Above Jeff Foleys Zero took 5th place Great-flying model used OS Max 108 powerbuilt Dave Plaft kit Top Gun Charles Nelsons Waco biplane below High points static judging plus lots flying experience did TOP GUN premier invitational Scale event 1992 meet held West Palm Beach Polo Club Wellington Floridathe same location 91 Frank Tianos dream great event attracting more modelers public alike magnificent field great facilities food great enough variety models designs please anyone Heavy metal WW II planes WW examples private planes transports competed head-to-head honors Top Gun little Waco bipe 115 scale took top static points 9602 highest overall score 18652 Charlie Nelson has flying since 1987 scores Top Gun represented best three out four flight scores averaged added static score year static judging done judge standard 15-foot distance workmanship done close eight feet model judges conferred another considered categories Finish Color Marking Accuracy Outline Craftsmanship make sure no areas overlooked model modelers pleased give some best Scale modeling tips techniques As read article will able pick up some great ideas expert contestants Top Gun use next project weather perfect static judging got real gusty right before practice flying began Thursday Friday contributed some minor mishaps crashes Friday planes set along fence several occasions benefit public right after static judging again both days competition opportunity get own shots favorite model grandstand full time polo club great place get good eye-level videos flights No contest can run perfectly Top Gun year trained assistance Palm Beach Aero Club Its membership did work meet thanks also due major sponsors Herschel Worthy Pacer Technology maker Zap products provided cash hats glue kits contestant airfare Scale judges Tom Atwood editor Model Airplane News magazine provided cash shirts magazines public modelers trophies judges motel rooms Top Gun modelers appreciate support foresight October 1992 25 Left Top award winners L-H Jerry uauaielF-16 Best Markings Charles NelsonlWaco biplane Top Gun Roger YounglC-47 Critics Choice Corvin MillerlGlobe Swift Best Civilian Plane Right Thousands spectators crowded grandstands Jerry Caudles Metropolis Illinois F-16-C Violett kit shows off its superlative best-of-show markings Twin Zenoah G-38s Bob Pickneys Twin Beech SNB-5 make sound much like its full-scale counterpart air Mike Booths Hawker Fury Mk biplane used Zenoah G-38 power lift 22-lb aluminum-covered beauty Detail around Beechs door added another layer before painting Rivets easily visible photo New stooge R/C Launcher & Pit Crew great safety item sample available pilot try out important contributions lifeblood Top Gun Highlights Flying Action Diego Lopez took third place now-famous 1991 Scalemaster champion Skyraider Diego scored 8955 static overall third-place score 1818 points tragic flight avoided folding wings down locked Skyraider ran down runway Diego spotted problem shut engine down before plane left ground zeroed attempted takeoff flight Terry Nitsch just flies Violett F-86 better time hard get pictures model flying speeds over 100 mph Terrys F-86 flies much faster amazing stable plane during low slow dirty passes required year demonstrate significant difference between high- low-speed fly-by WW types just about have speedslow-and makes tough judge point Jeff Foley flew Zero A6M3 built Dave Platt kit powered OS Max 108 It weighed 18 pounds / lage detailing Roger Youngs C-47 makes easy see model merited Critics Choice award Dave Plafts WW II Zero great cockpit detailnot required rules Craftsmanship points suffer its absent Bill Carpers P-47D sported scale replica big Curtiss electric 4-bladed prop ST 3000 powers 24-lb beauty 26 Model Aviation F-16s Sidewinder missile exemplifies degree excellence detailing necessary win Top Gun David Maichiones Navy trainer based Violett T-33 kit Big model flies easily enough use novice Jet pilots 80-inch wingspan excellent wing loading easier fly lighter plane harder build scale details added models caliber Zero very popular like Daves other all-balsa kits flies great Corvin Millers Globe Swift captured Best Civilian award year placed sixth overall proving again can compete nonmilitary entry Corvin 8949 static points could get flying points needed win Corvins wife Cheri like wives great help husbands sport salute ladies go out abandoned aiffield sit heat listen flying story after another have look guys knobby knees ratty shorts seen model meets Bob Pickneys Team Scale entry 13 entries year event getting more popular lop Gun first place award Best Military went beautiful Beech SNB-5 Ziroli plans one-fifth scale flown Dean DiGiorgio guys dressed all-white Navy dress uniforms white-and-red twin Beech flew good looked 45-lb Beech 114-in wingspan neat nose cone door opened up switch access nacelles two Z-38 engines housed Robart retracts Guidance provided ever-popular Futaba radio Bob over 80000 simulated rivets over model applied using RC-56 white glue hypo needle Beech model 18 modeled after Navy Museum Pensacola Florida Tom Noser built two B-25s entered Team Scale Top Gun year Zirolis design painted blue Navy PBJ-lJ version Two OS 120 four-cycles made great realism sound pilot Tom Street Bill Steffes built second Ziroli B-25 flown its designer Nick Ziroli sported Army Air Corps camouflage paint scheme Nicks placed ninth PBJ-1J placed 10th youre great builder good flier would like should team up friend get Team Scale Mark Levy came way France fly green white one-third-scale Sirius TR325 model refreshing new paint scheme arrows bottom wings female pilot could seen board since lady named Catherine Maunoury flew plane 1987-88 Aerobatics Championships France under sponsorship EMS Chronopost worldwide express mailing service Scale Tips Top Gun Mel Whitley last years Top Gun champion newly-built Sea Fury named MiG Killer since first prop-driven aircraft shoot down MiG jet combat 155-scale duplicate last years lop Gun-winning model flown OS BGX-3500 sounds like real thing Mel cuts back throttle allows engine backfire prop whirs through air 18406 just good enough win Top Gun again year impressive static score 9227 Mel second place Mels best tip Scale modeling use mechanicallelectrical retracts best reliability power heavily detailed landing gear bigger /5through 1/3-scale models Mel uses Airtronics sail winch servo regular transit time seven eight seconds gear removing gears standard air cylinder hooking up directly locking mechanism Art Johnson has written some great articles method interested getting rid air-operated retract system youve fighting Master builder Art Johnson beautiful all-metal-covered P-35 meet Art said used wood tongue depressor smooth out glue-backed 005 aluminum plane worked well Bill Carper magnificent P-47 named Hands Off did no-wheels emergency landing official flight since full-scale-world pilot could have survived called emergency landing Bill received points landing after engine flamed out Bill said acheived flush-riveted look using tool made sharpened brass tubing rolled around flat painted surfaces model Locations first marked pencil Nick Ziroli Rich Uravitich entered AT6-D Team Scale featured simulated rivets made drops Sobo glue product does shrink can bought craft stores red white blue paint scheme copied plane Brazil Youll see lot new paint schemes AT6 Unlimited RC Air Races Madera California September October 1992 27 Bill Steffes Ziroli-designed B-25 used two Zenoah G-23s power Futaba radio guidance Nick Ziroli pilot Mark Frankels big 20-lb F4D-1 Skyray ducted-fan ship dips wing during crowd-pleasing flyby Team Scale Peter Guivers 10-ft-span 50-lb 1/5-5Cale WW II DH Mosquito won meets Engineering Excellence award Diego Lopezs 3rd-place Douglas Skyraider blasts off official flight Models folding wings operate RC David Tayer modeled one-of-a-kind Gloster Meteor powered pair Rolls Royce Trent turboprops Mel Whitley makes takeoffs look easy Sea Fury reason hes flying design competition years Mark Frankel Skyray arrived fly Team Scale usual pilot quickly found new after Tom Cook didnt show up Fourteen servos helped control fan-jet painted Norad defense plane called FAW 3 Alaska built one-seventh scale weighed 21 pounds Dynamax fan unit 05 Max 81 powered Mark said model taken off landed same nose-high attitude full-scale jet tendency Dutch roll wobble delta-wing designs ever-popular F4D- 1 Skyray first flown ducted fan Jet Dave Platt Nationals seventies Lake Charles Louisiana Marks best Scale tip suggestion use piece carbon-fiber angle cowl mounting 2-56 screw tapped angle adheres another piece carbon fiber inside cowl accept screw head prevent vibration damage fiberglass cowling 2-56 socket bead screws small look hard see Skyray Great idea Mark David Vogland Rateliff Kentucky used several sizes brass tubing soldering gun simulate flush rivets model Mark XIV Spiffire full-scale plane stationed Castle Donington near Derby England simulated rivets made burning place paint hot brass tubing Spit built Yellow Aircraft kit used OS BGX- 3500 power Gone days underpowered sick flying planes little ones flit big ones fly Dave Platt old master himself offered best tips painting Dave never uses just color paint n color chipoh no just starting place Dave says paints lane over different shades ease color makes dark light atterns same way artist approaches ting After trying zreate illusion full-scale plane flying effect after hardline hard-contrasting color scheme correct factory-fresh rather model working war-weary example well-known plane like AM6 Zero 28 Model Aviation Colorful finish Gene Bartons AT6-D Bill McCallie shows flight judges copied Brazilian-registered gear flaps operate checkerplane Model Ziroli design board-nosed P-47-D before flight Marc Levys TR-23bs color markings duplicated entry flown Catherine Manoury 1987-88 Richard Crapps big AN-2 won Best Biplane award crashed because RC transmitter batteries werent charged can almost hear pilots cockpit Richard Crapps AN-2 saying Are comrades ready takeoff Hal Parentis famous model second Navys Ryan Fireball crashed elevator servo failed Kent Nogy applied pieces Coverite Jim Wilkinsons Panama City FL Stuka chrome trim sheet simulate skin earned 8749 points static scoring panels Violett F-86 painted crashed during practice flight Father/son Team Scale entry Jim Maury Maroney took 3rd place Metalcovered P-51 Dave Platt kit Shalish Patels F4U-1A has finish Bud Roane made special pinking shears markings flown substitute cut scale 16-to-the-inch pinks rib Marine pilots squadron tape Thomas Morse Scout Daves static score 8910 will attest great paint job Team Scale category Hal Parenti has ongoing love Ryan Fireball much built another push-me/pull-you planes Top Gun year uses SuperTigre 75 nose propeller side OS 46 internal Kress fan sorry say beautifully built classic bit dust totally destroyed competition Hal well-known Scale modeler put 31000 simulated rivets plane carpenters glue Hal put gray primer plane over rivets before painting deep Navy blue subsequently painted rivet silver butyrate dope over K&B epoxy technique enabled him wipe off mistakes easily affect basic paint job Chuck Fullers Super Stearman known Daring Damsels some handpainted detail Chuck said just used lead pencil lay out details fine high quality brush detail work also told us secret making simulated quick fasteners screw heads files cuts slot top pinhead best effect Kent Nogy finished picture-perfect F-86 now-famous Skyblazer red white blue paint scheme using Coverite Presto Chrome trim seals complete fiberglassed model low temperatures piece cut exact size shape aluminum panel being simulated uses Ditzler paint Aeroloft dry transfers detail markings rivets Kent sprays final coat clear acrylic polyurethane perfect finish Corvin Miller Sarasota Florida used plastic tubing model railroad supply store made special tool singleedge razor blade mounted board plastic tube forced blade split little dab microballoon/epoxy mix rounded ends have itcorrugated wing panel stiffeners Globe Swift instrument panel has radio switch onboard glow driver switch disguised throttle control Open up one-sided canopy turn switches lock canopy down youre flying no unsightly switch stickin out side plane no fuel get switch either Corvins Swift won Best Civilian Aircraft award placed sixth overall year Plans fiberglass cowl available Jerry Caudles F-16-C won award Best Markings help Aeroloft people Arizona Scale tip included time-consuming duplication static wicks wings used discharge static electricity F- 16 Jerry used black fishing line fiberglass aluminum tubing CyAed together Servos used canopy closure inflight engine mixture control Bob Violett flew model Team Scale competition really proud version kit Bud Roan Melbourne Florida made own set scale-sized pinking shears cutting 16-thread/inch 5/16-in bolt quarters lengthwise attaching slices blade pair scissors cuts piece fabric scale pinking tape pinks turn out 16 inchthe scale Thomas Morse Scout Bud also provided photos model bare-bones stage better craftsmanship points let judges see duplication scale structure before covereda handy hint Jet News real history-maker French team s demonstration wave future new propane-fueled turbojet known Turboec T-240 manufactured company called IPX Vibraye France turbo spooled up use compressed air divers air tank As soon reaches right rpm propane valve opened 340-kg stainless steel tank snap-type spark generator ignites propane onboard engine control brain monitors fuel responds throttlethis secret its success no loud sound such normally would have associated old Dynajets form pulse jet Neither loud piercing sound typical ducted fan No just Continued poge 40 Table 1 rt Division Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1Charles NelsonWaco9602800089639013917518652 2Mel WhitleySea Fury9227902588759325918818406 3Diego LopezSkyraider8955915884639200933818180 4Terry NitschF-868816932591509263892518062 5Jeff FoleyZero8969910092758763748818015 6Corvin MillerGlobe Swift8949885087009050925017999 7George BusoNieuport 289355807586886800876317864 8Kent NogyF-868644907593509113902517823 9David HayesRockwell Thrush8918877589009000845017810 10Bill HarrisF-86F8733907587258925902517741 Table 2 Team Scale Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1DiGiorgio/Pickney Beechcraft SNB-5922162759358538935018300 2Violetl/Caudle F-16C9127777590758250872517810 3Maroney/Maroney P-Si846679SO93139100902517579 October 1992 29 Top Gun 1992 Continued page 29 whissssh air rushing out tailpipe producing nine pounds static thrust turbojet ran stopped crowd pilots whatever doing could have hard pin drop quiet Everyone trying hear what sound made jet stayed up five six minutes its maiden flight very close its maximum air time As jets developed used around world fuel consumption problem tank size will solved some ingenious modeler about 40 units out now $3500 Delivery takes three four weeks 12 flying present As soon AMA sets some rulings safety guidelines turbojets will able enter AMA-approved meets jet unit weighs nine pounds generates temperatures up 3500 C thrust tip An oil misting feature has used keep rear turbine shaft bearing going out under power intense heat Real jet power has finally come modelingI knew somebody would British Bunch boys girls Britain made good showing four planes brought Antonov AN-2 Russian transport DH98 Mosquito Trent Meteor Hawker Fury biplanewith complimentary model transportation provided United Parcel Service freight cost some $3000 picked up UPS get team Richard Crapp Peter Jean Guiver pilot Richard Rawle Practical Scale UK Dave Troyer Mike Booth Florida Richard Crapp s entry Antonov AN-2 Russian transport Guivers team entry DH98 Mosquito one-fifth scale Pilot Richard Rawle handled plane flew magnificently received Engineering Excellence award banquet Saturday night Dave Troyer flew little Trent Meteor first known plane fly turboprop engine Mike Booth flew Hawker Fury biplane real sleek-looking airplane its time teams like will take much time effort attend Top Gun maybe youd better try getting next Top Gun 1993 Frank Tiano founder Top Gun event indicated event has invited back West Palm Beach Polo Grounds next year Manufacturers Displays display area series booths various manufacturers vendors could display wares Aviation Heritage Terre Haute Indiana new face year Its booth displayed great Scale documentation have volumes 2 Paul Matt s threeview collection Model Aviation Technology its new six-volt gel-cell battery new 1/3-scale fiberglass fuselage Extra 300 Robinaire Retracts now featuring gear Globe Swift goodlooking P-5 1 struts JPX Vibraye France showed Turboec T-240 turbojet engine Gene Barton Machine great scale items make life Scale easier M&M Models Port Richey Florida great color chip source colors ever would need Top Gun Tees some well-done embroidered T-shirts P-s ls Prop Wash Videos its past videotapes taking orders year s Top Gun well Custom Electronics new use servo universal servo connector company associated Hitec RIC USA Inc also Newman Optics Ogden Utah popular items Zurich International polycarbon wrap-around glasses Boyd Newman provided use glasses Top Gun judges asked use After judging Sawgrass Qualifier Charlie Chambers weekend after Top Gun can tell great Prizes Manufacturers donating prizes 1992 Top Gun event included Ace R/C donated Micro Pro 8000 radio Bob Violett Models donated $300 gift certificate Dave Platt announced event donated FW-190 kit retracts Airtronics provided its latest version eight-channel radio Frank Tinno Enterprises donated cash trophies modelers knife sets given contestant lot blood sweat tears make Top Gun success year FTE also owns new fullystocked hobby shop called Hobby Super Store West Palm Beach Florida Futaba Corporation America gave away nine-channel PCM six-channel FM Aerostar ARF kit Gene Barton well-known pilot machinist donated set Sea Fury Corsair custom-made wheels Hobby Dynamics gave away new JR 347 radio Webra Speed 120 engine House Balsa provided Best Jet trophy awarded Mark Frankel s Skyray cant-do-without Tuffgrinders Top Gun pilot McDaniel R/C provided 12 Nystarters two onboard ignition systems Something everyone could use RIC Reports magazine provided cash free subscriptions Best Biplane trophy awarded Richard Crapp England Robart maker famous retracts donated cash Engineering Excellence trophy won Mosquito Sig Manufacturing Co Inc represented Top Gun 1992 catalogs Spacewalker kit won Corvin Continued page 5S r SWEITZER ENTERPRISES P0 BOX 834 SBORO 7123 PHONE 503640-5102 DH89ARapide60 245-p 96 WINGSPANENGINES SCALE 2 1-0U L 1 4 SheelsV 9Ft5 - A L E PLANS S420O COCKPIT & MARKING DETAIL CANOPY -NOSELIGHT-$ 2500 COMPLETE WING SHOWN FIBERGLASS COWLS 121 SBS00 MATERIAL LIST LADD S 800 FOR AIRMAIL PRICE INCLUDES MAILING TUBE WORLDS FINEST SCALE PLANS RYANPT22 INTRODuCTORy SHORT KIT INCLUDES PLANS FIBERGLASS PICEUFUSELAGECOWL PARTS PRICE INCREASES AFTERHAND CUT RIBS & FORMERS JAN11993PLUS LO WIRE 90-1/4 WINGSPANAlE $33500 ENG NE 28 NS 5200 FIBERGLASS FUSELAGE$13500 LOGS FIBERGLASS COWL & PARTS$10000KITS PLANS----53S0 LG WIRE 0RESEARCH CENTER--SSSS 3VIEWS PHOTOS & MANUALS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ORDERS $25-Plans Only toreigs OverSeas kit orderswritH Shipping Cost 40 Model Aviation Grand Opening Continued page 53 models Free Flight models youngsters learning fly Big birds little birds Scale planes showstoppers Theres darned trade showhow about big swap shop heavens name does get better long-awaited Grand Opening first National Flying Site took place took place history open doors free admission free lunch AMA members families Someone said Wed rich buck car came site Heck bunch us would rich nickel photograph taken Civil Air Patrol parked cars George Steiner came California handle impound AMA Technical Director Bob Underwood ran flight lines crackerjack crewvolunteers like Jay Nealy Joe Vislay others Two AMA staffersBob Vojslavek handling registration Director Marketing Geoff Styles up tower joined three AMA staffers onsite Muncie Phil Sullivan Judy Czajkowski Cliff McKee help organize things Guests AMA members offered sneak preview new AMA museum Thousands took time off flying step museum see plans inspect layout ask years repeated questions will museum open answer Late next spring early next summer Almost exception people bid farewell See next year See yotrntyearYep members have spoken An event like too good run once put bed Its just idea great idea set aside weekend year gather site inspect admire use latest addition improvement development Next year Maybe event will center around opening Frank V Ehling Complex No other act actions AMA its membership has generated much mail precipitated telephone calls written about club newsletters frequently modelers lips Grand Opening National Flying Site came Washington State Oregon California Florida Alabama Texas New England mid-Atlantic great Midwest Did someone say Build will come did Yesss Congratulations AMA members Gun 1992 Continued page 40 Miller Best Civilian award-winning Globe Swift Yellow Aircraft donated $250 gift certificate toward its great kits F3op Gun well-diversified exciting show best best Scale invited compete sunny florida can get video Top Gun companies like Prop Wash Videos captures action ber 1992 55 1993 Nationals will held Lubbock Texas July 17-26 1993 BafferIeSfqUVgqAH TflFU FEATURES SUSPENDED ELECTROLYTE CYCLE FLOAT OPTIONS DISCHARGE RATE LEAK PROOF NO POLARITY CHANGE ACT RUGGED EXTENDED SHELF LIFE EASY HANDLING
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/10
Page Numbers: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 55
Above Jeff Foleys Zero took 5th place Great-flying model used OS Max 108 powerbuilt Dave Plaft kit Top Gun Charles Nelsons Waco biplane below High points static judging plus lots flying experience did TOP GUN premier invitational Scale event 1992 meet held West Palm Beach Polo Club Wellington Floridathe same location 91 Frank Tianos dream great event attracting more modelers public alike magnificent field great facilities food great enough variety models designs please anyone Heavy metal WW II planes WW examples private planes transports competed head-to-head honors Top Gun little Waco bipe 115 scale took top static points 9602 highest overall score 18652 Charlie Nelson has flying since 1987 scores Top Gun represented best three out four flight scores averaged added static score year static judging done judge standard 15-foot distance workmanship done close eight feet model judges conferred another considered categories Finish Color Marking Accuracy Outline Craftsmanship make sure no areas overlooked model modelers pleased give some best Scale modeling tips techniques As read article will able pick up some great ideas expert contestants Top Gun use next project weather perfect static judging got real gusty right before practice flying began Thursday Friday contributed some minor mishaps crashes Friday planes set along fence several occasions benefit public right after static judging again both days competition opportunity get own shots favorite model grandstand full time polo club great place get good eye-level videos flights No contest can run perfectly Top Gun year trained assistance Palm Beach Aero Club Its membership did work meet thanks also due major sponsors Herschel Worthy Pacer Technology maker Zap products provided cash hats glue kits contestant airfare Scale judges Tom Atwood editor Model Airplane News magazine provided cash shirts magazines public modelers trophies judges motel rooms Top Gun modelers appreciate support foresight October 1992 25 Left Top award winners L-H Jerry uauaielF-16 Best Markings Charles NelsonlWaco biplane Top Gun Roger YounglC-47 Critics Choice Corvin MillerlGlobe Swift Best Civilian Plane Right Thousands spectators crowded grandstands Jerry Caudles Metropolis Illinois F-16-C Violett kit shows off its superlative best-of-show markings Twin Zenoah G-38s Bob Pickneys Twin Beech SNB-5 make sound much like its full-scale counterpart air Mike Booths Hawker Fury Mk biplane used Zenoah G-38 power lift 22-lb aluminum-covered beauty Detail around Beechs door added another layer before painting Rivets easily visible photo New stooge R/C Launcher & Pit Crew great safety item sample available pilot try out important contributions lifeblood Top Gun Highlights Flying Action Diego Lopez took third place now-famous 1991 Scalemaster champion Skyraider Diego scored 8955 static overall third-place score 1818 points tragic flight avoided folding wings down locked Skyraider ran down runway Diego spotted problem shut engine down before plane left ground zeroed attempted takeoff flight Terry Nitsch just flies Violett F-86 better time hard get pictures model flying speeds over 100 mph Terrys F-86 flies much faster amazing stable plane during low slow dirty passes required year demonstrate significant difference between high- low-speed fly-by WW types just about have speedslow-and makes tough judge point Jeff Foley flew Zero A6M3 built Dave Platt kit powered OS Max 108 It weighed 18 pounds / lage detailing Roger Youngs C-47 makes easy see model merited Critics Choice award Dave Plafts WW II Zero great cockpit detailnot required rules Craftsmanship points suffer its absent Bill Carpers P-47D sported scale replica big Curtiss electric 4-bladed prop ST 3000 powers 24-lb beauty 26 Model Aviation F-16s Sidewinder missile exemplifies degree excellence detailing necessary win Top Gun David Maichiones Navy trainer based Violett T-33 kit Big model flies easily enough use novice Jet pilots 80-inch wingspan excellent wing loading easier fly lighter plane harder build scale details added models caliber Zero very popular like Daves other all-balsa kits flies great Corvin Millers Globe Swift captured Best Civilian award year placed sixth overall proving again can compete nonmilitary entry Corvin 8949 static points could get flying points needed win Corvins wife Cheri like wives great help husbands sport salute ladies go out abandoned aiffield sit heat listen flying story after another have look guys knobby knees ratty shorts seen model meets Bob Pickneys Team Scale entry 13 entries year event getting more popular lop Gun first place award Best Military went beautiful Beech SNB-5 Ziroli plans one-fifth scale flown Dean DiGiorgio guys dressed all-white Navy dress uniforms white-and-red twin Beech flew good looked 45-lb Beech 114-in wingspan neat nose cone door opened up switch access nacelles two Z-38 engines housed Robart retracts Guidance provided ever-popular Futaba radio Bob over 80000 simulated rivets over model applied using RC-56 white glue hypo needle Beech model 18 modeled after Navy Museum Pensacola Florida Tom Noser built two B-25s entered Team Scale Top Gun year Zirolis design painted blue Navy PBJ-lJ version Two OS 120 four-cycles made great realism sound pilot Tom Street Bill Steffes built second Ziroli B-25 flown its designer Nick Ziroli sported Army Air Corps camouflage paint scheme Nicks placed ninth PBJ-1J placed 10th youre great builder good flier would like should team up friend get Team Scale Mark Levy came way France fly green white one-third-scale Sirius TR325 model refreshing new paint scheme arrows bottom wings female pilot could seen board since lady named Catherine Maunoury flew plane 1987-88 Aerobatics Championships France under sponsorship EMS Chronopost worldwide express mailing service Scale Tips Top Gun Mel Whitley last years Top Gun champion newly-built Sea Fury named MiG Killer since first prop-driven aircraft shoot down MiG jet combat 155-scale duplicate last years lop Gun-winning model flown OS BGX-3500 sounds like real thing Mel cuts back throttle allows engine backfire prop whirs through air 18406 just good enough win Top Gun again year impressive static score 9227 Mel second place Mels best tip Scale modeling use mechanicallelectrical retracts best reliability power heavily detailed landing gear bigger /5through 1/3-scale models Mel uses Airtronics sail winch servo regular transit time seven eight seconds gear removing gears standard air cylinder hooking up directly locking mechanism Art Johnson has written some great articles method interested getting rid air-operated retract system youve fighting Master builder Art Johnson beautiful all-metal-covered P-35 meet Art said used wood tongue depressor smooth out glue-backed 005 aluminum plane worked well Bill Carper magnificent P-47 named Hands Off did no-wheels emergency landing official flight since full-scale-world pilot could have survived called emergency landing Bill received points landing after engine flamed out Bill said acheived flush-riveted look using tool made sharpened brass tubing rolled around flat painted surfaces model Locations first marked pencil Nick Ziroli Rich Uravitich entered AT6-D Team Scale featured simulated rivets made drops Sobo glue product does shrink can bought craft stores red white blue paint scheme copied plane Brazil Youll see lot new paint schemes AT6 Unlimited RC Air Races Madera California September October 1992 27 Bill Steffes Ziroli-designed B-25 used two Zenoah G-23s power Futaba radio guidance Nick Ziroli pilot Mark Frankels big 20-lb F4D-1 Skyray ducted-fan ship dips wing during crowd-pleasing flyby Team Scale Peter Guivers 10-ft-span 50-lb 1/5-5Cale WW II DH Mosquito won meets Engineering Excellence award Diego Lopezs 3rd-place Douglas Skyraider blasts off official flight Models folding wings operate RC David Tayer modeled one-of-a-kind Gloster Meteor powered pair Rolls Royce Trent turboprops Mel Whitley makes takeoffs look easy Sea Fury reason hes flying design competition years Mark Frankel Skyray arrived fly Team Scale usual pilot quickly found new after Tom Cook didnt show up Fourteen servos helped control fan-jet painted Norad defense plane called FAW 3 Alaska built one-seventh scale weighed 21 pounds Dynamax fan unit 05 Max 81 powered Mark said model taken off landed same nose-high attitude full-scale jet tendency Dutch roll wobble delta-wing designs ever-popular F4D- 1 Skyray first flown ducted fan Jet Dave Platt Nationals seventies Lake Charles Louisiana Marks best Scale tip suggestion use piece carbon-fiber angle cowl mounting 2-56 screw tapped angle adheres another piece carbon fiber inside cowl accept screw head prevent vibration damage fiberglass cowling 2-56 socket bead screws small look hard see Skyray Great idea Mark David Vogland Rateliff Kentucky used several sizes brass tubing soldering gun simulate flush rivets model Mark XIV Spiffire full-scale plane stationed Castle Donington near Derby England simulated rivets made burning place paint hot brass tubing Spit built Yellow Aircraft kit used OS BGX- 3500 power Gone days underpowered sick flying planes little ones flit big ones fly Dave Platt old master himself offered best tips painting Dave never uses just color paint n color chipoh no just starting place Dave says paints lane over different shades ease color makes dark light atterns same way artist approaches ting After trying zreate illusion full-scale plane flying effect after hardline hard-contrasting color scheme correct factory-fresh rather model working war-weary example well-known plane like AM6 Zero 28 Model Aviation Colorful finish Gene Bartons AT6-D Bill McCallie shows flight judges copied Brazilian-registered gear flaps operate checkerplane Model Ziroli design board-nosed P-47-D before flight Marc Levys TR-23bs color markings duplicated entry flown Catherine Manoury 1987-88 Richard Crapps big AN-2 won Best Biplane award crashed because RC transmitter batteries werent charged can almost hear pilots cockpit Richard Crapps AN-2 saying Are comrades ready takeoff Hal Parentis famous model second Navys Ryan Fireball crashed elevator servo failed Kent Nogy applied pieces Coverite Jim Wilkinsons Panama City FL Stuka chrome trim sheet simulate skin earned 8749 points static scoring panels Violett F-86 painted crashed during practice flight Father/son Team Scale entry Jim Maury Maroney took 3rd place Metalcovered P-51 Dave Platt kit Shalish Patels F4U-1A has finish Bud Roane made special pinking shears markings flown substitute cut scale 16-to-the-inch pinks rib Marine pilots squadron tape Thomas Morse Scout Daves static score 8910 will attest great paint job Team Scale category Hal Parenti has ongoing love Ryan Fireball much built another push-me/pull-you planes Top Gun year uses SuperTigre 75 nose propeller side OS 46 internal Kress fan sorry say beautifully built classic bit dust totally destroyed competition Hal well-known Scale modeler put 31000 simulated rivets plane carpenters glue Hal put gray primer plane over rivets before painting deep Navy blue subsequently painted rivet silver butyrate dope over K&B epoxy technique enabled him wipe off mistakes easily affect basic paint job Chuck Fullers Super Stearman known Daring Damsels some handpainted detail Chuck said just used lead pencil lay out details fine high quality brush detail work also told us secret making simulated quick fasteners screw heads files cuts slot top pinhead best effect Kent Nogy finished picture-perfect F-86 now-famous Skyblazer red white blue paint scheme using Coverite Presto Chrome trim seals complete fiberglassed model low temperatures piece cut exact size shape aluminum panel being simulated uses Ditzler paint Aeroloft dry transfers detail markings rivets Kent sprays final coat clear acrylic polyurethane perfect finish Corvin Miller Sarasota Florida used plastic tubing model railroad supply store made special tool singleedge razor blade mounted board plastic tube forced blade split little dab microballoon/epoxy mix rounded ends have itcorrugated wing panel stiffeners Globe Swift instrument panel has radio switch onboard glow driver switch disguised throttle control Open up one-sided canopy turn switches lock canopy down youre flying no unsightly switch stickin out side plane no fuel get switch either Corvins Swift won Best Civilian Aircraft award placed sixth overall year Plans fiberglass cowl available Jerry Caudles F-16-C won award Best Markings help Aeroloft people Arizona Scale tip included time-consuming duplication static wicks wings used discharge static electricity F- 16 Jerry used black fishing line fiberglass aluminum tubing CyAed together Servos used canopy closure inflight engine mixture control Bob Violett flew model Team Scale competition really proud version kit Bud Roan Melbourne Florida made own set scale-sized pinking shears cutting 16-thread/inch 5/16-in bolt quarters lengthwise attaching slices blade pair scissors cuts piece fabric scale pinking tape pinks turn out 16 inchthe scale Thomas Morse Scout Bud also provided photos model bare-bones stage better craftsmanship points let judges see duplication scale structure before covereda handy hint Jet News real history-maker French team s demonstration wave future new propane-fueled turbojet known Turboec T-240 manufactured company called IPX Vibraye France turbo spooled up use compressed air divers air tank As soon reaches right rpm propane valve opened 340-kg stainless steel tank snap-type spark generator ignites propane onboard engine control brain monitors fuel responds throttlethis secret its success no loud sound such normally would have associated old Dynajets form pulse jet Neither loud piercing sound typical ducted fan No just Continued poge 40 Table 1 rt Division Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1Charles NelsonWaco9602800089639013917518652 2Mel WhitleySea Fury9227902588759325918818406 3Diego LopezSkyraider8955915884639200933818180 4Terry NitschF-868816932591509263892518062 5Jeff FoleyZero8969910092758763748818015 6Corvin MillerGlobe Swift8949885087009050925017999 7George BusoNieuport 289355807586886800876317864 8Kent NogyF-868644907593509113902517823 9David HayesRockwell Thrush8918877589009000845017810 10Bill HarrisF-86F8733907587258925902517741 Table 2 Team Scale Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1DiGiorgio/Pickney Beechcraft SNB-5922162759358538935018300 2Violetl/Caudle F-16C9127777590758250872517810 3Maroney/Maroney P-Si846679SO93139100902517579 October 1992 29 Top Gun 1992 Continued page 29 whissssh air rushing out tailpipe producing nine pounds static thrust turbojet ran stopped crowd pilots whatever doing could have hard pin drop quiet Everyone trying hear what sound made jet stayed up five six minutes its maiden flight very close its maximum air time As jets developed used around world fuel consumption problem tank size will solved some ingenious modeler about 40 units out now $3500 Delivery takes three four weeks 12 flying present As soon AMA sets some rulings safety guidelines turbojets will able enter AMA-approved meets jet unit weighs nine pounds generates temperatures up 3500 C thrust tip An oil misting feature has used keep rear turbine shaft bearing going out under power intense heat Real jet power has finally come modelingI knew somebody would British Bunch boys girls Britain made good showing four planes brought Antonov AN-2 Russian transport DH98 Mosquito Trent Meteor Hawker Fury biplanewith complimentary model transportation provided United Parcel Service freight cost some $3000 picked up UPS get team Richard Crapp Peter Jean Guiver pilot Richard Rawle Practical Scale UK Dave Troyer Mike Booth Florida Richard Crapp s entry Antonov AN-2 Russian transport Guivers team entry DH98 Mosquito one-fifth scale Pilot Richard Rawle handled plane flew magnificently received Engineering Excellence award banquet Saturday night Dave Troyer flew little Trent Meteor first known plane fly turboprop engine Mike Booth flew Hawker Fury biplane real sleek-looking airplane its time teams like will take much time effort attend Top Gun maybe youd better try getting next Top Gun 1993 Frank Tiano founder Top Gun event indicated event has invited back West Palm Beach Polo Grounds next year Manufacturers Displays display area series booths various manufacturers vendors could display wares Aviation Heritage Terre Haute Indiana new face year Its booth displayed great Scale documentation have volumes 2 Paul Matt s threeview collection Model Aviation Technology its new six-volt gel-cell battery new 1/3-scale fiberglass fuselage Extra 300 Robinaire Retracts now featuring gear Globe Swift goodlooking P-5 1 struts JPX Vibraye France showed Turboec T-240 turbojet engine Gene Barton Machine great scale items make life Scale easier M&M Models Port Richey Florida great color chip source colors ever would need Top Gun Tees some well-done embroidered T-shirts P-s ls Prop Wash Videos its past videotapes taking orders year s Top Gun well Custom Electronics new use servo universal servo connector company associated Hitec RIC USA Inc also Newman Optics Ogden Utah popular items Zurich International polycarbon wrap-around glasses Boyd Newman provided use glasses Top Gun judges asked use After judging Sawgrass Qualifier Charlie Chambers weekend after Top Gun can tell great Prizes Manufacturers donating prizes 1992 Top Gun event included Ace R/C donated Micro Pro 8000 radio Bob Violett Models donated $300 gift certificate Dave Platt announced event donated FW-190 kit retracts Airtronics provided its latest version eight-channel radio Frank Tinno Enterprises donated cash trophies modelers knife sets given contestant lot blood sweat tears make Top Gun success year FTE also owns new fullystocked hobby shop called Hobby Super Store West Palm Beach Florida Futaba Corporation America gave away nine-channel PCM six-channel FM Aerostar ARF kit Gene Barton well-known pilot machinist donated set Sea Fury Corsair custom-made wheels Hobby Dynamics gave away new JR 347 radio Webra Speed 120 engine House Balsa provided Best Jet trophy awarded Mark Frankel s Skyray cant-do-without Tuffgrinders Top Gun pilot McDaniel R/C provided 12 Nystarters two onboard ignition systems Something everyone could use RIC Reports magazine provided cash free subscriptions Best Biplane trophy awarded Richard Crapp England Robart maker famous retracts donated cash Engineering Excellence trophy won Mosquito Sig Manufacturing Co Inc represented Top Gun 1992 catalogs Spacewalker kit won Corvin Continued page 5S r SWEITZER ENTERPRISES P0 BOX 834 SBORO 7123 PHONE 503640-5102 DH89ARapide60 245-p 96 WINGSPANENGINES SCALE 2 1-0U L 1 4 SheelsV 9Ft5 - A L E PLANS S420O COCKPIT & MARKING DETAIL CANOPY -NOSELIGHT-$ 2500 COMPLETE WING SHOWN FIBERGLASS COWLS 121 SBS00 MATERIAL LIST LADD S 800 FOR AIRMAIL PRICE INCLUDES MAILING TUBE WORLDS FINEST SCALE PLANS RYANPT22 INTRODuCTORy SHORT KIT INCLUDES PLANS FIBERGLASS PICEUFUSELAGECOWL PARTS PRICE INCREASES AFTERHAND CUT RIBS & FORMERS JAN11993PLUS LO WIRE 90-1/4 WINGSPANAlE $33500 ENG NE 28 NS 5200 FIBERGLASS FUSELAGE$13500 LOGS FIBERGLASS COWL & PARTS$10000KITS PLANS----53S0 LG WIRE 0RESEARCH CENTER--SSSS 3VIEWS PHOTOS & MANUALS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ORDERS $25-Plans Only toreigs OverSeas kit orderswritH Shipping Cost 40 Model Aviation Grand Opening Continued page 53 models Free Flight models youngsters learning fly Big birds little birds Scale planes showstoppers Theres darned trade showhow about big swap shop heavens name does get better long-awaited Grand Opening first National Flying Site took place took place history open doors free admission free lunch AMA members families Someone said Wed rich buck car came site Heck bunch us would rich nickel photograph taken Civil Air Patrol parked cars George Steiner came California handle impound AMA Technical Director Bob Underwood ran flight lines crackerjack crewvolunteers like Jay Nealy Joe Vislay others Two AMA staffersBob Vojslavek handling registration Director Marketing Geoff Styles up tower joined three AMA staffers onsite Muncie Phil Sullivan Judy Czajkowski Cliff McKee help organize things Guests AMA members offered sneak preview new AMA museum Thousands took time off flying step museum see plans inspect layout ask years repeated questions will museum open answer Late next spring early next summer Almost exception people bid farewell See next year See yotrntyearYep members have spoken An event like too good run once put bed Its just idea great idea set aside weekend year gather site inspect admire use latest addition improvement development Next year Maybe event will center around opening Frank V Ehling Complex No other act actions AMA its membership has generated much mail precipitated telephone calls written about club newsletters frequently modelers lips Grand Opening National Flying Site came Washington State Oregon California Florida Alabama Texas New England mid-Atlantic great Midwest Did someone say Build will come did Yesss Congratulations AMA members Gun 1992 Continued page 40 Miller Best Civilian award-winning Globe Swift Yellow Aircraft donated $250 gift certificate toward its great kits F3op Gun well-diversified exciting show best best Scale invited compete sunny florida can get video Top Gun companies like Prop Wash Videos captures action ber 1992 55 1993 Nationals will held Lubbock Texas July 17-26 1993 BafferIeSfqUVgqAH TflFU FEATURES SUSPENDED ELECTROLYTE CYCLE FLOAT OPTIONS DISCHARGE RATE LEAK PROOF NO POLARITY CHANGE ACT RUGGED EXTENDED SHELF LIFE EASY HANDLING
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/10
Page Numbers: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 55
Above Jeff Foleys Zero took 5th place Great-flying model used OS Max 108 powerbuilt Dave Plaft kit Top Gun Charles Nelsons Waco biplane below High points static judging plus lots flying experience did TOP GUN premier invitational Scale event 1992 meet held West Palm Beach Polo Club Wellington Floridathe same location 91 Frank Tianos dream great event attracting more modelers public alike magnificent field great facilities food great enough variety models designs please anyone Heavy metal WW II planes WW examples private planes transports competed head-to-head honors Top Gun little Waco bipe 115 scale took top static points 9602 highest overall score 18652 Charlie Nelson has flying since 1987 scores Top Gun represented best three out four flight scores averaged added static score year static judging done judge standard 15-foot distance workmanship done close eight feet model judges conferred another considered categories Finish Color Marking Accuracy Outline Craftsmanship make sure no areas overlooked model modelers pleased give some best Scale modeling tips techniques As read article will able pick up some great ideas expert contestants Top Gun use next project weather perfect static judging got real gusty right before practice flying began Thursday Friday contributed some minor mishaps crashes Friday planes set along fence several occasions benefit public right after static judging again both days competition opportunity get own shots favorite model grandstand full time polo club great place get good eye-level videos flights No contest can run perfectly Top Gun year trained assistance Palm Beach Aero Club Its membership did work meet thanks also due major sponsors Herschel Worthy Pacer Technology maker Zap products provided cash hats glue kits contestant airfare Scale judges Tom Atwood editor Model Airplane News magazine provided cash shirts magazines public modelers trophies judges motel rooms Top Gun modelers appreciate support foresight October 1992 25 Left Top award winners L-H Jerry uauaielF-16 Best Markings Charles NelsonlWaco biplane Top Gun Roger YounglC-47 Critics Choice Corvin MillerlGlobe Swift Best Civilian Plane Right Thousands spectators crowded grandstands Jerry Caudles Metropolis Illinois F-16-C Violett kit shows off its superlative best-of-show markings Twin Zenoah G-38s Bob Pickneys Twin Beech SNB-5 make sound much like its full-scale counterpart air Mike Booths Hawker Fury Mk biplane used Zenoah G-38 power lift 22-lb aluminum-covered beauty Detail around Beechs door added another layer before painting Rivets easily visible photo New stooge R/C Launcher & Pit Crew great safety item sample available pilot try out important contributions lifeblood Top Gun Highlights Flying Action Diego Lopez took third place now-famous 1991 Scalemaster champion Skyraider Diego scored 8955 static overall third-place score 1818 points tragic flight avoided folding wings down locked Skyraider ran down runway Diego spotted problem shut engine down before plane left ground zeroed attempted takeoff flight Terry Nitsch just flies Violett F-86 better time hard get pictures model flying speeds over 100 mph Terrys F-86 flies much faster amazing stable plane during low slow dirty passes required year demonstrate significant difference between high- low-speed fly-by WW types just about have speedslow-and makes tough judge point Jeff Foley flew Zero A6M3 built Dave Platt kit powered OS Max 108 It weighed 18 pounds / lage detailing Roger Youngs C-47 makes easy see model merited Critics Choice award Dave Plafts WW II Zero great cockpit detailnot required rules Craftsmanship points suffer its absent Bill Carpers P-47D sported scale replica big Curtiss electric 4-bladed prop ST 3000 powers 24-lb beauty 26 Model Aviation F-16s Sidewinder missile exemplifies degree excellence detailing necessary win Top Gun David Maichiones Navy trainer based Violett T-33 kit Big model flies easily enough use novice Jet pilots 80-inch wingspan excellent wing loading easier fly lighter plane harder build scale details added models caliber Zero very popular like Daves other all-balsa kits flies great Corvin Millers Globe Swift captured Best Civilian award year placed sixth overall proving again can compete nonmilitary entry Corvin 8949 static points could get flying points needed win Corvins wife Cheri like wives great help husbands sport salute ladies go out abandoned aiffield sit heat listen flying story after another have look guys knobby knees ratty shorts seen model meets Bob Pickneys Team Scale entry 13 entries year event getting more popular lop Gun first place award Best Military went beautiful Beech SNB-5 Ziroli plans one-fifth scale flown Dean DiGiorgio guys dressed all-white Navy dress uniforms white-and-red twin Beech flew good looked 45-lb Beech 114-in wingspan neat nose cone door opened up switch access nacelles two Z-38 engines housed Robart retracts Guidance provided ever-popular Futaba radio Bob over 80000 simulated rivets over model applied using RC-56 white glue hypo needle Beech model 18 modeled after Navy Museum Pensacola Florida Tom Noser built two B-25s entered Team Scale Top Gun year Zirolis design painted blue Navy PBJ-lJ version Two OS 120 four-cycles made great realism sound pilot Tom Street Bill Steffes built second Ziroli B-25 flown its designer Nick Ziroli sported Army Air Corps camouflage paint scheme Nicks placed ninth PBJ-1J placed 10th youre great builder good flier would like should team up friend get Team Scale Mark Levy came way France fly green white one-third-scale Sirius TR325 model refreshing new paint scheme arrows bottom wings female pilot could seen board since lady named Catherine Maunoury flew plane 1987-88 Aerobatics Championships France under sponsorship EMS Chronopost worldwide express mailing service Scale Tips Top Gun Mel Whitley last years Top Gun champion newly-built Sea Fury named MiG Killer since first prop-driven aircraft shoot down MiG jet combat 155-scale duplicate last years lop Gun-winning model flown OS BGX-3500 sounds like real thing Mel cuts back throttle allows engine backfire prop whirs through air 18406 just good enough win Top Gun again year impressive static score 9227 Mel second place Mels best tip Scale modeling use mechanicallelectrical retracts best reliability power heavily detailed landing gear bigger /5through 1/3-scale models Mel uses Airtronics sail winch servo regular transit time seven eight seconds gear removing gears standard air cylinder hooking up directly locking mechanism Art Johnson has written some great articles method interested getting rid air-operated retract system youve fighting Master builder Art Johnson beautiful all-metal-covered P-35 meet Art said used wood tongue depressor smooth out glue-backed 005 aluminum plane worked well Bill Carper magnificent P-47 named Hands Off did no-wheels emergency landing official flight since full-scale-world pilot could have survived called emergency landing Bill received points landing after engine flamed out Bill said acheived flush-riveted look using tool made sharpened brass tubing rolled around flat painted surfaces model Locations first marked pencil Nick Ziroli Rich Uravitich entered AT6-D Team Scale featured simulated rivets made drops Sobo glue product does shrink can bought craft stores red white blue paint scheme copied plane Brazil Youll see lot new paint schemes AT6 Unlimited RC Air Races Madera California September October 1992 27 Bill Steffes Ziroli-designed B-25 used two Zenoah G-23s power Futaba radio guidance Nick Ziroli pilot Mark Frankels big 20-lb F4D-1 Skyray ducted-fan ship dips wing during crowd-pleasing flyby Team Scale Peter Guivers 10-ft-span 50-lb 1/5-5Cale WW II DH Mosquito won meets Engineering Excellence award Diego Lopezs 3rd-place Douglas Skyraider blasts off official flight Models folding wings operate RC David Tayer modeled one-of-a-kind Gloster Meteor powered pair Rolls Royce Trent turboprops Mel Whitley makes takeoffs look easy Sea Fury reason hes flying design competition years Mark Frankel Skyray arrived fly Team Scale usual pilot quickly found new after Tom Cook didnt show up Fourteen servos helped control fan-jet painted Norad defense plane called FAW 3 Alaska built one-seventh scale weighed 21 pounds Dynamax fan unit 05 Max 81 powered Mark said model taken off landed same nose-high attitude full-scale jet tendency Dutch roll wobble delta-wing designs ever-popular F4D- 1 Skyray first flown ducted fan Jet Dave Platt Nationals seventies Lake Charles Louisiana Marks best Scale tip suggestion use piece carbon-fiber angle cowl mounting 2-56 screw tapped angle adheres another piece carbon fiber inside cowl accept screw head prevent vibration damage fiberglass cowling 2-56 socket bead screws small look hard see Skyray Great idea Mark David Vogland Rateliff Kentucky used several sizes brass tubing soldering gun simulate flush rivets model Mark XIV Spiffire full-scale plane stationed Castle Donington near Derby England simulated rivets made burning place paint hot brass tubing Spit built Yellow Aircraft kit used OS BGX- 3500 power Gone days underpowered sick flying planes little ones flit big ones fly Dave Platt old master himself offered best tips painting Dave never uses just color paint n color chipoh no just starting place Dave says paints lane over different shades ease color makes dark light atterns same way artist approaches ting After trying zreate illusion full-scale plane flying effect after hardline hard-contrasting color scheme correct factory-fresh rather model working war-weary example well-known plane like AM6 Zero 28 Model Aviation Colorful finish Gene Bartons AT6-D Bill McCallie shows flight judges copied Brazilian-registered gear flaps operate checkerplane Model Ziroli design board-nosed P-47-D before flight Marc Levys TR-23bs color markings duplicated entry flown Catherine Manoury 1987-88 Richard Crapps big AN-2 won Best Biplane award crashed because RC transmitter batteries werent charged can almost hear pilots cockpit Richard Crapps AN-2 saying Are comrades ready takeoff Hal Parentis famous model second Navys Ryan Fireball crashed elevator servo failed Kent Nogy applied pieces Coverite Jim Wilkinsons Panama City FL Stuka chrome trim sheet simulate skin earned 8749 points static scoring panels Violett F-86 painted crashed during practice flight Father/son Team Scale entry Jim Maury Maroney took 3rd place Metalcovered P-51 Dave Platt kit Shalish Patels F4U-1A has finish Bud Roane made special pinking shears markings flown substitute cut scale 16-to-the-inch pinks rib Marine pilots squadron tape Thomas Morse Scout Daves static score 8910 will attest great paint job Team Scale category Hal Parenti has ongoing love Ryan Fireball much built another push-me/pull-you planes Top Gun year uses SuperTigre 75 nose propeller side OS 46 internal Kress fan sorry say beautifully built classic bit dust totally destroyed competition Hal well-known Scale modeler put 31000 simulated rivets plane carpenters glue Hal put gray primer plane over rivets before painting deep Navy blue subsequently painted rivet silver butyrate dope over K&B epoxy technique enabled him wipe off mistakes easily affect basic paint job Chuck Fullers Super Stearman known Daring Damsels some handpainted detail Chuck said just used lead pencil lay out details fine high quality brush detail work also told us secret making simulated quick fasteners screw heads files cuts slot top pinhead best effect Kent Nogy finished picture-perfect F-86 now-famous Skyblazer red white blue paint scheme using Coverite Presto Chrome trim seals complete fiberglassed model low temperatures piece cut exact size shape aluminum panel being simulated uses Ditzler paint Aeroloft dry transfers detail markings rivets Kent sprays final coat clear acrylic polyurethane perfect finish Corvin Miller Sarasota Florida used plastic tubing model railroad supply store made special tool singleedge razor blade mounted board plastic tube forced blade split little dab microballoon/epoxy mix rounded ends have itcorrugated wing panel stiffeners Globe Swift instrument panel has radio switch onboard glow driver switch disguised throttle control Open up one-sided canopy turn switches lock canopy down youre flying no unsightly switch stickin out side plane no fuel get switch either Corvins Swift won Best Civilian Aircraft award placed sixth overall year Plans fiberglass cowl available Jerry Caudles F-16-C won award Best Markings help Aeroloft people Arizona Scale tip included time-consuming duplication static wicks wings used discharge static electricity F- 16 Jerry used black fishing line fiberglass aluminum tubing CyAed together Servos used canopy closure inflight engine mixture control Bob Violett flew model Team Scale competition really proud version kit Bud Roan Melbourne Florida made own set scale-sized pinking shears cutting 16-thread/inch 5/16-in bolt quarters lengthwise attaching slices blade pair scissors cuts piece fabric scale pinking tape pinks turn out 16 inchthe scale Thomas Morse Scout Bud also provided photos model bare-bones stage better craftsmanship points let judges see duplication scale structure before covereda handy hint Jet News real history-maker French team s demonstration wave future new propane-fueled turbojet known Turboec T-240 manufactured company called IPX Vibraye France turbo spooled up use compressed air divers air tank As soon reaches right rpm propane valve opened 340-kg stainless steel tank snap-type spark generator ignites propane onboard engine control brain monitors fuel responds throttlethis secret its success no loud sound such normally would have associated old Dynajets form pulse jet Neither loud piercing sound typical ducted fan No just Continued poge 40 Table 1 rt Division Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1Charles NelsonWaco9602800089639013917518652 2Mel WhitleySea Fury9227902588759325918818406 3Diego LopezSkyraider8955915884639200933818180 4Terry NitschF-868816932591509263892518062 5Jeff FoleyZero8969910092758763748818015 6Corvin MillerGlobe Swift8949885087009050925017999 7George BusoNieuport 289355807586886800876317864 8Kent NogyF-868644907593509113902517823 9David HayesRockwell Thrush8918877589009000845017810 10Bill HarrisF-86F8733907587258925902517741 Table 2 Team Scale Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1DiGiorgio/Pickney Beechcraft SNB-5922162759358538935018300 2Violetl/Caudle F-16C9127777590758250872517810 3Maroney/Maroney P-Si846679SO93139100902517579 October 1992 29 Top Gun 1992 Continued page 29 whissssh air rushing out tailpipe producing nine pounds static thrust turbojet ran stopped crowd pilots whatever doing could have hard pin drop quiet Everyone trying hear what sound made jet stayed up five six minutes its maiden flight very close its maximum air time As jets developed used around world fuel consumption problem tank size will solved some ingenious modeler about 40 units out now $3500 Delivery takes three four weeks 12 flying present As soon AMA sets some rulings safety guidelines turbojets will able enter AMA-approved meets jet unit weighs nine pounds generates temperatures up 3500 C thrust tip An oil misting feature has used keep rear turbine shaft bearing going out under power intense heat Real jet power has finally come modelingI knew somebody would British Bunch boys girls Britain made good showing four planes brought Antonov AN-2 Russian transport DH98 Mosquito Trent Meteor Hawker Fury biplanewith complimentary model transportation provided United Parcel Service freight cost some $3000 picked up UPS get team Richard Crapp Peter Jean Guiver pilot Richard Rawle Practical Scale UK Dave Troyer Mike Booth Florida Richard Crapp s entry Antonov AN-2 Russian transport Guivers team entry DH98 Mosquito one-fifth scale Pilot Richard Rawle handled plane flew magnificently received Engineering Excellence award banquet Saturday night Dave Troyer flew little Trent Meteor first known plane fly turboprop engine Mike Booth flew Hawker Fury biplane real sleek-looking airplane its time teams like will take much time effort attend Top Gun maybe youd better try getting next Top Gun 1993 Frank Tiano founder Top Gun event indicated event has invited back West Palm Beach Polo Grounds next year Manufacturers Displays display area series booths various manufacturers vendors could display wares Aviation Heritage Terre Haute Indiana new face year Its booth displayed great Scale documentation have volumes 2 Paul Matt s threeview collection Model Aviation Technology its new six-volt gel-cell battery new 1/3-scale fiberglass fuselage Extra 300 Robinaire Retracts now featuring gear Globe Swift goodlooking P-5 1 struts JPX Vibraye France showed Turboec T-240 turbojet engine Gene Barton Machine great scale items make life Scale easier M&M Models Port Richey Florida great color chip source colors ever would need Top Gun Tees some well-done embroidered T-shirts P-s ls Prop Wash Videos its past videotapes taking orders year s Top Gun well Custom Electronics new use servo universal servo connector company associated Hitec RIC USA Inc also Newman Optics Ogden Utah popular items Zurich International polycarbon wrap-around glasses Boyd Newman provided use glasses Top Gun judges asked use After judging Sawgrass Qualifier Charlie Chambers weekend after Top Gun can tell great Prizes Manufacturers donating prizes 1992 Top Gun event included Ace R/C donated Micro Pro 8000 radio Bob Violett Models donated $300 gift certificate Dave Platt announced event donated FW-190 kit retracts Airtronics provided its latest version eight-channel radio Frank Tinno Enterprises donated cash trophies modelers knife sets given contestant lot blood sweat tears make Top Gun success year FTE also owns new fullystocked hobby shop called Hobby Super Store West Palm Beach Florida Futaba Corporation America gave away nine-channel PCM six-channel FM Aerostar ARF kit Gene Barton well-known pilot machinist donated set Sea Fury Corsair custom-made wheels Hobby Dynamics gave away new JR 347 radio Webra Speed 120 engine House Balsa provided Best Jet trophy awarded Mark Frankel s Skyray cant-do-without Tuffgrinders Top Gun pilot McDaniel R/C provided 12 Nystarters two onboard ignition systems Something everyone could use RIC Reports magazine provided cash free subscriptions Best Biplane trophy awarded Richard Crapp England Robart maker famous retracts donated cash Engineering Excellence trophy won Mosquito Sig Manufacturing Co Inc represented Top Gun 1992 catalogs Spacewalker kit won Corvin Continued page 5S r SWEITZER ENTERPRISES P0 BOX 834 SBORO 7123 PHONE 503640-5102 DH89ARapide60 245-p 96 WINGSPANENGINES SCALE 2 1-0U L 1 4 SheelsV 9Ft5 - A L E PLANS S420O COCKPIT & MARKING DETAIL CANOPY -NOSELIGHT-$ 2500 COMPLETE WING SHOWN FIBERGLASS COWLS 121 SBS00 MATERIAL LIST LADD S 800 FOR AIRMAIL PRICE INCLUDES MAILING TUBE WORLDS FINEST SCALE PLANS RYANPT22 INTRODuCTORy SHORT KIT INCLUDES PLANS FIBERGLASS PICEUFUSELAGECOWL PARTS PRICE INCREASES AFTERHAND CUT RIBS & FORMERS JAN11993PLUS LO WIRE 90-1/4 WINGSPANAlE $33500 ENG NE 28 NS 5200 FIBERGLASS FUSELAGE$13500 LOGS FIBERGLASS COWL & PARTS$10000KITS PLANS----53S0 LG WIRE 0RESEARCH CENTER--SSSS 3VIEWS PHOTOS & MANUALS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ORDERS $25-Plans Only toreigs OverSeas kit orderswritH Shipping Cost 40 Model Aviation Grand Opening Continued page 53 models Free Flight models youngsters learning fly Big birds little birds Scale planes showstoppers Theres darned trade showhow about big swap shop heavens name does get better long-awaited Grand Opening first National Flying Site took place took place history open doors free admission free lunch AMA members families Someone said Wed rich buck car came site Heck bunch us would rich nickel photograph taken Civil Air Patrol parked cars George Steiner came California handle impound AMA Technical Director Bob Underwood ran flight lines crackerjack crewvolunteers like Jay Nealy Joe Vislay others Two AMA staffersBob Vojslavek handling registration Director Marketing Geoff Styles up tower joined three AMA staffers onsite Muncie Phil Sullivan Judy Czajkowski Cliff McKee help organize things Guests AMA members offered sneak preview new AMA museum Thousands took time off flying step museum see plans inspect layout ask years repeated questions will museum open answer Late next spring early next summer Almost exception people bid farewell See next year See yotrntyearYep members have spoken An event like too good run once put bed Its just idea great idea set aside weekend year gather site inspect admire use latest addition improvement development Next year Maybe event will center around opening Frank V Ehling Complex No other act actions AMA its membership has generated much mail precipitated telephone calls written about club newsletters frequently modelers lips Grand Opening National Flying Site came Washington State Oregon California Florida Alabama Texas New England mid-Atlantic great Midwest Did someone say Build will come did Yesss Congratulations AMA members Gun 1992 Continued page 40 Miller Best Civilian award-winning Globe Swift Yellow Aircraft donated $250 gift certificate toward its great kits F3op Gun well-diversified exciting show best best Scale invited compete sunny florida can get video Top Gun companies like Prop Wash Videos captures action ber 1992 55 1993 Nationals will held Lubbock Texas July 17-26 1993 BafferIeSfqUVgqAH TflFU FEATURES SUSPENDED ELECTROLYTE CYCLE FLOAT OPTIONS DISCHARGE RATE LEAK PROOF NO POLARITY CHANGE ACT RUGGED EXTENDED SHELF LIFE EASY HANDLING
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/10
Page Numbers: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 55
Above Jeff Foleys Zero took 5th place Great-flying model used OS Max 108 powerbuilt Dave Plaft kit Top Gun Charles Nelsons Waco biplane below High points static judging plus lots flying experience did TOP GUN premier invitational Scale event 1992 meet held West Palm Beach Polo Club Wellington Floridathe same location 91 Frank Tianos dream great event attracting more modelers public alike magnificent field great facilities food great enough variety models designs please anyone Heavy metal WW II planes WW examples private planes transports competed head-to-head honors Top Gun little Waco bipe 115 scale took top static points 9602 highest overall score 18652 Charlie Nelson has flying since 1987 scores Top Gun represented best three out four flight scores averaged added static score year static judging done judge standard 15-foot distance workmanship done close eight feet model judges conferred another considered categories Finish Color Marking Accuracy Outline Craftsmanship make sure no areas overlooked model modelers pleased give some best Scale modeling tips techniques As read article will able pick up some great ideas expert contestants Top Gun use next project weather perfect static judging got real gusty right before practice flying began Thursday Friday contributed some minor mishaps crashes Friday planes set along fence several occasions benefit public right after static judging again both days competition opportunity get own shots favorite model grandstand full time polo club great place get good eye-level videos flights No contest can run perfectly Top Gun year trained assistance Palm Beach Aero Club Its membership did work meet thanks also due major sponsors Herschel Worthy Pacer Technology maker Zap products provided cash hats glue kits contestant airfare Scale judges Tom Atwood editor Model Airplane News magazine provided cash shirts magazines public modelers trophies judges motel rooms Top Gun modelers appreciate support foresight October 1992 25 Left Top award winners L-H Jerry uauaielF-16 Best Markings Charles NelsonlWaco biplane Top Gun Roger YounglC-47 Critics Choice Corvin MillerlGlobe Swift Best Civilian Plane Right Thousands spectators crowded grandstands Jerry Caudles Metropolis Illinois F-16-C Violett kit shows off its superlative best-of-show markings Twin Zenoah G-38s Bob Pickneys Twin Beech SNB-5 make sound much like its full-scale counterpart air Mike Booths Hawker Fury Mk biplane used Zenoah G-38 power lift 22-lb aluminum-covered beauty Detail around Beechs door added another layer before painting Rivets easily visible photo New stooge R/C Launcher & Pit Crew great safety item sample available pilot try out important contributions lifeblood Top Gun Highlights Flying Action Diego Lopez took third place now-famous 1991 Scalemaster champion Skyraider Diego scored 8955 static overall third-place score 1818 points tragic flight avoided folding wings down locked Skyraider ran down runway Diego spotted problem shut engine down before plane left ground zeroed attempted takeoff flight Terry Nitsch just flies Violett F-86 better time hard get pictures model flying speeds over 100 mph Terrys F-86 flies much faster amazing stable plane during low slow dirty passes required year demonstrate significant difference between high- low-speed fly-by WW types just about have speedslow-and makes tough judge point Jeff Foley flew Zero A6M3 built Dave Platt kit powered OS Max 108 It weighed 18 pounds / lage detailing Roger Youngs C-47 makes easy see model merited Critics Choice award Dave Plafts WW II Zero great cockpit detailnot required rules Craftsmanship points suffer its absent Bill Carpers P-47D sported scale replica big Curtiss electric 4-bladed prop ST 3000 powers 24-lb beauty 26 Model Aviation F-16s Sidewinder missile exemplifies degree excellence detailing necessary win Top Gun David Maichiones Navy trainer based Violett T-33 kit Big model flies easily enough use novice Jet pilots 80-inch wingspan excellent wing loading easier fly lighter plane harder build scale details added models caliber Zero very popular like Daves other all-balsa kits flies great Corvin Millers Globe Swift captured Best Civilian award year placed sixth overall proving again can compete nonmilitary entry Corvin 8949 static points could get flying points needed win Corvins wife Cheri like wives great help husbands sport salute ladies go out abandoned aiffield sit heat listen flying story after another have look guys knobby knees ratty shorts seen model meets Bob Pickneys Team Scale entry 13 entries year event getting more popular lop Gun first place award Best Military went beautiful Beech SNB-5 Ziroli plans one-fifth scale flown Dean DiGiorgio guys dressed all-white Navy dress uniforms white-and-red twin Beech flew good looked 45-lb Beech 114-in wingspan neat nose cone door opened up switch access nacelles two Z-38 engines housed Robart retracts Guidance provided ever-popular Futaba radio Bob over 80000 simulated rivets over model applied using RC-56 white glue hypo needle Beech model 18 modeled after Navy Museum Pensacola Florida Tom Noser built two B-25s entered Team Scale Top Gun year Zirolis design painted blue Navy PBJ-lJ version Two OS 120 four-cycles made great realism sound pilot Tom Street Bill Steffes built second Ziroli B-25 flown its designer Nick Ziroli sported Army Air Corps camouflage paint scheme Nicks placed ninth PBJ-1J placed 10th youre great builder good flier would like should team up friend get Team Scale Mark Levy came way France fly green white one-third-scale Sirius TR325 model refreshing new paint scheme arrows bottom wings female pilot could seen board since lady named Catherine Maunoury flew plane 1987-88 Aerobatics Championships France under sponsorship EMS Chronopost worldwide express mailing service Scale Tips Top Gun Mel Whitley last years Top Gun champion newly-built Sea Fury named MiG Killer since first prop-driven aircraft shoot down MiG jet combat 155-scale duplicate last years lop Gun-winning model flown OS BGX-3500 sounds like real thing Mel cuts back throttle allows engine backfire prop whirs through air 18406 just good enough win Top Gun again year impressive static score 9227 Mel second place Mels best tip Scale modeling use mechanicallelectrical retracts best reliability power heavily detailed landing gear bigger /5through 1/3-scale models Mel uses Airtronics sail winch servo regular transit time seven eight seconds gear removing gears standard air cylinder hooking up directly locking mechanism Art Johnson has written some great articles method interested getting rid air-operated retract system youve fighting Master builder Art Johnson beautiful all-metal-covered P-35 meet Art said used wood tongue depressor smooth out glue-backed 005 aluminum plane worked well Bill Carper magnificent P-47 named Hands Off did no-wheels emergency landing official flight since full-scale-world pilot could have survived called emergency landing Bill received points landing after engine flamed out Bill said acheived flush-riveted look using tool made sharpened brass tubing rolled around flat painted surfaces model Locations first marked pencil Nick Ziroli Rich Uravitich entered AT6-D Team Scale featured simulated rivets made drops Sobo glue product does shrink can bought craft stores red white blue paint scheme copied plane Brazil Youll see lot new paint schemes AT6 Unlimited RC Air Races Madera California September October 1992 27 Bill Steffes Ziroli-designed B-25 used two Zenoah G-23s power Futaba radio guidance Nick Ziroli pilot Mark Frankels big 20-lb F4D-1 Skyray ducted-fan ship dips wing during crowd-pleasing flyby Team Scale Peter Guivers 10-ft-span 50-lb 1/5-5Cale WW II DH Mosquito won meets Engineering Excellence award Diego Lopezs 3rd-place Douglas Skyraider blasts off official flight Models folding wings operate RC David Tayer modeled one-of-a-kind Gloster Meteor powered pair Rolls Royce Trent turboprops Mel Whitley makes takeoffs look easy Sea Fury reason hes flying design competition years Mark Frankel Skyray arrived fly Team Scale usual pilot quickly found new after Tom Cook didnt show up Fourteen servos helped control fan-jet painted Norad defense plane called FAW 3 Alaska built one-seventh scale weighed 21 pounds Dynamax fan unit 05 Max 81 powered Mark said model taken off landed same nose-high attitude full-scale jet tendency Dutch roll wobble delta-wing designs ever-popular F4D- 1 Skyray first flown ducted fan Jet Dave Platt Nationals seventies Lake Charles Louisiana Marks best Scale tip suggestion use piece carbon-fiber angle cowl mounting 2-56 screw tapped angle adheres another piece carbon fiber inside cowl accept screw head prevent vibration damage fiberglass cowling 2-56 socket bead screws small look hard see Skyray Great idea Mark David Vogland Rateliff Kentucky used several sizes brass tubing soldering gun simulate flush rivets model Mark XIV Spiffire full-scale plane stationed Castle Donington near Derby England simulated rivets made burning place paint hot brass tubing Spit built Yellow Aircraft kit used OS BGX- 3500 power Gone days underpowered sick flying planes little ones flit big ones fly Dave Platt old master himself offered best tips painting Dave never uses just color paint n color chipoh no just starting place Dave says paints lane over different shades ease color makes dark light atterns same way artist approaches ting After trying zreate illusion full-scale plane flying effect after hardline hard-contrasting color scheme correct factory-fresh rather model working war-weary example well-known plane like AM6 Zero 28 Model Aviation Colorful finish Gene Bartons AT6-D Bill McCallie shows flight judges copied Brazilian-registered gear flaps operate checkerplane Model Ziroli design board-nosed P-47-D before flight Marc Levys TR-23bs color markings duplicated entry flown Catherine Manoury 1987-88 Richard Crapps big AN-2 won Best Biplane award crashed because RC transmitter batteries werent charged can almost hear pilots cockpit Richard Crapps AN-2 saying Are comrades ready takeoff Hal Parentis famous model second Navys Ryan Fireball crashed elevator servo failed Kent Nogy applied pieces Coverite Jim Wilkinsons Panama City FL Stuka chrome trim sheet simulate skin earned 8749 points static scoring panels Violett F-86 painted crashed during practice flight Father/son Team Scale entry Jim Maury Maroney took 3rd place Metalcovered P-51 Dave Platt kit Shalish Patels F4U-1A has finish Bud Roane made special pinking shears markings flown substitute cut scale 16-to-the-inch pinks rib Marine pilots squadron tape Thomas Morse Scout Daves static score 8910 will attest great paint job Team Scale category Hal Parenti has ongoing love Ryan Fireball much built another push-me/pull-you planes Top Gun year uses SuperTigre 75 nose propeller side OS 46 internal Kress fan sorry say beautifully built classic bit dust totally destroyed competition Hal well-known Scale modeler put 31000 simulated rivets plane carpenters glue Hal put gray primer plane over rivets before painting deep Navy blue subsequently painted rivet silver butyrate dope over K&B epoxy technique enabled him wipe off mistakes easily affect basic paint job Chuck Fullers Super Stearman known Daring Damsels some handpainted detail Chuck said just used lead pencil lay out details fine high quality brush detail work also told us secret making simulated quick fasteners screw heads files cuts slot top pinhead best effect Kent Nogy finished picture-perfect F-86 now-famous Skyblazer red white blue paint scheme using Coverite Presto Chrome trim seals complete fiberglassed model low temperatures piece cut exact size shape aluminum panel being simulated uses Ditzler paint Aeroloft dry transfers detail markings rivets Kent sprays final coat clear acrylic polyurethane perfect finish Corvin Miller Sarasota Florida used plastic tubing model railroad supply store made special tool singleedge razor blade mounted board plastic tube forced blade split little dab microballoon/epoxy mix rounded ends have itcorrugated wing panel stiffeners Globe Swift instrument panel has radio switch onboard glow driver switch disguised throttle control Open up one-sided canopy turn switches lock canopy down youre flying no unsightly switch stickin out side plane no fuel get switch either Corvins Swift won Best Civilian Aircraft award placed sixth overall year Plans fiberglass cowl available Jerry Caudles F-16-C won award Best Markings help Aeroloft people Arizona Scale tip included time-consuming duplication static wicks wings used discharge static electricity F- 16 Jerry used black fishing line fiberglass aluminum tubing CyAed together Servos used canopy closure inflight engine mixture control Bob Violett flew model Team Scale competition really proud version kit Bud Roan Melbourne Florida made own set scale-sized pinking shears cutting 16-thread/inch 5/16-in bolt quarters lengthwise attaching slices blade pair scissors cuts piece fabric scale pinking tape pinks turn out 16 inchthe scale Thomas Morse Scout Bud also provided photos model bare-bones stage better craftsmanship points let judges see duplication scale structure before covereda handy hint Jet News real history-maker French team s demonstration wave future new propane-fueled turbojet known Turboec T-240 manufactured company called IPX Vibraye France turbo spooled up use compressed air divers air tank As soon reaches right rpm propane valve opened 340-kg stainless steel tank snap-type spark generator ignites propane onboard engine control brain monitors fuel responds throttlethis secret its success no loud sound such normally would have associated old Dynajets form pulse jet Neither loud piercing sound typical ducted fan No just Continued poge 40 Table 1 rt Division Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1Charles NelsonWaco9602800089639013917518652 2Mel WhitleySea Fury9227902588759325918818406 3Diego LopezSkyraider8955915884639200933818180 4Terry NitschF-868816932591509263892518062 5Jeff FoleyZero8969910092758763748818015 6Corvin MillerGlobe Swift8949885087009050925017999 7George BusoNieuport 289355807586886800876317864 8Kent NogyF-868644907593509113902517823 9David HayesRockwell Thrush8918877589009000845017810 10Bill HarrisF-86F8733907587258925902517741 Table 2 Team Scale Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1DiGiorgio/Pickney Beechcraft SNB-5922162759358538935018300 2Violetl/Caudle F-16C9127777590758250872517810 3Maroney/Maroney P-Si846679SO93139100902517579 October 1992 29 Top Gun 1992 Continued page 29 whissssh air rushing out tailpipe producing nine pounds static thrust turbojet ran stopped crowd pilots whatever doing could have hard pin drop quiet Everyone trying hear what sound made jet stayed up five six minutes its maiden flight very close its maximum air time As jets developed used around world fuel consumption problem tank size will solved some ingenious modeler about 40 units out now $3500 Delivery takes three four weeks 12 flying present As soon AMA sets some rulings safety guidelines turbojets will able enter AMA-approved meets jet unit weighs nine pounds generates temperatures up 3500 C thrust tip An oil misting feature has used keep rear turbine shaft bearing going out under power intense heat Real jet power has finally come modelingI knew somebody would British Bunch boys girls Britain made good showing four planes brought Antonov AN-2 Russian transport DH98 Mosquito Trent Meteor Hawker Fury biplanewith complimentary model transportation provided United Parcel Service freight cost some $3000 picked up UPS get team Richard Crapp Peter Jean Guiver pilot Richard Rawle Practical Scale UK Dave Troyer Mike Booth Florida Richard Crapp s entry Antonov AN-2 Russian transport Guivers team entry DH98 Mosquito one-fifth scale Pilot Richard Rawle handled plane flew magnificently received Engineering Excellence award banquet Saturday night Dave Troyer flew little Trent Meteor first known plane fly turboprop engine Mike Booth flew Hawker Fury biplane real sleek-looking airplane its time teams like will take much time effort attend Top Gun maybe youd better try getting next Top Gun 1993 Frank Tiano founder Top Gun event indicated event has invited back West Palm Beach Polo Grounds next year Manufacturers Displays display area series booths various manufacturers vendors could display wares Aviation Heritage Terre Haute Indiana new face year Its booth displayed great Scale documentation have volumes 2 Paul Matt s threeview collection Model Aviation Technology its new six-volt gel-cell battery new 1/3-scale fiberglass fuselage Extra 300 Robinaire Retracts now featuring gear Globe Swift goodlooking P-5 1 struts JPX Vibraye France showed Turboec T-240 turbojet engine Gene Barton Machine great scale items make life Scale easier M&M Models Port Richey Florida great color chip source colors ever would need Top Gun Tees some well-done embroidered T-shirts P-s ls Prop Wash Videos its past videotapes taking orders year s Top Gun well Custom Electronics new use servo universal servo connector company associated Hitec RIC USA Inc also Newman Optics Ogden Utah popular items Zurich International polycarbon wrap-around glasses Boyd Newman provided use glasses Top Gun judges asked use After judging Sawgrass Qualifier Charlie Chambers weekend after Top Gun can tell great Prizes Manufacturers donating prizes 1992 Top Gun event included Ace R/C donated Micro Pro 8000 radio Bob Violett Models donated $300 gift certificate Dave Platt announced event donated FW-190 kit retracts Airtronics provided its latest version eight-channel radio Frank Tinno Enterprises donated cash trophies modelers knife sets given contestant lot blood sweat tears make Top Gun success year FTE also owns new fullystocked hobby shop called Hobby Super Store West Palm Beach Florida Futaba Corporation America gave away nine-channel PCM six-channel FM Aerostar ARF kit Gene Barton well-known pilot machinist donated set Sea Fury Corsair custom-made wheels Hobby Dynamics gave away new JR 347 radio Webra Speed 120 engine House Balsa provided Best Jet trophy awarded Mark Frankel s Skyray cant-do-without Tuffgrinders Top Gun pilot McDaniel R/C provided 12 Nystarters two onboard ignition systems Something everyone could use RIC Reports magazine provided cash free subscriptions Best Biplane trophy awarded Richard Crapp England Robart maker famous retracts donated cash Engineering Excellence trophy won Mosquito Sig Manufacturing Co Inc represented Top Gun 1992 catalogs Spacewalker kit won Corvin Continued page 5S r SWEITZER ENTERPRISES P0 BOX 834 SBORO 7123 PHONE 503640-5102 DH89ARapide60 245-p 96 WINGSPANENGINES SCALE 2 1-0U L 1 4 SheelsV 9Ft5 - A L E PLANS S420O COCKPIT & MARKING DETAIL CANOPY -NOSELIGHT-$ 2500 COMPLETE WING SHOWN FIBERGLASS COWLS 121 SBS00 MATERIAL LIST LADD S 800 FOR AIRMAIL PRICE INCLUDES MAILING TUBE WORLDS FINEST SCALE PLANS RYANPT22 INTRODuCTORy SHORT KIT INCLUDES PLANS FIBERGLASS PICEUFUSELAGECOWL PARTS PRICE INCREASES AFTERHAND CUT RIBS & FORMERS JAN11993PLUS LO WIRE 90-1/4 WINGSPANAlE $33500 ENG NE 28 NS 5200 FIBERGLASS FUSELAGE$13500 LOGS FIBERGLASS COWL & PARTS$10000KITS PLANS----53S0 LG WIRE 0RESEARCH CENTER--SSSS 3VIEWS PHOTOS & MANUALS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ORDERS $25-Plans Only toreigs OverSeas kit orderswritH Shipping Cost 40 Model Aviation Grand Opening Continued page 53 models Free Flight models youngsters learning fly Big birds little birds Scale planes showstoppers Theres darned trade showhow about big swap shop heavens name does get better long-awaited Grand Opening first National Flying Site took place took place history open doors free admission free lunch AMA members families Someone said Wed rich buck car came site Heck bunch us would rich nickel photograph taken Civil Air Patrol parked cars George Steiner came California handle impound AMA Technical Director Bob Underwood ran flight lines crackerjack crewvolunteers like Jay Nealy Joe Vislay others Two AMA staffersBob Vojslavek handling registration Director Marketing Geoff Styles up tower joined three AMA staffers onsite Muncie Phil Sullivan Judy Czajkowski Cliff McKee help organize things Guests AMA members offered sneak preview new AMA museum Thousands took time off flying step museum see plans inspect layout ask years repeated questions will museum open answer Late next spring early next summer Almost exception people bid farewell See next year See yotrntyearYep members have spoken An event like too good run once put bed Its just idea great idea set aside weekend year gather site inspect admire use latest addition improvement development Next year Maybe event will center around opening Frank V Ehling Complex No other act actions AMA its membership has generated much mail precipitated telephone calls written about club newsletters frequently modelers lips Grand Opening National Flying Site came Washington State Oregon California Florida Alabama Texas New England mid-Atlantic great Midwest Did someone say Build will come did Yesss Congratulations AMA members Gun 1992 Continued page 40 Miller Best Civilian award-winning Globe Swift Yellow Aircraft donated $250 gift certificate toward its great kits F3op Gun well-diversified exciting show best best Scale invited compete sunny florida can get video Top Gun companies like Prop Wash Videos captures action ber 1992 55 1993 Nationals will held Lubbock Texas July 17-26 1993 BafferIeSfqUVgqAH TflFU FEATURES SUSPENDED ELECTROLYTE CYCLE FLOAT OPTIONS DISCHARGE RATE LEAK PROOF NO POLARITY CHANGE ACT RUGGED EXTENDED SHELF LIFE EASY HANDLING
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/10
Page Numbers: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 55
Above Jeff Foleys Zero took 5th place Great-flying model used OS Max 108 powerbuilt Dave Plaft kit Top Gun Charles Nelsons Waco biplane below High points static judging plus lots flying experience did TOP GUN premier invitational Scale event 1992 meet held West Palm Beach Polo Club Wellington Floridathe same location 91 Frank Tianos dream great event attracting more modelers public alike magnificent field great facilities food great enough variety models designs please anyone Heavy metal WW II planes WW examples private planes transports competed head-to-head honors Top Gun little Waco bipe 115 scale took top static points 9602 highest overall score 18652 Charlie Nelson has flying since 1987 scores Top Gun represented best three out four flight scores averaged added static score year static judging done judge standard 15-foot distance workmanship done close eight feet model judges conferred another considered categories Finish Color Marking Accuracy Outline Craftsmanship make sure no areas overlooked model modelers pleased give some best Scale modeling tips techniques As read article will able pick up some great ideas expert contestants Top Gun use next project weather perfect static judging got real gusty right before practice flying began Thursday Friday contributed some minor mishaps crashes Friday planes set along fence several occasions benefit public right after static judging again both days competition opportunity get own shots favorite model grandstand full time polo club great place get good eye-level videos flights No contest can run perfectly Top Gun year trained assistance Palm Beach Aero Club Its membership did work meet thanks also due major sponsors Herschel Worthy Pacer Technology maker Zap products provided cash hats glue kits contestant airfare Scale judges Tom Atwood editor Model Airplane News magazine provided cash shirts magazines public modelers trophies judges motel rooms Top Gun modelers appreciate support foresight October 1992 25 Left Top award winners L-H Jerry uauaielF-16 Best Markings Charles NelsonlWaco biplane Top Gun Roger YounglC-47 Critics Choice Corvin MillerlGlobe Swift Best Civilian Plane Right Thousands spectators crowded grandstands Jerry Caudles Metropolis Illinois F-16-C Violett kit shows off its superlative best-of-show markings Twin Zenoah G-38s Bob Pickneys Twin Beech SNB-5 make sound much like its full-scale counterpart air Mike Booths Hawker Fury Mk biplane used Zenoah G-38 power lift 22-lb aluminum-covered beauty Detail around Beechs door added another layer before painting Rivets easily visible photo New stooge R/C Launcher & Pit Crew great safety item sample available pilot try out important contributions lifeblood Top Gun Highlights Flying Action Diego Lopez took third place now-famous 1991 Scalemaster champion Skyraider Diego scored 8955 static overall third-place score 1818 points tragic flight avoided folding wings down locked Skyraider ran down runway Diego spotted problem shut engine down before plane left ground zeroed attempted takeoff flight Terry Nitsch just flies Violett F-86 better time hard get pictures model flying speeds over 100 mph Terrys F-86 flies much faster amazing stable plane during low slow dirty passes required year demonstrate significant difference between high- low-speed fly-by WW types just about have speedslow-and makes tough judge point Jeff Foley flew Zero A6M3 built Dave Platt kit powered OS Max 108 It weighed 18 pounds / lage detailing Roger Youngs C-47 makes easy see model merited Critics Choice award Dave Plafts WW II Zero great cockpit detailnot required rules Craftsmanship points suffer its absent Bill Carpers P-47D sported scale replica big Curtiss electric 4-bladed prop ST 3000 powers 24-lb beauty 26 Model Aviation F-16s Sidewinder missile exemplifies degree excellence detailing necessary win Top Gun David Maichiones Navy trainer based Violett T-33 kit Big model flies easily enough use novice Jet pilots 80-inch wingspan excellent wing loading easier fly lighter plane harder build scale details added models caliber Zero very popular like Daves other all-balsa kits flies great Corvin Millers Globe Swift captured Best Civilian award year placed sixth overall proving again can compete nonmilitary entry Corvin 8949 static points could get flying points needed win Corvins wife Cheri like wives great help husbands sport salute ladies go out abandoned aiffield sit heat listen flying story after another have look guys knobby knees ratty shorts seen model meets Bob Pickneys Team Scale entry 13 entries year event getting more popular lop Gun first place award Best Military went beautiful Beech SNB-5 Ziroli plans one-fifth scale flown Dean DiGiorgio guys dressed all-white Navy dress uniforms white-and-red twin Beech flew good looked 45-lb Beech 114-in wingspan neat nose cone door opened up switch access nacelles two Z-38 engines housed Robart retracts Guidance provided ever-popular Futaba radio Bob over 80000 simulated rivets over model applied using RC-56 white glue hypo needle Beech model 18 modeled after Navy Museum Pensacola Florida Tom Noser built two B-25s entered Team Scale Top Gun year Zirolis design painted blue Navy PBJ-lJ version Two OS 120 four-cycles made great realism sound pilot Tom Street Bill Steffes built second Ziroli B-25 flown its designer Nick Ziroli sported Army Air Corps camouflage paint scheme Nicks placed ninth PBJ-1J placed 10th youre great builder good flier would like should team up friend get Team Scale Mark Levy came way France fly green white one-third-scale Sirius TR325 model refreshing new paint scheme arrows bottom wings female pilot could seen board since lady named Catherine Maunoury flew plane 1987-88 Aerobatics Championships France under sponsorship EMS Chronopost worldwide express mailing service Scale Tips Top Gun Mel Whitley last years Top Gun champion newly-built Sea Fury named MiG Killer since first prop-driven aircraft shoot down MiG jet combat 155-scale duplicate last years lop Gun-winning model flown OS BGX-3500 sounds like real thing Mel cuts back throttle allows engine backfire prop whirs through air 18406 just good enough win Top Gun again year impressive static score 9227 Mel second place Mels best tip Scale modeling use mechanicallelectrical retracts best reliability power heavily detailed landing gear bigger /5through 1/3-scale models Mel uses Airtronics sail winch servo regular transit time seven eight seconds gear removing gears standard air cylinder hooking up directly locking mechanism Art Johnson has written some great articles method interested getting rid air-operated retract system youve fighting Master builder Art Johnson beautiful all-metal-covered P-35 meet Art said used wood tongue depressor smooth out glue-backed 005 aluminum plane worked well Bill Carper magnificent P-47 named Hands Off did no-wheels emergency landing official flight since full-scale-world pilot could have survived called emergency landing Bill received points landing after engine flamed out Bill said acheived flush-riveted look using tool made sharpened brass tubing rolled around flat painted surfaces model Locations first marked pencil Nick Ziroli Rich Uravitich entered AT6-D Team Scale featured simulated rivets made drops Sobo glue product does shrink can bought craft stores red white blue paint scheme copied plane Brazil Youll see lot new paint schemes AT6 Unlimited RC Air Races Madera California September October 1992 27 Bill Steffes Ziroli-designed B-25 used two Zenoah G-23s power Futaba radio guidance Nick Ziroli pilot Mark Frankels big 20-lb F4D-1 Skyray ducted-fan ship dips wing during crowd-pleasing flyby Team Scale Peter Guivers 10-ft-span 50-lb 1/5-5Cale WW II DH Mosquito won meets Engineering Excellence award Diego Lopezs 3rd-place Douglas Skyraider blasts off official flight Models folding wings operate RC David Tayer modeled one-of-a-kind Gloster Meteor powered pair Rolls Royce Trent turboprops Mel Whitley makes takeoffs look easy Sea Fury reason hes flying design competition years Mark Frankel Skyray arrived fly Team Scale usual pilot quickly found new after Tom Cook didnt show up Fourteen servos helped control fan-jet painted Norad defense plane called FAW 3 Alaska built one-seventh scale weighed 21 pounds Dynamax fan unit 05 Max 81 powered Mark said model taken off landed same nose-high attitude full-scale jet tendency Dutch roll wobble delta-wing designs ever-popular F4D- 1 Skyray first flown ducted fan Jet Dave Platt Nationals seventies Lake Charles Louisiana Marks best Scale tip suggestion use piece carbon-fiber angle cowl mounting 2-56 screw tapped angle adheres another piece carbon fiber inside cowl accept screw head prevent vibration damage fiberglass cowling 2-56 socket bead screws small look hard see Skyray Great idea Mark David Vogland Rateliff Kentucky used several sizes brass tubing soldering gun simulate flush rivets model Mark XIV Spiffire full-scale plane stationed Castle Donington near Derby England simulated rivets made burning place paint hot brass tubing Spit built Yellow Aircraft kit used OS BGX- 3500 power Gone days underpowered sick flying planes little ones flit big ones fly Dave Platt old master himself offered best tips painting Dave never uses just color paint n color chipoh no just starting place Dave says paints lane over different shades ease color makes dark light atterns same way artist approaches ting After trying zreate illusion full-scale plane flying effect after hardline hard-contrasting color scheme correct factory-fresh rather model working war-weary example well-known plane like AM6 Zero 28 Model Aviation Colorful finish Gene Bartons AT6-D Bill McCallie shows flight judges copied Brazilian-registered gear flaps operate checkerplane Model Ziroli design board-nosed P-47-D before flight Marc Levys TR-23bs color markings duplicated entry flown Catherine Manoury 1987-88 Richard Crapps big AN-2 won Best Biplane award crashed because RC transmitter batteries werent charged can almost hear pilots cockpit Richard Crapps AN-2 saying Are comrades ready takeoff Hal Parentis famous model second Navys Ryan Fireball crashed elevator servo failed Kent Nogy applied pieces Coverite Jim Wilkinsons Panama City FL Stuka chrome trim sheet simulate skin earned 8749 points static scoring panels Violett F-86 painted crashed during practice flight Father/son Team Scale entry Jim Maury Maroney took 3rd place Metalcovered P-51 Dave Platt kit Shalish Patels F4U-1A has finish Bud Roane made special pinking shears markings flown substitute cut scale 16-to-the-inch pinks rib Marine pilots squadron tape Thomas Morse Scout Daves static score 8910 will attest great paint job Team Scale category Hal Parenti has ongoing love Ryan Fireball much built another push-me/pull-you planes Top Gun year uses SuperTigre 75 nose propeller side OS 46 internal Kress fan sorry say beautifully built classic bit dust totally destroyed competition Hal well-known Scale modeler put 31000 simulated rivets plane carpenters glue Hal put gray primer plane over rivets before painting deep Navy blue subsequently painted rivet silver butyrate dope over K&B epoxy technique enabled him wipe off mistakes easily affect basic paint job Chuck Fullers Super Stearman known Daring Damsels some handpainted detail Chuck said just used lead pencil lay out details fine high quality brush detail work also told us secret making simulated quick fasteners screw heads files cuts slot top pinhead best effect Kent Nogy finished picture-perfect F-86 now-famous Skyblazer red white blue paint scheme using Coverite Presto Chrome trim seals complete fiberglassed model low temperatures piece cut exact size shape aluminum panel being simulated uses Ditzler paint Aeroloft dry transfers detail markings rivets Kent sprays final coat clear acrylic polyurethane perfect finish Corvin Miller Sarasota Florida used plastic tubing model railroad supply store made special tool singleedge razor blade mounted board plastic tube forced blade split little dab microballoon/epoxy mix rounded ends have itcorrugated wing panel stiffeners Globe Swift instrument panel has radio switch onboard glow driver switch disguised throttle control Open up one-sided canopy turn switches lock canopy down youre flying no unsightly switch stickin out side plane no fuel get switch either Corvins Swift won Best Civilian Aircraft award placed sixth overall year Plans fiberglass cowl available Jerry Caudles F-16-C won award Best Markings help Aeroloft people Arizona Scale tip included time-consuming duplication static wicks wings used discharge static electricity F- 16 Jerry used black fishing line fiberglass aluminum tubing CyAed together Servos used canopy closure inflight engine mixture control Bob Violett flew model Team Scale competition really proud version kit Bud Roan Melbourne Florida made own set scale-sized pinking shears cutting 16-thread/inch 5/16-in bolt quarters lengthwise attaching slices blade pair scissors cuts piece fabric scale pinking tape pinks turn out 16 inchthe scale Thomas Morse Scout Bud also provided photos model bare-bones stage better craftsmanship points let judges see duplication scale structure before covereda handy hint Jet News real history-maker French team s demonstration wave future new propane-fueled turbojet known Turboec T-240 manufactured company called IPX Vibraye France turbo spooled up use compressed air divers air tank As soon reaches right rpm propane valve opened 340-kg stainless steel tank snap-type spark generator ignites propane onboard engine control brain monitors fuel responds throttlethis secret its success no loud sound such normally would have associated old Dynajets form pulse jet Neither loud piercing sound typical ducted fan No just Continued poge 40 Table 1 rt Division Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1Charles NelsonWaco9602800089639013917518652 2Mel WhitleySea Fury9227902588759325918818406 3Diego LopezSkyraider8955915884639200933818180 4Terry NitschF-868816932591509263892518062 5Jeff FoleyZero8969910092758763748818015 6Corvin MillerGlobe Swift8949885087009050925017999 7George BusoNieuport 289355807586886800876317864 8Kent NogyF-868644907593509113902517823 9David HayesRockwell Thrush8918877589009000845017810 10Bill HarrisF-86F8733907587258925902517741 Table 2 Team Scale Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1DiGiorgio/Pickney Beechcraft SNB-5922162759358538935018300 2Violetl/Caudle F-16C9127777590758250872517810 3Maroney/Maroney P-Si846679SO93139100902517579 October 1992 29 Top Gun 1992 Continued page 29 whissssh air rushing out tailpipe producing nine pounds static thrust turbojet ran stopped crowd pilots whatever doing could have hard pin drop quiet Everyone trying hear what sound made jet stayed up five six minutes its maiden flight very close its maximum air time As jets developed used around world fuel consumption problem tank size will solved some ingenious modeler about 40 units out now $3500 Delivery takes three four weeks 12 flying present As soon AMA sets some rulings safety guidelines turbojets will able enter AMA-approved meets jet unit weighs nine pounds generates temperatures up 3500 C thrust tip An oil misting feature has used keep rear turbine shaft bearing going out under power intense heat Real jet power has finally come modelingI knew somebody would British Bunch boys girls Britain made good showing four planes brought Antonov AN-2 Russian transport DH98 Mosquito Trent Meteor Hawker Fury biplanewith complimentary model transportation provided United Parcel Service freight cost some $3000 picked up UPS get team Richard Crapp Peter Jean Guiver pilot Richard Rawle Practical Scale UK Dave Troyer Mike Booth Florida Richard Crapp s entry Antonov AN-2 Russian transport Guivers team entry DH98 Mosquito one-fifth scale Pilot Richard Rawle handled plane flew magnificently received Engineering Excellence award banquet Saturday night Dave Troyer flew little Trent Meteor first known plane fly turboprop engine Mike Booth flew Hawker Fury biplane real sleek-looking airplane its time teams like will take much time effort attend Top Gun maybe youd better try getting next Top Gun 1993 Frank Tiano founder Top Gun event indicated event has invited back West Palm Beach Polo Grounds next year Manufacturers Displays display area series booths various manufacturers vendors could display wares Aviation Heritage Terre Haute Indiana new face year Its booth displayed great Scale documentation have volumes 2 Paul Matt s threeview collection Model Aviation Technology its new six-volt gel-cell battery new 1/3-scale fiberglass fuselage Extra 300 Robinaire Retracts now featuring gear Globe Swift goodlooking P-5 1 struts JPX Vibraye France showed Turboec T-240 turbojet engine Gene Barton Machine great scale items make life Scale easier M&M Models Port Richey Florida great color chip source colors ever would need Top Gun Tees some well-done embroidered T-shirts P-s ls Prop Wash Videos its past videotapes taking orders year s Top Gun well Custom Electronics new use servo universal servo connector company associated Hitec RIC USA Inc also Newman Optics Ogden Utah popular items Zurich International polycarbon wrap-around glasses Boyd Newman provided use glasses Top Gun judges asked use After judging Sawgrass Qualifier Charlie Chambers weekend after Top Gun can tell great Prizes Manufacturers donating prizes 1992 Top Gun event included Ace R/C donated Micro Pro 8000 radio Bob Violett Models donated $300 gift certificate Dave Platt announced event donated FW-190 kit retracts Airtronics provided its latest version eight-channel radio Frank Tinno Enterprises donated cash trophies modelers knife sets given contestant lot blood sweat tears make Top Gun success year FTE also owns new fullystocked hobby shop called Hobby Super Store West Palm Beach Florida Futaba Corporation America gave away nine-channel PCM six-channel FM Aerostar ARF kit Gene Barton well-known pilot machinist donated set Sea Fury Corsair custom-made wheels Hobby Dynamics gave away new JR 347 radio Webra Speed 120 engine House Balsa provided Best Jet trophy awarded Mark Frankel s Skyray cant-do-without Tuffgrinders Top Gun pilot McDaniel R/C provided 12 Nystarters two onboard ignition systems Something everyone could use RIC Reports magazine provided cash free subscriptions Best Biplane trophy awarded Richard Crapp England Robart maker famous retracts donated cash Engineering Excellence trophy won Mosquito Sig Manufacturing Co Inc represented Top Gun 1992 catalogs Spacewalker kit won Corvin Continued page 5S r SWEITZER ENTERPRISES P0 BOX 834 SBORO 7123 PHONE 503640-5102 DH89ARapide60 245-p 96 WINGSPANENGINES SCALE 2 1-0U L 1 4 SheelsV 9Ft5 - A L E PLANS S420O COCKPIT & MARKING DETAIL CANOPY -NOSELIGHT-$ 2500 COMPLETE WING SHOWN FIBERGLASS COWLS 121 SBS00 MATERIAL LIST LADD S 800 FOR AIRMAIL PRICE INCLUDES MAILING TUBE WORLDS FINEST SCALE PLANS RYANPT22 INTRODuCTORy SHORT KIT INCLUDES PLANS FIBERGLASS PICEUFUSELAGECOWL PARTS PRICE INCREASES AFTERHAND CUT RIBS & FORMERS JAN11993PLUS LO WIRE 90-1/4 WINGSPANAlE $33500 ENG NE 28 NS 5200 FIBERGLASS FUSELAGE$13500 LOGS FIBERGLASS COWL & PARTS$10000KITS PLANS----53S0 LG WIRE 0RESEARCH CENTER--SSSS 3VIEWS PHOTOS & MANUALS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ORDERS $25-Plans Only toreigs OverSeas kit orderswritH Shipping Cost 40 Model Aviation Grand Opening Continued page 53 models Free Flight models youngsters learning fly Big birds little birds Scale planes showstoppers Theres darned trade showhow about big swap shop heavens name does get better long-awaited Grand Opening first National Flying Site took place took place history open doors free admission free lunch AMA members families Someone said Wed rich buck car came site Heck bunch us would rich nickel photograph taken Civil Air Patrol parked cars George Steiner came California handle impound AMA Technical Director Bob Underwood ran flight lines crackerjack crewvolunteers like Jay Nealy Joe Vislay others Two AMA staffersBob Vojslavek handling registration Director Marketing Geoff Styles up tower joined three AMA staffers onsite Muncie Phil Sullivan Judy Czajkowski Cliff McKee help organize things Guests AMA members offered sneak preview new AMA museum Thousands took time off flying step museum see plans inspect layout ask years repeated questions will museum open answer Late next spring early next summer Almost exception people bid farewell See next year See yotrntyearYep members have spoken An event like too good run once put bed Its just idea great idea set aside weekend year gather site inspect admire use latest addition improvement development Next year Maybe event will center around opening Frank V Ehling Complex No other act actions AMA its membership has generated much mail precipitated telephone calls written about club newsletters frequently modelers lips Grand Opening National Flying Site came Washington State Oregon California Florida Alabama Texas New England mid-Atlantic great Midwest Did someone say Build will come did Yesss Congratulations AMA members Gun 1992 Continued page 40 Miller Best Civilian award-winning Globe Swift Yellow Aircraft donated $250 gift certificate toward its great kits F3op Gun well-diversified exciting show best best Scale invited compete sunny florida can get video Top Gun companies like Prop Wash Videos captures action ber 1992 55 1993 Nationals will held Lubbock Texas July 17-26 1993 BafferIeSfqUVgqAH TflFU FEATURES SUSPENDED ELECTROLYTE CYCLE FLOAT OPTIONS DISCHARGE RATE LEAK PROOF NO POLARITY CHANGE ACT RUGGED EXTENDED SHELF LIFE EASY HANDLING
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/10
Page Numbers: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 55
Above Jeff Foleys Zero took 5th place Great-flying model used OS Max 108 powerbuilt Dave Plaft kit Top Gun Charles Nelsons Waco biplane below High points static judging plus lots flying experience did TOP GUN premier invitational Scale event 1992 meet held West Palm Beach Polo Club Wellington Floridathe same location 91 Frank Tianos dream great event attracting more modelers public alike magnificent field great facilities food great enough variety models designs please anyone Heavy metal WW II planes WW examples private planes transports competed head-to-head honors Top Gun little Waco bipe 115 scale took top static points 9602 highest overall score 18652 Charlie Nelson has flying since 1987 scores Top Gun represented best three out four flight scores averaged added static score year static judging done judge standard 15-foot distance workmanship done close eight feet model judges conferred another considered categories Finish Color Marking Accuracy Outline Craftsmanship make sure no areas overlooked model modelers pleased give some best Scale modeling tips techniques As read article will able pick up some great ideas expert contestants Top Gun use next project weather perfect static judging got real gusty right before practice flying began Thursday Friday contributed some minor mishaps crashes Friday planes set along fence several occasions benefit public right after static judging again both days competition opportunity get own shots favorite model grandstand full time polo club great place get good eye-level videos flights No contest can run perfectly Top Gun year trained assistance Palm Beach Aero Club Its membership did work meet thanks also due major sponsors Herschel Worthy Pacer Technology maker Zap products provided cash hats glue kits contestant airfare Scale judges Tom Atwood editor Model Airplane News magazine provided cash shirts magazines public modelers trophies judges motel rooms Top Gun modelers appreciate support foresight October 1992 25 Left Top award winners L-H Jerry uauaielF-16 Best Markings Charles NelsonlWaco biplane Top Gun Roger YounglC-47 Critics Choice Corvin MillerlGlobe Swift Best Civilian Plane Right Thousands spectators crowded grandstands Jerry Caudles Metropolis Illinois F-16-C Violett kit shows off its superlative best-of-show markings Twin Zenoah G-38s Bob Pickneys Twin Beech SNB-5 make sound much like its full-scale counterpart air Mike Booths Hawker Fury Mk biplane used Zenoah G-38 power lift 22-lb aluminum-covered beauty Detail around Beechs door added another layer before painting Rivets easily visible photo New stooge R/C Launcher & Pit Crew great safety item sample available pilot try out important contributions lifeblood Top Gun Highlights Flying Action Diego Lopez took third place now-famous 1991 Scalemaster champion Skyraider Diego scored 8955 static overall third-place score 1818 points tragic flight avoided folding wings down locked Skyraider ran down runway Diego spotted problem shut engine down before plane left ground zeroed attempted takeoff flight Terry Nitsch just flies Violett F-86 better time hard get pictures model flying speeds over 100 mph Terrys F-86 flies much faster amazing stable plane during low slow dirty passes required year demonstrate significant difference between high- low-speed fly-by WW types just about have speedslow-and makes tough judge point Jeff Foley flew Zero A6M3 built Dave Platt kit powered OS Max 108 It weighed 18 pounds / lage detailing Roger Youngs C-47 makes easy see model merited Critics Choice award Dave Plafts WW II Zero great cockpit detailnot required rules Craftsmanship points suffer its absent Bill Carpers P-47D sported scale replica big Curtiss electric 4-bladed prop ST 3000 powers 24-lb beauty 26 Model Aviation F-16s Sidewinder missile exemplifies degree excellence detailing necessary win Top Gun David Maichiones Navy trainer based Violett T-33 kit Big model flies easily enough use novice Jet pilots 80-inch wingspan excellent wing loading easier fly lighter plane harder build scale details added models caliber Zero very popular like Daves other all-balsa kits flies great Corvin Millers Globe Swift captured Best Civilian award year placed sixth overall proving again can compete nonmilitary entry Corvin 8949 static points could get flying points needed win Corvins wife Cheri like wives great help husbands sport salute ladies go out abandoned aiffield sit heat listen flying story after another have look guys knobby knees ratty shorts seen model meets Bob Pickneys Team Scale entry 13 entries year event getting more popular lop Gun first place award Best Military went beautiful Beech SNB-5 Ziroli plans one-fifth scale flown Dean DiGiorgio guys dressed all-white Navy dress uniforms white-and-red twin Beech flew good looked 45-lb Beech 114-in wingspan neat nose cone door opened up switch access nacelles two Z-38 engines housed Robart retracts Guidance provided ever-popular Futaba radio Bob over 80000 simulated rivets over model applied using RC-56 white glue hypo needle Beech model 18 modeled after Navy Museum Pensacola Florida Tom Noser built two B-25s entered Team Scale Top Gun year Zirolis design painted blue Navy PBJ-lJ version Two OS 120 four-cycles made great realism sound pilot Tom Street Bill Steffes built second Ziroli B-25 flown its designer Nick Ziroli sported Army Air Corps camouflage paint scheme Nicks placed ninth PBJ-1J placed 10th youre great builder good flier would like should team up friend get Team Scale Mark Levy came way France fly green white one-third-scale Sirius TR325 model refreshing new paint scheme arrows bottom wings female pilot could seen board since lady named Catherine Maunoury flew plane 1987-88 Aerobatics Championships France under sponsorship EMS Chronopost worldwide express mailing service Scale Tips Top Gun Mel Whitley last years Top Gun champion newly-built Sea Fury named MiG Killer since first prop-driven aircraft shoot down MiG jet combat 155-scale duplicate last years lop Gun-winning model flown OS BGX-3500 sounds like real thing Mel cuts back throttle allows engine backfire prop whirs through air 18406 just good enough win Top Gun again year impressive static score 9227 Mel second place Mels best tip Scale modeling use mechanicallelectrical retracts best reliability power heavily detailed landing gear bigger /5through 1/3-scale models Mel uses Airtronics sail winch servo regular transit time seven eight seconds gear removing gears standard air cylinder hooking up directly locking mechanism Art Johnson has written some great articles method interested getting rid air-operated retract system youve fighting Master builder Art Johnson beautiful all-metal-covered P-35 meet Art said used wood tongue depressor smooth out glue-backed 005 aluminum plane worked well Bill Carper magnificent P-47 named Hands Off did no-wheels emergency landing official flight since full-scale-world pilot could have survived called emergency landing Bill received points landing after engine flamed out Bill said acheived flush-riveted look using tool made sharpened brass tubing rolled around flat painted surfaces model Locations first marked pencil Nick Ziroli Rich Uravitich entered AT6-D Team Scale featured simulated rivets made drops Sobo glue product does shrink can bought craft stores red white blue paint scheme copied plane Brazil Youll see lot new paint schemes AT6 Unlimited RC Air Races Madera California September October 1992 27 Bill Steffes Ziroli-designed B-25 used two Zenoah G-23s power Futaba radio guidance Nick Ziroli pilot Mark Frankels big 20-lb F4D-1 Skyray ducted-fan ship dips wing during crowd-pleasing flyby Team Scale Peter Guivers 10-ft-span 50-lb 1/5-5Cale WW II DH Mosquito won meets Engineering Excellence award Diego Lopezs 3rd-place Douglas Skyraider blasts off official flight Models folding wings operate RC David Tayer modeled one-of-a-kind Gloster Meteor powered pair Rolls Royce Trent turboprops Mel Whitley makes takeoffs look easy Sea Fury reason hes flying design competition years Mark Frankel Skyray arrived fly Team Scale usual pilot quickly found new after Tom Cook didnt show up Fourteen servos helped control fan-jet painted Norad defense plane called FAW 3 Alaska built one-seventh scale weighed 21 pounds Dynamax fan unit 05 Max 81 powered Mark said model taken off landed same nose-high attitude full-scale jet tendency Dutch roll wobble delta-wing designs ever-popular F4D- 1 Skyray first flown ducted fan Jet Dave Platt Nationals seventies Lake Charles Louisiana Marks best Scale tip suggestion use piece carbon-fiber angle cowl mounting 2-56 screw tapped angle adheres another piece carbon fiber inside cowl accept screw head prevent vibration damage fiberglass cowling 2-56 socket bead screws small look hard see Skyray Great idea Mark David Vogland Rateliff Kentucky used several sizes brass tubing soldering gun simulate flush rivets model Mark XIV Spiffire full-scale plane stationed Castle Donington near Derby England simulated rivets made burning place paint hot brass tubing Spit built Yellow Aircraft kit used OS BGX- 3500 power Gone days underpowered sick flying planes little ones flit big ones fly Dave Platt old master himself offered best tips painting Dave never uses just color paint n color chipoh no just starting place Dave says paints lane over different shades ease color makes dark light atterns same way artist approaches ting After trying zreate illusion full-scale plane flying effect after hardline hard-contrasting color scheme correct factory-fresh rather model working war-weary example well-known plane like AM6 Zero 28 Model Aviation Colorful finish Gene Bartons AT6-D Bill McCallie shows flight judges copied Brazilian-registered gear flaps operate checkerplane Model Ziroli design board-nosed P-47-D before flight Marc Levys TR-23bs color markings duplicated entry flown Catherine Manoury 1987-88 Richard Crapps big AN-2 won Best Biplane award crashed because RC transmitter batteries werent charged can almost hear pilots cockpit Richard Crapps AN-2 saying Are comrades ready takeoff Hal Parentis famous model second Navys Ryan Fireball crashed elevator servo failed Kent Nogy applied pieces Coverite Jim Wilkinsons Panama City FL Stuka chrome trim sheet simulate skin earned 8749 points static scoring panels Violett F-86 painted crashed during practice flight Father/son Team Scale entry Jim Maury Maroney took 3rd place Metalcovered P-51 Dave Platt kit Shalish Patels F4U-1A has finish Bud Roane made special pinking shears markings flown substitute cut scale 16-to-the-inch pinks rib Marine pilots squadron tape Thomas Morse Scout Daves static score 8910 will attest great paint job Team Scale category Hal Parenti has ongoing love Ryan Fireball much built another push-me/pull-you planes Top Gun year uses SuperTigre 75 nose propeller side OS 46 internal Kress fan sorry say beautifully built classic bit dust totally destroyed competition Hal well-known Scale modeler put 31000 simulated rivets plane carpenters glue Hal put gray primer plane over rivets before painting deep Navy blue subsequently painted rivet silver butyrate dope over K&B epoxy technique enabled him wipe off mistakes easily affect basic paint job Chuck Fullers Super Stearman known Daring Damsels some handpainted detail Chuck said just used lead pencil lay out details fine high quality brush detail work also told us secret making simulated quick fasteners screw heads files cuts slot top pinhead best effect Kent Nogy finished picture-perfect F-86 now-famous Skyblazer red white blue paint scheme using Coverite Presto Chrome trim seals complete fiberglassed model low temperatures piece cut exact size shape aluminum panel being simulated uses Ditzler paint Aeroloft dry transfers detail markings rivets Kent sprays final coat clear acrylic polyurethane perfect finish Corvin Miller Sarasota Florida used plastic tubing model railroad supply store made special tool singleedge razor blade mounted board plastic tube forced blade split little dab microballoon/epoxy mix rounded ends have itcorrugated wing panel stiffeners Globe Swift instrument panel has radio switch onboard glow driver switch disguised throttle control Open up one-sided canopy turn switches lock canopy down youre flying no unsightly switch stickin out side plane no fuel get switch either Corvins Swift won Best Civilian Aircraft award placed sixth overall year Plans fiberglass cowl available Jerry Caudles F-16-C won award Best Markings help Aeroloft people Arizona Scale tip included time-consuming duplication static wicks wings used discharge static electricity F- 16 Jerry used black fishing line fiberglass aluminum tubing CyAed together Servos used canopy closure inflight engine mixture control Bob Violett flew model Team Scale competition really proud version kit Bud Roan Melbourne Florida made own set scale-sized pinking shears cutting 16-thread/inch 5/16-in bolt quarters lengthwise attaching slices blade pair scissors cuts piece fabric scale pinking tape pinks turn out 16 inchthe scale Thomas Morse Scout Bud also provided photos model bare-bones stage better craftsmanship points let judges see duplication scale structure before covereda handy hint Jet News real history-maker French team s demonstration wave future new propane-fueled turbojet known Turboec T-240 manufactured company called IPX Vibraye France turbo spooled up use compressed air divers air tank As soon reaches right rpm propane valve opened 340-kg stainless steel tank snap-type spark generator ignites propane onboard engine control brain monitors fuel responds throttlethis secret its success no loud sound such normally would have associated old Dynajets form pulse jet Neither loud piercing sound typical ducted fan No just Continued poge 40 Table 1 rt Division Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1Charles NelsonWaco9602800089639013917518652 2Mel WhitleySea Fury9227902588759325918818406 3Diego LopezSkyraider8955915884639200933818180 4Terry NitschF-868816932591509263892518062 5Jeff FoleyZero8969910092758763748818015 6Corvin MillerGlobe Swift8949885087009050925017999 7George BusoNieuport 289355807586886800876317864 8Kent NogyF-868644907593509113902517823 9David HayesRockwell Thrush8918877589009000845017810 10Bill HarrisF-86F8733907587258925902517741 Table 2 Team Scale Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1DiGiorgio/Pickney Beechcraft SNB-5922162759358538935018300 2Violetl/Caudle F-16C9127777590758250872517810 3Maroney/Maroney P-Si846679SO93139100902517579 October 1992 29 Top Gun 1992 Continued page 29 whissssh air rushing out tailpipe producing nine pounds static thrust turbojet ran stopped crowd pilots whatever doing could have hard pin drop quiet Everyone trying hear what sound made jet stayed up five six minutes its maiden flight very close its maximum air time As jets developed used around world fuel consumption problem tank size will solved some ingenious modeler about 40 units out now $3500 Delivery takes three four weeks 12 flying present As soon AMA sets some rulings safety guidelines turbojets will able enter AMA-approved meets jet unit weighs nine pounds generates temperatures up 3500 C thrust tip An oil misting feature has used keep rear turbine shaft bearing going out under power intense heat Real jet power has finally come modelingI knew somebody would British Bunch boys girls Britain made good showing four planes brought Antonov AN-2 Russian transport DH98 Mosquito Trent Meteor Hawker Fury biplanewith complimentary model transportation provided United Parcel Service freight cost some $3000 picked up UPS get team Richard Crapp Peter Jean Guiver pilot Richard Rawle Practical Scale UK Dave Troyer Mike Booth Florida Richard Crapp s entry Antonov AN-2 Russian transport Guivers team entry DH98 Mosquito one-fifth scale Pilot Richard Rawle handled plane flew magnificently received Engineering Excellence award banquet Saturday night Dave Troyer flew little Trent Meteor first known plane fly turboprop engine Mike Booth flew Hawker Fury biplane real sleek-looking airplane its time teams like will take much time effort attend Top Gun maybe youd better try getting next Top Gun 1993 Frank Tiano founder Top Gun event indicated event has invited back West Palm Beach Polo Grounds next year Manufacturers Displays display area series booths various manufacturers vendors could display wares Aviation Heritage Terre Haute Indiana new face year Its booth displayed great Scale documentation have volumes 2 Paul Matt s threeview collection Model Aviation Technology its new six-volt gel-cell battery new 1/3-scale fiberglass fuselage Extra 300 Robinaire Retracts now featuring gear Globe Swift goodlooking P-5 1 struts JPX Vibraye France showed Turboec T-240 turbojet engine Gene Barton Machine great scale items make life Scale easier M&M Models Port Richey Florida great color chip source colors ever would need Top Gun Tees some well-done embroidered T-shirts P-s ls Prop Wash Videos its past videotapes taking orders year s Top Gun well Custom Electronics new use servo universal servo connector company associated Hitec RIC USA Inc also Newman Optics Ogden Utah popular items Zurich International polycarbon wrap-around glasses Boyd Newman provided use glasses Top Gun judges asked use After judging Sawgrass Qualifier Charlie Chambers weekend after Top Gun can tell great Prizes Manufacturers donating prizes 1992 Top Gun event included Ace R/C donated Micro Pro 8000 radio Bob Violett Models donated $300 gift certificate Dave Platt announced event donated FW-190 kit retracts Airtronics provided its latest version eight-channel radio Frank Tinno Enterprises donated cash trophies modelers knife sets given contestant lot blood sweat tears make Top Gun success year FTE also owns new fullystocked hobby shop called Hobby Super Store West Palm Beach Florida Futaba Corporation America gave away nine-channel PCM six-channel FM Aerostar ARF kit Gene Barton well-known pilot machinist donated set Sea Fury Corsair custom-made wheels Hobby Dynamics gave away new JR 347 radio Webra Speed 120 engine House Balsa provided Best Jet trophy awarded Mark Frankel s Skyray cant-do-without Tuffgrinders Top Gun pilot McDaniel R/C provided 12 Nystarters two onboard ignition systems Something everyone could use RIC Reports magazine provided cash free subscriptions Best Biplane trophy awarded Richard Crapp England Robart maker famous retracts donated cash Engineering Excellence trophy won Mosquito Sig Manufacturing Co Inc represented Top Gun 1992 catalogs Spacewalker kit won Corvin Continued page 5S r SWEITZER ENTERPRISES P0 BOX 834 SBORO 7123 PHONE 503640-5102 DH89ARapide60 245-p 96 WINGSPANENGINES SCALE 2 1-0U L 1 4 SheelsV 9Ft5 - A L E PLANS S420O COCKPIT & MARKING DETAIL CANOPY -NOSELIGHT-$ 2500 COMPLETE WING SHOWN FIBERGLASS COWLS 121 SBS00 MATERIAL LIST LADD S 800 FOR AIRMAIL PRICE INCLUDES MAILING TUBE WORLDS FINEST SCALE PLANS RYANPT22 INTRODuCTORy SHORT KIT INCLUDES PLANS FIBERGLASS PICEUFUSELAGECOWL PARTS PRICE INCREASES AFTERHAND CUT RIBS & FORMERS JAN11993PLUS LO WIRE 90-1/4 WINGSPANAlE $33500 ENG NE 28 NS 5200 FIBERGLASS FUSELAGE$13500 LOGS FIBERGLASS COWL & PARTS$10000KITS PLANS----53S0 LG WIRE 0RESEARCH CENTER--SSSS 3VIEWS PHOTOS & MANUALS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ORDERS $25-Plans Only toreigs OverSeas kit orderswritH Shipping Cost 40 Model Aviation Grand Opening Continued page 53 models Free Flight models youngsters learning fly Big birds little birds Scale planes showstoppers Theres darned trade showhow about big swap shop heavens name does get better long-awaited Grand Opening first National Flying Site took place took place history open doors free admission free lunch AMA members families Someone said Wed rich buck car came site Heck bunch us would rich nickel photograph taken Civil Air Patrol parked cars George Steiner came California handle impound AMA Technical Director Bob Underwood ran flight lines crackerjack crewvolunteers like Jay Nealy Joe Vislay others Two AMA staffersBob Vojslavek handling registration Director Marketing Geoff Styles up tower joined three AMA staffers onsite Muncie Phil Sullivan Judy Czajkowski Cliff McKee help organize things Guests AMA members offered sneak preview new AMA museum Thousands took time off flying step museum see plans inspect layout ask years repeated questions will museum open answer Late next spring early next summer Almost exception people bid farewell See next year See yotrntyearYep members have spoken An event like too good run once put bed Its just idea great idea set aside weekend year gather site inspect admire use latest addition improvement development Next year Maybe event will center around opening Frank V Ehling Complex No other act actions AMA its membership has generated much mail precipitated telephone calls written about club newsletters frequently modelers lips Grand Opening National Flying Site came Washington State Oregon California Florida Alabama Texas New England mid-Atlantic great Midwest Did someone say Build will come did Yesss Congratulations AMA members Gun 1992 Continued page 40 Miller Best Civilian award-winning Globe Swift Yellow Aircraft donated $250 gift certificate toward its great kits F3op Gun well-diversified exciting show best best Scale invited compete sunny florida can get video Top Gun companies like Prop Wash Videos captures action ber 1992 55 1993 Nationals will held Lubbock Texas July 17-26 1993 BafferIeSfqUVgqAH TflFU FEATURES SUSPENDED ELECTROLYTE CYCLE FLOAT OPTIONS DISCHARGE RATE LEAK PROOF NO POLARITY CHANGE ACT RUGGED EXTENDED SHELF LIFE EASY HANDLING
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/10
Page Numbers: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 55
Above Jeff Foleys Zero took 5th place Great-flying model used OS Max 108 powerbuilt Dave Plaft kit Top Gun Charles Nelsons Waco biplane below High points static judging plus lots flying experience did TOP GUN premier invitational Scale event 1992 meet held West Palm Beach Polo Club Wellington Floridathe same location 91 Frank Tianos dream great event attracting more modelers public alike magnificent field great facilities food great enough variety models designs please anyone Heavy metal WW II planes WW examples private planes transports competed head-to-head honors Top Gun little Waco bipe 115 scale took top static points 9602 highest overall score 18652 Charlie Nelson has flying since 1987 scores Top Gun represented best three out four flight scores averaged added static score year static judging done judge standard 15-foot distance workmanship done close eight feet model judges conferred another considered categories Finish Color Marking Accuracy Outline Craftsmanship make sure no areas overlooked model modelers pleased give some best Scale modeling tips techniques As read article will able pick up some great ideas expert contestants Top Gun use next project weather perfect static judging got real gusty right before practice flying began Thursday Friday contributed some minor mishaps crashes Friday planes set along fence several occasions benefit public right after static judging again both days competition opportunity get own shots favorite model grandstand full time polo club great place get good eye-level videos flights No contest can run perfectly Top Gun year trained assistance Palm Beach Aero Club Its membership did work meet thanks also due major sponsors Herschel Worthy Pacer Technology maker Zap products provided cash hats glue kits contestant airfare Scale judges Tom Atwood editor Model Airplane News magazine provided cash shirts magazines public modelers trophies judges motel rooms Top Gun modelers appreciate support foresight October 1992 25 Left Top award winners L-H Jerry uauaielF-16 Best Markings Charles NelsonlWaco biplane Top Gun Roger YounglC-47 Critics Choice Corvin MillerlGlobe Swift Best Civilian Plane Right Thousands spectators crowded grandstands Jerry Caudles Metropolis Illinois F-16-C Violett kit shows off its superlative best-of-show markings Twin Zenoah G-38s Bob Pickneys Twin Beech SNB-5 make sound much like its full-scale counterpart air Mike Booths Hawker Fury Mk biplane used Zenoah G-38 power lift 22-lb aluminum-covered beauty Detail around Beechs door added another layer before painting Rivets easily visible photo New stooge R/C Launcher & Pit Crew great safety item sample available pilot try out important contributions lifeblood Top Gun Highlights Flying Action Diego Lopez took third place now-famous 1991 Scalemaster champion Skyraider Diego scored 8955 static overall third-place score 1818 points tragic flight avoided folding wings down locked Skyraider ran down runway Diego spotted problem shut engine down before plane left ground zeroed attempted takeoff flight Terry Nitsch just flies Violett F-86 better time hard get pictures model flying speeds over 100 mph Terrys F-86 flies much faster amazing stable plane during low slow dirty passes required year demonstrate significant difference between high- low-speed fly-by WW types just about have speedslow-and makes tough judge point Jeff Foley flew Zero A6M3 built Dave Platt kit powered OS Max 108 It weighed 18 pounds / lage detailing Roger Youngs C-47 makes easy see model merited Critics Choice award Dave Plafts WW II Zero great cockpit detailnot required rules Craftsmanship points suffer its absent Bill Carpers P-47D sported scale replica big Curtiss electric 4-bladed prop ST 3000 powers 24-lb beauty 26 Model Aviation F-16s Sidewinder missile exemplifies degree excellence detailing necessary win Top Gun David Maichiones Navy trainer based Violett T-33 kit Big model flies easily enough use novice Jet pilots 80-inch wingspan excellent wing loading easier fly lighter plane harder build scale details added models caliber Zero very popular like Daves other all-balsa kits flies great Corvin Millers Globe Swift captured Best Civilian award year placed sixth overall proving again can compete nonmilitary entry Corvin 8949 static points could get flying points needed win Corvins wife Cheri like wives great help husbands sport salute ladies go out abandoned aiffield sit heat listen flying story after another have look guys knobby knees ratty shorts seen model meets Bob Pickneys Team Scale entry 13 entries year event getting more popular lop Gun first place award Best Military went beautiful Beech SNB-5 Ziroli plans one-fifth scale flown Dean DiGiorgio guys dressed all-white Navy dress uniforms white-and-red twin Beech flew good looked 45-lb Beech 114-in wingspan neat nose cone door opened up switch access nacelles two Z-38 engines housed Robart retracts Guidance provided ever-popular Futaba radio Bob over 80000 simulated rivets over model applied using RC-56 white glue hypo needle Beech model 18 modeled after Navy Museum Pensacola Florida Tom Noser built two B-25s entered Team Scale Top Gun year Zirolis design painted blue Navy PBJ-lJ version Two OS 120 four-cycles made great realism sound pilot Tom Street Bill Steffes built second Ziroli B-25 flown its designer Nick Ziroli sported Army Air Corps camouflage paint scheme Nicks placed ninth PBJ-1J placed 10th youre great builder good flier would like should team up friend get Team Scale Mark Levy came way France fly green white one-third-scale Sirius TR325 model refreshing new paint scheme arrows bottom wings female pilot could seen board since lady named Catherine Maunoury flew plane 1987-88 Aerobatics Championships France under sponsorship EMS Chronopost worldwide express mailing service Scale Tips Top Gun Mel Whitley last years Top Gun champion newly-built Sea Fury named MiG Killer since first prop-driven aircraft shoot down MiG jet combat 155-scale duplicate last years lop Gun-winning model flown OS BGX-3500 sounds like real thing Mel cuts back throttle allows engine backfire prop whirs through air 18406 just good enough win Top Gun again year impressive static score 9227 Mel second place Mels best tip Scale modeling use mechanicallelectrical retracts best reliability power heavily detailed landing gear bigger /5through 1/3-scale models Mel uses Airtronics sail winch servo regular transit time seven eight seconds gear removing gears standard air cylinder hooking up directly locking mechanism Art Johnson has written some great articles method interested getting rid air-operated retract system youve fighting Master builder Art Johnson beautiful all-metal-covered P-35 meet Art said used wood tongue depressor smooth out glue-backed 005 aluminum plane worked well Bill Carper magnificent P-47 named Hands Off did no-wheels emergency landing official flight since full-scale-world pilot could have survived called emergency landing Bill received points landing after engine flamed out Bill said acheived flush-riveted look using tool made sharpened brass tubing rolled around flat painted surfaces model Locations first marked pencil Nick Ziroli Rich Uravitich entered AT6-D Team Scale featured simulated rivets made drops Sobo glue product does shrink can bought craft stores red white blue paint scheme copied plane Brazil Youll see lot new paint schemes AT6 Unlimited RC Air Races Madera California September October 1992 27 Bill Steffes Ziroli-designed B-25 used two Zenoah G-23s power Futaba radio guidance Nick Ziroli pilot Mark Frankels big 20-lb F4D-1 Skyray ducted-fan ship dips wing during crowd-pleasing flyby Team Scale Peter Guivers 10-ft-span 50-lb 1/5-5Cale WW II DH Mosquito won meets Engineering Excellence award Diego Lopezs 3rd-place Douglas Skyraider blasts off official flight Models folding wings operate RC David Tayer modeled one-of-a-kind Gloster Meteor powered pair Rolls Royce Trent turboprops Mel Whitley makes takeoffs look easy Sea Fury reason hes flying design competition years Mark Frankel Skyray arrived fly Team Scale usual pilot quickly found new after Tom Cook didnt show up Fourteen servos helped control fan-jet painted Norad defense plane called FAW 3 Alaska built one-seventh scale weighed 21 pounds Dynamax fan unit 05 Max 81 powered Mark said model taken off landed same nose-high attitude full-scale jet tendency Dutch roll wobble delta-wing designs ever-popular F4D- 1 Skyray first flown ducted fan Jet Dave Platt Nationals seventies Lake Charles Louisiana Marks best Scale tip suggestion use piece carbon-fiber angle cowl mounting 2-56 screw tapped angle adheres another piece carbon fiber inside cowl accept screw head prevent vibration damage fiberglass cowling 2-56 socket bead screws small look hard see Skyray Great idea Mark David Vogland Rateliff Kentucky used several sizes brass tubing soldering gun simulate flush rivets model Mark XIV Spiffire full-scale plane stationed Castle Donington near Derby England simulated rivets made burning place paint hot brass tubing Spit built Yellow Aircraft kit used OS BGX- 3500 power Gone days underpowered sick flying planes little ones flit big ones fly Dave Platt old master himself offered best tips painting Dave never uses just color paint n color chipoh no just starting place Dave says paints lane over different shades ease color makes dark light atterns same way artist approaches ting After trying zreate illusion full-scale plane flying effect after hardline hard-contrasting color scheme correct factory-fresh rather model working war-weary example well-known plane like AM6 Zero 28 Model Aviation Colorful finish Gene Bartons AT6-D Bill McCallie shows flight judges copied Brazilian-registered gear flaps operate checkerplane Model Ziroli design board-nosed P-47-D before flight Marc Levys TR-23bs color markings duplicated entry flown Catherine Manoury 1987-88 Richard Crapps big AN-2 won Best Biplane award crashed because RC transmitter batteries werent charged can almost hear pilots cockpit Richard Crapps AN-2 saying Are comrades ready takeoff Hal Parentis famous model second Navys Ryan Fireball crashed elevator servo failed Kent Nogy applied pieces Coverite Jim Wilkinsons Panama City FL Stuka chrome trim sheet simulate skin earned 8749 points static scoring panels Violett F-86 painted crashed during practice flight Father/son Team Scale entry Jim Maury Maroney took 3rd place Metalcovered P-51 Dave Platt kit Shalish Patels F4U-1A has finish Bud Roane made special pinking shears markings flown substitute cut scale 16-to-the-inch pinks rib Marine pilots squadron tape Thomas Morse Scout Daves static score 8910 will attest great paint job Team Scale category Hal Parenti has ongoing love Ryan Fireball much built another push-me/pull-you planes Top Gun year uses SuperTigre 75 nose propeller side OS 46 internal Kress fan sorry say beautifully built classic bit dust totally destroyed competition Hal well-known Scale modeler put 31000 simulated rivets plane carpenters glue Hal put gray primer plane over rivets before painting deep Navy blue subsequently painted rivet silver butyrate dope over K&B epoxy technique enabled him wipe off mistakes easily affect basic paint job Chuck Fullers Super Stearman known Daring Damsels some handpainted detail Chuck said just used lead pencil lay out details fine high quality brush detail work also told us secret making simulated quick fasteners screw heads files cuts slot top pinhead best effect Kent Nogy finished picture-perfect F-86 now-famous Skyblazer red white blue paint scheme using Coverite Presto Chrome trim seals complete fiberglassed model low temperatures piece cut exact size shape aluminum panel being simulated uses Ditzler paint Aeroloft dry transfers detail markings rivets Kent sprays final coat clear acrylic polyurethane perfect finish Corvin Miller Sarasota Florida used plastic tubing model railroad supply store made special tool singleedge razor blade mounted board plastic tube forced blade split little dab microballoon/epoxy mix rounded ends have itcorrugated wing panel stiffeners Globe Swift instrument panel has radio switch onboard glow driver switch disguised throttle control Open up one-sided canopy turn switches lock canopy down youre flying no unsightly switch stickin out side plane no fuel get switch either Corvins Swift won Best Civilian Aircraft award placed sixth overall year Plans fiberglass cowl available Jerry Caudles F-16-C won award Best Markings help Aeroloft people Arizona Scale tip included time-consuming duplication static wicks wings used discharge static electricity F- 16 Jerry used black fishing line fiberglass aluminum tubing CyAed together Servos used canopy closure inflight engine mixture control Bob Violett flew model Team Scale competition really proud version kit Bud Roan Melbourne Florida made own set scale-sized pinking shears cutting 16-thread/inch 5/16-in bolt quarters lengthwise attaching slices blade pair scissors cuts piece fabric scale pinking tape pinks turn out 16 inchthe scale Thomas Morse Scout Bud also provided photos model bare-bones stage better craftsmanship points let judges see duplication scale structure before covereda handy hint Jet News real history-maker French team s demonstration wave future new propane-fueled turbojet known Turboec T-240 manufactured company called IPX Vibraye France turbo spooled up use compressed air divers air tank As soon reaches right rpm propane valve opened 340-kg stainless steel tank snap-type spark generator ignites propane onboard engine control brain monitors fuel responds throttlethis secret its success no loud sound such normally would have associated old Dynajets form pulse jet Neither loud piercing sound typical ducted fan No just Continued poge 40 Table 1 rt Division Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1Charles NelsonWaco9602800089639013917518652 2Mel WhitleySea Fury9227902588759325918818406 3Diego LopezSkyraider8955915884639200933818180 4Terry NitschF-868816932591509263892518062 5Jeff FoleyZero8969910092758763748818015 6Corvin MillerGlobe Swift8949885087009050925017999 7George BusoNieuport 289355807586886800876317864 8Kent NogyF-868644907593509113902517823 9David HayesRockwell Thrush8918877589009000845017810 10Bill HarrisF-86F8733907587258925902517741 Table 2 Team Scale Place ContestantPlaneStaticRnd 1Rnd 2Rnd 3Rnd 4Score 1DiGiorgio/Pickney Beechcraft SNB-5922162759358538935018300 2Violetl/Caudle F-16C9127777590758250872517810 3Maroney/Maroney P-Si846679SO93139100902517579 October 1992 29 Top Gun 1992 Continued page 29 whissssh air rushing out tailpipe producing nine pounds static thrust turbojet ran stopped crowd pilots whatever doing could have hard pin drop quiet Everyone trying hear what sound made jet stayed up five six minutes its maiden flight very close its maximum air time As jets developed used around world fuel consumption problem tank size will solved some ingenious modeler about 40 units out now $3500 Delivery takes three four weeks 12 flying present As soon AMA sets some rulings safety guidelines turbojets will able enter AMA-approved meets jet unit weighs nine pounds generates temperatures up 3500 C thrust tip An oil misting feature has used keep rear turbine shaft bearing going out under power intense heat Real jet power has finally come modelingI knew somebody would British Bunch boys girls Britain made good showing four planes brought Antonov AN-2 Russian transport DH98 Mosquito Trent Meteor Hawker Fury biplanewith complimentary model transportation provided United Parcel Service freight cost some $3000 picked up UPS get team Richard Crapp Peter Jean Guiver pilot Richard Rawle Practical Scale UK Dave Troyer Mike Booth Florida Richard Crapp s entry Antonov AN-2 Russian transport Guivers team entry DH98 Mosquito one-fifth scale Pilot Richard Rawle handled plane flew magnificently received Engineering Excellence award banquet Saturday night Dave Troyer flew little Trent Meteor first known plane fly turboprop engine Mike Booth flew Hawker Fury biplane real sleek-looking airplane its time teams like will take much time effort attend Top Gun maybe youd better try getting next Top Gun 1993 Frank Tiano founder Top Gun event indicated event has invited back West Palm Beach Polo Grounds next year Manufacturers Displays display area series booths various manufacturers vendors could display wares Aviation Heritage Terre Haute Indiana new face year Its booth displayed great Scale documentation have volumes 2 Paul Matt s threeview collection Model Aviation Technology its new six-volt gel-cell battery new 1/3-scale fiberglass fuselage Extra 300 Robinaire Retracts now featuring gear Globe Swift goodlooking P-5 1 struts JPX Vibraye France showed Turboec T-240 turbojet engine Gene Barton Machine great scale items make life Scale easier M&M Models Port Richey Florida great color chip source colors ever would need Top Gun Tees some well-done embroidered T-shirts P-s ls Prop Wash Videos its past videotapes taking orders year s Top Gun well Custom Electronics new use servo universal servo connector company associated Hitec RIC USA Inc also Newman Optics Ogden Utah popular items Zurich International polycarbon wrap-around glasses Boyd Newman provided use glasses Top Gun judges asked use After judging Sawgrass Qualifier Charlie Chambers weekend after Top Gun can tell great Prizes Manufacturers donating prizes 1992 Top Gun event included Ace R/C donated Micro Pro 8000 radio Bob Violett Models donated $300 gift certificate Dave Platt announced event donated FW-190 kit retracts Airtronics provided its latest version eight-channel radio Frank Tinno Enterprises donated cash trophies modelers knife sets given contestant lot blood sweat tears make Top Gun success year FTE also owns new fullystocked hobby shop called Hobby Super Store West Palm Beach Florida Futaba Corporation America gave away nine-channel PCM six-channel FM Aerostar ARF kit Gene Barton well-known pilot machinist donated set Sea Fury Corsair custom-made wheels Hobby Dynamics gave away new JR 347 radio Webra Speed 120 engine House Balsa provided Best Jet trophy awarded Mark Frankel s Skyray cant-do-without Tuffgrinders Top Gun pilot McDaniel R/C provided 12 Nystarters two onboard ignition systems Something everyone could use RIC Reports magazine provided cash free subscriptions Best Biplane trophy awarded Richard Crapp England Robart maker famous retracts donated cash Engineering Excellence trophy won Mosquito Sig Manufacturing Co Inc represented Top Gun 1992 catalogs Spacewalker kit won Corvin Continued page 5S r SWEITZER ENTERPRISES P0 BOX 834 SBORO 7123 PHONE 503640-5102 DH89ARapide60 245-p 96 WINGSPANENGINES SCALE 2 1-0U L 1 4 SheelsV 9Ft5 - A L E PLANS S420O COCKPIT & MARKING DETAIL CANOPY -NOSELIGHT-$ 2500 COMPLETE WING SHOWN FIBERGLASS COWLS 121 SBS00 MATERIAL LIST LADD S 800 FOR AIRMAIL PRICE INCLUDES MAILING TUBE WORLDS FINEST SCALE PLANS RYANPT22 INTRODuCTORy SHORT KIT INCLUDES PLANS FIBERGLASS PICEUFUSELAGECOWL PARTS PRICE INCREASES AFTERHAND CUT RIBS & FORMERS JAN11993PLUS LO WIRE 90-1/4 WINGSPANAlE $33500 ENG NE 28 NS 5200 FIBERGLASS FUSELAGE$13500 LOGS FIBERGLASS COWL & PARTS$10000KITS PLANS----53S0 LG WIRE 0RESEARCH CENTER--SSSS 3VIEWS PHOTOS & MANUALS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ORDERS $25-Plans Only toreigs OverSeas kit orderswritH Shipping Cost 40 Model Aviation Grand Opening Continued page 53 models Free Flight models youngsters learning fly Big birds little birds Scale planes showstoppers Theres darned trade showhow about big swap shop heavens name does get better long-awaited Grand Opening first National Flying Site took place took place history open doors free admission free lunch AMA members families Someone said Wed rich buck car came site Heck bunch us would rich nickel photograph taken Civil Air Patrol parked cars George Steiner came California handle impound AMA Technical Director Bob Underwood ran flight lines crackerjack crewvolunteers like Jay Nealy Joe Vislay others Two AMA staffersBob Vojslavek handling registration Director Marketing Geoff Styles up tower joined three AMA staffers onsite Muncie Phil Sullivan Judy Czajkowski Cliff McKee help organize things Guests AMA members offered sneak preview new AMA museum Thousands took time off flying step museum see plans inspect layout ask years repeated questions will museum open answer Late next spring early next summer Almost exception people bid farewell See next year See yotrntyearYep members have spoken An event like too good run once put bed Its just idea great idea set aside weekend year gather site inspect admire use latest addition improvement development Next year Maybe event will center around opening Frank V Ehling Complex No other act actions AMA its membership has generated much mail precipitated telephone calls written about club newsletters frequently modelers lips Grand Opening National Flying Site came Washington State Oregon California Florida Alabama Texas New England mid-Atlantic great Midwest Did someone say Build will come did Yesss Congratulations AMA members Gun 1992 Continued page 40 Miller Best Civilian award-winning Globe Swift Yellow Aircraft donated $250 gift certificate toward its great kits F3op Gun well-diversified exciting show best best Scale invited compete sunny florida can get video Top Gun companies like Prop Wash Videos captures action ber 1992 55 1993 Nationals will held Lubbock Texas July 17-26 1993 BafferIeSfqUVgqAH TflFU FEATURES SUSPENDED ELECTROLYTE CYCLE FLOAT OPTIONS DISCHARGE RATE LEAK PROOF NO POLARITY CHANGE ACT RUGGED EXTENDED SHELF LIFE EASY HANDLING