program Denise Elliot An nette Bohs employees Private Indus try Council Lee County Florida visited program firsthand look Ex tremely impressive stated Denise program well run kids thoroughly enjoy what doing obvious learning responses positive its no won der looking forward bigger better summer session 1990 try summer school course model aeronautics school district Happy flying Editors Note Dr Hendry adjunct fac culty member Pasco Hernando Commu nity College instructor Gulf Compre hensive High School active member West Pasco Model Pilots Association information about Pasco County program write Dr William W Hendry Gulf Comprehensive High School 5355 School Road New Port Richey FL 34652 Yaks/Berliner Continued page 104 Reno Air Races opened September 12 1988 first three days qual ifying time trials 28 Unlimited class airplanes hand meant single maximum-speed timed lap around 9171mile nine-pylon course course laid out across 5000-ft plateau bordered 7000-ft peaks Sierra Nevada hell-for-leather roar engines echos back watching crowd Skip Holm flew Joe Kasparoffs No 97 completed lap 11912 aver age speed 417274 mph decade ago would have come close record advances engines airframes have produced amazing speeds piston-en gined airplanes flying circle Lyle Shelton led way 1988 No 77 Grumman Bearcat Rare Bear adContinued page 188 [v32][b-2-10-1-10]]I ICAPI II ASSES Washable Rugged Cap Sunglasses Flip Up/Down Adjust In/Out Snap On/Off Imprints Available Ultra Violet Protected Please send _____________ caps Ive enclosed I @ $795 plus $2 shipping handling I Lens Colors El Amber El Smoke blue I Cap Colors El Black El White El Yellow El Green El Navy blue El Royal blue IEl Maroon ElGrey EJRedI II El Please send information about imprinting PLEASE PRINTI NameI I Addreuu city StateZip ________ RETURN WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY TO PIN-NOt SALES PO Box 647 Ravenna OH 44266 L1 184 Model Aviation Nothing Can Match. Mighty LOVESONG tripped Lovesong has nearly 26 1 max L/D far best US made glider kit among lowest lowest sink rate according results Selig/Donovan/Fraser Princeton tests mighty LOVESONG mightier ever its max [ID about 14% better other competition thermal gilder design Can really afford fly anything less tripped Eppler 214 airfoil proving killer thermal airfoil 90s puts PIXY CAMANO & LOVESONG farther ahead tips up competition Best Designs Airfoil Performance can buy Send 2 stamps comptete multichannel glider catalog bi-annual newsletter Second Wind now availabte $200 per year Front back Camano Pixy & Lovesong Fleet Rich Kardian MO DODGSON DESIGNS 21230 Damson Rd Bothell WA 98021 206776-8067 CHECK EM BOTH OUT NEW STARHAWK BIPLANE NEW MISS STARHAWK POSTER See your Starhawk Dealer details write Thorpe Engineering Corporation 1715 E Fairfield Mesa AZ 85203 Poster $500 P&H Prepaid yuu diS d SIt uuiiunr ui e LrdLuIi uuIIuw uuiwt CUT Tools will save time Remove stubborn die cuts cut own squares slots Made US quality machined nickel plated steel Order set today See Dealer Cataloger Order dent carry 5qaare Cat Teem call pay fur call well pay tar uhipping 115 canadal cOD Entra SQUARE CUT Tools 407 254-0516 N Harbor City Blvd Melbourne FL 32935 Dmmlr/Omtrbuor Inquirhm Invited Flor da Resdents Add 6% sales Ta Yaks/Berliner Continued page 184 vancing world record 474622 mph Still Yaks speed impressive such new different airplane drew lot comment Bob Yancey flew own Yak qual ifying lap 12833 373766 mph obviously slower true top speed airplane illustrated ma jor problem both Yaks As yet no has figured out absorb horse power short propellers required Yaks stubby landing gear full-size Bearcat Skyraider prop would dig deep trench down runway ripping its tips smithereens As heat races began two Yaks drew heavy interest Few crowd ever seen Soviet-built airplane fewer still seen air race Skip Holm among seven fast qualifiers Heat 1-A Thursday September 15 Roaring loose formation down chute rac ers poured coal first long stretch pace-plane pilot Bob Hoover sent way flew around far turns back toward packed stands along crowd line bend hard first turn pack airplanes pylon Holm caught some propwash visibly wob bled quickly pulled wide high continued six-lap race very cautiously though finishing 4059-mph average After race HoIm reportedly told owner very unhappy way Yak handled would fly again Yancey came away better feelings Yak its original no doubt insufficient vertical tail area able fly smoothly no apparent prob lems placed second Heat 1-C 3787 mph case started near back worked way past several ri vals fascinated crowd cheered him Placing well Heat 3-B qualified Yan cey Silver Race first consola tion along seven P-51D Mustangs stock-looking F8F Bearcat Two Mustangs dropped out mechanical trouble Yancey beat two others Bearcat finish fourth place 3865 mph Yak-us didnt set air racing world fire produce much smoke Thats almost always case air plane extensively changed its original form takes years money lots moneyto turn novel idea winner such efforts fail What Yaks did add very col orful new element American air racing entirely too long Unlimited class rac ing has meant Mustangs Bearcats Sea Furys Corsairsdependable steeds offer loads noise excitement seldom bring forth truly original ideas No matter great changes en gines airframes remain modified common warbirds Yak-i other hand rare al point being exotic fas cinate everybody stirring imagination fans potential new competitors alike Since would-be race pilots proba bly bored formulaic types dom inate todays contestsand probably cant afford anywaythe Yak-i i other similar aircraft could offer worthwhile al ternative future Unlimited class racing must other off-brand airplanes out just waiting turned glamo rous racing planes men women clever ideas long-range trend Unlimited class racing seems toward custom-built air planes such increasingly fast Tsunami second time trials 1988 470 mph Pond Racer twin-boom Nissanpowered device being built Burt Rutan Co sheer creativity sort thing hard beat such far-out flying machines having inevitable bugs ironed out theres still big opportunity people vision encompasses broad ex panse existing small clean strong airplanes could converted suc INTERMEDiATE CONTEST/SPORT SAILPLANE DESIGNED TO ALLOW USE OF FLAPS FOR CAMBER CHANGING AND APPROACH CONTROL SPAN 99 INCHES WING PROFILE MODIFIED E1I93 AREA 780 SQUARE INCHES FUNCTIONS RUDDER ELEVATOR FL4PS WEIGIIT 45 OUNCES AND UP MODIFIED SCiIUMAN WING PLANFORM COMPLETE HARDWARE KIT EASY TO REPAIR BALSA/SPRUCE FUSELAGE SOUTH WiN V $7495 US FUNDS plus $600 Shipping Handling Continental US MAX MILLS MODELS 3820 CHERAZ NE 4LBUQUERQUE NM 87111 505- 292-3510 DIVISION OF FULL MOON DESIGNS 0 z 0 Start Flying Right WngI Send $1 00 ck~f control-Me combat specialties Precision quad Wing Cores Con**e Ready-To-Assemble Kits As Low As $3295 4 Texas SlowGotcha 460 Kits 4 Bladders Tubing s Fittings Plans tres etc OflEHOU~ 760 Waltonvile Rd Hummeistown PA 17036 717 566-3810 188 Model Aviation THE SCHNEIDER SPORT SPORT MODEL R/C FLOATPLANE RECOMMENDED ENGINES 45/60 2STROKE 60/80 4STROKE QTF FLOATS INCLUDED LENGTH 34 IN CAP 6/10 LBS SPAN 57 IN AREA 600 SQ IN STREAM INCORPORATED 6048736604DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED UP9K NEWS Vh 2310fi cessful racers Yak-i have carved opening wedge potentially wide field choice former Russian military trainer anything obvious starting point Unlimited racing plane Today looks like possible contender Whats next Leningrad/Rutherford Continued page 71 youngsters participating program offered equal access sup plies successful advance na tional international competition progress through school career interesting thing cant shake loose state apparatus Russia dont just drop local hobby shop need balsa glue So brightest successful like group attending 1989 Nats depend greatly upon Viktor organization furthering participation modeling competition enviable system work individual basis though thats produced enviable quantity World Champions appears too fair amount ded ication common effort expected return support provided week end arrived Leningrad Alexander Giev sky Vladimir Panov Slava Beliaev 1600 miles away home Sverd lovsk competing FM CL Combat meet Now mid-February understand still talking So viet Union winds blowing 1520 mph temperatures fallen -1SF didnt deter 68 hardy mod elers entered two-day contest course World Champs hori zon Beliaev has very strong chance walking away title gives Russians extra incentive competing conditions rugged repre sents pure dedication point some readers no doubt wondering dedication full-time job Yes Ive heard scuttlebutt Soviet national teams made up professional modelers course would explain whomp rivals champs couple years left Russia hoping resolve question came home rather equivocal answer First Soviets attended 1989 Nats currently pro model ersalthough receive state sup port ranging minimal modeling sup 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NO OCR TEXT vich Yakovlev design bureau parked assigned spaces Unlimited class pit area Stead Airport outside Reno NV along 35 other ex-military airplanes home-built nothing 730-hp ASh-2 1 radial engine theres no way sturdy functional trainers could hold its own against some fastest piston-engined airplanes world Take second look Yak-i youll notice unexpectedly large cowlings wide four-bladed props suggest something 730 hp un der hood what became long greenhouse canopies gave Yakis look World War II Japanese tor pedo bombers Big engines big propel lers tiny canopies shiny paint jobs sure indications good deal just enjoyable novelty owning ob scure airplanes inspired makeovers new guise former Sovietdesigned trainers might just racers after fact flying around Renos nine-mile Unlimited racecourse Yak-i looked much like racers about third person compared late-1930s Marcoux-Bromberg Keith Rider design flown several Thompson Trophy races late Earl Ortman know Russians copied mass-produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress forced down Russian ter ritory during World War II Mar coux has recently emerged long slumber Cleveland garage re stored Connecticut aviation museum dont think Russians thats too far-fetched consider Theres another explanation two Yak-i entered 1988 Reno National Championship Air Races its about basic air racing youll find words crew member bought Yak because smalland cheap also likely new solution eternal challenge Unlimited air racing stuff largest possible engine smallest possible airframe days milk bottle-shaped Gee Bee Super Sportsters todays Pratt & Whitneypowered Sea Furys Corsairs appeal putting less has constant irresistible six feet less wing span four feet less length 40% less wing area 70% less empty weight Yak- 11 certainly smaller Mus tang Thats small part cheap part Mustangs running $300 102 Model Aviation LEI OT inc sniny new Tuselage Yanceys Yak original fuselage fabric covered large greenhouse cockpit New iormers stringers installed small blown-Plexiglas bubble canopy faired turtieback incorporated along all-aluminum skin Right front real modifications went Under cowling 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engine Yancey removed Corsair prop made up set cutdown blades Grumman F8F Bearcat spinner Douglas A-26 invader cowl French Breguet 763 airlIner mixing parts common Unlimited racing circles Yanceys Yak rear bought another Yak-Il near-junk French warbird dealer Jean Sails Yancey intends restore other Yak its original configuration An example now inc ai-ii ooea its originai state mis standard Yak-il display Polish Air Space Museum Krakow Poland photo taken 1971 Notice large greenhouse cockpit giving look Japanese torpedo bomber EXHAUST S TACKS7 SECTION ION C SECTION B SILVER STRIPES BLACK STRIPE SECTION E GLOSSY BLACK BLADES METERS FEET 1INSIDE OF COVER DOORS AND LANDING GEAR STRUTS ARE WHITE COLOR SCHEME POLISHED ALUMINUM WITH COLOR TRIM AS SHOWN LIME GREEN LIME GREEN 101 WITH BLACK OUTLINE BOB YANCEYS YAK RACER ROBERT F PAULEY July 1990 103 SECTION D Left The other Yak-li Reno 1988 named Mr Awesome belongs Bob Kasparoff Montebello CA As can seen fu selage like Yanceys has greatly modified all-metal skin new internal structure small bubble canopy Right vertical fin Yak-li made 18-in higher adding five sq ft effort counteract torque huge prop compensate new fuselage configuration Pilot Skip Hoim reportedly experienced some instability problems refused fly again Below Power bird nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 18-cylinder radial engine used DC-7 Super Constellation air liners go again prop Douglas Skyraider spinner Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation 000-and-up range today almost anything would cheaper Especially old Russian training planes generally seen little curiosities Yak-i used advanced training Soviet Bloc air forces mid- 1950s through 1960s recent ly China several Arab countries Albania have used airplane Altogether 4500 Yak- 1 built includ ing 700 produced license Czechoslo vakia designated C-i i maximum 730 hp modest i66-sq-ft wing area Yak-li fast trainer Several used set offi cial FAI speed records note worthy being 100km closed-circuit mark 298 mph aircrafts lineage decidedly performance oriented its im mediate predecessor having two-seat version World War II Yak-3 fighter similarity size shape cant missed rollicking openness Reno Air Races far cry indeed tense sus picious atmosphere Soviet-influenced air fields Eastern Europe Middle East long quest ever speed however Reno may turn out direct path promised land could wish two Yak- lls showed up 1987 Reno Air Races obviously sport plane racer other wasnt yet ready serious racing very different story i988 time pair Yaks full-blown rac ers equipped crews bent seeing show pretty little tails field big bullies less powerful two flown veteran Unlimited racer Bob Yancey Klamath Falls OR shiny aluminum craft pale green wings t*il wings tail essentially standard fuselage almost entirely new old fabric removed along formers stringers fuselage re shaped match greater diameter new cowling long greenhouse can opy replaced small blownPlexiglas bubble faired neat turtleback drastic modifications ward firewall engine now 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp removed Yanceys Corsair convert newfound power thrust Yancey attached set cutdown 104 Model Aviation propeller blades North American T 28 trainer prop hub taken Grum man F8F Bearcat spinner first seen use Douglas A-26 Invader bomb er cowl lifted obscure French Breguet 763 airliner interna tional mixing parts common Unlim ited racing airplane itself came Egypt some 40 purchased French warbird dealer Jean Salis Bob Yancey bought little junk 1986 along another will probably restored its original configuration current stage its modification racer process seems never end weighs 5200 lb empty 7300 lb ready race other Yak-il RenoNo 97 dubbed Mr Awesomewas reportedly built around i954 Czechoslovakia Cii sold Egyptian Air Force i964-65 Jean Salis bought part broad effort kept until 1985 went through series moves finally brought its present owner Joe Kaspa roff Montebello CA late 1987 wasnt completed test flown until about two weeks before 1988 Reno Air Races As Yanceys Yak its wings left basically original shape though wing root air intakes sealed off horizontal tail stock vertical stabilizer fin enlarged made 18 higher adding 5 sq ft area effort counterbalance huge increase other end new engine nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 8-cylinder radial used Douglas DC-7C Lockheed Super Constellation airliners prop Douglas AD Skyraider fighter-bomber spinner North American P-S iK Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation fuselage reconstructed much same way Yanceys Yak new metal formers stringers new shape alumi num skin 30 length Continued page 184 95129 1988 NFFS Symposium Report addition JH Maxwells article State of-the-Art Propeller report has piece Bob White called What Af ter Glue Dries classic Wakefield trimming competitive strategies must-see Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Phenolic motor tubes SPZ-l front end hard ware thermistors thermal detection Superior Props 2412 Tucson Ave Pensa cola FL 32526 Prop blades pitch blocks front end hardware Wilders Model Machine Works 2010 Boston Irving TX 75061 Precision wind ers torque meters custom accessories School/Hendry Continued page 96 kids learning academi cally theyre able see finished producta beautiful fully functional model airplane program getting quite reputa tion inquiries continue come parts country Canada Most inquiries about other areas might repli cate program Denise Elliot An nette Bohs employees Private Indus try Council Lee County Florida visited program firsthand look Ex tremely impressive stated Denise program well run kids thoroughly enjoy what doing obvious learning responses positive its no won der looking forward bigger better summer session 1990 try summer school course model aeronautics school district Happy flying Editors Note Dr Hendry adjunct fac culty member Pasco Hernando Commu nity College instructor Gulf Compre hensive High School active member West Pasco Model Pilots Association information about Pasco County program write Dr William W Hendry Gulf Comprehensive High School 5355 School Road New Port Richey FL 34652 Yaks/Berliner Continued page 104 Reno Air Races opened September 12 1988 first three days qual ifying time trials 28 Unlimited class airplanes hand meant single maximum-speed timed lap around 9171mile nine-pylon course course laid out across 5000-ft plateau bordered 7000-ft peaks Sierra Nevada hell-for-leather roar engines echos back watching crowd Skip Holm flew Joe Kasparoffs No 97 completed lap 11912 aver age speed 417274 mph decade ago would have come close record advances engines airframes have produced amazing speeds piston-en gined airplanes flying circle Lyle Shelton led way 1988 No 77 Grumman Bearcat Rare Bear adContinued page 188 [v32][b-2-10-1-10]]I ICAPI II ASSES Washable Rugged Cap Sunglasses Flip Up/Down Adjust In/Out Snap On/Off Imprints Available Ultra Violet Protected Please send _____________ caps Ive enclosed I @ $795 plus $2 shipping handling I Lens Colors El Amber El Smoke blue I Cap Colors El Black El White El Yellow El Green El Navy blue El Royal blue IEl Maroon ElGrey EJRedI II El Please send information about imprinting PLEASE PRINTI NameI I Addreuu city StateZip ________ RETURN WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY TO PIN-NOt SALES PO Box 647 Ravenna OH 44266 L1 184 Model Aviation Nothing Can Match. Mighty LOVESONG tripped Lovesong has nearly 26 1 max L/D far best US made glider kit among lowest lowest sink rate according results Selig/Donovan/Fraser Princeton tests mighty LOVESONG mightier ever its max [ID about 14% better other competition thermal gilder design Can really afford fly anything less tripped Eppler 214 airfoil proving killer thermal airfoil 90s puts PIXY CAMANO & LOVESONG farther ahead tips up competition Best Designs Airfoil Performance can buy Send 2 stamps comptete multichannel glider catalog bi-annual newsletter Second Wind now availabte $200 per year Front back Camano Pixy & Lovesong Fleet Rich Kardian MO DODGSON DESIGNS 21230 Damson Rd Bothell WA 98021 206776-8067 CHECK EM BOTH OUT NEW STARHAWK BIPLANE NEW MISS STARHAWK POSTER See your Starhawk Dealer details write Thorpe Engineering Corporation 1715 E Fairfield Mesa AZ 85203 Poster $500 P&H Prepaid yuu diS d SIt uuiiunr ui e LrdLuIi uuIIuw uuiwt CUT Tools will save time Remove stubborn die cuts cut own squares slots Made US quality machined nickel plated steel Order set today See Dealer Cataloger Order dent carry 5qaare Cat Teem call pay fur call well pay tar uhipping 115 canadal cOD Entra SQUARE CUT Tools 407 254-0516 N Harbor City Blvd Melbourne FL 32935 Dmmlr/Omtrbuor Inquirhm Invited Flor da Resdents Add 6% sales Ta Yaks/Berliner Continued page 184 vancing world record 474622 mph Still Yaks speed impressive such new different airplane drew lot comment Bob Yancey flew own Yak qual ifying lap 12833 373766 mph obviously slower true top speed airplane illustrated ma jor problem both Yaks As yet no has figured out absorb horse power short propellers required Yaks stubby landing gear full-size Bearcat Skyraider prop would dig deep trench down runway ripping its tips smithereens As heat races began two Yaks drew heavy interest Few crowd ever seen Soviet-built airplane fewer still seen air race Skip Holm among seven fast qualifiers Heat 1-A Thursday September 15 Roaring loose formation down chute rac ers poured coal first long stretch pace-plane pilot Bob Hoover sent way flew around far turns back toward packed stands along crowd line bend hard first turn pack airplanes pylon Holm caught some propwash visibly wob bled quickly pulled wide high continued six-lap race very cautiously though finishing 4059-mph average After race HoIm reportedly told owner very unhappy way Yak handled would fly again Yancey came away better feelings Yak its original no doubt insufficient vertical tail area able fly smoothly no apparent prob lems placed second Heat 1-C 3787 mph case started near back worked way past several ri vals fascinated crowd cheered him Placing well Heat 3-B qualified Yan cey Silver Race first consola tion along seven P-51D Mustangs stock-looking F8F Bearcat Two Mustangs dropped out mechanical trouble Yancey beat two others Bearcat finish fourth place 3865 mph Yak-us didnt set air racing world fire produce much smoke Thats almost always case air plane extensively changed its original form takes years money lots moneyto turn novel idea winner such efforts fail What Yaks did add very col orful new element American air racing entirely too long Unlimited class rac ing has meant Mustangs Bearcats Sea Furys Corsairsdependable steeds offer loads noise excitement seldom bring forth truly original ideas No matter great changes en gines airframes remain modified common warbirds Yak-i other hand rare al point being exotic fas cinate everybody stirring imagination fans potential new competitors alike Since would-be race pilots proba bly bored formulaic types dom inate todays contestsand probably cant afford anywaythe Yak-i i other similar aircraft could offer worthwhile al ternative future Unlimited class racing must other off-brand airplanes out just waiting turned glamo rous racing planes men women clever ideas long-range trend Unlimited class racing seems toward custom-built air planes such increasingly fast Tsunami second time trials 1988 470 mph Pond Racer twin-boom Nissanpowered device being built Burt Rutan Co sheer creativity sort thing hard beat such far-out flying machines having inevitable bugs ironed out theres still big opportunity people vision encompasses broad ex panse existing small clean strong airplanes could converted suc INTERMEDiATE CONTEST/SPORT SAILPLANE DESIGNED TO ALLOW USE OF FLAPS FOR CAMBER CHANGING AND APPROACH CONTROL SPAN 99 INCHES WING PROFILE MODIFIED E1I93 AREA 780 SQUARE INCHES FUNCTIONS RUDDER ELEVATOR FL4PS WEIGIIT 45 OUNCES AND UP MODIFIED SCiIUMAN WING PLANFORM COMPLETE HARDWARE KIT EASY TO REPAIR BALSA/SPRUCE FUSELAGE SOUTH WiN V $7495 US FUNDS plus $600 Shipping Handling Continental US MAX MILLS MODELS 3820 CHERAZ NE 4LBUQUERQUE NM 87111 505- 292-3510 DIVISION OF FULL MOON DESIGNS 0 z 0 Start Flying Right WngI Send $1 00 ck~f control-Me combat specialties Precision quad Wing Cores Con**e Ready-To-Assemble Kits As Low As $3295 4 Texas SlowGotcha 460 Kits 4 Bladders Tubing s Fittings Plans tres etc OflEHOU~ 760 Waltonvile Rd Hummeistown PA 17036 717 566-3810 188 Model Aviation THE SCHNEIDER SPORT SPORT MODEL R/C FLOATPLANE RECOMMENDED ENGINES 45/60 2STROKE 60/80 4STROKE QTF FLOATS INCLUDED LENGTH 34 IN CAP 6/10 LBS SPAN 57 IN AREA 600 SQ IN STREAM INCORPORATED 6048736604DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED UP9K NEWS Vh 2310fi cessful racers Yak-i have carved opening wedge potentially wide field choice former Russian military trainer anything obvious starting point Unlimited racing plane Today looks like possible contender Whats next Leningrad/Rutherford Continued page 71 youngsters participating program offered equal access sup plies successful advance na tional international competition progress through school career interesting thing cant shake loose state apparatus Russia dont just drop local hobby shop need balsa glue So brightest successful like group attending 1989 Nats depend greatly upon Viktor organization furthering participation modeling competition enviable system work individual basis though thats produced enviable quantity World Champions appears too fair amount ded ication common effort expected return support provided week end arrived Leningrad Alexander Giev sky Vladimir Panov Slava Beliaev 1600 miles away home Sverd lovsk competing FM CL Combat meet Now mid-February understand still talking So viet Union winds blowing 1520 mph temperatures fallen -1SF didnt deter 68 hardy mod elers entered two-day contest course World Champs hori zon Beliaev has very strong chance walking away title gives Russians extra incentive competing conditions rugged repre sents pure dedication point some readers no doubt wondering dedication full-time job Yes Ive heard scuttlebutt Soviet national teams made up professional modelers course would explain whomp rivals champs couple years left Russia hoping resolve question came home rather equivocal answer First Soviets attended 1989 Nats currently pro model ersalthough receive state sup port ranging minimal modeling sup plies extensive supplies plus paid travel expenses Most group fact currently involved cooperative capi talist operation must pay itself generating profits trip 1990 AMA Nats will example supported own firm state other hand did meet few re cent World Champs attached large work force 12000 factory em ployed what suppose would call design/prototype building guys ap pear spend lot time making supertricky models such have ready access machine tools could ask course just US indi vidual capable winning FAI competi tion World Champs level can sumed have already acquired truly out standing fabrication metalworking skillstalents ideally suited building pro totypes and/or tool- diework working factory allows par lay expertise developing models factory turn has easy access VINYLWRITE CUSTOM LEITERING Providing elegant time saving economical finishing touch modelers EZ TO APPLY ering comes prespaced prealignedsaving hours cuffing fuss ________________of aligning individual letters decals text custom corn p uter cut 3M Premium cast vinyl l thin olors pe styles including Military Block high NOWAILABLE Stencil 7Mask & 1 Color Outlining Priced right no minimum charge Eg AMA plus number high S [ITiEEcKIi _ PEELOFVThECARRIERTAMI high 2high plus $12SP& H STEP SACK & ADMIRE YOUR WORKCall write complete info otdersprocmsduponrectAMA0 E DONEpack & sample ITS FREE om Letter Today VINYLWRITE Way VINYLWEITE CUSTOM LETE3ING 16043 Tulsa Street Granada Hills CA 91344 8181363-7131 Noonto6PM Pacific Mail order onW CA its add taL July 1990 189 60 LENGTH 47 IN1EIGHT 65 / 70 LB
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/07
Page Numbers: 101, 102, 103, 104, 184, 188, 189
NO OCR TEXT vich Yakovlev design bureau parked assigned spaces Unlimited class pit area Stead Airport outside Reno NV along 35 other ex-military airplanes home-built nothing 730-hp ASh-2 1 radial engine theres no way sturdy functional trainers could hold its own against some fastest piston-engined airplanes world Take second look Yak-i youll notice unexpectedly large cowlings wide four-bladed props suggest something 730 hp un der hood what became long greenhouse canopies gave Yakis look World War II Japanese tor pedo bombers Big engines big propel lers tiny canopies shiny paint jobs sure indications good deal just enjoyable novelty owning ob scure airplanes inspired makeovers new guise former Sovietdesigned trainers might just racers after fact flying around Renos nine-mile Unlimited racecourse Yak-i looked much like racers about third person compared late-1930s Marcoux-Bromberg Keith Rider design flown several Thompson Trophy races late Earl Ortman know Russians copied mass-produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress forced down Russian ter ritory during World War II Mar coux has recently emerged long slumber Cleveland garage re stored Connecticut aviation museum dont think Russians thats too far-fetched consider Theres another explanation two Yak-i entered 1988 Reno National Championship Air Races its about basic air racing youll find words crew member bought Yak because smalland cheap also likely new solution eternal challenge Unlimited air racing stuff largest possible engine smallest possible airframe days milk bottle-shaped Gee Bee Super Sportsters todays Pratt & Whitneypowered Sea Furys Corsairs appeal putting less has constant irresistible six feet less wing span four feet less length 40% less wing area 70% less empty weight Yak- 11 certainly smaller Mus tang Thats small part cheap part Mustangs running $300 102 Model Aviation LEI OT inc sniny new Tuselage Yanceys Yak original fuselage fabric covered large greenhouse cockpit New iormers stringers installed small blown-Plexiglas bubble canopy faired turtieback incorporated along all-aluminum skin Right front real modifications went Under cowling 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engine Yancey removed Corsair prop made up set cutdown blades Grumman F8F Bearcat spinner Douglas A-26 invader cowl French Breguet 763 airlIner mixing parts common Unlimited racing circles Yanceys Yak rear bought another Yak-Il near-junk French warbird dealer Jean Sails Yancey intends restore other Yak its original configuration An example now inc ai-ii ooea its originai state mis standard Yak-il display Polish Air Space Museum Krakow Poland photo taken 1971 Notice large greenhouse cockpit giving look Japanese torpedo bomber EXHAUST S TACKS7 SECTION ION C SECTION B SILVER STRIPES BLACK STRIPE SECTION E GLOSSY BLACK BLADES METERS FEET 1INSIDE OF COVER DOORS AND LANDING GEAR STRUTS ARE WHITE COLOR SCHEME POLISHED ALUMINUM WITH COLOR TRIM AS SHOWN LIME GREEN LIME GREEN 101 WITH BLACK OUTLINE BOB YANCEYS YAK RACER ROBERT F PAULEY July 1990 103 SECTION D Left The other Yak-li Reno 1988 named Mr Awesome belongs Bob Kasparoff Montebello CA As can seen fu selage like Yanceys has greatly modified all-metal skin new internal structure small bubble canopy Right vertical fin Yak-li made 18-in higher adding five sq ft effort counteract torque huge prop compensate new fuselage configuration Pilot Skip Hoim reportedly experienced some instability problems refused fly again Below Power bird nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 18-cylinder radial engine used DC-7 Super Constellation air liners go again prop Douglas Skyraider spinner Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation 000-and-up range today almost anything would cheaper Especially old Russian training planes generally seen little curiosities Yak-i used advanced training Soviet Bloc air forces mid- 1950s through 1960s recent ly China several Arab countries Albania have used airplane Altogether 4500 Yak- 1 built includ ing 700 produced license Czechoslo vakia designated C-i i maximum 730 hp modest i66-sq-ft wing area Yak-li fast trainer Several used set offi cial FAI speed records note worthy being 100km closed-circuit mark 298 mph aircrafts lineage decidedly performance oriented its im mediate predecessor having two-seat version World War II Yak-3 fighter similarity size shape cant missed rollicking openness Reno Air Races far cry indeed tense sus picious atmosphere Soviet-influenced air fields Eastern Europe Middle East long quest ever speed however Reno may turn out direct path promised land could wish two Yak- lls showed up 1987 Reno Air Races obviously sport plane racer other wasnt yet ready serious racing very different story i988 time pair Yaks full-blown rac ers equipped crews bent seeing show pretty little tails field big bullies less powerful two flown veteran Unlimited racer Bob Yancey Klamath Falls OR shiny aluminum craft pale green wings t*il wings tail essentially standard fuselage almost entirely new old fabric removed along formers stringers fuselage re shaped match greater diameter new cowling long greenhouse can opy replaced small blownPlexiglas bubble faired neat turtleback drastic modifications ward firewall engine now 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp removed Yanceys Corsair convert newfound power thrust Yancey attached set cutdown 104 Model Aviation propeller blades North American T 28 trainer prop hub taken Grum man F8F Bearcat spinner first seen use Douglas A-26 Invader bomb er cowl lifted obscure French Breguet 763 airliner interna tional mixing parts common Unlim ited racing airplane itself came Egypt some 40 purchased French warbird dealer Jean Salis Bob Yancey bought little junk 1986 along another will probably restored its original configuration current stage its modification racer process seems never end weighs 5200 lb empty 7300 lb ready race other Yak-il RenoNo 97 dubbed Mr Awesomewas reportedly built around i954 Czechoslovakia Cii sold Egyptian Air Force i964-65 Jean Salis bought part broad effort kept until 1985 went through series moves finally brought its present owner Joe Kaspa roff Montebello CA late 1987 wasnt completed test flown until about two weeks before 1988 Reno Air Races As Yanceys Yak its wings left basically original shape though wing root air intakes sealed off horizontal tail stock vertical stabilizer fin enlarged made 18 higher adding 5 sq ft area effort counterbalance huge increase other end new engine nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 8-cylinder radial used Douglas DC-7C Lockheed Super Constellation airliners prop Douglas AD Skyraider fighter-bomber spinner North American P-S iK Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation fuselage reconstructed much same way Yanceys Yak new metal formers stringers new shape alumi num skin 30 length Continued page 184 95129 1988 NFFS Symposium Report addition JH Maxwells article State of-the-Art Propeller report has piece Bob White called What Af ter Glue Dries classic Wakefield trimming competitive strategies must-see Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Phenolic motor tubes SPZ-l front end hard ware thermistors thermal detection Superior Props 2412 Tucson Ave Pensa cola FL 32526 Prop blades pitch blocks front end hardware Wilders Model Machine Works 2010 Boston Irving TX 75061 Precision wind ers torque meters custom accessories School/Hendry Continued page 96 kids learning academi cally theyre able see finished producta beautiful fully functional model airplane program getting quite reputa tion inquiries continue come parts country Canada Most inquiries about other areas might repli cate program Denise Elliot An nette Bohs employees Private Indus try Council Lee County Florida visited program firsthand look Ex tremely impressive stated Denise program well run kids thoroughly enjoy what doing obvious learning responses positive its no won der looking forward bigger better summer session 1990 try summer school course model aeronautics school district Happy flying Editors Note Dr Hendry adjunct fac culty member Pasco Hernando Commu nity College instructor Gulf Compre hensive High School active member West Pasco Model Pilots Association information about Pasco County program write Dr William W Hendry Gulf Comprehensive High School 5355 School Road New Port Richey FL 34652 Yaks/Berliner Continued page 104 Reno Air Races opened September 12 1988 first three days qual ifying time trials 28 Unlimited class airplanes hand meant single maximum-speed timed lap around 9171mile nine-pylon course course laid out across 5000-ft plateau bordered 7000-ft peaks Sierra Nevada hell-for-leather roar engines echos back watching crowd Skip Holm flew Joe Kasparoffs No 97 completed lap 11912 aver age speed 417274 mph decade ago would have come close record advances engines airframes have produced amazing speeds piston-en gined airplanes flying circle Lyle Shelton led way 1988 No 77 Grumman Bearcat Rare Bear adContinued page 188 [v32][b-2-10-1-10]]I ICAPI II ASSES Washable Rugged Cap Sunglasses Flip Up/Down Adjust In/Out Snap On/Off Imprints Available Ultra Violet Protected Please send _____________ caps Ive enclosed I @ $795 plus $2 shipping handling I Lens Colors El Amber El Smoke blue I Cap Colors El Black El White El Yellow El Green El Navy blue El Royal blue IEl Maroon ElGrey EJRedI II El Please send information about imprinting PLEASE PRINTI NameI I Addreuu city StateZip ________ RETURN WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY TO PIN-NOt SALES PO Box 647 Ravenna OH 44266 L1 184 Model Aviation Nothing Can Match. Mighty LOVESONG tripped Lovesong has nearly 26 1 max L/D far best US made glider kit among lowest lowest sink rate according results Selig/Donovan/Fraser Princeton tests mighty LOVESONG mightier ever its max [ID about 14% better other competition thermal gilder design Can really afford fly anything less tripped Eppler 214 airfoil proving killer thermal airfoil 90s puts PIXY CAMANO & LOVESONG farther ahead tips up competition Best Designs Airfoil Performance can buy Send 2 stamps comptete multichannel glider catalog bi-annual newsletter Second Wind now availabte $200 per year Front back Camano Pixy & Lovesong Fleet Rich Kardian MO DODGSON DESIGNS 21230 Damson Rd Bothell WA 98021 206776-8067 CHECK EM BOTH OUT NEW STARHAWK BIPLANE NEW MISS STARHAWK POSTER See your Starhawk Dealer details write Thorpe Engineering Corporation 1715 E Fairfield Mesa AZ 85203 Poster $500 P&H Prepaid yuu diS d SIt uuiiunr ui e LrdLuIi uuIIuw uuiwt CUT Tools will save time Remove stubborn die cuts cut own squares slots Made US quality machined nickel plated steel Order set today See Dealer Cataloger Order dent carry 5qaare Cat Teem call pay fur call well pay tar uhipping 115 canadal cOD Entra SQUARE CUT Tools 407 254-0516 N Harbor City Blvd Melbourne FL 32935 Dmmlr/Omtrbuor Inquirhm Invited Flor da Resdents Add 6% sales Ta Yaks/Berliner Continued page 184 vancing world record 474622 mph Still Yaks speed impressive such new different airplane drew lot comment Bob Yancey flew own Yak qual ifying lap 12833 373766 mph obviously slower true top speed airplane illustrated ma jor problem both Yaks As yet no has figured out absorb horse power short propellers required Yaks stubby landing gear full-size Bearcat Skyraider prop would dig deep trench down runway ripping its tips smithereens As heat races began two Yaks drew heavy interest Few crowd ever seen Soviet-built airplane fewer still seen air race Skip Holm among seven fast qualifiers Heat 1-A Thursday September 15 Roaring loose formation down chute rac ers poured coal first long stretch pace-plane pilot Bob Hoover sent way flew around far turns back toward packed stands along crowd line bend hard first turn pack airplanes pylon Holm caught some propwash visibly wob bled quickly pulled wide high continued six-lap race very cautiously though finishing 4059-mph average After race HoIm reportedly told owner very unhappy way Yak handled would fly again Yancey came away better feelings Yak its original no doubt insufficient vertical tail area able fly smoothly no apparent prob lems placed second Heat 1-C 3787 mph case started near back worked way past several ri vals fascinated crowd cheered him Placing well Heat 3-B qualified Yan cey Silver Race first consola tion along seven P-51D Mustangs stock-looking F8F Bearcat Two Mustangs dropped out mechanical trouble Yancey beat two others Bearcat finish fourth place 3865 mph Yak-us didnt set air racing world fire produce much smoke Thats almost always case air plane extensively changed its original form takes years money lots moneyto turn novel idea winner such efforts fail What Yaks did add very col orful new element American air racing entirely too long Unlimited class rac ing has meant Mustangs Bearcats Sea Furys Corsairsdependable steeds offer loads noise excitement seldom bring forth truly original ideas No matter great changes en gines airframes remain modified common warbirds Yak-i other hand rare al point being exotic fas cinate everybody stirring imagination fans potential new competitors alike Since would-be race pilots proba bly bored formulaic types dom inate todays contestsand probably cant afford anywaythe Yak-i i other similar aircraft could offer worthwhile al ternative future Unlimited class racing must other off-brand airplanes out just waiting turned glamo rous racing planes men women clever ideas long-range trend Unlimited class racing seems toward custom-built air planes such increasingly fast Tsunami second time trials 1988 470 mph Pond Racer twin-boom Nissanpowered device being built Burt Rutan Co sheer creativity sort thing hard beat such far-out flying machines having inevitable bugs ironed out theres still big opportunity people vision encompasses broad ex panse existing small clean strong airplanes could converted suc INTERMEDiATE CONTEST/SPORT SAILPLANE DESIGNED TO ALLOW USE OF FLAPS FOR CAMBER CHANGING AND APPROACH CONTROL SPAN 99 INCHES WING PROFILE MODIFIED E1I93 AREA 780 SQUARE INCHES FUNCTIONS RUDDER ELEVATOR FL4PS WEIGIIT 45 OUNCES AND UP MODIFIED SCiIUMAN WING PLANFORM COMPLETE HARDWARE KIT EASY TO REPAIR BALSA/SPRUCE FUSELAGE SOUTH WiN V $7495 US FUNDS plus $600 Shipping Handling Continental US MAX MILLS MODELS 3820 CHERAZ NE 4LBUQUERQUE NM 87111 505- 292-3510 DIVISION OF FULL MOON DESIGNS 0 z 0 Start Flying Right WngI Send $1 00 ck~f control-Me combat specialties Precision quad Wing Cores Con**e Ready-To-Assemble Kits As Low As $3295 4 Texas SlowGotcha 460 Kits 4 Bladders Tubing s Fittings Plans tres etc OflEHOU~ 760 Waltonvile Rd Hummeistown PA 17036 717 566-3810 188 Model Aviation THE SCHNEIDER SPORT SPORT MODEL R/C FLOATPLANE RECOMMENDED ENGINES 45/60 2STROKE 60/80 4STROKE QTF FLOATS INCLUDED LENGTH 34 IN CAP 6/10 LBS SPAN 57 IN AREA 600 SQ IN STREAM INCORPORATED 6048736604DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED UP9K NEWS Vh 2310fi cessful racers Yak-i have carved opening wedge potentially wide field choice former Russian military trainer anything obvious starting point Unlimited racing plane Today looks like possible contender Whats next Leningrad/Rutherford Continued page 71 youngsters participating program offered equal access sup plies successful advance na tional international competition progress through school career interesting thing cant shake loose state apparatus Russia dont just drop local hobby shop need balsa glue So brightest successful like group attending 1989 Nats depend greatly upon Viktor organization furthering participation modeling competition enviable system work individual basis though thats produced enviable quantity World Champions appears too fair amount ded ication common effort expected return support provided week end arrived Leningrad Alexander Giev sky Vladimir Panov Slava Beliaev 1600 miles away home Sverd lovsk competing FM CL Combat meet Now mid-February understand still talking So viet Union winds blowing 1520 mph temperatures fallen -1SF didnt deter 68 hardy mod elers entered two-day contest course World Champs hori zon Beliaev has very strong chance walking away title gives Russians extra incentive competing conditions rugged repre sents pure dedication point some readers no doubt wondering dedication full-time job Yes Ive heard scuttlebutt Soviet national teams made up professional modelers course would explain whomp rivals champs couple years left Russia hoping resolve question came home rather equivocal answer First Soviets attended 1989 Nats currently pro model ersalthough receive state sup port ranging minimal modeling sup plies extensive supplies plus paid travel expenses Most group fact currently involved cooperative capi talist operation must pay itself generating profits trip 1990 AMA Nats will example supported own firm state other hand did meet few re cent World Champs attached large work force 12000 factory em ployed what suppose would call design/prototype building guys ap pear spend lot time making supertricky models such have ready access machine tools could ask course just US indi vidual capable winning FAI competi tion World Champs level can sumed have already acquired truly out standing fabrication metalworking skillstalents ideally suited building pro totypes and/or tool- diework working factory allows par lay expertise developing models factory turn has easy access VINYLWRITE CUSTOM LEITERING Providing elegant time saving economical finishing touch modelers EZ TO APPLY ering comes prespaced prealignedsaving hours cuffing fuss ________________of aligning individual letters decals text custom corn p uter cut 3M Premium cast vinyl l thin olors pe styles including Military Block high NOWAILABLE Stencil 7Mask & 1 Color Outlining Priced right no minimum charge Eg AMA plus number high S [ITiEEcKIi _ PEELOFVThECARRIERTAMI high 2high plus $12SP& H STEP SACK & ADMIRE YOUR WORKCall write complete info otdersprocmsduponrectAMA0 E DONEpack & sample ITS FREE om Letter Today VINYLWRITE Way VINYLWEITE CUSTOM LETE3ING 16043 Tulsa Street Granada Hills CA 91344 8181363-7131 Noonto6PM Pacific Mail order onW CA its add taL July 1990 189 60 LENGTH 47 IN1EIGHT 65 / 70 LB
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/07
Page Numbers: 101, 102, 103, 104, 184, 188, 189
NO OCR TEXT vich Yakovlev design bureau parked assigned spaces Unlimited class pit area Stead Airport outside Reno NV along 35 other ex-military airplanes home-built nothing 730-hp ASh-2 1 radial engine theres no way sturdy functional trainers could hold its own against some fastest piston-engined airplanes world Take second look Yak-i youll notice unexpectedly large cowlings wide four-bladed props suggest something 730 hp un der hood what became long greenhouse canopies gave Yakis look World War II Japanese tor pedo bombers Big engines big propel lers tiny canopies shiny paint jobs sure indications good deal just enjoyable novelty owning ob scure airplanes inspired makeovers new guise former Sovietdesigned trainers might just racers after fact flying around Renos nine-mile Unlimited racecourse Yak-i looked much like racers about third person compared late-1930s Marcoux-Bromberg Keith Rider design flown several Thompson Trophy races late Earl Ortman know Russians copied mass-produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress forced down Russian ter ritory during World War II Mar coux has recently emerged long slumber Cleveland garage re stored Connecticut aviation museum dont think Russians thats too far-fetched consider Theres another explanation two Yak-i entered 1988 Reno National Championship Air Races its about basic air racing youll find words crew member bought Yak because smalland cheap also likely new solution eternal challenge Unlimited air racing stuff largest possible engine smallest possible airframe days milk bottle-shaped Gee Bee Super Sportsters todays Pratt & Whitneypowered Sea Furys Corsairs appeal putting less has constant irresistible six feet less wing span four feet less length 40% less wing area 70% less empty weight Yak- 11 certainly smaller Mus tang Thats small part cheap part Mustangs running $300 102 Model Aviation LEI OT inc sniny new Tuselage Yanceys Yak original fuselage fabric covered large greenhouse cockpit New iormers stringers installed small blown-Plexiglas bubble canopy faired turtieback incorporated along all-aluminum skin Right front real modifications went Under cowling 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engine Yancey removed Corsair prop made up set cutdown blades Grumman F8F Bearcat spinner Douglas A-26 invader cowl French Breguet 763 airlIner mixing parts common Unlimited racing circles Yanceys Yak rear bought another Yak-Il near-junk French warbird dealer Jean Sails Yancey intends restore other Yak its original configuration An example now inc ai-ii ooea its originai state mis standard Yak-il display Polish Air Space Museum Krakow Poland photo taken 1971 Notice large greenhouse cockpit giving look Japanese torpedo bomber EXHAUST S TACKS7 SECTION ION C SECTION B SILVER STRIPES BLACK STRIPE SECTION E GLOSSY BLACK BLADES METERS FEET 1INSIDE OF COVER DOORS AND LANDING GEAR STRUTS ARE WHITE COLOR SCHEME POLISHED ALUMINUM WITH COLOR TRIM AS SHOWN LIME GREEN LIME GREEN 101 WITH BLACK OUTLINE BOB YANCEYS YAK RACER ROBERT F PAULEY July 1990 103 SECTION D Left The other Yak-li Reno 1988 named Mr Awesome belongs Bob Kasparoff Montebello CA As can seen fu selage like Yanceys has greatly modified all-metal skin new internal structure small bubble canopy Right vertical fin Yak-li made 18-in higher adding five sq ft effort counteract torque huge prop compensate new fuselage configuration Pilot Skip Hoim reportedly experienced some instability problems refused fly again Below Power bird nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 18-cylinder radial engine used DC-7 Super Constellation air liners go again prop Douglas Skyraider spinner Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation 000-and-up range today almost anything would cheaper Especially old Russian training planes generally seen little curiosities Yak-i used advanced training Soviet Bloc air forces mid- 1950s through 1960s recent ly China several Arab countries Albania have used airplane Altogether 4500 Yak- 1 built includ ing 700 produced license Czechoslo vakia designated C-i i maximum 730 hp modest i66-sq-ft wing area Yak-li fast trainer Several used set offi cial FAI speed records note worthy being 100km closed-circuit mark 298 mph aircrafts lineage decidedly performance oriented its im mediate predecessor having two-seat version World War II Yak-3 fighter similarity size shape cant missed rollicking openness Reno Air Races far cry indeed tense sus picious atmosphere Soviet-influenced air fields Eastern Europe Middle East long quest ever speed however Reno may turn out direct path promised land could wish two Yak- lls showed up 1987 Reno Air Races obviously sport plane racer other wasnt yet ready serious racing very different story i988 time pair Yaks full-blown rac ers equipped crews bent seeing show pretty little tails field big bullies less powerful two flown veteran Unlimited racer Bob Yancey Klamath Falls OR shiny aluminum craft pale green wings t*il wings tail essentially standard fuselage almost entirely new old fabric removed along formers stringers fuselage re shaped match greater diameter new cowling long greenhouse can opy replaced small blownPlexiglas bubble faired neat turtleback drastic modifications ward firewall engine now 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp removed Yanceys Corsair convert newfound power thrust Yancey attached set cutdown 104 Model Aviation propeller blades North American T 28 trainer prop hub taken Grum man F8F Bearcat spinner first seen use Douglas A-26 Invader bomb er cowl lifted obscure French Breguet 763 airliner interna tional mixing parts common Unlim ited racing airplane itself came Egypt some 40 purchased French warbird dealer Jean Salis Bob Yancey bought little junk 1986 along another will probably restored its original configuration current stage its modification racer process seems never end weighs 5200 lb empty 7300 lb ready race other Yak-il RenoNo 97 dubbed Mr Awesomewas reportedly built around i954 Czechoslovakia Cii sold Egyptian Air Force i964-65 Jean Salis bought part broad effort kept until 1985 went through series moves finally brought its present owner Joe Kaspa roff Montebello CA late 1987 wasnt completed test flown until about two weeks before 1988 Reno Air Races As Yanceys Yak its wings left basically original shape though wing root air intakes sealed off horizontal tail stock vertical stabilizer fin enlarged made 18 higher adding 5 sq ft area effort counterbalance huge increase other end new engine nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 8-cylinder radial used Douglas DC-7C Lockheed Super Constellation airliners prop Douglas AD Skyraider fighter-bomber spinner North American P-S iK Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation fuselage reconstructed much same way Yanceys Yak new metal formers stringers new shape alumi num skin 30 length Continued page 184 95129 1988 NFFS Symposium Report addition JH Maxwells article State of-the-Art Propeller report has piece Bob White called What Af ter Glue Dries classic Wakefield trimming competitive strategies must-see Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Phenolic motor tubes SPZ-l front end hard ware thermistors thermal detection Superior Props 2412 Tucson Ave Pensa cola FL 32526 Prop blades pitch blocks front end hardware Wilders Model Machine Works 2010 Boston Irving TX 75061 Precision wind ers torque meters custom accessories School/Hendry Continued page 96 kids learning academi cally theyre able see finished producta beautiful fully functional model airplane program getting quite reputa tion inquiries continue come parts country Canada Most inquiries about other areas might repli cate program Denise Elliot An nette Bohs employees Private Indus try Council Lee County Florida visited program firsthand look Ex tremely impressive stated Denise program well run kids thoroughly enjoy what doing obvious learning responses positive its no won der looking forward bigger better summer session 1990 try summer school course model aeronautics school district Happy flying Editors Note Dr Hendry adjunct fac culty member Pasco Hernando Commu nity College instructor Gulf Compre hensive High School active member West Pasco Model Pilots Association information about Pasco County program write Dr William W Hendry Gulf Comprehensive High School 5355 School Road New Port Richey FL 34652 Yaks/Berliner Continued page 104 Reno Air Races opened September 12 1988 first three days qual ifying time trials 28 Unlimited class airplanes hand meant single maximum-speed timed lap around 9171mile nine-pylon course course laid out across 5000-ft plateau bordered 7000-ft peaks Sierra Nevada hell-for-leather roar engines echos back watching crowd Skip Holm flew Joe Kasparoffs No 97 completed lap 11912 aver age speed 417274 mph decade ago would have come close record advances engines airframes have produced amazing speeds piston-en gined airplanes flying circle Lyle Shelton led way 1988 No 77 Grumman Bearcat Rare Bear adContinued page 188 [v32][b-2-10-1-10]]I ICAPI II ASSES Washable Rugged Cap Sunglasses Flip Up/Down Adjust In/Out Snap On/Off Imprints Available Ultra Violet Protected Please send _____________ caps Ive enclosed I @ $795 plus $2 shipping handling I Lens Colors El Amber El Smoke blue I Cap Colors El Black El White El Yellow El Green El Navy blue El Royal blue IEl Maroon ElGrey EJRedI II El Please send information about imprinting PLEASE PRINTI NameI I Addreuu city StateZip ________ RETURN WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY TO PIN-NOt SALES PO Box 647 Ravenna OH 44266 L1 184 Model Aviation Nothing Can Match. Mighty LOVESONG tripped Lovesong has nearly 26 1 max L/D far best US made glider kit among lowest lowest sink rate according results Selig/Donovan/Fraser Princeton tests mighty LOVESONG mightier ever its max [ID about 14% better other competition thermal gilder design Can really afford fly anything less tripped Eppler 214 airfoil proving killer thermal airfoil 90s puts PIXY CAMANO & LOVESONG farther ahead tips up competition Best Designs Airfoil Performance can buy Send 2 stamps comptete multichannel glider catalog bi-annual newsletter Second Wind now availabte $200 per year Front back Camano Pixy & Lovesong Fleet Rich Kardian MO DODGSON DESIGNS 21230 Damson Rd Bothell WA 98021 206776-8067 CHECK EM BOTH OUT NEW STARHAWK BIPLANE NEW MISS STARHAWK POSTER See your Starhawk Dealer details write Thorpe Engineering Corporation 1715 E Fairfield Mesa AZ 85203 Poster $500 P&H Prepaid yuu diS d SIt uuiiunr ui e LrdLuIi uuIIuw uuiwt CUT Tools will save time Remove stubborn die cuts cut own squares slots Made US quality machined nickel plated steel Order set today See Dealer Cataloger Order dent carry 5qaare Cat Teem call pay fur call well pay tar uhipping 115 canadal cOD Entra SQUARE CUT Tools 407 254-0516 N Harbor City Blvd Melbourne FL 32935 Dmmlr/Omtrbuor Inquirhm Invited Flor da Resdents Add 6% sales Ta Yaks/Berliner Continued page 184 vancing world record 474622 mph Still Yaks speed impressive such new different airplane drew lot comment Bob Yancey flew own Yak qual ifying lap 12833 373766 mph obviously slower true top speed airplane illustrated ma jor problem both Yaks As yet no has figured out absorb horse power short propellers required Yaks stubby landing gear full-size Bearcat Skyraider prop would dig deep trench down runway ripping its tips smithereens As heat races began two Yaks drew heavy interest Few crowd ever seen Soviet-built airplane fewer still seen air race Skip Holm among seven fast qualifiers Heat 1-A Thursday September 15 Roaring loose formation down chute rac ers poured coal first long stretch pace-plane pilot Bob Hoover sent way flew around far turns back toward packed stands along crowd line bend hard first turn pack airplanes pylon Holm caught some propwash visibly wob bled quickly pulled wide high continued six-lap race very cautiously though finishing 4059-mph average After race HoIm reportedly told owner very unhappy way Yak handled would fly again Yancey came away better feelings Yak its original no doubt insufficient vertical tail area able fly smoothly no apparent prob lems placed second Heat 1-C 3787 mph case started near back worked way past several ri vals fascinated crowd cheered him Placing well Heat 3-B qualified Yan cey Silver Race first consola tion along seven P-51D Mustangs stock-looking F8F Bearcat Two Mustangs dropped out mechanical trouble Yancey beat two others Bearcat finish fourth place 3865 mph Yak-us didnt set air racing world fire produce much smoke Thats almost always case air plane extensively changed its original form takes years money lots moneyto turn novel idea winner such efforts fail What Yaks did add very col orful new element American air racing entirely too long Unlimited class rac ing has meant Mustangs Bearcats Sea Furys Corsairsdependable steeds offer loads noise excitement seldom bring forth truly original ideas No matter great changes en gines airframes remain modified common warbirds Yak-i other hand rare al point being exotic fas cinate everybody stirring imagination fans potential new competitors alike Since would-be race pilots proba bly bored formulaic types dom inate todays contestsand probably cant afford anywaythe Yak-i i other similar aircraft could offer worthwhile al ternative future Unlimited class racing must other off-brand airplanes out just waiting turned glamo rous racing planes men women clever ideas long-range trend Unlimited class racing seems toward custom-built air planes such increasingly fast Tsunami second time trials 1988 470 mph Pond Racer twin-boom Nissanpowered device being built Burt Rutan Co sheer creativity sort thing hard beat such far-out flying machines having inevitable bugs ironed out theres still big opportunity people vision encompasses broad ex panse existing small clean strong airplanes could converted suc INTERMEDiATE CONTEST/SPORT SAILPLANE DESIGNED TO ALLOW USE OF FLAPS FOR CAMBER CHANGING AND APPROACH CONTROL SPAN 99 INCHES WING PROFILE MODIFIED E1I93 AREA 780 SQUARE INCHES FUNCTIONS RUDDER ELEVATOR FL4PS WEIGIIT 45 OUNCES AND UP MODIFIED SCiIUMAN WING PLANFORM COMPLETE HARDWARE KIT EASY TO REPAIR BALSA/SPRUCE FUSELAGE SOUTH WiN V $7495 US FUNDS plus $600 Shipping Handling Continental US MAX MILLS MODELS 3820 CHERAZ NE 4LBUQUERQUE NM 87111 505- 292-3510 DIVISION OF FULL MOON DESIGNS 0 z 0 Start Flying Right WngI Send $1 00 ck~f control-Me combat specialties Precision quad Wing Cores Con**e Ready-To-Assemble Kits As Low As $3295 4 Texas SlowGotcha 460 Kits 4 Bladders Tubing s Fittings Plans tres etc OflEHOU~ 760 Waltonvile Rd Hummeistown PA 17036 717 566-3810 188 Model Aviation THE SCHNEIDER SPORT SPORT MODEL R/C FLOATPLANE RECOMMENDED ENGINES 45/60 2STROKE 60/80 4STROKE QTF FLOATS INCLUDED LENGTH 34 IN CAP 6/10 LBS SPAN 57 IN AREA 600 SQ IN STREAM INCORPORATED 6048736604DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED UP9K NEWS Vh 2310fi cessful racers Yak-i have carved opening wedge potentially wide field choice former Russian military trainer anything obvious starting point Unlimited racing plane Today looks like possible contender Whats next Leningrad/Rutherford Continued page 71 youngsters participating program offered equal access sup plies successful advance na tional international competition progress through school career interesting thing cant shake loose state apparatus Russia dont just drop local hobby shop need balsa glue So brightest successful like group attending 1989 Nats depend greatly upon Viktor organization furthering participation modeling competition enviable system work individual basis though thats produced enviable quantity World Champions appears too fair amount ded ication common effort expected return support provided week end arrived Leningrad Alexander Giev sky Vladimir Panov Slava Beliaev 1600 miles away home Sverd lovsk competing FM CL Combat meet Now mid-February understand still talking So viet Union winds blowing 1520 mph temperatures fallen -1SF didnt deter 68 hardy mod elers entered two-day contest course World Champs hori zon Beliaev has very strong chance walking away title gives Russians extra incentive competing conditions rugged repre sents pure dedication point some readers no doubt wondering dedication full-time job Yes Ive heard scuttlebutt Soviet national teams made up professional modelers course would explain whomp rivals champs couple years left Russia hoping resolve question came home rather equivocal answer First Soviets attended 1989 Nats currently pro model ersalthough receive state sup port ranging minimal modeling sup plies extensive supplies plus paid travel expenses Most group fact currently involved cooperative capi talist operation must pay itself generating profits trip 1990 AMA Nats will example supported own firm state other hand did meet few re cent World Champs attached large work force 12000 factory em ployed what suppose would call design/prototype building guys ap pear spend lot time making supertricky models such have ready access machine tools could ask course just US indi vidual capable winning FAI competi tion World Champs level can sumed have already acquired truly out standing fabrication metalworking skillstalents ideally suited building pro totypes and/or tool- diework working factory allows par lay expertise developing models factory turn has easy access VINYLWRITE CUSTOM LEITERING Providing elegant time saving economical finishing touch modelers EZ TO APPLY ering comes prespaced prealignedsaving hours cuffing fuss ________________of aligning individual letters decals text custom corn p uter cut 3M Premium cast vinyl l thin olors pe styles including Military Block high NOWAILABLE Stencil 7Mask & 1 Color Outlining Priced right no minimum charge Eg AMA plus number high S [ITiEEcKIi _ PEELOFVThECARRIERTAMI high 2high plus $12SP& H STEP SACK & ADMIRE YOUR WORKCall write complete info otdersprocmsduponrectAMA0 E DONEpack & sample ITS FREE om Letter Today VINYLWRITE Way VINYLWEITE CUSTOM LETE3ING 16043 Tulsa Street Granada Hills CA 91344 8181363-7131 Noonto6PM Pacific Mail order onW CA its add taL July 1990 189 60 LENGTH 47 IN1EIGHT 65 / 70 LB
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/07
Page Numbers: 101, 102, 103, 104, 184, 188, 189
NO OCR TEXT vich Yakovlev design bureau parked assigned spaces Unlimited class pit area Stead Airport outside Reno NV along 35 other ex-military airplanes home-built nothing 730-hp ASh-2 1 radial engine theres no way sturdy functional trainers could hold its own against some fastest piston-engined airplanes world Take second look Yak-i youll notice unexpectedly large cowlings wide four-bladed props suggest something 730 hp un der hood what became long greenhouse canopies gave Yakis look World War II Japanese tor pedo bombers Big engines big propel lers tiny canopies shiny paint jobs sure indications good deal just enjoyable novelty owning ob scure airplanes inspired makeovers new guise former Sovietdesigned trainers might just racers after fact flying around Renos nine-mile Unlimited racecourse Yak-i looked much like racers about third person compared late-1930s Marcoux-Bromberg Keith Rider design flown several Thompson Trophy races late Earl Ortman know Russians copied mass-produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress forced down Russian ter ritory during World War II Mar coux has recently emerged long slumber Cleveland garage re stored Connecticut aviation museum dont think Russians thats too far-fetched consider Theres another explanation two Yak-i entered 1988 Reno National Championship Air Races its about basic air racing youll find words crew member bought Yak because smalland cheap also likely new solution eternal challenge Unlimited air racing stuff largest possible engine smallest possible airframe days milk bottle-shaped Gee Bee Super Sportsters todays Pratt & Whitneypowered Sea Furys Corsairs appeal putting less has constant irresistible six feet less wing span four feet less length 40% less wing area 70% less empty weight Yak- 11 certainly smaller Mus tang Thats small part cheap part Mustangs running $300 102 Model Aviation LEI OT inc sniny new Tuselage Yanceys Yak original fuselage fabric covered large greenhouse cockpit New iormers stringers installed small blown-Plexiglas bubble canopy faired turtieback incorporated along all-aluminum skin Right front real modifications went Under cowling 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engine Yancey removed Corsair prop made up set cutdown blades Grumman F8F Bearcat spinner Douglas A-26 invader cowl French Breguet 763 airlIner mixing parts common Unlimited racing circles Yanceys Yak rear bought another Yak-Il near-junk French warbird dealer Jean Sails Yancey intends restore other Yak its original configuration An example now inc ai-ii ooea its originai state mis standard Yak-il display Polish Air Space Museum Krakow Poland photo taken 1971 Notice large greenhouse cockpit giving look Japanese torpedo bomber EXHAUST S TACKS7 SECTION ION C SECTION B SILVER STRIPES BLACK STRIPE SECTION E GLOSSY BLACK BLADES METERS FEET 1INSIDE OF COVER DOORS AND LANDING GEAR STRUTS ARE WHITE COLOR SCHEME POLISHED ALUMINUM WITH COLOR TRIM AS SHOWN LIME GREEN LIME GREEN 101 WITH BLACK OUTLINE BOB YANCEYS YAK RACER ROBERT F PAULEY July 1990 103 SECTION D Left The other Yak-li Reno 1988 named Mr Awesome belongs Bob Kasparoff Montebello CA As can seen fu selage like Yanceys has greatly modified all-metal skin new internal structure small bubble canopy Right vertical fin Yak-li made 18-in higher adding five sq ft effort counteract torque huge prop compensate new fuselage configuration Pilot Skip Hoim reportedly experienced some instability problems refused fly again Below Power bird nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 18-cylinder radial engine used DC-7 Super Constellation air liners go again prop Douglas Skyraider spinner Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation 000-and-up range today almost anything would cheaper Especially old Russian training planes generally seen little curiosities Yak-i used advanced training Soviet Bloc air forces mid- 1950s through 1960s recent ly China several Arab countries Albania have used airplane Altogether 4500 Yak- 1 built includ ing 700 produced license Czechoslo vakia designated C-i i maximum 730 hp modest i66-sq-ft wing area Yak-li fast trainer Several used set offi cial FAI speed records note worthy being 100km closed-circuit mark 298 mph aircrafts lineage decidedly performance oriented its im mediate predecessor having two-seat version World War II Yak-3 fighter similarity size shape cant missed rollicking openness Reno Air Races far cry indeed tense sus picious atmosphere Soviet-influenced air fields Eastern Europe Middle East long quest ever speed however Reno may turn out direct path promised land could wish two Yak- lls showed up 1987 Reno Air Races obviously sport plane racer other wasnt yet ready serious racing very different story i988 time pair Yaks full-blown rac ers equipped crews bent seeing show pretty little tails field big bullies less powerful two flown veteran Unlimited racer Bob Yancey Klamath Falls OR shiny aluminum craft pale green wings t*il wings tail essentially standard fuselage almost entirely new old fabric removed along formers stringers fuselage re shaped match greater diameter new cowling long greenhouse can opy replaced small blownPlexiglas bubble faired neat turtleback drastic modifications ward firewall engine now 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp removed Yanceys Corsair convert newfound power thrust Yancey attached set cutdown 104 Model Aviation propeller blades North American T 28 trainer prop hub taken Grum man F8F Bearcat spinner first seen use Douglas A-26 Invader bomb er cowl lifted obscure French Breguet 763 airliner interna tional mixing parts common Unlim ited racing airplane itself came Egypt some 40 purchased French warbird dealer Jean Salis Bob Yancey bought little junk 1986 along another will probably restored its original configuration current stage its modification racer process seems never end weighs 5200 lb empty 7300 lb ready race other Yak-il RenoNo 97 dubbed Mr Awesomewas reportedly built around i954 Czechoslovakia Cii sold Egyptian Air Force i964-65 Jean Salis bought part broad effort kept until 1985 went through series moves finally brought its present owner Joe Kaspa roff Montebello CA late 1987 wasnt completed test flown until about two weeks before 1988 Reno Air Races As Yanceys Yak its wings left basically original shape though wing root air intakes sealed off horizontal tail stock vertical stabilizer fin enlarged made 18 higher adding 5 sq ft area effort counterbalance huge increase other end new engine nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 8-cylinder radial used Douglas DC-7C Lockheed Super Constellation airliners prop Douglas AD Skyraider fighter-bomber spinner North American P-S iK Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation fuselage reconstructed much same way Yanceys Yak new metal formers stringers new shape alumi num skin 30 length Continued page 184 95129 1988 NFFS Symposium Report addition JH Maxwells article State of-the-Art Propeller report has piece Bob White called What Af ter Glue Dries classic Wakefield trimming competitive strategies must-see Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Phenolic motor tubes SPZ-l front end hard ware thermistors thermal detection Superior Props 2412 Tucson Ave Pensa cola FL 32526 Prop blades pitch blocks front end hardware Wilders Model Machine Works 2010 Boston Irving TX 75061 Precision wind ers torque meters custom accessories School/Hendry Continued page 96 kids learning academi cally theyre able see finished producta beautiful fully functional model airplane program getting quite reputa tion inquiries continue come parts country Canada Most inquiries about other areas might repli cate program Denise Elliot An nette Bohs employees Private Indus try Council Lee County Florida visited program firsthand look Ex tremely impressive stated Denise program well run kids thoroughly enjoy what doing obvious learning responses positive its no won der looking forward bigger better summer session 1990 try summer school course model aeronautics school district Happy flying Editors Note Dr Hendry adjunct fac culty member Pasco Hernando Commu nity College instructor Gulf Compre hensive High School active member West Pasco Model Pilots Association information about Pasco County program write Dr William W Hendry Gulf Comprehensive High School 5355 School Road New Port Richey FL 34652 Yaks/Berliner Continued page 104 Reno Air Races opened September 12 1988 first three days qual ifying time trials 28 Unlimited class airplanes hand meant single maximum-speed timed lap around 9171mile nine-pylon course course laid out across 5000-ft plateau bordered 7000-ft peaks Sierra Nevada hell-for-leather roar engines echos back watching crowd Skip Holm flew Joe Kasparoffs No 97 completed lap 11912 aver age speed 417274 mph decade ago would have come close record advances engines airframes have produced amazing speeds piston-en gined airplanes flying circle Lyle Shelton led way 1988 No 77 Grumman Bearcat Rare Bear adContinued page 188 [v32][b-2-10-1-10]]I ICAPI II ASSES Washable Rugged Cap Sunglasses Flip Up/Down Adjust In/Out Snap On/Off Imprints Available Ultra Violet Protected Please send _____________ caps Ive enclosed I @ $795 plus $2 shipping handling I Lens Colors El Amber El Smoke blue I Cap Colors El Black El White El Yellow El Green El Navy blue El Royal blue IEl Maroon ElGrey EJRedI II El Please send information about imprinting PLEASE PRINTI NameI I Addreuu city StateZip ________ RETURN WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY TO PIN-NOt SALES PO Box 647 Ravenna OH 44266 L1 184 Model Aviation Nothing Can Match. Mighty LOVESONG tripped Lovesong has nearly 26 1 max L/D far best US made glider kit among lowest lowest sink rate according results Selig/Donovan/Fraser Princeton tests mighty LOVESONG mightier ever its max [ID about 14% better other competition thermal gilder design Can really afford fly anything less tripped Eppler 214 airfoil proving killer thermal airfoil 90s puts PIXY CAMANO & LOVESONG farther ahead tips up competition Best Designs Airfoil Performance can buy Send 2 stamps comptete multichannel glider catalog bi-annual newsletter Second Wind now availabte $200 per year Front back Camano Pixy & Lovesong Fleet Rich Kardian MO DODGSON DESIGNS 21230 Damson Rd Bothell WA 98021 206776-8067 CHECK EM BOTH OUT NEW STARHAWK BIPLANE NEW MISS STARHAWK POSTER See your Starhawk Dealer details write Thorpe Engineering Corporation 1715 E Fairfield Mesa AZ 85203 Poster $500 P&H Prepaid yuu diS d SIt uuiiunr ui e LrdLuIi uuIIuw uuiwt CUT Tools will save time Remove stubborn die cuts cut own squares slots Made US quality machined nickel plated steel Order set today See Dealer Cataloger Order dent carry 5qaare Cat Teem call pay fur call well pay tar uhipping 115 canadal cOD Entra SQUARE CUT Tools 407 254-0516 N Harbor City Blvd Melbourne FL 32935 Dmmlr/Omtrbuor Inquirhm Invited Flor da Resdents Add 6% sales Ta Yaks/Berliner Continued page 184 vancing world record 474622 mph Still Yaks speed impressive such new different airplane drew lot comment Bob Yancey flew own Yak qual ifying lap 12833 373766 mph obviously slower true top speed airplane illustrated ma jor problem both Yaks As yet no has figured out absorb horse power short propellers required Yaks stubby landing gear full-size Bearcat Skyraider prop would dig deep trench down runway ripping its tips smithereens As heat races began two Yaks drew heavy interest Few crowd ever seen Soviet-built airplane fewer still seen air race Skip Holm among seven fast qualifiers Heat 1-A Thursday September 15 Roaring loose formation down chute rac ers poured coal first long stretch pace-plane pilot Bob Hoover sent way flew around far turns back toward packed stands along crowd line bend hard first turn pack airplanes pylon Holm caught some propwash visibly wob bled quickly pulled wide high continued six-lap race very cautiously though finishing 4059-mph average After race HoIm reportedly told owner very unhappy way Yak handled would fly again Yancey came away better feelings Yak its original no doubt insufficient vertical tail area able fly smoothly no apparent prob lems placed second Heat 1-C 3787 mph case started near back worked way past several ri vals fascinated crowd cheered him Placing well Heat 3-B qualified Yan cey Silver Race first consola tion along seven P-51D Mustangs stock-looking F8F Bearcat Two Mustangs dropped out mechanical trouble Yancey beat two others Bearcat finish fourth place 3865 mph Yak-us didnt set air racing world fire produce much smoke Thats almost always case air plane extensively changed its original form takes years money lots moneyto turn novel idea winner such efforts fail What Yaks did add very col orful new element American air racing entirely too long Unlimited class rac ing has meant Mustangs Bearcats Sea Furys Corsairsdependable steeds offer loads noise excitement seldom bring forth truly original ideas No matter great changes en gines airframes remain modified common warbirds Yak-i other hand rare al point being exotic fas cinate everybody stirring imagination fans potential new competitors alike Since would-be race pilots proba bly bored formulaic types dom inate todays contestsand probably cant afford anywaythe Yak-i i other similar aircraft could offer worthwhile al ternative future Unlimited class racing must other off-brand airplanes out just waiting turned glamo rous racing planes men women clever ideas long-range trend Unlimited class racing seems toward custom-built air planes such increasingly fast Tsunami second time trials 1988 470 mph Pond Racer twin-boom Nissanpowered device being built Burt Rutan Co sheer creativity sort thing hard beat such far-out flying machines having inevitable bugs ironed out theres still big opportunity people vision encompasses broad ex panse existing small clean strong airplanes could converted suc INTERMEDiATE CONTEST/SPORT SAILPLANE DESIGNED TO ALLOW USE OF FLAPS FOR CAMBER CHANGING AND APPROACH CONTROL SPAN 99 INCHES WING PROFILE MODIFIED E1I93 AREA 780 SQUARE INCHES FUNCTIONS RUDDER ELEVATOR FL4PS WEIGIIT 45 OUNCES AND UP MODIFIED SCiIUMAN WING PLANFORM COMPLETE HARDWARE KIT EASY TO REPAIR BALSA/SPRUCE FUSELAGE SOUTH WiN V $7495 US FUNDS plus $600 Shipping Handling Continental US MAX MILLS MODELS 3820 CHERAZ NE 4LBUQUERQUE NM 87111 505- 292-3510 DIVISION OF FULL MOON DESIGNS 0 z 0 Start Flying Right WngI Send $1 00 ck~f control-Me combat specialties Precision quad Wing Cores Con**e Ready-To-Assemble Kits As Low As $3295 4 Texas SlowGotcha 460 Kits 4 Bladders Tubing s Fittings Plans tres etc OflEHOU~ 760 Waltonvile Rd Hummeistown PA 17036 717 566-3810 188 Model Aviation THE SCHNEIDER SPORT SPORT MODEL R/C FLOATPLANE RECOMMENDED ENGINES 45/60 2STROKE 60/80 4STROKE QTF FLOATS INCLUDED LENGTH 34 IN CAP 6/10 LBS SPAN 57 IN AREA 600 SQ IN STREAM INCORPORATED 6048736604DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED UP9K NEWS Vh 2310fi cessful racers Yak-i have carved opening wedge potentially wide field choice former Russian military trainer anything obvious starting point Unlimited racing plane Today looks like possible contender Whats next Leningrad/Rutherford Continued page 71 youngsters participating program offered equal access sup plies successful advance na tional international competition progress through school career interesting thing cant shake loose state apparatus Russia dont just drop local hobby shop need balsa glue So brightest successful like group attending 1989 Nats depend greatly upon Viktor organization furthering participation modeling competition enviable system work individual basis though thats produced enviable quantity World Champions appears too fair amount ded ication common effort expected return support provided week end arrived Leningrad Alexander Giev sky Vladimir Panov Slava Beliaev 1600 miles away home Sverd lovsk competing FM CL Combat meet Now mid-February understand still talking So viet Union winds blowing 1520 mph temperatures fallen -1SF didnt deter 68 hardy mod elers entered two-day contest course World Champs hori zon Beliaev has very strong chance walking away title gives Russians extra incentive competing conditions rugged repre sents pure dedication point some readers no doubt wondering dedication full-time job Yes Ive heard scuttlebutt Soviet national teams made up professional modelers course would explain whomp rivals champs couple years left Russia hoping resolve question came home rather equivocal answer First Soviets attended 1989 Nats currently pro model ersalthough receive state sup port ranging minimal modeling sup plies extensive supplies plus paid travel expenses Most group fact currently involved cooperative capi talist operation must pay itself generating profits trip 1990 AMA Nats will example supported own firm state other hand did meet few re cent World Champs attached large work force 12000 factory em ployed what suppose would call design/prototype building guys ap pear spend lot time making supertricky models such have ready access machine tools could ask course just US indi vidual capable winning FAI competi tion World Champs level can sumed have already acquired truly out standing fabrication metalworking skillstalents ideally suited building pro totypes and/or tool- diework working factory allows par lay expertise developing models factory turn has easy access VINYLWRITE CUSTOM LEITERING Providing elegant time saving economical finishing touch modelers EZ TO APPLY ering comes prespaced prealignedsaving hours cuffing fuss ________________of aligning individual letters decals text custom corn p uter cut 3M Premium cast vinyl l thin olors pe styles including Military Block high NOWAILABLE Stencil 7Mask & 1 Color Outlining Priced right no minimum charge Eg AMA plus number high S [ITiEEcKIi _ PEELOFVThECARRIERTAMI high 2high plus $12SP& H STEP SACK & ADMIRE YOUR WORKCall write complete info otdersprocmsduponrectAMA0 E DONEpack & sample ITS FREE om Letter Today VINYLWRITE Way VINYLWEITE CUSTOM LETE3ING 16043 Tulsa Street Granada Hills CA 91344 8181363-7131 Noonto6PM Pacific Mail order onW CA its add taL July 1990 189 60 LENGTH 47 IN1EIGHT 65 / 70 LB
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/07
Page Numbers: 101, 102, 103, 104, 184, 188, 189
NO OCR TEXT vich Yakovlev design bureau parked assigned spaces Unlimited class pit area Stead Airport outside Reno NV along 35 other ex-military airplanes home-built nothing 730-hp ASh-2 1 radial engine theres no way sturdy functional trainers could hold its own against some fastest piston-engined airplanes world Take second look Yak-i youll notice unexpectedly large cowlings wide four-bladed props suggest something 730 hp un der hood what became long greenhouse canopies gave Yakis look World War II Japanese tor pedo bombers Big engines big propel lers tiny canopies shiny paint jobs sure indications good deal just enjoyable novelty owning ob scure airplanes inspired makeovers new guise former Sovietdesigned trainers might just racers after fact flying around Renos nine-mile Unlimited racecourse Yak-i looked much like racers about third person compared late-1930s Marcoux-Bromberg Keith Rider design flown several Thompson Trophy races late Earl Ortman know Russians copied mass-produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress forced down Russian ter ritory during World War II Mar coux has recently emerged long slumber Cleveland garage re stored Connecticut aviation museum dont think Russians thats too far-fetched consider Theres another explanation two Yak-i entered 1988 Reno National Championship Air Races its about basic air racing youll find words crew member bought Yak because smalland cheap also likely new solution eternal challenge Unlimited air racing stuff largest possible engine smallest possible airframe days milk bottle-shaped Gee Bee Super Sportsters todays Pratt & Whitneypowered Sea Furys Corsairs appeal putting less has constant irresistible six feet less wing span four feet less length 40% less wing area 70% less empty weight Yak- 11 certainly smaller Mus tang Thats small part cheap part Mustangs running $300 102 Model Aviation LEI OT inc sniny new Tuselage Yanceys Yak original fuselage fabric covered large greenhouse cockpit New iormers stringers installed small blown-Plexiglas bubble canopy faired turtieback incorporated along all-aluminum skin Right front real modifications went Under cowling 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engine Yancey removed Corsair prop made up set cutdown blades Grumman F8F Bearcat spinner Douglas A-26 invader cowl French Breguet 763 airlIner mixing parts common Unlimited racing circles Yanceys Yak rear bought another Yak-Il near-junk French warbird dealer Jean Sails Yancey intends restore other Yak its original configuration An example now inc ai-ii ooea its originai state mis standard Yak-il display Polish Air Space Museum Krakow Poland photo taken 1971 Notice large greenhouse cockpit giving look Japanese torpedo bomber EXHAUST S TACKS7 SECTION ION C SECTION B SILVER STRIPES BLACK STRIPE SECTION E GLOSSY BLACK BLADES METERS FEET 1INSIDE OF COVER DOORS AND LANDING GEAR STRUTS ARE WHITE COLOR SCHEME POLISHED ALUMINUM WITH COLOR TRIM AS SHOWN LIME GREEN LIME GREEN 101 WITH BLACK OUTLINE BOB YANCEYS YAK RACER ROBERT F PAULEY July 1990 103 SECTION D Left The other Yak-li Reno 1988 named Mr Awesome belongs Bob Kasparoff Montebello CA As can seen fu selage like Yanceys has greatly modified all-metal skin new internal structure small bubble canopy Right vertical fin Yak-li made 18-in higher adding five sq ft effort counteract torque huge prop compensate new fuselage configuration Pilot Skip Hoim reportedly experienced some instability problems refused fly again Below Power bird nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 18-cylinder radial engine used DC-7 Super Constellation air liners go again prop Douglas Skyraider spinner Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation 000-and-up range today almost anything would cheaper Especially old Russian training planes generally seen little curiosities Yak-i used advanced training Soviet Bloc air forces mid- 1950s through 1960s recent ly China several Arab countries Albania have used airplane Altogether 4500 Yak- 1 built includ ing 700 produced license Czechoslo vakia designated C-i i maximum 730 hp modest i66-sq-ft wing area Yak-li fast trainer Several used set offi cial FAI speed records note worthy being 100km closed-circuit mark 298 mph aircrafts lineage decidedly performance oriented its im mediate predecessor having two-seat version World War II Yak-3 fighter similarity size shape cant missed rollicking openness Reno Air Races far cry indeed tense sus picious atmosphere Soviet-influenced air fields Eastern Europe Middle East long quest ever speed however Reno may turn out direct path promised land could wish two Yak- lls showed up 1987 Reno Air Races obviously sport plane racer other wasnt yet ready serious racing very different story i988 time pair Yaks full-blown rac ers equipped crews bent seeing show pretty little tails field big bullies less powerful two flown veteran Unlimited racer Bob Yancey Klamath Falls OR shiny aluminum craft pale green wings t*il wings tail essentially standard fuselage almost entirely new old fabric removed along formers stringers fuselage re shaped match greater diameter new cowling long greenhouse can opy replaced small blownPlexiglas bubble faired neat turtleback drastic modifications ward firewall engine now 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp removed Yanceys Corsair convert newfound power thrust Yancey attached set cutdown 104 Model Aviation propeller blades North American T 28 trainer prop hub taken Grum man F8F Bearcat spinner first seen use Douglas A-26 Invader bomb er cowl lifted obscure French Breguet 763 airliner interna tional mixing parts common Unlim ited racing airplane itself came Egypt some 40 purchased French warbird dealer Jean Salis Bob Yancey bought little junk 1986 along another will probably restored its original configuration current stage its modification racer process seems never end weighs 5200 lb empty 7300 lb ready race other Yak-il RenoNo 97 dubbed Mr Awesomewas reportedly built around i954 Czechoslovakia Cii sold Egyptian Air Force i964-65 Jean Salis bought part broad effort kept until 1985 went through series moves finally brought its present owner Joe Kaspa roff Montebello CA late 1987 wasnt completed test flown until about two weeks before 1988 Reno Air Races As Yanceys Yak its wings left basically original shape though wing root air intakes sealed off horizontal tail stock vertical stabilizer fin enlarged made 18 higher adding 5 sq ft area effort counterbalance huge increase other end new engine nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 8-cylinder radial used Douglas DC-7C Lockheed Super Constellation airliners prop Douglas AD Skyraider fighter-bomber spinner North American P-S iK Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation fuselage reconstructed much same way Yanceys Yak new metal formers stringers new shape alumi num skin 30 length Continued page 184 95129 1988 NFFS Symposium Report addition JH Maxwells article State of-the-Art Propeller report has piece Bob White called What Af ter Glue Dries classic Wakefield trimming competitive strategies must-see Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Phenolic motor tubes SPZ-l front end hard ware thermistors thermal detection Superior Props 2412 Tucson Ave Pensa cola FL 32526 Prop blades pitch blocks front end hardware Wilders Model Machine Works 2010 Boston Irving TX 75061 Precision wind ers torque meters custom accessories School/Hendry Continued page 96 kids learning academi cally theyre able see finished producta beautiful fully functional model airplane program getting quite reputa tion inquiries continue come parts country Canada Most inquiries about other areas might repli cate program Denise Elliot An nette Bohs employees Private Indus try Council Lee County Florida visited program firsthand look Ex tremely impressive stated Denise program well run kids thoroughly enjoy what doing obvious learning responses positive its no won der looking forward bigger better summer session 1990 try summer school course model aeronautics school district Happy flying Editors Note Dr Hendry adjunct fac culty member Pasco Hernando Commu nity College instructor Gulf Compre hensive High School active member West Pasco Model Pilots Association information about Pasco County program write Dr William W Hendry Gulf Comprehensive High School 5355 School Road New Port Richey FL 34652 Yaks/Berliner Continued page 104 Reno Air Races opened September 12 1988 first three days qual ifying time trials 28 Unlimited class airplanes hand meant single maximum-speed timed lap around 9171mile nine-pylon course course laid out across 5000-ft plateau bordered 7000-ft peaks Sierra Nevada hell-for-leather roar engines echos back watching crowd Skip Holm flew Joe Kasparoffs No 97 completed lap 11912 aver age speed 417274 mph decade ago would have come close record advances engines airframes have produced amazing speeds piston-en gined airplanes flying circle Lyle Shelton led way 1988 No 77 Grumman Bearcat Rare Bear adContinued page 188 [v32][b-2-10-1-10]]I ICAPI II ASSES Washable Rugged Cap Sunglasses Flip Up/Down Adjust In/Out Snap On/Off Imprints Available Ultra Violet Protected Please send _____________ caps Ive enclosed I @ $795 plus $2 shipping handling I Lens Colors El Amber El Smoke blue I Cap Colors El Black El White El Yellow El Green El Navy blue El Royal blue IEl Maroon ElGrey EJRedI II El Please send information about imprinting PLEASE PRINTI NameI I Addreuu city StateZip ________ RETURN WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY TO PIN-NOt SALES PO Box 647 Ravenna OH 44266 L1 184 Model Aviation Nothing Can Match. Mighty LOVESONG tripped Lovesong has nearly 26 1 max L/D far best US made glider kit among lowest lowest sink rate according results Selig/Donovan/Fraser Princeton tests mighty LOVESONG mightier ever its max [ID about 14% better other competition thermal gilder design Can really afford fly anything less tripped Eppler 214 airfoil proving killer thermal airfoil 90s puts PIXY CAMANO & LOVESONG farther ahead tips up competition Best Designs Airfoil Performance can buy Send 2 stamps comptete multichannel glider catalog bi-annual newsletter Second Wind now availabte $200 per year Front back Camano Pixy & Lovesong Fleet Rich Kardian MO DODGSON DESIGNS 21230 Damson Rd Bothell WA 98021 206776-8067 CHECK EM BOTH OUT NEW STARHAWK BIPLANE NEW MISS STARHAWK POSTER See your Starhawk Dealer details write Thorpe Engineering Corporation 1715 E Fairfield Mesa AZ 85203 Poster $500 P&H Prepaid yuu diS d SIt uuiiunr ui e LrdLuIi uuIIuw uuiwt CUT Tools will save time Remove stubborn die cuts cut own squares slots Made US quality machined nickel plated steel Order set today See Dealer Cataloger Order dent carry 5qaare Cat Teem call pay fur call well pay tar uhipping 115 canadal cOD Entra SQUARE CUT Tools 407 254-0516 N Harbor City Blvd Melbourne FL 32935 Dmmlr/Omtrbuor Inquirhm Invited Flor da Resdents Add 6% sales Ta Yaks/Berliner Continued page 184 vancing world record 474622 mph Still Yaks speed impressive such new different airplane drew lot comment Bob Yancey flew own Yak qual ifying lap 12833 373766 mph obviously slower true top speed airplane illustrated ma jor problem both Yaks As yet no has figured out absorb horse power short propellers required Yaks stubby landing gear full-size Bearcat Skyraider prop would dig deep trench down runway ripping its tips smithereens As heat races began two Yaks drew heavy interest Few crowd ever seen Soviet-built airplane fewer still seen air race Skip Holm among seven fast qualifiers Heat 1-A Thursday September 15 Roaring loose formation down chute rac ers poured coal first long stretch pace-plane pilot Bob Hoover sent way flew around far turns back toward packed stands along crowd line bend hard first turn pack airplanes pylon Holm caught some propwash visibly wob bled quickly pulled wide high continued six-lap race very cautiously though finishing 4059-mph average After race HoIm reportedly told owner very unhappy way Yak handled would fly again Yancey came away better feelings Yak its original no doubt insufficient vertical tail area able fly smoothly no apparent prob lems placed second Heat 1-C 3787 mph case started near back worked way past several ri vals fascinated crowd cheered him Placing well Heat 3-B qualified Yan cey Silver Race first consola tion along seven P-51D Mustangs stock-looking F8F Bearcat Two Mustangs dropped out mechanical trouble Yancey beat two others Bearcat finish fourth place 3865 mph Yak-us didnt set air racing world fire produce much smoke Thats almost always case air plane extensively changed its original form takes years money lots moneyto turn novel idea winner such efforts fail What Yaks did add very col orful new element American air racing entirely too long Unlimited class rac ing has meant Mustangs Bearcats Sea Furys Corsairsdependable steeds offer loads noise excitement seldom bring forth truly original ideas No matter great changes en gines airframes remain modified common warbirds Yak-i other hand rare al point being exotic fas cinate everybody stirring imagination fans potential new competitors alike Since would-be race pilots proba bly bored formulaic types dom inate todays contestsand probably cant afford anywaythe Yak-i i other similar aircraft could offer worthwhile al ternative future Unlimited class racing must other off-brand airplanes out just waiting turned glamo rous racing planes men women clever ideas long-range trend Unlimited class racing seems toward custom-built air planes such increasingly fast Tsunami second time trials 1988 470 mph Pond Racer twin-boom Nissanpowered device being built Burt Rutan Co sheer creativity sort thing hard beat such far-out flying machines having inevitable bugs ironed out theres still big opportunity people vision encompasses broad ex panse existing small clean strong airplanes could converted suc INTERMEDiATE CONTEST/SPORT SAILPLANE DESIGNED TO ALLOW USE OF FLAPS FOR CAMBER CHANGING AND APPROACH CONTROL SPAN 99 INCHES WING PROFILE MODIFIED E1I93 AREA 780 SQUARE INCHES FUNCTIONS RUDDER ELEVATOR FL4PS WEIGIIT 45 OUNCES AND UP MODIFIED SCiIUMAN WING PLANFORM COMPLETE HARDWARE KIT EASY TO REPAIR BALSA/SPRUCE FUSELAGE SOUTH WiN V $7495 US FUNDS plus $600 Shipping Handling Continental US MAX MILLS MODELS 3820 CHERAZ NE 4LBUQUERQUE NM 87111 505- 292-3510 DIVISION OF FULL MOON DESIGNS 0 z 0 Start Flying Right WngI Send $1 00 ck~f control-Me combat specialties Precision quad Wing Cores Con**e Ready-To-Assemble Kits As Low As $3295 4 Texas SlowGotcha 460 Kits 4 Bladders Tubing s Fittings Plans tres etc OflEHOU~ 760 Waltonvile Rd Hummeistown PA 17036 717 566-3810 188 Model Aviation THE SCHNEIDER SPORT SPORT MODEL R/C FLOATPLANE RECOMMENDED ENGINES 45/60 2STROKE 60/80 4STROKE QTF FLOATS INCLUDED LENGTH 34 IN CAP 6/10 LBS SPAN 57 IN AREA 600 SQ IN STREAM INCORPORATED 6048736604DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED UP9K NEWS Vh 2310fi cessful racers Yak-i have carved opening wedge potentially wide field choice former Russian military trainer anything obvious starting point Unlimited racing plane Today looks like possible contender Whats next Leningrad/Rutherford Continued page 71 youngsters participating program offered equal access sup plies successful advance na tional international competition progress through school career interesting thing cant shake loose state apparatus Russia dont just drop local hobby shop need balsa glue So brightest successful like group attending 1989 Nats depend greatly upon Viktor organization furthering participation modeling competition enviable system work individual basis though thats produced enviable quantity World Champions appears too fair amount ded ication common effort expected return support provided week end arrived Leningrad Alexander Giev sky Vladimir Panov Slava Beliaev 1600 miles away home Sverd lovsk competing FM CL Combat meet Now mid-February understand still talking So viet Union winds blowing 1520 mph temperatures fallen -1SF didnt deter 68 hardy mod elers entered two-day contest course World Champs hori zon Beliaev has very strong chance walking away title gives Russians extra incentive competing conditions rugged repre sents pure dedication point some readers no doubt wondering dedication full-time job Yes Ive heard scuttlebutt Soviet national teams made up professional modelers course would explain whomp rivals champs couple years left Russia hoping resolve question came home rather equivocal answer First Soviets attended 1989 Nats currently pro model ersalthough receive state sup port ranging minimal modeling sup plies extensive supplies plus paid travel expenses Most group fact currently involved cooperative capi talist operation must pay itself generating profits trip 1990 AMA Nats will example supported own firm state other hand did meet few re cent World Champs attached large work force 12000 factory em ployed what suppose would call design/prototype building guys ap pear spend lot time making supertricky models such have ready access machine tools could ask course just US indi vidual capable winning FAI competi tion World Champs level can sumed have already acquired truly out standing fabrication metalworking skillstalents ideally suited building pro totypes and/or tool- diework working factory allows par lay expertise developing models factory turn has easy access VINYLWRITE CUSTOM LEITERING Providing elegant time saving economical finishing touch modelers EZ TO APPLY ering comes prespaced prealignedsaving hours cuffing fuss ________________of aligning individual letters decals text custom corn p uter cut 3M Premium cast vinyl l thin olors pe styles including Military Block high NOWAILABLE Stencil 7Mask & 1 Color Outlining Priced right no minimum charge Eg AMA plus number high S [ITiEEcKIi _ PEELOFVThECARRIERTAMI high 2high plus $12SP& H STEP SACK & ADMIRE YOUR WORKCall write complete info otdersprocmsduponrectAMA0 E DONEpack & sample ITS FREE om Letter Today VINYLWRITE Way VINYLWEITE CUSTOM LETE3ING 16043 Tulsa Street Granada Hills CA 91344 8181363-7131 Noonto6PM Pacific Mail order onW CA its add taL July 1990 189 60 LENGTH 47 IN1EIGHT 65 / 70 LB
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/07
Page Numbers: 101, 102, 103, 104, 184, 188, 189
NO OCR TEXT vich Yakovlev design bureau parked assigned spaces Unlimited class pit area Stead Airport outside Reno NV along 35 other ex-military airplanes home-built nothing 730-hp ASh-2 1 radial engine theres no way sturdy functional trainers could hold its own against some fastest piston-engined airplanes world Take second look Yak-i youll notice unexpectedly large cowlings wide four-bladed props suggest something 730 hp un der hood what became long greenhouse canopies gave Yakis look World War II Japanese tor pedo bombers Big engines big propel lers tiny canopies shiny paint jobs sure indications good deal just enjoyable novelty owning ob scure airplanes inspired makeovers new guise former Sovietdesigned trainers might just racers after fact flying around Renos nine-mile Unlimited racecourse Yak-i looked much like racers about third person compared late-1930s Marcoux-Bromberg Keith Rider design flown several Thompson Trophy races late Earl Ortman know Russians copied mass-produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress forced down Russian ter ritory during World War II Mar coux has recently emerged long slumber Cleveland garage re stored Connecticut aviation museum dont think Russians thats too far-fetched consider Theres another explanation two Yak-i entered 1988 Reno National Championship Air Races its about basic air racing youll find words crew member bought Yak because smalland cheap also likely new solution eternal challenge Unlimited air racing stuff largest possible engine smallest possible airframe days milk bottle-shaped Gee Bee Super Sportsters todays Pratt & Whitneypowered Sea Furys Corsairs appeal putting less has constant irresistible six feet less wing span four feet less length 40% less wing area 70% less empty weight Yak- 11 certainly smaller Mus tang Thats small part cheap part Mustangs running $300 102 Model Aviation LEI OT inc sniny new Tuselage Yanceys Yak original fuselage fabric covered large greenhouse cockpit New iormers stringers installed small blown-Plexiglas bubble canopy faired turtieback incorporated along all-aluminum skin Right front real modifications went Under cowling 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engine Yancey removed Corsair prop made up set cutdown blades Grumman F8F Bearcat spinner Douglas A-26 invader cowl French Breguet 763 airlIner mixing parts common Unlimited racing circles Yanceys Yak rear bought another Yak-Il near-junk French warbird dealer Jean Sails Yancey intends restore other Yak its original configuration An example now inc ai-ii ooea its originai state mis standard Yak-il display Polish Air Space Museum Krakow Poland photo taken 1971 Notice large greenhouse cockpit giving look Japanese torpedo bomber EXHAUST S TACKS7 SECTION ION C SECTION B SILVER STRIPES BLACK STRIPE SECTION E GLOSSY BLACK BLADES METERS FEET 1INSIDE OF COVER DOORS AND LANDING GEAR STRUTS ARE WHITE COLOR SCHEME POLISHED ALUMINUM WITH COLOR TRIM AS SHOWN LIME GREEN LIME GREEN 101 WITH BLACK OUTLINE BOB YANCEYS YAK RACER ROBERT F PAULEY July 1990 103 SECTION D Left The other Yak-li Reno 1988 named Mr Awesome belongs Bob Kasparoff Montebello CA As can seen fu selage like Yanceys has greatly modified all-metal skin new internal structure small bubble canopy Right vertical fin Yak-li made 18-in higher adding five sq ft effort counteract torque huge prop compensate new fuselage configuration Pilot Skip Hoim reportedly experienced some instability problems refused fly again Below Power bird nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 18-cylinder radial engine used DC-7 Super Constellation air liners go again prop Douglas Skyraider spinner Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation 000-and-up range today almost anything would cheaper Especially old Russian training planes generally seen little curiosities Yak-i used advanced training Soviet Bloc air forces mid- 1950s through 1960s recent ly China several Arab countries Albania have used airplane Altogether 4500 Yak- 1 built includ ing 700 produced license Czechoslo vakia designated C-i i maximum 730 hp modest i66-sq-ft wing area Yak-li fast trainer Several used set offi cial FAI speed records note worthy being 100km closed-circuit mark 298 mph aircrafts lineage decidedly performance oriented its im mediate predecessor having two-seat version World War II Yak-3 fighter similarity size shape cant missed rollicking openness Reno Air Races far cry indeed tense sus picious atmosphere Soviet-influenced air fields Eastern Europe Middle East long quest ever speed however Reno may turn out direct path promised land could wish two Yak- lls showed up 1987 Reno Air Races obviously sport plane racer other wasnt yet ready serious racing very different story i988 time pair Yaks full-blown rac ers equipped crews bent seeing show pretty little tails field big bullies less powerful two flown veteran Unlimited racer Bob Yancey Klamath Falls OR shiny aluminum craft pale green wings t*il wings tail essentially standard fuselage almost entirely new old fabric removed along formers stringers fuselage re shaped match greater diameter new cowling long greenhouse can opy replaced small blownPlexiglas bubble faired neat turtleback drastic modifications ward firewall engine now 2000-plus-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp removed Yanceys Corsair convert newfound power thrust Yancey attached set cutdown 104 Model Aviation propeller blades North American T 28 trainer prop hub taken Grum man F8F Bearcat spinner first seen use Douglas A-26 Invader bomb er cowl lifted obscure French Breguet 763 airliner interna tional mixing parts common Unlim ited racing airplane itself came Egypt some 40 purchased French warbird dealer Jean Salis Bob Yancey bought little junk 1986 along another will probably restored its original configuration current stage its modification racer process seems never end weighs 5200 lb empty 7300 lb ready race other Yak-il RenoNo 97 dubbed Mr Awesomewas reportedly built around i954 Czechoslovakia Cii sold Egyptian Air Force i964-65 Jean Salis bought part broad effort kept until 1985 went through series moves finally brought its present owner Joe Kaspa roff Montebello CA late 1987 wasnt completed test flown until about two weeks before 1988 Reno Air Races As Yanceys Yak its wings left basically original shape though wing root air intakes sealed off horizontal tail stock vertical stabilizer fin enlarged made 18 higher adding 5 sq ft area effort counterbalance huge increase other end new engine nothing less 3700-hp Wright R-3350 Turbocompound 8-cylinder radial used Douglas DC-7C Lockheed Super Constellation airliners prop Douglas AD Skyraider fighter-bomber spinner North American P-S iK Mustang spinner afterbody Constellation fuselage reconstructed much same way Yanceys Yak new metal formers stringers new shape alumi num skin 30 length Continued page 184 95129 1988 NFFS Symposium Report addition JH Maxwells article State of-the-Art Propeller report has piece Bob White called What Af ter Glue Dries classic Wakefield trimming competitive strategies must-see Starline International 6146 East Cactus Wren Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253 Phenolic motor tubes SPZ-l front end hard ware thermistors thermal detection Superior Props 2412 Tucson Ave Pensa cola FL 32526 Prop blades pitch blocks front end hardware Wilders Model Machine Works 2010 Boston Irving TX 75061 Precision wind ers torque meters custom accessories School/Hendry Continued page 96 kids learning academi cally theyre able see finished producta beautiful fully functional model airplane program getting quite reputa tion inquiries continue come parts country Canada Most inquiries about other areas might repli cate program Denise Elliot An nette Bohs employees Private Indus try Council Lee County Florida visited program firsthand look Ex tremely impressive stated Denise program well run kids thoroughly enjoy what doing obvious learning responses positive its no won der looking forward bigger better summer session 1990 try summer school course model aeronautics school district Happy flying Editors Note Dr Hendry adjunct fac culty member Pasco Hernando Commu nity College instructor Gulf Compre hensive High School active member West Pasco Model Pilots Association information about Pasco County program write Dr William W Hendry Gulf Comprehensive High School 5355 School Road New Port Richey FL 34652 Yaks/Berliner Continued page 104 Reno Air Races opened September 12 1988 first three days qual ifying time trials 28 Unlimited class airplanes hand meant single maximum-speed timed lap around 9171mile nine-pylon course course laid out across 5000-ft plateau bordered 7000-ft peaks Sierra Nevada hell-for-leather roar engines echos back watching crowd Skip Holm flew Joe Kasparoffs No 97 completed lap 11912 aver age speed 417274 mph decade ago would have come close record advances engines airframes have produced amazing speeds piston-en gined airplanes flying circle Lyle Shelton led way 1988 No 77 Grumman Bearcat Rare Bear adContinued page 188 [v32][b-2-10-1-10]]I ICAPI II ASSES Washable Rugged Cap Sunglasses Flip Up/Down Adjust In/Out Snap On/Off Imprints Available Ultra Violet Protected Please send _____________ caps Ive enclosed I @ $795 plus $2 shipping handling I Lens Colors El Amber El Smoke blue I Cap Colors El Black El White El Yellow El Green El Navy blue El Royal blue IEl Maroon ElGrey EJRedI II El Please send information about imprinting PLEASE PRINTI NameI I Addreuu city StateZip ________ RETURN WITH CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY TO PIN-NOt SALES PO Box 647 Ravenna OH 44266 L1 184 Model Aviation Nothing Can Match. Mighty LOVESONG tripped Lovesong has nearly 26 1 max L/D far best US made glider kit among lowest lowest sink rate according results Selig/Donovan/Fraser Princeton tests mighty LOVESONG mightier ever its max [ID about 14% better other competition thermal gilder design Can really afford fly anything less tripped Eppler 214 airfoil proving killer thermal airfoil 90s puts PIXY CAMANO & LOVESONG farther ahead tips up competition Best Designs Airfoil Performance can buy Send 2 stamps comptete multichannel glider catalog bi-annual newsletter Second Wind now availabte $200 per year Front back Camano Pixy & Lovesong Fleet Rich Kardian MO DODGSON DESIGNS 21230 Damson Rd Bothell WA 98021 206776-8067 CHECK EM BOTH OUT NEW STARHAWK BIPLANE NEW MISS STARHAWK POSTER See your Starhawk Dealer details write Thorpe Engineering Corporation 1715 E Fairfield Mesa AZ 85203 Poster $500 P&H Prepaid yuu diS d SIt uuiiunr ui e LrdLuIi uuIIuw uuiwt CUT Tools will save time Remove stubborn die cuts cut own squares slots Made US quality machined nickel plated steel Order set today See Dealer Cataloger Order dent carry 5qaare Cat Teem call pay fur call well pay tar uhipping 115 canadal cOD Entra SQUARE CUT Tools 407 254-0516 N Harbor City Blvd Melbourne FL 32935 Dmmlr/Omtrbuor Inquirhm Invited Flor da Resdents Add 6% sales Ta Yaks/Berliner Continued page 184 vancing world record 474622 mph Still Yaks speed impressive such new different airplane drew lot comment Bob Yancey flew own Yak qual ifying lap 12833 373766 mph obviously slower true top speed airplane illustrated ma jor problem both Yaks As yet no has figured out absorb horse power short propellers required Yaks stubby landing gear full-size Bearcat Skyraider prop would dig deep trench down runway ripping its tips smithereens As heat races began two Yaks drew heavy interest Few crowd ever seen Soviet-built airplane fewer still seen air race Skip Holm among seven fast qualifiers Heat 1-A Thursday September 15 Roaring loose formation down chute rac ers poured coal first long stretch pace-plane pilot Bob Hoover sent way flew around far turns back toward packed stands along crowd line bend hard first turn pack airplanes pylon Holm caught some propwash visibly wob bled quickly pulled wide high continued six-lap race very cautiously though finishing 4059-mph average After race HoIm reportedly told owner very unhappy way Yak handled would fly again Yancey came away better feelings Yak its original no doubt insufficient vertical tail area able fly smoothly no apparent prob lems placed second Heat 1-C 3787 mph case started near back worked way past several ri vals fascinated crowd cheered him Placing well Heat 3-B qualified Yan cey Silver Race first consola tion along seven P-51D Mustangs stock-looking F8F Bearcat Two Mustangs dropped out mechanical trouble Yancey beat two others Bearcat finish fourth place 3865 mph Yak-us didnt set air racing world fire produce much smoke Thats almost always case air plane extensively changed its original form takes years money lots moneyto turn novel idea winner such efforts fail What Yaks did add very col orful new element American air racing entirely too long Unlimited class rac ing has meant Mustangs Bearcats Sea Furys Corsairsdependable steeds offer loads noise excitement seldom bring forth truly original ideas No matter great changes en gines airframes remain modified common warbirds Yak-i other hand rare al point being exotic fas cinate everybody stirring imagination fans potential new competitors alike Since would-be race pilots proba bly bored formulaic types dom inate todays contestsand probably cant afford anywaythe Yak-i i other similar aircraft could offer worthwhile al ternative future Unlimited class racing must other off-brand airplanes out just waiting turned glamo rous racing planes men women clever ideas long-range trend Unlimited class racing seems toward custom-built air planes such increasingly fast Tsunami second time trials 1988 470 mph Pond Racer twin-boom Nissanpowered device being built Burt Rutan Co sheer creativity sort thing hard beat such far-out flying machines having inevitable bugs ironed out theres still big opportunity people vision encompasses broad ex panse existing small clean strong airplanes could converted suc INTERMEDiATE CONTEST/SPORT SAILPLANE DESIGNED TO ALLOW USE OF FLAPS FOR CAMBER CHANGING AND APPROACH CONTROL SPAN 99 INCHES WING PROFILE MODIFIED E1I93 AREA 780 SQUARE INCHES FUNCTIONS RUDDER ELEVATOR FL4PS WEIGIIT 45 OUNCES AND UP MODIFIED SCiIUMAN WING PLANFORM COMPLETE HARDWARE KIT EASY TO REPAIR BALSA/SPRUCE FUSELAGE SOUTH WiN V $7495 US FUNDS plus $600 Shipping Handling Continental US MAX MILLS MODELS 3820 CHERAZ NE 4LBUQUERQUE NM 87111 505- 292-3510 DIVISION OF FULL MOON DESIGNS 0 z 0 Start Flying Right WngI Send $1 00 ck~f control-Me combat specialties Precision quad Wing Cores Con**e Ready-To-Assemble Kits As Low As $3295 4 Texas SlowGotcha 460 Kits 4 Bladders Tubing s Fittings Plans tres etc OflEHOU~ 760 Waltonvile Rd Hummeistown PA 17036 717 566-3810 188 Model Aviation THE SCHNEIDER SPORT SPORT MODEL R/C FLOATPLANE RECOMMENDED ENGINES 45/60 2STROKE 60/80 4STROKE QTF FLOATS INCLUDED LENGTH 34 IN CAP 6/10 LBS SPAN 57 IN AREA 600 SQ IN STREAM INCORPORATED 6048736604DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED UP9K NEWS Vh 2310fi cessful racers Yak-i have carved opening wedge potentially wide field choice former Russian military trainer anything obvious starting point Unlimited racing plane Today looks like possible contender Whats next Leningrad/Rutherford Continued page 71 youngsters participating program offered equal access sup plies successful advance na tional international competition progress through school career interesting thing cant shake loose state apparatus Russia dont just drop local hobby shop need balsa glue So brightest successful like group attending 1989 Nats depend greatly upon Viktor organization furthering participation modeling competition enviable system work individual basis though thats produced enviable quantity World Champions appears too fair amount ded ication common effort expected return support provided week end arrived Leningrad Alexander Giev sky Vladimir Panov Slava Beliaev 1600 miles away home Sverd lovsk competing FM CL Combat meet Now mid-February understand still talking So viet Union winds blowing 1520 mph temperatures fallen -1SF didnt deter 68 hardy mod elers entered two-day contest course World Champs hori zon Beliaev has very strong chance walking away title gives Russians extra incentive competing conditions rugged repre sents pure dedication point some readers no doubt wondering dedication full-time job Yes Ive heard scuttlebutt Soviet national teams made up professional modelers course would explain whomp rivals champs couple years left Russia hoping resolve question came home rather equivocal answer First Soviets attended 1989 Nats currently pro model ersalthough receive state sup port ranging minimal modeling sup plies extensive supplies plus paid travel expenses Most group fact currently involved cooperative capi talist operation must pay itself generating profits trip 1990 AMA Nats will example supported own firm state other hand did meet few re cent World Champs attached large work force 12000 factory em ployed what suppose would call design/prototype building guys ap pear spend lot time making supertricky models such have ready access machine tools could ask course just US indi vidual capable winning FAI competi tion World Champs level can sumed have already acquired truly out standing fabrication metalworking skillstalents ideally suited building pro totypes and/or tool- diework working factory allows par lay expertise developing models factory turn has easy access VINYLWRITE CUSTOM LEITERING Providing elegant time saving economical finishing touch modelers EZ TO APPLY ering comes prespaced prealignedsaving hours cuffing fuss ________________of aligning individual letters decals text custom corn p uter cut 3M Premium cast vinyl l thin olors pe styles including Military Block high NOWAILABLE Stencil 7Mask & 1 Color Outlining Priced right no minimum charge Eg AMA plus number high S [ITiEEcKIi _ PEELOFVThECARRIERTAMI high 2high plus $12SP& H STEP SACK & ADMIRE YOUR WORKCall write complete info otdersprocmsduponrectAMA0 E DONEpack & sample ITS FREE om Letter Today VINYLWRITE Way VINYLWEITE CUSTOM LETE3ING 16043 Tulsa Street Granada Hills CA 91344 8181363-7131 Noonto6PM Pacific Mail order onW CA its add taL July 1990 189 60 LENGTH 47 IN1EIGHT 65 / 70 LB