Bud AIkinson Detroit News Lockheed Orion mid-30s Left interior camera its operators seat fore ground Right men work ing wing would look like model wing Below A camera pod jutted left wing Note partially lowered split flaps retractable gear Ship painted bright red white letters outlined black NOW WITH THE elections foot ball season over can devote time new scale job time year start thinking about trade shows last several years kit ac cessory manufacturers definitely have leaned toward Stand-off Scale amaz ing different types aircraft possible build fly compared just five years ago J-3 Cub Fairchild PT-19 backbone scale types build can hardly wait see some new subjects kit manufac turers will come up year Rather slow coming some great aircraft golden age avia tionthe years before WW II 1929 1939 thirties heydays racing Some interesting subjects being turned out days make good Stand-Off Scale subjects early aircraft companies small turning out new designs hope landing military contract cause 30s depression years mostly services buying air planes 30s also years oil companies sponsored flying ad vertising act Shell Texaco money buy best available new aircraft companies cropped up barns garages sheds bid market three special aircraft airplanes built one-hangar companies late 20s early 30s Lockheed Orion see pictures specially built Detroit newspaper time also owned Radio Station WWL letters painted tail particular Orion unique first non-military airplanes use aerial camera news media two cameras mounted streamline pod left wing Lockheed Orion built about 1931 1934 unique airplane wood time metal airplanes coming being fuselage wood formers plywood skin concrete mold much would make today plaster fiber glass constructed plywood shell wetted laid mold formers glued place dry both halves removed glued screwed together much like day fiberglass fuse Orion could carry five six people Can imagine size fuse mold Several airlines used Orion short-hop airliner early mid 30s can remember seeing red blue Orion Kansas City municipal airport belonging TWA 1937 38 What beautiful airplane Unfor tunately well-known Orionon floatswas Will Rogers Wiley Post killed during tempted round world flight 1934 History records Lockheed factory against installing floats because continued page 85 22 Model Aviation Scale beautiful Royal Bearcat built Jim Bonanno Markings Thailand Retracts clude tailwheel ST 60 engine pump NEWEST Continuing tradition producing finest balsa kits Guillow offers two famous World War 2 twin-engine jobs have long top requested list B-25 Mitchell won fame 1942 raid Tokyo aircraft carrier USS Hornet V Mosquito fastest its type British Bomber Command Both kits contain full decal sets scale wheels plastic spinners cowls nacelles canopy clear precise planwork other top grade materials Everything included U/control installation Scale U/Control Rugged heavy duty Qonstruction stress U/C flying HOT flying two Cox 049 Black Widow engines al flights used Cox 049 Golden Bees th beginner style flying Cox 020 Pee Wees 12h Hohhy stores cerry Goillow nodels check YellOw Pages nearest yoo yoor area send direct factory adding $150 handling USA. $200 ootoide USA Send 16 cente folder listing Goillow nodel kito RC Scale/Atkinson continued page 22 made plane nose-heavy During takeoff Alaskan waters plane nosed over both occupants drowned So see full-size model plane improperly balanced can disaster As far known no all-wood Lockheed Orions left all-metal Orion built Shell Oil Com pany Jim Dolittle used break sever al records 30s has restored presently museum As far known its Orion metalskinned An all-wood Orion reported have sold Spanish govern ment time Civil War no doubt destroyed war since has no trace since least wood Orion saw service US belonged Air Corps painted olive drab Col Paul Metzs name below cockpit ended its life scrap heap have fine birds golden years aviation point emphasize fact think much fun scale building flying seeking information knowledge great great flying machines past well present may will find unusual facts particular air plane people built flew facts help building flying model Bud Atkinson 734 North 6th Street Terrace Blue Springs MO 6401S March 1977 85 Kit No 804 DeHavilland MkJV Mosquito 5% Wing Span 16640 CMS 2Scale 7/16 II1 Magnificent all-foam 25-lb Martin PBM John Nickolac Spans 11 ft has two 80s power ROWs less 100 ft Fred Angels Pietenpol taxies out jauntily Brimfield 10th Annual Hydro Radio Plane Championship four pictures John Ross First Scale third year row spec tacular Macchi Castoldi Schneider Trophy racer built Richard Calderigi Carrying full up left rudder Gene Rogers neat Volksplane makes left turn water pre pares takeoff
Edition: Model Aviation - 1977/03
Page Numbers: 22, 85
Bud AIkinson Detroit News Lockheed Orion mid-30s Left interior camera its operators seat fore ground Right men work ing wing would look like model wing Below A camera pod jutted left wing Note partially lowered split flaps retractable gear Ship painted bright red white letters outlined black NOW WITH THE elections foot ball season over can devote time new scale job time year start thinking about trade shows last several years kit ac cessory manufacturers definitely have leaned toward Stand-off Scale amaz ing different types aircraft possible build fly compared just five years ago J-3 Cub Fairchild PT-19 backbone scale types build can hardly wait see some new subjects kit manufac turers will come up year Rather slow coming some great aircraft golden age avia tionthe years before WW II 1929 1939 thirties heydays racing Some interesting subjects being turned out days make good Stand-Off Scale subjects early aircraft companies small turning out new designs hope landing military contract cause 30s depression years mostly services buying air planes 30s also years oil companies sponsored flying ad vertising act Shell Texaco money buy best available new aircraft companies cropped up barns garages sheds bid market three special aircraft airplanes built one-hangar companies late 20s early 30s Lockheed Orion see pictures specially built Detroit newspaper time also owned Radio Station WWL letters painted tail particular Orion unique first non-military airplanes use aerial camera news media two cameras mounted streamline pod left wing Lockheed Orion built about 1931 1934 unique airplane wood time metal airplanes coming being fuselage wood formers plywood skin concrete mold much would make today plaster fiber glass constructed plywood shell wetted laid mold formers glued place dry both halves removed glued screwed together much like day fiberglass fuse Orion could carry five six people Can imagine size fuse mold Several airlines used Orion short-hop airliner early mid 30s can remember seeing red blue Orion Kansas City municipal airport belonging TWA 1937 38 What beautiful airplane Unfor tunately well-known Orionon floatswas Will Rogers Wiley Post killed during tempted round world flight 1934 History records Lockheed factory against installing floats because continued page 85 22 Model Aviation Scale beautiful Royal Bearcat built Jim Bonanno Markings Thailand Retracts clude tailwheel ST 60 engine pump NEWEST Continuing tradition producing finest balsa kits Guillow offers two famous World War 2 twin-engine jobs have long top requested list B-25 Mitchell won fame 1942 raid Tokyo aircraft carrier USS Hornet V Mosquito fastest its type British Bomber Command Both kits contain full decal sets scale wheels plastic spinners cowls nacelles canopy clear precise planwork other top grade materials Everything included U/control installation Scale U/Control Rugged heavy duty Qonstruction stress U/C flying HOT flying two Cox 049 Black Widow engines al flights used Cox 049 Golden Bees th beginner style flying Cox 020 Pee Wees 12h Hohhy stores cerry Goillow nodels check YellOw Pages nearest yoo yoor area send direct factory adding $150 handling USA. $200 ootoide USA Send 16 cente folder listing Goillow nodel kito RC Scale/Atkinson continued page 22 made plane nose-heavy During takeoff Alaskan waters plane nosed over both occupants drowned So see full-size model plane improperly balanced can disaster As far known no all-wood Lockheed Orions left all-metal Orion built Shell Oil Com pany Jim Dolittle used break sever al records 30s has restored presently museum As far known its Orion metalskinned An all-wood Orion reported have sold Spanish govern ment time Civil War no doubt destroyed war since has no trace since least wood Orion saw service US belonged Air Corps painted olive drab Col Paul Metzs name below cockpit ended its life scrap heap have fine birds golden years aviation point emphasize fact think much fun scale building flying seeking information knowledge great great flying machines past well present may will find unusual facts particular air plane people built flew facts help building flying model Bud Atkinson 734 North 6th Street Terrace Blue Springs MO 6401S March 1977 85 Kit No 804 DeHavilland MkJV Mosquito 5% Wing Span 16640 CMS 2Scale 7/16 II1 Magnificent all-foam 25-lb Martin PBM John Nickolac Spans 11 ft has two 80s power ROWs less 100 ft Fred Angels Pietenpol taxies out jauntily Brimfield 10th Annual Hydro Radio Plane Championship four pictures John Ross First Scale third year row spec tacular Macchi Castoldi Schneider Trophy racer built Richard Calderigi Carrying full up left rudder Gene Rogers neat Volksplane makes left turn water pre pares takeoff