heres small farming community just off Interstate 10 Southeast Texas Most have probably never heard its name Schulenburg 50 years Schulenberg has home strength Victor Joe Stanzel unique engineers entrepreneurs Although some us know contributions aeromodeling few aware variety lives work Joe Victor have passed away hut tribute spirit family established Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum Stanzel Family Foundation family hosted Museums grand opening year March 28 open public provides grand tour through highlights two interesting lives Victor Stanzel fascinated aviation childhood would often stop plowing family farm watch private airplanes military aircraft flew over Schulenburg early 1900s early exposure sparked brothers lifelong involvement modeling relationship Victor idea man Joe turned concepts reality Victors first commercial enterprise construction sale solid display model then-current Boeing F-18 fighter biplane craftsmanship excellent 1929significant cost $20 sales brisk Victor decided producing kits volume would profitable Through 1933 Stanzels produced line solid model kits based first model three sizes construction 11 models possible nine kits Victor Joe seized general publics interest aviation 1934 conceived designed Fly Plane carnival ride airplane Happy Landings assured ride home-based company grounds ready travel local farms other local venues first unique inventions patented Victor directly related model airplane kits Fly Plane poised end supporting beam structure conventional high-wing cabin-type monoplane capable supporting two passengers 5- 7-horsepower electric motor driving regular propeller provided thrust 58 Model Aviation Stanzel Family Foundation Museum replica Victors Boeing biplane model pedestal out front Victor Joe original office designing creations Victor ideas Joe executed Ita thu ujuw GuaNo Design Jill Ann Oavmnu&flI opposite end supporting beam variable-ballast tank water partly counterbalanced loaded weight passengers Inside cabin passengers could zoom dip experience thrills flying up 25 feet 20 miles per hour ride cost 25 very successful 1935 Stanzel brothers designed produced 20th Century Strato Ship carnival ride design Ship strongly resembled used Flash Gordon comic strips ride immensely popular State Fair Texas Dallas 1936 Following up success amusement devices brothers developed electronic pinball machine unique design principal control arc fall one-inch steel balls onto bowed flexible steel sheet point impact sheet controlled ball would land score original unit display museum year 1939 marked start some extraordinary contributions modeling world Stanzels first Control Line CL model airplane kit Tiger Shark control afforded gentle up down design Tiger Shark typified flowing Stanzel designs did red-and-yellow color scheme next few years dazzling array new airplanes new control systems several Free Flight designs including Texas Ranger Interceptor However Stanzels first love seemed fall wire-controlled models increasingly sophisticated control systems designs 1939-1941 time frame unusual wire loops attached elevators rudder loop arcs intersected used trim model stable flight early models successful flight safe landing takeoff stable flight between climbs dives possible World War II impacted everyone Joe Victor served Duncan Field San Antonio using talents draftsmen welders 1943 innovative drive still keen thought up Big Tiger Shark conceived target airplane gunnery truly unique concept time 5-foot model weighed 20 pounds September1999 59 museum includes representation Victor Joe Stanzel doing what loved teaching children about aviation Mono-Line Thunderbird Dale Kim used cross-country demonstrations gave demos car three years Powered 12-cubic-inch two-cylinder engine flew 100-foot line attached pylon mounted 1942 ChevroletTM airplane featured automated rudder electrical systems operate airplanes elevators After war Stanzels continued development Shark designs Super G twin-tail C5 control systems continuously upgraded requiring various patents along way Iti 1955 Stanzels decided market products based nowworld-famous Mono-Line control system featured handles control wire various control mechanisms principal system apply torsion flying wire via handle translated elevator movement torsion turning worm gear system revolutionary maintaining positive control though line slack perhaps significant having drag line Speed success Mono-Line immediate Dale Kim wellknown Speed flier recruited promote Mono-Lines Speed Aerobatics capabilities association has lasted through today 1955 1958 Dale traveled US new ChevroletlM giving demonstrations short period cash prizes offered Nationals winners Stunt used Mono-Line systems year 1957 marked transition Stanzel Corporation toy business Victor Joe invented electric-powered airplane motor batteries housed flashlight-like handle drive propeller through flexible shaft housed five-foot sheath airplane controlled propeller speed raisingllowering handle model replicated feel early B liners worked well financial success shown varieties still production todaymore 40 years after initial production Perhaps best depiction Stanzel brothers lifelike representation museum Victor Joe demonstrating Electric Flash group children brought wonder joy flight thousands across nation profound influence everyone associated Victor Joe have left legacy continued through Stanzel Foundation provides college scholarships worthy local students has funded 87 students since 1991 Another area Stanzel Foundation supports increase medical technical capability local rural areas Foundation works Texas A&M University Rural Health Department museum well-done worthy stop youre traveling Interstate 10 open five days week hours call L409] 7436557 models alone worth trip originals lovingly restored Dale Kim during four-year period article relies heavily upon information available within Stanzel Museum 4September 1999 61 Poster countrywide demos Speed flier Dale Kim showed Mono-Line systems speed aerobatics abilities Target Big Tiger Shark flying mount 1942 ChevroletTM Model flew 100-foot line attached pylon top car Examples various control systems plans Twin Tail G5 control device Thumit up down
Edition: Model Aviation - 1999/09
Page Numbers: 58, 59, 61
heres small farming community just off Interstate 10 Southeast Texas Most have probably never heard its name Schulenburg 50 years Schulenberg has home strength Victor Joe Stanzel unique engineers entrepreneurs Although some us know contributions aeromodeling few aware variety lives work Joe Victor have passed away hut tribute spirit family established Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum Stanzel Family Foundation family hosted Museums grand opening year March 28 open public provides grand tour through highlights two interesting lives Victor Stanzel fascinated aviation childhood would often stop plowing family farm watch private airplanes military aircraft flew over Schulenburg early 1900s early exposure sparked brothers lifelong involvement modeling relationship Victor idea man Joe turned concepts reality Victors first commercial enterprise construction sale solid display model then-current Boeing F-18 fighter biplane craftsmanship excellent 1929significant cost $20 sales brisk Victor decided producing kits volume would profitable Through 1933 Stanzels produced line solid model kits based first model three sizes construction 11 models possible nine kits Victor Joe seized general publics interest aviation 1934 conceived designed Fly Plane carnival ride airplane Happy Landings assured ride home-based company grounds ready travel local farms other local venues first unique inventions patented Victor directly related model airplane kits Fly Plane poised end supporting beam structure conventional high-wing cabin-type monoplane capable supporting two passengers 5- 7-horsepower electric motor driving regular propeller provided thrust 58 Model Aviation Stanzel Family Foundation Museum replica Victors Boeing biplane model pedestal out front Victor Joe original office designing creations Victor ideas Joe executed Ita thu ujuw GuaNo Design Jill Ann Oavmnu&flI opposite end supporting beam variable-ballast tank water partly counterbalanced loaded weight passengers Inside cabin passengers could zoom dip experience thrills flying up 25 feet 20 miles per hour ride cost 25 very successful 1935 Stanzel brothers designed produced 20th Century Strato Ship carnival ride design Ship strongly resembled used Flash Gordon comic strips ride immensely popular State Fair Texas Dallas 1936 Following up success amusement devices brothers developed electronic pinball machine unique design principal control arc fall one-inch steel balls onto bowed flexible steel sheet point impact sheet controlled ball would land score original unit display museum year 1939 marked start some extraordinary contributions modeling world Stanzels first Control Line CL model airplane kit Tiger Shark control afforded gentle up down design Tiger Shark typified flowing Stanzel designs did red-and-yellow color scheme next few years dazzling array new airplanes new control systems several Free Flight designs including Texas Ranger Interceptor However Stanzels first love seemed fall wire-controlled models increasingly sophisticated control systems designs 1939-1941 time frame unusual wire loops attached elevators rudder loop arcs intersected used trim model stable flight early models successful flight safe landing takeoff stable flight between climbs dives possible World War II impacted everyone Joe Victor served Duncan Field San Antonio using talents draftsmen welders 1943 innovative drive still keen thought up Big Tiger Shark conceived target airplane gunnery truly unique concept time 5-foot model weighed 20 pounds September1999 59 museum includes representation Victor Joe Stanzel doing what loved teaching children about aviation Mono-Line Thunderbird Dale Kim used cross-country demonstrations gave demos car three years Powered 12-cubic-inch two-cylinder engine flew 100-foot line attached pylon mounted 1942 ChevroletTM airplane featured automated rudder electrical systems operate airplanes elevators After war Stanzels continued development Shark designs Super G twin-tail C5 control systems continuously upgraded requiring various patents along way Iti 1955 Stanzels decided market products based nowworld-famous Mono-Line control system featured handles control wire various control mechanisms principal system apply torsion flying wire via handle translated elevator movement torsion turning worm gear system revolutionary maintaining positive control though line slack perhaps significant having drag line Speed success Mono-Line immediate Dale Kim wellknown Speed flier recruited promote Mono-Lines Speed Aerobatics capabilities association has lasted through today 1955 1958 Dale traveled US new ChevroletlM giving demonstrations short period cash prizes offered Nationals winners Stunt used Mono-Line systems year 1957 marked transition Stanzel Corporation toy business Victor Joe invented electric-powered airplane motor batteries housed flashlight-like handle drive propeller through flexible shaft housed five-foot sheath airplane controlled propeller speed raisingllowering handle model replicated feel early B liners worked well financial success shown varieties still production todaymore 40 years after initial production Perhaps best depiction Stanzel brothers lifelike representation museum Victor Joe demonstrating Electric Flash group children brought wonder joy flight thousands across nation profound influence everyone associated Victor Joe have left legacy continued through Stanzel Foundation provides college scholarships worthy local students has funded 87 students since 1991 Another area Stanzel Foundation supports increase medical technical capability local rural areas Foundation works Texas A&M University Rural Health Department museum well-done worthy stop youre traveling Interstate 10 open five days week hours call L409] 7436557 models alone worth trip originals lovingly restored Dale Kim during four-year period article relies heavily upon information available within Stanzel Museum 4September 1999 61 Poster countrywide demos Speed flier Dale Kim showed Mono-Line systems speed aerobatics abilities Target Big Tiger Shark flying mount 1942 ChevroletTM Model flew 100-foot line attached pylon top car Examples various control systems plans Twin Tail G5 control device Thumit up down
Edition: Model Aviation - 1999/09
Page Numbers: 58, 59, 61
heres small farming community just off Interstate 10 Southeast Texas Most have probably never heard its name Schulenburg 50 years Schulenberg has home strength Victor Joe Stanzel unique engineers entrepreneurs Although some us know contributions aeromodeling few aware variety lives work Joe Victor have passed away hut tribute spirit family established Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum Stanzel Family Foundation family hosted Museums grand opening year March 28 open public provides grand tour through highlights two interesting lives Victor Stanzel fascinated aviation childhood would often stop plowing family farm watch private airplanes military aircraft flew over Schulenburg early 1900s early exposure sparked brothers lifelong involvement modeling relationship Victor idea man Joe turned concepts reality Victors first commercial enterprise construction sale solid display model then-current Boeing F-18 fighter biplane craftsmanship excellent 1929significant cost $20 sales brisk Victor decided producing kits volume would profitable Through 1933 Stanzels produced line solid model kits based first model three sizes construction 11 models possible nine kits Victor Joe seized general publics interest aviation 1934 conceived designed Fly Plane carnival ride airplane Happy Landings assured ride home-based company grounds ready travel local farms other local venues first unique inventions patented Victor directly related model airplane kits Fly Plane poised end supporting beam structure conventional high-wing cabin-type monoplane capable supporting two passengers 5- 7-horsepower electric motor driving regular propeller provided thrust 58 Model Aviation Stanzel Family Foundation Museum replica Victors Boeing biplane model pedestal out front Victor Joe original office designing creations Victor ideas Joe executed Ita thu ujuw GuaNo Design Jill Ann Oavmnu&flI opposite end supporting beam variable-ballast tank water partly counterbalanced loaded weight passengers Inside cabin passengers could zoom dip experience thrills flying up 25 feet 20 miles per hour ride cost 25 very successful 1935 Stanzel brothers designed produced 20th Century Strato Ship carnival ride design Ship strongly resembled used Flash Gordon comic strips ride immensely popular State Fair Texas Dallas 1936 Following up success amusement devices brothers developed electronic pinball machine unique design principal control arc fall one-inch steel balls onto bowed flexible steel sheet point impact sheet controlled ball would land score original unit display museum year 1939 marked start some extraordinary contributions modeling world Stanzels first Control Line CL model airplane kit Tiger Shark control afforded gentle up down design Tiger Shark typified flowing Stanzel designs did red-and-yellow color scheme next few years dazzling array new airplanes new control systems several Free Flight designs including Texas Ranger Interceptor However Stanzels first love seemed fall wire-controlled models increasingly sophisticated control systems designs 1939-1941 time frame unusual wire loops attached elevators rudder loop arcs intersected used trim model stable flight early models successful flight safe landing takeoff stable flight between climbs dives possible World War II impacted everyone Joe Victor served Duncan Field San Antonio using talents draftsmen welders 1943 innovative drive still keen thought up Big Tiger Shark conceived target airplane gunnery truly unique concept time 5-foot model weighed 20 pounds September1999 59 museum includes representation Victor Joe Stanzel doing what loved teaching children about aviation Mono-Line Thunderbird Dale Kim used cross-country demonstrations gave demos car three years Powered 12-cubic-inch two-cylinder engine flew 100-foot line attached pylon mounted 1942 ChevroletTM airplane featured automated rudder electrical systems operate airplanes elevators After war Stanzels continued development Shark designs Super G twin-tail C5 control systems continuously upgraded requiring various patents along way Iti 1955 Stanzels decided market products based nowworld-famous Mono-Line control system featured handles control wire various control mechanisms principal system apply torsion flying wire via handle translated elevator movement torsion turning worm gear system revolutionary maintaining positive control though line slack perhaps significant having drag line Speed success Mono-Line immediate Dale Kim wellknown Speed flier recruited promote Mono-Lines Speed Aerobatics capabilities association has lasted through today 1955 1958 Dale traveled US new ChevroletlM giving demonstrations short period cash prizes offered Nationals winners Stunt used Mono-Line systems year 1957 marked transition Stanzel Corporation toy business Victor Joe invented electric-powered airplane motor batteries housed flashlight-like handle drive propeller through flexible shaft housed five-foot sheath airplane controlled propeller speed raisingllowering handle model replicated feel early B liners worked well financial success shown varieties still production todaymore 40 years after initial production Perhaps best depiction Stanzel brothers lifelike representation museum Victor Joe demonstrating Electric Flash group children brought wonder joy flight thousands across nation profound influence everyone associated Victor Joe have left legacy continued through Stanzel Foundation provides college scholarships worthy local students has funded 87 students since 1991 Another area Stanzel Foundation supports increase medical technical capability local rural areas Foundation works Texas A&M University Rural Health Department museum well-done worthy stop youre traveling Interstate 10 open five days week hours call L409] 7436557 models alone worth trip originals lovingly restored Dale Kim during four-year period article relies heavily upon information available within Stanzel Museum 4September 1999 61 Poster countrywide demos Speed flier Dale Kim showed Mono-Line systems speed aerobatics abilities Target Big Tiger Shark flying mount 1942 ChevroletTM Model flew 100-foot line attached pylon top car Examples various control systems plans Twin Tail G5 control device Thumit up down