To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/10
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 89, 90
To Borlange Sweden June 18-24 came worlds master scale builders fliers biggest varied Scoe collection types yet seen ultimate competition Text Photos Wor d Chomponshps Bob Dolly Wischer DALA AIRPORT near Borlange cen tral Sweden scene re-emer gence British team worlds greatest RC scale modelers con tinuation Soviet modelers mas ters Control-Line Scale Neither nation easy task increase number nations involved marked im provement airplanes flying tech nique kept outcome meet doubt until near end Never before has such collection excellent scale models true also unofficial Stand-Off Helicopter events Several Stand-Off models could easily have moved over full FAI scale Helicopter entries kitbuilt finish outstanding up-grading model quality due least partially fact European nations sent best contrast Lakehurst mod elers appeared pocketbooks permitted rather deserved place team Another factor length time spent con struction winning deHavilland Chip munk Bob Nelitz three years building Jerzy Ostrowski spent four years plus two improve ments first-place control-line Lock heed P-38L Lightning Obviously con tention world-class model twoyear project can no longer regarded true exactness detailing both ex terior interior models other top contenders result exhaustive research obtain absolute di mensional accuracy No longer will sim ple three-view drawing handful photos suffice winning model now re quires addition factory drawings availability prototype airplane close hand necessary dimensions extends details last piece visible judges critical eyes Only nit-picking can judges find fault sufficient grade model above another Credit must given Swedish Aeromodeling Association SMFF organization meet contest ants supporters housed fed Top left RC FAI Scale winner Bob Nalitz Canada flew Chipmunk cockpit partly open Top right Note regularity rivet spacing firstaid kit seat belts buckle Mid dle Taxiing position light 82 Chip munk Right Bob prepares winning flight Fuselage has three laminations 1/32 sheet balsa formed over styrofoam core October1976 3 Scale World Champs modern hotel downtown Borlange Teams having no personal transportation use new Volvo station wagons donated local dealer Swedes also organized afterhours entertain ment trips 1000-year-old copper visit home Swedens great artist Carl Larsen tour Da larna lake country included maypole dancing everyone celebration mid summer latter tour ended two am hotel Central Sweden June has no real night due its proximity Arctic Circle therefore just long eve ning twilight condition midnight also useful test flights time Canadian team Dala Airport military field also used air lines commercial operations Two large hangars Sterner Aero used base operations end field closed full-size planes except during airline arrivals departures Wednesday afternoon four Swe dish Air Force Saab Drachens performed us exciting finale show low pass overhead less 100 feet altitude Because interrup tions necessary extend flying six days first two Stand-Off Scale Helicopter four days Control-Line RC Static judging FAI models took place during first two days 18 members US con tingent arrived 747 Stockholm found Avis hadnt tried hard enough expected VW Microbusses Instead greeted John Lytsell coordinating contest director heard plight made three-hour trip Borlange bus large enough hold us plus seven model boxes Within hour John boxes through Swedish customs way US teams consisted Mike Gretz Zlin Akrobat Ralph Burnstine Boeing F4B-4 daughter Cathy Burnstine Douglas 0-25 Control-Line cate gory John Roth Evans Volksplane Steve Sauger Stinson Station Wagon Bob Underwood Wittman Bonzo Radio Control Bob Wischer Piel Beryl seventh US entry participated individual score would count team standings Radio Control US judges Andy Sheber Control Line Leroy Weber RC Hale Wallace team manager first time since international class modeling competition begun Soviet plane expected entered RC Saturday morning planes assembled hangar got first glimpse Soviet entry ducted-fan Rossi 60-powered Aero L-39 ajetfighter trainer looked inside found German Variprop RC equip ment Rossi mounted near center gravity long shaft rear ward driving wide 4-bladed prop shaft continued past prop provi sion made rear engage electric starter through ratchet driver plane rue championship quality two problems going difficult overcome first became apparent weigh-in over weight builder Carl Plotzinsch along team manager Eugeni Elizarov hurried back hangar strip out two handfuls internal parts bring weight down Successful second problem appeared plane never 4 Model Aviation Left Landing gear rocket fired aiQ mountings winning CL P-38L Jerzy Ostrowski Poland Above Ostrowski prepares winning flight changes plugs Supertigre GOs Note exhaust arrange ment Below Turbines superchargers will operate slight est breath air Ostrowskis metal representation best reporter has seen years scale Bottom Ostrowskis ms terpiece four years building Curtiss Hawk P-36A built F C Coulson England first-place winner Stand-Off Scale flew exactly like Pattern plane flown earliest opportunity Sun day morning out runway along swarm expectant observers engine started takeoff begun too close runway end Lifted off too soon staggered air semistalled altitude climbed about 25 feet snap-rolled back earth parts gathered hastily carried off Rus sian bus Carl began marathon effort return plane flying condition actually successful final day flying made short hop few hun dred feet after attempts Most ef forts aborted due engine failures over-heating several retract gear col lapses Meanwhile peculiar situation arose Soviet control-line team saw three airplanes twinengined jet fighter also powered ducted fans Before could gather data plane quickly assembled carried off paved area front airport control tower time military po lice made certain observers excluded rumors spread plane never flown watched distance after trying unsuccessfully break through guard lines So viet team made numerous efforts get both engines running engines screaming would hardly taxi possibly due wheel problems finally staggered air made several laps bordering stall collided heavily pavement sending large parts scattering Thus ends story two really exciting entries ducted-fan power Later discovered Soviet control-line team ac tually four fliers crashed plane replaced another waited impatiently static scores two unofficial events flown Helicopter first followed Stand Off Scale Helicopter five en tries might have disappointment except exciting flying Michael Heid West Germany flights Tops static points3rd overallin RC PAl Scale David Vaughans England Wirraway A20-1O scuffed weathered look wellworn aircraft Left Steel tubes visible inside cockpit highly detailed instrument panels two events made under ad verse weather conditions cold gusty wind frequent showers spite wind Heid managed pick up weight sling beneath helicopter proceed fly through slalom course poles Only flight Ulf Johansson Sweden could better scores Heid Ulf flew Schluter Gazelle others flown Kavan Jet Rangers As expected stand-off entries mostly Sweden two France English Nermi Akol Turkey listed under home country lives Sweden Both French fliers also entered FAI event three top static score planes Spad 13 Pierre Koppe France Miles Magister Nermi Akol Turkey Curtiss P-36A F C Coulson England Spad Curtiss both high enough quality flown FAI class Cold gusty winds frequent showers Saturday Sunday took toll Waco E demolished its first flight Some fliers elected wait little improvement weather biplanes large wing areas October1976 5 Winner unofficial Helicopter event Michael Held West Germany flew KavanJet Ranger Picked upweightwithasflng suffered Jean Rousseaus Potez 60 three consistently excellent flights unfortunately also lowest static score Curtiss flew like pattern plane little affected wind went win event Static scoring FAI events quite improvement over past exper iences heard no drastic disagree ments judges opinions Con trol Line Ostrowskis Lockheed P-38L looked like plane beat same ship entered 1974 has eight rockets fired air re tractable landing gear supercharger turbines actually rotate blow blades aluminum finish best metal representations have seen although old age 2 years has shrunk finish close scrutiny reveals tiny bit balsa grain However static scores posted Yak 18 Viktor Yougov proved have highest score everyone converged plane see what made better controllable-pitch propeller working cooling louvers auto6 Model Aviation matic self-starting engine internal pressure tank operating landing gear wheel brakes flaps outward appear ance plane used aerobatic competition over long period time showing wear scuffing truly represented day life full-size plane external screws US team members kneeling Ito R Ralph Burnstine CL Cathy Burnatine CL Team Man ager Hale Wallace Mike Gretz CL Standing Ito R Steve Sauger RCJohn Roth RC Bob Underwood Rd Bob Wischer Rd safety wired original impressed still regard Ostrowskis P-38 pinnacle scale effectiveness Now hear rumors will moving over RC next world contest Yikes Third highest static score went Po lands Lech Podgorski Tupolev TU-2 combination two high scores put position strength Russian team would better thousand points Middle road scores went two sentimental favor ites Cathy Burnstine USA Max Newnham Australia Cathys Douglas 0-25 smallest plane meet 40 span ST 23and character istic long shock absorber travel its land ing gear youthful enthusiasm tractive appearance made friends US team Max come half way around earth 76 Avro Lancaster entirely own resources never out country seeing competitive scale models first time US team scores placed Ralph Burn stine sixth Mike Gretz seventh Cathy Burnstine tenth Ralphs score over 900 points lower Soviet Yak team would need some spectacular flying catch Russians Poles Ralphs Boeing F4B-4 Supertiger 60 power uses extra lines bomb parachute drops throttle control taxi plus touchand-go Mikes Zlin Akrobat Webra 61 powered has retractable landing gear flaps throttle fuel shut-off oper ated electrically through insulated lines plane RC servos controlled digital information sent encoder similar RC transmitter sophisticated control permits Left Scale perfection landing gear strut YAK 18 Viktor Yougov Russia Ship tops CL static points placed second Os trowski Far left Yougov YAK 18 low Front end YAK mind-boggling has self-starting engine automatic cooling louvers air-operated flaps landing gear Incredible says WischerweiI buy Scale World Champs operation control-line planes man ner similar RC radio lines used elevator control conventional way RC static judging some surprises Bruno Klupp West Germany has flown world scale meet produced masterpiece Zlin 42 Webra Speed 61 engine fuselage fiberglasv balsa wing aluminum covered Very thin light corrugated tail surfaces also fiberglass metal engine cowl lou vered hinged expose scale engine mount cockpit classic scale modeling upholstered seats full array instruments plane appearance top static score placed surprisingly low ninth As Control Line nu merous planes high scoring potential overlooked casual observa tion Tummeliten biplane Goran Kalderen re searched prototype S*edish mu seum copying exact location size rivet rotary engine lathe turned aluminum wire spokes beneath fabric wheel cov ers made tires foam rubber tradition Swedish team mem bers limited choice models planes have use Sweden instance difficult subject October1976 7 Top left South African entry Alan Plan BE 22 WW British warbird turned metal 8-cylinder engine Dropped bomb settled like STOL wind Top Aero L-39 Carl Plotzinsch Russia center ducted-fan Rossi 60 driving 4-blade prop scratched because problems perhaps excit ing glimpe future Above SPAD Pierre Koppe France tops Stand-off Scalecould have flown FAI Scale Left Max Newnham Australia got four 05 30 engines going CL have four five judges gawk jet static position third deHavilland Chipmunk Cana dian Bob Nelitz expected place high Under its epoxy finish fuselage made three layers 1/32 balsa cemented epoxy built over foam core later removed construction combination light Right Steve Saugers Nats-winning Stinson dogged bad breaks RChighly de tailed adjustable seats clicked place Below John Roth taxies Evans Volks plane Flown three World Champs Left Tops exactness scale Tummeliten Lisa Goran Kalderen Sweden Dummy rotary engine turned aluminum Rd Above Mike Gretz checks retract operation CL Zlinn Akrobat Gear flaps throttle electronically controlled Below Brian Taylors England Rd Vultee weathered finishdeserved its second place Scale World Champs balsa wing has produced very light air plane spite its large size 86 span radio equipment concealed nose pushrods extending tail surfaces under cockpit floor Con struction time three years large portion work done final six months Bob airline pilot has RC ten years Chipmunk placed second static scoring topped fabulous Commonwealth Wirraway entered David Vaughan England sleepers us over looked until static scores released Three US entries closely bunched static scoring sixth seventh eighth places Wischer Beryl Roth Volksplane Sauger Stinson Underwood Bonzo respectable 12th place Beryl constructed large ly birch plywood spruce balsa wing tail surfaces Cowling wheel pants fiberglass proto type Finish silk dope Servos concealed beneath pilots seats radio receiver inside rear pilot wire connec tions inside front pilot Tiny 1 / 16 di ameter Phillips-head screws centrifu gaIly cast linotype metal landing gear has sprung shock struts Engine HP 61 muffler inside cowl Sticks rudder pedals operating John Rothss familiar Volksplane has now flown three world championships has used scale construction throughout plane Ross Twin 60 disguised under dummy Volkswagen engine Con trol stick rudder pedals throttle operate servos Stinson Station Wagon entered Steve Sauger has interior ultimate realism having adjustable seats click position baggage com partment contains real baggage also powered Ross Twin 60 Actually plane too perfect appear ance factory-fresh airplane documentation photos showed wear scratched paint quality model should have received higher static points Bob Underwoods Bonzo first glance appeared crude fact scale model backyard racing plane 1930 era indeed crude respects Duplicating crudity art Bob has mastered remained done prove judges satisfac tion really accomplished task part plane needed finely finished pro Wittman Bonzo Bob Underwood makes people wonder flies Rd received sur prisingly good flight scale scores 8 Model Aviation peller Hamilton Standard Bobs prop original decals duplicated miniature Because plane differ ent usual varied re actions other contestants Some amused others incredulous doubt about its flying characteristics finish no longer doubters Static judging finished Monday morning first round flights begun Control line RC flight lines 1/4 mil6 apart operated simultaneously made impossible thorough coverage both events reporters team managers fuel could carried air line Swedish Aeromodellers sup plied us several gallons standard FAI fuel pint bottle nitromethane purchased locally about price gallon US Mike Gretz come equipped large graduated syringe used mixing Everyone ran engines adjust needle valves new fuel first two RC rounds 15 planes 30% engine problems Control Line both Mike Ralph engines quit first two rounds Mon day Tuesday cold windy rainy Possibly weather some effect engines HP Beryl didnt complain although 30 minutes running time Entrants brought fuel home immune problem First round flights Control-Line circle postponed everyone Jerzy Ostrowski made attempts due wind rain Eventually nine planes did become airborne scores suffered Only Yougov Podgorski really good flights Burnstines engine trouble led bad landing meant minor repairs Gretz engine failure cutting score half no weather Cathys little Douglas elected wait next round continued page 89 An unusual entry CL Hurel Dubois HD 34 Claude Faix France long nar row99-in spanwing flexible enough bend upwards flight October 1 976 9 Ralph Burnstines CL Boeing F4B-4 drops bomb parachute has throttle control engine quit first two rounds flown Below Ralphs daughter Cathy first girl ever compete World Championship Scale contest Douglas O-25C rather small light became victim wind Above AC entry Bob Wischer Piel Beryl homebuilt owned Norm Taylor Oregon built duplicate model Below Cockpit Wischers Piel Beryl Radio receiver inside rear pilot connector plugs front pilot Stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide landing gear round two Ostrowskis P-38 first fly fired its rockets right time managed shoot down judge Eric Coates Podgorskis Tupolev made highest scoring flight round keep him first place Borzov succeeded flying best round spite continuing bad weather Max Newnham got three four engines going first time Avro Lancaster completed flight third highest score round Jacques Matter pull testing lines Caudron racer line broke demonstrative Frenchman proceeded kick hole wing protest time schedule included sightseeing trip Falun Tuesday afternoon post poning half round two flights until Wednesday good weather finally arrived now first time team shirts donated Sig could seen Al though temperature higher occasional gusts greater pre dicted four knots gusts came along Cathy made first flight lines slackened forced run keep control led pitch prob lems resulting climbing diving became worse lap lightly built Douglas eventually pranged pavement damaged beyond repair Cathys disappointment shared everyone Borlange newspaper carried story headlines Round three completed Thurs day final day competition rain threatened early day excellent Temperatures near 80F wind almost non-exist ent Ostrowski made highest scoring flight meet Yougov cquld equal own first round score added static points put Ostrowski first place Yougov second Mike Gretz flew first complete flight no engine problems 1000-point differ ence static score held him fifth place Max Newnham able get four engines running highest score Ima gine disgust discovered four judges US judge exception watching photo graphing passing Swedish military jet during taxi demonstration Ralph Burnstine made best flight final round first engine troubles Ju4ges expected confer during static scoring limits point dif ference between high low scores case Newnhams Lancaster 3 point spread flight scores made during flight point spread would naturally greater However Con trol-Line judges scoring after con ferring end flights meant point spread between high low judge little five points leaves some doubt about validity method world championship should clearly defined spread five points flight Lancas ter Guadynski Poland spread 39 points maximum given Dewoitine flight score scores 1500 3000 points too small per centage Jack Swift Canada flying Fokker D-7 first off RC site weath er began immediately taking its toll After fair takeoff lost engine during procedure turn flipped landing Jean Rousseaus CAP 20 proved fine stable flier under adverse conditions made important good landing inner circle Stampe biplane Han sueli Gautoschi next brave wind battered about mercilessly flight came early end engine quit during loop Next up slower biplane BE2E South Africas Alan Platt After takeoff could best described hairy too buffeted wind dropped bomb settled landing circle like Stol Jack Stromqvists BHT Beauty seen Lakehurst two years ago put good flight large crowd present landed far short circle First American fly Bob Wischer Piel Beryl plane fine stable flier well adapted windy condi tions its wide gear flew maneuvers too close judges landed circle nosed over low score re flected mistakes made Esbjorn Strom qvist Sweden flew same SAAB Safir seen Lakehurst time rain shower prototype Esbjorns model landed Dala Airport Thursday making possible on-the-spot compari son Swedish planes very like ly best suited scale modeling its long moments retract gear Al unaffected weather Safir turned excellent flight delight Swedish audience Immediately fol lowing shower Bruno Klupp West Germany made takeoff Zlin 42 very quickly returned because en gine failure John Roths first flight Evans Volksplane very smooth marred bouncy landing Earl Brydges nosed over Pitts SIS take off brought up British en tries highest static points Commonwealth Wirraway David Vaughan H P 61 powered retract gear disappointed flew like pattern plane stable fine flier ob viously being flown capable pilot flight combination high static score put him third place stay Two CAP 20 planes appeared Bor lange alike except color since both models same plane before after prototype repainted second next fly entry Rene Rouqereau After excellent takeoff followed rather poor figure-eight stall turn loop deserving highest scores landing center circle added finishing touch assured him fifth place final stand ings Now everyones eyes Bob Un derwood Wittman Bonzo plane some doubted would fly others curious way would perform Although Bob suffered world championship jitters flight came off rather well landed cir cle wheel came off plane nosed upcontinued October1976 89 Kraftsmanship kit processed AAMCO GOLD BALSAThis Trainer will blow apart hits ground GREATEST R/C BASIC TRAINER Design & Kit ALL TIME Ask over 25000 satisfied builders H-BAY dealers sold themSHALL WE SAY MORE Andrews Aircraft Model Co Inc US Etc l& North St Topsfteld Mass 01983 887-8541 Support AMA Scale Champs/Wischer continued page 9 Price $3495 kit per dollar- bar em K NEW FORD TRI MOTOR 1195 Unique because such amazing scale detail achieved kits relatively easy build can built ways such Rubber Powered supplied Electric Motor 020 049 C02 Engine Power Free Flight Control Line R/C pulse Single Channel Static Scale* Any version makes museum-like model Frame members accurately Die Cut finest quality Balsa Wood part numbered insure fast accurate assembly clearly shown easy step-by-step plan Highly detailed Plastic Parts simplify assembly adding touch realism-in-miniature NEW KMESSERS THEYRE AT YOUR DEALER GET OVER AND SEE THEM NOW . Scale continued plane second highest static score deHavilland Chipmunk Bob Nelitz also center attention its wing area very light airplane would need better day optimum performance However Bob did very well throughout flight including spin fairly low altitude landing bounced about regained control smooth second touch-down followed spectacular performance Brian Taylor Vultee BT-13A fourth static scoring next fly true professional action worked caller doing ma neuvers precision spite wind flight place him first standings until late contest Up point high static scores establishing themselves good flights top competitors Goran Kalderens Tummeliten biplane next victim weather After unsteady takeoff engine out adjustment swinging very large propel ler plane appeared crash-land ing ruggedly built damage mini mal Steve Sauger last US en trant first round wind di minished no longer serious fac tor Stinson Station Wagon lost its takeoff points due ground loops lifted off flew straight out 500 feet abruptly nosed down crashed No cause could found Toni Beichold West Germany flying Brugger MB-2 Colibri used inverted flight part routine quite unusual scale model Czechoslovakias lone representative world championship Rudolf Lieh mann flew T-tail Verner Broucek Radio interference problems prompted him change crystals heard ru mors could occur example actual interference After change flight uneventful good stable plane Walter Reger West Germany second world meet flew Fairchild PT19 end round Earlier engine trouble caused him take attempt Now less wind could possibly im prove score Rounding out round two young Swiss fliers Hans ruedi Zeller Peter Gafner SE-SA North American T-28B Steve Sauger would called upon fly until Wednesday gave him two days repair Stinson Borlange modelers offered work shop short distance hotel Steve went work building new right wing turn fly round two plane ready new wing beautiful finished painted quick test flight showed everything working order came time fly ground loop tenden cies reappeared attempt called save flight official flight engine troubles two-cylinder Ross running cylinder problem solved took off flying figure-eight engine stopped improvement weather al everyone higher scores round two Bob Nelitz notable example Chipmunk performed flawlessley giv ing him highest score meet first place Brian Taylors round two three scores lower first round David Vaughan did fly round two score round three also lower two English entries capable catching Nelitz no other contenders chance catch him Wischers third round score good would have needed per fect flight move up fourth third place team standings England three strong entries took back Eddie Keil Memorial trophy US four years middle third round judges decided wind now across runway landings would direction meant plane could land circle yet have no place go off runway rough area World championship planes deserve better treatment An airplane needs run-out space after touching down damage caused decision pointed out judges Hale Wal lace received flippant answer some interesting sidelights meet team shirts gifts us Sig grateful demand close contest could have sold us would part shirts Could Sig convinced add catalog Another humorous incident occurred French team made discovery come Sweden fuel drive Stockholm 2 hours distant obtain some 30 cans appeared contain gallons 5 liters fuel actually wine calculated last week airport small restaurant large number unexpected custom ers overwhelmed capacity estab lishment because lack food no clean dishes serving US entrants wives volunteered help wash dishes day International co operation Most us bought 220-volt-l 10-volt transformers charge batteries Swe den Imagine surprise discover US Canadian work table its individual transformer wired us sufficient capacity heaviest soldering iron As final note Jerzy Os trowski offering Lockheed P-38 $20000 must really switching RC 90 Model Aviation KIT E12 SPAN 34i SCALE liz TIGER MOTH 1295 Nifty control line models Theyre easiest ones world assembleall wood no tissue coveringonly 6 9 parts depending model ex cept Biplanes have few Genuine Nylon motor mount ready bolt placeComplete control system less handle lines decals landing gear wheels etc makes building cinch assembly literally minutes can use 049 engine