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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10
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THE WORLDS VINTAGE SAILPLANES 1908-45 Martin Simons Hard bound 176 pages quality paper 248 beautiful black white photos plus 65 color plates nearly 100 finely detailed scale drawings magniti cent collection rare information classic old-timers SPECIAL CONCESSION OFFER FROM THE PUBLISHER ONLY avail able readers send us 2 International Reply Coupons Ask Post Office will airmail free color brochure price details tell order Wi te now KOOKABURRA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS Pty Ltd P0 Box 648 Dandenong 3175 Victoria Australia r~~~1 K- FULL SIZE PLA NS No 528 No 529 No 530 Swallow$825 RO Lightweight hotdogger 40-size four-stroke engines spans 58 PBY Catalina$325 FF Skinny Scale two 00-2 motors spans 32 Tsunami$225 CL Profile scale 1/SA spans 211/2 Ne 193 SlIbette CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1 9761 9801982 FAI World Champs .. $ 375 Ne 239Wee Birds AC Ken willards formation plane 4-channel 10-power 75 Ne 262Creabmasler CL Croob-proot trainer two oizeo1 5-30- 35-40-power $125 No 302MInI F-iS RC Sarpolus 049 ducted tan oport tlier 2-channel Balsa wings tail faoe structure$275 Na 3101930 Fleet laplace AC Sport Scale 35-40 4-channel Wingspan 56 % scale Two sheets$625 Ne 314Drake U AC Ken Willards flying boat 3-channel 1 S-power Fly land removable gear$375 Ne 326Taylor Cub AC Don Srslls Schoolyard-Scale 049o 2-3 channel Spent SOlo$350 Na 332Zephyr AC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch tow thermal slope soaring 200 Na 386Laser 200 AC Sport Scale replica championohip Aerobatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Two sheets 75 Na 414ElectriK Sparky AC electric-powered fun flier 05 motor 3-channel AC scaled apt 939 robber-power favorite$850 Na 439macIde 9C Zippy little sportoter tsr 1015 power 3-channel AC$400 Ne 433WaIte Up AC Electric-powered glider 2-3 channels 035 motor spans 52 -$450 436Cadnen PP Embryo Endurance robber-power fun ship has big-medel characteristics -$200 Ne 440aeNlar AC Old-Timer-like new design has huge wing slow easy flights 35 power 3 channels Two sheets$1725 Ne 444RdlRC pusher canard sport/pattern uses 40 pusher engine 4-channel Has swept-forwardfoam wings$650 Ne 447A Wise America RC Old-Timer %A Texaco medal 049 glow 2-channels $650 Ne 462Gee lee 2 AC Quarter-scale spans 71 uses 90 power Four sheets$1600 Ne 464Sweet P-SO FF Neat stick-and-tissue Outdoor Robber P30-class medal contest-winner$200 Ne 467Speclra AC Electric-power 05-size motor uses 3 different wings sport soaring aerobatics$700 Ne 4604-40 RC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-size engine 4 channels . 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468478488490 0. 500 502504505 o509511512 S507 514516518519 i521523525526 528530 Far ordars outside US. please add $250 Air Mail $125 fsr surface mail 9 NAME p STREET g CITY i STATE ___________________________ ZIP ___________________________ Plan price laClados lirsi class poelaga icr US deOvery Air Mall ovor 300 mIles Make cbeck money order payable US funds Model Aviation c/s AMA 1010 Samuel Morse Dr RBstoo VA 22090 Please allow 3 B weeks delivery Please print carefullyEnclosed S____________________________________ Soplatas XBT2D 19 built attack-bomber configuration other XBT2D airframes modified fly night attack photo reconnaissance early warning flying radar stations allweather airplanes Dominating gathering grounded - eagles Consolidated YB-36A Peace maker have viewed airplane second Peacemaker built Consoli dated Ft Worth TX plant old US Air Force Museum Wright-Patter son AFB Dayton OH Air Force Museum moved new location Wright-Patterson 1972 placed B 36J Peacemaker display within new building YB-36A along lBoeing XB-52 first C-124 Globemaster fitted C-74 wings several other large historical aircraft placed sale scrap museums former site Originally YB-36A go another museum government regula tions called demilitarization air plane first accomplished using bulldozer rip out six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-25 Wasp Major engines YB-36A eventually sold Ralph Huffman slated portable smelter other surplus museum airplanes Huffman purchased half-cent pound Soplata interceded purchased YB-36A remains sans en gines propellers landing gears price 14 times original Huffman paid Soplata rented tract farmland 18 miles out Dayton YB-36A carcass hauled Walter Peggy cut Peacemaker sections lugged home piece time 8 x 14ft homemade wooden trailer towed 1966 Chevy station wagon Walter Peg would usually hit interstate 3 am route looked clearest Ohio State Police still talk about -Soplatas trailering home Peacemaker trip load oversize overweight 326i 5 bringing home last 440-r YB-36A sections tire blew out 465 jury-rigged trailer highway patrolman held flashlight Walter foxed 506 flat Walter managed hide other threadbare tire next flat 513I keeping obscured back After 2 520 years 25 round trips outlay 527 about $11000 Walter remains YB-36A home would think after tackling such monumental project YB-36 Soplatas thirst mustering large air planes would quenched Walter now searching Boeing B-52 5 Stratofortress enhance aviation semblage some airplanes Soplata collection may incomplete others disassembled finds pleasant memories roaming weedy pathsand reflections appear what used 172 Model Aviation 0 0 Co5 0 0 LtS zas 00 t 5 C us C cO 0 us 0d 0 Cu V 050 0 005 0 od U 0 0 J n cot 0 0-Co OC N mc 10