ANNIVERSARY TIME Somehow rather hard comprehend Ive writing column since December 1977 issue Thats over 10 years Reflecting fact occurs readers would appreciate listing three-views comments about have run 10 years Reflecting 10 years interesting ways Consider will 10 years ago three Old-Timer kits available models being flown using either true antique engines sport-type glow engines Eut Tilestons latest odd-bucket OldTimer recreation Bernard Gross 1941 flying wing An Enya 46 four-stroker powers Eut says flies very well Including spins loops inverted flightl [52 Model Aviation SUCCESSFUL ELEVON4 BLADED PROP WIRE SKID 8 RIB2 RIBIB7j j NOTEABOVE RIBS 8 BELOW SIDE VIEWS , ELEVON / NO SCALE I 0/ 0 TILESTON VERSION SPAN 81 V / V I__________________ FUSELAGE BUILT FROM BULK- S STRINGERS B THEN/DESIGNED BY BERNARD GROSS PLANKED TAIL BOOM FAIRS INTO FINPUBLISHED IN AIR TRAILS PICTORIAl /1/48 ALL RIBS CAPPED WING SPAN OWER BROWN IUNIOR IISCALE IN INCHES II II LX0248216 FLYING WING EXTENSION SHAFT REQUIRED hic Tileston go through some gymnastics get first photo published January 1942 construction article modified version 19481 1942 version best can tell Too bad legal its four-stroker according new SAM rules Radio Conot Old-Timers Dr DB Mathews 909 N Maize Rd Townhouse 734 Wichita KS 67212 contests really like fun-flies marked a wide variety designs us spent lots time visiting flying Franldy us entertained kling really good production en gines would become available unlikely glow engines would ever have included RC SAM Society Antique Modelers eventsother served commit tee several others primary concern encourage growth SAM RC events Consequently voted include glow engines fearing newcomers would able locate antique engines now realize dead wrong Fortunately important factor SAM Old-Timer concept has remained constant fun continue delighted response designs have virtually no contest potential readers get teary-eyed over Spooks Buccaneer Standards keep writ ing sending photos time competition groups heard want publicity would appear have devel oped following historians restorers recreators will continue support column material odd-bucket Old-Timers another decade columns will breeze Euts whatsit Readers will recall Lil Mis ery July 1987 column Eut Tileston Carmichael CA developed John Worthdesigned flying wing use /2A Texaco Continued page 152 B SAtJITIHI lED WE WEIRD 7555 5o Gb,eI Road cadeo CA 53422 4561717 HOBBY 919 2918548 RADIO Radio trouble? Hobby Radio offers professional R/C repairs arid modifications isake RIC equipment produced last 25 years Complete system service battery pack servos vibration testing new frequency change etc Also R/Cer likes do-ityourself Hobby Radio Volume 142 page journal including diagrams charts detailed modifications written simple understandable text Send l995 Hobby Radio 3001-A Kavanaugh Rd Wilson NC 27893 legal size sase price list complete services (I R/C SPECIALIST REPRODUCTION PARTS FOR ANTIQUE IGNITION SPARK PLUGS TANK TOPS TIMERS GASKETS NEEDLE VALVES SCREW SETS EXHAUST STACKS MANUALS ENGINES POINTS eTANKS COILS PROP DRIVES OVER 1000 ITEMS FOR MORE THAN 60 ENGINES SEND $3 FOR CATALOG #10 IN US & CANADA INTERNATIONAL $6 MICRO MODEL ENGINEERING 1301 W LAFAYETTE ST STURGIS MI 49091 April 1988 53 Tom Bracket Fremont NE built fine Red Zephyr Ben Buckle British kit Power Saito 45 four-stroke Keil Kraft Scorpion built Jim Adams candidate SAM president SAMlegal US because Ben Buckle kit has changed airfoil An old Enya 29 pow ers Jim says floats better Gold berg Sailplane s89& 475AVAILABLE AT AMERICAS$475 DISTRIBUTED BY FINEST HOBBY SHOPS model flew 1938 Nats Does remember Xerox photo came CH Grants book Gateway Aeroscience Model constructed Kenneth Peter son Detroit Ml RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 146 Thanks Jim input insight Incidentally local modeler just complet ing HL Electric Pronto should have some inputs future columns Electric supplies continue available CS Flight Systems recent conversation owner/Electric modeler Charles Sylvia learned continuing expansion catalog updates latest discounted Electric supplies send two bucks Charlie CS Flight Systems 31 Perry St Box 775 Middleboro MA 02346 Tell em Bob sent ya must close another column singular frustration writing column low ceiling column size have far share can get print month Please forward comment question SASE please address listed very top column FLASH Just announceda new Electric kit Guillow Its Aeronca designed Woody Blanchard Woody chaired committee re sponsible first-ever AMA Electric rules discussed above 530-sq-in 67-in-span kit OSs should available about time read RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 53 events has obviously worked Out well since own local SAM chapter has several flying Eut has now developed obscureand certainly structurally complexflying wing named simply Gross Wing after its designer Things get bit odd photo ap pears January 1942 Air Trails con struction article published until January 1948 postwar article design al tered include fuselage-mounted rudder ever Bernard Gross states 1948 Air Trails article original 1941 wing used basis Eut has utilized 1942 pho fuselage rudder planform has com bined airfoils outline 1948 version Whether design has au thenticated know time writing Longtime friend Bill Baker has taken over Free Flight Old-Timers column magazine challenged explain new SAM rules RC No way Baker figure will least year before jail-house lawyers have worked way through contradictions What will use Eut Tilestons latest project point Out some major changes SAM rules refer modelers really interested new SAM rule book Eut has scaled Gross Flying Wing up 675 sq wing area meet SAMs 225-sq-inper- 10-cu-in-of-displacement rule makes legal 30 cu two-cycle power plant Eut used Enya 46 four-stroke un der old rules classified according 60% its displacement 60% 46 cu However under new rules model now illegal since four-cycle engines classified ac cording full displacements As built Euts Gross Wing spans 84 152 Model Aviation FIBERGLASS PARTS WET Y SAFE OXY unique two-component epoxy laminating system developed offer user safest highest quality laminating resin available VA Pt Kit-S140O 1V2 Qt Kit-$210O Glass Cloth 58 oz/sq yd 38x6ft-$90038xl5ft-S190O 38 x30 ft $3500 add $250 Ship 8 Hand above items Send SASE additional information ACPs Ughtweight Composite Materials Order COD Send Check Money Order AEROSPACE COMPOSITE PRODUCTS P0 Box 16621 IDept Al Irvine CA 92714 Source Lightweight Materials Over 237 Cowls kit scratch built models Also over 34 round cowls ranging 4 14-7/8 diameter 55 diff size 8 shape wheel pants custom Make Parts Vacuum Form Canopies P1gm wud $1 couplet kt T&D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 Block Dept 4 Garden City Ml 48135 PHONE 1313421-6358 BRAZED & HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEARS & CASANES PHONE 3131 261-9064 YALE HOBBY MFGU CO INC YALE REPLACEMENT MAIN SHAFTS YALE FLYBARS GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicoptera YALE CANOPIES form Plastic WhIte Gelcoat Finish Fiberglass Replacementa GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicopters HEAT SHRINK COVERING Main Tail blades Available black white red blue yellow YALE ACCESSORIES Yalewelght KitAllen Driver -3mmWhip Antenna Two Pound Yaleweight KitAllan Driver -25mmBlade Balencera Mixing Arms CobralCompetitorAllen Driver -2mm Training Geer- 28 Size HelicopterAllen Driver -15mm Training Gear-40/60 aize HelicopterFlybar Wetghts Reinforcement BracketaStarter Extenaion Quilted Blade Covera d0 — ted Blade Covers Blade Stayc available afl helicopters guaranteed ROUND OFF IfTRU-SPIN does return itwith $250 for__PREWEIGHTED retum shipment breakMAIN BLADES tip pleeae send 8500 Feeture Yaleweight installed end retumholders attached white hsatshrink ncluded Modeler must cover balance 3O $ TRU-SPIN CUSTOM-BUILT BLADES Features Weighted heat shrink color covering choice balanced reidyto bolt Heat Shrink colors white black red blue yellow Allow week delivery time Orders must ba prepaid paid credit card * Standard Tru-Spin Main end Tail blades come white heat shrink covering Add $300 clot blades Yaleweight * Tru-Spln Rotor Blades superior quality lower prices Replacement blades available GMP Schluter Kalt end Miniature Aircraft helicoptera * Our blades come money-back guarantee replacement item against manufacturing defects Send Price ListDealer inquiries invited INSTANT SHIPMENT HOT LINE 305 466-8883 ShippinglCOD charges extra MasterCard VISA accepted No COD orders shipped outside USA Custom-built blades special orders must ba prepaid paid credit card certified check Yale product dIstributors Ace RIC Inc. Great Planes Model DIaL HorIzon Model DIstributors ABC Imports sole UK DIstrIbutor 7ZLJ HOBBY MANUFACTURING CO INC 3896 Selvitz Rd Ft Pierce Florida 34881 306 466-9883 THE JOURNAL 01JOURNAL OF THE AIRPlANE 1920 1940TIlE EARLY AEROPLANE Leo Opdycke Editor Kenn Rust Editor WW1 AERO 1 9001 91 9 SKYWAYS 1 9201 940 two Journals contain information current projects news ot museums snd sirshows technicsl drswings dsts photogrsphs scsle modelling msterisl news current publications kinds Sample copies $4 historical research workshop notes information paint color aeroplanes engines parts sale PLUS wants disposals PLUS more. Published WORLD WAR 1 62eA9oe&za- INC 15 Crescent Road Pouqflkeepsie IY 12601 USA 914 473-3679 weighs remarkably low 2Y4 lb comes Out less newly required 10 oz per sq ft contest models previous years will have ballasted Tileston tells climb outstanding unstable using rudder first wing has able spin recovery normal verted flight very goodperhaps stable upright Inside outside loops solid rolls very sluggish about An aerobatic Old-Timer Finally Eut has pioneered use foam composite construction materials Old-Timers cant tell wing ribs used Gross Wing balsa cut foam new SAM rules outlaw anything other wood construction materials called orig inal plans Parenthetically writer wonders new rule also outlaws metal wing-joiners molded nylon engine mounts neither would appear original drawings See what mean about contradictions must again salute Eut Tileston another gutsy highly innovative effort am still con vinced man would winner regard less what flew rules passed aimed him really big shows 1988 SAM Champs scheduled Lawrenceville IL July 19-22 information contact Don Sachtjen RR 5 Box 56B Bloomfield IN 47424 1988 AMA Nate information will course available magazine Whether unofficial events will include SAM Free Flight RC unknown However have received notice Joe Beshar will sponsor Vintage event Nats unfamiliar concept has attempted combine FF RC Old-Timer format No size-scaling allowed designeligibility parameters same SAM events Vintage uses different engine-run times various types ignition engines official time stopped flier uses radio after power run strikes will event dominat ed nonscale Playboys running Supertigre PDP engines ignition added fun playing chicken see willing chance getting model back field Sorry Joe presumption going around bothers considerably above-mentioned special event stated way introduce Free Flighters advantages radioretrieval encourage add Radio Con trol models events mind insult get off telling fellow modelers need change way things presume have exposed RC Old-Timers RC Sailplanes Free Flight ers some intelligent dedicated people hobby sure-as-the-world know what going around choose fly Free Flight preferencettot Out ignorance us have aged too much retrieval hassles have become over whelming have switched away pure Free Flight Old-Timer RC RC Soaring continue enjoy pure Free Flight have right continue de mocratic society everyone constitutionally guaranteed right pursue route happi ness choose long pursuit does harm anyone else Free Flighters certainly harming anyone certainly dont need educated 154 Model Aviation Old-Timer Three-Views Featured Columns First Decade 1978 February April June August October 1979 January March May July September 1980 February April August October 1981 January March May September December 1982 April Advanced Challenger Cumulus Shereshaw Pacemaker Ohlsson Quaker Flash Megow Premier Lion British Thermal Magnet Bay Ridge Red Zephyr Scientific Vulcan RussellBritish Utility Hacker American Ace Berkeley Riser Rider Marquardt Streamlined Cyclone Bob Jeffery Scorpion Keil KraftBritish Tubby Joe Weathers Rearwin Speedster Cleveland Hornet Sal Taibi Cavalier Berkeley Mercury IV British Cloud Hopper Schwartz Winged Victory Joe Weathers Snow White 20 Effinger King Burd Burd Models Hoosier Hot-Shot Foxworthy Citizen Bill Winter TD Coupe Dykzeul Bi-Fly Phil Kraft Simplex Paul Plecan Live Wire Bipe Hal deBolt Sunduster Jerry Broffman Dragon Fly Williams Blackhawk Peerless Supply Cloudster Mk Cleveland Pylon Buster Vasquez Commando Ontario Models Lancer New Cyclone Mfg Buzzerd KenHi Pacificoaster Joe Weathers Varsity Scientific Bowden Trophy Winner Krupp Buccaneer Standard Berkeley Nomad Chuck Hollinger Berryloid Winner Hal Coovert MayNimbus Shereshaw JulyLil Misery John Worth September Spook 72 Modelcraft December Hangar 13 Ten-Footer Ralph Beck 1988 February Cloud Cruiser Henry E Moyer AprilGross Wing Bernard Gross June August 1983 January March May July September 1984 January March May July September 1985 February April June October 1986 February April June October 1987 January March RC Pylon Racing/Hager Continued page 54 results Standard Q500l Duane Felstet 2 Dan Powell 3 Darrol Cady 4 Wayne Venetz 5 Ken Helgerson Modified QSOOl Greg Corliss 2 Duane Felstet 3 Earl Seaholm 4 Wayne Venetz 5 AJ Seaholm Formula II Murray Hamula 1240 2 Leon Elbert 130 3 Hans Algard 140 4 Duane Felstet 139 5 Wayne Venetz 157 Heres get kits engines Kits Item Formula Manufact urer PhoneAddress 213 835-1660 Ravenna 4764Wilmington CA 90744 Lit Toni Prather Products Terry Prather Pauls Fly-619 743-PO Box 121 ing Stuff5458Escondido CA Paul92025 Steinberg Ritchs713 661Hobbies5458 4104 Lark Houston TX 77025 12055 206th Issaquah WA 98027 1420 W 160th Seattle WA 98166 502 Cherry Southlake TX 76092 tlenight Spcl Cosmic Wind Pole Cat Dick Ritch Shoestring Don Rice 206 2284170 Shoestring Tom Strom 206 246Lit Toni4258 Estrellita Jerry Small 817 4816456 EnginesStock Supertigre X-40 Superligre X-40 Ritchs Hobbies John Han cock See Above See Above 915 672-PO Box 2694 8568Abilene TX 79604 501 782-4305 Kelley 8506Ft Smith AR 72904 Supertigre Model X-40tronics Terry Rollins K&B 40 K&B Mfg 213 803J&J1423 Brodheck 12152 5 Woodruff Downey CA 90241 EnginesModified Ready Race SupertigrePerform-619 729-PO Box 4003 X-40ance Speci-1658Carlsbad CA alties92008 SupertigreJohn Han-See AboveSee Above X-40cock K&B 40 Lee Custom 813 352-7215 Foothill Engines3766Tujunga CA Clarence90241 Lee Ive missed someone please write Ill try get Next month will list accessor ies Q500 kits Please keep cards letters photos coming Dragonfly/Platt Continued page 56 no-compromises approach building significant gains performance can made So easy building goes out Win dow Still constructing model like Gone forever nightmare heli-flier dreads stepping 3 foot tenna ripping off front prized chopper just its ready fly Base loaded short WHIP ANTENNA gives hidden performance Less 7 long can mounted project front helicopter inside canopy virtually invisible GO5LAAA MODEL PRODUcTs 23961 CRAFTSMAN RD CALABASAS CA 91302 818 992-0195 218 VERNON ROAD GREENVILLE PA 16125 412 588-1321 April 1988 155 RAINBOW RUNNER PURE PERFORMANCE Rainbow Runner delivers total pattern performance 25 45 sizes Designed features pattern champion Rainbow Runner ready meet exceed expectations %fl PRECI SION PRODUCTS INC 114 592-5144 510 E Arrow Highway San Dimas CA 91773 Whip Antenna Gives Hidden Per foranance
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/04
Page Numbers: 52, 53, 152, 154, 155
ANNIVERSARY TIME Somehow rather hard comprehend Ive writing column since December 1977 issue Thats over 10 years Reflecting fact occurs readers would appreciate listing three-views comments about have run 10 years Reflecting 10 years interesting ways Consider will 10 years ago three Old-Timer kits available models being flown using either true antique engines sport-type glow engines Eut Tilestons latest odd-bucket OldTimer recreation Bernard Gross 1941 flying wing An Enya 46 four-stroker powers Eut says flies very well Including spins loops inverted flightl [52 Model Aviation SUCCESSFUL ELEVON4 BLADED PROP WIRE SKID 8 RIB2 RIBIB7j j NOTEABOVE RIBS 8 BELOW SIDE VIEWS , ELEVON / NO SCALE I 0/ 0 TILESTON VERSION SPAN 81 V / V I__________________ FUSELAGE BUILT FROM BULK- S STRINGERS B THEN/DESIGNED BY BERNARD GROSS PLANKED TAIL BOOM FAIRS INTO FINPUBLISHED IN AIR TRAILS PICTORIAl /1/48 ALL RIBS CAPPED WING SPAN OWER BROWN IUNIOR IISCALE IN INCHES II II LX0248216 FLYING WING EXTENSION SHAFT REQUIRED hic Tileston go through some gymnastics get first photo published January 1942 construction article modified version 19481 1942 version best can tell Too bad legal its four-stroker according new SAM rules Radio Conot Old-Timers Dr DB Mathews 909 N Maize Rd Townhouse 734 Wichita KS 67212 contests really like fun-flies marked a wide variety designs us spent lots time visiting flying Franldy us entertained kling really good production en gines would become available unlikely glow engines would ever have included RC SAM Society Antique Modelers eventsother served commit tee several others primary concern encourage growth SAM RC events Consequently voted include glow engines fearing newcomers would able locate antique engines now realize dead wrong Fortunately important factor SAM Old-Timer concept has remained constant fun continue delighted response designs have virtually no contest potential readers get teary-eyed over Spooks Buccaneer Standards keep writ ing sending photos time competition groups heard want publicity would appear have devel oped following historians restorers recreators will continue support column material odd-bucket Old-Timers another decade columns will breeze Euts whatsit Readers will recall Lil Mis ery July 1987 column Eut Tileston Carmichael CA developed John Worthdesigned flying wing use /2A Texaco Continued page 152 B SAtJITIHI lED WE WEIRD 7555 5o Gb,eI Road cadeo CA 53422 4561717 HOBBY 919 2918548 RADIO Radio trouble? Hobby Radio offers professional R/C repairs arid modifications isake RIC equipment produced last 25 years Complete system service battery pack servos vibration testing new frequency change etc Also R/Cer likes do-ityourself Hobby Radio Volume 142 page journal including diagrams charts detailed modifications written simple understandable text Send l995 Hobby Radio 3001-A Kavanaugh Rd Wilson NC 27893 legal size sase price list complete services (I R/C SPECIALIST REPRODUCTION PARTS FOR ANTIQUE IGNITION SPARK PLUGS TANK TOPS TIMERS GASKETS NEEDLE VALVES SCREW SETS EXHAUST STACKS MANUALS ENGINES POINTS eTANKS COILS PROP DRIVES OVER 1000 ITEMS FOR MORE THAN 60 ENGINES SEND $3 FOR CATALOG #10 IN US & CANADA INTERNATIONAL $6 MICRO MODEL ENGINEERING 1301 W LAFAYETTE ST STURGIS MI 49091 April 1988 53 Tom Bracket Fremont NE built fine Red Zephyr Ben Buckle British kit Power Saito 45 four-stroke Keil Kraft Scorpion built Jim Adams candidate SAM president SAMlegal US because Ben Buckle kit has changed airfoil An old Enya 29 pow ers Jim says floats better Gold berg Sailplane s89& 475AVAILABLE AT AMERICAS$475 DISTRIBUTED BY FINEST HOBBY SHOPS model flew 1938 Nats Does remember Xerox photo came CH Grants book Gateway Aeroscience Model constructed Kenneth Peter son Detroit Ml RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 146 Thanks Jim input insight Incidentally local modeler just complet ing HL Electric Pronto should have some inputs future columns Electric supplies continue available CS Flight Systems recent conversation owner/Electric modeler Charles Sylvia learned continuing expansion catalog updates latest discounted Electric supplies send two bucks Charlie CS Flight Systems 31 Perry St Box 775 Middleboro MA 02346 Tell em Bob sent ya must close another column singular frustration writing column low ceiling column size have far share can get print month Please forward comment question SASE please address listed very top column FLASH Just announceda new Electric kit Guillow Its Aeronca designed Woody Blanchard Woody chaired committee re sponsible first-ever AMA Electric rules discussed above 530-sq-in 67-in-span kit OSs should available about time read RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 53 events has obviously worked Out well since own local SAM chapter has several flying Eut has now developed obscureand certainly structurally complexflying wing named simply Gross Wing after its designer Things get bit odd photo ap pears January 1942 Air Trails con struction article published until January 1948 postwar article design al tered include fuselage-mounted rudder ever Bernard Gross states 1948 Air Trails article original 1941 wing used basis Eut has utilized 1942 pho fuselage rudder planform has com bined airfoils outline 1948 version Whether design has au thenticated know time writing Longtime friend Bill Baker has taken over Free Flight Old-Timers column magazine challenged explain new SAM rules RC No way Baker figure will least year before jail-house lawyers have worked way through contradictions What will use Eut Tilestons latest project point Out some major changes SAM rules refer modelers really interested new SAM rule book Eut has scaled Gross Flying Wing up 675 sq wing area meet SAMs 225-sq-inper- 10-cu-in-of-displacement rule makes legal 30 cu two-cycle power plant Eut used Enya 46 four-stroke un der old rules classified according 60% its displacement 60% 46 cu However under new rules model now illegal since four-cycle engines classified ac cording full displacements As built Euts Gross Wing spans 84 152 Model Aviation FIBERGLASS PARTS WET Y SAFE OXY unique two-component epoxy laminating system developed offer user safest highest quality laminating resin available VA Pt Kit-S140O 1V2 Qt Kit-$210O Glass Cloth 58 oz/sq yd 38x6ft-$90038xl5ft-S190O 38 x30 ft $3500 add $250 Ship 8 Hand above items Send SASE additional information ACPs Ughtweight Composite Materials Order COD Send Check Money Order AEROSPACE COMPOSITE PRODUCTS P0 Box 16621 IDept Al Irvine CA 92714 Source Lightweight Materials Over 237 Cowls kit scratch built models Also over 34 round cowls ranging 4 14-7/8 diameter 55 diff size 8 shape wheel pants custom Make Parts Vacuum Form Canopies P1gm wud $1 couplet kt T&D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 Block Dept 4 Garden City Ml 48135 PHONE 1313421-6358 BRAZED & HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEARS & CASANES PHONE 3131 261-9064 YALE HOBBY MFGU CO INC YALE REPLACEMENT MAIN SHAFTS YALE FLYBARS GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicoptera YALE CANOPIES form Plastic WhIte Gelcoat Finish Fiberglass Replacementa GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicopters HEAT SHRINK COVERING Main Tail blades Available black white red blue yellow YALE ACCESSORIES Yalewelght KitAllen Driver -3mmWhip Antenna Two Pound Yaleweight KitAllan Driver -25mmBlade Balencera Mixing Arms CobralCompetitorAllen Driver -2mm Training Geer- 28 Size HelicopterAllen Driver -15mm Training Gear-40/60 aize HelicopterFlybar Wetghts Reinforcement BracketaStarter Extenaion Quilted Blade Covera d0 — ted Blade Covers Blade Stayc available afl helicopters guaranteed ROUND OFF IfTRU-SPIN does return itwith $250 for__PREWEIGHTED retum shipment breakMAIN BLADES tip pleeae send 8500 Feeture Yaleweight installed end retumholders attached white hsatshrink ncluded Modeler must cover balance 3O $ TRU-SPIN CUSTOM-BUILT BLADES Features Weighted heat shrink color covering choice balanced reidyto bolt Heat Shrink colors white black red blue yellow Allow week delivery time Orders must ba prepaid paid credit card * Standard Tru-Spin Main end Tail blades come white heat shrink covering Add $300 clot blades Yaleweight * Tru-Spln Rotor Blades superior quality lower prices Replacement blades available GMP Schluter Kalt end Miniature Aircraft helicoptera * Our blades come money-back guarantee replacement item against manufacturing defects Send Price ListDealer inquiries invited INSTANT SHIPMENT HOT LINE 305 466-8883 ShippinglCOD charges extra MasterCard VISA accepted No COD orders shipped outside USA Custom-built blades special orders must ba prepaid paid credit card certified check Yale product dIstributors Ace RIC Inc. Great Planes Model DIaL HorIzon Model DIstributors ABC Imports sole UK DIstrIbutor 7ZLJ HOBBY MANUFACTURING CO INC 3896 Selvitz Rd Ft Pierce Florida 34881 306 466-9883 THE JOURNAL 01JOURNAL OF THE AIRPlANE 1920 1940TIlE EARLY AEROPLANE Leo Opdycke Editor Kenn Rust Editor WW1 AERO 1 9001 91 9 SKYWAYS 1 9201 940 two Journals contain information current projects news ot museums snd sirshows technicsl drswings dsts photogrsphs scsle modelling msterisl news current publications kinds Sample copies $4 historical research workshop notes information paint color aeroplanes engines parts sale PLUS wants disposals PLUS more. Published WORLD WAR 1 62eA9oe&za- INC 15 Crescent Road Pouqflkeepsie IY 12601 USA 914 473-3679 weighs remarkably low 2Y4 lb comes Out less newly required 10 oz per sq ft contest models previous years will have ballasted Tileston tells climb outstanding unstable using rudder first wing has able spin recovery normal verted flight very goodperhaps stable upright Inside outside loops solid rolls very sluggish about An aerobatic Old-Timer Finally Eut has pioneered use foam composite construction materials Old-Timers cant tell wing ribs used Gross Wing balsa cut foam new SAM rules outlaw anything other wood construction materials called orig inal plans Parenthetically writer wonders new rule also outlaws metal wing-joiners molded nylon engine mounts neither would appear original drawings See what mean about contradictions must again salute Eut Tileston another gutsy highly innovative effort am still con vinced man would winner regard less what flew rules passed aimed him really big shows 1988 SAM Champs scheduled Lawrenceville IL July 19-22 information contact Don Sachtjen RR 5 Box 56B Bloomfield IN 47424 1988 AMA Nate information will course available magazine Whether unofficial events will include SAM Free Flight RC unknown However have received notice Joe Beshar will sponsor Vintage event Nats unfamiliar concept has attempted combine FF RC Old-Timer format No size-scaling allowed designeligibility parameters same SAM events Vintage uses different engine-run times various types ignition engines official time stopped flier uses radio after power run strikes will event dominat ed nonscale Playboys running Supertigre PDP engines ignition added fun playing chicken see willing chance getting model back field Sorry Joe presumption going around bothers considerably above-mentioned special event stated way introduce Free Flighters advantages radioretrieval encourage add Radio Con trol models events mind insult get off telling fellow modelers need change way things presume have exposed RC Old-Timers RC Sailplanes Free Flight ers some intelligent dedicated people hobby sure-as-the-world know what going around choose fly Free Flight preferencettot Out ignorance us have aged too much retrieval hassles have become over whelming have switched away pure Free Flight Old-Timer RC RC Soaring continue enjoy pure Free Flight have right continue de mocratic society everyone constitutionally guaranteed right pursue route happi ness choose long pursuit does harm anyone else Free Flighters certainly harming anyone certainly dont need educated 154 Model Aviation Old-Timer Three-Views Featured Columns First Decade 1978 February April June August October 1979 January March May July September 1980 February April August October 1981 January March May September December 1982 April Advanced Challenger Cumulus Shereshaw Pacemaker Ohlsson Quaker Flash Megow Premier Lion British Thermal Magnet Bay Ridge Red Zephyr Scientific Vulcan RussellBritish Utility Hacker American Ace Berkeley Riser Rider Marquardt Streamlined Cyclone Bob Jeffery Scorpion Keil KraftBritish Tubby Joe Weathers Rearwin Speedster Cleveland Hornet Sal Taibi Cavalier Berkeley Mercury IV British Cloud Hopper Schwartz Winged Victory Joe Weathers Snow White 20 Effinger King Burd Burd Models Hoosier Hot-Shot Foxworthy Citizen Bill Winter TD Coupe Dykzeul Bi-Fly Phil Kraft Simplex Paul Plecan Live Wire Bipe Hal deBolt Sunduster Jerry Broffman Dragon Fly Williams Blackhawk Peerless Supply Cloudster Mk Cleveland Pylon Buster Vasquez Commando Ontario Models Lancer New Cyclone Mfg Buzzerd KenHi Pacificoaster Joe Weathers Varsity Scientific Bowden Trophy Winner Krupp Buccaneer Standard Berkeley Nomad Chuck Hollinger Berryloid Winner Hal Coovert MayNimbus Shereshaw JulyLil Misery John Worth September Spook 72 Modelcraft December Hangar 13 Ten-Footer Ralph Beck 1988 February Cloud Cruiser Henry E Moyer AprilGross Wing Bernard Gross June August 1983 January March May July September 1984 January March May July September 1985 February April June October 1986 February April June October 1987 January March RC Pylon Racing/Hager Continued page 54 results Standard Q500l Duane Felstet 2 Dan Powell 3 Darrol Cady 4 Wayne Venetz 5 Ken Helgerson Modified QSOOl Greg Corliss 2 Duane Felstet 3 Earl Seaholm 4 Wayne Venetz 5 AJ Seaholm Formula II Murray Hamula 1240 2 Leon Elbert 130 3 Hans Algard 140 4 Duane Felstet 139 5 Wayne Venetz 157 Heres get kits engines Kits Item Formula Manufact urer PhoneAddress 213 835-1660 Ravenna 4764Wilmington CA 90744 Lit Toni Prather Products Terry Prather Pauls Fly-619 743-PO Box 121 ing Stuff5458Escondido CA Paul92025 Steinberg Ritchs713 661Hobbies5458 4104 Lark Houston TX 77025 12055 206th Issaquah WA 98027 1420 W 160th Seattle WA 98166 502 Cherry Southlake TX 76092 tlenight Spcl Cosmic Wind Pole Cat Dick Ritch Shoestring Don Rice 206 2284170 Shoestring Tom Strom 206 246Lit Toni4258 Estrellita Jerry Small 817 4816456 EnginesStock Supertigre X-40 Superligre X-40 Ritchs Hobbies John Han cock See Above See Above 915 672-PO Box 2694 8568Abilene TX 79604 501 782-4305 Kelley 8506Ft Smith AR 72904 Supertigre Model X-40tronics Terry Rollins K&B 40 K&B Mfg 213 803J&J1423 Brodheck 12152 5 Woodruff Downey CA 90241 EnginesModified Ready Race SupertigrePerform-619 729-PO Box 4003 X-40ance Speci-1658Carlsbad CA alties92008 SupertigreJohn Han-See AboveSee Above X-40cock K&B 40 Lee Custom 813 352-7215 Foothill Engines3766Tujunga CA Clarence90241 Lee Ive missed someone please write Ill try get Next month will list accessor ies Q500 kits Please keep cards letters photos coming Dragonfly/Platt Continued page 56 no-compromises approach building significant gains performance can made So easy building goes out Win dow Still constructing model like Gone forever nightmare heli-flier dreads stepping 3 foot tenna ripping off front prized chopper just its ready fly Base loaded short WHIP ANTENNA gives hidden performance Less 7 long can mounted project front helicopter inside canopy virtually invisible GO5LAAA MODEL PRODUcTs 23961 CRAFTSMAN RD CALABASAS CA 91302 818 992-0195 218 VERNON ROAD GREENVILLE PA 16125 412 588-1321 April 1988 155 RAINBOW RUNNER PURE PERFORMANCE Rainbow Runner delivers total pattern performance 25 45 sizes Designed features pattern champion Rainbow Runner ready meet exceed expectations %fl PRECI SION PRODUCTS INC 114 592-5144 510 E Arrow Highway San Dimas CA 91773 Whip Antenna Gives Hidden Per foranance
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/04
Page Numbers: 52, 53, 152, 154, 155
ANNIVERSARY TIME Somehow rather hard comprehend Ive writing column since December 1977 issue Thats over 10 years Reflecting fact occurs readers would appreciate listing three-views comments about have run 10 years Reflecting 10 years interesting ways Consider will 10 years ago three Old-Timer kits available models being flown using either true antique engines sport-type glow engines Eut Tilestons latest odd-bucket OldTimer recreation Bernard Gross 1941 flying wing An Enya 46 four-stroker powers Eut says flies very well Including spins loops inverted flightl [52 Model Aviation SUCCESSFUL ELEVON4 BLADED PROP WIRE SKID 8 RIB2 RIBIB7j j NOTEABOVE RIBS 8 BELOW SIDE VIEWS , ELEVON / NO SCALE I 0/ 0 TILESTON VERSION SPAN 81 V / V I__________________ FUSELAGE BUILT FROM BULK- S STRINGERS B THEN/DESIGNED BY BERNARD GROSS PLANKED TAIL BOOM FAIRS INTO FINPUBLISHED IN AIR TRAILS PICTORIAl /1/48 ALL RIBS CAPPED WING SPAN OWER BROWN IUNIOR IISCALE IN INCHES II II LX0248216 FLYING WING EXTENSION SHAFT REQUIRED hic Tileston go through some gymnastics get first photo published January 1942 construction article modified version 19481 1942 version best can tell Too bad legal its four-stroker according new SAM rules Radio Conot Old-Timers Dr DB Mathews 909 N Maize Rd Townhouse 734 Wichita KS 67212 contests really like fun-flies marked a wide variety designs us spent lots time visiting flying Franldy us entertained kling really good production en gines would become available unlikely glow engines would ever have included RC SAM Society Antique Modelers eventsother served commit tee several others primary concern encourage growth SAM RC events Consequently voted include glow engines fearing newcomers would able locate antique engines now realize dead wrong Fortunately important factor SAM Old-Timer concept has remained constant fun continue delighted response designs have virtually no contest potential readers get teary-eyed over Spooks Buccaneer Standards keep writ ing sending photos time competition groups heard want publicity would appear have devel oped following historians restorers recreators will continue support column material odd-bucket Old-Timers another decade columns will breeze Euts whatsit Readers will recall Lil Mis ery July 1987 column Eut Tileston Carmichael CA developed John Worthdesigned flying wing use /2A Texaco Continued page 152 B SAtJITIHI lED WE WEIRD 7555 5o Gb,eI Road cadeo CA 53422 4561717 HOBBY 919 2918548 RADIO Radio trouble? Hobby Radio offers professional R/C repairs arid modifications isake RIC equipment produced last 25 years Complete system service battery pack servos vibration testing new frequency change etc Also R/Cer likes do-ityourself Hobby Radio Volume 142 page journal including diagrams charts detailed modifications written simple understandable text Send l995 Hobby Radio 3001-A Kavanaugh Rd Wilson NC 27893 legal size sase price list complete services (I R/C SPECIALIST REPRODUCTION PARTS FOR ANTIQUE IGNITION SPARK PLUGS TANK TOPS TIMERS GASKETS NEEDLE VALVES SCREW SETS EXHAUST STACKS MANUALS ENGINES POINTS eTANKS COILS PROP DRIVES OVER 1000 ITEMS FOR MORE THAN 60 ENGINES SEND $3 FOR CATALOG #10 IN US & CANADA INTERNATIONAL $6 MICRO MODEL ENGINEERING 1301 W LAFAYETTE ST STURGIS MI 49091 April 1988 53 Tom Bracket Fremont NE built fine Red Zephyr Ben Buckle British kit Power Saito 45 four-stroke Keil Kraft Scorpion built Jim Adams candidate SAM president SAMlegal US because Ben Buckle kit has changed airfoil An old Enya 29 pow ers Jim says floats better Gold berg Sailplane s89& 475AVAILABLE AT AMERICAS$475 DISTRIBUTED BY FINEST HOBBY SHOPS model flew 1938 Nats Does remember Xerox photo came CH Grants book Gateway Aeroscience Model constructed Kenneth Peter son Detroit Ml RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 146 Thanks Jim input insight Incidentally local modeler just complet ing HL Electric Pronto should have some inputs future columns Electric supplies continue available CS Flight Systems recent conversation owner/Electric modeler Charles Sylvia learned continuing expansion catalog updates latest discounted Electric supplies send two bucks Charlie CS Flight Systems 31 Perry St Box 775 Middleboro MA 02346 Tell em Bob sent ya must close another column singular frustration writing column low ceiling column size have far share can get print month Please forward comment question SASE please address listed very top column FLASH Just announceda new Electric kit Guillow Its Aeronca designed Woody Blanchard Woody chaired committee re sponsible first-ever AMA Electric rules discussed above 530-sq-in 67-in-span kit OSs should available about time read RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 53 events has obviously worked Out well since own local SAM chapter has several flying Eut has now developed obscureand certainly structurally complexflying wing named simply Gross Wing after its designer Things get bit odd photo ap pears January 1942 Air Trails con struction article published until January 1948 postwar article design al tered include fuselage-mounted rudder ever Bernard Gross states 1948 Air Trails article original 1941 wing used basis Eut has utilized 1942 pho fuselage rudder planform has com bined airfoils outline 1948 version Whether design has au thenticated know time writing Longtime friend Bill Baker has taken over Free Flight Old-Timers column magazine challenged explain new SAM rules RC No way Baker figure will least year before jail-house lawyers have worked way through contradictions What will use Eut Tilestons latest project point Out some major changes SAM rules refer modelers really interested new SAM rule book Eut has scaled Gross Flying Wing up 675 sq wing area meet SAMs 225-sq-inper- 10-cu-in-of-displacement rule makes legal 30 cu two-cycle power plant Eut used Enya 46 four-stroke un der old rules classified according 60% its displacement 60% 46 cu However under new rules model now illegal since four-cycle engines classified ac cording full displacements As built Euts Gross Wing spans 84 152 Model Aviation FIBERGLASS PARTS WET Y SAFE OXY unique two-component epoxy laminating system developed offer user safest highest quality laminating resin available VA Pt Kit-S140O 1V2 Qt Kit-$210O Glass Cloth 58 oz/sq yd 38x6ft-$90038xl5ft-S190O 38 x30 ft $3500 add $250 Ship 8 Hand above items Send SASE additional information ACPs Ughtweight Composite Materials Order COD Send Check Money Order AEROSPACE COMPOSITE PRODUCTS P0 Box 16621 IDept Al Irvine CA 92714 Source Lightweight Materials Over 237 Cowls kit scratch built models Also over 34 round cowls ranging 4 14-7/8 diameter 55 diff size 8 shape wheel pants custom Make Parts Vacuum Form Canopies P1gm wud $1 couplet kt T&D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 Block Dept 4 Garden City Ml 48135 PHONE 1313421-6358 BRAZED & HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEARS & CASANES PHONE 3131 261-9064 YALE HOBBY MFGU CO INC YALE REPLACEMENT MAIN SHAFTS YALE FLYBARS GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicoptera YALE CANOPIES form Plastic WhIte Gelcoat Finish Fiberglass Replacementa GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicopters HEAT SHRINK COVERING Main Tail blades Available black white red blue yellow YALE ACCESSORIES Yalewelght KitAllen Driver -3mmWhip Antenna Two Pound Yaleweight KitAllan Driver -25mmBlade Balencera Mixing Arms CobralCompetitorAllen Driver -2mm Training Geer- 28 Size HelicopterAllen Driver -15mm Training Gear-40/60 aize HelicopterFlybar Wetghts Reinforcement BracketaStarter Extenaion Quilted Blade Covera d0 — ted Blade Covers Blade Stayc available afl helicopters guaranteed ROUND OFF IfTRU-SPIN does return itwith $250 for__PREWEIGHTED retum shipment breakMAIN BLADES tip pleeae send 8500 Feeture Yaleweight installed end retumholders attached white hsatshrink ncluded Modeler must cover balance 3O $ TRU-SPIN CUSTOM-BUILT BLADES Features Weighted heat shrink color covering choice balanced reidyto bolt Heat Shrink colors white black red blue yellow Allow week delivery time Orders must ba prepaid paid credit card * Standard Tru-Spin Main end Tail blades come white heat shrink covering Add $300 clot blades Yaleweight * Tru-Spln Rotor Blades superior quality lower prices Replacement blades available GMP Schluter Kalt end Miniature Aircraft helicoptera * Our blades come money-back guarantee replacement item against manufacturing defects Send Price ListDealer inquiries invited INSTANT SHIPMENT HOT LINE 305 466-8883 ShippinglCOD charges extra MasterCard VISA accepted No COD orders shipped outside USA Custom-built blades special orders must ba prepaid paid credit card certified check Yale product dIstributors Ace RIC Inc. Great Planes Model DIaL HorIzon Model DIstributors ABC Imports sole UK DIstrIbutor 7ZLJ HOBBY MANUFACTURING CO INC 3896 Selvitz Rd Ft Pierce Florida 34881 306 466-9883 THE JOURNAL 01JOURNAL OF THE AIRPlANE 1920 1940TIlE EARLY AEROPLANE Leo Opdycke Editor Kenn Rust Editor WW1 AERO 1 9001 91 9 SKYWAYS 1 9201 940 two Journals contain information current projects news ot museums snd sirshows technicsl drswings dsts photogrsphs scsle modelling msterisl news current publications kinds Sample copies $4 historical research workshop notes information paint color aeroplanes engines parts sale PLUS wants disposals PLUS more. Published WORLD WAR 1 62eA9oe&za- INC 15 Crescent Road Pouqflkeepsie IY 12601 USA 914 473-3679 weighs remarkably low 2Y4 lb comes Out less newly required 10 oz per sq ft contest models previous years will have ballasted Tileston tells climb outstanding unstable using rudder first wing has able spin recovery normal verted flight very goodperhaps stable upright Inside outside loops solid rolls very sluggish about An aerobatic Old-Timer Finally Eut has pioneered use foam composite construction materials Old-Timers cant tell wing ribs used Gross Wing balsa cut foam new SAM rules outlaw anything other wood construction materials called orig inal plans Parenthetically writer wonders new rule also outlaws metal wing-joiners molded nylon engine mounts neither would appear original drawings See what mean about contradictions must again salute Eut Tileston another gutsy highly innovative effort am still con vinced man would winner regard less what flew rules passed aimed him really big shows 1988 SAM Champs scheduled Lawrenceville IL July 19-22 information contact Don Sachtjen RR 5 Box 56B Bloomfield IN 47424 1988 AMA Nate information will course available magazine Whether unofficial events will include SAM Free Flight RC unknown However have received notice Joe Beshar will sponsor Vintage event Nats unfamiliar concept has attempted combine FF RC Old-Timer format No size-scaling allowed designeligibility parameters same SAM events Vintage uses different engine-run times various types ignition engines official time stopped flier uses radio after power run strikes will event dominat ed nonscale Playboys running Supertigre PDP engines ignition added fun playing chicken see willing chance getting model back field Sorry Joe presumption going around bothers considerably above-mentioned special event stated way introduce Free Flighters advantages radioretrieval encourage add Radio Con trol models events mind insult get off telling fellow modelers need change way things presume have exposed RC Old-Timers RC Sailplanes Free Flight ers some intelligent dedicated people hobby sure-as-the-world know what going around choose fly Free Flight preferencettot Out ignorance us have aged too much retrieval hassles have become over whelming have switched away pure Free Flight Old-Timer RC RC Soaring continue enjoy pure Free Flight have right continue de mocratic society everyone constitutionally guaranteed right pursue route happi ness choose long pursuit does harm anyone else Free Flighters certainly harming anyone certainly dont need educated 154 Model Aviation Old-Timer Three-Views Featured Columns First Decade 1978 February April June August October 1979 January March May July September 1980 February April August October 1981 January March May September December 1982 April Advanced Challenger Cumulus Shereshaw Pacemaker Ohlsson Quaker Flash Megow Premier Lion British Thermal Magnet Bay Ridge Red Zephyr Scientific Vulcan RussellBritish Utility Hacker American Ace Berkeley Riser Rider Marquardt Streamlined Cyclone Bob Jeffery Scorpion Keil KraftBritish Tubby Joe Weathers Rearwin Speedster Cleveland Hornet Sal Taibi Cavalier Berkeley Mercury IV British Cloud Hopper Schwartz Winged Victory Joe Weathers Snow White 20 Effinger King Burd Burd Models Hoosier Hot-Shot Foxworthy Citizen Bill Winter TD Coupe Dykzeul Bi-Fly Phil Kraft Simplex Paul Plecan Live Wire Bipe Hal deBolt Sunduster Jerry Broffman Dragon Fly Williams Blackhawk Peerless Supply Cloudster Mk Cleveland Pylon Buster Vasquez Commando Ontario Models Lancer New Cyclone Mfg Buzzerd KenHi Pacificoaster Joe Weathers Varsity Scientific Bowden Trophy Winner Krupp Buccaneer Standard Berkeley Nomad Chuck Hollinger Berryloid Winner Hal Coovert MayNimbus Shereshaw JulyLil Misery John Worth September Spook 72 Modelcraft December Hangar 13 Ten-Footer Ralph Beck 1988 February Cloud Cruiser Henry E Moyer AprilGross Wing Bernard Gross June August 1983 January March May July September 1984 January March May July September 1985 February April June October 1986 February April June October 1987 January March RC Pylon Racing/Hager Continued page 54 results Standard Q500l Duane Felstet 2 Dan Powell 3 Darrol Cady 4 Wayne Venetz 5 Ken Helgerson Modified QSOOl Greg Corliss 2 Duane Felstet 3 Earl Seaholm 4 Wayne Venetz 5 AJ Seaholm Formula II Murray Hamula 1240 2 Leon Elbert 130 3 Hans Algard 140 4 Duane Felstet 139 5 Wayne Venetz 157 Heres get kits engines Kits Item Formula Manufact urer PhoneAddress 213 835-1660 Ravenna 4764Wilmington CA 90744 Lit Toni Prather Products Terry Prather Pauls Fly-619 743-PO Box 121 ing Stuff5458Escondido CA Paul92025 Steinberg Ritchs713 661Hobbies5458 4104 Lark Houston TX 77025 12055 206th Issaquah WA 98027 1420 W 160th Seattle WA 98166 502 Cherry Southlake TX 76092 tlenight Spcl Cosmic Wind Pole Cat Dick Ritch Shoestring Don Rice 206 2284170 Shoestring Tom Strom 206 246Lit Toni4258 Estrellita Jerry Small 817 4816456 EnginesStock Supertigre X-40 Superligre X-40 Ritchs Hobbies John Han cock See Above See Above 915 672-PO Box 2694 8568Abilene TX 79604 501 782-4305 Kelley 8506Ft Smith AR 72904 Supertigre Model X-40tronics Terry Rollins K&B 40 K&B Mfg 213 803J&J1423 Brodheck 12152 5 Woodruff Downey CA 90241 EnginesModified Ready Race SupertigrePerform-619 729-PO Box 4003 X-40ance Speci-1658Carlsbad CA alties92008 SupertigreJohn Han-See AboveSee Above X-40cock K&B 40 Lee Custom 813 352-7215 Foothill Engines3766Tujunga CA Clarence90241 Lee Ive missed someone please write Ill try get Next month will list accessor ies Q500 kits Please keep cards letters photos coming Dragonfly/Platt Continued page 56 no-compromises approach building significant gains performance can made So easy building goes out Win dow Still constructing model like Gone forever nightmare heli-flier dreads stepping 3 foot tenna ripping off front prized chopper just its ready fly Base loaded short WHIP ANTENNA gives hidden performance Less 7 long can mounted project front helicopter inside canopy virtually invisible GO5LAAA MODEL PRODUcTs 23961 CRAFTSMAN RD CALABASAS CA 91302 818 992-0195 218 VERNON ROAD GREENVILLE PA 16125 412 588-1321 April 1988 155 RAINBOW RUNNER PURE PERFORMANCE Rainbow Runner delivers total pattern performance 25 45 sizes Designed features pattern champion Rainbow Runner ready meet exceed expectations %fl PRECI SION PRODUCTS INC 114 592-5144 510 E Arrow Highway San Dimas CA 91773 Whip Antenna Gives Hidden Per foranance
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/04
Page Numbers: 52, 53, 152, 154, 155
ANNIVERSARY TIME Somehow rather hard comprehend Ive writing column since December 1977 issue Thats over 10 years Reflecting fact occurs readers would appreciate listing three-views comments about have run 10 years Reflecting 10 years interesting ways Consider will 10 years ago three Old-Timer kits available models being flown using either true antique engines sport-type glow engines Eut Tilestons latest odd-bucket OldTimer recreation Bernard Gross 1941 flying wing An Enya 46 four-stroker powers Eut says flies very well Including spins loops inverted flightl [52 Model Aviation SUCCESSFUL ELEVON4 BLADED PROP WIRE SKID 8 RIB2 RIBIB7j j NOTEABOVE RIBS 8 BELOW SIDE VIEWS , ELEVON / NO SCALE I 0/ 0 TILESTON VERSION SPAN 81 V / V I__________________ FUSELAGE BUILT FROM BULK- S STRINGERS B THEN/DESIGNED BY BERNARD GROSS PLANKED TAIL BOOM FAIRS INTO FINPUBLISHED IN AIR TRAILS PICTORIAl /1/48 ALL RIBS CAPPED WING SPAN OWER BROWN IUNIOR IISCALE IN INCHES II II LX0248216 FLYING WING EXTENSION SHAFT REQUIRED hic Tileston go through some gymnastics get first photo published January 1942 construction article modified version 19481 1942 version best can tell Too bad legal its four-stroker according new SAM rules Radio Conot Old-Timers Dr DB Mathews 909 N Maize Rd Townhouse 734 Wichita KS 67212 contests really like fun-flies marked a wide variety designs us spent lots time visiting flying Franldy us entertained kling really good production en gines would become available unlikely glow engines would ever have included RC SAM Society Antique Modelers eventsother served commit tee several others primary concern encourage growth SAM RC events Consequently voted include glow engines fearing newcomers would able locate antique engines now realize dead wrong Fortunately important factor SAM Old-Timer concept has remained constant fun continue delighted response designs have virtually no contest potential readers get teary-eyed over Spooks Buccaneer Standards keep writ ing sending photos time competition groups heard want publicity would appear have devel oped following historians restorers recreators will continue support column material odd-bucket Old-Timers another decade columns will breeze Euts whatsit Readers will recall Lil Mis ery July 1987 column Eut Tileston Carmichael CA developed John Worthdesigned flying wing use /2A Texaco Continued page 152 B SAtJITIHI lED WE WEIRD 7555 5o Gb,eI Road cadeo CA 53422 4561717 HOBBY 919 2918548 RADIO Radio trouble? Hobby Radio offers professional R/C repairs arid modifications isake RIC equipment produced last 25 years Complete system service battery pack servos vibration testing new frequency change etc Also R/Cer likes do-ityourself Hobby Radio Volume 142 page journal including diagrams charts detailed modifications written simple understandable text Send l995 Hobby Radio 3001-A Kavanaugh Rd Wilson NC 27893 legal size sase price list complete services (I R/C SPECIALIST REPRODUCTION PARTS FOR ANTIQUE IGNITION SPARK PLUGS TANK TOPS TIMERS GASKETS NEEDLE VALVES SCREW SETS EXHAUST STACKS MANUALS ENGINES POINTS eTANKS COILS PROP DRIVES OVER 1000 ITEMS FOR MORE THAN 60 ENGINES SEND $3 FOR CATALOG #10 IN US & CANADA INTERNATIONAL $6 MICRO MODEL ENGINEERING 1301 W LAFAYETTE ST STURGIS MI 49091 April 1988 53 Tom Bracket Fremont NE built fine Red Zephyr Ben Buckle British kit Power Saito 45 four-stroke Keil Kraft Scorpion built Jim Adams candidate SAM president SAMlegal US because Ben Buckle kit has changed airfoil An old Enya 29 pow ers Jim says floats better Gold berg Sailplane s89& 475AVAILABLE AT AMERICAS$475 DISTRIBUTED BY FINEST HOBBY SHOPS model flew 1938 Nats Does remember Xerox photo came CH Grants book Gateway Aeroscience Model constructed Kenneth Peter son Detroit Ml RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 146 Thanks Jim input insight Incidentally local modeler just complet ing HL Electric Pronto should have some inputs future columns Electric supplies continue available CS Flight Systems recent conversation owner/Electric modeler Charles Sylvia learned continuing expansion catalog updates latest discounted Electric supplies send two bucks Charlie CS Flight Systems 31 Perry St Box 775 Middleboro MA 02346 Tell em Bob sent ya must close another column singular frustration writing column low ceiling column size have far share can get print month Please forward comment question SASE please address listed very top column FLASH Just announceda new Electric kit Guillow Its Aeronca designed Woody Blanchard Woody chaired committee re sponsible first-ever AMA Electric rules discussed above 530-sq-in 67-in-span kit OSs should available about time read RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 53 events has obviously worked Out well since own local SAM chapter has several flying Eut has now developed obscureand certainly structurally complexflying wing named simply Gross Wing after its designer Things get bit odd photo ap pears January 1942 Air Trails con struction article published until January 1948 postwar article design al tered include fuselage-mounted rudder ever Bernard Gross states 1948 Air Trails article original 1941 wing used basis Eut has utilized 1942 pho fuselage rudder planform has com bined airfoils outline 1948 version Whether design has au thenticated know time writing Longtime friend Bill Baker has taken over Free Flight Old-Timers column magazine challenged explain new SAM rules RC No way Baker figure will least year before jail-house lawyers have worked way through contradictions What will use Eut Tilestons latest project point Out some major changes SAM rules refer modelers really interested new SAM rule book Eut has scaled Gross Flying Wing up 675 sq wing area meet SAMs 225-sq-inper- 10-cu-in-of-displacement rule makes legal 30 cu two-cycle power plant Eut used Enya 46 four-stroke un der old rules classified according 60% its displacement 60% 46 cu However under new rules model now illegal since four-cycle engines classified ac cording full displacements As built Euts Gross Wing spans 84 152 Model Aviation FIBERGLASS PARTS WET Y SAFE OXY unique two-component epoxy laminating system developed offer user safest highest quality laminating resin available VA Pt Kit-S140O 1V2 Qt Kit-$210O Glass Cloth 58 oz/sq yd 38x6ft-$90038xl5ft-S190O 38 x30 ft $3500 add $250 Ship 8 Hand above items Send SASE additional information ACPs Ughtweight Composite Materials Order COD Send Check Money Order AEROSPACE COMPOSITE PRODUCTS P0 Box 16621 IDept Al Irvine CA 92714 Source Lightweight Materials Over 237 Cowls kit scratch built models Also over 34 round cowls ranging 4 14-7/8 diameter 55 diff size 8 shape wheel pants custom Make Parts Vacuum Form Canopies P1gm wud $1 couplet kt T&D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 Block Dept 4 Garden City Ml 48135 PHONE 1313421-6358 BRAZED & HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEARS & CASANES PHONE 3131 261-9064 YALE HOBBY MFGU CO INC YALE REPLACEMENT MAIN SHAFTS YALE FLYBARS GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicoptera YALE CANOPIES form Plastic WhIte Gelcoat Finish Fiberglass Replacementa GMP Kalt Schiuter Miniature Aircraft helicopters HEAT SHRINK COVERING Main Tail blades Available black white red blue yellow YALE ACCESSORIES Yalewelght KitAllen Driver -3mmWhip Antenna Two Pound Yaleweight KitAllan Driver -25mmBlade Balencera Mixing Arms CobralCompetitorAllen Driver -2mm Training Geer- 28 Size HelicopterAllen Driver -15mm Training Gear-40/60 aize HelicopterFlybar Wetghts Reinforcement BracketaStarter Extenaion Quilted Blade Covera d0 — ted Blade Covers Blade Stayc available afl helicopters guaranteed ROUND OFF IfTRU-SPIN does return itwith $250 for__PREWEIGHTED retum shipment breakMAIN BLADES tip pleeae send 8500 Feeture Yaleweight installed end retumholders attached white hsatshrink ncluded Modeler must cover balance 3O $ TRU-SPIN CUSTOM-BUILT BLADES Features Weighted heat shrink color covering choice balanced reidyto bolt Heat Shrink colors white black red blue yellow Allow week delivery time Orders must ba prepaid paid credit card * Standard Tru-Spin Main end Tail blades come white heat shrink covering Add $300 clot blades Yaleweight * Tru-Spln Rotor Blades superior quality lower prices Replacement blades available GMP Schluter Kalt end Miniature Aircraft helicoptera * Our blades come money-back guarantee replacement item against manufacturing defects Send Price ListDealer inquiries invited INSTANT SHIPMENT HOT LINE 305 466-8883 ShippinglCOD charges extra MasterCard VISA accepted No COD orders shipped outside USA Custom-built blades special orders must ba prepaid paid credit card certified check Yale product dIstributors Ace RIC Inc. Great Planes Model DIaL HorIzon Model DIstributors ABC Imports sole UK DIstrIbutor 7ZLJ HOBBY MANUFACTURING CO INC 3896 Selvitz Rd Ft Pierce Florida 34881 306 466-9883 THE JOURNAL 01JOURNAL OF THE AIRPlANE 1920 1940TIlE EARLY AEROPLANE Leo Opdycke Editor Kenn Rust Editor WW1 AERO 1 9001 91 9 SKYWAYS 1 9201 940 two Journals contain information current projects news ot museums snd sirshows technicsl drswings dsts photogrsphs scsle modelling msterisl news current publications kinds Sample copies $4 historical research workshop notes information paint color aeroplanes engines parts sale PLUS wants disposals PLUS more. Published WORLD WAR 1 62eA9oe&za- INC 15 Crescent Road Pouqflkeepsie IY 12601 USA 914 473-3679 weighs remarkably low 2Y4 lb comes Out less newly required 10 oz per sq ft contest models previous years will have ballasted Tileston tells climb outstanding unstable using rudder first wing has able spin recovery normal verted flight very goodperhaps stable upright Inside outside loops solid rolls very sluggish about An aerobatic Old-Timer Finally Eut has pioneered use foam composite construction materials Old-Timers cant tell wing ribs used Gross Wing balsa cut foam new SAM rules outlaw anything other wood construction materials called orig inal plans Parenthetically writer wonders new rule also outlaws metal wing-joiners molded nylon engine mounts neither would appear original drawings See what mean about contradictions must again salute Eut Tileston another gutsy highly innovative effort am still con vinced man would winner regard less what flew rules passed aimed him really big shows 1988 SAM Champs scheduled Lawrenceville IL July 19-22 information contact Don Sachtjen RR 5 Box 56B Bloomfield IN 47424 1988 AMA Nate information will course available magazine Whether unofficial events will include SAM Free Flight RC unknown However have received notice Joe Beshar will sponsor Vintage event Nats unfamiliar concept has attempted combine FF RC Old-Timer format No size-scaling allowed designeligibility parameters same SAM events Vintage uses different engine-run times various types ignition engines official time stopped flier uses radio after power run strikes will event dominat ed nonscale Playboys running Supertigre PDP engines ignition added fun playing chicken see willing chance getting model back field Sorry Joe presumption going around bothers considerably above-mentioned special event stated way introduce Free Flighters advantages radioretrieval encourage add Radio Con trol models events mind insult get off telling fellow modelers need change way things presume have exposed RC Old-Timers RC Sailplanes Free Flight ers some intelligent dedicated people hobby sure-as-the-world know what going around choose fly Free Flight preferencettot Out ignorance us have aged too much retrieval hassles have become over whelming have switched away pure Free Flight Old-Timer RC RC Soaring continue enjoy pure Free Flight have right continue de mocratic society everyone constitutionally guaranteed right pursue route happi ness choose long pursuit does harm anyone else Free Flighters certainly harming anyone certainly dont need educated 154 Model Aviation Old-Timer Three-Views Featured Columns First Decade 1978 February April June August October 1979 January March May July September 1980 February April August October 1981 January March May September December 1982 April Advanced Challenger Cumulus Shereshaw Pacemaker Ohlsson Quaker Flash Megow Premier Lion British Thermal Magnet Bay Ridge Red Zephyr Scientific Vulcan RussellBritish Utility Hacker American Ace Berkeley Riser Rider Marquardt Streamlined Cyclone Bob Jeffery Scorpion Keil KraftBritish Tubby Joe Weathers Rearwin Speedster Cleveland Hornet Sal Taibi Cavalier Berkeley Mercury IV British Cloud Hopper Schwartz Winged Victory Joe Weathers Snow White 20 Effinger King Burd Burd Models Hoosier Hot-Shot Foxworthy Citizen Bill Winter TD Coupe Dykzeul Bi-Fly Phil Kraft Simplex Paul Plecan Live Wire Bipe Hal deBolt Sunduster Jerry Broffman Dragon Fly Williams Blackhawk Peerless Supply Cloudster Mk Cleveland Pylon Buster Vasquez Commando Ontario Models Lancer New Cyclone Mfg Buzzerd KenHi Pacificoaster Joe Weathers Varsity Scientific Bowden Trophy Winner Krupp Buccaneer Standard Berkeley Nomad Chuck Hollinger Berryloid Winner Hal Coovert MayNimbus Shereshaw JulyLil Misery John Worth September Spook 72 Modelcraft December Hangar 13 Ten-Footer Ralph Beck 1988 February Cloud Cruiser Henry E Moyer AprilGross Wing Bernard Gross June August 1983 January March May July September 1984 January March May July September 1985 February April June October 1986 February April June October 1987 January March RC Pylon Racing/Hager Continued page 54 results Standard Q500l Duane Felstet 2 Dan Powell 3 Darrol Cady 4 Wayne Venetz 5 Ken Helgerson Modified QSOOl Greg Corliss 2 Duane Felstet 3 Earl Seaholm 4 Wayne Venetz 5 AJ Seaholm Formula II Murray Hamula 1240 2 Leon Elbert 130 3 Hans Algard 140 4 Duane Felstet 139 5 Wayne Venetz 157 Heres get kits engines Kits Item Formula Manufact urer PhoneAddress 213 835-1660 Ravenna 4764Wilmington CA 90744 Lit Toni Prather Products Terry Prather Pauls Fly-619 743-PO Box 121 ing Stuff5458Escondido CA Paul92025 Steinberg Ritchs713 661Hobbies5458 4104 Lark Houston TX 77025 12055 206th Issaquah WA 98027 1420 W 160th Seattle WA 98166 502 Cherry Southlake TX 76092 tlenight Spcl Cosmic Wind Pole Cat Dick Ritch Shoestring Don Rice 206 2284170 Shoestring Tom Strom 206 246Lit Toni4258 Estrellita Jerry Small 817 4816456 EnginesStock Supertigre X-40 Superligre X-40 Ritchs Hobbies John Han cock See Above See Above 915 672-PO Box 2694 8568Abilene TX 79604 501 782-4305 Kelley 8506Ft Smith AR 72904 Supertigre Model X-40tronics Terry Rollins K&B 40 K&B Mfg 213 803J&J1423 Brodheck 12152 5 Woodruff Downey CA 90241 EnginesModified Ready Race SupertigrePerform-619 729-PO Box 4003 X-40ance Speci-1658Carlsbad CA alties92008 SupertigreJohn Han-See AboveSee Above X-40cock K&B 40 Lee Custom 813 352-7215 Foothill Engines3766Tujunga CA Clarence90241 Lee Ive missed someone please write Ill try get Next month will list accessor ies Q500 kits Please keep cards letters photos coming Dragonfly/Platt Continued page 56 no-compromises approach building significant gains performance can made So easy building goes out Win dow Still constructing model like Gone forever nightmare heli-flier dreads stepping 3 foot tenna ripping off front prized chopper just its ready fly Base loaded short WHIP ANTENNA gives hidden performance Less 7 long can mounted project front helicopter inside canopy virtually invisible GO5LAAA MODEL PRODUcTs 23961 CRAFTSMAN RD CALABASAS CA 91302 818 992-0195 218 VERNON ROAD GREENVILLE PA 16125 412 588-1321 April 1988 155 RAINBOW RUNNER PURE PERFORMANCE Rainbow Runner delivers total pattern performance 25 45 sizes Designed features pattern champion Rainbow Runner ready meet exceed expectations %fl PRECI SION PRODUCTS INC 114 592-5144 510 E Arrow Highway San Dimas CA 91773 Whip Antenna Gives Hidden Per foranance
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/04
Page Numbers: 52, 53, 152, 154, 155
ANNIVERSARY TIME Somehow rather hard comprehend Ive writing column since December 1977 issue Thats over 10 years Reflecting fact occurs readers would appreciate listing three-views comments about have run 10 years Reflecting 10 years interesting ways Consider will 10 years ago three Old-Timer kits available models being flown using either true antique engines sport-type glow engines Eut Tilestons latest odd-bucket OldTimer recreation Bernard Gross 1941 flying wing An Enya 46 four-stroker powers Eut says flies very well Including spins loops inverted flightl [52 Model Aviation SUCCESSFUL ELEVON4 BLADED PROP WIRE SKID 8 RIB2 RIBIB7j j NOTEABOVE RIBS 8 BELOW SIDE VIEWS , ELEVON / NO SCALE I 0/ 0 TILESTON VERSION SPAN 81 V / V I__________________ FUSELAGE BUILT FROM BULK- S STRINGERS B THEN/DESIGNED BY BERNARD GROSS PLANKED TAIL BOOM FAIRS INTO FINPUBLISHED IN AIR TRAILS PICTORIAl /1/48 ALL RIBS CAPPED WING SPAN OWER BROWN IUNIOR IISCALE IN INCHES II II LX0248216 FLYING WING EXTENSION SHAFT REQUIRED hic Tileston go through some gymnastics get first photo published January 1942 construction article modified version 19481 1942 version best can tell Too bad legal its four-stroker according new SAM rules Radio Conot Old-Timers Dr DB Mathews 909 N Maize Rd Townhouse 734 Wichita KS 67212 contests really like fun-flies marked a wide variety designs us spent lots time visiting flying Franldy us entertained kling really good production en gines would become available unlikely glow engines would ever have included RC SAM Society Antique Modelers eventsother served commit tee several others primary concern encourage growth SAM RC events Consequently voted include glow engines fearing newcomers would able locate antique engines now realize dead wrong Fortunately important factor SAM Old-Timer concept has remained constant fun continue delighted response designs have virtually no contest potential readers get teary-eyed over Spooks Buccaneer Standards keep writ ing sending photos time competition groups heard want publicity would appear have devel oped following historians restorers recreators will continue support column material odd-bucket Old-Timers another decade columns will breeze Euts whatsit Readers will recall Lil Mis ery July 1987 column Eut Tileston Carmichael CA developed John Worthdesigned flying wing use /2A Texaco Continued page 152 B SAtJITIHI lED WE WEIRD 7555 5o Gb,eI Road cadeo CA 53422 4561717 HOBBY 919 2918548 RADIO Radio trouble? 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changed airfoil An old Enya 29 pow ers Jim says floats better Gold berg Sailplane s89& 475AVAILABLE AT AMERICAS$475 DISTRIBUTED BY FINEST HOBBY SHOPS model flew 1938 Nats Does remember Xerox photo came CH Grants book Gateway Aeroscience Model constructed Kenneth Peter son Detroit Ml RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 146 Thanks Jim input insight Incidentally local modeler just complet ing HL Electric Pronto should have some inputs future columns Electric supplies continue available CS Flight Systems recent conversation owner/Electric modeler Charles Sylvia learned continuing expansion catalog updates latest discounted Electric supplies send two bucks Charlie CS Flight Systems 31 Perry St Box 775 Middleboro MA 02346 Tell em Bob sent ya must close another column singular frustration writing column low ceiling column size have far share can get print month Please forward comment question SASE please address listed very top column FLASH Just announceda new Electric kit Guillow Its Aeronca designed Woody Blanchard Woody chaired committee re sponsible first-ever AMA Electric rules discussed above 530-sq-in 67-in-span kit OSs should available about time read RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 53 events has obviously worked Out well since own local SAM chapter has several flying Eut has now developed obscureand certainly structurally complexflying wing named simply Gross Wing after its designer Things get bit odd photo ap pears January 1942 Air Trails con struction article published until January 1948 postwar article design al tered include fuselage-mounted rudder ever Bernard Gross states 1948 Air Trails article original 1941 wing used basis Eut has utilized 1942 pho fuselage rudder planform has com bined airfoils outline 1948 version Whether design has au thenticated know time writing Longtime friend Bill Baker has taken over Free Flight Old-Timers column magazine challenged explain new SAM rules RC No way Baker figure will least year before jail-house lawyers have worked way through contradictions What will use Eut Tilestons latest project point Out some major changes SAM rules refer modelers really interested new SAM rule book Eut has scaled Gross Flying Wing up 675 sq wing area meet SAMs 225-sq-inper- 10-cu-in-of-displacement rule makes legal 30 cu two-cycle power plant Eut used Enya 46 four-stroke un der old rules classified according 60% its displacement 60% 46 cu However under new rules model now illegal since four-cycle engines classified ac cording full displacements As built Euts Gross Wing spans 84 152 Model Aviation FIBERGLASS PARTS WET Y SAFE OXY unique two-component epoxy laminating system developed offer user safest highest quality laminating resin available VA Pt Kit-S140O 1V2 Qt Kit-$210O Glass Cloth 58 oz/sq yd 38x6ft-$90038xl5ft-S190O 38 x30 ft $3500 add $250 Ship 8 Hand above items Send SASE additional information ACPs Ughtweight Composite Materials Order COD Send Check Money Order AEROSPACE COMPOSITE PRODUCTS P0 Box 16621 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Published WORLD WAR 1 62eA9oe&za- INC 15 Crescent Road Pouqflkeepsie IY 12601 USA 914 473-3679 weighs remarkably low 2Y4 lb comes Out less newly required 10 oz per sq ft contest models previous years will have ballasted Tileston tells climb outstanding unstable using rudder first wing has able spin recovery normal verted flight very goodperhaps stable upright Inside outside loops solid rolls very sluggish about An aerobatic Old-Timer Finally Eut has pioneered use foam composite construction materials Old-Timers cant tell wing ribs used Gross Wing balsa cut foam new SAM rules outlaw anything other wood construction materials called orig inal plans Parenthetically writer wonders new rule also outlaws metal wing-joiners molded nylon engine mounts neither would appear original drawings See what mean about contradictions must again salute Eut Tileston another gutsy highly innovative effort am still con vinced man would winner regard less what flew rules passed aimed him really big shows 1988 SAM Champs scheduled Lawrenceville IL July 19-22 information contact Don Sachtjen RR 5 Box 56B Bloomfield IN 47424 1988 AMA Nate information will course available magazine Whether unofficial events will include SAM Free Flight RC unknown However have received notice Joe Beshar will sponsor Vintage event Nats unfamiliar concept has attempted combine FF RC Old-Timer format No size-scaling allowed designeligibility parameters same SAM events Vintage uses different engine-run times various types ignition engines official time stopped flier uses radio after power run strikes will event dominat ed nonscale Playboys running Supertigre PDP engines ignition added fun playing chicken see willing chance getting model back field Sorry Joe presumption going around bothers considerably above-mentioned special event stated way introduce Free Flighters advantages radioretrieval encourage add Radio Con trol models events mind insult get off telling fellow modelers need change way things presume have exposed RC Old-Timers RC Sailplanes Free Flight ers some intelligent dedicated people hobby sure-as-the-world know what going around choose fly Free Flight preferencettot Out ignorance us have aged too much retrieval hassles have become over whelming have switched away pure Free Flight Old-Timer RC RC Soaring continue enjoy pure Free Flight have right continue de mocratic society everyone constitutionally guaranteed right pursue route happi ness choose long pursuit does harm anyone else Free Flighters certainly harming anyone certainly dont need educated 154 Model Aviation Old-Timer Three-Views Featured Columns First Decade 1978 February April June August October 1979 January March May July September 1980 February April August October 1981 January March May September December 1982 April Advanced Challenger Cumulus Shereshaw Pacemaker Ohlsson Quaker Flash Megow Premier Lion British Thermal Magnet Bay Ridge Red Zephyr Scientific Vulcan RussellBritish Utility Hacker American Ace 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