$4 4 EROMODELING time travelers dont need Delorean time machine travel history free flight turn dreams times past reality building new rendition old model need nostalgic reverie Members Old-Timers Free Flight movement have building prewar designs since John Pond suffered middle-age crisis John founders SAMthe Society Antique Modelersand continues support promote organization internationally well country also keeper worlds largest Old-Timer plans collections can read exploits Plug Sparks column Model Builder what modelers following generation dreams youth filled Playboys Zippers Comet Clippers much less Lanzo Korda rubber jobs names conjure nostalgic memories Zeek Lucky Lindy Civy Boy Ramrod Spacer Wild Goose others personal time machines created balsa glue ready ride thermals again powered engines no longer appear magazine ads What Nostalgia accompanying cartoon courtesy National Free Flight Society NFFS cartoon laureate Will Nakashima NFFS Digest tells story graphically shows NosGas short Nostalgia Gas model San De Hogan powering up over Taft California booming thermal grins faces flier pit crew show pleasure Nostalgia flight Readers Harry Murphys FF Duration column magazine Bob Stalick s Free Flight column Model Builder may already know lot about NosGas Certainly Zeek Chronicles series Harry Dixielander eligibility detective work Bob educated lot Nostalgia buffs Another prosaic definition NFFS Nostalgia Free Flight Gas Event Rules developed Ralph Prey Harry Murphy Bob Larsh purpose rules establish universal competition regulations free flight gas-powered events model airplane designs era Jan 11943 thru Dcc 31 1956 long-winded way saying FF FUN engine regulations much complex models allowing glow ignition engines advertised prior 1957 magic moment Engine screaming model lifts straight up vertical climb U Dave VTO Linstrum also permitting plain bearing loop scavenged engines produced until 1963 except Cox front-intake designs have early fifties I/2A Wild Goose building board now ready rear-valve Cox 049 some nostalgia trips NFFS rules too complex go very own copy rules plus Official NFFS Nostalgia Model Index send $175 VTO NFFS Nostalgia Bob Larsh 45 South Whitcomb Avenue Indianapolis IN 46421 Bob also has numerous Nostalgia plans available does John Pond ask him plans list VTO Easy 1-2-3 drawing shows common methods achieving vertical takeoff VTO NosGas models high-thrust models flier stands kneels front model pylon models often kneels side can reach timer release magic moment course model lifts off vertically engine revving vertical climb would make NASA jealous step 3 drawing practice VTO launches urge take plenty safety precautions Launch least 100 feet downwind cars spectators always have 16 Model Aviation Flighter John Houtenbrink demonstrates VTO vertical takeoff launch Class C pylon ship good idea models launch stability Some NosGas designs dont VTO very well take care See critique El En Gone section below needs great caution NosGas Best Worst risk offending few fliers former mentor would like express opinion pair NosGas modelsmy personal choices best worst class have candidates dubious honor send reasons love hate based personal experiences can send photo model hope will share thoughts winners losers design category could prevent someone making horrible mistake best Harry Murphy might say Zeek cant resist class B/C San De Hogan Denny Davis Denny originally called San Diegan flew out southern California hotbed FF hometown Omaha Nebraska San De Hogan available kit Benson Hobby Center worked early teens built covered yellow Esaki silk hung Greenhead K&B Torpedo 29 climbed like homesick angel Benson Park floated thermals rising ever higher drag tab hanging left wing ultimateeven better several Zeeks often frightening Dutch roll climb pattern worst has El En Gone /2A FF kit produced 1952 OCCO Omaha along cute quartet Ukies called Four Bullets employ Olie Olson built prototype El En Gone covering orange Japanese tissue adding Holland Hornet timer tank front handed over designer devil himself Olson OCCO Dick Clark other partner Olie work basement cutting balsa kits long before OSHA rnles still have balsa dust memory lung tissue production trauma aside what made El En Gone very bad /2A job multispar wing undercamber almost like Zeek wing center section shoulder-wing design triangular-section body fin stab root combination seemed produce model chased its tail over sky under power glided erraticallyand What iostajyoYThot flo5t0j3102 miserably compared pylon job often wonder Olie used fuselage design dreams content Zeek-style flattop body low pylon might have created stable contest-worthy design Want Join Up youre interested SAM NFFS please contact comments ideas have photos Nostalgia model close-ups engines timer rigs drawings comments about practical memorable Nostalgia matters rules complaints send along need reader input feedback especially material suitable publication Nostalgia rubber glider indoor fliers also welcomeyou dont have drenched glow fuel join club other hand castor oil aroma has certain charisma hope have enjoyed little nostalgia trip will share own memoriesand current Nostalgia experiences Send contribution VTO Nostalgia Dave VTO Linstrum 4057 San Luis Drive Sarasota FL 34235 get enough response maybe can influence MA run another article subject VERTICAL TAKEOFF SIMPLE AS 2 ~v1 VTO December 1992 17 Stan Smith Melbourne Florida 1/2A Nostalgia Gas 049-powered Ramrod design Hall Famer Ron St Jean
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/12
Page Numbers: 16, 17
$4 4 EROMODELING time travelers dont need Delorean time machine travel history free flight turn dreams times past reality building new rendition old model need nostalgic reverie Members Old-Timers Free Flight movement have building prewar designs since John Pond suffered middle-age crisis John founders SAMthe Society Antique Modelersand continues support promote organization internationally well country also keeper worlds largest Old-Timer plans collections can read exploits Plug Sparks column Model Builder what modelers following generation dreams youth filled Playboys Zippers Comet Clippers much less Lanzo Korda rubber jobs names conjure nostalgic memories Zeek Lucky Lindy Civy Boy Ramrod Spacer Wild Goose others personal time machines created balsa glue ready ride thermals again powered engines no longer appear magazine ads What Nostalgia accompanying cartoon courtesy National Free Flight Society NFFS cartoon laureate Will Nakashima NFFS Digest tells story graphically shows NosGas short Nostalgia Gas model San De Hogan powering up over Taft California booming thermal grins faces flier pit crew show pleasure Nostalgia flight Readers Harry Murphys FF Duration column magazine Bob Stalick s Free Flight column Model Builder may already know lot about NosGas Certainly Zeek Chronicles series Harry Dixielander eligibility detective work Bob educated lot Nostalgia buffs Another prosaic definition NFFS Nostalgia Free Flight Gas Event Rules developed Ralph Prey Harry Murphy Bob Larsh purpose rules establish universal competition regulations free flight gas-powered events model airplane designs era Jan 11943 thru Dcc 31 1956 long-winded way saying FF FUN engine regulations much complex models allowing glow ignition engines advertised prior 1957 magic moment Engine screaming model lifts straight up vertical climb U Dave VTO Linstrum also permitting plain bearing loop scavenged engines produced until 1963 except Cox front-intake designs have early fifties I/2A Wild Goose building board now ready rear-valve Cox 049 some nostalgia trips NFFS rules too complex go very own copy rules plus Official NFFS Nostalgia Model Index send $175 VTO NFFS Nostalgia Bob Larsh 45 South Whitcomb Avenue Indianapolis IN 46421 Bob also has numerous Nostalgia plans available does John Pond ask him plans list VTO Easy 1-2-3 drawing shows common methods achieving vertical takeoff VTO NosGas models high-thrust models flier stands kneels front model pylon models often kneels side can reach timer release magic moment course model lifts off vertically engine revving vertical climb would make NASA jealous step 3 drawing practice VTO launches urge take plenty safety precautions Launch least 100 feet downwind cars spectators always have 16 Model Aviation Flighter John Houtenbrink demonstrates VTO vertical takeoff launch Class C pylon ship good idea models launch stability Some NosGas designs dont VTO very well take care See critique El En Gone section below needs great caution NosGas Best Worst risk offending few fliers former mentor would like express opinion pair NosGas modelsmy personal choices best worst class have candidates dubious honor send reasons love hate based personal experiences can send photo model hope will share thoughts winners losers design category could prevent someone making horrible mistake best Harry Murphy might say Zeek cant resist class B/C San De Hogan Denny Davis Denny originally called San Diegan flew out southern California hotbed FF hometown Omaha Nebraska San De Hogan available kit Benson Hobby Center worked early teens built covered yellow Esaki silk hung Greenhead K&B Torpedo 29 climbed like homesick angel Benson Park floated thermals rising ever higher drag tab hanging left wing ultimateeven better several Zeeks often frightening Dutch roll climb pattern worst has El En Gone /2A FF kit produced 1952 OCCO Omaha along cute quartet Ukies called Four Bullets employ Olie Olson built prototype El En Gone covering orange Japanese tissue adding Holland Hornet timer tank front handed over designer devil himself Olson OCCO Dick Clark other partner Olie work basement cutting balsa kits long before OSHA rnles still have balsa dust memory lung tissue production trauma aside what made El En Gone very bad /2A job multispar wing undercamber almost like Zeek wing center section shoulder-wing design triangular-section body fin stab root combination seemed produce model chased its tail over sky under power glided erraticallyand What iostajyoYThot flo5t0j3102 miserably compared pylon job often wonder Olie used fuselage design dreams content Zeek-style flattop body low pylon might have created stable contest-worthy design Want Join Up youre interested SAM NFFS please contact comments ideas have photos Nostalgia model close-ups engines timer rigs drawings comments about practical memorable Nostalgia matters rules complaints send along need reader input feedback especially material suitable publication Nostalgia rubber glider indoor fliers also welcomeyou dont have drenched glow fuel join club other hand castor oil aroma has certain charisma hope have enjoyed little nostalgia trip will share own memoriesand current Nostalgia experiences Send contribution VTO Nostalgia Dave VTO Linstrum 4057 San Luis Drive Sarasota FL 34235 get enough response maybe can influence MA run another article subject VERTICAL TAKEOFF SIMPLE AS 2 ~v1 VTO December 1992 17 Stan Smith Melbourne Florida 1/2A Nostalgia Gas 049-powered Ramrod design Hall Famer Ron St Jean