U S ree Flight Chazoicipi 67 separate events menu weather order USFFC never better 1989 Taft Close 300 com petitors 15 states Canada UK signed up some 850 official unofficial event entries John Oldenkamp TO CATCH spirit 19th running USFFC go back Sixties vernac ular tag definitely cool happening departmentfrom especially pleasant cooperative weather cool expert manage ment great field food heightened record-setting competition benign site aka Mecca down several hun dred happy campers attendance ubiquitous Steve Geraghty bundled up suc cinctly awards gatheringin fact couldnt have said better Free Flight event others will judged weather other amenities cool could also said USFFC year rediscovered its soulor better its center Contest Director Bill Booth put countless hours framing AAAA event USFFC few other con tests such designees around userfriendly core featured U-shaped wellshaded headquarters form monster motor homes donated Fleetwood Indus tries finished off Truman Pucketts catering operation Contestants therefore place well smoothly run nerve center provided neces sary information Also new year advance mail-in registration Gold cards allowed un limited events once set fee paid functional graphics eliminated confu sion finding individual event sites top flags banners abundance helped work up enthusiasm pilgrims Consequently lit tle need stand lines few disputes meet dominated flying opportunities what brought us first place hoping always best got numbers generated cool well-focused USFFC competition im pressive Two hundred seventy paying customers signed up 746 event entries Make 850-odd several unofficial events thrown Three new national records pending result /2A Gas CO2 Senior Duration Autogyro Cate gory computer scoring system pro grammed San Diego Orbiteer Lynne Martin employed printout alone ran 75 pages greatly streamlined knowledge flow weekend Fifteen states two foreign countries Canada UK repre sented plus some California fliers Sixtyseven separate events menu enough satisfy competitive urges jaded Free Flight fan Rubber Power entries outnumbered 60 Model Aviation Contest Director Bill Booth presides over hardware inventory Sundays award cere mony prize raffle hobby industry firms contributed event sponsors donors Left Wes Funk Truckee CA scored First BCD Nostalgia Gas 750 Ramrod powered McCoy 35 Redhead engine air plane covered Micaflim finished Red Baron paints Jerry Rocha right looking Right San Francisco advertising art director John Pratt launches version Dave Platts Dragonfly Model Aviation magazine has plan No 585 popular airplane 61 Ken Johnson seen launching beauti fully crafted Lockspiecer LDA canard Scale model wind 24-in-span tail firster safe smooth flier under power Power 313 281 emphasizing trend Rubber Power continues populous events P-30 49 entries plus few seconds after sunrise Bud Romak lets go Dawn Mulvihill entry stillor neutral liftatmosphere eventually record ing nine minutes plus model appears variant author-designed early morning Dewnwalker published MA eight Junior fliers Gas held its own 46 justifies 4A rating no question about names supplanted numbers Chester Lanzo ventured out Ohio digs battle fabled Taft venue saw him cheerfully autographing gag gle Old-Timer Gas Bombers muchadmired Duplex Stick OT Wakefield combo generally getting big boot out just being large enthusiastic British group hand hosted Southern California Ignition Flyers SCIFS very attractive Old-Timer club talked Hall-of-Famer Hank Cole length waved Frank Zaic spent some time NFFS Executive Director Hardy Brodersen etc Cartoonist Will Nakashima graced meet did other big guys biz some kids some newcomers Taft bedazzled scope Since arrived early Thursday morn ing two days before meet began vocal chord burnout became problem Satur day ended sights talks really other half soul aeromodeling Left John Hutchinson winds up Sparrowhawk MA Plan No 603 P-30 test flight later won Night Fly event winding setup includes Simplex Stooge winder John Morrills shop Center Cyalume chemlight traces tense moment launch during Night Gas event Class B Satellite really lays down dust noise event decidedly faint heart Right Noted Nor dic competitor Bob lsaacson flew beautifully decorated Champion Wake Up kitplane George Schoedtders Champion Models Bobs airplane modified variable-incidence tail VIT auto rudder AR operated timer located wings trailing edge September 1989 61 Left Brian Martin chief flight engineer Gulf Airlines Bahrain searches lift prior launching red white blue Lanzo Duplex Wakefield Brian placed second airplane Right Mike Heatherington Great Britain launching spectacular Jumbo Rubber Spitfire off mission unique near-museum-scale model equipped very smooth double-gear rubber drive unit folding prop maximize its flight characteristics also has Tomy timer actuates retracts lots charisma stick-and-tissue project 43 spectacles see exchanges linger memory Ironmen maybe half-dozen present Sal Taibi arguably embodiment Free Flight both mod ern Old-Timer man al ways available Heres what Sal did Al though flew two three days managed cover six events winning four outright Category C OT Cab Category B OT Cabin 30-Second An tique /2A Texaco taking fourth sixth two others Perhaps fearing trophy load might some way cause PR problem took breather Monday though unflown air planes Sal loves what does thats steam runs engine him Con gratulations Bud Romak famed FAL Indoor competitor good guy world brought 26 new airplanes USFFC trashed lost some gone out sight during weeks onsite testing entered least eight events bagging first Mulvihill through eight-minute flight Mainly though Bud seen scurrying over field multiple airplanes helping oth ers timing chasingand obviously having very large time hobby/sport/entertainment Spies tell holes up Palm Springs shop weeks end working through huge stacks building supplies emerging fleets new stuff Maybe Bud Designated Ironman Builder wit nessed antics USFFC youd sa lute him Terry Thorkildsen certainly came fly Before close first day meet put up string 14 five-minute maxes plus 301 Gas perhaps push Category record out reach good long time 7301 since Terry such genial soft-spoken sort 62 Model Aviation Left Thomas Greenhalge Costa Mesa CA puts little body English OT Large Cabin entry ROGs clean max flight Riseoff-ground planes can sometimes daunting task thin smallish wheels should minor obstacles interfere Right Grant Carson interesting P-30 out testing surfaces covered silver Mylar aid visibility 160-sq-in sweptback wing ribless allows shallow dihedral producing flat turns Balsarite Coverite used adhere Mylar skin frame Above Old-Timer Category Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover walks along 20-year-old Taibi Powerhouse steadying it rolls liftoff Texaco event DeLong 30 engine strain ing pull its 4-lb load air Right Ironman Terry Thorkild sen poses Category Ill record holder AstroStar MA Plan No 606 after putting phenomenal 14 consecutive fiveminute max flights plus 301 new mark Gas 7301 Left Pee Wee 30 achieved official status year Two potent examples class airplane shown designer/builder Charles Atkinson Las Vegas NV Larry Jenno machined engine mounts accessories silk-covered models aptly named High Roller tune city origin Right Scottish import Bill McConnachie innovative canard P-30 entry project still undergoing testing shows promise Putting dethermalizer timer nose helps cut down fuse fire hazards Left Flying Wing guru Barnaby Wainfan peeks through dethermalizer barn door latest venture huge very lightweight full-bore V2A Gas model powered Cox 049 engine running pressure Center Vic Cunnyngham launches distinctive Class D Gas design VTO vertical takeoff allowed Taft venue model has elegant lines fiberglass fuselage/boom arresting red/white/black color scheme Right Brothers Carlos Randy Ramirez constructed flew Peck-Polymers Prairie Bird Embryo Endur ance attending USFFC Free Flight Taft real treat newcomers owing wide-open spaces friendly helpful folks September 1989 63 Left Hank Coles high-tech Wakefield equipped model railroad styrene rods prop wing turbulators tape Pfennlnger strips maintaining airflow adhesion carbon fiber motor tube AR VIT shown wing monocoque structure covered sheet balsa Hank needless say heavily involved computer-based Fl B design/research projects Right Vince Fazio Jr fabricated delightful twin-port bubble machine thermal detection stands less five feet tall grinds growls spits out soapy spheres has fan bottom provide uplift force other mysterious things Its seen bubbling away Power launch line Mark Sexton has designed Coupe dHiver flapper balloons out 300 sq its 150 sq launch very slow lengthy glide mode fragile airplanes chameleon act accomplished installation Montreal stop midchord-cam arrangement wings outboard hinge mechanism being redesigned order improve its reliability system concept however have proven viable model shown its wings folded launch mode left wings extended glide configuration right probably shucked off just plain luck Rocket Dont Have Rocket Scientist Build MRC eng neers decided design 1/4 scale replica Sidewinder kept two things mind Hot performance ease construction Using state-of-the-art Computer Aided Designs CAD Sidewinder soars 1000 ft higher withoutahitch dont know rockets authenticity good looks Sidewinder Arm yourself today easy-to-assemble Sidewinder blast off good times Because its size complexity Sidewinder recommended modelers have built launched beginner kit Sidewinder. another leadership innovation MRC Send forafree catalog See thefull line advanced MRC rockets hobby dealer cant help call us directly MRCe Model Rectifier Corporation 2500 woodbndge Ave Edison NJ 08817 201985 7800 interview Terry very careful point Out fun despite lau rels couldnt have happened nicer person As Juniors newcomers Free Flight whove talked him know Terrys valuable advice flows freelyand spirit rubs off undiluted Old-Timer Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover also flew eight events half Power other half Rubber placed first Nostalgia Indoor Bostonian Cabin West rounded out marathon USFFC weekend trophies five other categories second Category C OT Cabin third Texaco third OT Vintage Rubber fifth Category B OT Gas Cabin fifth OT Large Rubber Stick Hals airplanes always reflect very high building standards impeccable finishes well trimiied performance quick determined retriever rarely loses anything Out sight concert other Ironmen choice always ready help others through maze FF data Good show Anyone contemplates taking part sched ule such USFFC offers has got half Ironman already temptation immerse oneself combined Free Flight carnival/zoo being great trek Taft culmination long design construc tion program quite few enjoying once-a-year experience involves temporal financial sacrifice well physical aspects attending can exhausting can get little smudged dust devils swarm through sweat possibly anxiety induced some rolls standing alien environment waiting ultimate thermal arrive gumbands nitro ready remaining 266 people made meet such success hat off Creature comforts aside hotel front seat 1974 Chevy pickup assorted boards boxes extending cubby accom modate sixish-foot-laydown very large contests provide maximum flying time expo sure between dawn motorcycles start bark way through so-called golden hours dusk right darkness Official flying goes 7 am until 4 pm real feast enthusiast bent trying also allows plenty time testing early late next days events nothing smushes goes over hill flier can quite well prepared given years truly phenomenal weather low seventies low eight ies dry light drift several models went off spectacular boomers after dethermalizers deployed cause either joy sorrow depending ones point viewyet case could made joy side inasmuch creations made fly free Catapult Glider disappeared sight eight minutes plus instance following tip event director Roy Waddell should launch banked 900 right easily spectacular single flight have ever satisfaction index quotient Now like others similarly victimized big boomer have built another Glider hap pily Fewer six 500 people site actually witnessed extraordinary ac complishment second place reward six-pack Pepsi Humbly accepted Beyond full AMA slate large number unofficial events flown some will take place official list once pe riod experimentation over popular ity demands full credence personal favorite has long Dawn Mulvihill Bob Mues ser invention possibly granddaddy event still growing Oaklands Joe Foster tickled stratosphere 10-plus minutes 615 am launcha stellar performance Next day newfangled Dawn P-30 Mass Launch competition drew 22 sleepy folks test still air winning time 211 thereabouts remember early Hand-Launch Glider mass throw won Bob Boyer flying basic lightweight door plane about 111 also Cat apult Glider event Prairie Bird Juniors Rocket Outdoor Bostonian West Cabin Night Pee Wee 30 Gas Night Hand Launch P-30 etc Launching machine have worked hard produce dark moonless sky 10 pm takes measure courage chasing down flickering speck can huge fun deed escapes clear away can al ways get up early next day find being Year commemorate Dick Kordas brilliant 1939 Wakefield Cup victory USFFC staged two special events 50th Anni versary John Crean maxed Out win 28 entries Korda replicas very interest ing window re-creation target 4329 accumulating much flight time possible two-minute minimum air planes Korda replicas size outline weight chose help Out fellow Orbiteer Bob Langdonpicking air deciding ROG timing Within window man aged 32 minutes plus allotted time no sin gle flight landing 50 yards away Curiously Old-Timer rules outlaw thermal detecting devices binoculars lifted shirttails let lower back hair tell lift tale laid flat down earth count time immediate perspective thought Bob clear victoronly learn Scot tish transplant Bill McConnachie single 3310 flight window lost motorbike chase after 65 minutes Tells something about ideal weather conditions went much happening serendip ity pretty much determined what sawand al though tried things missed eyes overlooked very fine Cate gory Autogyro national record set Jean An drews 946 Delta Dart type plane Eclips ing George Perrymans recent Georgia-based ef fort Andrews feat returned high mark West Likewise missed Senior flier Jeff Whitmans whopping 2605 CO2 book-buster 13 straight two-minute maxes 05 Mondaya day delivered unquestionably finest flying conditions have ever seen Taft disliked leavingeven though case immediate destination High Sierra mountains YosemitefTuolumne Meadows/ Mammoth Lakes region max please New different stuff abounded year Mark Sexton shredded several tires way down Seattle Bruce Kimball Canadian Norm Beatty brought down fine Coupe dHiver Flapper design just about five minutes away being terror its name sake event Several canards tail-firsters seen perhaps signaling rebirth arcane ap proach Possibly also comeback trail Bill Bogart prominent Wakefield theorist new double-V FiB wing stab notched up 100 no rudder plane appeared competi tive never got show us hopped ther mal OOS before scheduled event ran high-tech materials ev Continued page 166 64 Model Aviation First ScaIe So wrote him set him straight re plied thanks saying gotten word first place because post office damaged last page copy April Fool issue Okie Flyer co incidences can Anyway because Toms Scale Staffel newslet ter widely read Bill Northrop publisher excellent Model Builder magazine wrote Stahl asking true unpub lished P-47 design Mr Stahl kind enough set Northrop straight send gracious letter said must careful about testing memories us old geezers briefly fooled annoyed got call AMA saying Hurst Bowers Curator AMAs museum put something about P-47 AMAs Cloud Nine publication receiving inquir ies about plans bottom line good news can get own copy fine really historic plan directly de signer draftsman Mik Mikkelson will $350 send copy write him 2249 Cheremoya Ave Hollywood CA 90068 very fine plan about 20-in wingspan remarkably good imitation Stahls style its Miks Razorback version Jug Flyline Models puts out several kits Stahls Scale designs Rearwin Speedster being especially good flier Campbells makes kit Gypsy Wakefield about 1938-39 vintage very fine design Campbells address given earlier paragraph column modelers know Stahl mem ber American Wakefield team 1939 tend think him lovely Scale de signs dont know Gypsy design used 1939 meet pretty Rubber Cabin ship competitive current SAM Society Antique Modelers Ed Large Rubber Cabin Vintage Wakefield events someone would send good photo Gypsy theyve built Ill publish mentioned Aeromodeller magazine earlier publishers have put Out three books inter est us titles being Flying ModelsFa vourites Fifties SO Years Aeromodeller Model Flying First SO Years As can see titles cover somewhat same ground different emphasis fun read contain planssome fullsizeand photos well worth price 695 pounds sterling plus 10% postage order England Argus Books Wolsey House Wolsey Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP2 4SS England Youll have easier time order through US distribu tor Motor Books International PO Box 2 829 Prospect Ave Osceola WI 54020 USFFC/Oldenkamp Continued page 64 idence Four first five Nordic towliners fea tured foam wing construction based Martyn Cowleys pacemaking innovations Carbon fiber matte tows shreds you-name-it have clearly invaded much Power Rubber scene yielding longer lighter stronger com ponents anyone could have visualized scant few years ago carbon fiber products versatile easy use wonders first came mar ket Lastly note plastic films cover ing fast creeping FF movement down miniships like P-30 Coupe AA Nos talgia etc logic isnt lost generic heat shrinks go long way crease durability say nothing aerodynamic smoothness overall performance vendor side things flurry new kits fuels finishes gadgets supplies up grabs wallet permitting Larry Jenno rep lica OT engines note Stan Buddenbahm sold out clutch Silly Putty dethermalizer units nothing silly about themthey fireless light weight eminently repeatable much delight Sal Fruciano displayed pair elegant Coupe Wakefield front-end hubs importing Poland very reasonable prices complete spinners bobbins flawless workman ship Al Heinrich action full line color nitrate dopes thinners covering adhesives exotic imported Rubber Gas classic kits Additionally typical hats T shirts banners other USFFC mementos full shop next year notes include proper address sources products men tioned interested readers may contact 3331 Adams Avenue San Diego CA 92116 will make effort steer correct way Next year As 1989 USFFC didnt come close enough perfection talk 1990 20th edition will have huge circus tents headquarters better computer scoring boards corporate sponsorship participa tion food events people word just short overload Will Goodyear blimp ABC Sports show up knew what theyd overlooked 1989 would Closing thanks cheers future 1HAINIRFOAMAIREMUNAHLH SPANb$ 74SPANb WEIGHT 2 lbs 3CHI HT 5 lbs $ fl95 WEIGHT 2 lbs $1 495 POWER 0 cc$1A95 POWER 0POWER 0 ccUY 3 4 CHANNEL4CHi-iFOURCHANNELFOUR CHANNEL CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE INFORT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 ON SAC KITS AND QUADRA PRICES316 325-2821 FREE SHIPPING ON KIT ORDERVISA MASTERCARD ACCEPTED 166 Model Aviation Designed Manufactured Charles Michae citatrick INCLUDES MUFFLER Experienced Modelers Only Highest Quality Engine World Most Powerful Engine its Class INCLUDES Beautiful muffler alu prop spinner nut glow plug Double precision boll bearings Direct order Immediate UPS insured shipment $29800 plus $495 S&H Sorry no COD Send check MO FITZPATRICK 2120 BENTLEY #303 WEST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90025TEL 213-477-2092 Bill Booth architect mastermind 1989 business manager Bob Beecroft Lynn Martin new good friend Truman Puck ett Chef du Taft whole passel folks reminded act attitude Taft very special place roses really smell people Plan USFFC 1990 now Theres no telling itll cool 1989 certainly will groovy P-51 B/Felton Continued page 69 stringer forward bottom fuselage cover D4 Add balsa sheet piece bottom F5 rounding off edges shown view B-B Build up cowl -in balsa sheet shown top side views hollow out Glue A-in ply C2 piece front top half Glue C3 front end cowls removable bottom Sand carve hol low cowl shape Add 1-in ply pieces inside both top bottom halves cowl sides shown cowl top side views blind nut installed inside top cowl ply 4-40 bolt through bottom cowl ply form cowl attachment top half cowl permanently glued nose model Test fit engine cowl drill mount ing holes KM-40 mount Use shaft exten sion achieve adequate spinner clearance Cut holes cowl block cylinder head ex haust needle valve Glue stabilizer fuselage Add -in triangular balsa bottom stabilizer fuselage intersection bracing Glue fin fuselage Add scrap balsa bracing between fin stabilizer intersection round off shown view C-C Add rudder 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U S ree Flight Chazoicipi 67 separate events menu weather order USFFC never better 1989 Taft Close 300 com petitors 15 states Canada UK signed up some 850 official unofficial event entries John Oldenkamp TO CATCH spirit 19th running USFFC go back Sixties vernac ular tag definitely cool happening departmentfrom especially pleasant cooperative weather cool expert manage ment great field food heightened record-setting competition benign site aka Mecca down several hun dred happy campers attendance ubiquitous Steve Geraghty bundled up suc cinctly awards gatheringin fact couldnt have said better Free Flight event others will judged weather other amenities cool could also said USFFC year rediscovered its soulor better its center Contest Director Bill Booth put countless hours framing AAAA event USFFC few other con tests such designees around userfriendly core featured U-shaped wellshaded headquarters form monster motor homes donated Fleetwood Indus tries finished off Truman Pucketts catering operation Contestants therefore place well smoothly run nerve center provided neces sary information Also new year advance mail-in registration Gold cards allowed un limited events once set fee paid functional graphics eliminated confu sion finding individual event sites top flags banners abundance helped work up enthusiasm pilgrims Consequently lit tle need stand lines few disputes meet dominated flying opportunities what brought us first place hoping always best got numbers generated cool well-focused USFFC competition im pressive Two hundred seventy paying customers signed up 746 event entries Make 850-odd several unofficial events thrown Three new national records pending result /2A Gas CO2 Senior Duration Autogyro Cate gory computer scoring system pro grammed San Diego Orbiteer Lynne Martin employed printout alone ran 75 pages greatly streamlined knowledge flow weekend Fifteen states two foreign countries Canada UK repre sented plus some California fliers Sixtyseven separate events menu enough satisfy competitive urges jaded Free Flight fan Rubber Power entries outnumbered 60 Model Aviation Contest Director Bill Booth presides over hardware inventory Sundays award cere mony prize raffle hobby industry firms contributed event sponsors donors Left Wes Funk Truckee CA scored First BCD Nostalgia Gas 750 Ramrod powered McCoy 35 Redhead engine air plane covered Micaflim finished Red Baron paints Jerry Rocha right looking Right San Francisco advertising art director John Pratt launches version Dave Platts Dragonfly Model Aviation magazine has plan No 585 popular airplane 61 Ken Johnson seen launching beauti fully crafted Lockspiecer LDA canard Scale model wind 24-in-span tail firster safe smooth flier under power Power 313 281 emphasizing trend Rubber Power continues populous events P-30 49 entries plus few seconds after sunrise Bud Romak lets go Dawn Mulvihill entry stillor neutral liftatmosphere eventually record ing nine minutes plus model appears variant author-designed early morning Dewnwalker published MA eight Junior fliers Gas held its own 46 justifies 4A rating no question about names supplanted numbers Chester Lanzo ventured out Ohio digs battle fabled Taft venue saw him cheerfully autographing gag gle Old-Timer Gas Bombers muchadmired Duplex Stick OT Wakefield combo generally getting big boot out just being large enthusiastic British group hand hosted Southern California Ignition Flyers SCIFS very attractive Old-Timer club talked Hall-of-Famer Hank Cole length waved Frank Zaic spent some time NFFS Executive Director Hardy Brodersen etc Cartoonist Will Nakashima graced meet did other big guys biz some kids some newcomers Taft bedazzled scope Since arrived early Thursday morn ing two days before meet began vocal chord burnout became problem Satur day ended sights talks really other half soul aeromodeling Left John Hutchinson winds up Sparrowhawk MA Plan No 603 P-30 test flight later won Night Fly event winding setup includes Simplex Stooge winder John Morrills shop Center Cyalume chemlight traces tense moment launch during Night Gas event Class B Satellite really lays down dust noise event decidedly faint heart Right Noted Nor dic competitor Bob lsaacson flew beautifully decorated Champion Wake Up kitplane George Schoedtders Champion Models Bobs airplane modified variable-incidence tail VIT auto rudder AR operated timer located wings trailing edge September 1989 61 Left Brian Martin chief flight engineer Gulf Airlines Bahrain searches lift prior launching red white blue Lanzo Duplex Wakefield Brian placed second airplane Right Mike Heatherington Great Britain launching spectacular Jumbo Rubber Spitfire off mission unique near-museum-scale model equipped very smooth double-gear rubber drive unit folding prop maximize its flight characteristics also has Tomy timer actuates retracts lots charisma stick-and-tissue project 43 spectacles see exchanges linger memory Ironmen maybe half-dozen present Sal Taibi arguably embodiment Free Flight both mod ern Old-Timer man al ways available Heres what Sal did Al though flew two three days managed cover six events winning four outright Category C OT Cab Category B OT Cabin 30-Second An tique /2A Texaco taking fourth sixth two others Perhaps fearing trophy load might some way cause PR problem took breather Monday though unflown air planes Sal loves what does thats steam runs engine him Con gratulations Bud Romak famed FAL Indoor competitor good guy world brought 26 new airplanes USFFC trashed lost some gone out sight during weeks onsite testing entered least eight events bagging first Mulvihill through eight-minute flight Mainly though Bud seen scurrying over field multiple airplanes helping oth ers timing chasingand obviously having very large time hobby/sport/entertainment Spies tell holes up Palm Springs shop weeks end working through huge stacks building supplies emerging fleets new stuff Maybe Bud Designated Ironman Builder wit nessed antics USFFC youd sa lute him Terry Thorkildsen certainly came fly Before close first day meet put up string 14 five-minute maxes plus 301 Gas perhaps push Category record out reach good long time 7301 since Terry such genial soft-spoken sort 62 Model Aviation Left Thomas Greenhalge Costa Mesa CA puts little body English OT Large Cabin entry ROGs clean max flight Riseoff-ground planes can sometimes daunting task thin smallish wheels should minor obstacles interfere Right Grant Carson interesting P-30 out testing surfaces covered silver Mylar aid visibility 160-sq-in sweptback wing ribless allows shallow dihedral producing flat turns Balsarite Coverite used adhere Mylar skin frame Above Old-Timer Category Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover walks along 20-year-old Taibi Powerhouse steadying it rolls liftoff Texaco event DeLong 30 engine strain ing pull its 4-lb load air Right Ironman Terry Thorkild sen poses Category Ill record holder AstroStar MA Plan No 606 after putting phenomenal 14 consecutive fiveminute max flights plus 301 new mark Gas 7301 Left Pee Wee 30 achieved official status year Two potent examples class airplane shown designer/builder Charles Atkinson Las Vegas NV Larry Jenno machined engine mounts accessories silk-covered models aptly named High Roller tune city origin Right Scottish import Bill McConnachie innovative canard P-30 entry project still undergoing testing shows promise Putting dethermalizer timer nose helps cut down fuse fire hazards Left Flying Wing guru Barnaby Wainfan peeks through dethermalizer barn door latest venture huge very lightweight full-bore V2A Gas model powered Cox 049 engine running pressure Center Vic Cunnyngham launches distinctive Class D Gas design VTO vertical takeoff allowed Taft venue model has elegant lines fiberglass fuselage/boom arresting red/white/black color scheme Right Brothers Carlos Randy Ramirez constructed flew Peck-Polymers Prairie Bird Embryo Endur ance attending USFFC Free Flight Taft real treat newcomers owing wide-open spaces friendly helpful folks September 1989 63 Left Hank Coles high-tech Wakefield equipped model railroad styrene rods prop wing turbulators tape Pfennlnger strips maintaining airflow adhesion carbon fiber motor tube AR VIT shown wing monocoque structure covered sheet balsa Hank needless say heavily involved computer-based Fl B design/research projects Right Vince Fazio Jr fabricated delightful twin-port bubble machine thermal detection stands less five feet tall grinds growls spits out soapy spheres has fan bottom provide uplift force other mysterious things Its seen bubbling away Power launch line Mark Sexton has designed Coupe dHiver flapper balloons out 300 sq its 150 sq launch very slow lengthy glide mode fragile airplanes chameleon act accomplished installation Montreal stop midchord-cam arrangement wings outboard hinge mechanism being redesigned order improve its reliability system concept however have proven viable model shown its wings folded launch mode left wings extended glide configuration right probably shucked off just plain luck Rocket Dont Have Rocket Scientist Build MRC eng neers decided design 1/4 scale replica Sidewinder kept two things mind Hot performance ease construction Using state-of-the-art Computer Aided Designs CAD Sidewinder soars 1000 ft higher withoutahitch dont know rockets authenticity good looks Sidewinder Arm yourself today easy-to-assemble Sidewinder blast off good times Because its size complexity Sidewinder recommended modelers have built launched beginner kit Sidewinder. another leadership innovation MRC Send forafree catalog See thefull line advanced MRC rockets hobby dealer cant help call us directly MRCe Model Rectifier Corporation 2500 woodbndge Ave Edison NJ 08817 201985 7800 interview Terry very careful point Out fun despite lau rels couldnt have happened nicer person As Juniors newcomers Free Flight whove talked him know Terrys valuable advice flows freelyand spirit rubs off undiluted Old-Timer Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover also flew eight events half Power other half Rubber placed first Nostalgia Indoor Bostonian Cabin West rounded out marathon USFFC weekend trophies five other categories second Category C OT Cabin third Texaco third OT Vintage Rubber fifth Category B OT Gas Cabin fifth OT Large Rubber Stick Hals airplanes always reflect very high building standards impeccable finishes well trimiied performance quick determined retriever rarely loses anything Out sight concert other Ironmen choice always ready help others through maze FF data Good show Anyone contemplates taking part sched ule such USFFC offers has got half Ironman already temptation immerse oneself combined Free Flight carnival/zoo being great trek Taft culmination long design construc tion program quite few enjoying once-a-year experience involves temporal financial sacrifice well physical aspects attending can exhausting can get little smudged dust devils swarm through sweat possibly anxiety induced some rolls standing alien environment waiting ultimate thermal arrive gumbands nitro ready remaining 266 people made meet such success hat off Creature comforts aside hotel front seat 1974 Chevy pickup assorted boards boxes extending cubby accom modate sixish-foot-laydown very large contests provide maximum flying time expo sure between dawn motorcycles start bark way through so-called golden hours dusk right darkness Official flying goes 7 am until 4 pm real feast enthusiast bent trying also allows plenty time testing early late next days events nothing smushes goes over hill flier can quite well prepared given years truly phenomenal weather low seventies low eight ies dry light drift several models went off spectacular boomers after dethermalizers deployed cause either joy sorrow depending ones point viewyet case could made joy side inasmuch creations made fly free Catapult Glider disappeared sight eight minutes plus instance following tip event director Roy Waddell should launch banked 900 right easily spectacular single flight have ever satisfaction index quotient Now like others similarly victimized big boomer have built another Glider hap pily Fewer six 500 people site actually witnessed extraordinary ac complishment second place reward six-pack Pepsi Humbly accepted Beyond full AMA slate large number unofficial events flown some will take place official list once pe riod experimentation over popular ity demands full credence personal favorite has long Dawn Mulvihill Bob Mues ser invention possibly granddaddy event still growing Oaklands Joe Foster tickled stratosphere 10-plus minutes 615 am launcha stellar performance Next day newfangled Dawn P-30 Mass Launch competition drew 22 sleepy folks test still air winning time 211 thereabouts remember early Hand-Launch Glider mass throw won Bob Boyer flying basic lightweight door plane about 111 also Cat apult Glider event Prairie Bird Juniors Rocket Outdoor Bostonian West Cabin Night Pee Wee 30 Gas Night Hand Launch P-30 etc Launching machine have worked hard produce dark moonless sky 10 pm takes measure courage chasing down flickering speck can huge fun deed escapes clear away can al ways get up early next day find being Year commemorate Dick Kordas brilliant 1939 Wakefield Cup victory USFFC staged two special events 50th Anni versary John Crean maxed Out win 28 entries Korda replicas very interest ing window re-creation target 4329 accumulating much flight time possible two-minute minimum air planes Korda replicas size outline weight chose help Out fellow Orbiteer Bob Langdonpicking air deciding ROG timing Within window man aged 32 minutes plus allotted time no sin gle flight landing 50 yards away Curiously Old-Timer rules outlaw thermal detecting devices binoculars lifted shirttails let lower back hair tell lift tale laid flat down earth count time immediate perspective thought Bob clear victoronly learn Scot tish transplant Bill McConnachie single 3310 flight window lost motorbike chase after 65 minutes Tells something about ideal weather conditions went much happening serendip ity pretty much determined what sawand al though tried things missed eyes overlooked very fine Cate gory Autogyro national record set Jean An drews 946 Delta Dart type plane Eclips ing George Perrymans recent Georgia-based ef fort Andrews feat returned high mark West Likewise missed Senior flier Jeff Whitmans whopping 2605 CO2 book-buster 13 straight two-minute maxes 05 Mondaya day delivered unquestionably finest flying conditions have ever seen Taft disliked leavingeven though case immediate destination High Sierra mountains YosemitefTuolumne Meadows/ Mammoth Lakes region max please New different stuff abounded year Mark Sexton shredded several tires way down Seattle Bruce Kimball Canadian Norm Beatty brought down fine Coupe dHiver Flapper design just about five minutes away being terror its name sake event Several canards tail-firsters seen perhaps signaling rebirth arcane ap proach Possibly also comeback trail Bill Bogart prominent Wakefield theorist new double-V FiB wing stab notched up 100 no rudder plane appeared competi tive never got show us hopped ther mal OOS before scheduled event ran high-tech materials ev Continued page 166 64 Model Aviation First ScaIe So wrote him set him straight re plied thanks saying gotten word first place because post office damaged last page copy April Fool issue Okie Flyer co incidences can Anyway because Toms Scale Staffel newslet ter widely read Bill Northrop publisher excellent Model Builder magazine wrote Stahl asking true unpub lished P-47 design Mr Stahl kind enough set Northrop straight send gracious letter said must careful about testing memories us old geezers briefly fooled annoyed got call AMA saying Hurst Bowers Curator AMAs museum put something about P-47 AMAs Cloud Nine publication receiving inquir ies about plans bottom line good news can get own copy fine really historic plan directly de signer draftsman Mik Mikkelson will $350 send copy write him 2249 Cheremoya Ave Hollywood CA 90068 very fine plan about 20-in wingspan remarkably good imitation Stahls style its Miks Razorback version Jug Flyline Models puts out several kits Stahls Scale designs Rearwin Speedster being especially good flier Campbells makes kit Gypsy Wakefield about 1938-39 vintage very fine design Campbells address given earlier paragraph column modelers know Stahl mem ber American Wakefield team 1939 tend think him lovely Scale de signs dont know Gypsy design used 1939 meet pretty Rubber Cabin ship competitive current SAM Society Antique Modelers Ed Large Rubber Cabin Vintage Wakefield events someone would send good photo Gypsy theyve built Ill publish mentioned Aeromodeller magazine earlier publishers have put Out three books inter est us titles being Flying ModelsFa vourites Fifties SO Years Aeromodeller Model Flying First SO Years As can see titles cover somewhat same ground different emphasis fun read contain planssome fullsizeand photos well worth price 695 pounds sterling plus 10% postage order England Argus Books Wolsey House Wolsey Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP2 4SS England Youll have easier time order through US distribu tor Motor Books International PO Box 2 829 Prospect Ave Osceola WI 54020 USFFC/Oldenkamp Continued page 64 idence Four first five Nordic towliners fea tured foam wing construction based Martyn Cowleys pacemaking innovations Carbon fiber matte tows shreds you-name-it have clearly invaded much Power Rubber scene yielding longer lighter stronger com ponents anyone could have visualized scant few years ago carbon fiber products versatile easy use wonders first came mar ket Lastly note plastic films cover ing fast creeping FF movement down miniships like P-30 Coupe AA Nos talgia etc logic isnt lost generic heat shrinks go long way crease durability say nothing aerodynamic smoothness overall performance vendor side things flurry new kits fuels finishes gadgets supplies up grabs wallet permitting Larry Jenno rep lica OT engines note Stan Buddenbahm sold out clutch Silly Putty dethermalizer units nothing silly about themthey fireless light weight eminently repeatable much delight Sal Fruciano displayed pair elegant Coupe Wakefield front-end hubs importing Poland very reasonable prices complete spinners bobbins flawless workman ship Al Heinrich action full line color nitrate dopes thinners covering adhesives exotic imported Rubber Gas classic kits Additionally typical hats T shirts banners other USFFC mementos full shop next year notes include proper address sources products men tioned interested readers may contact 3331 Adams Avenue San Diego CA 92116 will make effort steer correct way Next year As 1989 USFFC didnt come close enough perfection talk 1990 20th edition will have huge circus tents headquarters better computer scoring boards corporate sponsorship participa tion food events people word just short overload Will Goodyear blimp ABC Sports show up knew what theyd overlooked 1989 would Closing thanks cheers future 1HAINIRFOAMAIREMUNAHLH SPANb$ 74SPANb WEIGHT 2 lbs 3CHI HT 5 lbs $ fl95 WEIGHT 2 lbs $1 495 POWER 0 cc$1A95 POWER 0POWER 0 ccUY 3 4 CHANNEL4CHi-iFOURCHANNELFOUR CHANNEL CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE INFORT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 ON SAC KITS AND QUADRA PRICES316 325-2821 FREE SHIPPING ON KIT ORDERVISA MASTERCARD ACCEPTED 166 Model Aviation Designed Manufactured Charles Michae citatrick INCLUDES MUFFLER Experienced Modelers Only Highest Quality Engine World Most Powerful Engine its Class INCLUDES Beautiful muffler alu prop spinner nut glow plug Double precision boll bearings Direct order Immediate UPS insured shipment $29800 plus $495 S&H Sorry no COD Send check MO FITZPATRICK 2120 BENTLEY #303 WEST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90025TEL 213-477-2092 Bill Booth architect mastermind 1989 business manager Bob Beecroft Lynn Martin new good friend Truman Puck ett Chef du Taft whole passel folks reminded act attitude Taft very special place roses really smell people Plan USFFC 1990 now Theres no telling itll cool 1989 certainly will groovy P-51 B/Felton Continued page 69 stringer forward bottom fuselage cover D4 Add balsa sheet piece bottom F5 rounding off edges shown view B-B Build up cowl -in balsa sheet shown top side views hollow out Glue A-in ply C2 piece front top half Glue C3 front end cowls removable bottom Sand carve hol low cowl shape Add 1-in ply pieces inside both top bottom halves cowl sides shown cowl top side views blind nut installed inside top cowl ply 4-40 bolt through bottom cowl ply form cowl attachment top half cowl permanently glued nose model Test fit engine cowl drill mount ing holes KM-40 mount Use shaft exten sion achieve adequate spinner clearance Cut holes cowl block cylinder head ex haust needle valve Glue stabilizer fuselage Add -in triangular balsa bottom stabilizer fuselage intersection bracing Glue fin fuselage Add scrap balsa bracing between fin stabilizer intersection round off shown view C-C Add rudder fin trailing edge offset ide flying circle Make tail wheel gear %rin-dia wire Bend gear shown position /-in ply support drill holes Attach gear nylon thread gluing liberally dry glue unit place bottom fuselage cut out Add scrap balsa wheel fairings Make main gear %2-in-dia wtre shown Make gear fairings A-in ply tach nylon gear clips Attach gear assem blies 1-in ply supports bottom wing nylon gear clips Finishing color scheme silver overall medium blue trim Make lettering signia MonoKote Make canopy thin plastic epoxy fuselage Outline canopy strips black MonoKote aileron flap outlines also made black MonoKote Final assembly Glue wing fuselage Make air scoop hollowed-out balsa block glue bottom wing Add balsa exhaust stacks both sides forward fuselage Pass lead-out wires through wing tip line guide tie off Attach nylon control horn elevator Hook up pushrod Attach 3-in-dia wheels main gear 1 -in -dia wheel tail gear tach 12 x 6 prop 3-in spinner en gine sure balance Mustang centerof-gravity shown plans Youre ready take flying field see yourself rugged lightweight plane Continued page 168 I U U P U p p I P U U P p U P U U Superior Igniters Improve starting idle acceleration Youll notice power bargain fuels Special Detergents Promote clean burning prevent residue buildup Rust Inhibitors Protect engines corrosion After run oil needed engines Film Strength Additives Increase lubricity provide extra lean run protection 1 E * 1* 1 P P U U P THE CHOICE OF CHAMPION FLYERS HFor over 20 years SIG has blending finest quality model engine fuel available using finest quality ingredients instance Methanol use 995% pure thevery best grade money can buy also use real 100% pure UNitromethane get full measure youve paid based honest percentage-of-volume method percentage weight SIG fuels con tain 50-50 blend Bakers purest AA Castor Oil Inew improved Klotz Techniplate Synthetic Racing Oil maximum engine lubrication protection Based experience sincerely believe finest quality fuel can made price dont take word try some judge UyourselfPrices s,5jee oSange withOOt nOtice See dealer first available order direct Call 800-247-5008 toll free orders Latest Catalog $300 SIG MANUFACTURING CO Montezuma IA 50171 .EEEEUEEEEEUUUE U I U U U P P P Anti-Wear Additives Help keep engines running peak performance longer Satisfaction Guaranteed FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $1500 SIG CHAMPION 2-STROKE FUEL PINT QUART 0% Nitromthane 5% Nitromethane $365$525 10% Nitromethane $415$550 15% Nitromethane $430$635 25% Nitromethatie $5 15$795 35% Nitromethane $595 $925 SIG PREMIUM 4-STROKE 10% Nitromethane 15% Nitromethane GALLON $1075 $1275 $1475 $1675 $2195 $2695 FUEL $1425 $1625 I U U I i P U U U U U U U U U U U U U mE ERR Em EKE EU U U EU Far poap~ t Up ELZ UP 5helt8I Z UP1 BhSI~ futlV NO Iaa5 urdY 0strUG~ 006,turpOIS tubS, trP 0erN e aIrcraft partS NO rap05 tuabte miflur * full afl V8 Rod n OP sturdy feds~gNUYOfl 361 ~ Jo P Leisure rO Ltd v~973.517B September 1989 167
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/09
Page Numbers: 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 166, 167
U S ree Flight Chazoicipi 67 separate events menu weather order USFFC never better 1989 Taft Close 300 com petitors 15 states Canada UK signed up some 850 official unofficial event entries John Oldenkamp TO CATCH spirit 19th running USFFC go back Sixties vernac ular tag definitely cool happening departmentfrom especially pleasant cooperative weather cool expert manage ment great field food heightened record-setting competition benign site aka Mecca down several hun dred happy campers attendance ubiquitous Steve Geraghty bundled up suc cinctly awards gatheringin fact couldnt have said better Free Flight event others will judged weather other amenities cool could also said USFFC year rediscovered its soulor better its center Contest Director Bill Booth put countless hours framing AAAA event USFFC few other con tests such designees around userfriendly core featured U-shaped wellshaded headquarters form monster motor homes donated Fleetwood Indus tries finished off Truman Pucketts catering operation Contestants therefore place well smoothly run nerve center provided neces sary information Also new year advance mail-in registration Gold cards allowed un limited events once set fee paid functional graphics eliminated confu sion finding individual event sites top flags banners abundance helped work up enthusiasm pilgrims Consequently lit tle need stand lines few disputes meet dominated flying opportunities what brought us first place hoping always best got numbers generated cool well-focused USFFC competition im pressive Two hundred seventy paying customers signed up 746 event entries Make 850-odd several unofficial events thrown Three new national records pending result /2A Gas CO2 Senior Duration Autogyro Cate gory computer scoring system pro grammed San Diego Orbiteer Lynne Martin employed printout alone ran 75 pages greatly streamlined knowledge flow weekend Fifteen states two foreign countries Canada UK repre sented plus some California fliers Sixtyseven separate events menu enough satisfy competitive urges jaded Free Flight fan Rubber Power entries outnumbered 60 Model Aviation Contest Director Bill Booth presides over hardware inventory Sundays award cere mony prize raffle hobby industry firms contributed event sponsors donors Left Wes Funk Truckee CA scored First BCD Nostalgia Gas 750 Ramrod powered McCoy 35 Redhead engine air plane covered Micaflim finished Red Baron paints Jerry Rocha right looking Right San Francisco advertising art director John Pratt launches version Dave Platts Dragonfly Model Aviation magazine has plan No 585 popular airplane 61 Ken Johnson seen launching beauti fully crafted Lockspiecer LDA canard Scale model wind 24-in-span tail firster safe smooth flier under power Power 313 281 emphasizing trend Rubber Power continues populous events P-30 49 entries plus few seconds after sunrise Bud Romak lets go Dawn Mulvihill entry stillor neutral liftatmosphere eventually record ing nine minutes plus model appears variant author-designed early morning Dewnwalker published MA eight Junior fliers Gas held its own 46 justifies 4A rating no question about names supplanted numbers Chester Lanzo ventured out Ohio digs battle fabled Taft venue saw him cheerfully autographing gag gle Old-Timer Gas Bombers muchadmired Duplex Stick OT Wakefield combo generally getting big boot out just being large enthusiastic British group hand hosted Southern California Ignition Flyers SCIFS very attractive Old-Timer club talked Hall-of-Famer Hank Cole length waved Frank Zaic spent some time NFFS Executive Director Hardy Brodersen etc Cartoonist Will Nakashima graced meet did other big guys biz some kids some newcomers Taft bedazzled scope Since arrived early Thursday morn ing two days before meet began vocal chord burnout became problem Satur day ended sights talks really other half soul aeromodeling Left John Hutchinson winds up Sparrowhawk MA Plan No 603 P-30 test flight later won Night Fly event winding setup includes Simplex Stooge winder John Morrills shop Center Cyalume chemlight traces tense moment launch during Night Gas event Class B Satellite really lays down dust noise event decidedly faint heart Right Noted Nor dic competitor Bob lsaacson flew beautifully decorated Champion Wake Up kitplane George Schoedtders Champion Models Bobs airplane modified variable-incidence tail VIT auto rudder AR operated timer located wings trailing edge September 1989 61 Left Brian Martin chief flight engineer Gulf Airlines Bahrain searches lift prior launching red white blue Lanzo Duplex Wakefield Brian placed second airplane Right Mike Heatherington Great Britain launching spectacular Jumbo Rubber Spitfire off mission unique near-museum-scale model equipped very smooth double-gear rubber drive unit folding prop maximize its flight characteristics also has Tomy timer actuates retracts lots charisma stick-and-tissue project 43 spectacles see exchanges linger memory Ironmen maybe half-dozen present Sal Taibi arguably embodiment Free Flight both mod ern Old-Timer man al ways available Heres what Sal did Al though flew two three days managed cover six events winning four outright Category C OT Cab Category B OT Cabin 30-Second An tique /2A Texaco taking fourth sixth two others Perhaps fearing trophy load might some way cause PR problem took breather Monday though unflown air planes Sal loves what does thats steam runs engine him Con gratulations Bud Romak famed FAL Indoor competitor good guy world brought 26 new airplanes USFFC trashed lost some gone out sight during weeks onsite testing entered least eight events bagging first Mulvihill through eight-minute flight Mainly though Bud seen scurrying over field multiple airplanes helping oth ers timing chasingand obviously having very large time hobby/sport/entertainment Spies tell holes up Palm Springs shop weeks end working through huge stacks building supplies emerging fleets new stuff Maybe Bud Designated Ironman Builder wit nessed antics USFFC youd sa lute him Terry Thorkildsen certainly came fly Before close first day meet put up string 14 five-minute maxes plus 301 Gas perhaps push Category record out reach good long time 7301 since Terry such genial soft-spoken sort 62 Model Aviation Left Thomas Greenhalge Costa Mesa CA puts little body English OT Large Cabin entry ROGs clean max flight Riseoff-ground planes can sometimes daunting task thin smallish wheels should minor obstacles interfere Right Grant Carson interesting P-30 out testing surfaces covered silver Mylar aid visibility 160-sq-in sweptback wing ribless allows shallow dihedral producing flat turns Balsarite Coverite used adhere Mylar skin frame Above Old-Timer Category Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover walks along 20-year-old Taibi Powerhouse steadying it rolls liftoff Texaco event DeLong 30 engine strain ing pull its 4-lb load air Right Ironman Terry Thorkild sen poses Category Ill record holder AstroStar MA Plan No 606 after putting phenomenal 14 consecutive fiveminute max flights plus 301 new mark Gas 7301 Left Pee Wee 30 achieved official status year Two potent examples class airplane shown designer/builder Charles Atkinson Las Vegas NV Larry Jenno machined engine mounts accessories silk-covered models aptly named High Roller tune city origin Right Scottish import Bill McConnachie innovative canard P-30 entry project still undergoing testing shows promise Putting dethermalizer timer nose helps cut down fuse fire hazards Left Flying Wing guru Barnaby Wainfan peeks through dethermalizer barn door latest venture huge very lightweight full-bore V2A Gas model powered Cox 049 engine running pressure Center Vic Cunnyngham launches distinctive Class D Gas design VTO vertical takeoff allowed Taft venue model has elegant lines fiberglass fuselage/boom arresting red/white/black color scheme Right Brothers Carlos Randy Ramirez constructed flew Peck-Polymers Prairie Bird Embryo Endur ance attending USFFC Free Flight Taft real treat newcomers owing wide-open spaces friendly helpful folks September 1989 63 Left Hank Coles high-tech Wakefield equipped model railroad styrene rods prop wing turbulators tape Pfennlnger strips maintaining airflow adhesion carbon fiber motor tube AR VIT shown wing monocoque structure covered sheet balsa Hank needless say heavily involved computer-based Fl B design/research projects Right Vince Fazio Jr fabricated delightful twin-port bubble machine thermal detection stands less five feet tall grinds growls spits out soapy spheres has fan bottom provide uplift force other mysterious things Its seen bubbling away Power launch line Mark Sexton has designed Coupe dHiver flapper balloons out 300 sq its 150 sq launch very slow lengthy glide mode fragile airplanes chameleon act accomplished installation Montreal stop midchord-cam arrangement wings outboard hinge mechanism being redesigned order improve its reliability system concept however have proven viable model shown its wings folded launch mode left wings extended glide configuration right probably shucked off just plain luck Rocket Dont Have Rocket Scientist Build MRC eng neers decided design 1/4 scale replica Sidewinder kept two things mind Hot performance ease construction Using state-of-the-art Computer Aided Designs CAD Sidewinder soars 1000 ft higher withoutahitch dont know rockets authenticity good looks Sidewinder Arm yourself today easy-to-assemble Sidewinder blast off good times Because its size complexity Sidewinder recommended modelers have built launched beginner kit Sidewinder. another leadership innovation MRC Send forafree catalog See thefull line advanced MRC rockets hobby dealer cant help call us directly MRCe Model Rectifier Corporation 2500 woodbndge Ave Edison NJ 08817 201985 7800 interview Terry very careful point Out fun despite lau rels couldnt have happened nicer person As Juniors newcomers Free Flight whove talked him know Terrys valuable advice flows freelyand spirit rubs off undiluted Old-Timer Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover also flew eight events half Power other half Rubber placed first Nostalgia Indoor Bostonian Cabin West rounded out marathon USFFC weekend trophies five other categories second Category C OT Cabin third Texaco third OT Vintage Rubber fifth Category B OT Gas Cabin fifth OT Large Rubber Stick Hals airplanes always reflect very high building standards impeccable finishes well trimiied performance quick determined retriever rarely loses anything Out sight concert other Ironmen choice always ready help others through maze FF data Good show Anyone contemplates taking part sched ule such USFFC offers has got half Ironman already temptation immerse oneself combined Free Flight carnival/zoo being great trek Taft culmination long design construc tion program quite few enjoying once-a-year experience involves temporal financial sacrifice well physical aspects attending can exhausting can get little smudged dust devils swarm through sweat possibly anxiety induced some rolls standing alien environment waiting ultimate thermal arrive gumbands nitro ready remaining 266 people made meet such success hat off Creature comforts aside hotel front seat 1974 Chevy pickup assorted boards boxes extending cubby accom modate sixish-foot-laydown very large contests provide maximum flying time expo sure between dawn motorcycles start bark way through so-called golden hours dusk right darkness Official flying goes 7 am until 4 pm real feast enthusiast bent trying also allows plenty time testing early late next days events nothing smushes goes over hill flier can quite well prepared given years truly phenomenal weather low seventies low eight ies dry light drift several models went off spectacular boomers after dethermalizers deployed cause either joy sorrow depending ones point viewyet case could made joy side inasmuch creations made fly free Catapult Glider disappeared sight eight minutes plus instance following tip event director Roy Waddell should launch banked 900 right easily spectacular single flight have ever satisfaction index quotient Now like others similarly victimized big boomer have built another Glider hap pily Fewer six 500 people site actually witnessed extraordinary ac complishment second place reward six-pack Pepsi Humbly accepted Beyond full AMA slate large number unofficial events flown some will take place official list once pe riod experimentation over popular ity demands full credence personal favorite has long Dawn Mulvihill Bob Mues ser invention possibly granddaddy event still growing Oaklands Joe Foster tickled stratosphere 10-plus minutes 615 am launcha stellar performance Next day newfangled Dawn P-30 Mass Launch competition drew 22 sleepy folks test still air winning time 211 thereabouts remember early Hand-Launch Glider mass throw won Bob Boyer flying basic lightweight door plane about 111 also Cat apult Glider event Prairie Bird Juniors Rocket Outdoor Bostonian West Cabin Night Pee Wee 30 Gas Night Hand Launch P-30 etc Launching machine have worked hard produce dark moonless sky 10 pm takes measure courage chasing down flickering speck can huge fun deed escapes clear away can al ways get up early next day find being Year commemorate Dick Kordas brilliant 1939 Wakefield Cup victory USFFC staged two special events 50th Anni versary John Crean maxed Out win 28 entries Korda replicas very interest ing window re-creation target 4329 accumulating much flight time possible two-minute minimum air planes Korda replicas size outline weight chose help Out fellow Orbiteer Bob Langdonpicking air deciding ROG timing Within window man aged 32 minutes plus allotted time no sin gle flight landing 50 yards away Curiously Old-Timer rules outlaw thermal detecting devices binoculars lifted shirttails let lower back hair tell lift tale laid flat down earth count time immediate perspective thought Bob clear victoronly learn Scot tish transplant Bill McConnachie single 3310 flight window lost motorbike chase after 65 minutes Tells something about ideal weather conditions went much happening serendip ity pretty much determined what sawand al though tried things missed eyes overlooked very fine Cate gory Autogyro national record set Jean An drews 946 Delta Dart type plane Eclips ing George Perrymans recent Georgia-based ef fort Andrews feat returned high mark West Likewise missed Senior flier Jeff Whitmans whopping 2605 CO2 book-buster 13 straight two-minute maxes 05 Mondaya day delivered unquestionably finest flying conditions have ever seen Taft disliked leavingeven though case immediate destination High Sierra mountains YosemitefTuolumne Meadows/ Mammoth Lakes region max please New different stuff abounded year Mark Sexton shredded several tires way down Seattle Bruce Kimball Canadian Norm Beatty brought down fine Coupe dHiver Flapper design just about five minutes away being terror its name sake event Several canards tail-firsters seen perhaps signaling rebirth arcane ap proach Possibly also comeback trail Bill Bogart prominent Wakefield theorist new double-V FiB wing stab notched up 100 no rudder plane appeared competi tive never got show us hopped ther mal OOS before scheduled event ran high-tech materials ev Continued page 166 64 Model Aviation First ScaIe So wrote him set him straight re plied thanks saying gotten word first place because post office damaged last page copy April Fool issue Okie Flyer co incidences can Anyway because Toms Scale Staffel newslet ter widely read Bill Northrop publisher excellent Model Builder magazine wrote Stahl asking true unpub lished P-47 design Mr Stahl kind enough set Northrop straight send gracious letter said must careful about testing memories us old geezers briefly fooled annoyed got call AMA saying Hurst Bowers Curator AMAs museum put something about P-47 AMAs Cloud Nine publication receiving inquir ies about plans bottom line good news can get own copy fine really historic plan directly de signer draftsman Mik Mikkelson will $350 send copy write him 2249 Cheremoya Ave Hollywood CA 90068 very fine plan about 20-in wingspan remarkably good imitation Stahls style its Miks Razorback version Jug Flyline Models puts out several kits Stahls Scale designs Rearwin Speedster being especially good flier Campbells makes kit Gypsy Wakefield about 1938-39 vintage very fine design Campbells address given earlier paragraph column modelers know Stahl mem ber American Wakefield team 1939 tend think him lovely Scale de signs dont know Gypsy design used 1939 meet pretty Rubber Cabin ship competitive current SAM Society Antique Modelers Ed Large Rubber Cabin Vintage Wakefield events someone would send good photo Gypsy theyve built Ill publish mentioned Aeromodeller magazine earlier publishers have put Out three books inter est us titles being Flying ModelsFa vourites Fifties SO Years Aeromodeller Model Flying First SO Years As can see titles cover somewhat same ground different emphasis fun read contain planssome fullsizeand photos well worth price 695 pounds sterling plus 10% postage order England Argus Books Wolsey House Wolsey Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP2 4SS England Youll have easier time order through US distribu tor Motor Books International PO Box 2 829 Prospect Ave Osceola WI 54020 USFFC/Oldenkamp Continued page 64 idence Four first five Nordic towliners fea tured foam wing construction based Martyn Cowleys pacemaking innovations Carbon fiber matte tows shreds you-name-it have clearly invaded much Power Rubber scene yielding longer lighter stronger com ponents anyone could have visualized scant few years ago carbon fiber products versatile easy use wonders first came mar ket Lastly note plastic films cover ing fast creeping FF movement down miniships like P-30 Coupe AA Nos talgia etc logic isnt lost generic heat shrinks go long way crease durability say nothing aerodynamic smoothness overall performance vendor side things flurry new kits fuels finishes gadgets supplies up grabs wallet permitting Larry Jenno rep lica OT engines note Stan Buddenbahm sold out clutch Silly Putty dethermalizer units nothing silly about themthey fireless light weight eminently repeatable much delight Sal Fruciano displayed pair elegant Coupe Wakefield front-end hubs importing Poland very reasonable prices complete spinners bobbins flawless workman ship Al Heinrich action full line color nitrate dopes thinners covering adhesives exotic imported Rubber Gas classic kits Additionally typical hats T shirts banners other USFFC mementos full shop next year notes include proper address sources products men tioned interested readers may contact 3331 Adams Avenue San Diego CA 92116 will make effort steer correct way Next year As 1989 USFFC didnt come close enough perfection talk 1990 20th edition will have huge circus tents headquarters better computer scoring boards corporate sponsorship participa tion food events people word just short overload Will Goodyear blimp ABC Sports show up knew what theyd overlooked 1989 would Closing thanks cheers future 1HAINIRFOAMAIREMUNAHLH SPANb$ 74SPANb WEIGHT 2 lbs 3CHI HT 5 lbs $ fl95 WEIGHT 2 lbs $1 495 POWER 0 cc$1A95 POWER 0POWER 0 ccUY 3 4 CHANNEL4CHi-iFOURCHANNELFOUR CHANNEL CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE INFORT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 ON SAC KITS AND QUADRA PRICES316 325-2821 FREE SHIPPING ON KIT ORDERVISA MASTERCARD ACCEPTED 166 Model Aviation Designed Manufactured Charles Michae citatrick INCLUDES MUFFLER Experienced Modelers Only Highest Quality Engine World Most Powerful Engine its Class INCLUDES Beautiful muffler alu prop spinner nut glow plug Double precision boll bearings Direct order Immediate UPS insured shipment $29800 plus $495 S&H Sorry no COD Send check MO FITZPATRICK 2120 BENTLEY #303 WEST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90025TEL 213-477-2092 Bill Booth architect mastermind 1989 business manager Bob Beecroft Lynn Martin new good friend Truman Puck ett Chef du Taft whole passel folks reminded act attitude Taft very special place roses really smell people Plan USFFC 1990 now Theres no telling itll cool 1989 certainly will groovy P-51 B/Felton Continued page 69 stringer forward bottom fuselage cover D4 Add balsa sheet piece bottom F5 rounding off edges shown view B-B Build up cowl -in balsa sheet shown top side views hollow out Glue A-in ply C2 piece front top half Glue C3 front end cowls removable bottom Sand carve hol low cowl shape Add 1-in ply pieces inside both top bottom halves cowl sides shown cowl top side views blind nut installed inside top cowl ply 4-40 bolt through bottom cowl ply form cowl attachment top half cowl permanently glued nose model Test fit engine cowl drill mount ing holes KM-40 mount Use shaft exten sion achieve adequate spinner clearance Cut holes cowl block cylinder head ex haust needle valve Glue stabilizer fuselage Add -in triangular balsa bottom stabilizer fuselage intersection bracing Glue fin fuselage Add scrap balsa bracing between fin stabilizer intersection round off shown view C-C Add rudder fin trailing edge offset ide flying circle Make tail wheel gear %rin-dia wire Bend gear shown position /-in ply support drill holes Attach gear nylon thread gluing liberally dry glue unit place bottom fuselage cut out Add scrap balsa wheel fairings Make main gear %2-in-dia wtre shown Make gear fairings A-in ply tach nylon gear clips Attach gear assem blies 1-in ply supports bottom wing nylon gear clips Finishing color scheme silver overall medium blue trim Make lettering signia MonoKote Make canopy thin plastic epoxy fuselage Outline canopy strips black MonoKote aileron flap outlines also made black MonoKote Final assembly Glue wing fuselage Make air scoop hollowed-out balsa block glue bottom wing Add balsa exhaust stacks both sides forward fuselage Pass lead-out wires through wing tip line guide tie off Attach nylon control horn elevator Hook up pushrod Attach 3-in-dia wheels main gear 1 -in -dia wheel tail gear tach 12 x 6 prop 3-in spinner en gine sure balance Mustang centerof-gravity shown plans Youre ready take flying field see yourself rugged lightweight plane Continued page 168 I U U P U p p I P U U P p U P U U Superior Igniters Improve starting idle acceleration Youll notice power bargain fuels Special Detergents Promote clean burning prevent residue buildup Rust Inhibitors Protect engines corrosion After run oil needed engines Film Strength Additives Increase lubricity provide extra lean run protection 1 E * 1* 1 P P U U P THE CHOICE OF CHAMPION FLYERS HFor over 20 years SIG has blending finest quality model engine fuel available using finest quality ingredients instance Methanol use 995% pure thevery best grade money can buy also use real 100% pure UNitromethane get full measure youve paid based honest percentage-of-volume method percentage weight SIG fuels con tain 50-50 blend Bakers purest AA Castor Oil Inew improved Klotz Techniplate Synthetic Racing Oil maximum engine lubrication protection Based experience sincerely believe finest quality fuel can made price dont take word try some judge UyourselfPrices s,5jee oSange withOOt nOtice See dealer first available order direct Call 800-247-5008 toll free orders Latest Catalog $300 SIG MANUFACTURING CO Montezuma IA 50171 .EEEEUEEEEEUUUE U I U U U P P P Anti-Wear Additives Help keep engines running peak performance longer Satisfaction Guaranteed FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $1500 SIG CHAMPION 2-STROKE FUEL PINT QUART 0% Nitromthane 5% Nitromethane $365$525 10% Nitromethane $415$550 15% Nitromethane $430$635 25% Nitromethatie $5 15$795 35% Nitromethane $595 $925 SIG PREMIUM 4-STROKE 10% Nitromethane 15% Nitromethane GALLON $1075 $1275 $1475 $1675 $2195 $2695 FUEL $1425 $1625 I U U I i P U U U U U U U U U U U U U mE ERR Em EKE EU U U EU Far poap~ t Up ELZ UP 5helt8I Z UP1 BhSI~ futlV NO Iaa5 urdY 0strUG~ 006,turpOIS tubS, trP 0erN e aIrcraft partS NO rap05 tuabte miflur * full afl V8 Rod n OP sturdy feds~gNUYOfl 361 ~ Jo P Leisure rO Ltd v~973.517B September 1989 167
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/09
Page Numbers: 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 166, 167
U S ree Flight Chazoicipi 67 separate events menu weather order USFFC never better 1989 Taft Close 300 com petitors 15 states Canada UK signed up some 850 official unofficial event entries John Oldenkamp TO CATCH spirit 19th running USFFC go back Sixties vernac ular tag definitely cool happening departmentfrom especially pleasant cooperative weather cool expert manage ment great field food heightened record-setting competition benign site aka Mecca down several hun dred happy campers attendance ubiquitous Steve Geraghty bundled up suc cinctly awards gatheringin fact couldnt have said better Free Flight event others will judged weather other amenities cool could also said USFFC year rediscovered its soulor better its center Contest Director Bill Booth put countless hours framing AAAA event USFFC few other con tests such designees around userfriendly core featured U-shaped wellshaded headquarters form monster motor homes donated Fleetwood Indus tries finished off Truman Pucketts catering operation Contestants therefore place well smoothly run nerve center provided neces sary information Also new year advance mail-in registration Gold cards allowed un limited events once set fee paid functional graphics eliminated confu sion finding individual event sites top flags banners abundance helped work up enthusiasm pilgrims Consequently lit tle need stand lines few disputes meet dominated flying opportunities what brought us first place hoping always best got numbers generated cool well-focused USFFC competition im pressive Two hundred seventy paying customers signed up 746 event entries Make 850-odd several unofficial events thrown Three new national records pending result /2A Gas CO2 Senior Duration Autogyro Cate gory computer scoring system pro grammed San Diego Orbiteer Lynne Martin employed printout alone ran 75 pages greatly streamlined knowledge flow weekend Fifteen states two foreign countries Canada UK repre sented plus some California fliers Sixtyseven separate events menu enough satisfy competitive urges jaded Free Flight fan Rubber Power entries outnumbered 60 Model Aviation Contest Director Bill Booth presides over hardware inventory Sundays award cere mony prize raffle hobby industry firms contributed event sponsors donors Left Wes Funk Truckee CA scored First BCD Nostalgia Gas 750 Ramrod powered McCoy 35 Redhead engine air plane covered Micaflim finished Red Baron paints Jerry Rocha right looking Right San Francisco advertising art director John Pratt launches version Dave Platts Dragonfly Model Aviation magazine has plan No 585 popular airplane 61 Ken Johnson seen launching beauti fully crafted Lockspiecer LDA canard Scale model wind 24-in-span tail firster safe smooth flier under power Power 313 281 emphasizing trend Rubber Power continues populous events P-30 49 entries plus few seconds after sunrise Bud Romak lets go Dawn Mulvihill entry stillor neutral liftatmosphere eventually record ing nine minutes plus model appears variant author-designed early morning Dewnwalker published MA eight Junior fliers Gas held its own 46 justifies 4A rating no question about names supplanted numbers Chester Lanzo ventured out Ohio digs battle fabled Taft venue saw him cheerfully autographing gag gle Old-Timer Gas Bombers muchadmired Duplex Stick OT Wakefield combo generally getting big boot out just being large enthusiastic British group hand hosted Southern California Ignition Flyers SCIFS very attractive Old-Timer club talked Hall-of-Famer Hank Cole length waved Frank Zaic spent some time NFFS Executive Director Hardy Brodersen etc Cartoonist Will Nakashima graced meet did other big guys biz some kids some newcomers Taft bedazzled scope Since arrived early Thursday morn ing two days before meet began vocal chord burnout became problem Satur day ended sights talks really other half soul aeromodeling Left John Hutchinson winds up Sparrowhawk MA Plan No 603 P-30 test flight later won Night Fly event winding setup includes Simplex Stooge winder John Morrills shop Center Cyalume chemlight traces tense moment launch during Night Gas event Class B Satellite really lays down dust noise event decidedly faint heart Right Noted Nor dic competitor Bob lsaacson flew beautifully decorated Champion Wake Up kitplane George Schoedtders Champion Models Bobs airplane modified variable-incidence tail VIT auto rudder AR operated timer located wings trailing edge September 1989 61 Left Brian Martin chief flight engineer Gulf Airlines Bahrain searches lift prior launching red white blue Lanzo Duplex Wakefield Brian placed second airplane Right Mike Heatherington Great Britain launching spectacular Jumbo Rubber Spitfire off mission unique near-museum-scale model equipped very smooth double-gear rubber drive unit folding prop maximize its flight characteristics also has Tomy timer actuates retracts lots charisma stick-and-tissue project 43 spectacles see exchanges linger memory Ironmen maybe half-dozen present Sal Taibi arguably embodiment Free Flight both mod ern Old-Timer man al ways available Heres what Sal did Al though flew two three days managed cover six events winning four outright Category C OT Cab Category B OT Cabin 30-Second An tique /2A Texaco taking fourth sixth two others Perhaps fearing trophy load might some way cause PR problem took breather Monday though unflown air planes Sal loves what does thats steam runs engine him Con gratulations Bud Romak famed FAL Indoor competitor good guy world brought 26 new airplanes USFFC trashed lost some gone out sight during weeks onsite testing entered least eight events bagging first Mulvihill through eight-minute flight Mainly though Bud seen scurrying over field multiple airplanes helping oth ers timing chasingand obviously having very large time hobby/sport/entertainment Spies tell holes up Palm Springs shop weeks end working through huge stacks building supplies emerging fleets new stuff Maybe Bud Designated Ironman Builder wit nessed antics USFFC youd sa lute him Terry Thorkildsen certainly came fly Before close first day meet put up string 14 five-minute maxes plus 301 Gas perhaps push Category record out reach good long time 7301 since Terry such genial soft-spoken sort 62 Model Aviation Left Thomas Greenhalge Costa Mesa CA puts little body English OT Large Cabin entry ROGs clean max flight Riseoff-ground planes can sometimes daunting task thin smallish wheels should minor obstacles interfere Right Grant Carson interesting P-30 out testing surfaces covered silver Mylar aid visibility 160-sq-in sweptback wing ribless allows shallow dihedral producing flat turns Balsarite Coverite used adhere Mylar skin frame Above Old-Timer Category Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover walks along 20-year-old Taibi Powerhouse steadying it rolls liftoff Texaco event DeLong 30 engine strain ing pull its 4-lb load air Right Ironman Terry Thorkild sen poses Category Ill record holder AstroStar MA Plan No 606 after putting phenomenal 14 consecutive fiveminute max flights plus 301 new mark Gas 7301 Left Pee Wee 30 achieved official status year Two potent examples class airplane shown designer/builder Charles Atkinson Las Vegas NV Larry Jenno machined engine mounts accessories silk-covered models aptly named High Roller tune city origin Right Scottish import Bill McConnachie innovative canard P-30 entry project still undergoing testing shows promise Putting dethermalizer timer nose helps cut down fuse fire hazards Left Flying Wing guru Barnaby Wainfan peeks through dethermalizer barn door latest venture huge very lightweight full-bore V2A Gas model powered Cox 049 engine running pressure Center Vic Cunnyngham launches distinctive Class D Gas design VTO vertical takeoff allowed Taft venue model has elegant lines fiberglass fuselage/boom arresting red/white/black color scheme Right Brothers Carlos Randy Ramirez constructed flew Peck-Polymers Prairie Bird Embryo Endur ance attending USFFC Free Flight Taft real treat newcomers owing wide-open spaces friendly helpful folks September 1989 63 Left Hank Coles high-tech Wakefield equipped model railroad styrene rods prop wing turbulators tape Pfennlnger strips maintaining airflow adhesion carbon fiber motor tube AR VIT shown wing monocoque structure covered sheet balsa Hank needless say heavily involved computer-based Fl B design/research projects Right Vince Fazio Jr fabricated delightful twin-port bubble machine thermal detection stands less five feet tall grinds growls spits out soapy spheres has fan bottom provide uplift force other mysterious things Its seen bubbling away Power launch line Mark Sexton has designed Coupe dHiver flapper balloons out 300 sq its 150 sq launch very slow lengthy glide mode fragile airplanes chameleon act accomplished installation Montreal stop midchord-cam arrangement wings outboard hinge mechanism being redesigned order improve its reliability system concept however have proven viable model shown its wings folded launch mode left wings extended glide configuration right probably shucked off just plain luck Rocket Dont Have Rocket Scientist Build MRC eng neers decided design 1/4 scale replica Sidewinder kept two things mind Hot performance ease construction Using state-of-the-art Computer Aided Designs CAD Sidewinder soars 1000 ft higher withoutahitch dont know rockets authenticity good looks Sidewinder Arm yourself today easy-to-assemble Sidewinder blast off good times Because its size complexity Sidewinder recommended modelers have built launched beginner kit Sidewinder. another leadership innovation MRC Send forafree catalog See thefull line advanced MRC rockets hobby dealer cant help call us directly MRCe Model Rectifier Corporation 2500 woodbndge Ave Edison NJ 08817 201985 7800 interview Terry very careful point Out fun despite lau rels couldnt have happened nicer person As Juniors newcomers Free Flight whove talked him know Terrys valuable advice flows freelyand spirit rubs off undiluted Old-Timer Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover also flew eight events half Power other half Rubber placed first Nostalgia Indoor Bostonian Cabin West rounded out marathon USFFC weekend trophies five other categories second Category C OT Cabin third Texaco third OT Vintage Rubber fifth Category B OT Gas Cabin fifth OT Large Rubber Stick Hals airplanes always reflect very high building standards impeccable finishes well trimiied performance quick determined retriever rarely loses anything Out sight concert other Ironmen choice always ready help others through maze FF data Good show Anyone contemplates taking part sched ule such USFFC offers has got half Ironman already temptation immerse oneself combined Free Flight carnival/zoo being great trek Taft culmination long design construc tion program quite few enjoying once-a-year experience involves temporal financial sacrifice well physical aspects attending can exhausting can get little smudged dust devils swarm through sweat possibly anxiety induced some rolls standing alien environment waiting ultimate thermal arrive gumbands nitro ready remaining 266 people made meet such success hat off Creature comforts aside hotel front seat 1974 Chevy pickup assorted boards boxes extending cubby accom modate sixish-foot-laydown very large contests provide maximum flying time expo sure between dawn motorcycles start bark way through so-called golden hours dusk right darkness Official flying goes 7 am until 4 pm real feast enthusiast bent trying also allows plenty time testing early late next days events nothing smushes goes over hill flier can quite well prepared given years truly phenomenal weather low seventies low eight ies dry light drift several models went off spectacular boomers after dethermalizers deployed cause either joy sorrow depending ones point viewyet case could made joy side inasmuch creations made fly free Catapult Glider disappeared sight eight minutes plus instance following tip event director Roy Waddell should launch banked 900 right easily spectacular single flight have ever satisfaction index quotient Now like others similarly victimized big boomer have built another Glider hap pily Fewer six 500 people site actually witnessed extraordinary ac complishment second place reward six-pack Pepsi Humbly accepted Beyond full AMA slate large number unofficial events flown some will take place official list once pe riod experimentation over popular ity demands full credence personal favorite has long Dawn Mulvihill Bob Mues ser invention possibly granddaddy event still growing Oaklands Joe Foster tickled stratosphere 10-plus minutes 615 am launcha stellar performance Next day newfangled Dawn P-30 Mass Launch competition drew 22 sleepy folks test still air winning time 211 thereabouts remember early Hand-Launch Glider mass throw won Bob Boyer flying basic lightweight door plane about 111 also Cat apult Glider event Prairie Bird Juniors Rocket Outdoor Bostonian West Cabin Night Pee Wee 30 Gas Night Hand Launch P-30 etc Launching machine have worked hard produce dark moonless sky 10 pm takes measure courage chasing down flickering speck can huge fun deed escapes clear away can al ways get up early next day find being Year commemorate Dick Kordas brilliant 1939 Wakefield Cup victory USFFC staged two special events 50th Anni versary John Crean maxed Out win 28 entries Korda replicas very interest ing window re-creation target 4329 accumulating much flight time possible two-minute minimum air planes Korda replicas size outline weight chose help Out fellow Orbiteer Bob Langdonpicking air deciding ROG timing Within window man aged 32 minutes plus allotted time no sin gle flight landing 50 yards away Curiously Old-Timer rules outlaw thermal detecting devices binoculars lifted shirttails let lower back hair tell lift tale laid flat down earth count time immediate perspective thought Bob clear victoronly learn Scot tish transplant Bill McConnachie single 3310 flight window lost motorbike chase after 65 minutes Tells something about ideal weather conditions went much happening serendip ity pretty much determined what sawand al though tried things missed eyes overlooked very fine Cate gory Autogyro national record set Jean An drews 946 Delta Dart type plane Eclips ing George Perrymans recent Georgia-based ef fort Andrews feat returned high mark West Likewise missed Senior flier Jeff Whitmans whopping 2605 CO2 book-buster 13 straight two-minute maxes 05 Mondaya day delivered unquestionably finest flying conditions have ever seen Taft disliked leavingeven though case immediate destination High Sierra mountains YosemitefTuolumne Meadows/ Mammoth Lakes region max please New different stuff abounded year Mark Sexton shredded several tires way down Seattle Bruce Kimball Canadian Norm Beatty brought down fine Coupe dHiver Flapper design just about five minutes away being terror its name sake event Several canards tail-firsters seen perhaps signaling rebirth arcane ap proach Possibly also comeback trail Bill Bogart prominent Wakefield theorist new double-V FiB wing stab notched up 100 no rudder plane appeared competi tive never got show us hopped ther mal OOS before scheduled event ran high-tech materials ev Continued page 166 64 Model Aviation First ScaIe So wrote him set him straight re plied thanks saying gotten word first place because post office damaged last page copy April Fool issue Okie Flyer co incidences can Anyway because Toms Scale Staffel newslet ter widely read Bill Northrop publisher excellent Model Builder magazine wrote Stahl asking true unpub lished P-47 design Mr Stahl kind enough set Northrop straight send gracious letter said must careful about testing memories us old geezers briefly fooled annoyed got call AMA saying Hurst Bowers Curator AMAs museum put something about P-47 AMAs Cloud Nine publication receiving inquir ies about plans bottom line good news can get own copy fine really historic plan directly de signer draftsman Mik Mikkelson will $350 send copy write him 2249 Cheremoya Ave Hollywood CA 90068 very fine plan about 20-in wingspan remarkably good imitation Stahls style its Miks Razorback version Jug Flyline Models puts out several kits Stahls Scale designs Rearwin Speedster being especially good flier Campbells makes kit Gypsy Wakefield about 1938-39 vintage very fine design Campbells address given earlier paragraph column modelers know Stahl mem ber American Wakefield team 1939 tend think him lovely Scale de signs dont know Gypsy design used 1939 meet pretty Rubber Cabin ship competitive current SAM Society Antique Modelers Ed Large Rubber Cabin Vintage Wakefield events someone would send good photo Gypsy theyve built Ill publish mentioned Aeromodeller magazine earlier publishers have put Out three books inter est us titles being Flying ModelsFa vourites Fifties SO Years Aeromodeller Model Flying First SO Years As can see titles cover somewhat same ground different emphasis fun read contain planssome fullsizeand photos well worth price 695 pounds sterling plus 10% postage order England Argus Books Wolsey House Wolsey Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP2 4SS England Youll have easier time order through US distribu tor Motor Books International PO Box 2 829 Prospect Ave Osceola WI 54020 USFFC/Oldenkamp Continued page 64 idence Four first five Nordic towliners fea tured foam wing construction based Martyn Cowleys pacemaking innovations Carbon fiber matte tows shreds you-name-it have clearly invaded much Power Rubber scene yielding longer lighter stronger com ponents anyone could have visualized scant few years ago carbon fiber products versatile easy use wonders first came mar ket Lastly note plastic films cover ing fast creeping FF movement down miniships like P-30 Coupe AA Nos talgia etc logic isnt lost generic heat shrinks go long way crease durability say nothing aerodynamic smoothness overall performance vendor side things flurry new kits fuels finishes gadgets supplies up grabs wallet permitting Larry Jenno rep lica OT engines note Stan Buddenbahm sold out clutch Silly Putty dethermalizer units nothing silly about themthey fireless light weight eminently repeatable much delight Sal Fruciano displayed pair elegant Coupe Wakefield front-end hubs importing Poland very reasonable prices complete spinners bobbins flawless workman ship Al Heinrich action full line color nitrate dopes thinners covering adhesives exotic imported Rubber Gas classic kits Additionally typical hats T shirts banners other USFFC mementos full shop next year notes include proper address sources products men tioned interested readers may contact 3331 Adams Avenue San Diego CA 92116 will make effort steer correct way Next year As 1989 USFFC didnt come close enough perfection talk 1990 20th edition will have huge circus tents headquarters better computer scoring boards corporate sponsorship participa tion food events people word just short overload Will Goodyear blimp ABC Sports show up knew what theyd overlooked 1989 would Closing thanks cheers future 1HAINIRFOAMAIREMUNAHLH SPANb$ 74SPANb WEIGHT 2 lbs 3CHI HT 5 lbs $ fl95 WEIGHT 2 lbs $1 495 POWER 0 cc$1A95 POWER 0POWER 0 ccUY 3 4 CHANNEL4CHi-iFOURCHANNELFOUR CHANNEL CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE INFORT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 ON SAC KITS AND QUADRA PRICES316 325-2821 FREE SHIPPING ON KIT ORDERVISA MASTERCARD ACCEPTED 166 Model Aviation Designed Manufactured Charles Michae citatrick INCLUDES MUFFLER Experienced Modelers Only Highest Quality Engine World Most Powerful Engine its Class INCLUDES Beautiful muffler alu prop spinner nut glow plug Double precision boll bearings Direct order Immediate UPS insured shipment $29800 plus $495 S&H Sorry no COD Send check MO FITZPATRICK 2120 BENTLEY #303 WEST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90025TEL 213-477-2092 Bill Booth architect mastermind 1989 business manager Bob Beecroft Lynn Martin new good friend Truman Puck ett Chef du Taft whole passel folks reminded act attitude Taft very special place roses really smell people Plan USFFC 1990 now Theres no telling itll cool 1989 certainly will groovy P-51 B/Felton Continued page 69 stringer forward bottom fuselage cover D4 Add balsa sheet piece bottom F5 rounding off edges shown view B-B Build up cowl -in balsa sheet shown top side views hollow out Glue A-in ply C2 piece front top half Glue C3 front end cowls removable bottom Sand carve hol low cowl shape Add 1-in ply pieces inside both top bottom halves cowl sides shown cowl top side views blind nut installed inside top cowl ply 4-40 bolt through bottom cowl ply form cowl attachment top half cowl permanently glued nose model Test fit engine cowl drill mount ing holes KM-40 mount Use shaft exten sion achieve adequate spinner clearance Cut holes cowl block cylinder head ex haust needle valve Glue stabilizer fuselage Add -in triangular balsa bottom stabilizer fuselage intersection bracing Glue fin fuselage Add scrap balsa bracing between fin stabilizer intersection round off shown view C-C Add rudder 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/09
Page Numbers: 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 166, 167
U S ree Flight Chazoicipi 67 separate events menu weather order USFFC never better 1989 Taft Close 300 com petitors 15 states Canada UK signed up some 850 official unofficial event entries John Oldenkamp TO CATCH spirit 19th running USFFC go back Sixties vernac ular tag definitely cool happening departmentfrom especially pleasant cooperative weather cool expert manage ment great field food heightened record-setting competition benign site aka Mecca down several hun dred happy campers attendance ubiquitous Steve Geraghty bundled up suc cinctly awards gatheringin fact couldnt have said better Free Flight event others will judged weather other amenities cool could also said USFFC year rediscovered its soulor better its center Contest Director Bill Booth put countless hours framing AAAA event USFFC few other con tests such designees around userfriendly core featured U-shaped wellshaded headquarters form monster motor homes donated Fleetwood Indus tries finished off Truman Pucketts catering operation Contestants therefore place well smoothly run nerve center provided neces sary information Also new year advance mail-in registration Gold cards allowed un limited events once set fee paid functional graphics eliminated confu sion finding individual event sites top flags banners abundance helped work up enthusiasm pilgrims Consequently lit tle need stand lines few disputes meet dominated flying opportunities what brought us first place hoping always best got numbers generated cool well-focused USFFC competition im pressive Two hundred seventy paying customers signed up 746 event entries Make 850-odd several unofficial events thrown Three new national records pending result /2A Gas CO2 Senior Duration Autogyro Cate gory computer scoring system pro grammed San Diego Orbiteer Lynne Martin employed printout alone ran 75 pages greatly streamlined knowledge flow weekend Fifteen states two foreign countries Canada UK repre sented plus some California fliers Sixtyseven separate events menu enough satisfy competitive urges jaded Free Flight fan Rubber Power entries outnumbered 60 Model Aviation Contest Director Bill Booth presides over hardware inventory Sundays award cere mony prize raffle hobby industry firms contributed event sponsors donors Left Wes Funk Truckee CA scored First BCD Nostalgia Gas 750 Ramrod powered McCoy 35 Redhead engine air plane covered Micaflim finished Red Baron paints Jerry Rocha right looking Right San Francisco advertising art director John Pratt launches version Dave Platts Dragonfly Model Aviation magazine has plan No 585 popular airplane 61 Ken Johnson seen launching beauti fully crafted Lockspiecer LDA canard Scale model wind 24-in-span tail firster safe smooth flier under power Power 313 281 emphasizing trend Rubber Power continues populous events P-30 49 entries plus few seconds after sunrise Bud Romak lets go Dawn Mulvihill entry stillor neutral liftatmosphere eventually record ing nine minutes plus model appears variant author-designed early morning Dewnwalker published MA eight Junior fliers Gas held its own 46 justifies 4A rating no question about names supplanted numbers Chester Lanzo ventured out Ohio digs battle fabled Taft venue saw him cheerfully autographing gag gle Old-Timer Gas Bombers muchadmired Duplex Stick OT Wakefield combo generally getting big boot out just being large enthusiastic British group hand hosted Southern California Ignition Flyers SCIFS very attractive Old-Timer club talked Hall-of-Famer Hank Cole length waved Frank Zaic spent some time NFFS Executive Director Hardy Brodersen etc Cartoonist Will Nakashima graced meet did other big guys biz some kids some newcomers Taft bedazzled scope Since arrived early Thursday morn ing two days before meet began vocal chord burnout became problem Satur day ended sights talks really other half soul aeromodeling Left John Hutchinson winds up Sparrowhawk MA Plan No 603 P-30 test flight later won Night Fly event winding setup includes Simplex Stooge winder John Morrills shop Center Cyalume chemlight traces tense moment launch during Night Gas event Class B Satellite really lays down dust noise event decidedly faint heart Right Noted Nor dic competitor Bob lsaacson flew beautifully decorated Champion Wake Up kitplane George Schoedtders Champion Models Bobs airplane modified variable-incidence tail VIT auto rudder AR operated timer located wings trailing edge September 1989 61 Left Brian Martin chief flight engineer Gulf Airlines Bahrain searches lift prior launching red white blue Lanzo Duplex Wakefield Brian placed second airplane Right Mike Heatherington Great Britain launching spectacular Jumbo Rubber Spitfire off mission unique near-museum-scale model equipped very smooth double-gear rubber drive unit folding prop maximize its flight characteristics also has Tomy timer actuates retracts lots charisma stick-and-tissue project 43 spectacles see exchanges linger memory Ironmen maybe half-dozen present Sal Taibi arguably embodiment Free Flight both mod ern Old-Timer man al ways available Heres what Sal did Al though flew two three days managed cover six events winning four outright Category C OT Cab Category B OT Cabin 30-Second An tique /2A Texaco taking fourth sixth two others Perhaps fearing trophy load might some way cause PR problem took breather Monday though unflown air planes Sal loves what does thats steam runs engine him Con gratulations Bud Romak famed FAL Indoor competitor good guy world brought 26 new airplanes USFFC trashed lost some gone out sight during weeks onsite testing entered least eight events bagging first Mulvihill through eight-minute flight Mainly though Bud seen scurrying over field multiple airplanes helping oth ers timing chasingand obviously having very large time hobby/sport/entertainment Spies tell holes up Palm Springs shop weeks end working through huge stacks building supplies emerging fleets new stuff Maybe Bud Designated Ironman Builder wit nessed antics USFFC youd sa lute him Terry Thorkildsen certainly came fly Before close first day meet put up string 14 five-minute maxes plus 301 Gas perhaps push Category record out reach good long time 7301 since Terry such genial soft-spoken sort 62 Model Aviation Left Thomas Greenhalge Costa Mesa CA puts little body English OT Large Cabin entry ROGs clean max flight Riseoff-ground planes can sometimes daunting task thin smallish wheels should minor obstacles interfere Right Grant Carson interesting P-30 out testing surfaces covered silver Mylar aid visibility 160-sq-in sweptback wing ribless allows shallow dihedral producing flat turns Balsarite Coverite used adhere Mylar skin frame Above Old-Timer Category Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover walks along 20-year-old Taibi Powerhouse steadying it rolls liftoff Texaco event DeLong 30 engine strain ing pull its 4-lb load air Right Ironman Terry Thorkild sen poses Category Ill record holder AstroStar MA Plan No 606 after putting phenomenal 14 consecutive fiveminute max flights plus 301 new mark Gas 7301 Left Pee Wee 30 achieved official status year Two potent examples class airplane shown designer/builder Charles Atkinson Las Vegas NV Larry Jenno machined engine mounts accessories silk-covered models aptly named High Roller tune city origin Right Scottish import Bill McConnachie innovative canard P-30 entry project still undergoing testing shows promise Putting dethermalizer timer nose helps cut down fuse fire hazards Left Flying Wing guru Barnaby Wainfan peeks through dethermalizer barn door latest venture huge very lightweight full-bore V2A Gas model powered Cox 049 engine running pressure Center Vic Cunnyngham launches distinctive Class D Gas design VTO vertical takeoff allowed Taft venue model has elegant lines fiberglass fuselage/boom arresting red/white/black color scheme Right Brothers Carlos Randy Ramirez constructed flew Peck-Polymers Prairie Bird Embryo Endur ance attending USFFC Free Flight Taft real treat newcomers owing wide-open spaces friendly helpful folks September 1989 63 Left Hank Coles high-tech Wakefield equipped model railroad styrene rods prop wing turbulators tape Pfennlnger strips maintaining airflow adhesion carbon fiber motor tube AR VIT shown wing monocoque structure covered sheet balsa Hank needless say heavily involved computer-based Fl B design/research projects Right Vince Fazio Jr fabricated delightful twin-port bubble machine thermal detection stands less five feet tall grinds growls spits out soapy spheres has fan bottom provide uplift force other mysterious things Its seen bubbling away Power launch line Mark Sexton has designed Coupe dHiver flapper balloons out 300 sq its 150 sq launch very slow lengthy glide mode fragile airplanes chameleon act accomplished installation Montreal stop midchord-cam arrangement wings outboard hinge mechanism being redesigned order improve its reliability system concept however have proven viable model shown its wings folded launch mode left wings extended glide configuration right probably shucked off just plain luck Rocket Dont Have Rocket Scientist Build MRC eng neers decided design 1/4 scale replica Sidewinder kept two things mind Hot performance ease construction Using state-of-the-art Computer Aided Designs CAD Sidewinder soars 1000 ft higher withoutahitch dont know rockets authenticity good looks Sidewinder Arm yourself today easy-to-assemble Sidewinder blast off good times Because its size complexity Sidewinder recommended modelers have built launched beginner kit Sidewinder. another leadership innovation MRC Send forafree catalog See thefull line advanced MRC rockets hobby dealer cant help call us directly MRCe Model Rectifier Corporation 2500 woodbndge Ave Edison NJ 08817 201985 7800 interview Terry very careful point Out fun despite lau rels couldnt have happened nicer person As Juniors newcomers Free Flight whove talked him know Terrys valuable advice flows freelyand spirit rubs off undiluted Old-Timer Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover also flew eight events half Power other half Rubber placed first Nostalgia Indoor Bostonian Cabin West rounded out marathon USFFC weekend trophies five other categories second Category C OT Cabin third Texaco third OT Vintage Rubber fifth Category B OT Gas Cabin fifth OT Large Rubber Stick Hals airplanes always reflect very high building standards impeccable finishes well trimiied performance quick determined retriever rarely loses anything Out sight concert other Ironmen choice always ready help others through maze FF data Good show Anyone contemplates taking part sched ule such USFFC offers has got half Ironman already temptation immerse oneself combined Free Flight carnival/zoo being great trek Taft culmination long design construc tion program quite few enjoying once-a-year experience involves temporal financial sacrifice well physical aspects attending can exhausting can get little smudged dust devils swarm through sweat possibly anxiety induced some rolls standing alien environment waiting ultimate thermal arrive gumbands nitro ready remaining 266 people made meet such success hat off Creature comforts aside hotel front seat 1974 Chevy pickup assorted boards boxes extending cubby accom modate sixish-foot-laydown very large contests provide maximum flying time expo sure between dawn motorcycles start bark way through so-called golden hours dusk right darkness Official flying goes 7 am until 4 pm real feast enthusiast bent trying also allows plenty time testing early late next days events nothing smushes goes over hill flier can quite well prepared given years truly phenomenal weather low seventies low eight ies dry light drift several models went off spectacular boomers after dethermalizers deployed cause either joy sorrow depending ones point viewyet case could made joy side inasmuch creations made fly free Catapult Glider disappeared sight eight minutes plus instance following tip event director Roy Waddell should launch banked 900 right easily spectacular single flight have ever satisfaction index quotient Now like others similarly victimized big boomer have built another Glider hap pily Fewer six 500 people site actually witnessed extraordinary ac complishment second place reward six-pack Pepsi Humbly accepted Beyond full AMA slate large number unofficial events flown some will take place official list once pe riod experimentation over popular ity demands full credence personal favorite has long Dawn Mulvihill Bob Mues ser invention possibly granddaddy event still growing Oaklands Joe Foster tickled stratosphere 10-plus minutes 615 am launcha stellar performance Next day newfangled Dawn P-30 Mass Launch competition drew 22 sleepy folks test still air winning time 211 thereabouts remember early Hand-Launch Glider mass throw won Bob Boyer flying basic lightweight door plane about 111 also Cat apult Glider event Prairie Bird Juniors Rocket Outdoor Bostonian West Cabin Night Pee Wee 30 Gas Night Hand Launch P-30 etc Launching machine have worked hard produce dark moonless sky 10 pm takes measure courage chasing down flickering speck can huge fun deed escapes clear away can al ways get up early next day find being Year commemorate Dick Kordas brilliant 1939 Wakefield Cup victory USFFC staged two special events 50th Anni versary John Crean maxed Out win 28 entries Korda replicas very interest ing window re-creation target 4329 accumulating much flight time possible two-minute minimum air planes Korda replicas size outline weight chose help Out fellow Orbiteer Bob Langdonpicking air deciding ROG timing Within window man aged 32 minutes plus allotted time no sin gle flight landing 50 yards away Curiously Old-Timer rules outlaw thermal detecting devices binoculars lifted shirttails let lower back hair tell lift tale laid flat down earth count time immediate perspective thought Bob clear victoronly learn Scot tish transplant Bill McConnachie single 3310 flight window lost motorbike chase after 65 minutes Tells something about ideal weather conditions went much happening serendip ity pretty much determined what sawand al though tried things missed eyes overlooked very fine Cate gory Autogyro national record set Jean An drews 946 Delta Dart type plane Eclips ing George Perrymans recent Georgia-based ef fort Andrews feat returned high mark West Likewise missed Senior flier Jeff Whitmans whopping 2605 CO2 book-buster 13 straight two-minute maxes 05 Mondaya day delivered unquestionably finest flying conditions have ever seen Taft disliked leavingeven though case immediate destination High Sierra mountains YosemitefTuolumne Meadows/ Mammoth Lakes region max please New different stuff abounded year Mark Sexton shredded several tires way down Seattle Bruce Kimball Canadian Norm Beatty brought down fine Coupe dHiver Flapper design just about five minutes away being terror its name sake event Several canards tail-firsters seen perhaps signaling rebirth arcane ap proach Possibly also comeback trail Bill Bogart prominent Wakefield theorist new double-V FiB wing stab notched up 100 no rudder plane appeared competi tive never got show us hopped ther mal OOS before scheduled event ran high-tech materials ev Continued page 166 64 Model Aviation First ScaIe So wrote him set him straight re plied thanks saying gotten word first place because post office damaged last page copy April Fool issue Okie Flyer co incidences can Anyway because Toms Scale Staffel newslet ter widely read Bill Northrop publisher excellent Model Builder magazine wrote Stahl asking true unpub lished P-47 design Mr Stahl kind enough set Northrop straight send gracious letter said must careful about testing memories us old geezers briefly fooled annoyed got call AMA saying Hurst Bowers Curator AMAs museum put something about P-47 AMAs Cloud Nine publication receiving inquir ies about plans bottom line good news can get own copy fine really historic plan directly de signer draftsman Mik Mikkelson will $350 send copy write him 2249 Cheremoya Ave Hollywood CA 90068 very fine plan about 20-in wingspan remarkably good imitation Stahls style its Miks Razorback version Jug Flyline Models puts out several kits Stahls Scale designs Rearwin Speedster being especially good flier Campbells makes kit Gypsy Wakefield about 1938-39 vintage very fine design Campbells address given earlier paragraph column modelers know Stahl mem ber American Wakefield team 1939 tend think him lovely Scale de signs dont know Gypsy design used 1939 meet pretty Rubber Cabin ship competitive current SAM Society Antique Modelers Ed Large Rubber Cabin Vintage Wakefield events someone would send good photo Gypsy theyve built Ill publish mentioned Aeromodeller magazine earlier publishers have put Out three books inter est us titles being Flying ModelsFa vourites Fifties SO Years Aeromodeller Model Flying First SO Years As can see titles cover somewhat same ground different emphasis fun read contain planssome fullsizeand photos well worth price 695 pounds sterling plus 10% postage order England Argus Books Wolsey House Wolsey Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP2 4SS England Youll have easier time order through US distribu tor Motor Books International PO Box 2 829 Prospect Ave Osceola WI 54020 USFFC/Oldenkamp Continued page 64 idence Four first five Nordic towliners fea tured foam wing construction based Martyn Cowleys pacemaking innovations Carbon fiber matte tows shreds you-name-it have clearly invaded much Power Rubber scene yielding longer lighter stronger com ponents anyone could have visualized scant few years ago carbon fiber products versatile easy use wonders first came mar ket Lastly note plastic films cover ing fast creeping FF movement down miniships like P-30 Coupe AA Nos talgia etc logic isnt lost generic heat shrinks go long way crease durability say nothing aerodynamic smoothness overall performance vendor side things flurry new kits fuels finishes gadgets supplies up grabs wallet permitting Larry Jenno rep lica OT engines note Stan Buddenbahm sold out clutch Silly Putty dethermalizer units nothing silly about themthey fireless light weight eminently repeatable much delight Sal Fruciano displayed pair elegant Coupe Wakefield front-end hubs importing Poland very reasonable prices complete spinners bobbins flawless workman ship Al Heinrich action full line color nitrate dopes thinners covering adhesives exotic imported Rubber Gas classic kits Additionally typical hats T shirts banners other USFFC mementos full shop next year notes include proper address sources products men tioned interested readers may contact 3331 Adams Avenue San Diego CA 92116 will make effort steer correct way Next year As 1989 USFFC didnt come close enough perfection talk 1990 20th edition will have huge circus tents headquarters better computer scoring boards corporate sponsorship participa tion food events people word just short overload Will Goodyear blimp ABC Sports show up knew what theyd overlooked 1989 would Closing thanks cheers future 1HAINIRFOAMAIREMUNAHLH SPANb$ 74SPANb WEIGHT 2 lbs 3CHI HT 5 lbs $ fl95 WEIGHT 2 lbs $1 495 POWER 0 cc$1A95 POWER 0POWER 0 ccUY 3 4 CHANNEL4CHi-iFOURCHANNELFOUR CHANNEL CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE INFORT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 ON SAC KITS AND QUADRA PRICES316 325-2821 FREE SHIPPING ON KIT ORDERVISA MASTERCARD ACCEPTED 166 Model Aviation Designed Manufactured Charles Michae citatrick INCLUDES MUFFLER Experienced Modelers Only Highest Quality Engine World Most Powerful Engine its Class INCLUDES Beautiful muffler alu prop spinner nut glow plug Double precision boll bearings Direct order Immediate UPS insured shipment $29800 plus $495 S&H Sorry no COD Send check MO FITZPATRICK 2120 BENTLEY #303 WEST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90025TEL 213-477-2092 Bill Booth architect mastermind 1989 business manager Bob Beecroft Lynn Martin new good friend Truman Puck ett Chef du Taft whole passel folks reminded act attitude Taft very special place roses really smell people Plan USFFC 1990 now Theres no telling itll cool 1989 certainly will groovy P-51 B/Felton Continued page 69 stringer forward bottom fuselage cover D4 Add balsa sheet piece bottom F5 rounding off edges shown view B-B Build up cowl -in balsa sheet shown top side views hollow out Glue A-in ply C2 piece front top half Glue C3 front end cowls removable bottom Sand carve hol low cowl shape Add 1-in ply pieces inside both top bottom halves cowl sides shown cowl top side views blind nut installed inside top cowl ply 4-40 bolt through bottom cowl ply form cowl attachment top half cowl permanently glued nose model Test fit engine cowl drill mount ing holes KM-40 mount Use shaft exten sion achieve adequate spinner clearance Cut holes cowl block cylinder head ex haust needle valve Glue stabilizer fuselage Add -in triangular balsa bottom stabilizer fuselage intersection bracing Glue fin fuselage Add scrap balsa bracing between fin stabilizer intersection round off shown view C-C Add rudder fin trailing edge offset ide flying circle Make tail wheel gear %rin-dia wire Bend gear shown position /-in ply support drill holes Attach gear nylon thread gluing liberally dry glue unit place bottom fuselage cut out Add scrap balsa wheel fairings Make main gear %2-in-dia wtre shown Make gear fairings A-in ply tach nylon gear clips Attach gear assem blies 1-in ply supports bottom wing nylon gear clips Finishing color scheme silver overall medium blue trim Make lettering signia MonoKote Make canopy thin plastic epoxy fuselage Outline canopy strips black MonoKote aileron flap outlines also made black MonoKote Final assembly Glue wing fuselage Make air scoop hollowed-out balsa block glue bottom wing Add balsa exhaust stacks both sides forward fuselage Pass lead-out wires through wing tip line guide tie off Attach nylon control horn elevator Hook up pushrod Attach 3-in-dia wheels main gear 1 -in -dia wheel tail gear tach 12 x 6 prop 3-in spinner en gine sure balance Mustang centerof-gravity shown plans Youre ready take flying field see yourself rugged lightweight plane Continued page 168 I U U P U p p I P U U P p U P U U Superior Igniters Improve starting idle acceleration Youll notice power bargain fuels Special Detergents Promote clean burning prevent residue buildup Rust Inhibitors Protect engines corrosion After run oil needed engines Film Strength Additives Increase lubricity provide extra lean run protection 1 E * 1* 1 P P U U P THE CHOICE OF CHAMPION FLYERS HFor over 20 years SIG has blending finest quality model engine fuel available using finest quality ingredients instance Methanol use 995% pure thevery best grade money can buy also use real 100% pure UNitromethane get full measure youve paid based honest percentage-of-volume method percentage weight SIG fuels con tain 50-50 blend Bakers purest AA Castor Oil Inew improved Klotz Techniplate Synthetic Racing Oil maximum engine lubrication protection Based experience sincerely believe finest quality fuel can made price dont take word try some judge UyourselfPrices s,5jee oSange withOOt nOtice See dealer first available order direct Call 800-247-5008 toll free orders Latest Catalog $300 SIG MANUFACTURING CO Montezuma IA 50171 .EEEEUEEEEEUUUE U I U U U P P P Anti-Wear Additives Help keep engines running peak performance longer Satisfaction Guaranteed FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $1500 SIG CHAMPION 2-STROKE FUEL PINT QUART 0% Nitromthane 5% Nitromethane $365$525 10% Nitromethane $415$550 15% Nitromethane $430$635 25% Nitromethatie $5 15$795 35% Nitromethane $595 $925 SIG PREMIUM 4-STROKE 10% Nitromethane 15% Nitromethane GALLON $1075 $1275 $1475 $1675 $2195 $2695 FUEL $1425 $1625 I U U I i P U U U U U U U U U U U U U mE ERR Em EKE EU U U EU Far poap~ t Up ELZ UP 5helt8I Z UP1 BhSI~ futlV NO Iaa5 urdY 0strUG~ 006,turpOIS tubS, trP 0erN e aIrcraft partS NO rap05 tuabte miflur * full afl V8 Rod n OP sturdy feds~gNUYOfl 361 ~ Jo P Leisure rO Ltd v~973.517B September 1989 167
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/09
Page Numbers: 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 166, 167
U S ree Flight Chazoicipi 67 separate events menu weather order USFFC never better 1989 Taft Close 300 com petitors 15 states Canada UK signed up some 850 official unofficial event entries John Oldenkamp TO CATCH spirit 19th running USFFC go back Sixties vernac ular tag definitely cool happening departmentfrom especially pleasant cooperative weather cool expert manage ment great field food heightened record-setting competition benign site aka Mecca down several hun dred happy campers attendance ubiquitous Steve Geraghty bundled up suc cinctly awards gatheringin fact couldnt have said better Free Flight event others will judged weather other amenities cool could also said USFFC year rediscovered its soulor better its center Contest Director Bill Booth put countless hours framing AAAA event USFFC few other con tests such designees around userfriendly core featured U-shaped wellshaded headquarters form monster motor homes donated Fleetwood Indus tries finished off Truman Pucketts catering operation Contestants therefore place well smoothly run nerve center provided neces sary information Also new year advance mail-in registration Gold cards allowed un limited events once set fee paid functional graphics eliminated confu sion finding individual event sites top flags banners abundance helped work up enthusiasm pilgrims Consequently lit tle need stand lines few disputes meet dominated flying opportunities what brought us first place hoping always best got numbers generated cool well-focused USFFC competition im pressive Two hundred seventy paying customers signed up 746 event entries Make 850-odd several unofficial events thrown Three new national records pending result /2A Gas CO2 Senior Duration Autogyro Cate gory computer scoring system pro grammed San Diego Orbiteer Lynne Martin employed printout alone ran 75 pages greatly streamlined knowledge flow weekend Fifteen states two foreign countries Canada UK repre sented plus some California fliers Sixtyseven separate events menu enough satisfy competitive urges jaded Free Flight fan Rubber Power entries outnumbered 60 Model Aviation Contest Director Bill Booth presides over hardware inventory Sundays award cere mony prize raffle hobby industry firms contributed event sponsors donors Left Wes Funk Truckee CA scored First BCD Nostalgia Gas 750 Ramrod powered McCoy 35 Redhead engine air plane covered Micaflim finished Red Baron paints Jerry Rocha right looking Right San Francisco advertising art director John Pratt launches version Dave Platts Dragonfly Model Aviation magazine has plan No 585 popular airplane 61 Ken Johnson seen launching beauti fully crafted Lockspiecer LDA canard Scale model wind 24-in-span tail firster safe smooth flier under power Power 313 281 emphasizing trend Rubber Power continues populous events P-30 49 entries plus few seconds after sunrise Bud Romak lets go Dawn Mulvihill entry stillor neutral liftatmosphere eventually record ing nine minutes plus model appears variant author-designed early morning Dewnwalker published MA eight Junior fliers Gas held its own 46 justifies 4A rating no question about names supplanted numbers Chester Lanzo ventured out Ohio digs battle fabled Taft venue saw him cheerfully autographing gag gle Old-Timer Gas Bombers muchadmired Duplex Stick OT Wakefield combo generally getting big boot out just being large enthusiastic British group hand hosted Southern California Ignition Flyers SCIFS very attractive Old-Timer club talked Hall-of-Famer Hank Cole length waved Frank Zaic spent some time NFFS Executive Director Hardy Brodersen etc Cartoonist Will Nakashima graced meet did other big guys biz some kids some newcomers Taft bedazzled scope Since arrived early Thursday morn ing two days before meet began vocal chord burnout became problem Satur day ended sights talks really other half soul aeromodeling Left John Hutchinson winds up Sparrowhawk MA Plan No 603 P-30 test flight later won Night Fly event winding setup includes Simplex Stooge winder John Morrills shop Center Cyalume chemlight traces tense moment launch during Night Gas event Class B Satellite really lays down dust noise event decidedly faint heart Right Noted Nor dic competitor Bob lsaacson flew beautifully decorated Champion Wake Up kitplane George Schoedtders Champion Models Bobs airplane modified variable-incidence tail VIT auto rudder AR operated timer located wings trailing edge September 1989 61 Left Brian Martin chief flight engineer Gulf Airlines Bahrain searches lift prior launching red white blue Lanzo Duplex Wakefield Brian placed second airplane Right Mike Heatherington Great Britain launching spectacular Jumbo Rubber Spitfire off mission unique near-museum-scale model equipped very smooth double-gear rubber drive unit folding prop maximize its flight characteristics also has Tomy timer actuates retracts lots charisma stick-and-tissue project 43 spectacles see exchanges linger memory Ironmen maybe half-dozen present Sal Taibi arguably embodiment Free Flight both mod ern Old-Timer man al ways available Heres what Sal did Al though flew two three days managed cover six events winning four outright Category C OT Cab Category B OT Cabin 30-Second An tique /2A Texaco taking fourth sixth two others Perhaps fearing trophy load might some way cause PR problem took breather Monday though unflown air planes Sal loves what does thats steam runs engine him Con gratulations Bud Romak famed FAL Indoor competitor good guy world brought 26 new airplanes USFFC trashed lost some gone out sight during weeks onsite testing entered least eight events bagging first Mulvihill through eight-minute flight Mainly though Bud seen scurrying over field multiple airplanes helping oth ers timing chasingand obviously having very large time hobby/sport/entertainment Spies tell holes up Palm Springs shop weeks end working through huge stacks building supplies emerging fleets new stuff Maybe Bud Designated Ironman Builder wit nessed antics USFFC youd sa lute him Terry Thorkildsen certainly came fly Before close first day meet put up string 14 five-minute maxes plus 301 Gas perhaps push Category record out reach good long time 7301 since Terry such genial soft-spoken sort 62 Model Aviation Left Thomas Greenhalge Costa Mesa CA puts little body English OT Large Cabin entry ROGs clean max flight Riseoff-ground planes can sometimes daunting task thin smallish wheels should minor obstacles interfere Right Grant Carson interesting P-30 out testing surfaces covered silver Mylar aid visibility 160-sq-in sweptback wing ribless allows shallow dihedral producing flat turns Balsarite Coverite used adhere Mylar skin frame Above Old-Timer Category Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover walks along 20-year-old Taibi Powerhouse steadying it rolls liftoff Texaco event DeLong 30 engine strain ing pull its 4-lb load air Right Ironman Terry Thorkild sen poses Category Ill record holder AstroStar MA Plan No 606 after putting phenomenal 14 consecutive fiveminute max flights plus 301 new mark Gas 7301 Left Pee Wee 30 achieved official status year Two potent examples class airplane shown designer/builder Charles Atkinson Las Vegas NV Larry Jenno machined engine mounts accessories silk-covered models aptly named High Roller tune city origin Right Scottish import Bill McConnachie innovative canard P-30 entry project still undergoing testing shows promise Putting dethermalizer timer nose helps cut down fuse fire hazards Left Flying Wing guru Barnaby Wainfan peeks through dethermalizer barn door latest venture huge very lightweight full-bore V2A Gas model powered Cox 049 engine running pressure Center Vic Cunnyngham launches distinctive Class D Gas design VTO vertical takeoff allowed Taft venue model has elegant lines fiberglass fuselage/boom arresting red/white/black color scheme Right Brothers Carlos Randy Ramirez constructed flew Peck-Polymers Prairie Bird Embryo Endur ance attending USFFC Free Flight Taft real treat newcomers owing wide-open spaces friendly helpful folks September 1989 63 Left Hank Coles high-tech Wakefield equipped model railroad styrene rods prop wing turbulators tape Pfennlnger strips maintaining airflow adhesion carbon fiber motor tube AR VIT shown wing monocoque structure covered sheet balsa Hank needless say heavily involved computer-based Fl B design/research projects Right Vince Fazio Jr fabricated delightful twin-port bubble machine thermal detection stands less five feet tall grinds growls spits out soapy spheres has fan bottom provide uplift force other mysterious things Its seen bubbling away Power launch line Mark Sexton has designed Coupe dHiver flapper balloons out 300 sq its 150 sq launch very slow lengthy glide mode fragile airplanes chameleon act accomplished installation Montreal stop midchord-cam arrangement wings outboard hinge mechanism being redesigned order improve its reliability system concept however have proven viable model shown its wings folded launch mode left wings extended glide configuration right probably shucked off just plain luck Rocket Dont Have Rocket Scientist Build MRC eng neers decided design 1/4 scale replica Sidewinder kept two things mind Hot performance ease construction Using state-of-the-art Computer Aided Designs CAD Sidewinder soars 1000 ft higher withoutahitch dont know rockets authenticity good looks Sidewinder Arm yourself today easy-to-assemble Sidewinder blast off good times Because its size complexity Sidewinder recommended modelers have built launched beginner kit Sidewinder. another leadership innovation MRC Send forafree catalog See thefull line advanced MRC rockets hobby dealer cant help call us directly MRCe Model Rectifier Corporation 2500 woodbndge Ave Edison NJ 08817 201985 7800 interview Terry very careful point Out fun despite lau rels couldnt have happened nicer person As Juniors newcomers Free Flight whove talked him know Terrys valuable advice flows freelyand spirit rubs off undiluted Old-Timer Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover also flew eight events half Power other half Rubber placed first Nostalgia Indoor Bostonian Cabin West rounded out marathon USFFC weekend trophies five other categories second Category C OT Cabin third Texaco third OT Vintage Rubber fifth Category B OT Gas Cabin fifth OT Large Rubber Stick Hals airplanes always reflect very high building standards impeccable finishes well trimiied performance quick determined retriever rarely loses anything Out sight concert other Ironmen choice always ready help others through maze FF data Good show Anyone contemplates taking part sched ule such USFFC offers has got half Ironman already temptation immerse oneself combined Free Flight carnival/zoo being great trek Taft culmination long design construc tion program quite few enjoying once-a-year experience involves temporal financial sacrifice well physical aspects attending can exhausting can get little smudged dust devils swarm through sweat possibly anxiety induced some rolls standing alien environment waiting ultimate thermal arrive gumbands nitro ready remaining 266 people made meet such success hat off Creature comforts aside hotel front seat 1974 Chevy pickup assorted boards boxes extending cubby accom modate sixish-foot-laydown very large contests provide maximum flying time expo sure between dawn motorcycles start bark way through so-called golden hours dusk right darkness Official flying goes 7 am until 4 pm real feast enthusiast bent trying also allows plenty time testing early late next days events nothing smushes goes over hill flier can quite well prepared given years truly phenomenal weather low seventies low eight ies dry light drift several models went off spectacular boomers after dethermalizers deployed cause either joy sorrow depending ones point viewyet case could made joy side inasmuch creations made fly free Catapult Glider disappeared sight eight minutes plus instance following tip event director Roy Waddell should launch banked 900 right easily spectacular single flight have ever satisfaction index quotient Now like others similarly victimized big boomer have built another Glider hap pily Fewer six 500 people site actually witnessed extraordinary ac complishment second place reward six-pack Pepsi Humbly accepted Beyond full AMA slate large number unofficial events flown some will take place official list once pe riod experimentation over popular ity demands full credence personal favorite has long Dawn Mulvihill Bob Mues ser invention possibly granddaddy event still growing Oaklands Joe Foster tickled stratosphere 10-plus minutes 615 am launcha stellar performance Next day newfangled Dawn P-30 Mass Launch competition drew 22 sleepy folks test still air winning time 211 thereabouts remember early Hand-Launch Glider mass throw won Bob Boyer flying basic lightweight door plane about 111 also Cat apult Glider event Prairie Bird Juniors Rocket Outdoor Bostonian West Cabin Night Pee Wee 30 Gas Night Hand Launch P-30 etc Launching machine have worked hard produce dark moonless sky 10 pm takes measure courage chasing down flickering speck can huge fun deed escapes clear away can al ways get up early next day find being Year commemorate Dick Kordas brilliant 1939 Wakefield Cup victory USFFC staged two special events 50th Anni versary John Crean maxed Out win 28 entries Korda replicas very interest ing window re-creation target 4329 accumulating much flight time possible two-minute minimum air planes Korda replicas size outline weight chose help Out fellow Orbiteer Bob Langdonpicking air deciding ROG timing Within window man aged 32 minutes plus allotted time no sin gle flight landing 50 yards away Curiously Old-Timer rules outlaw thermal detecting devices binoculars lifted shirttails let lower back hair tell lift tale laid flat down earth count time immediate perspective thought Bob clear victoronly learn Scot tish transplant Bill McConnachie single 3310 flight window lost motorbike chase after 65 minutes Tells something about ideal weather conditions went much happening serendip ity pretty much determined what sawand al though tried things missed eyes overlooked very fine Cate gory Autogyro national record set Jean An drews 946 Delta Dart type plane Eclips ing George Perrymans recent Georgia-based ef fort Andrews feat returned high mark West Likewise missed Senior flier Jeff Whitmans whopping 2605 CO2 book-buster 13 straight two-minute maxes 05 Mondaya day delivered unquestionably finest flying conditions have ever seen Taft disliked leavingeven though case immediate destination High Sierra mountains YosemitefTuolumne Meadows/ Mammoth Lakes region max please New different stuff abounded year Mark Sexton shredded several tires way down Seattle Bruce Kimball Canadian Norm Beatty brought down fine Coupe dHiver Flapper design just about five minutes away being terror its name sake event Several canards tail-firsters seen perhaps signaling rebirth arcane ap proach Possibly also comeback trail Bill Bogart prominent Wakefield theorist new double-V FiB wing stab notched up 100 no rudder plane appeared competi tive never got show us hopped ther mal OOS before scheduled event ran high-tech materials ev Continued page 166 64 Model Aviation First ScaIe So wrote him set him straight re plied thanks saying gotten word first place because post office damaged last page copy April Fool issue Okie Flyer co incidences can Anyway because Toms Scale Staffel newslet ter widely read Bill Northrop publisher excellent Model Builder magazine wrote Stahl asking true unpub lished P-47 design Mr Stahl kind enough set Northrop straight send gracious letter said must careful about testing memories us old geezers briefly fooled annoyed got call AMA saying Hurst Bowers Curator AMAs museum put something about P-47 AMAs Cloud Nine publication receiving inquir ies about plans bottom line good news can get own copy fine really historic plan directly de signer draftsman Mik Mikkelson will $350 send copy write him 2249 Cheremoya Ave Hollywood CA 90068 very fine plan about 20-in wingspan remarkably good imitation Stahls style its Miks Razorback version Jug Flyline Models puts out several kits Stahls Scale designs Rearwin Speedster being especially good flier Campbells makes kit Gypsy Wakefield about 1938-39 vintage very fine design Campbells address given earlier paragraph column modelers know Stahl mem ber American Wakefield team 1939 tend think him lovely Scale de signs dont know Gypsy design used 1939 meet pretty Rubber Cabin ship competitive current SAM Society Antique Modelers Ed Large Rubber Cabin Vintage Wakefield events someone would send good photo Gypsy theyve built Ill publish mentioned Aeromodeller magazine earlier publishers have put Out three books inter est us titles being Flying ModelsFa vourites Fifties SO Years Aeromodeller Model Flying First SO Years As can see titles cover somewhat same ground different emphasis fun read contain planssome fullsizeand photos well worth price 695 pounds sterling plus 10% postage order England Argus Books Wolsey House Wolsey Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP2 4SS England Youll have easier time order through US distribu tor Motor Books International PO Box 2 829 Prospect Ave Osceola WI 54020 USFFC/Oldenkamp Continued page 64 idence Four first five Nordic towliners fea tured foam wing construction based Martyn Cowleys pacemaking innovations Carbon fiber matte tows shreds you-name-it have clearly invaded much Power Rubber scene yielding longer lighter stronger com ponents anyone could have visualized scant few years ago carbon fiber products versatile easy use wonders first came mar ket Lastly note plastic films cover ing fast creeping FF movement down miniships like P-30 Coupe AA Nos talgia etc logic isnt lost generic heat shrinks go long way crease durability say nothing aerodynamic smoothness overall performance vendor side things flurry new kits fuels finishes gadgets supplies up grabs wallet permitting Larry Jenno rep lica OT engines note Stan Buddenbahm sold out clutch Silly Putty dethermalizer units nothing silly about themthey fireless light weight eminently repeatable much delight Sal Fruciano displayed pair elegant Coupe Wakefield front-end hubs importing Poland very reasonable prices complete spinners bobbins flawless workman ship Al Heinrich action full line color nitrate dopes thinners covering adhesives exotic imported Rubber Gas classic kits Additionally typical hats T shirts banners other USFFC mementos full shop next year notes include proper address sources products men tioned interested readers may contact 3331 Adams Avenue San Diego CA 92116 will make effort steer correct way Next year As 1989 USFFC didnt come close enough perfection talk 1990 20th edition will have huge circus tents headquarters better computer scoring boards corporate sponsorship participa tion food events people word just short overload Will Goodyear blimp ABC Sports show up knew what theyd overlooked 1989 would Closing thanks cheers future 1HAINIRFOAMAIREMUNAHLH SPANb$ 74SPANb WEIGHT 2 lbs 3CHI HT 5 lbs $ fl95 WEIGHT 2 lbs $1 495 POWER 0 cc$1A95 POWER 0POWER 0 ccUY 3 4 CHANNEL4CHi-iFOURCHANNELFOUR CHANNEL CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE INFORT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 ON SAC KITS AND QUADRA PRICES316 325-2821 FREE SHIPPING ON KIT ORDERVISA MASTERCARD ACCEPTED 166 Model Aviation Designed Manufactured Charles Michae citatrick INCLUDES MUFFLER Experienced Modelers Only Highest Quality Engine World Most Powerful Engine its Class INCLUDES Beautiful muffler alu prop spinner nut glow plug Double precision boll bearings Direct order Immediate UPS insured shipment $29800 plus $495 S&H Sorry no COD Send check MO FITZPATRICK 2120 BENTLEY #303 WEST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90025TEL 213-477-2092 Bill Booth architect mastermind 1989 business manager Bob Beecroft Lynn Martin new good friend Truman Puck ett Chef du Taft whole passel folks reminded act attitude Taft very special place roses really smell people Plan USFFC 1990 now Theres no telling itll cool 1989 certainly will groovy P-51 B/Felton Continued page 69 stringer forward bottom fuselage cover D4 Add balsa sheet piece bottom F5 rounding off edges shown view B-B Build up cowl -in balsa sheet shown top side views hollow out Glue A-in ply C2 piece front top half Glue C3 front end cowls removable bottom Sand carve hol low cowl shape Add 1-in ply pieces inside both top bottom halves cowl sides shown cowl top side views blind nut installed inside top cowl ply 4-40 bolt through bottom cowl ply form cowl attachment top half cowl permanently glued nose model Test fit engine cowl drill mount ing holes KM-40 mount Use shaft exten sion achieve adequate spinner clearance Cut holes cowl block cylinder head ex haust needle valve Glue stabilizer fuselage Add -in triangular balsa bottom stabilizer fuselage intersection bracing Glue fin fuselage Add scrap balsa bracing between fin stabilizer intersection round off shown view C-C Add rudder fin trailing edge offset ide flying circle Make tail wheel gear %rin-dia wire Bend gear shown position /-in ply support drill holes Attach gear nylon thread gluing liberally dry glue unit place bottom fuselage cut out Add scrap balsa wheel fairings Make main gear %2-in-dia wtre shown Make gear fairings A-in ply tach nylon gear clips Attach gear assem blies 1-in ply supports bottom wing nylon gear clips Finishing color scheme silver overall medium blue trim Make lettering signia MonoKote Make canopy thin plastic epoxy fuselage Outline canopy strips black MonoKote aileron flap outlines also made black MonoKote Final assembly Glue wing fuselage Make air scoop hollowed-out balsa block glue bottom wing Add balsa exhaust stacks both sides forward fuselage Pass lead-out wires through wing tip line guide tie off Attach nylon control horn elevator Hook up pushrod Attach 3-in-dia wheels main gear 1 -in -dia wheel tail gear tach 12 x 6 prop 3-in spinner en gine sure balance Mustang centerof-gravity shown plans Youre ready take flying field see yourself rugged lightweight plane Continued page 168 I U U P U p p I P U U P p U P U U Superior Igniters Improve starting idle acceleration Youll notice power bargain fuels Special Detergents Promote clean burning prevent residue buildup Rust Inhibitors Protect engines corrosion After run oil needed engines Film Strength Additives Increase lubricity provide extra lean run protection 1 E * 1* 1 P P U U P THE CHOICE OF CHAMPION FLYERS HFor over 20 years SIG has blending finest quality model engine fuel available using finest quality ingredients instance Methanol use 995% pure thevery best grade money can buy also use real 100% pure UNitromethane get full measure youve paid based honest percentage-of-volume method percentage weight SIG fuels con tain 50-50 blend Bakers purest AA Castor Oil Inew improved Klotz Techniplate Synthetic Racing Oil maximum engine lubrication protection Based experience sincerely believe finest quality fuel can made price dont take word try some judge UyourselfPrices s,5jee oSange withOOt nOtice See dealer first available order direct Call 800-247-5008 toll free orders Latest Catalog $300 SIG MANUFACTURING CO Montezuma IA 50171 .EEEEUEEEEEUUUE U I U U U P P P Anti-Wear Additives Help keep engines running peak performance longer Satisfaction Guaranteed FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $1500 SIG CHAMPION 2-STROKE FUEL PINT QUART 0% Nitromthane 5% Nitromethane $365$525 10% Nitromethane $415$550 15% Nitromethane $430$635 25% Nitromethatie $5 15$795 35% Nitromethane $595 $925 SIG PREMIUM 4-STROKE 10% Nitromethane 15% Nitromethane GALLON $1075 $1275 $1475 $1675 $2195 $2695 FUEL $1425 $1625 I U U I i P U U U U U U U U U U U U U mE ERR Em EKE EU U U EU Far poap~ t Up ELZ UP 5helt8I Z UP1 BhSI~ futlV NO Iaa5 urdY 0strUG~ 006,turpOIS tubS, trP 0erN e aIrcraft partS NO rap05 tuabte miflur * full afl V8 Rod n OP sturdy feds~gNUYOfl 361 ~ Jo P Leisure rO Ltd v~973.517B September 1989 167
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/09
Page Numbers: 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 166, 167
U S ree Flight Chazoicipi 67 separate events menu weather order USFFC never better 1989 Taft Close 300 com petitors 15 states Canada UK signed up some 850 official unofficial event entries John Oldenkamp TO CATCH spirit 19th running USFFC go back Sixties vernac ular tag definitely cool happening departmentfrom especially pleasant cooperative weather cool expert manage ment great field food heightened record-setting competition benign site aka Mecca down several hun dred happy campers attendance ubiquitous Steve Geraghty bundled up suc cinctly awards gatheringin fact couldnt have said better Free Flight event others will judged weather other amenities cool could also said USFFC year rediscovered its soulor better its center Contest Director Bill Booth put countless hours framing AAAA event USFFC few other con tests such designees around userfriendly core featured U-shaped wellshaded headquarters form monster motor homes donated Fleetwood Indus tries finished off Truman Pucketts catering operation Contestants therefore place well smoothly run nerve center provided neces sary information Also new year advance mail-in registration Gold cards allowed un limited events once set fee paid functional graphics eliminated confu sion finding individual event sites top flags banners abundance helped work up enthusiasm pilgrims Consequently lit tle need stand lines few disputes meet dominated flying opportunities what brought us first place hoping always best got numbers generated cool well-focused USFFC competition im pressive Two hundred seventy paying customers signed up 746 event entries Make 850-odd several unofficial events thrown Three new national records pending result /2A Gas CO2 Senior Duration Autogyro Cate gory computer scoring system pro grammed San Diego Orbiteer Lynne Martin employed printout alone ran 75 pages greatly streamlined knowledge flow weekend Fifteen states two foreign countries Canada UK repre sented plus some California fliers Sixtyseven separate events menu enough satisfy competitive urges jaded Free Flight fan Rubber Power entries outnumbered 60 Model Aviation Contest Director Bill Booth presides over hardware inventory Sundays award cere mony prize raffle hobby industry firms contributed event sponsors donors Left Wes Funk Truckee CA scored First BCD Nostalgia Gas 750 Ramrod powered McCoy 35 Redhead engine air plane covered Micaflim finished Red Baron paints Jerry Rocha right looking Right San Francisco advertising art director John Pratt launches version Dave Platts Dragonfly Model Aviation magazine has plan No 585 popular airplane 61 Ken Johnson seen launching beauti fully crafted Lockspiecer LDA canard Scale model wind 24-in-span tail firster safe smooth flier under power Power 313 281 emphasizing trend Rubber Power continues populous events P-30 49 entries plus few seconds after sunrise Bud Romak lets go Dawn Mulvihill entry stillor neutral liftatmosphere eventually record ing nine minutes plus model appears variant author-designed early morning Dewnwalker published MA eight Junior fliers Gas held its own 46 justifies 4A rating no question about names supplanted numbers Chester Lanzo ventured out Ohio digs battle fabled Taft venue saw him cheerfully autographing gag gle Old-Timer Gas Bombers muchadmired Duplex Stick OT Wakefield combo generally getting big boot out just being large enthusiastic British group hand hosted Southern California Ignition Flyers SCIFS very attractive Old-Timer club talked Hall-of-Famer Hank Cole length waved Frank Zaic spent some time NFFS Executive Director Hardy Brodersen etc Cartoonist Will Nakashima graced meet did other big guys biz some kids some newcomers Taft bedazzled scope Since arrived early Thursday morn ing two days before meet began vocal chord burnout became problem Satur day ended sights talks really other half soul aeromodeling Left John Hutchinson winds up Sparrowhawk MA Plan No 603 P-30 test flight later won Night Fly event winding setup includes Simplex Stooge winder John Morrills shop Center Cyalume chemlight traces tense moment launch during Night Gas event Class B Satellite really lays down dust noise event decidedly faint heart Right Noted Nor dic competitor Bob lsaacson flew beautifully decorated Champion Wake Up kitplane George Schoedtders Champion Models Bobs airplane modified variable-incidence tail VIT auto rudder AR operated timer located wings trailing edge September 1989 61 Left Brian Martin chief flight engineer Gulf Airlines Bahrain searches lift prior launching red white blue Lanzo Duplex Wakefield Brian placed second airplane Right Mike Heatherington Great Britain launching spectacular Jumbo Rubber Spitfire off mission unique near-museum-scale model equipped very smooth double-gear rubber drive unit folding prop maximize its flight characteristics also has Tomy timer actuates retracts lots charisma stick-and-tissue project 43 spectacles see exchanges linger memory Ironmen maybe half-dozen present Sal Taibi arguably embodiment Free Flight both mod ern Old-Timer man al ways available Heres what Sal did Al though flew two three days managed cover six events winning four outright Category C OT Cab Category B OT Cabin 30-Second An tique /2A Texaco taking fourth sixth two others Perhaps fearing trophy load might some way cause PR problem took breather Monday though unflown air planes Sal loves what does thats steam runs engine him Con gratulations Bud Romak famed FAL Indoor competitor good guy world brought 26 new airplanes USFFC trashed lost some gone out sight during weeks onsite testing entered least eight events bagging first Mulvihill through eight-minute flight Mainly though Bud seen scurrying over field multiple airplanes helping oth ers timing chasingand obviously having very large time hobby/sport/entertainment Spies tell holes up Palm Springs shop weeks end working through huge stacks building supplies emerging fleets new stuff Maybe Bud Designated Ironman Builder wit nessed antics USFFC youd sa lute him Terry Thorkildsen certainly came fly Before close first day meet put up string 14 five-minute maxes plus 301 Gas perhaps push Category record out reach good long time 7301 since Terry such genial soft-spoken sort 62 Model Aviation Left Thomas Greenhalge Costa Mesa CA puts little body English OT Large Cabin entry ROGs clean max flight Riseoff-ground planes can sometimes daunting task thin smallish wheels should minor obstacles interfere Right Grant Carson interesting P-30 out testing surfaces covered silver Mylar aid visibility 160-sq-in sweptback wing ribless allows shallow dihedral producing flat turns Balsarite Coverite used adhere Mylar skin frame Above Old-Timer Category Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover walks along 20-year-old Taibi Powerhouse steadying it rolls liftoff Texaco event DeLong 30 engine strain ing pull its 4-lb load air Right Ironman Terry Thorkild sen poses Category Ill record holder AstroStar MA Plan No 606 after putting phenomenal 14 consecutive fiveminute max flights plus 301 new mark Gas 7301 Left Pee Wee 30 achieved official status year Two potent examples class airplane shown designer/builder Charles Atkinson Las Vegas NV Larry Jenno machined engine mounts accessories silk-covered models aptly named High Roller tune city origin Right Scottish import Bill McConnachie innovative canard P-30 entry project still undergoing testing shows promise Putting dethermalizer timer nose helps cut down fuse fire hazards Left Flying Wing guru Barnaby Wainfan peeks through dethermalizer barn door latest venture huge very lightweight full-bore V2A Gas model powered Cox 049 engine running pressure Center Vic Cunnyngham launches distinctive Class D Gas design VTO vertical takeoff allowed Taft venue model has elegant lines fiberglass fuselage/boom arresting red/white/black color scheme Right Brothers Carlos Randy Ramirez constructed flew Peck-Polymers Prairie Bird Embryo Endur ance attending USFFC Free Flight Taft real treat newcomers owing wide-open spaces friendly helpful folks September 1989 63 Left Hank Coles high-tech Wakefield equipped model railroad styrene rods prop wing turbulators tape Pfennlnger strips maintaining airflow adhesion carbon fiber motor tube AR VIT shown wing monocoque structure covered sheet balsa Hank needless say heavily involved computer-based Fl B design/research projects Right Vince Fazio Jr fabricated delightful twin-port bubble machine thermal detection stands less five feet tall grinds growls spits out soapy spheres has fan bottom provide uplift force other mysterious things Its seen bubbling away Power launch line Mark Sexton has designed Coupe dHiver flapper balloons out 300 sq its 150 sq launch very slow lengthy glide mode fragile airplanes chameleon act accomplished installation Montreal stop midchord-cam arrangement wings outboard hinge mechanism being redesigned order improve its reliability system concept however have proven viable model shown its wings folded launch mode left wings extended glide configuration right probably shucked off just plain luck Rocket Dont Have Rocket Scientist Build MRC eng neers decided design 1/4 scale replica Sidewinder kept two things mind Hot performance ease construction Using state-of-the-art Computer Aided Designs CAD Sidewinder soars 1000 ft higher withoutahitch dont know rockets authenticity good looks Sidewinder Arm yourself today easy-to-assemble Sidewinder blast off good times Because its size complexity Sidewinder recommended modelers have built launched beginner kit Sidewinder. another leadership innovation MRC Send forafree catalog See thefull line advanced MRC rockets hobby dealer cant help call us directly MRCe Model Rectifier Corporation 2500 woodbndge Ave Edison NJ 08817 201985 7800 interview Terry very careful point Out fun despite lau rels couldnt have happened nicer person As Juniors newcomers Free Flight whove talked him know Terrys valuable advice flows freelyand spirit rubs off undiluted Old-Timer Sweepstakes Champion Hal Cover also flew eight events half Power other half Rubber placed first Nostalgia Indoor Bostonian Cabin West rounded out marathon USFFC weekend trophies five other categories second Category C OT Cabin third Texaco third OT Vintage Rubber fifth Category B OT Gas Cabin fifth OT Large Rubber Stick Hals airplanes always reflect very high building standards impeccable finishes well trimiied performance quick determined retriever rarely loses anything Out sight concert other Ironmen choice always ready help others through maze FF data Good show Anyone contemplates taking part sched ule such USFFC offers has got half Ironman already temptation immerse oneself combined Free Flight carnival/zoo being great trek Taft culmination long design construc tion program quite few enjoying once-a-year experience involves temporal financial sacrifice well physical aspects attending can exhausting can get little smudged dust devils swarm through sweat possibly anxiety induced some rolls standing alien environment waiting ultimate thermal arrive gumbands nitro ready remaining 266 people made meet such success hat off Creature comforts aside hotel front seat 1974 Chevy pickup assorted boards boxes extending cubby accom modate sixish-foot-laydown very large contests provide maximum flying time expo sure between dawn motorcycles start bark way through so-called golden hours dusk right darkness Official flying goes 7 am until 4 pm real feast enthusiast bent trying also allows plenty time testing early late next days events nothing smushes goes over hill flier can quite well prepared given years truly phenomenal weather low seventies low eight ies dry light drift several models went off spectacular boomers after dethermalizers deployed cause either joy sorrow depending ones point viewyet case could made joy side inasmuch creations made fly free Catapult Glider disappeared sight eight minutes plus instance following tip event director Roy Waddell should launch banked 900 right easily spectacular single flight have ever satisfaction index quotient Now like others similarly victimized big boomer have built another Glider hap pily Fewer six 500 people site actually witnessed extraordinary ac complishment second place reward six-pack Pepsi Humbly accepted Beyond full AMA slate large number unofficial events flown some will take place official list once pe riod experimentation over popular ity demands full credence personal favorite has long Dawn Mulvihill Bob Mues ser invention possibly granddaddy event still growing Oaklands Joe Foster tickled stratosphere 10-plus minutes 615 am launcha stellar performance Next day newfangled Dawn P-30 Mass Launch competition drew 22 sleepy folks test still air winning time 211 thereabouts remember early Hand-Launch Glider mass throw won Bob Boyer flying basic lightweight door plane about 111 also Cat apult Glider event Prairie Bird Juniors Rocket Outdoor Bostonian West Cabin Night Pee Wee 30 Gas Night Hand Launch P-30 etc Launching machine have worked hard produce dark moonless sky 10 pm takes measure courage chasing down flickering speck can huge fun deed escapes clear away can al ways get up early next day find being Year commemorate Dick Kordas brilliant 1939 Wakefield Cup victory USFFC staged two special events 50th Anni versary John Crean maxed Out win 28 entries Korda replicas very interest ing window re-creation target 4329 accumulating much flight time possible two-minute minimum air planes Korda replicas size outline weight chose help Out fellow Orbiteer Bob Langdonpicking air deciding ROG timing Within window man aged 32 minutes plus allotted time no sin gle flight landing 50 yards away Curiously Old-Timer rules outlaw thermal detecting devices binoculars lifted shirttails let lower back hair tell lift tale laid flat down earth count time immediate perspective thought Bob clear victoronly learn Scot tish transplant Bill McConnachie single 3310 flight window lost motorbike chase after 65 minutes Tells something about ideal weather conditions went much happening serendip ity pretty much determined what sawand al though tried things missed eyes overlooked very fine Cate gory Autogyro national record set Jean An drews 946 Delta Dart type plane Eclips ing George Perrymans recent Georgia-based ef fort Andrews feat returned high mark West Likewise missed Senior flier Jeff Whitmans whopping 2605 CO2 book-buster 13 straight two-minute maxes 05 Mondaya day delivered unquestionably finest flying conditions have ever seen Taft disliked leavingeven though case immediate destination High Sierra mountains YosemitefTuolumne Meadows/ Mammoth Lakes region max please New different stuff abounded year Mark Sexton shredded several tires way down Seattle Bruce Kimball Canadian Norm Beatty brought down fine Coupe dHiver Flapper design just about five minutes away being terror its name sake event Several canards tail-firsters seen perhaps signaling rebirth arcane ap proach Possibly also comeback trail Bill Bogart prominent Wakefield theorist new double-V FiB wing stab notched up 100 no rudder plane appeared competi tive never got show us hopped ther mal OOS before scheduled event ran high-tech materials ev Continued page 166 64 Model Aviation First ScaIe So wrote him set him straight re plied thanks saying gotten word first place because post office damaged last page copy April Fool issue Okie Flyer co incidences can Anyway because Toms Scale Staffel newslet ter widely read Bill Northrop publisher excellent Model Builder magazine wrote Stahl asking true unpub lished P-47 design Mr Stahl kind enough set Northrop straight send gracious letter said must careful about testing memories us old geezers briefly fooled annoyed got call AMA saying Hurst Bowers Curator AMAs museum put something about P-47 AMAs Cloud Nine publication receiving inquir ies about plans bottom line good news can get own copy fine really historic plan directly de signer draftsman Mik Mikkelson will $350 send copy write him 2249 Cheremoya Ave Hollywood CA 90068 very fine plan about 20-in wingspan remarkably good imitation Stahls style its Miks Razorback version Jug Flyline Models puts out several kits Stahls Scale designs Rearwin Speedster being especially good flier Campbells makes kit Gypsy Wakefield about 1938-39 vintage very fine design Campbells address given earlier paragraph column modelers know Stahl mem ber American Wakefield team 1939 tend think him lovely Scale de signs dont know Gypsy design used 1939 meet pretty Rubber Cabin ship competitive current SAM Society Antique Modelers Ed Large Rubber Cabin Vintage Wakefield events someone would send good photo Gypsy theyve built Ill publish mentioned Aeromodeller magazine earlier publishers have put Out three books inter est us titles being Flying ModelsFa vourites Fifties SO Years Aeromodeller Model Flying First SO Years As can see titles cover somewhat same ground different emphasis fun read contain planssome fullsizeand 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people Plan USFFC 1990 now Theres no telling itll cool 1989 certainly will groovy P-51 B/Felton Continued page 69 stringer forward bottom fuselage cover D4 Add balsa sheet piece bottom F5 rounding off edges shown view B-B Build up cowl -in balsa sheet shown top side views hollow out Glue A-in ply C2 piece front top half Glue C3 front end cowls removable bottom Sand carve hol low cowl shape Add 1-in ply pieces inside both top bottom halves cowl sides shown cowl top side views blind nut installed inside top cowl ply 4-40 bolt through bottom cowl ply form cowl attachment top half cowl permanently glued nose model Test fit engine cowl drill mount ing holes KM-40 mount Use shaft exten sion achieve adequate spinner clearance Cut holes cowl block cylinder head ex haust needle valve Glue stabilizer fuselage Add -in triangular balsa bottom stabilizer fuselage intersection bracing Glue fin fuselage Add scrap balsa bracing between fin stabilizer intersection round off shown view C-C Add rudder fin trailing edge offset ide flying circle Make tail wheel gear %rin-dia wire Bend gear shown position /-in ply support drill holes Attach gear nylon thread gluing liberally dry glue unit place bottom fuselage cut out Add scrap balsa wheel fairings Make main gear %2-in-dia wtre shown Make gear fairings A-in ply tach nylon gear clips Attach gear assem blies 1-in ply supports bottom wing nylon gear clips Finishing color scheme silver overall medium blue trim Make lettering signia MonoKote Make canopy thin plastic epoxy fuselage Outline canopy strips black MonoKote aileron flap outlines also made black MonoKote Final assembly Glue wing fuselage Make air scoop hollowed-out balsa block glue bottom wing Add balsa exhaust stacks both sides forward fuselage Pass lead-out wires through wing tip line guide tie off Attach nylon control horn elevator Hook up pushrod Attach 3-in-dia wheels main gear 1 -in -dia wheel tail gear tach 12 x 6 prop 3-in spinner en gine sure balance Mustang 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