FIRST The Electric Connection Service huge half-success because have seen succession recent columns have increasing number readers requesting listings may fully successful wont know state being fully successful will occur essentially majority seeking connectdo point time Ive bit feedback concerns augural ECS listing January 90 column came Jim Jansen 6525-43rd Ave Keno sha WI 53142 Jim tells hes heard no won ders hes possibly Electric flier Wis consin about that possible dont believe So lets connect Jim OK Id like very much hear others have listed time goes along ECS useful seeking Elec tric connections find some So please let know now introduce months Elec tric fliers want share hobby oth ers Thomas Bassett 259 Indian Rd Wayne NJ 07470 tel 1-201/839-5830 has some Wet power experience later found out about Electric What cant find someone some club Electric interest think now will Cal Drake PO Box 1557 Morro Bay CA 93442 has benefit other Electric modelers nearby wants expand group Look out Nate RC Scale competitors Bernard Cawley Auburn WA took second 89 Nate electric-powered 1946 Taylorcraft Power geared Astro 40 turnIng Greupner 12 x 7 prop Juice comes 18 Sanyo 1 200-mAh cells metered through Joiner SC4 speed controller Kopski can hardly wait see action Scale 90 Nets Charles Eode 9 Spring St Swonton VT 05488 flying Electric Qlmpic 650 Eclipse Note comparison L between teensy HY-70 VL motor smell Electrics mighty As tro 60 VLs weight about equals prop adapter big guy available smali motors suitable power large variety FF Gas Rubber designsand small RCa right trio 40/50-watt motors small Electrics 6 x 3 prop size comparison Elf 50 Hi Line Silver Streak Peck-Polymers Kyosho AP 29 Kopskis tricky method applying MOnO Kote trim flat single-curvature sur faces Use giue stick Rub back trim piece iightiy put place can move around easily remove times rub hard finger Excess glue wipes up alcohoi tissue Bob says no trapped air bubbles 50 Model Aviation Radio Control Electrics Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdaie PA 19446 THIS MONTHS TOP/CS Electric Connec tion Service 2 connector problem tor industryand plus patent 3 Two Electric meets 4 EM 5 Planes motors balteries propssome reminders 6 Missing mail 7 Some personal notes Its AII-UplLast-Down time 89 Lehigh Valley PA meeta popular fun event Electric meets first Introduced Roland Boucher now president Leisure Electron ics years ago West Coast has popularized KRC Electric Fly meets East Spectators always love mess launch often break cheers Art Garzon 222 Circle Dr Quarryville PA 17566 very special guy Art first three participants first KRC Electric Fly 1980so hes some experience Art has moved wants establish new Electric connections Tell Art Bob sent ya Walter Rady PO Box 282 Newport NH 03773 very much likes Electric Sailpianes finds thermaling cold lot fun Jerry Smart R 3 Box 300 Warsaw MO 65355 lives boonies has lots room flybut no fly Electric Lets change folks David Walker 1223 McNeilly Ave #2 Pitts burgh PA 15216 tel 1-412/563-6109 just re cently flew Electra now hooked Elec trics wants share Electric Elation OK Bill White 1312 SW 11th Oklahoma City OK 73108 two others flying Electric want find interested folks Sounds like club making Jim Wilson 9442 N 35th P1 Phoenix AZ 85028 tel l-/953-9180 [work] interested smaller Electrics OT Gas Rubber repli cas OK everyone else Its up model ers above have done can Now its turn act Go get connected Now Speaking connections Bob Boucher sounds like boo-shay gentleman heads up Astro Flite called chit-chat recently told Astro some other suppliers speed controls having real problem seems modelers get trouble miswiring speed controls wind up blowing devic es miswiring can very easy acciden tally connectors hermaphroditic say connectorsin particular very popular Sermos brandare polarized ie unisex connector fits other connector Since power wiring has two leadsa positive negativeit possible connect type connector gether backwards respect its ing mated Polarized connectors de signed will fit together backwards So mistakenly connects battery speed control output creates some other Continued page 161 4 4 NORTHEAST AERODYNAMICS Inc_______ ARi 11 H ED E 04002 901881 SUPERIOR DESI & CRAFTSMANS DEL- AIRO 9 Finest Kits Youll Ever Buy Build Train-Air 20 Train-AIr 40 Sport-Air 40 Bel-Air 40 40 Hydra-Floats need easy handling superior aerobatic modern looking sport exhibition biplane has filled Eel-Air 60 kit parts biplane tee fine line kite machine Cut assist building real show atopper Bel-Air 80 has fully summetrical wing sectiona gives greateat potential serobatic performance either upright inverted ship capable very slow close-in type flight right up rigorous aerobatic schedule can muster Engine Requirement Wing Span Wing Area Fuselage Length 60 52 935 0 40 SPECIFICATIONS Fuselage Width Weight Range Wing Loading Range 35, 6 75 lbs 148 to 185 207-490-1881 Visa & Mastercard Accepted LIGHTING SYSTEMS ORIGINALS. Still Programmable Flashing Navigation Lights Adjustable Rate Strobe Light Landing Lights Adjustable Rate Mars Rotating Beacon Marine Navigation Lights nonflashing Big Airplane Navigation Lights Econo Landing Lights brightest Real Strobe Light true zenon strobe e SEE YOUR DEALER SEND STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR RAM INFO Best $2495 $1995 $3995 $1995 $1095 $2495 $1995 $2995 THE #RED 01 #RED 02 #RED 03 #RED 04 #RED 05 #RED 14 #RED 16 #RED 23 If unsvllabl6 locally send check money order full credit card info cost item plus $200 $500 foreign immediate shipment Include full address UPS Sorry no 000 Ram 4736 N Milwaukee Ave ago IL 60630 VJofdS r best 5e1iflg Spark 19titl0r Chasan Byron Uriim TG Mtg kM Akcratt Swpy tar its autstmIbIg ruliaty Complete single cylinder system Including throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark spark plug lead25 plug battery pack charger 900 shielded Mtjcii kingar mujis Esa Easy haid statsno Iaakhack AlUMNI RPM ralubim hh e 1030% mars powar fw sejakars C Custom ha8s8jon m Lowupdcsdtualsmimjuopaadada UisIdsdquikpbi96pkiaovsr C FormaIyspusUItqL2&4ssJoka whc*isrs Klotzahiiouhictsavihliis June 1990 51 Sears No 94021 calIper about S16 can great help scratch builders Gradua tions B4ths hundredths inch Bob uses confirm/compare thickness sheet wood squareness stripwood Spat cob qiak phigs disidad phig laud & th*tg kits aviubla examine outer edges envelope $600 Sailplane whats fun theres no risk involved am being bad influ ence again Maybe real fun should watch ing someone else pushing $600 plane limit second reason seems very noticeable undeniable connection tween Slope pilots F3B pilots Most best F3B fliers world also avid Slopers cant help think flying slope has helped make best am saying cant excel F3B being Sloper too think few things learn through Slope flying give advantage over dont Slope Lets face Slope fliers pretty cool charac ters like fly fast direct result conditions slope learn fly smooth ly key being successful type flying Name top pilots world first thing comes mind smoothly fly no herky-jerky wasted motions maneuvers what enables get out planes conditions So what does have average Slopehead dont know exactly guess word going get out sooner later might well fess up tell myself Im getting pretty serious about F3B stuff Although thought Id never admit Ive entered couple thermal contests past few months still feel little nauseous saying word guess theres still some hope Dont worry Sloping has al ways will first love Im excited about challenge F3B offers nothing matches fun can have slope What have noticed guess point Im trying make think ing other types flying overall skills have improved am able use some techniques styles thermaling theres word againsony guys F3B Im slope Just believe Slope flying makes better F3B pilot think F3B fly ing might just make better Slope pilot What think Am just suffering ther mals brain something Yeah noticed makes twice single par agraph Sounds terminal RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 51 mixed-up arrangementguess what Snap Crackle Pop Smoke Anyway increasing number modelers may realize have damaged control manner return controls warranty service Suppliers course ob ligated provide warranty repairs such stances often dont want say no anger customers real dilemma see will result everyone eventually having pay What Im saying speculation can see time suppliers being trapped situations actually responsibility under warranty policies may eventually have no choice raise prod uct prices cover losses Well folks must tell too have made kind mating mistake Sermos connector use Ive done what described above smoked speed control way knew did paid repair published photo page 57 December 89 Model Aviation photo shows stack Sermos connectors cant plug wrong ones together would encourage seriously consider doing own installations Another approach use different colors Sermos connectorsthey available colors direct Sermos Thinking back speed controls Ive seen some supplied just wires places sol der wires course connectors must added Several supplied Sermos con nectors Some supplied Tamiya pairs mostly RC car speed controls Reflecting what Ive seen field especially KRC Electric Fly field nearly 300 planes placeby far popular con nector system Sermos Given level us age likely quite few mishaps Whyit could happen Think about mistake mating wrong polarities pair Sermos connectors type connec tor possible can instantly destroy MOSFETs metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistorsEd controland big-time bucks h damage point might suggest dustry learn just say no such unjustified warranty work alternatively might least offer such repairs compromise price set period time Im picking unlucky folks just happen plug something together wrong like myselfi rather Im trying help everyone long run everyone indus try adopts uniform approach problem no single supplier becomes bad guy ulti mately everyone should benefit Finally thought speed control man ufacturers routinely supply Sermos connec tors products what Ive reported June 1990 161 $1995 IDEO REVIEW$1995 THE CLOUD DANCERS INTERNATIONAL R/C SHOW TEAM MEET THE WORLD RENOWNED CLOUD DANCERS SEE THE EXCITING FOOTAGE OF THEIR F- 15 EAGLES GIANT SCALE WARBIRDS JUMPERS AND THE FAMOUS FLYING MACHINE MUST FOR YOUR VIDEO COLLECTION! 1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES OF THE CLOUD DANCERS INACTION FINISHED PRODUCT !FL VING! VOL3 IN-DEPTH KIT AND PRODUCT REVIEWS BUILDING SEGMENTS AND EXCITING FLYING SCENES FEATURING SLJ-ERLUCKYFLY 2JOE PINKSTON ARF SPORT LOW WING AIRPLANE D & R AIRCRAFTS 1/5TH P47 INNOVATIVE MODELS MASTER SCALE HURRICANEPICAS NEW 15TH SCALE SPJTFJREINNOVATIVE MODELS SAAB GRIPENFORMERLY MIKES MODELS SATELLITE CITYS UFO GLUEALSO ROBINAIRES CUSTOM RETRACT SYSTEM APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES SAVE APPROXIMATELY $3eoee WITH MANUFACTURERS DISCOUNT COUPONS INCLUDED IN VOLUME 3 AVAILABLE ONLY FROM RC VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE 13360 KINGSBURY DR WEST PALM BEACH FL 33414 e 407 7903435 EACH TAPE $1995 PLUS $250 SHIPPING AND HANDLING CANADIAN ADD $600 FLORIDA ORDERS ADD 6% SALES TAX VISA AND MASTERCHARGE ALSO AVAILABLE ARE VOLUMES 1 AND 2 KING ORANGE AND JETS OVER DELAND NOW AVAILABLE TED AMOUNT OF YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 5 FOR SIX VOLUMES PLUS S & H SEE IT ON VIDEO FROM BOX TO GATOR RIC PRODUCTS DELUX ALL BALSA KIT An new Tiger tail 120 four strokes piped 60 two strokes beautiful performer competition just showing of/I balsa kit machined wood parts complete hardware package includes plug-in tcljustable stab parts new wing mounts Wing Span -72 inWing Ar.a 860 sq Complete Delux KitSi 5995 TRANSMITTER CASE An inexpensive rugged molded case protect expensive transmitter both two stick single stick transmitters Black leather grain aluminum trim locking clasp 51995 MV-I TYPHOON New F3A competition Big beautiful flyer balsa construction plug-in wings 120 four stroke 60 two stroke power Plans-two sheetsS 1495 Fiberglass cowlSi 895 Clear butyrate canopy. $ 995 OTHER PLANS Tiger Tail 4S-two sheets 120 four strokes$1495 TAR baby 120 four strokesSi 195 Alley 40 size trainer sport$ 895 Gator Flea 40 size sportS 895 Bobcat 40 size sport$ 895 feather Ilte glass cloth 7 ozsq yd est weave Fastest Filling est Finished Weight Big 3 Sq Yard Pkg Detailed Instructions $895 Include $2 SO/Item UPS esidents Add 6% Sales Tax GATOR RIC PRODUCTS 3713 Pompano Dr acola FL 32514 476-8639 FLY ONLY THE BEST 1fu AVAILABLE NOW Vibration Absorbing Mounts Large Engines 12-18 Beam Mount SoftMount gives very soft mount ing large engines excessive engine shake idle undesireable engine thrust line deflection under high-G maneuvers SoftMount system very soft engine neutral position provide su perior vibration damping high RPM SoftMount system prevents large engine position deflection because rapidly becomes much stiffer engine deflected its neutral position Vibration mounts loaded com pression shear Thrust forces cant cause tension failures Light weight--less standard alu minum hard mount Allows lighter front end construction oftware ssociates SIZE RADIAL BEAM 40-65 $2195 $2395 70-11 $2495 $2695 12-18 $2695 $3195 10319 Pine Pass Dr TO 0/IDEA CALLHouston TX 77070 713-482-7744 Mon-Sat 9-9 CST above fact large problem supply controls Sermos connectors already cross-stacked glued together pairs course would best everybody could industry wide agreement details everything interchangeable Id happy provide column coverage pur pose believe other columnists would well way same conversation Bob told invented speed controls Electrics quite some time ago holds patent didnt know Im surprised Astro did great deal early days Electric ie early Seventies may know time both Bob brother Roland Astro Roland Boucher now gentle man heads up Leisure Electronics [of Amp tique fame] competitor Astro another very key supplier Electric hobby ist Frankly friends suspect brothers Boucher would no Elec tric America weve come know en joy Thanks guys Upcoming electric meets Burlington County RC Club New Jer sey planning hold its second annual Electric meet July 14 1990 fun-fly format goodies attended first Im sure planning attend second info write CD Bob Afflerback 123 Harring ton Circle Willingboro NJ 08046 Late word just Bob Ortman 631 Sobrato Way Campbell CA 95008 relative first annual Tomcats Electric RC Carnival scheduled Saturday June 16 1990 San Jose CA area Contact either Bob 1-408/3793864 CD Brian Nelson 1-408/629-2827 info Speaking meets brings out reminder Last year big Electric first ever biggest gathering allthe AMA Nats Bernard Caw ley Auburn WA took second Sport Scale Sporstman class Electric December 89 issue covered this month Im includ ing photo circumstance just remind everyone Electric up-and-coming area modeldom watchand watch out re wet competitor letters EAA look familiar two EAAsone organization dedicated full-scale aircraft Experimental Aircraft Associa tion other very own AMA Special Interest Groupthe Electric Aeromodeling Asso ciation Special Interest Group just what name implies quite few eg Sailplanes Scale Pylon etc listed back cover 1990 AMA Membership Manual EAA established AMA SIG several years ago has precepts follows promote Electric flight through competi tion through advancing state art mod els motors related accessories invite contribute effort through technical articles through discussions new tech niques E-power taken EAA newsletter Silent Fly Sheet now more-or-less regular news letter past seemed more-or-less ir regular got letters about Anyway Si lent Fly Sheet has routinely appearing mail recently attributable Acting Editor Robert Sliff think Bob just also happens EAAs president well Anyway addi tion Silent Fly Sheet becoming regular recent issues have some real meaty stuff fer such contributors Keith Shawa name unknown readers column can join EAA just $10 annually doing receive newsletter Support Electric general adding yourself voice ranks AMA SIG SIG should democratically represent its member ships wishes AMA thereby influence such things AMA Electric ruleswhich fact EAA has done past plenty opportunity EAA things common good relatively new Electric field Id like see spearhead movement establish meaning ful motor specification/rating system What think about folks can tell EAAafter join Any AMA member can join EAA writ ing Electric Aeromodeling Association PO Box 9 Midway City CA 92655and tell em Bob sent ya Planes motors batteries props recently some pleasant communication Don Srull Hi Line Ltd Hi Line manufactures line small motors small Electrics include Mini 6 IMP 30 ELF 50 Corres ponding operating power levels 6 30 50 watts respectively Other small power systems supplied VL Peck quite few products market inter ested relatively small light Electrics both RC FF persuasion Anyway Don tells some folks experi ence disappointing performance small sys tems Don have tell some folks would experience disappointing performance system seems some modelers have quite caught some basic guidelines Electric Elationthat first-time continu 162 Model Aviation Available YS-60 os-ito$1495 SOFT MOUNT COMPONENTS 4-lug Mounting Plate 6061-T-6 black anodized Undrilled. S 5955695 Rubber Iso-Mounts 5/82 female end 832 x liz maicsoft 50 durometer-yellow firm 160 d. Each. 53OOPkgof 4 $995 summer 1940 Jim Walker introduced A-J Fireball U-Control world Countless thousands got first taste model aviation excitement building flying famous airplane 10 commemorate 50th Anniversary birth A-J Fireball proudly announce special limited-edition kit Jim Walkers 1940 original kit contains U fully carved Balsa fusealage Balsa wing tail parts cut shape U hardware hardwood motor mount U decals U complete instructions illustrations U brief history A-J Fireball Offered limited edition 50th Anniversary A-J Fireball numbered dated signed just like kits first produced 1940 can make 60 kits available per month order yours TODAY YES Enclosed check money order $17950 YES cant decide Please send information A-J Manufacturing Inc PO Box 68132 Portland OR 97268 503 653-2038 CAN j0 0 ing success E-power So minireview Build light means keep weight down dont build weak Strength needed light weight everywhere per sonal view Fractional ounces countthey add up especially noticeable small Elec trics completed model may weigh 6-16 oz total Use good quality batteries handle properly small power systems often use 100- 500-mAh cells may tempting use leftovers some less demanding applica tion may help ensure disappointment Finally resist age-old temptation Dont overprop think bigger prop will surely make betterthink again guess simplest summary way put together Follow instructions year hope get seriously some mini-Electrics have some products mentioned above yearning return some childhood designslike Baby Phoenix maybe Zeek maybe PAA-Master maybe Some mail missingand maybe its yours Ive recently become aware some incoming mail having gone astray letters re member arriving sometime around winter hol idays have disappeared activity season letters reader letters to daughtersreference January 90 cover magazine wrote around time havent received reply please write again Im sorry happened apologize inconvenience Thank Some personal notes time year end February/beginning March sort anni versary time year time 18 years ago first successful Electric flight shoulder-high sorta radiocontrolled circle immediately followed pow ered sink time year seven years ago go ing through agonizing tempting decisionmaking period opportunity write Electric series Model Aviation handful folks encouraging wife Wilma friend Herb Carl Wheeley John Grigg John Worth some others No discouraging uncertain Unsure Afraid Inexperi enced tempted say no tempted say yes Well know what happened looking back have say Im very fortu nate guy opportunity folks encouraging feel somehow made right choice Most important however hope made right choice seems case evidenced hundreds letters receive annually Very friendly letters Thankful letters Questioning let ters Letters offering info Letters offering chal lenge Letters promoting thought Letters suggest ing topics column Letters kids Let ters senior kids-at-heart Great letters very few folks fortunate I want thank anniversary time year being much part small Electric endeavor Model Aviation myself always please remember thing side pages Im just like Im modeler Im human Sometimes miss land ing sometimes get something col umn quite right orperhapsnot everyones liking have word will always very best job can Electric consumer supplier casual observer comment critique welcome will attempt answer questions accompanied SASE Please send author ad dress shown columns header time read should Happy Springtime Happy Electric Flying Thats what hobbys HAPPY RC Scale/Crooks Continued page 53 ing Since model will sprayed later clear imperfections can touched up sanded now will virtually disappear clear-coated event have fiberglass fuselage accurate panel lines molded Yellow Air craft & Hobby Supply Ltd s F-16 stance hard work has done Now go directly paint/tape/paint routine dramatic effect Heres suggestion priming fiber glass fuse molded-in detail infinitely better results will obtained primer sprayed brushed Very little primer will required detail wont lost procedure has added benefit making pinholes visible can filled easily Again K&B primer choice never-ending search documentation found source might help Navy has department Washington DC has copies Continued page 167 June 1990 163
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/06
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FIRST The Electric Connection Service huge half-success because have seen succession recent columns have increasing number readers requesting listings may fully successful wont know state being fully successful will occur essentially majority seeking connectdo point time Ive bit feedback concerns augural ECS listing January 90 column came Jim Jansen 6525-43rd Ave Keno sha WI 53142 Jim tells hes heard no won ders hes possibly Electric flier Wis consin about that possible dont believe So lets connect Jim OK Id like very much hear others have listed time goes along ECS useful seeking Elec tric connections find some So please let know now introduce months Elec tric fliers want share hobby oth ers Thomas Bassett 259 Indian Rd Wayne NJ 07470 tel 1-201/839-5830 has some Wet power experience later found out about Electric What cant find someone some club Electric interest think now will Cal Drake PO Box 1557 Morro Bay CA 93442 has benefit other Electric modelers nearby wants expand group Look out Nate RC Scale competitors Bernard Cawley Auburn WA took second 89 Nate electric-powered 1946 Taylorcraft Power geared Astro 40 turnIng Greupner 12 x 7 prop Juice comes 18 Sanyo 1 200-mAh cells metered through Joiner SC4 speed controller Kopski can hardly wait see action Scale 90 Nets Charles Eode 9 Spring St Swonton VT 05488 flying Electric Qlmpic 650 Eclipse Note comparison L between teensy HY-70 VL motor smell Electrics mighty As tro 60 VLs weight about equals prop adapter big guy available smali motors suitable power large variety FF Gas Rubber designsand small RCa right trio 40/50-watt motors small Electrics 6 x 3 prop size comparison Elf 50 Hi Line Silver Streak Peck-Polymers Kyosho AP 29 Kopskis tricky method applying MOnO Kote trim flat single-curvature sur faces Use giue stick Rub back trim piece iightiy put place can move around easily remove times rub hard finger Excess glue wipes up alcohoi tissue Bob says no trapped air bubbles 50 Model Aviation Radio Control Electrics Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdaie PA 19446 THIS MONTHS TOP/CS Electric Connec tion Service 2 connector problem tor industryand plus patent 3 Two Electric meets 4 EM 5 Planes motors balteries propssome reminders 6 Missing mail 7 Some personal notes Its AII-UplLast-Down time 89 Lehigh Valley PA meeta popular fun event Electric meets first Introduced Roland Boucher now president Leisure Electron ics years ago West Coast has popularized KRC Electric Fly meets East Spectators always love mess launch often break cheers Art Garzon 222 Circle Dr Quarryville PA 17566 very special guy Art first three participants first KRC Electric Fly 1980so hes some experience Art has moved wants establish new Electric connections Tell Art Bob sent ya Walter Rady PO Box 282 Newport NH 03773 very much likes Electric Sailpianes finds thermaling cold lot fun Jerry Smart R 3 Box 300 Warsaw MO 65355 lives boonies has lots room flybut no fly Electric Lets change folks David Walker 1223 McNeilly Ave #2 Pitts burgh PA 15216 tel 1-412/563-6109 just re cently flew Electra now hooked Elec trics wants share Electric Elation OK Bill White 1312 SW 11th Oklahoma City OK 73108 two others flying Electric want find interested folks Sounds like club making Jim Wilson 9442 N 35th P1 Phoenix AZ 85028 tel l-/953-9180 [work] interested smaller Electrics OT Gas Rubber repli cas OK everyone else Its up model ers above have done can Now its turn act Go get connected Now Speaking connections Bob Boucher sounds like boo-shay gentleman heads up Astro Flite called chit-chat recently told Astro some other suppliers speed controls having real problem seems modelers get trouble miswiring speed controls wind up blowing devic es miswiring can very easy acciden tally connectors hermaphroditic say connectorsin particular very popular Sermos brandare polarized ie unisex connector fits other connector Since power wiring has two leadsa positive negativeit possible connect type connector gether backwards respect its ing mated Polarized connectors de signed will fit together backwards So mistakenly connects battery speed control output creates some other Continued page 161 4 4 NORTHEAST AERODYNAMICS Inc_______ ARi 11 H ED E 04002 901881 SUPERIOR DESI & CRAFTSMANS DEL- AIRO 9 Finest Kits Youll Ever Buy Build Train-Air 20 Train-AIr 40 Sport-Air 40 Bel-Air 40 40 Hydra-Floats need easy handling superior aerobatic modern looking sport exhibition biplane has filled Eel-Air 60 kit parts biplane tee fine line kite machine Cut assist building real show atopper Bel-Air 80 has fully summetrical wing sectiona gives greateat potential serobatic performance either upright inverted ship capable very slow close-in type flight right up rigorous aerobatic schedule can muster Engine Requirement Wing Span Wing Area Fuselage Length 60 52 935 0 40 SPECIFICATIONS Fuselage Width Weight Range Wing Loading Range 35, 6 75 lbs 148 to 185 207-490-1881 Visa & Mastercard Accepted LIGHTING SYSTEMS ORIGINALS. Still Programmable Flashing Navigation Lights Adjustable Rate Strobe Light Landing Lights Adjustable Rate Mars Rotating Beacon Marine Navigation Lights nonflashing Big Airplane Navigation Lights Econo Landing Lights brightest Real Strobe Light true zenon strobe e SEE YOUR DEALER SEND STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR RAM INFO Best $2495 $1995 $3995 $1995 $1095 $2495 $1995 $2995 THE #RED 01 #RED 02 #RED 03 #RED 04 #RED 05 #RED 14 #RED 16 #RED 23 If unsvllabl6 locally send check money order full credit card info cost item plus $200 $500 foreign immediate shipment Include full address UPS Sorry no 000 Ram 4736 N Milwaukee Ave ago IL 60630 VJofdS r best 5e1iflg Spark 19titl0r Chasan Byron Uriim TG Mtg kM Akcratt Swpy tar its autstmIbIg ruliaty Complete single cylinder system Including throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark spark plug lead25 plug battery pack charger 900 shielded Mtjcii kingar mujis Esa Easy haid statsno Iaakhack AlUMNI RPM ralubim hh e 1030% mars powar fw sejakars C Custom ha8s8jon m Lowupdcsdtualsmimjuopaadada UisIdsdquikpbi96pkiaovsr C FormaIyspusUItqL2&4ssJoka whc*isrs Klotzahiiouhictsavihliis June 1990 51 Sears No 94021 calIper about S16 can great help scratch builders Gradua tions B4ths hundredths inch Bob uses confirm/compare thickness sheet wood squareness stripwood Spat cob qiak phigs disidad phig laud & th*tg kits aviubla examine outer edges envelope $600 Sailplane whats fun theres no risk involved am being bad influ ence again Maybe real fun should watch ing someone else pushing $600 plane limit second reason seems very noticeable undeniable connection tween Slope pilots F3B pilots Most best F3B fliers world also avid Slopers cant help think flying slope has helped make best am saying cant excel F3B being Sloper too think few things learn through Slope flying give advantage over dont Slope Lets face Slope fliers pretty cool charac ters like fly fast direct result conditions slope learn fly smooth ly key being successful type flying Name top pilots world first thing comes mind smoothly fly no herky-jerky wasted motions maneuvers what enables get out planes conditions So what does have average Slopehead dont know exactly guess word going get out sooner later might well fess up tell myself Im getting pretty serious about F3B stuff Although thought Id never admit Ive entered couple thermal contests past few months still feel little nauseous saying word guess theres still some hope Dont worry Sloping has al ways will first love Im excited about challenge F3B offers nothing matches fun can have slope What have noticed guess point Im trying make think ing other types flying overall skills have improved am able use some techniques styles thermaling theres word againsony guys F3B Im slope Just believe Slope flying makes better F3B pilot think F3B fly ing might just make better Slope pilot What think Am just suffering ther mals brain something Yeah noticed makes twice single par agraph Sounds terminal RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 51 mixed-up arrangementguess what Snap Crackle Pop Smoke Anyway increasing number modelers may realize have damaged control manner return controls warranty service Suppliers course ob ligated provide warranty repairs such stances often dont want say no anger customers real dilemma see will result everyone eventually having pay What Im saying speculation can see time suppliers being trapped situations actually responsibility under warranty policies may eventually have no choice raise prod uct prices cover losses Well folks must tell too have made kind mating mistake Sermos connector use Ive done what described above smoked speed control way knew did paid repair published photo page 57 December 89 Model Aviation photo shows stack Sermos connectors cant plug wrong ones together would encourage seriously consider doing own installations Another approach use different colors Sermos connectorsthey available colors direct Sermos Thinking back speed controls Ive seen some supplied just wires places sol der wires course connectors must added Several supplied Sermos con nectors Some supplied Tamiya pairs mostly RC car speed controls Reflecting what Ive seen field especially KRC Electric Fly field nearly 300 planes placeby far popular con nector system Sermos Given level us age likely quite few mishaps Whyit could happen Think about mistake mating wrong polarities pair Sermos connectors type connec tor possible can instantly destroy MOSFETs metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistorsEd controland big-time bucks h damage point might suggest dustry learn just say no such unjustified warranty work alternatively might least offer such repairs compromise price set period time Im picking unlucky folks just happen plug something together wrong like myselfi rather Im trying help everyone long run everyone indus try adopts uniform approach problem no single supplier becomes bad guy ulti mately everyone should benefit Finally thought speed control man ufacturers routinely supply Sermos connec tors products what Ive reported June 1990 161 $1995 IDEO REVIEW$1995 THE CLOUD DANCERS INTERNATIONAL R/C SHOW TEAM MEET THE WORLD RENOWNED CLOUD DANCERS SEE THE EXCITING FOOTAGE OF THEIR F- 15 EAGLES GIANT SCALE WARBIRDS JUMPERS AND THE FAMOUS FLYING MACHINE MUST FOR YOUR VIDEO COLLECTION! 1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES OF THE CLOUD DANCERS INACTION FINISHED PRODUCT !FL VING! VOL3 IN-DEPTH KIT AND PRODUCT REVIEWS BUILDING SEGMENTS AND EXCITING FLYING SCENES FEATURING SLJ-ERLUCKYFLY 2JOE PINKSTON ARF SPORT LOW WING AIRPLANE D & R AIRCRAFTS 1/5TH P47 INNOVATIVE MODELS MASTER SCALE HURRICANEPICAS NEW 15TH SCALE SPJTFJREINNOVATIVE MODELS SAAB GRIPENFORMERLY MIKES MODELS SATELLITE CITYS UFO GLUEALSO ROBINAIRES CUSTOM RETRACT SYSTEM APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES SAVE APPROXIMATELY $3eoee WITH MANUFACTURERS DISCOUNT COUPONS INCLUDED IN VOLUME 3 AVAILABLE ONLY FROM RC VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE 13360 KINGSBURY DR WEST PALM BEACH FL 33414 e 407 7903435 EACH TAPE $1995 PLUS $250 SHIPPING AND HANDLING CANADIAN ADD $600 FLORIDA ORDERS ADD 6% SALES TAX VISA AND MASTERCHARGE ALSO AVAILABLE ARE VOLUMES 1 AND 2 KING ORANGE AND JETS OVER DELAND NOW AVAILABLE TED AMOUNT OF YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 5 FOR SIX VOLUMES PLUS S & H SEE IT ON VIDEO FROM BOX TO GATOR RIC PRODUCTS DELUX ALL BALSA KIT An new Tiger tail 120 four strokes piped 60 two strokes beautiful performer competition just showing of/I balsa kit machined wood parts complete hardware package includes plug-in tcljustable stab parts new wing mounts Wing Span -72 inWing Ar.a 860 sq Complete Delux KitSi 5995 TRANSMITTER CASE An inexpensive rugged molded case protect expensive transmitter both two stick single stick transmitters Black leather grain aluminum trim locking clasp 51995 MV-I TYPHOON New F3A competition Big beautiful flyer balsa construction plug-in wings 120 four stroke 60 two stroke power Plans-two sheetsS 1495 Fiberglass cowlSi 895 Clear butyrate canopy. $ 995 OTHER PLANS Tiger Tail 4S-two sheets 120 four strokes$1495 TAR baby 120 four strokesSi 195 Alley 40 size trainer sport$ 895 Gator Flea 40 size sportS 895 Bobcat 40 size sport$ 895 feather Ilte glass cloth 7 ozsq yd est weave Fastest Filling est Finished Weight Big 3 Sq Yard Pkg Detailed Instructions $895 Include $2 SO/Item UPS esidents Add 6% Sales Tax GATOR RIC PRODUCTS 3713 Pompano Dr acola FL 32514 476-8639 FLY ONLY THE BEST 1fu AVAILABLE NOW Vibration Absorbing Mounts Large Engines 12-18 Beam Mount SoftMount gives very soft mount ing large engines excessive engine shake idle undesireable engine thrust line deflection under high-G maneuvers SoftMount system very soft engine neutral position provide su perior vibration damping high RPM SoftMount system prevents large engine position deflection because rapidly becomes much stiffer engine deflected its neutral position Vibration mounts loaded com pression shear Thrust forces cant cause tension failures Light weight--less standard alu minum hard mount Allows lighter front end construction oftware ssociates SIZE RADIAL BEAM 40-65 $2195 $2395 70-11 $2495 $2695 12-18 $2695 $3195 10319 Pine Pass Dr TO 0/IDEA CALLHouston TX 77070 713-482-7744 Mon-Sat 9-9 CST above fact large problem supply controls Sermos connectors already cross-stacked glued together pairs course would best everybody could industry wide agreement details everything interchangeable Id happy provide column coverage pur pose believe other columnists would well way same conversation Bob told invented speed controls Electrics quite some time ago holds patent didnt know Im surprised Astro did great deal early days Electric ie early Seventies may know time both Bob brother Roland Astro Roland Boucher now gentle man heads up Leisure Electronics [of Amp tique fame] competitor Astro another very key supplier Electric hobby ist Frankly friends suspect brothers Boucher would no Elec tric America weve come know en joy Thanks guys Upcoming electric meets Burlington County RC Club New Jer sey planning hold its second annual Electric meet July 14 1990 fun-fly format goodies attended first Im sure planning attend second info write CD Bob Afflerback 123 Harring ton Circle Willingboro NJ 08046 Late word just Bob Ortman 631 Sobrato Way Campbell CA 95008 relative first annual Tomcats Electric RC Carnival scheduled Saturday June 16 1990 San Jose CA area Contact either Bob 1-408/3793864 CD Brian Nelson 1-408/629-2827 info Speaking meets brings out reminder Last year big Electric first ever biggest gathering allthe AMA Nats Bernard Caw ley Auburn WA took second Sport Scale Sporstman class Electric December 89 issue covered this month Im includ ing photo circumstance just remind everyone Electric up-and-coming area modeldom watchand watch out re wet competitor letters EAA look familiar two EAAsone organization dedicated full-scale aircraft Experimental Aircraft Associa tion other very own AMA Special Interest Groupthe Electric Aeromodeling Asso ciation Special Interest Group just what name implies quite few eg Sailplanes Scale Pylon etc listed back cover 1990 AMA Membership Manual EAA established AMA SIG several years ago has precepts follows promote Electric flight through competi tion through advancing state art mod els motors related accessories invite contribute effort through technical articles through discussions new tech niques E-power taken EAA newsletter Silent Fly Sheet now more-or-less regular news letter past seemed more-or-less ir regular got letters about Anyway Si lent Fly Sheet has routinely appearing mail recently attributable Acting Editor Robert Sliff think Bob just also happens EAAs president well Anyway addi tion Silent Fly Sheet becoming regular recent issues have some real meaty stuff fer such contributors Keith Shawa name unknown readers column can join EAA just $10 annually doing receive newsletter Support Electric general adding yourself voice ranks AMA SIG SIG should democratically represent its member ships wishes AMA thereby influence such things AMA Electric ruleswhich fact EAA has done past plenty opportunity EAA things common good relatively new Electric field Id like see spearhead movement establish meaning ful motor specification/rating system What think about folks can tell EAAafter join Any AMA member can join EAA writ ing Electric Aeromodeling Association PO Box 9 Midway City CA 92655and tell em Bob sent ya Planes motors batteries props recently some pleasant communication Don Srull Hi Line Ltd Hi Line manufactures line small motors small Electrics include Mini 6 IMP 30 ELF 50 Corres ponding operating power levels 6 30 50 watts respectively Other small power systems supplied VL Peck quite few products market inter ested relatively small light Electrics both RC FF persuasion Anyway Don tells some folks experi ence disappointing performance small sys tems Don have tell some folks would experience disappointing performance system seems some modelers have quite caught some basic guidelines Electric Elationthat first-time continu 162 Model Aviation Available YS-60 os-ito$1495 SOFT MOUNT COMPONENTS 4-lug Mounting Plate 6061-T-6 black anodized Undrilled. S 5955695 Rubber Iso-Mounts 5/82 female end 832 x liz maicsoft 50 durometer-yellow firm 160 d. Each. 53OOPkgof 4 $995 summer 1940 Jim Walker introduced A-J Fireball U-Control world Countless thousands got first taste model aviation excitement building flying famous airplane 10 commemorate 50th Anniversary birth A-J Fireball proudly announce special limited-edition kit Jim Walkers 1940 original kit contains U fully carved Balsa fusealage Balsa wing tail parts cut shape U hardware hardwood motor mount U decals U complete instructions illustrations U brief history A-J Fireball Offered limited edition 50th Anniversary A-J Fireball numbered dated signed just like kits first produced 1940 can make 60 kits available per month order yours TODAY YES Enclosed check money order $17950 YES cant decide Please send information A-J Manufacturing Inc PO Box 68132 Portland OR 97268 503 653-2038 CAN j0 0 ing success E-power So minireview Build light means keep weight down dont build weak Strength needed light weight everywhere per sonal view Fractional ounces countthey add up especially noticeable small Elec trics completed model may weigh 6-16 oz total Use good quality batteries handle properly small power systems often use 100- 500-mAh cells may tempting use leftovers some less demanding applica tion may help ensure disappointment Finally resist age-old temptation Dont overprop think bigger prop will surely make betterthink again guess simplest summary way put together Follow instructions year hope get seriously some mini-Electrics have some products mentioned above yearning return some childhood designslike Baby Phoenix maybe Zeek maybe PAA-Master maybe Some mail missingand maybe its yours Ive recently become aware some incoming mail having gone astray letters re member arriving sometime around winter hol idays have disappeared activity season letters reader letters to daughtersreference January 90 cover magazine wrote around time havent received reply please write again Im sorry happened apologize inconvenience Thank Some personal notes time year end February/beginning March sort anni versary time year time 18 years ago first successful Electric flight shoulder-high sorta radiocontrolled circle immediately followed pow ered sink time year seven years ago go ing through agonizing tempting decisionmaking period opportunity write Electric series Model Aviation handful folks encouraging wife Wilma friend Herb Carl Wheeley John Grigg John Worth some others No discouraging uncertain Unsure Afraid Inexperi enced tempted say no tempted say yes Well know what happened looking back have say Im very fortu nate guy opportunity folks encouraging feel somehow made right choice Most important however hope made right choice seems case evidenced hundreds letters receive annually Very friendly letters Thankful letters Questioning let ters Letters offering info Letters offering chal lenge Letters promoting thought Letters suggest ing topics column Letters kids Let ters senior kids-at-heart Great letters very few folks fortunate I want thank anniversary time year being much part small Electric endeavor Model Aviation myself always please remember thing side pages Im just like Im modeler Im human Sometimes miss land ing sometimes get something col umn quite right orperhapsnot everyones liking have word will always very best job can Electric consumer supplier casual observer comment critique welcome will attempt answer questions accompanied SASE Please send author ad dress shown columns header time read should Happy Springtime Happy Electric Flying Thats what hobbys HAPPY RC Scale/Crooks Continued page 53 ing Since model will sprayed later clear imperfections can touched up sanded now will virtually disappear clear-coated event have fiberglass fuselage accurate panel lines molded Yellow Air craft & Hobby Supply Ltd s F-16 stance hard work has done Now go directly paint/tape/paint routine dramatic effect Heres suggestion priming fiber glass fuse molded-in detail infinitely better results will obtained primer sprayed brushed Very little primer will required detail wont lost procedure has added benefit making pinholes visible can filled easily Again K&B primer choice never-ending search documentation found source might help Navy has department Washington DC has copies Continued page 167 June 1990 163
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/06
Page Numbers: 50, 51, 161, 162, 163
FIRST The Electric Connection Service huge half-success because have seen succession recent columns have increasing number readers requesting listings may fully successful wont know state being fully successful will occur essentially majority seeking connectdo point time Ive bit feedback concerns augural ECS listing January 90 column came Jim Jansen 6525-43rd Ave Keno sha WI 53142 Jim tells hes heard no won ders hes possibly Electric flier Wis consin about that possible dont believe So lets connect Jim OK Id like very much hear others have listed time goes along ECS useful seeking Elec tric connections find some So please let know now introduce months Elec tric fliers want share hobby oth ers Thomas Bassett 259 Indian Rd Wayne NJ 07470 tel 1-201/839-5830 has some Wet power experience later found out about Electric What cant find someone some club Electric interest think now will Cal Drake PO Box 1557 Morro Bay CA 93442 has benefit other Electric modelers nearby wants expand group Look out Nate RC Scale competitors Bernard Cawley Auburn WA took second 89 Nate electric-powered 1946 Taylorcraft Power geared Astro 40 turnIng Greupner 12 x 7 prop Juice comes 18 Sanyo 1 200-mAh cells metered through Joiner SC4 speed controller Kopski can hardly wait see action Scale 90 Nets Charles Eode 9 Spring St Swonton VT 05488 flying Electric Qlmpic 650 Eclipse Note comparison L between teensy HY-70 VL motor smell Electrics mighty As tro 60 VLs weight about equals prop adapter big guy available smali motors suitable power large variety FF Gas Rubber designsand small RCa right trio 40/50-watt motors small Electrics 6 x 3 prop size comparison Elf 50 Hi Line Silver Streak Peck-Polymers Kyosho AP 29 Kopskis tricky method applying MOnO Kote trim flat single-curvature sur faces Use giue stick Rub back trim piece iightiy put place can move around easily remove times rub hard finger Excess glue wipes up alcohoi tissue Bob says no trapped air bubbles 50 Model Aviation Radio Control Electrics Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdaie PA 19446 THIS MONTHS TOP/CS Electric Connec tion Service 2 connector problem tor industryand plus patent 3 Two Electric meets 4 EM 5 Planes motors balteries propssome reminders 6 Missing mail 7 Some personal notes Its AII-UplLast-Down time 89 Lehigh Valley PA meeta popular fun event Electric meets first Introduced Roland Boucher now president Leisure Electron ics years ago West Coast has popularized KRC Electric Fly meets East Spectators always love mess launch often break cheers Art Garzon 222 Circle Dr Quarryville PA 17566 very special guy Art first three participants first KRC Electric Fly 1980so hes some experience Art has moved wants establish new Electric connections Tell Art Bob sent ya Walter Rady PO Box 282 Newport NH 03773 very much likes Electric Sailpianes finds thermaling cold lot fun Jerry Smart R 3 Box 300 Warsaw MO 65355 lives boonies has lots room flybut no fly Electric Lets change folks David Walker 1223 McNeilly Ave #2 Pitts burgh PA 15216 tel 1-412/563-6109 just re cently flew Electra now hooked Elec trics wants share Electric Elation OK Bill White 1312 SW 11th Oklahoma City OK 73108 two others flying Electric want find interested folks Sounds like club making Jim Wilson 9442 N 35th P1 Phoenix AZ 85028 tel l-/953-9180 [work] interested smaller Electrics OT Gas Rubber repli cas OK everyone else Its up model ers above have done can Now its turn act Go get connected Now Speaking connections Bob Boucher sounds like boo-shay gentleman heads up Astro Flite called chit-chat recently told Astro some other suppliers speed controls having real problem seems modelers get trouble miswiring speed controls wind up blowing devic es miswiring can very easy acciden tally connectors hermaphroditic say connectorsin particular very popular Sermos brandare polarized ie unisex connector fits other connector Since power wiring has two leadsa positive negativeit possible connect type connector gether backwards respect its ing mated Polarized connectors de signed will fit together backwards So mistakenly connects battery speed control output creates some other Continued page 161 4 4 NORTHEAST AERODYNAMICS Inc_______ ARi 11 H ED E 04002 901881 SUPERIOR DESI & CRAFTSMANS DEL- AIRO 9 Finest Kits Youll Ever Buy Build Train-Air 20 Train-AIr 40 Sport-Air 40 Bel-Air 40 40 Hydra-Floats need easy handling superior aerobatic modern looking sport exhibition biplane has filled Eel-Air 60 kit parts biplane tee fine line kite machine Cut assist building real show atopper Bel-Air 80 has fully summetrical wing sectiona gives greateat potential serobatic performance either upright inverted ship capable very slow close-in type flight right up rigorous aerobatic schedule can muster Engine Requirement Wing Span Wing Area Fuselage Length 60 52 935 0 40 SPECIFICATIONS Fuselage Width Weight Range Wing Loading Range 35, 6 75 lbs 148 to 185 207-490-1881 Visa & Mastercard Accepted LIGHTING SYSTEMS ORIGINALS. Still Programmable Flashing Navigation Lights Adjustable Rate Strobe Light Landing Lights Adjustable Rate Mars Rotating Beacon Marine Navigation Lights nonflashing Big Airplane Navigation Lights Econo Landing Lights brightest Real Strobe Light true zenon strobe e SEE YOUR DEALER SEND STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR RAM INFO Best $2495 $1995 $3995 $1995 $1095 $2495 $1995 $2995 THE #RED 01 #RED 02 #RED 03 #RED 04 #RED 05 #RED 14 #RED 16 #RED 23 If unsvllabl6 locally send check money order full credit card info cost item plus $200 $500 foreign immediate shipment Include full address UPS Sorry no 000 Ram 4736 N Milwaukee Ave ago IL 60630 VJofdS r best 5e1iflg Spark 19titl0r Chasan Byron Uriim TG Mtg kM Akcratt Swpy tar its autstmIbIg ruliaty Complete single cylinder system Including throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark spark plug lead25 plug battery pack charger 900 shielded Mtjcii kingar mujis Esa Easy haid statsno Iaakhack AlUMNI RPM ralubim hh e 1030% mars powar fw sejakars C Custom ha8s8jon m Lowupdcsdtualsmimjuopaadada UisIdsdquikpbi96pkiaovsr C FormaIyspusUItqL2&4ssJoka whc*isrs Klotzahiiouhictsavihliis June 1990 51 Sears No 94021 calIper about S16 can great help scratch builders Gradua tions B4ths hundredths inch Bob uses confirm/compare thickness sheet wood squareness stripwood Spat cob qiak phigs disidad phig laud & th*tg kits aviubla examine outer edges envelope $600 Sailplane whats fun theres no risk involved am being bad influ ence again Maybe real fun should watch ing someone else pushing $600 plane limit second reason seems very noticeable undeniable connection tween Slope pilots F3B pilots Most best F3B fliers world also avid Slopers cant help think flying slope has helped make best am saying cant excel F3B being Sloper too think few things learn through Slope flying give advantage over dont Slope Lets face Slope fliers pretty cool charac ters like fly fast direct result conditions slope learn fly smooth ly key being successful type flying Name top pilots world first thing comes mind smoothly fly no herky-jerky wasted motions maneuvers what enables get out planes conditions So what does have average Slopehead dont know exactly guess word going get out sooner later might well fess up tell myself Im getting pretty serious about F3B stuff Although thought Id never admit Ive entered couple thermal contests past few months still feel little nauseous saying word guess theres still some hope Dont worry Sloping has al ways will first love Im excited about challenge F3B offers nothing matches fun can have slope What have noticed guess point Im trying make think ing other types flying overall skills have improved am able use some techniques styles thermaling theres word againsony guys F3B Im slope Just believe Slope flying makes better F3B pilot think F3B fly ing might just make better Slope pilot What think Am just suffering ther mals brain something Yeah noticed makes twice single par agraph Sounds terminal RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 51 mixed-up arrangementguess what Snap Crackle Pop Smoke Anyway increasing number modelers may realize have damaged control manner return controls warranty service Suppliers course ob ligated provide warranty repairs such stances often dont want say no anger customers real dilemma see will result everyone eventually having pay What Im saying speculation can see time suppliers being trapped situations actually responsibility under warranty policies may eventually have no choice raise prod uct prices cover losses Well folks must tell too have made kind mating mistake Sermos connector use Ive done what described above smoked speed control way knew did paid repair published photo page 57 December 89 Model Aviation photo shows stack Sermos connectors cant plug wrong ones together would encourage seriously consider doing own installations Another approach use different colors Sermos connectorsthey available colors direct Sermos Thinking back speed controls Ive seen some supplied just wires places sol der wires course connectors must added Several supplied Sermos con nectors Some supplied Tamiya pairs mostly RC car speed controls Reflecting what Ive seen field especially KRC Electric Fly field nearly 300 planes placeby far popular con nector system Sermos Given level us age likely quite few mishaps Whyit could happen Think about mistake mating wrong polarities pair Sermos connectors type connec tor possible can instantly destroy MOSFETs metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistorsEd controland big-time bucks h damage point might suggest dustry learn just say no such unjustified warranty work alternatively might least offer such repairs compromise price set period time Im picking unlucky folks just happen plug something together wrong like myselfi rather Im trying help everyone long run everyone indus try adopts uniform approach problem no single supplier becomes bad guy ulti mately everyone should benefit Finally thought speed control man ufacturers routinely supply Sermos connec tors products what Ive reported June 1990 161 $1995 IDEO REVIEW$1995 THE CLOUD DANCERS INTERNATIONAL R/C SHOW TEAM MEET THE WORLD RENOWNED CLOUD DANCERS SEE THE EXCITING FOOTAGE OF THEIR F- 15 EAGLES GIANT SCALE WARBIRDS JUMPERS AND THE FAMOUS FLYING MACHINE MUST FOR YOUR VIDEO COLLECTION! 1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES OF THE CLOUD DANCERS INACTION FINISHED PRODUCT !FL VING! VOL3 IN-DEPTH KIT AND PRODUCT REVIEWS BUILDING SEGMENTS AND EXCITING FLYING SCENES FEATURING SLJ-ERLUCKYFLY 2JOE PINKSTON ARF SPORT LOW WING AIRPLANE D & R AIRCRAFTS 1/5TH P47 INNOVATIVE MODELS MASTER SCALE HURRICANEPICAS NEW 15TH SCALE SPJTFJREINNOVATIVE MODELS SAAB GRIPENFORMERLY MIKES MODELS SATELLITE CITYS UFO GLUEALSO ROBINAIRES CUSTOM RETRACT SYSTEM APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES SAVE APPROXIMATELY $3eoee WITH MANUFACTURERS DISCOUNT COUPONS INCLUDED IN VOLUME 3 AVAILABLE ONLY FROM RC VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE 13360 KINGSBURY DR WEST PALM BEACH FL 33414 e 407 7903435 EACH TAPE $1995 PLUS $250 SHIPPING AND HANDLING CANADIAN ADD $600 FLORIDA ORDERS ADD 6% SALES TAX VISA AND MASTERCHARGE ALSO AVAILABLE ARE VOLUMES 1 AND 2 KING ORANGE AND JETS OVER DELAND NOW AVAILABLE TED AMOUNT OF YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 5 FOR SIX VOLUMES PLUS S & H SEE IT ON VIDEO FROM BOX TO GATOR RIC PRODUCTS DELUX ALL BALSA KIT An new Tiger tail 120 four strokes piped 60 two strokes beautiful performer competition just showing of/I balsa kit machined wood parts complete hardware package includes plug-in tcljustable stab parts new wing mounts Wing Span -72 inWing Ar.a 860 sq Complete Delux KitSi 5995 TRANSMITTER CASE An inexpensive rugged molded case protect expensive transmitter both two stick single stick transmitters Black leather grain aluminum trim locking clasp 51995 MV-I TYPHOON New F3A competition Big beautiful flyer balsa construction plug-in wings 120 four stroke 60 two stroke power Plans-two sheetsS 1495 Fiberglass cowlSi 895 Clear butyrate canopy. $ 995 OTHER PLANS Tiger Tail 4S-two sheets 120 four strokes$1495 TAR baby 120 four strokesSi 195 Alley 40 size trainer sport$ 895 Gator Flea 40 size sportS 895 Bobcat 40 size sport$ 895 feather Ilte glass cloth 7 ozsq yd est weave Fastest Filling est Finished Weight Big 3 Sq Yard Pkg Detailed Instructions $895 Include $2 SO/Item UPS esidents Add 6% Sales Tax GATOR RIC PRODUCTS 3713 Pompano Dr acola FL 32514 476-8639 FLY ONLY THE BEST 1fu AVAILABLE NOW Vibration Absorbing Mounts Large Engines 12-18 Beam Mount SoftMount gives very soft mount ing large engines excessive engine shake idle undesireable engine thrust line deflection under high-G maneuvers SoftMount system very soft engine neutral position provide su perior vibration damping high RPM SoftMount system prevents large engine position deflection because rapidly becomes much stiffer engine deflected its neutral position Vibration mounts loaded com pression shear Thrust forces cant cause tension failures Light weight--less standard alu minum hard mount Allows lighter front end construction oftware ssociates SIZE RADIAL BEAM 40-65 $2195 $2395 70-11 $2495 $2695 12-18 $2695 $3195 10319 Pine Pass Dr TO 0/IDEA CALLHouston TX 77070 713-482-7744 Mon-Sat 9-9 CST above fact large problem supply controls Sermos connectors already cross-stacked glued together pairs course would best everybody could industry wide agreement details everything interchangeable Id happy provide column coverage pur pose believe other columnists would well way same conversation Bob told invented speed controls Electrics quite some time ago holds patent didnt know Im surprised Astro did great deal early days Electric ie early Seventies may know time both Bob brother Roland Astro Roland Boucher now gentle man heads up Leisure Electronics [of Amp tique fame] competitor Astro another very key supplier Electric hobby ist Frankly friends suspect brothers Boucher would no Elec tric America weve come know en joy Thanks guys Upcoming electric meets Burlington County RC Club New Jer sey planning hold its second annual Electric meet July 14 1990 fun-fly format goodies attended first Im sure planning attend second info write CD Bob Afflerback 123 Harring ton Circle Willingboro NJ 08046 Late word just Bob Ortman 631 Sobrato Way Campbell CA 95008 relative first annual Tomcats Electric RC Carnival scheduled Saturday June 16 1990 San Jose CA area Contact either Bob 1-408/3793864 CD Brian Nelson 1-408/629-2827 info Speaking meets brings out reminder Last year big Electric first ever biggest gathering allthe AMA Nats Bernard Caw ley Auburn WA took second Sport Scale Sporstman class Electric December 89 issue covered this month Im includ ing photo circumstance just remind everyone Electric up-and-coming area modeldom watchand watch out re wet competitor letters EAA look familiar two EAAsone organization dedicated full-scale aircraft Experimental Aircraft Associa tion other very own AMA Special Interest Groupthe Electric Aeromodeling Asso ciation Special Interest Group just what name implies quite few eg Sailplanes Scale Pylon etc listed back cover 1990 AMA Membership Manual EAA established AMA SIG several years ago has precepts follows promote Electric flight through competi tion through advancing state art mod els motors related accessories invite contribute effort through technical articles through discussions new tech niques E-power taken EAA newsletter Silent Fly Sheet now more-or-less regular news letter past seemed more-or-less ir regular got letters about Anyway Si lent Fly Sheet has routinely appearing mail recently attributable Acting Editor Robert Sliff think Bob just also happens EAAs president well Anyway addi tion Silent Fly Sheet becoming regular recent issues have some real meaty stuff fer such contributors Keith Shawa name unknown readers column can join EAA just $10 annually doing receive newsletter Support Electric general adding yourself voice ranks AMA SIG SIG should democratically represent its member ships wishes AMA thereby influence such things AMA Electric ruleswhich fact EAA has done past plenty opportunity EAA things common good relatively new Electric field Id like see spearhead movement establish meaning ful motor specification/rating system What think about folks can tell EAAafter join Any AMA member can join EAA writ ing Electric Aeromodeling Association PO Box 9 Midway City CA 92655and tell em Bob sent ya Planes motors batteries props recently some pleasant communication Don Srull Hi Line Ltd Hi Line manufactures line small motors small Electrics include Mini 6 IMP 30 ELF 50 Corres ponding operating power levels 6 30 50 watts respectively Other small power systems supplied VL Peck quite few products market inter ested relatively small light Electrics both RC FF persuasion Anyway Don tells some folks experi ence disappointing performance small sys tems Don have tell some folks would experience disappointing performance system seems some modelers have quite caught some basic guidelines Electric Elationthat first-time continu 162 Model Aviation Available YS-60 os-ito$1495 SOFT MOUNT COMPONENTS 4-lug Mounting Plate 6061-T-6 black anodized Undrilled. S 5955695 Rubber Iso-Mounts 5/82 female end 832 x liz maicsoft 50 durometer-yellow firm 160 d. Each. 53OOPkgof 4 $995 summer 1940 Jim Walker introduced A-J Fireball U-Control world Countless thousands got first taste model aviation excitement building flying famous airplane 10 commemorate 50th Anniversary birth A-J Fireball proudly announce special limited-edition kit Jim Walkers 1940 original kit contains U fully carved Balsa fusealage Balsa wing tail parts cut shape U hardware hardwood motor mount U decals U complete instructions illustrations U brief history A-J Fireball Offered limited edition 50th Anniversary A-J Fireball numbered dated signed just like kits first produced 1940 can make 60 kits available per month order yours TODAY YES Enclosed check money order $17950 YES cant decide Please send information A-J Manufacturing Inc PO Box 68132 Portland OR 97268 503 653-2038 CAN j0 0 ing success E-power So minireview Build light means keep weight down dont build weak Strength needed light weight everywhere per sonal view Fractional ounces countthey add up especially noticeable small Elec trics completed model may weigh 6-16 oz total Use good quality batteries handle properly small power systems often use 100- 500-mAh cells may tempting use leftovers some less demanding applica tion may help ensure disappointment Finally resist age-old temptation Dont overprop think bigger prop will surely make betterthink again guess simplest summary way put together Follow instructions year hope get seriously some mini-Electrics have some products mentioned above yearning return some childhood designslike Baby Phoenix maybe Zeek maybe PAA-Master maybe Some mail missingand maybe its yours Ive recently become aware some incoming mail having gone astray letters re member arriving sometime around winter hol idays have disappeared activity season letters reader letters to daughtersreference January 90 cover magazine wrote around time havent received reply please write again Im sorry happened apologize inconvenience Thank Some personal notes time year end February/beginning March sort anni versary time year time 18 years ago first successful Electric flight shoulder-high sorta radiocontrolled circle immediately followed pow ered sink time year seven years ago go ing through agonizing tempting decisionmaking period opportunity write Electric series Model Aviation handful folks encouraging wife Wilma friend Herb Carl Wheeley John Grigg John Worth some others No discouraging uncertain Unsure Afraid Inexperi enced tempted say no tempted say yes Well know what happened looking back have say Im very fortu nate guy opportunity folks encouraging feel somehow made right choice Most important however hope made right choice seems case evidenced hundreds letters receive annually Very friendly letters Thankful letters Questioning let ters Letters offering info Letters offering chal lenge Letters promoting thought Letters suggest ing topics column Letters kids Let ters senior kids-at-heart Great letters very few folks fortunate I want thank anniversary time year being much part small Electric endeavor Model Aviation myself always please remember thing side pages Im just like Im modeler Im human Sometimes miss land ing sometimes get something col umn quite right orperhapsnot everyones liking have word will always very best job can Electric consumer supplier casual observer comment critique welcome will attempt answer questions accompanied SASE Please send author ad dress shown columns header time read should Happy Springtime Happy Electric Flying Thats what hobbys HAPPY RC Scale/Crooks Continued page 53 ing Since model will sprayed later clear imperfections can touched up sanded now will virtually disappear clear-coated event have fiberglass fuselage accurate panel lines molded Yellow Air craft & Hobby Supply Ltd s F-16 stance hard work has done Now go directly paint/tape/paint routine dramatic effect Heres suggestion priming fiber glass fuse molded-in detail infinitely better results will obtained primer sprayed brushed Very little primer will required detail wont lost procedure has added benefit making pinholes visible can filled easily Again K&B primer choice never-ending search documentation found source might help Navy has department Washington DC has copies Continued page 167 June 1990 163
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/06
Page Numbers: 50, 51, 161, 162, 163
FIRST The Electric Connection Service huge half-success because have seen succession recent columns have increasing number readers requesting listings may fully successful wont know state being fully successful will occur essentially majority seeking connectdo point time Ive bit feedback concerns augural ECS listing January 90 column came Jim Jansen 6525-43rd Ave Keno sha WI 53142 Jim tells hes heard no won ders hes possibly Electric flier Wis consin about that possible dont believe So lets connect Jim OK Id like very much hear others have listed time goes along ECS useful seeking Elec tric connections find some So please let know now introduce months Elec tric fliers want share hobby oth ers Thomas Bassett 259 Indian Rd Wayne NJ 07470 tel 1-201/839-5830 has some Wet power experience later found out about Electric What cant find someone some club Electric interest think now will Cal Drake PO Box 1557 Morro Bay CA 93442 has benefit other Electric modelers nearby wants expand group Look out Nate RC Scale competitors Bernard Cawley Auburn WA took second 89 Nate electric-powered 1946 Taylorcraft Power geared Astro 40 turnIng Greupner 12 x 7 prop Juice comes 18 Sanyo 1 200-mAh cells metered through Joiner SC4 speed controller Kopski can hardly wait see action Scale 90 Nets Charles Eode 9 Spring St Swonton VT 05488 flying Electric Qlmpic 650 Eclipse Note comparison L between teensy HY-70 VL motor smell Electrics mighty As tro 60 VLs weight about equals prop adapter big guy available smali motors suitable power large variety FF Gas Rubber designsand small RCa right trio 40/50-watt motors small Electrics 6 x 3 prop size comparison Elf 50 Hi Line Silver Streak Peck-Polymers Kyosho AP 29 Kopskis tricky method applying MOnO Kote trim flat single-curvature sur faces Use giue stick Rub back trim piece iightiy put place can move around easily remove times rub hard finger Excess glue wipes up alcohoi tissue Bob says no trapped air bubbles 50 Model Aviation Radio Control Electrics Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdaie PA 19446 THIS MONTHS TOP/CS Electric Connec tion Service 2 connector problem tor industryand plus patent 3 Two Electric meets 4 EM 5 Planes motors balteries propssome reminders 6 Missing mail 7 Some personal notes Its AII-UplLast-Down time 89 Lehigh Valley PA meeta popular fun event Electric meets first Introduced Roland Boucher now president Leisure Electron ics years ago West Coast has popularized KRC Electric Fly meets East Spectators always love mess launch often break cheers Art Garzon 222 Circle Dr Quarryville PA 17566 very special guy Art first three participants first KRC Electric Fly 1980so hes some experience Art has moved wants establish new Electric connections Tell Art Bob sent ya Walter Rady PO Box 282 Newport NH 03773 very much likes Electric Sailpianes finds thermaling cold lot fun Jerry Smart R 3 Box 300 Warsaw MO 65355 lives boonies has lots room flybut no fly Electric Lets change folks David Walker 1223 McNeilly Ave #2 Pitts burgh PA 15216 tel 1-412/563-6109 just re cently flew Electra now hooked Elec trics wants share Electric Elation OK Bill White 1312 SW 11th Oklahoma City OK 73108 two others flying Electric want find interested folks Sounds like club making Jim Wilson 9442 N 35th P1 Phoenix AZ 85028 tel l-/953-9180 [work] interested smaller Electrics OT Gas Rubber repli cas OK everyone else Its up model ers above have done can Now its turn act Go get connected Now Speaking connections Bob Boucher sounds like boo-shay gentleman heads up Astro Flite called chit-chat recently told Astro some other suppliers speed controls having real problem seems modelers get trouble miswiring speed controls wind up blowing devic es miswiring can very easy acciden tally connectors hermaphroditic say connectorsin particular very popular Sermos brandare polarized ie unisex connector fits other connector Since power wiring has two leadsa positive negativeit possible connect type connector gether backwards respect its ing mated Polarized connectors de signed will fit together backwards So mistakenly connects battery speed control output creates some other Continued page 161 4 4 NORTHEAST AERODYNAMICS Inc_______ ARi 11 H ED E 04002 901881 SUPERIOR DESI & CRAFTSMANS DEL- AIRO 9 Finest Kits Youll Ever Buy Build Train-Air 20 Train-AIr 40 Sport-Air 40 Bel-Air 40 40 Hydra-Floats need easy handling superior aerobatic modern looking sport exhibition biplane has filled Eel-Air 60 kit parts biplane tee fine line kite machine Cut assist building real show atopper Bel-Air 80 has fully summetrical wing sectiona gives greateat potential serobatic performance either upright inverted ship capable very slow close-in type flight right up rigorous aerobatic schedule can muster Engine Requirement Wing Span Wing Area Fuselage Length 60 52 935 0 40 SPECIFICATIONS Fuselage Width Weight Range Wing Loading Range 35, 6 75 lbs 148 to 185 207-490-1881 Visa & Mastercard Accepted LIGHTING SYSTEMS ORIGINALS. Still Programmable Flashing Navigation Lights Adjustable Rate Strobe Light Landing Lights Adjustable Rate Mars Rotating Beacon Marine Navigation Lights nonflashing Big Airplane Navigation Lights Econo Landing Lights brightest Real Strobe Light true zenon strobe e SEE YOUR DEALER SEND STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR RAM INFO Best $2495 $1995 $3995 $1995 $1095 $2495 $1995 $2995 THE #RED 01 #RED 02 #RED 03 #RED 04 #RED 05 #RED 14 #RED 16 #RED 23 If unsvllabl6 locally send check money order full credit card info cost item plus $200 $500 foreign immediate shipment Include full address UPS Sorry no 000 Ram 4736 N Milwaukee Ave ago IL 60630 VJofdS r best 5e1iflg Spark 19titl0r Chasan Byron Uriim TG Mtg kM Akcratt Swpy tar its autstmIbIg ruliaty Complete single cylinder system Including throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark spark plug lead25 plug battery pack charger 900 shielded Mtjcii kingar mujis Esa Easy haid statsno Iaakhack AlUMNI RPM ralubim hh e 1030% mars powar fw sejakars C Custom ha8s8jon m Lowupdcsdtualsmimjuopaadada UisIdsdquikpbi96pkiaovsr C FormaIyspusUItqL2&4ssJoka whc*isrs Klotzahiiouhictsavihliis June 1990 51 Sears No 94021 calIper about S16 can great help scratch builders Gradua tions B4ths hundredths inch Bob uses confirm/compare thickness sheet wood squareness stripwood Spat cob qiak phigs disidad phig laud & th*tg kits aviubla examine outer edges envelope $600 Sailplane whats fun theres no risk involved am being bad influ ence again Maybe real fun should watch ing someone else pushing $600 plane limit second reason seems very noticeable undeniable connection tween Slope pilots F3B pilots Most best F3B fliers world also avid Slopers cant help think flying slope has helped make best am saying cant excel F3B being Sloper too think few things learn through Slope flying give advantage over dont Slope Lets face Slope fliers pretty cool charac ters like fly fast direct result conditions slope learn fly smooth ly key being successful type flying Name top pilots world first thing comes mind smoothly fly no herky-jerky wasted motions maneuvers what enables get out planes conditions So what does have average Slopehead dont know exactly guess word going get out sooner later might well fess up tell myself Im getting pretty serious about F3B stuff Although thought Id never admit Ive entered couple thermal contests past few months still feel little nauseous saying word guess theres still some hope Dont worry Sloping has al ways will first love Im excited about challenge F3B offers nothing matches fun can have slope What have noticed guess point Im trying make think ing other types flying overall skills have improved am able use some techniques styles thermaling theres word againsony guys F3B Im slope Just believe Slope flying makes better F3B pilot think F3B fly ing might just make better Slope pilot What think Am just suffering ther mals brain something Yeah noticed makes twice single par agraph Sounds terminal RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 51 mixed-up arrangementguess what Snap Crackle Pop Smoke Anyway increasing number modelers may realize have damaged control manner return controls warranty service Suppliers course ob ligated provide warranty repairs such stances often dont want say no anger customers real dilemma see will result everyone eventually having pay What Im saying speculation can see time suppliers being trapped situations actually responsibility under warranty policies may eventually have no choice raise prod uct prices cover losses Well folks must tell too have made kind mating mistake Sermos connector use Ive done what described above smoked speed control way knew did paid repair published photo page 57 December 89 Model Aviation photo shows stack Sermos connectors cant plug wrong ones together would encourage seriously consider doing own installations Another approach use different colors Sermos connectorsthey available colors direct Sermos Thinking back speed controls Ive seen some supplied just wires places sol der wires course connectors must added Several supplied Sermos con nectors Some supplied Tamiya pairs mostly RC car speed controls Reflecting what Ive seen field especially KRC Electric Fly field nearly 300 planes placeby far popular con nector system Sermos Given level us age likely quite few mishaps Whyit could happen Think about mistake mating wrong polarities pair Sermos connectors type connec tor possible can instantly destroy MOSFETs metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistorsEd controland big-time bucks h damage point might suggest dustry learn just say no such unjustified warranty work alternatively might least offer such repairs compromise price set period time Im picking unlucky folks just happen plug something together wrong like myselfi rather Im trying help everyone long run everyone indus try adopts uniform approach problem no single supplier becomes bad guy ulti mately everyone should benefit Finally thought speed control man ufacturers routinely supply Sermos connec tors products what Ive reported June 1990 161 $1995 IDEO REVIEW$1995 THE CLOUD DANCERS INTERNATIONAL R/C SHOW TEAM MEET THE WORLD RENOWNED CLOUD DANCERS SEE THE EXCITING FOOTAGE OF THEIR F- 15 EAGLES GIANT SCALE WARBIRDS JUMPERS AND THE FAMOUS FLYING MACHINE MUST FOR YOUR VIDEO COLLECTION! 1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES OF THE CLOUD DANCERS INACTION FINISHED PRODUCT !FL VING! VOL3 IN-DEPTH KIT AND PRODUCT REVIEWS BUILDING SEGMENTS AND EXCITING FLYING SCENES FEATURING SLJ-ERLUCKYFLY 2JOE PINKSTON ARF SPORT LOW WING AIRPLANE D & R AIRCRAFTS 1/5TH P47 INNOVATIVE MODELS MASTER SCALE HURRICANEPICAS NEW 15TH SCALE SPJTFJREINNOVATIVE MODELS SAAB GRIPENFORMERLY MIKES MODELS SATELLITE CITYS UFO GLUEALSO ROBINAIRES CUSTOM RETRACT SYSTEM APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES SAVE APPROXIMATELY $3eoee WITH MANUFACTURERS DISCOUNT COUPONS INCLUDED IN VOLUME 3 AVAILABLE ONLY FROM RC VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE 13360 KINGSBURY DR WEST PALM BEACH FL 33414 e 407 7903435 EACH TAPE $1995 PLUS $250 SHIPPING AND HANDLING CANADIAN ADD $600 FLORIDA ORDERS ADD 6% SALES TAX VISA AND MASTERCHARGE ALSO AVAILABLE ARE VOLUMES 1 AND 2 KING ORANGE AND JETS OVER DELAND NOW AVAILABLE TED AMOUNT OF YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 5 FOR SIX VOLUMES PLUS S & H SEE IT ON VIDEO FROM BOX TO GATOR RIC PRODUCTS DELUX ALL BALSA KIT An new Tiger tail 120 four strokes piped 60 two strokes beautiful performer competition just showing of/I balsa kit machined wood parts complete hardware package includes plug-in tcljustable stab parts new wing mounts Wing Span -72 inWing Ar.a 860 sq Complete Delux KitSi 5995 TRANSMITTER CASE An inexpensive rugged molded case protect expensive transmitter both two stick single stick transmitters Black leather grain aluminum trim locking clasp 51995 MV-I TYPHOON New F3A competition Big beautiful flyer balsa construction plug-in wings 120 four stroke 60 two stroke power Plans-two sheetsS 1495 Fiberglass cowlSi 895 Clear butyrate canopy. $ 995 OTHER PLANS Tiger Tail 4S-two sheets 120 four strokes$1495 TAR baby 120 four strokesSi 195 Alley 40 size trainer sport$ 895 Gator Flea 40 size sportS 895 Bobcat 40 size sport$ 895 feather Ilte glass cloth 7 ozsq yd est weave Fastest Filling est Finished Weight Big 3 Sq Yard Pkg Detailed Instructions $895 Include $2 SO/Item UPS esidents Add 6% Sales Tax GATOR RIC PRODUCTS 3713 Pompano Dr acola FL 32514 476-8639 FLY ONLY THE BEST 1fu AVAILABLE NOW Vibration Absorbing Mounts Large Engines 12-18 Beam Mount SoftMount gives very soft mount ing large engines excessive engine shake idle undesireable engine thrust line deflection under high-G maneuvers SoftMount system very soft engine neutral position provide su perior vibration damping high RPM SoftMount system prevents large engine position deflection because rapidly becomes much stiffer engine deflected its neutral position Vibration mounts loaded com pression shear Thrust forces cant cause tension failures Light weight--less standard alu minum hard mount Allows lighter front end construction oftware ssociates SIZE RADIAL BEAM 40-65 $2195 $2395 70-11 $2495 $2695 12-18 $2695 $3195 10319 Pine Pass Dr TO 0/IDEA CALLHouston TX 77070 713-482-7744 Mon-Sat 9-9 CST above fact large problem supply controls Sermos connectors already cross-stacked glued together pairs course would best everybody could industry wide agreement details everything interchangeable Id happy provide column coverage pur pose believe other columnists would well way same conversation Bob told invented speed controls Electrics quite some time ago holds patent didnt know Im surprised Astro did great deal early days Electric ie early Seventies may know time both Bob brother Roland Astro Roland Boucher now gentle man heads up Leisure Electronics [of Amp tique fame] competitor Astro another very key supplier Electric hobby ist Frankly friends suspect brothers Boucher would no Elec tric America weve come know en joy Thanks guys Upcoming electric meets Burlington County RC Club New Jer sey planning hold its second annual Electric meet July 14 1990 fun-fly format goodies attended first Im sure planning attend second info write CD Bob Afflerback 123 Harring ton Circle Willingboro NJ 08046 Late word just Bob Ortman 631 Sobrato Way Campbell CA 95008 relative first annual Tomcats Electric RC Carnival scheduled Saturday June 16 1990 San Jose CA area Contact either Bob 1-408/3793864 CD Brian Nelson 1-408/629-2827 info Speaking meets brings out reminder Last year big Electric first ever biggest gathering allthe AMA Nats Bernard Caw ley Auburn WA took second Sport Scale Sporstman class Electric December 89 issue covered this month Im includ ing photo circumstance just remind everyone Electric up-and-coming area modeldom watchand watch out re wet competitor letters EAA look familiar two EAAsone organization dedicated full-scale aircraft Experimental Aircraft Associa tion other very own AMA Special Interest Groupthe Electric Aeromodeling Asso ciation Special Interest Group just what name implies quite few eg Sailplanes Scale Pylon etc listed back cover 1990 AMA Membership Manual EAA established AMA SIG several years ago has precepts follows promote Electric flight through competi tion through advancing state art mod els motors related accessories invite contribute effort through technical articles through discussions new tech niques E-power taken EAA newsletter Silent Fly Sheet now more-or-less regular news letter past seemed more-or-less ir regular got letters about Anyway Si lent Fly Sheet has routinely appearing mail recently attributable Acting Editor Robert Sliff think Bob just also happens EAAs president well Anyway addi tion Silent Fly Sheet becoming regular recent issues have some real meaty stuff fer such contributors Keith Shawa name unknown readers column can join EAA just $10 annually doing receive newsletter Support Electric general adding yourself voice ranks AMA SIG SIG should democratically represent its member ships wishes AMA thereby influence such things AMA Electric ruleswhich fact EAA has done past plenty opportunity EAA things common good relatively new Electric field Id like see spearhead movement establish meaning ful motor specification/rating system What think about folks can tell EAAafter join Any AMA member can join EAA writ ing Electric Aeromodeling Association PO Box 9 Midway City CA 92655and tell em Bob sent ya Planes motors batteries props recently some pleasant communication Don Srull Hi Line Ltd Hi Line manufactures line small motors small Electrics include Mini 6 IMP 30 ELF 50 Corres ponding operating power levels 6 30 50 watts respectively Other small power systems supplied VL Peck quite few products market inter ested relatively small light Electrics both RC FF persuasion Anyway Don tells some folks experi ence disappointing performance small sys tems Don have tell some folks would experience disappointing performance system seems some modelers have quite caught some basic guidelines Electric Elationthat first-time continu 162 Model Aviation Available YS-60 os-ito$1495 SOFT MOUNT COMPONENTS 4-lug Mounting Plate 6061-T-6 black anodized Undrilled. S 5955695 Rubber Iso-Mounts 5/82 female end 832 x liz maicsoft 50 durometer-yellow firm 160 d. Each. 53OOPkgof 4 $995 summer 1940 Jim Walker introduced A-J Fireball U-Control world Countless thousands got first taste model aviation excitement building flying famous airplane 10 commemorate 50th Anniversary birth A-J Fireball proudly announce special limited-edition kit Jim Walkers 1940 original kit contains U fully carved Balsa fusealage Balsa wing tail parts cut shape U hardware hardwood motor mount U decals U complete instructions illustrations U brief history A-J Fireball Offered limited edition 50th Anniversary A-J Fireball numbered dated signed just like kits first produced 1940 can make 60 kits available per month order yours TODAY YES Enclosed check money order $17950 YES cant decide Please send information A-J Manufacturing Inc PO Box 68132 Portland OR 97268 503 653-2038 CAN j0 0 ing success E-power So minireview Build light means keep weight down dont build weak Strength needed light weight everywhere per sonal view Fractional ounces countthey add up especially noticeable small Elec trics completed model may weigh 6-16 oz total Use good quality batteries handle properly small power systems often use 100- 500-mAh cells may tempting use leftovers some less demanding applica tion may help ensure disappointment Finally resist age-old temptation Dont overprop think bigger prop will surely make betterthink again guess simplest summary way put together Follow instructions year hope get seriously some mini-Electrics have some products mentioned above yearning return some childhood designslike Baby Phoenix maybe Zeek maybe PAA-Master maybe Some mail missingand maybe its yours Ive recently become aware some incoming mail having gone astray letters re member arriving sometime around winter hol idays have disappeared activity season letters reader letters to daughtersreference January 90 cover magazine wrote around time havent received reply please write again Im sorry happened apologize inconvenience Thank Some personal notes time year end February/beginning March sort anni versary time year time 18 years ago first successful Electric flight shoulder-high sorta radiocontrolled circle immediately followed pow ered sink time year seven years ago go ing through agonizing tempting decisionmaking period opportunity write Electric series Model Aviation handful folks encouraging wife Wilma friend Herb Carl Wheeley John Grigg John Worth some others No discouraging uncertain Unsure Afraid Inexperi enced tempted say no tempted say yes Well know what happened looking back have say Im very fortu nate guy opportunity folks encouraging feel somehow made right choice Most important however hope made right choice seems case evidenced hundreds letters receive annually Very friendly letters Thankful letters Questioning let ters Letters offering info Letters offering chal lenge Letters promoting thought Letters suggest ing topics column Letters kids Let ters senior kids-at-heart Great letters very few folks fortunate I want thank anniversary time year being much part small Electric endeavor Model Aviation myself always please remember thing side pages Im just like Im modeler Im human Sometimes miss land ing sometimes get something col umn quite right orperhapsnot everyones liking have word will always very best job can Electric consumer supplier casual observer comment critique welcome will attempt answer questions accompanied SASE Please send author ad dress shown columns header time read should Happy Springtime Happy Electric Flying Thats what hobbys HAPPY RC Scale/Crooks Continued page 53 ing Since model will sprayed later clear imperfections can touched up sanded now will virtually disappear clear-coated event have fiberglass fuselage accurate panel lines molded Yellow Air craft & Hobby Supply Ltd s F-16 stance hard work has done Now go directly paint/tape/paint routine dramatic effect Heres suggestion priming fiber glass fuse molded-in detail infinitely better results will obtained primer sprayed brushed Very little primer will required detail wont lost procedure has added benefit making pinholes visible can filled easily Again K&B primer choice never-ending search documentation found source might help Navy has department Washington DC has copies Continued page 167 June 1990 163
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/06
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FIRST The Electric Connection Service huge half-success because have seen succession recent columns have increasing number readers requesting listings may fully successful wont know state being fully successful will occur essentially majority seeking connectdo point time Ive bit feedback concerns augural ECS listing January 90 column came Jim Jansen 6525-43rd Ave Keno sha WI 53142 Jim tells hes heard no won ders hes possibly Electric flier Wis consin about that possible dont believe So lets connect Jim OK Id like very much hear others have listed time goes along ECS useful seeking Elec tric connections find some So please let know now introduce months Elec tric fliers want share hobby oth ers Thomas Bassett 259 Indian Rd Wayne NJ 07470 tel 1-201/839-5830 has some Wet power experience later found out about Electric What cant find someone some club Electric interest think now will Cal Drake PO Box 1557 Morro Bay CA 93442 has benefit other Electric modelers nearby wants expand group Look out Nate RC Scale competitors Bernard Cawley Auburn WA took second 89 Nate electric-powered 1946 Taylorcraft Power geared Astro 40 turnIng Greupner 12 x 7 prop Juice comes 18 Sanyo 1 200-mAh cells metered through Joiner SC4 speed controller Kopski can hardly wait see action Scale 90 Nets Charles Eode 9 Spring St Swonton VT 05488 flying Electric Qlmpic 650 Eclipse Note comparison L between teensy HY-70 VL motor smell Electrics mighty As tro 60 VLs weight about equals prop adapter big guy available smali motors suitable power large variety FF Gas Rubber designsand small RCa right trio 40/50-watt motors small Electrics 6 x 3 prop size comparison Elf 50 Hi Line Silver Streak Peck-Polymers Kyosho AP 29 Kopskis tricky method applying MOnO Kote trim flat single-curvature sur faces Use giue stick Rub back trim piece iightiy put place can move around easily remove times rub hard finger Excess glue wipes up alcohoi tissue Bob says no trapped air bubbles 50 Model Aviation Radio Control Electrics Bob Kopski 25 West End Dr Lansdaie PA 19446 THIS MONTHS TOP/CS Electric Connec tion Service 2 connector problem tor industryand plus patent 3 Two Electric meets 4 EM 5 Planes motors balteries propssome reminders 6 Missing mail 7 Some personal notes Its AII-UplLast-Down time 89 Lehigh Valley PA meeta popular fun event Electric meets first Introduced Roland Boucher now president Leisure Electron ics years ago West Coast has popularized KRC Electric Fly meets East Spectators always love mess launch often break cheers Art Garzon 222 Circle Dr Quarryville PA 17566 very special guy Art first three participants first KRC Electric Fly 1980so hes some experience Art has moved wants establish new Electric connections Tell Art Bob sent ya Walter Rady PO Box 282 Newport NH 03773 very much likes Electric Sailpianes finds thermaling cold lot fun Jerry Smart R 3 Box 300 Warsaw MO 65355 lives boonies has lots room flybut no fly Electric Lets change folks David Walker 1223 McNeilly Ave #2 Pitts burgh PA 15216 tel 1-412/563-6109 just re cently flew Electra now hooked Elec trics wants share Electric Elation OK Bill White 1312 SW 11th Oklahoma City OK 73108 two others flying Electric want find interested folks Sounds like club making Jim Wilson 9442 N 35th P1 Phoenix AZ 85028 tel l-/953-9180 [work] interested smaller Electrics OT Gas Rubber repli cas OK everyone else Its up model ers above have done can Now its turn act Go get connected Now Speaking connections Bob Boucher sounds like boo-shay gentleman heads up Astro Flite called chit-chat recently told Astro some other suppliers speed controls having real problem seems modelers get trouble miswiring speed controls wind up blowing devic es miswiring can very easy acciden tally connectors hermaphroditic say connectorsin particular very popular Sermos brandare polarized ie unisex connector fits other connector Since power wiring has two leadsa positive negativeit possible connect type connector gether backwards respect its ing mated Polarized connectors de signed will fit together backwards So mistakenly connects battery speed control output creates some other Continued page 161 4 4 NORTHEAST AERODYNAMICS Inc_______ ARi 11 H ED E 04002 901881 SUPERIOR DESI & CRAFTSMANS DEL- AIRO 9 Finest Kits Youll Ever Buy Build Train-Air 20 Train-AIr 40 Sport-Air 40 Bel-Air 40 40 Hydra-Floats need easy handling superior aerobatic modern looking sport exhibition biplane has filled Eel-Air 60 kit parts biplane tee fine line kite machine Cut assist building real show atopper Bel-Air 80 has fully summetrical wing sectiona gives greateat potential serobatic performance either upright inverted ship capable very slow close-in type flight right up rigorous aerobatic schedule can muster Engine Requirement Wing Span Wing Area Fuselage Length 60 52 935 0 40 SPECIFICATIONS Fuselage Width Weight Range Wing Loading Range 35, 6 75 lbs 148 to 185 207-490-1881 Visa & Mastercard Accepted LIGHTING SYSTEMS ORIGINALS. Still Programmable Flashing Navigation Lights Adjustable Rate Strobe Light Landing Lights Adjustable Rate Mars Rotating Beacon Marine Navigation Lights nonflashing Big Airplane Navigation Lights Econo Landing Lights brightest Real Strobe Light true zenon strobe e SEE YOUR DEALER SEND STAMPED ENVELOPE FOR RAM INFO Best $2495 $1995 $3995 $1995 $1095 $2495 $1995 $2995 THE #RED 01 #RED 02 #RED 03 #RED 04 #RED 05 #RED 14 #RED 16 #RED 23 If unsvllabl6 locally send check money order full credit card info cost item plus $200 $500 foreign immediate shipment Include full address UPS Sorry no 000 Ram 4736 N Milwaukee Ave ago IL 60630 VJofdS r best 5e1iflg Spark 19titl0r Chasan Byron Uriim TG Mtg kM Akcratt Swpy tar its autstmIbIg ruliaty Complete single cylinder system Including throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark spark plug lead25 plug battery pack charger 900 shielded Mtjcii kingar mujis Esa Easy haid statsno Iaakhack AlUMNI RPM ralubim hh e 1030% mars powar fw sejakars C Custom ha8s8jon m Lowupdcsdtualsmimjuopaadada UisIdsdquikpbi96pkiaovsr C FormaIyspusUItqL2&4ssJoka whc*isrs Klotzahiiouhictsavihliis June 1990 51 Sears No 94021 calIper about S16 can great help scratch builders Gradua tions B4ths hundredths inch Bob uses confirm/compare thickness sheet wood squareness stripwood Spat cob qiak phigs disidad phig laud & th*tg kits aviubla examine outer edges envelope $600 Sailplane whats fun theres no risk involved am being bad influ ence again Maybe real fun should watch ing someone else pushing $600 plane limit second reason seems very noticeable undeniable connection tween Slope pilots F3B pilots Most best F3B fliers world also avid Slopers cant help think flying slope has helped make best am saying cant excel F3B being Sloper too think few things learn through Slope flying give advantage over dont Slope Lets face Slope fliers pretty cool charac ters like fly fast direct result conditions slope learn fly smooth ly key being successful type flying Name top pilots world first thing comes mind smoothly fly no herky-jerky wasted motions maneuvers what enables get out planes conditions So what does have average Slopehead dont know exactly guess word going get out sooner later might well fess up tell myself Im getting pretty serious about F3B stuff Although thought Id never admit Ive entered couple thermal contests past few months still feel little nauseous saying word guess theres still some hope Dont worry Sloping has al ways will first love Im excited about challenge F3B offers nothing matches fun can have slope What have noticed guess point Im trying make think ing other types flying overall skills have improved am able use some techniques styles thermaling theres word againsony guys F3B Im slope Just believe Slope flying makes better F3B pilot think F3B fly ing might just make better Slope pilot What think Am just suffering ther mals brain something Yeah noticed makes twice single par agraph Sounds terminal RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 51 mixed-up arrangementguess what Snap Crackle Pop Smoke Anyway increasing number modelers may realize have damaged control manner return controls warranty service Suppliers course ob ligated provide warranty repairs such stances often dont want say no anger customers real dilemma see will result everyone eventually having pay What Im saying speculation can see time suppliers being trapped situations actually responsibility under warranty policies may eventually have no choice raise prod uct prices cover losses Well folks must tell too have made kind mating mistake Sermos connector use Ive done what described above smoked speed control way knew did paid repair published photo page 57 December 89 Model Aviation photo shows stack Sermos connectors cant plug wrong ones together would encourage seriously consider doing own installations Another approach use different colors Sermos connectorsthey available colors direct Sermos Thinking back speed controls Ive seen some supplied just wires places sol der wires course connectors must added Several supplied Sermos con nectors Some supplied Tamiya pairs mostly RC car speed controls Reflecting what Ive seen field especially KRC Electric Fly field nearly 300 planes placeby far popular con nector system Sermos Given level us age likely quite few mishaps Whyit could happen Think about mistake mating wrong polarities pair Sermos connectors type connec tor possible can instantly destroy MOSFETs metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistorsEd controland big-time bucks h damage point might suggest dustry learn just say no such unjustified warranty work alternatively might least offer such repairs compromise price set period time Im picking unlucky folks just happen plug something together wrong like myselfi rather Im trying help everyone long run everyone indus try adopts uniform approach problem no single supplier becomes bad guy ulti mately everyone should benefit Finally thought speed control man ufacturers routinely supply Sermos connec tors products what Ive reported June 1990 161 $1995 IDEO REVIEW$1995 THE CLOUD DANCERS INTERNATIONAL R/C SHOW TEAM MEET THE WORLD RENOWNED CLOUD DANCERS SEE THE EXCITING FOOTAGE OF THEIR F- 15 EAGLES GIANT SCALE WARBIRDS JUMPERS AND THE FAMOUS FLYING MACHINE MUST FOR YOUR VIDEO COLLECTION! 1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES OF THE CLOUD DANCERS INACTION FINISHED PRODUCT !FL VING! VOL3 IN-DEPTH KIT AND PRODUCT REVIEWS BUILDING SEGMENTS AND EXCITING FLYING SCENES FEATURING SLJ-ERLUCKYFLY 2JOE PINKSTON ARF SPORT LOW WING AIRPLANE D & R AIRCRAFTS 1/5TH P47 INNOVATIVE MODELS MASTER SCALE HURRICANEPICAS NEW 15TH SCALE SPJTFJREINNOVATIVE MODELS SAAB GRIPENFORMERLY MIKES MODELS SATELLITE CITYS UFO GLUEALSO ROBINAIRES CUSTOM RETRACT SYSTEM APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES SAVE APPROXIMATELY $3eoee WITH MANUFACTURERS DISCOUNT COUPONS INCLUDED IN VOLUME 3 AVAILABLE ONLY FROM RC VIDEO REVIEW MAGAZINE 13360 KINGSBURY DR WEST PALM BEACH FL 33414 e 407 7903435 EACH TAPE $1995 PLUS $250 SHIPPING AND HANDLING CANADIAN ADD $600 FLORIDA ORDERS ADD 6% SALES TAX VISA AND MASTERCHARGE ALSO AVAILABLE ARE VOLUMES 1 AND 2 KING ORANGE AND JETS OVER DELAND NOW AVAILABLE TED AMOUNT OF YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 5 FOR SIX VOLUMES PLUS S & H SEE IT ON VIDEO FROM BOX TO GATOR RIC PRODUCTS DELUX ALL BALSA KIT An new Tiger tail 120 four strokes piped 60 two strokes beautiful performer competition just showing of/I balsa kit machined wood parts complete hardware package includes plug-in tcljustable stab parts new wing mounts Wing Span -72 inWing Ar.a 860 sq Complete Delux KitSi 5995 TRANSMITTER CASE An inexpensive rugged molded case protect expensive transmitter both two stick single stick transmitters Black leather grain aluminum trim locking clasp 51995 MV-I TYPHOON New F3A competition Big beautiful flyer balsa construction plug-in wings 120 four stroke 60 two stroke power Plans-two sheetsS 1495 Fiberglass cowlSi 895 Clear butyrate canopy. $ 995 OTHER PLANS Tiger Tail 4S-two sheets 120 four strokes$1495 TAR baby 120 four strokesSi 195 Alley 40 size trainer sport$ 895 Gator Flea 40 size sportS 895 Bobcat 40 size sport$ 895 feather Ilte glass cloth 7 ozsq yd est weave Fastest Filling est Finished Weight Big 3 Sq Yard Pkg Detailed Instructions $895 Include $2 SO/Item UPS esidents Add 6% Sales Tax GATOR RIC PRODUCTS 3713 Pompano Dr acola FL 32514 476-8639 FLY ONLY THE BEST 1fu AVAILABLE NOW Vibration Absorbing Mounts Large Engines 12-18 Beam Mount SoftMount gives very soft mount ing large engines excessive engine shake idle undesireable engine thrust line deflection under high-G maneuvers SoftMount system very soft engine neutral position provide su perior vibration damping high RPM SoftMount system prevents large engine position deflection because rapidly becomes much stiffer engine deflected its neutral position Vibration mounts loaded com pression shear Thrust forces cant cause tension failures Light weight--less standard alu minum hard mount Allows lighter front end construction oftware ssociates SIZE RADIAL BEAM 40-65 $2195 $2395 70-11 $2495 $2695 12-18 $2695 $3195 10319 Pine Pass Dr TO 0/IDEA CALLHouston TX 77070 713-482-7744 Mon-Sat 9-9 CST above fact large problem supply controls Sermos connectors already cross-stacked glued together pairs course would best everybody could industry wide agreement details everything interchangeable Id happy provide column coverage pur pose believe other columnists would well way same conversation Bob told invented speed controls Electrics quite some time ago holds patent didnt know Im surprised Astro did great deal early days Electric ie early Seventies may know time both Bob brother Roland Astro Roland Boucher now gentle man heads up Leisure Electronics [of Amp tique fame] competitor Astro another very key supplier Electric hobby ist Frankly friends suspect brothers Boucher would no Elec tric America weve come know en joy Thanks guys Upcoming electric meets Burlington County RC Club New Jer sey planning hold its second annual Electric meet July 14 1990 fun-fly format goodies attended first Im sure planning attend second info write CD Bob Afflerback 123 Harring ton Circle Willingboro NJ 08046 Late word just Bob Ortman 631 Sobrato Way Campbell CA 95008 relative first annual Tomcats Electric RC Carnival scheduled Saturday June 16 1990 San Jose CA area Contact either Bob 1-408/3793864 CD Brian Nelson 1-408/629-2827 info Speaking meets brings out reminder Last year big Electric first ever biggest gathering allthe AMA Nats Bernard Caw ley Auburn WA took second Sport Scale Sporstman class Electric December 89 issue covered this month Im includ ing photo circumstance just remind everyone Electric up-and-coming area modeldom watchand watch out re wet competitor letters EAA look familiar two EAAsone organization dedicated full-scale aircraft Experimental Aircraft Associa tion other very own AMA Special Interest Groupthe Electric Aeromodeling Asso ciation Special Interest Group just what name implies quite few eg Sailplanes Scale Pylon etc listed back cover 1990 AMA Membership Manual EAA established AMA SIG several years ago has precepts follows promote Electric flight through competi tion through advancing state art mod els motors related accessories invite contribute effort through technical articles through discussions new tech niques E-power taken EAA newsletter Silent Fly Sheet now more-or-less regular news letter past seemed more-or-less ir regular got letters about Anyway Si lent Fly Sheet has routinely appearing mail recently attributable Acting Editor Robert Sliff think Bob just also happens EAAs president well Anyway addi tion Silent Fly Sheet becoming regular recent issues have some real meaty stuff fer such contributors Keith Shawa name unknown readers column can join EAA just $10 annually doing receive newsletter Support Electric general adding yourself voice ranks AMA SIG SIG should democratically represent its member ships wishes AMA thereby influence such things AMA Electric ruleswhich fact EAA has done past plenty opportunity EAA things common good relatively new Electric field Id like see spearhead movement establish meaning ful motor specification/rating system What think about folks can tell EAAafter join Any AMA member can join EAA writ ing Electric Aeromodeling Association PO Box 9 Midway City CA 92655and tell em Bob sent ya Planes motors batteries props recently some pleasant communication Don Srull Hi Line Ltd Hi Line manufactures line small motors small Electrics include Mini 6 IMP 30 ELF 50 Corres ponding operating power levels 6 30 50 watts respectively Other small power systems supplied VL Peck quite few products market inter ested relatively small light Electrics both RC FF persuasion Anyway Don tells some folks experi ence disappointing performance small sys tems Don have tell some folks would experience disappointing performance system seems some modelers have quite caught some basic guidelines Electric Elationthat first-time continu 162 Model Aviation Available YS-60 os-ito$1495 SOFT MOUNT COMPONENTS 4-lug Mounting Plate 6061-T-6 black anodized Undrilled. 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Each. 53OOPkgof 4 $995 summer 1940 Jim Walker introduced A-J Fireball U-Control world Countless thousands got first taste model aviation excitement building flying famous airplane 10 commemorate 50th Anniversary birth A-J Fireball proudly announce special limited-edition kit Jim Walkers 1940 original kit contains U fully carved Balsa fusealage Balsa wing tail parts cut shape U hardware hardwood motor mount U decals U complete instructions illustrations U brief history A-J Fireball Offered limited edition 50th Anniversary A-J Fireball numbered dated signed just like kits first produced 1940 can make 60 kits available per month order yours TODAY YES Enclosed check money order $17950 YES cant decide Please send information A-J Manufacturing Inc PO Box 68132 Portland OR 97268 503 653-2038 CAN j0 0 ing success E-power So minireview Build light means keep weight down dont build weak Strength needed light weight everywhere per sonal view Fractional ounces countthey add up especially noticeable small Elec trics completed model may weigh 6-16 oz total Use good quality batteries handle properly small power systems often use 100- 500-mAh cells may tempting use leftovers some less demanding applica tion may help ensure disappointment Finally resist age-old temptation Dont overprop think bigger prop will surely make betterthink again guess simplest summary way put together Follow instructions year hope get seriously some mini-Electrics have some products mentioned above yearning return some childhood designslike Baby Phoenix maybe Zeek maybe PAA-Master maybe Some mail missingand maybe its yours Ive recently become aware some incoming mail having gone astray letters re member arriving sometime around winter hol idays have disappeared activity season letters reader letters to daughtersreference January 90 cover magazine wrote around time havent received reply please write again Im sorry happened apologize inconvenience Thank Some personal notes time year end February/beginning March sort anni versary time year time 18 years ago first successful Electric flight shoulder-high sorta radiocontrolled circle immediately followed pow ered sink time year seven years ago go ing through agonizing tempting decisionmaking period opportunity write Electric series Model Aviation handful folks encouraging wife Wilma friend Herb Carl Wheeley John Grigg John Worth some others No discouraging uncertain Unsure Afraid Inexperi enced tempted say no tempted say yes Well know what happened looking back have say Im very fortu nate guy opportunity folks encouraging feel somehow made right choice Most important however hope made right choice seems case evidenced hundreds letters receive annually Very friendly letters Thankful letters Questioning let ters Letters offering info Letters offering chal lenge Letters promoting thought Letters suggest ing topics column Letters kids Let ters senior kids-at-heart Great letters very few folks fortunate I want thank anniversary time year being much part small Electric endeavor Model Aviation myself always please remember thing side pages Im just like Im modeler Im human Sometimes miss land ing sometimes get something col umn quite right orperhapsnot everyones liking have word will always very best job can Electric consumer supplier casual observer comment critique welcome will attempt answer questions accompanied SASE Please send author ad dress shown columns header time read should Happy Springtime Happy Electric Flying Thats what hobbys HAPPY RC Scale/Crooks Continued page 53 ing Since model will sprayed later clear imperfections can touched up sanded now will virtually disappear clear-coated event have fiberglass fuselage accurate panel lines molded Yellow Air craft & Hobby Supply Ltd s F-16 stance hard work has done Now go directly paint/tape/paint routine dramatic effect Heres suggestion priming fiber glass fuse molded-in detail infinitely better results will obtained primer sprayed brushed Very little primer will required detail wont lost procedure has added benefit making pinholes visible can filled easily Again K&B primer choice never-ending search documentation found source might help Navy has department Washington DC has copies Continued page 167 June 1990 163