Radio Control Giant Scale Bob Beckman HERE IT IS end another modeling year again business pressures have kept getting much fun did however manage get three favorite events Toledo April STARS rally July Merwin Ranch fly-in September Ive already reported Toledo Ill tell about other two now few years ago George Privateer must have offended weather gods have getting hack him STARS ever since first started going Olean NY mountaintop weekend rally weather al ways great started getting rain either Saturday Sunday Annoying still plenty good flying year however rain started Saturday morning never really let up week end Oh would stop once just soon few planes appeared flight line would start again All-in-all very disap pointing rally 100 fliers showed up STARS deserve better Scale Rally exclusively Giant Scale become best-mn best-attended big bird event eastern part country Lets hope weather gods satisfied now next year goes back old pattern other side country STARS near Sacramento CA lies Merwin Ranch dont already know about dichondra seed farm flat unobstructed areas extend half-mile directions Ive May September have never seen drop rain can get hot though aftemoon temperatures sometimes over 1000 Early morning late afternoon comfortable times plenty flying activity day long Labor Day weekend bash Merwin Ranch run Ken Runnestrand mem bers IMAA Chapter size popularity West Coast equivalent STARS Rally campers motor homes start amy ing Friday Saturday morning theyre lined up behind pits over quarter ven iying DOtfl Tfl tanaaian ana American TiagS atthe 86 STARS Rally CL failed scare awaythe rain showers disappointment Giant Scale enthusiasts attended yearly bonanza large group Canadians always comes down Olean NY Rally other hand Californias Merwin Ranch Fly-In its usual great weather Bob Francis showed up JU-87B Stuka divebomber R Power Sachs 37 Cu engine plane has working flaps dive brakes bomb drop Beautiful Boeing P-26 Peashooter L Harold Drew Stockton CA photo cant justiceto red/white/blue/yellow colorscheme Model flies good looks Phil Karafills latesttwin-engine project Grumman 52F powered bytwo Zenoah G-28 engines CR uses set homemade retracts Background shows some Merwin Ranch wasnt being used flying Jim Messers latest design isthis1/a-scaleJ-3 Kitten L anotherSTARS club project 16 underconstruction Plans kit should available time see Shot right shows engine installation Bob Dunns Curtiss A-i Triad early Navy floatplane Model based information obtained Smithsonian Library 50 Model Aviation mile Just Olean have lot friends lately see once year Merwins place Bob Siegelkoff owner CB Associates Bob always has something interesting fly year cardboard aricraft long history guys California lot buying selling models fact sometimes hard find out originally built anything case Bob picked up model trade show swap shop Chicago first saw model first IMAA Fun Fly Festival Louisville 1981 Dave Gray Du-Bro builder original owner aircraft modeled after Eastborne monoplane about 1910 vintage powered twin made two early Quadras Despite its rather weather-beaten ungainly look model slow graceful stable flier Bob rigged releasable hook streamerand what streamer using yellow surveyors tape 400 feet long tight turn model could almost swallow its own tail time lull flying Bob would take off streamer pretty soon would half-dozen planes up trying cut actually cut once know though hit several times flight controls model rud der elevator Bob flies Mode elevator left stick rudder right stick usually aileron makes sense directional control rudder led final demise card board contraption Late Saturday afternoon Bob got ready another flight bit wind its light loading model airborne wind very quickly Just after takeoff banked gently right wind under left wing turn kept tightening stood waiting Bob straighten things out Instead turn continued tighten up until model inevitably met ground As picked up pieces Bob explained some reason hadnt gotten response rudder control inputs said just after takeoff plane started bank right gave left rudder could see rudder plane didnt respond finally dawned him using left stick usual Mode rudder location instead right stick usually aileron case rudder think STARS Crash Point system performance would rate maximum points Swan Song have writing column almost seven years now reluctantly have make final contribution last couple years combination health problems business pressures has made impossible job right have enjoyed doing column appreciate support Ive received Ive made lot new friends result hope see time time Jack de Vries will taking over starting next month Since Jack lives Colorado should bring fresh view Giant Scale column since gets around quite bit can cover activities throughout country wonder will let find time finish Sparrowhawk Bob Beckman 8248 Holly Grove Ct Manas sos VA 22110 responding advertisers mention read about ModelAviation Still Using bid Fashioned I4/ing Hinges rts3 GO GAPL will gain control efficiency eliminating gap between moveable stationary control surfaces will amazed performance gained using simple inexpen sive improvementl FREE MOVEMENT 450 STRONG AND LIGHTWEIGHT COMPLETELY FUELPROOF COMPATABLE WITH ALL IRON-ON MATERIALS COMES IN 3 FT LENGTHS SMALL 118 ORPRICE 3 ft $250 LARGE 1/4 EASY TO INSTALL CUT I/4 DEEP SLIT ALONG TIE FLEiL LEA/erR O THE AIATRR NEFACES INSTALL IWE USE IGHT P/Al 10 MAKE SM4LL 11015 EVERY INCH OR SODRR CYAAI24CRTLATE GLUE 18/ 1101EGCAPILART 4C770/ 5451 CARRY GLUE AILiNG EAITRE 10/AlT 3 ONAO01TSAOARTI EVERY FEW NGHES CIIT OFF FLUSH FILL AM 54410 AS AESUED FOR FIINSHING Send Free info fine products FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24th Avenue Forest Grove OR 97116 OPTIMIZE YOUR ENGINES OUTPUT IHJ TATONES THRUST TESTER 4flA/ Use TATON ES THRUST TESTER determine maximum engine output using different props fuel mixtures RPM levels Check engine another TATONE 30-13 M MOTOR MOUNT ENGINE THROTTLE CONTROL SAFETY STARTING LOCK January 1987 51 GAPLESS HiNGE SLOTTER 4 Simplifies installation Gapiess Hinqes 15 -Makes slots 4 Sizes Balsa %I.i4 CE $250 DIRECT READING THRUST DIAL . ONLY $6996 1/32 Scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories
Edition: Model Aviation - 1987/01
Page Numbers: 50, 51
Radio Control Giant Scale Bob Beckman HERE IT IS end another modeling year again business pressures have kept getting much fun did however manage get three favorite events Toledo April STARS rally July Merwin Ranch fly-in September Ive already reported Toledo Ill tell about other two now few years ago George Privateer must have offended weather gods have getting hack him STARS ever since first started going Olean NY mountaintop weekend rally weather al ways great started getting rain either Saturday Sunday Annoying still plenty good flying year however rain started Saturday morning never really let up week end Oh would stop once just soon few planes appeared flight line would start again All-in-all very disap pointing rally 100 fliers showed up STARS deserve better Scale Rally exclusively Giant Scale become best-mn best-attended big bird event eastern part country Lets hope weather gods satisfied now next year goes back old pattern other side country STARS near Sacramento CA lies Merwin Ranch dont already know about dichondra seed farm flat unobstructed areas extend half-mile directions Ive May September have never seen drop rain can get hot though aftemoon temperatures sometimes over 1000 Early morning late afternoon comfortable times plenty flying activity day long Labor Day weekend bash Merwin Ranch run Ken Runnestrand mem bers IMAA Chapter size popularity West Coast equivalent STARS Rally campers motor homes start amy ing Friday Saturday morning theyre lined up behind pits over quarter ven iying DOtfl Tfl tanaaian ana American TiagS atthe 86 STARS Rally CL failed scare awaythe rain showers disappointment Giant Scale enthusiasts attended yearly bonanza large group Canadians always comes down Olean NY Rally other hand Californias Merwin Ranch Fly-In its usual great weather Bob Francis showed up JU-87B Stuka divebomber R Power Sachs 37 Cu engine plane has working flaps dive brakes bomb drop Beautiful Boeing P-26 Peashooter L Harold Drew Stockton CA photo cant justiceto red/white/blue/yellow colorscheme Model flies good looks Phil Karafills latesttwin-engine project Grumman 52F powered bytwo Zenoah G-28 engines CR uses set homemade retracts Background shows some Merwin Ranch wasnt being used flying Jim Messers latest design isthis1/a-scaleJ-3 Kitten L anotherSTARS club project 16 underconstruction Plans kit should available time see Shot right shows engine installation Bob Dunns Curtiss A-i Triad early Navy floatplane Model based information obtained Smithsonian Library 50 Model Aviation mile Just Olean have lot friends lately see once year Merwins place Bob Siegelkoff owner CB Associates Bob always has something interesting fly year cardboard aricraft long history guys California lot buying selling models fact sometimes hard find out originally built anything case Bob picked up model trade show swap shop Chicago first saw model first IMAA Fun Fly Festival Louisville 1981 Dave Gray Du-Bro builder original owner aircraft modeled after Eastborne monoplane about 1910 vintage powered twin made two early Quadras Despite its rather weather-beaten ungainly look model slow graceful stable flier Bob rigged releasable hook streamerand what streamer using yellow surveyors tape 400 feet long tight turn model could almost swallow its own tail time lull flying Bob would take off streamer pretty soon would half-dozen planes up trying cut actually cut once know though hit several times flight controls model rud der elevator Bob flies Mode elevator left stick rudder right stick usually aileron makes sense directional control rudder led final demise card board contraption Late Saturday afternoon Bob got ready another flight bit wind its light loading model airborne wind very quickly Just after takeoff banked gently right wind under left wing turn kept tightening stood waiting Bob straighten things out Instead turn continued tighten up until model inevitably met ground As picked up pieces Bob explained some reason hadnt gotten response rudder control inputs said just after takeoff plane started bank right gave left rudder could see rudder plane didnt respond finally dawned him using left stick usual Mode rudder location instead right stick usually aileron case rudder think STARS Crash Point system performance would rate maximum points Swan Song have writing column almost seven years now reluctantly have make final contribution last couple years combination health problems business pressures has made impossible job right have enjoyed doing column appreciate support Ive received Ive made lot new friends result hope see time time Jack de Vries will taking over starting next month Since Jack lives Colorado should bring fresh view Giant Scale column since gets around quite bit can cover activities throughout country wonder will let find time finish Sparrowhawk Bob Beckman 8248 Holly Grove Ct Manas sos VA 22110 responding advertisers mention read about ModelAviation Still Using bid Fashioned I4/ing Hinges rts3 GO GAPL will gain control efficiency eliminating gap between moveable stationary control surfaces will amazed performance gained using simple inexpen sive improvementl FREE MOVEMENT 450 STRONG AND LIGHTWEIGHT COMPLETELY FUELPROOF COMPATABLE WITH ALL IRON-ON MATERIALS COMES IN 3 FT LENGTHS SMALL 118 ORPRICE 3 ft $250 LARGE 1/4 EASY TO INSTALL CUT I/4 DEEP SLIT ALONG TIE FLEiL LEA/erR O THE AIATRR NEFACES INSTALL IWE USE IGHT P/Al 10 MAKE SM4LL 11015 EVERY INCH OR SODRR CYAAI24CRTLATE GLUE 18/ 1101EGCAPILART 4C770/ 5451 CARRY GLUE AILiNG EAITRE 10/AlT 3 ONAO01TSAOARTI EVERY FEW NGHES CIIT OFF FLUSH FILL AM 54410 AS AESUED FOR FIINSHING Send Free info fine products FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24th Avenue Forest Grove OR 97116 OPTIMIZE YOUR ENGINES OUTPUT IHJ TATONES THRUST TESTER 4flA/ Use TATON ES THRUST TESTER determine maximum engine output using different props fuel mixtures RPM levels Check engine another TATONE 30-13 M MOTOR MOUNT ENGINE THROTTLE CONTROL SAFETY STARTING LOCK January 1987 51 GAPLESS HiNGE SLOTTER 4 Simplifies installation Gapiess Hinqes 15 -Makes slots 4 Sizes Balsa %I.i4 CE $250 DIRECT READING THRUST DIAL . ONLY $6996 1/32 Scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories