1tILI1 COMES FIRST thoughts what RC club can increase its safety operations S John Preston WE brief discussion layout RC flying fields safety point view July column mentioned layout field used Northern Virginia RC Club NVRC felt safer fields weve flown month courtesy Luther Hux Snapshot camera plane have picture field field located north busy state highway can seen upper left photo wide angle camera lens makes appear further field really However trees between road field provide very effective deterrent flying over road flying done north runway oriented roughtly east/west No flying permitted behind row 10 cedar bushes behind pilots must stand second row 20 cedar bushes marks edge pit area lies between parking area runway Theoretically no excuse ever flying over either parking area pits safe flying field should Rule Number cannot achieved field dont have safe layout Before someone writes ask dont know purpose white line scribed across runway Luther shot picture day club Fun Fly event must assume line served some purpose Fun Fly Staying subject flying field safety letter Paul Samaris Lakewood CO Paul Safety Officer Jefco Aeromodelers gather Pauls letter club runs pretty tight ship comes safety Consider following Safety Officers duties understanding problems flier field have firm rules enforced understood club members greet everyone shows up field warmly offer help explain field rules As Ive said before always get sugar vinegar So have infraction rules friendly attitude will generally get everyone working together such things about two weeks busiest time usually Sunday about 200 pm holding pit meeting everyone Operatons closed down discuss safety rules monthly club meetings am respon sible safety report membership totaling about 180 discuss problems have arisen since last meeting what actions Board Directors wish Safety Officer take regarding problems Ive spent three years job can tell personal experiences pays off have man job upholds respect dignity fliers problems arise other words think what Paul saying safety point view isnt much fly fly Seems like weve heard before So far job Safety Officer concerned lets go back Pauls letter So Safety Officer can either make break club field operations approach takes job Choose him carefully must man tact diplomacy can handle situations Friendly said before sugar must man will work job during periods heavy flying man respected hell listened Board Directors makes rules Safety Officer merely sees fliers come together within rules Choose Safety Officer carefully can important Continued page 12 10 Model Aviation neros tne NVHt tiela Arcota VA viewed Luther Huxs camera-toting model safe flying site See article discussion point DUCKSTICK Iat NORTHERN CAUFORNIAS LARGEST1 IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI I well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest aualily ingredientsI Ii Deteiaction cut varnish I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Friday 930-800I L - -- S~uay9300 Sunday 1200-500J man club has wonder clubs have officer sole job ensure safe operation flying field Its kind job us would want undertake As suggestion clubs such person flier needs reminded safety rule either because wilfull inadvertant infraction have several members get together speak him two club members suggest flier should change bad habits its much less likely result shouting match misinterpreted personal attack situation Unlike flying field photograph Jefco clubs field features two runwaysdefin itely advantage have space However crossed runways L layout can bring addi tional problems keeping models overflying pit spectator parking areas As said before Rule Number prevent happening As airport full-scale aircraft model field featuring runway can hope achieve safe operation runway active given time Which choose direction may responsibility flight line director safety officer case Jefco club can left majority fliers doesnt mean majority fly afew brave souls other Whether have runways pilots must conduct takeoffs landings same direction same runway given time Let us assume sake discussion flying field its hot muggy days common Washington DC area middle sumemr really isnt wind strength speak fliers have agreed choice runway direction operations several modelers air breeze comes up perhaps due strong thermal passing through breeze however direction would neces sitate landing downwind unless direction operations reversed What should such situation Logic says reverse direction active runway Can done safely middle operations flying field should possible fliers located correctly designated area other words field should have predesignated areas pilots enable communicate other flying dont have such setup have something lacking safety point view will several occasions during course afternoons flying someone will lose engine have make deadstick approach landing other fliers should warned about loud call ofDeadstick fliers strung out haphazard pattern someone may miss call major safety calamity may result collision could happen could cost few bucks Once again refer procedures adopted Jefco club clubs Flight Operations Rules state Except during takeoff landing operations persons will stand pilot areas determined tetrahedron Ideally pilots should located downwind end runway Most us prefer behind model during takeoff especially begin ners flying Some like stand immediately behind model takeoff can facilitated standing runway itself can safely achieved aid helper can keep watchful eye other models being flown such case flier helper must move designated pilot area immediately after takeoff completed Under Continued page 105 1 2 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will build thatPolling says heh wont build Connie will go TWA colors silver red depress flaps slightly higher CL LD gives wing twist effect Fowler flap ships run out flaps fix very slight down weve Silver Hill saw Bellanca CF CF granddaddy Bellancas sprung ones know especially Chamberlin-piloted trans-Atlantic Columbia Old Giuseppe early-day Steve Wittman note similarity tips between Bellanca Wittman designs Giuseppe wanted everything lift fuselages airfoil profiles Wing struts wide lifting 1923 CF powered 90-hp two-row 10cylinder Anzani Wing well undercambered forward airfoil single immense wing strut ribs like wing strut roughly triangular planform narrow fuselage almost wide wing attaches cabin four passengers covered veneer easily obtained modeling thicknesses lumberyard has windshield pilot seated behind cabin open cockpit simple landing gear pre-split-axle type axle running sraight across easily rubber shock-mounted Silver Hill restore historic birds now dig deeper fossil strata machines will rotated through Air Space Museum proper mini-museum Silver Hill things like CF Pesco Special Waco 9 can seen another building clean can eat off floor follow-on projects coming life Langley machine snagged wire plunged Potomac finished Leonardo daVinci greeted us would have said Hi bare-bones DH 4 important original almost complete Craftsmen make careers projects guys charge different restorations have time schedules must keep other locked build ings wait nirvana things done holds engines beginning time came across Langleys packing crate transported machine Lying loose within September 1981 105 Giant Scale 1911 BLERIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan lOW Engine 60 15 Weight 11 lbs MASTEIi LKAI Rt 3 Box 201 H Hillaboro OR 97123 1 545 45U5 ZONA SAWS flOdO H AR DWA RE WORKING TURNBUCKLES RIGGING & CONTROL CABLE CONTROLHORNSJi STRUT FITTINGS j K CORDfljJ OPULLEYSTRIM AINSTRUMENTHOUSINGS — ranurdIdIUYUu send $100 riDdor ENT CORP PC BOX 9641 SAN DIEGOCA32109 The one wood handle good blade Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAX Model SupplyPO Box 3957 ITorrance CA 90510 USA
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/09
Page Numbers: 10, 12, 105
1tILI1 COMES FIRST thoughts what RC club can increase its safety operations S John Preston WE brief discussion layout RC flying fields safety point view July column mentioned layout field used Northern Virginia RC Club NVRC felt safer fields weve flown month courtesy Luther Hux Snapshot camera plane have picture field field located north busy state highway can seen upper left photo wide angle camera lens makes appear further field really However trees between road field provide very effective deterrent flying over road flying done north runway oriented roughtly east/west No flying permitted behind row 10 cedar bushes behind pilots must stand second row 20 cedar bushes marks edge pit area lies between parking area runway Theoretically no excuse ever flying over either parking area pits safe flying field should Rule Number cannot achieved field dont have safe layout Before someone writes ask dont know purpose white line scribed across runway Luther shot picture day club Fun Fly event must assume line served some purpose Fun Fly Staying subject flying field safety letter Paul Samaris Lakewood CO Paul Safety Officer Jefco Aeromodelers gather Pauls letter club runs pretty tight ship comes safety Consider following Safety Officers duties understanding problems flier field have firm rules enforced understood club members greet everyone shows up field warmly offer help explain field rules As Ive said before always get sugar vinegar So have infraction rules friendly attitude will generally get everyone working together such things about two weeks busiest time usually Sunday about 200 pm holding pit meeting everyone Operatons closed down discuss safety rules monthly club meetings am respon sible safety report membership totaling about 180 discuss problems have arisen since last meeting what actions Board Directors wish Safety Officer take regarding problems Ive spent three years job can tell personal experiences pays off have man job upholds respect dignity fliers problems arise other words think what Paul saying safety point view isnt much fly fly Seems like weve heard before So far job Safety Officer concerned lets go back Pauls letter So Safety Officer can either make break club field operations approach takes job Choose him carefully must man tact diplomacy can handle situations Friendly said before sugar must man will work job during periods heavy flying man respected hell listened Board Directors makes rules Safety Officer merely sees fliers come together within rules Choose Safety Officer carefully can important Continued page 12 10 Model Aviation neros tne NVHt tiela Arcota VA viewed Luther Huxs camera-toting model safe flying site See article discussion point DUCKSTICK Iat NORTHERN CAUFORNIAS LARGEST1 IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI I well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest aualily ingredientsI Ii Deteiaction cut varnish I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Friday 930-800I L - -- S~uay9300 Sunday 1200-500J man club has wonder clubs have officer sole job ensure safe operation flying field Its kind job us would want undertake As suggestion clubs such person flier needs reminded safety rule either because wilfull inadvertant infraction have several members get together speak him two club members suggest flier should change bad habits its much less likely result shouting match misinterpreted personal attack situation Unlike flying field photograph Jefco clubs field features two runwaysdefin itely advantage have space However crossed runways L layout can bring addi tional problems keeping models overflying pit spectator parking areas As said before Rule Number prevent happening As airport full-scale aircraft model field featuring runway can hope achieve safe operation runway active given time Which choose direction may responsibility flight line director safety officer case Jefco club can left majority fliers doesnt mean majority fly afew brave souls other Whether have runways pilots must conduct takeoffs landings same direction same runway given time Let us assume sake discussion flying field its hot muggy days common Washington DC area middle sumemr really isnt wind strength speak fliers have agreed choice runway direction operations several modelers air breeze comes up perhaps due strong thermal passing through breeze however direction would neces sitate landing downwind unless direction operations reversed What should such situation Logic says reverse direction active runway Can done safely middle operations flying field should possible fliers located correctly designated area other words field should have predesignated areas pilots enable communicate other flying dont have such setup have something lacking safety point view will several occasions during course afternoons flying someone will lose engine have make deadstick approach landing other fliers should warned about loud call ofDeadstick fliers strung out haphazard pattern someone may miss call major safety calamity may result collision could happen could cost few bucks Once again refer procedures adopted Jefco club clubs Flight Operations Rules state Except during takeoff landing operations persons will stand pilot areas determined tetrahedron Ideally pilots should located downwind end runway Most us prefer behind model during takeoff especially begin ners flying Some like stand immediately behind model takeoff can facilitated standing runway itself can safely achieved aid helper can keep watchful eye other models being flown such case flier helper must move designated pilot area immediately after takeoff completed Under Continued page 105 1 2 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will build thatPolling says heh wont build Connie will go TWA colors silver red depress flaps slightly higher CL LD gives wing twist effect Fowler flap ships run out flaps fix very slight down weve Silver Hill saw Bellanca CF CF granddaddy Bellancas sprung ones know especially Chamberlin-piloted trans-Atlantic Columbia Old Giuseppe early-day Steve Wittman note similarity tips between Bellanca Wittman designs Giuseppe wanted everything lift fuselages airfoil profiles Wing struts wide lifting 1923 CF powered 90-hp two-row 10cylinder Anzani Wing well undercambered forward airfoil single immense wing strut ribs like wing strut roughly triangular planform narrow fuselage almost wide wing attaches cabin four passengers covered veneer easily obtained modeling thicknesses lumberyard has windshield pilot seated behind cabin open cockpit simple landing gear pre-split-axle type axle running sraight across easily rubber shock-mounted Silver Hill restore historic birds now dig deeper fossil strata machines will rotated through Air Space Museum proper mini-museum Silver Hill things like CF Pesco Special Waco 9 can seen another building clean can eat off floor follow-on projects coming life Langley machine snagged wire plunged Potomac finished Leonardo daVinci greeted us would have said Hi bare-bones DH 4 important original almost complete Craftsmen make careers projects guys charge different restorations have time schedules must keep other locked build ings wait nirvana things done holds engines beginning time came across Langleys packing crate transported machine Lying loose within September 1981 105 Giant Scale 1911 BLERIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan lOW Engine 60 15 Weight 11 lbs MASTEIi LKAI Rt 3 Box 201 H Hillaboro OR 97123 1 545 45U5 ZONA SAWS flOdO H AR DWA RE WORKING TURNBUCKLES RIGGING & CONTROL CABLE CONTROLHORNSJi STRUT FITTINGS j K CORDfljJ OPULLEYSTRIM AINSTRUMENTHOUSINGS — ranurdIdIUYUu send $100 riDdor ENT CORP PC BOX 9641 SAN DIEGOCA32109 The one wood handle good blade Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAX Model SupplyPO Box 3957 ITorrance CA 90510 USA
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/09
Page Numbers: 10, 12, 105
1tILI1 COMES FIRST thoughts what RC club can increase its safety operations S John Preston WE brief discussion layout RC flying fields safety point view July column mentioned layout field used Northern Virginia RC Club NVRC felt safer fields weve flown month courtesy Luther Hux Snapshot camera plane have picture field field located north busy state highway can seen upper left photo wide angle camera lens makes appear further field really However trees between road field provide very effective deterrent flying over road flying done north runway oriented roughtly east/west No flying permitted behind row 10 cedar bushes behind pilots must stand second row 20 cedar bushes marks edge pit area lies between parking area runway Theoretically no excuse ever flying over either parking area pits safe flying field should Rule Number cannot achieved field dont have safe layout Before someone writes ask dont know purpose white line scribed across runway Luther shot picture day club Fun Fly event must assume line served some purpose Fun Fly Staying subject flying field safety letter Paul Samaris Lakewood CO Paul Safety Officer Jefco Aeromodelers gather Pauls letter club runs pretty tight ship comes safety Consider following Safety Officers duties understanding problems flier field have firm rules enforced understood club members greet everyone shows up field warmly offer help explain field rules As Ive said before always get sugar vinegar So have infraction rules friendly attitude will generally get everyone working together such things about two weeks busiest time usually Sunday about 200 pm holding pit meeting everyone Operatons closed down discuss safety rules monthly club meetings am respon sible safety report membership totaling about 180 discuss problems have arisen since last meeting what actions Board Directors wish Safety Officer take regarding problems Ive spent three years job can tell personal experiences pays off have man job upholds respect dignity fliers problems arise other words think what Paul saying safety point view isnt much fly fly Seems like weve heard before So far job Safety Officer concerned lets go back Pauls letter So Safety Officer can either make break club field operations approach takes job Choose him carefully must man tact diplomacy can handle situations Friendly said before sugar must man will work job during periods heavy flying man respected hell listened Board Directors makes rules Safety Officer merely sees fliers come together within rules Choose Safety Officer carefully can important Continued page 12 10 Model Aviation neros tne NVHt tiela Arcota VA viewed Luther Huxs camera-toting model safe flying site See article discussion point DUCKSTICK Iat NORTHERN CAUFORNIAS LARGEST1 IDISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI I well FUELyou New high film strength lubricantU increased power engine lifeI Highest aualily ingredientsI Ii Deteiaction cut varnish I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Friday 930-800I L - -- S~uay9300 Sunday 1200-500J man club has wonder clubs have officer sole job ensure safe operation flying field Its kind job us would want undertake As suggestion clubs such person flier needs reminded safety rule either because wilfull inadvertant infraction have several members get together speak him two club members suggest flier should change bad habits its much less likely result shouting match misinterpreted personal attack situation Unlike flying field photograph Jefco clubs field features two runwaysdefin itely advantage have space However crossed runways L layout can bring addi tional problems keeping models overflying pit spectator parking areas As said before Rule Number prevent happening As airport full-scale aircraft model field featuring runway can hope achieve safe operation runway active given time Which choose direction may responsibility flight line director safety officer case Jefco club can left majority fliers doesnt mean majority fly afew brave souls other Whether have runways pilots must conduct takeoffs landings same direction same runway given time Let us assume sake discussion flying field its hot muggy days common Washington DC area middle sumemr really isnt wind strength speak fliers have agreed choice runway direction operations several modelers air breeze comes up perhaps due strong thermal passing through breeze however direction would neces sitate landing downwind unless direction operations reversed What should such situation Logic says reverse direction active runway Can done safely middle operations flying field should possible fliers located correctly designated area other words field should have predesignated areas pilots enable communicate other flying dont have such setup have something lacking safety point view will several occasions during course afternoons flying someone will lose engine have make deadstick approach landing other fliers should warned about loud call ofDeadstick fliers strung out haphazard pattern someone may miss call major safety calamity may result collision could happen could cost few bucks Once again refer procedures adopted Jefco club clubs Flight Operations Rules state Except during takeoff landing operations persons will stand pilot areas determined tetrahedron Ideally pilots should located downwind end runway Most us prefer behind model during takeoff especially begin ners flying Some like stand immediately behind model takeoff can facilitated standing runway itself can safely achieved aid helper can keep watchful eye other models being flown such case flier helper must move designated pilot area immediately after takeoff completed Under Continued page 105 1 2 Model Aviation Safety/Preston Continued page 12 no circumstances should anyone venture out onto active runway first alerting pilots already have models aloft closing months column let us just touch subject mixing fixed-wing models Helicopters clubs members fly choppers well conventional models should have some previously agreed upon procedures know clubs have specific time slots during course day field turned over Helicopter operations other times fixed-wing aircraft may flown have enough space may possible operate both types models simultaneously under no circumstances should ever necessary type model have flown over pilots other type Simultaneous operation fixed-wing rotary-wing models also de mands some rigid rules frequency control Although groups might able enjoy sep arate airspace must still share frequen cies goes saying frequency control system together transmitter im pound area basic club flying field Much discussion month will have news seasoned modelers However become seasoned sometimes also become complacent Safe operations demand beginner hotshot alikefollow prescribed procedures times Have safe month John D Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 C-3 called Airknocker similar setup converted 20-year-old escapement model servos rudder engine have h-in negative stab far forward CG just like Vagabond flies well lazy realism trim speed throttle back cruise enjoy also lots downthrust have stack factory drawings Bill Cavanaugh once owned shares Vaga bond wants build after us Walt Mooney actually owns Harvey Thomasian supplied dozens pictures various drawings did Shipp Someone converted Walts bubble windshield like Champion before got Walt made mods still twist dihedral Hearing comment sneaked two degrees downthrust Walt said hed use five degrees down real would louse up cowl found fuselage structure difficult visualize built drew coming back board make changes object took shape Cabbages Kings dream endlessly crates wed love make Since boyhood weve fascinated Boeing 100 Its glamour buggy civil example Boeing P-i 2 fighter 450-hp WaspWilliams Bros would exact 1/5-scale really Quarter Scale overkill need choice 1/15 caleat leastto allow bulk real ships have noted zeroing 1/5th scale have eye design suspect someone Boeing organization influence airplanes over quite few years see strong resemblance popular Stearman PT-i7 Wed love see Boeing iQO airshow no relation ship Grumman F3 series fighters similar setup ships great flying model bipesespecially Boeing F4B-4 45 inches rubber-powered watch cruise sedately reborn 100 has Boeing profiletypical fighters era like celebrated Hawker Fusy yet another cockpit high visibility fuselage sloped down nose fin ABC Robin cute British sport monoplane flown Prince Wales among others made over 30 30in span rubber Fernando Ramos has great flying CO-2 version wing swept tips surfaces have raked look common planes earlier daysthe Jenny Albatross fighters Nieuports -Scale ABC Robin would conversation piece guarantee incredible flying machine like docility realism know thirst four-motored electric Connie about seven feet fuselage round laminate bunch circles use external stringers lightness does have monocoque youll hardly notice differ ence electric Spitfire Kragness tells us first Spit stringers fabric built way maybe Stratoliner great Boeing airliner round fat big tapered wing Nobody will build thatPolling says heh wont build Connie will go TWA colors silver red depress flaps slightly higher CL LD gives wing twist effect Fowler flap ships run out flaps fix very slight down weve Silver Hill saw Bellanca CF CF granddaddy Bellancas sprung ones know especially Chamberlin-piloted trans-Atlantic Columbia Old Giuseppe early-day Steve Wittman note similarity tips between Bellanca Wittman designs Giuseppe wanted everything lift fuselages airfoil profiles Wing struts wide lifting 1923 CF powered 90-hp two-row 10cylinder Anzani Wing well undercambered forward airfoil single immense wing strut ribs like wing strut roughly triangular planform narrow fuselage almost wide wing attaches cabin four passengers covered veneer easily obtained modeling thicknesses lumberyard has windshield pilot seated behind cabin open cockpit simple landing gear pre-split-axle type axle running sraight across easily rubber shock-mounted Silver Hill restore historic birds now dig deeper fossil strata machines will rotated through Air Space Museum proper mini-museum Silver Hill things like CF Pesco Special Waco 9 can seen another building clean can eat off floor follow-on projects coming life Langley machine snagged wire plunged Potomac finished Leonardo daVinci greeted us would have said Hi bare-bones DH 4 important original almost complete Craftsmen make careers projects guys charge different restorations have time schedules must keep other locked build ings wait nirvana things done holds engines beginning time came across Langleys packing crate transported machine Lying loose within September 1981 105 Giant Scale 1911 BLERIOT Xl BUILDS FAST LIKE TRAINER Wingspan lOW Engine 60 15 Weight 11 lbs MASTEIi LKAI Rt 3 Box 201 H Hillaboro OR 97123 1 545 45U5 ZONA SAWS flOdO H AR DWA RE WORKING TURNBUCKLES RIGGING & CONTROL CABLE CONTROLHORNSJi STRUT FITTINGS j K CORDfljJ OPULLEYSTRIM AINSTRUMENTHOUSINGS — ranurdIdIUYUu send $100 riDdor ENT CORP PC BOX 9641 SAN DIEGOCA32109 The one wood handle good blade Razor #200 $210 Sabre * 400 Saw Set #100- $369 Replacement blades available dealer FAX Model SupplyPO Box 3957 ITorrance CA 90510 USA