Radio Control Sport Aerobatics Ron Van Putte TWO NEW PROCEDURES RC Pattern used 1981 Nats First everyone flew five days no qualifying flights change previous procedure having three days qualifying two days finals like disliked same time Let explain viewpoint flier great because got fly complete pattern five days frustrating drive way Nats get fly using abbreviated pattern three days watch top 10 qualifiers fly complete pattern last two days previous years As columnist new procedure caused lot frustration extra work because wasnt sure top fliers ask lot extra people fill out contestant information sheets turned out asked 38 contestants fill out sheets orderto get information 20 top fliers vhich appeared matrix saw November issue Fortunately asked limit matrix top five class Can imagine forms would have get filled Out ensure top 10 class barely enough time fly airplane take pictures get number forms filled out did Neverthe less still like flying complete pattern during entire Nats about other new procedure 1981 Nats having fliers particular class fly same time first round Novice class fliers flew first followed Advanced class fliers second round Advanced class fliers flew first followed Expert class fliers picking up Novice class fliers end starting class rotated until Novice class first again fifth round addition starting flier within class rotated different fliers up first time class flown thought worked great although meant toes keep track schedule Since next days schedule always posted early day before board adjacent unofficial scores wasnt difficult However few people didnt realize what procedure missed second round flights Despite problem informing contestants about procedure thought great have fliers class fly after another site got chance toss atch competitors us would mentally fly airplanes competitors preceeding us warm up just before flying addition judges keyed what expect could judge relative flying competitor-to-competitor much better classes mixed like idea what about AMA Headquarters people interested opinions contestants flew RC Pattern Nats can help Nats Executive Committee decide what will done 1982 Nats So write Nats RC Category Director let know feel Remember fliers let opinions heard will permitted register complaints Nats arent run way want Imjust kidding part Seriously lets help AMA run Pattern way majority really wants Make opinion known writing Betty Stream Nats RC Category Director 3723 Snowden Ave. Long Beach CA 90808 Send copy AMA HQ 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washing ton DC 20005 Last weekend browsing through local K-Mart ran across great gear puller us need gear puller disassembling front housing engines ones Ive seen either appropriate very expensive found K-Mart does job beautifully cost $198 could use good gear puller stop local KMart ask K-Mart Large Gear Puller NBR 1457 CODE 82-40-73 Im offering product information let share another us need some structural filling products like spackling compound wood putty inappro priate because dont have enough strength other hand products like Epoxolite may strong enough difficult sand types applications use Sears Filled Epoxy Cement No 980605 ss $469 10 oz f strong sands very nicely After crashing Phoenix 8just before leaving Nats faced tears fiber glass fuselage wing broken two just outboard retract gear cutout used Sears Filled Epoxy complete both repairs results very gratifying have reputa 40 Model Aviation Chuck Nourrcier 1 Kevin Castaing show airplanes met midair collision Neither pilot aware collision until after Pattern flights completed Once can tind great deal gearpulIer avaliaDle r-MafltoronIy1 98 Ron has say about column tion doing good rcpair jobs partly hecausc crashes carlx RC career day mx wife reminds used hit trees tried find little tree decals put side fuselage after such episode Anyway thought some pro cedures followed repairing fuselage wing might general interest fuselage repairs pretty straight forward because body wasnt torn half torn about halfway through several places used X-Acto No II knife blade thin saw blades back removed cut severed edges fiberglass edges wouldnt interfere other procedure made possible fuselage assume its normal contour used Goldbergs Super Jet glue edges together interior repair done cutting patches Sig 15 oz per sq ft fiberglass cloth overlap torn places about inch side tear fiberglass patches glued inside epoxy-glass fuse lage Dave Brown Epoxy Kit epoxy Dv wax poltester-glass fuselage would hate used pa/tester resin instead epoxy epoxy applied bending tip disposable brush about 450 sticking piece -in dowel hollow end order reach down inside fusalage epoxy After epoxy cured mixed up hatch Sears Filled Epoxy put enough exterior cracks barely overfill Now left way epoxy would have run out cracks So used masking tape over top cracks tape made epoxy smooth out nicely contoured over cracks cured quick job sanding some 240-grit paper ofl sanding block some hand sanding some 400-grit paper soon exterior surface almost good new After spot priming two coats Super poxy primer some hand sanding fuselage ready painted wing bit tougher Part break clean part ofit mashed sol marked area adjacent bad places using straightedge marking pen used X-Acto saw blade back removed cut Out bad places wing butt-glued together using Wilhold glue areas broken cleanly Masking tape used hold joints together Wilbold dried left small cracks breaks plus wedge missing wing leading edge simple task use repaired wing guide trace Out templates edges missing pieces After reducing templates depth 1/16-in balsa covering templates cutting out foam plug insert wing using Wilhold glue Next sheets wing skin fitted area glued foam Wilhold skin held place T-pins temporarily glue dried Sears Filled Epoxy used fill cracks masking tape hcld place cured just done fuselage Alter sanding thc Filled Epoxy new wing skin smooth wing looked good wasnt strong enough So cut patch Sig 5-oz fiberglass cloth overlap broken area about three inches side stuck wing using Dave Brown Epoxy Kit epoxy After brushing sufficient epoxy rolled entire area roll toilet paper piece broomstick remove excess Two heavy coats Superpoxy primer liberal use sandpaper left wing looking great strong edges glass cloth barely detectable repainted Phoenix just time fly annual contest New Orleans flewjust well ever looked great Fellow competitors inspected repairjob kind enough say couldnt see repaired until showed Theres no reason Continued page 111 February 1982 41 Filled epoxy has qualities being both tough easy sand hard find Sears sells excellent product Ron used repair damaged Phoenix 8 has lot nittygritty column 18000 REPEME1S Hot Performance 06017 Ft Meyers FL 33908 PhoneRC Aerobatics/Van Putteattendance despitethe high quality ofthe contest 813 936-2397and outstanding traditional Saturday night International Crystal Manufacturing Co 20Continued page 41supper serve Well year 43 Pattern N Lee Oklahoma City OK 7310212 Sport Scale contestants delighted share boiled shrimp steamed crab supper Crescent City Radio Control Club members secret out other crashed airplanes cant repaired just well dont some give try certainly beats starting scratch way Ive often remarked annual New Orleans contest best kept secrets South because ofoccasional spirse PC Boards John R Lange 1700 N 37th Ave Stone Park IL 60165Ron Van Putie Ill Sleepy Oaks Rd Fr Walton Beach FL 32548 RC Giant Scale/Beckman Continued page 43 conversation Dave Scully Aero Compo sites 411 Townsend Place Dayton OH 45431 mentioned quarter-scale kit Hal Krierversion Great Lakes Special kit almost unknown dont really push said would send some information busy before got Ive busy havent done anything until now meantime saw Dave Toledo chance see plane fuselage comes kit fiberglass fuselage/foam wing kit too common Giant Scale fuselage has stringer detail molded cap strips wing foam before covering wind up realistic looking construction model designed prop drive setup originally has since changed Quadra significant improvement performance Daves picture-taking technique worth comment dont know other way vuure going get kind siew Giant Scale aircraft inside house Continued page 114 February 1982111 John Lange poseswith models frontot car isequipped listen current RC frequencies through car radio professional microwave technician John has made use RC frequency monitoring gear work well
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/02
Page Numbers: 40, 41, 111
Radio Control Sport Aerobatics Ron Van Putte TWO NEW PROCEDURES RC Pattern used 1981 Nats First everyone flew five days no qualifying flights change previous procedure having three days qualifying two days finals like disliked same time Let explain viewpoint flier great because got fly complete pattern five days frustrating drive way Nats get fly using abbreviated pattern three days watch top 10 qualifiers fly complete pattern last two days previous years As columnist new procedure caused lot frustration extra work because wasnt sure top fliers ask lot extra people fill out contestant information sheets turned out asked 38 contestants fill out sheets orderto get information 20 top fliers vhich appeared matrix saw November issue Fortunately asked limit matrix top five class Can imagine forms would have get filled Out ensure top 10 class barely enough time fly airplane take pictures get number forms filled out did Neverthe less still like flying complete pattern during entire Nats about other new procedure 1981 Nats having fliers particular class fly same time first round Novice class fliers flew first followed Advanced class fliers second round Advanced class fliers flew first followed Expert class fliers picking up Novice class fliers end starting class rotated until Novice class first again fifth round addition starting flier within class rotated different fliers up first time class flown thought worked great although meant toes keep track schedule Since next days schedule always posted early day before board adjacent unofficial scores wasnt difficult However few people didnt realize what procedure missed second round flights Despite problem informing contestants about procedure thought great have fliers class fly after another site got chance toss atch competitors us would mentally fly airplanes competitors preceeding us warm up just before flying addition judges keyed what expect could judge relative flying competitor-to-competitor much better classes mixed like idea what about AMA Headquarters people interested opinions contestants flew RC Pattern Nats can help Nats Executive Committee decide what will done 1982 Nats So write Nats RC Category Director let know feel Remember fliers let opinions heard will permitted register complaints Nats arent run way want Imjust kidding part Seriously lets help AMA run Pattern way majority really wants Make opinion known writing Betty Stream Nats RC Category Director 3723 Snowden Ave. Long Beach CA 90808 Send copy AMA HQ 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washing ton DC 20005 Last weekend browsing through local K-Mart ran across great gear puller us need gear puller disassembling front housing engines ones Ive seen either appropriate very expensive found K-Mart does job beautifully cost $198 could use good gear puller stop local KMart ask K-Mart Large Gear Puller NBR 1457 CODE 82-40-73 Im offering product information let share another us need some structural filling products like spackling compound wood putty inappro priate because dont have enough strength other hand products like Epoxolite may strong enough difficult sand types applications use Sears Filled Epoxy Cement No 980605 ss $469 10 oz f strong sands very nicely After crashing Phoenix 8just before leaving Nats faced tears fiber glass fuselage wing broken two just outboard retract gear cutout used Sears Filled Epoxy complete both repairs results very gratifying have reputa 40 Model Aviation Chuck Nourrcier 1 Kevin Castaing show airplanes met midair collision Neither pilot aware collision until after Pattern flights completed Once can tind great deal gearpulIer avaliaDle r-MafltoronIy1 98 Ron has say about column tion doing good rcpair jobs partly hecausc crashes carlx RC career day mx wife reminds used hit trees tried find little tree decals put side fuselage after such episode Anyway thought some pro cedures followed repairing fuselage wing might general interest fuselage repairs pretty straight forward because body wasnt torn half torn about halfway through several places used X-Acto No II knife blade thin saw blades back removed cut severed edges fiberglass edges wouldnt interfere other procedure made possible fuselage assume its normal contour used Goldbergs Super Jet glue edges together interior repair done cutting patches Sig 15 oz per sq ft fiberglass cloth overlap torn places about inch side tear fiberglass patches glued inside epoxy-glass fuse lage Dave Brown Epoxy Kit epoxy Dv wax poltester-glass fuselage would hate used pa/tester resin instead epoxy epoxy applied bending tip disposable brush about 450 sticking piece -in dowel hollow end order reach down inside fusalage epoxy After epoxy cured mixed up hatch Sears Filled Epoxy put enough exterior cracks barely overfill Now left way epoxy would have run out cracks So used masking tape over top cracks tape made epoxy smooth out nicely contoured over cracks cured quick job sanding some 240-grit paper ofl sanding block some hand sanding some 400-grit paper soon exterior surface almost good new After spot priming two coats Super poxy primer some hand sanding fuselage ready painted wing bit tougher Part break clean part ofit mashed sol marked area adjacent bad places using straightedge marking pen used X-Acto saw blade back removed cut Out bad places wing butt-glued together using Wilhold glue areas broken cleanly Masking tape used hold joints together Wilbold dried left small cracks breaks plus wedge missing wing leading edge simple task use repaired wing guide trace Out templates edges missing pieces After reducing templates depth 1/16-in balsa covering templates cutting out foam plug insert wing using Wilhold glue Next sheets wing skin fitted area glued foam Wilhold skin held place T-pins temporarily glue dried Sears Filled Epoxy used fill cracks masking tape hcld place cured just done fuselage Alter sanding thc Filled Epoxy new wing skin smooth wing looked good wasnt strong enough So cut patch Sig 5-oz fiberglass cloth overlap broken area about three inches side stuck wing using Dave Brown Epoxy Kit epoxy After brushing sufficient epoxy rolled entire area roll toilet paper piece broomstick remove excess Two heavy coats Superpoxy primer liberal use sandpaper left wing looking great strong edges glass cloth barely detectable repainted Phoenix just time fly annual contest New Orleans flewjust well ever looked great Fellow competitors inspected repairjob kind enough say couldnt see repaired until showed Theres no reason Continued page 111 February 1982 41 Filled epoxy has qualities being both tough easy sand hard find Sears sells excellent product Ron used repair damaged Phoenix 8 has lot nittygritty column 18000 REPEME1S Hot Performance 06017 Ft Meyers FL 33908 PhoneRC Aerobatics/Van Putteattendance despitethe high quality ofthe contest 813 936-2397and outstanding traditional Saturday night International Crystal Manufacturing Co 20Continued page 41supper serve Well year 43 Pattern N Lee Oklahoma City OK 7310212 Sport Scale contestants delighted share boiled shrimp steamed crab supper Crescent City Radio Control Club members secret out other crashed airplanes cant repaired just well dont some give try certainly beats starting scratch way Ive often remarked annual New Orleans contest best kept secrets South because ofoccasional spirse PC Boards John R Lange 1700 N 37th Ave Stone Park IL 60165Ron Van Putie Ill Sleepy Oaks Rd Fr Walton Beach FL 32548 RC Giant Scale/Beckman Continued page 43 conversation Dave Scully Aero Compo sites 411 Townsend Place Dayton OH 45431 mentioned quarter-scale kit Hal Krierversion Great Lakes Special kit almost unknown dont really push said would send some information busy before got Ive busy havent done anything until now meantime saw Dave Toledo chance see plane fuselage comes kit fiberglass fuselage/foam wing kit too common Giant Scale fuselage has stringer detail molded cap strips wing foam before covering wind up realistic looking construction model designed prop drive setup originally has since changed Quadra significant improvement performance Daves picture-taking technique worth comment dont know other way vuure going get kind siew Giant Scale aircraft inside house Continued page 114 February 1982111 John Lange poseswith models frontot car isequipped listen current RC frequencies through car radio professional microwave technician John has made use RC frequency monitoring gear work well
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/02
Page Numbers: 40, 41, 111
Radio Control Sport Aerobatics Ron Van Putte TWO NEW PROCEDURES RC Pattern used 1981 Nats First everyone flew five days no qualifying flights change previous procedure having three days qualifying two days finals like disliked same time Let explain viewpoint flier great because got fly complete pattern five days frustrating drive way Nats get fly using abbreviated pattern three days watch top 10 qualifiers fly complete pattern last two days previous years As columnist new procedure caused lot frustration extra work because wasnt sure top fliers ask lot extra people fill out contestant information sheets turned out asked 38 contestants fill out sheets orderto get information 20 top fliers vhich appeared matrix saw November issue Fortunately asked limit matrix top five class Can imagine forms would have get filled Out ensure top 10 class barely enough time fly airplane take pictures get number forms filled out did Neverthe less still like flying complete pattern during entire Nats about other new procedure 1981 Nats having fliers particular class fly same time first round Novice class fliers flew first followed Advanced class fliers second round Advanced class fliers flew first followed Expert class fliers picking up Novice class fliers end starting class rotated until Novice class first again fifth round addition starting flier within class rotated different fliers up first time class flown thought worked great although meant toes keep track schedule Since next days schedule always posted early day before board adjacent unofficial scores wasnt difficult However few people didnt realize what procedure missed second round flights Despite problem informing contestants about procedure thought great have fliers class fly after another site got chance toss atch competitors us would mentally fly airplanes competitors preceeding us warm up just before flying addition judges keyed what expect could judge relative flying competitor-to-competitor much better classes mixed like idea what about AMA Headquarters people interested opinions contestants flew RC Pattern Nats can help Nats Executive Committee decide what will done 1982 Nats So write Nats RC Category Director let know feel Remember fliers let opinions heard will permitted register complaints Nats arent run way want Imjust kidding part Seriously lets help AMA run Pattern way majority really wants Make opinion known writing Betty Stream Nats RC Category Director 3723 Snowden Ave. Long Beach CA 90808 Send copy AMA HQ 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washing ton DC 20005 Last weekend browsing through local K-Mart ran across great gear puller us need gear puller disassembling front housing engines ones Ive seen either appropriate very expensive found K-Mart does job beautifully cost $198 could use good gear puller stop local KMart ask K-Mart Large Gear Puller NBR 1457 CODE 82-40-73 Im offering product information let share another us need some structural filling products like spackling compound wood putty inappro priate because dont have enough strength other hand products like Epoxolite may strong enough difficult sand types applications use Sears Filled Epoxy Cement No 980605 ss $469 10 oz f strong sands very nicely After crashing Phoenix 8just before leaving Nats faced tears fiber glass fuselage wing broken two just outboard retract gear cutout used Sears Filled Epoxy complete both repairs results very gratifying have reputa 40 Model Aviation Chuck Nourrcier 1 Kevin Castaing show airplanes met midair collision Neither pilot aware collision until after Pattern flights completed Once can tind great deal gearpulIer avaliaDle r-MafltoronIy1 98 Ron has say about column tion doing good rcpair jobs partly hecausc crashes carlx RC career day mx wife reminds used hit trees tried find little tree decals put side fuselage after such episode Anyway thought some pro cedures followed repairing fuselage wing might general interest fuselage repairs pretty straight forward because body wasnt torn half torn about halfway through several places used X-Acto No II knife blade thin saw blades back removed cut severed edges fiberglass edges wouldnt interfere other procedure made possible fuselage assume its normal contour used Goldbergs Super Jet glue edges together interior repair done cutting patches Sig 15 oz per sq ft fiberglass cloth overlap torn places about inch side tear fiberglass patches glued inside epoxy-glass fuse lage Dave Brown Epoxy Kit epoxy Dv wax poltester-glass fuselage would hate used pa/tester resin instead epoxy epoxy applied bending tip disposable brush about 450 sticking piece -in dowel hollow end order reach down inside fusalage epoxy After epoxy cured mixed up hatch Sears Filled Epoxy put enough exterior cracks barely overfill Now left way epoxy would have run out cracks So used masking tape over top cracks tape made epoxy smooth out nicely contoured over cracks cured quick job sanding some 240-grit paper ofl sanding block some hand sanding some 400-grit paper soon exterior surface almost good new After spot priming two coats Super poxy primer some hand sanding fuselage ready painted wing bit tougher Part break clean part ofit mashed sol marked area adjacent bad places using straightedge marking pen used X-Acto saw blade back removed cut Out bad places wing butt-glued together using Wilhold glue areas broken cleanly Masking tape used hold joints together Wilbold dried left small cracks breaks plus wedge missing wing leading edge simple task use repaired wing guide trace Out templates edges missing pieces After reducing templates depth 1/16-in balsa covering templates cutting out foam plug insert wing using Wilhold glue Next sheets wing skin fitted area glued foam Wilhold skin held place T-pins temporarily glue dried Sears Filled Epoxy used fill cracks masking tape hcld place cured just done fuselage Alter sanding thc Filled Epoxy new wing skin smooth wing looked good wasnt strong enough So cut patch Sig 5-oz fiberglass cloth overlap broken area about three inches side stuck wing using Dave Brown Epoxy Kit epoxy After brushing sufficient epoxy rolled entire area roll toilet paper piece broomstick remove excess Two heavy coats Superpoxy primer liberal use sandpaper left wing looking great strong edges glass cloth barely detectable repainted Phoenix just time fly annual contest New Orleans flewjust well ever looked great Fellow competitors inspected repairjob kind enough say couldnt see repaired until showed Theres no reason Continued page 111 February 1982 41 Filled epoxy has qualities being both tough easy sand hard find Sears sells excellent product Ron used repair damaged Phoenix 8 has lot nittygritty column 18000 REPEME1S Hot Performance 06017 Ft Meyers FL 33908 PhoneRC Aerobatics/Van Putteattendance despitethe high quality ofthe contest 813 936-2397and outstanding traditional Saturday night International Crystal Manufacturing Co 20Continued page 41supper serve Well year 43 Pattern N Lee Oklahoma City OK 7310212 Sport Scale contestants delighted share boiled shrimp steamed crab supper Crescent City Radio Control Club members secret out other crashed airplanes cant repaired just well dont some give try certainly beats starting scratch way Ive often remarked annual New Orleans contest best kept secrets South because ofoccasional spirse PC Boards John R Lange 1700 N 37th Ave Stone Park IL 60165Ron Van Putie Ill Sleepy Oaks Rd Fr Walton Beach FL 32548 RC Giant Scale/Beckman Continued page 43 conversation Dave Scully Aero Compo sites 411 Townsend Place Dayton OH 45431 mentioned quarter-scale kit Hal Krierversion Great Lakes Special kit almost unknown dont really push said would send some information busy before got Ive busy havent done anything until now meantime saw Dave Toledo chance see plane fuselage comes kit fiberglass fuselage/foam wing kit too common Giant Scale fuselage has stringer detail molded cap strips wing foam before covering wind up realistic looking construction model designed prop drive setup originally has since changed Quadra significant improvement performance Daves picture-taking technique worth comment dont know other way vuure going get kind siew Giant Scale aircraft inside house Continued page 114 February 1982111 John Lange poseswith models frontot car isequipped listen current RC frequencies through car radio professional microwave technician John has made use RC frequency monitoring gear work well