Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale 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means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name 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Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732 VJotldS best setlifl9 Spark lgflhttOfl system chosen Byron 0rigids T&G Mfg mid kM Aircraft Saqiply its outstanuhig reldijity Complete single cylinder system includ ng throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark fin J3iIDI plug battery pack charger 900 sh elded ____ Spark plug lead 0 Much linger mipie Hf Easy bud starts-no kickback 1JN1012INIO RPM rehidile 0% power faa strokers oni kastiation available Lower priced fuels no eltro needed 0 Shielded qiark piqued mid 9V pug cover Forniuyenpusfl&np2&4slrolte skigleuidtwhicyhders zollwouhictsavailalzle 0 Sgud coils spelt pkip shielded plug lied ft thi*ig kits aviable Sooner later youll see need Fully HALF crashes can traced dead dying receiver batteries New Plane SaverTti Applied Engineering warns low batteries flight letting safely land before losing control Installs seconds Compact Plane Saver 2 xix 3/4 unit fits neatly onboard weighs less 1 oz between receiver throttle servo battery capacity falls Plane Saver automatically lowers maximum throttle setting Thats signal bring unlike other systems Plane Saver gives throttle control up set point.all way down Very low power CMOS design ory set 46 volts can adjusted 44 6 volts Works 4 5 cell packs capacity Can used servo normal reversed mode adjustment sets failsafe throttle limit 0% 1000/0 failsafe throttle works normally up set point ttle operates normally failsafe mode atible radios unit shipped tinned leads also available installed Futaba J connectors shown $800 additional See local hobby shop call Retail Price $3995 Applied Engineering 214 241-6060 PO Box 5100 Carrollton TX 75011 drorsron AC Research co ration Prices subject change withoat tretros WOOLOS 0000005 SCCLE PUSS & ooccMcsTaTcos 00000CCThe Ultimate 00000 fljFSSrS S 50 5CAL0 OOOOL FLOSS FOAM CUTTING WIRE Out performs music wire end nichrome Pkg 8 00 noOn 00000Send $400 pius $225 shipping handling Worden WoodworksDeaier inqairies OCASsENLAROINO5'eOoSc14935 MarIa Warren MI 48093Invited 5009 USaiSSO 055 5SbO5 sc arMs 313-294-0890 scale 500uME5TsTr5Ni555i2555a ment less 100-hp Continental 0-200 used little Formula raceplane Nissan VG-30 used entries 1988 LeMans 24 Hours Pond Racer will resemble Lockheed P 38 Lightning event leak en gines will spray oil windshield will built light strong expensive graphite fuselage tail wing having carbon fiber spar ribs covering Design top speed 600 mph well jet ter ritory rights should projects far out category its Rutan operation have proven successful amaz ingly often Burt Rutan sets Out achieve goat its others have failed reach years usually does what says will doesnt mean 500 mph has broken means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name modelers must OK time us figured out kits really lousy too late already money also found very popu lar ready-to-fly plastic trainers badly need some wing-tip weight out board wing counteract weight drag control lines engine torque Its real shame really good /oA Stunt plane Control Line being pro duced countryI have more-orless aware problem 35 years real point letter am going stock up stuff needed build stuka Stunt also buy some plans Barys article great would like some info since have stuck RC since 1976 plane looks Continued page 196 194 Model Aviation main reason Im writing ask full-size P-6Es still ex isting have never seen actual photo full-size P-6E Can another MA reader provide some formation P-6E has always fa
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 193, 194
Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732 VJotldS best setlifl9 Spark lgflhttOfl system chosen Byron 0rigids T&G Mfg mid kM Aircraft Saqiply its outstanuhig reldijity Complete single cylinder system includ ng throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark fin J3iIDI plug battery pack charger 900 sh elded ____ Spark plug lead 0 Much linger mipie Hf Easy bud starts-no kickback 1JN1012INIO RPM rehidile 0% power faa strokers oni kastiation available Lower priced fuels no eltro needed 0 Shielded qiark piqued mid 9V pug cover Forniuyenpusfl&np2&4slrolte skigleuidtwhicyhders zollwouhictsavailalzle 0 Sgud coils spelt pkip shielded plug lied ft thi*ig kits aviable Sooner later youll see need Fully HALF crashes can traced dead dying receiver batteries New Plane SaverTti Applied Engineering warns low batteries flight letting safely land before losing control Installs seconds Compact Plane Saver 2 xix 3/4 unit fits neatly onboard weighs less 1 oz between receiver throttle servo battery capacity falls Plane Saver automatically lowers maximum throttle setting Thats signal bring unlike other systems Plane Saver gives throttle control up set point.all way down Very low power CMOS design ory set 46 volts can adjusted 44 6 volts Works 4 5 cell packs capacity Can used servo normal reversed mode adjustment sets failsafe throttle limit 0% 1000/0 failsafe throttle works normally up set point ttle operates normally failsafe mode atible radios unit shipped tinned leads also available installed Futaba J connectors shown $800 additional See local hobby shop call Retail Price $3995 Applied Engineering 214 241-6060 PO Box 5100 Carrollton TX 75011 drorsron AC Research co ration Prices subject change withoat tretros WOOLOS 0000005 SCCLE PUSS & ooccMcsTaTcos 00000CCThe Ultimate 00000 fljFSSrS S 50 5CAL0 OOOOL FLOSS FOAM CUTTING WIRE Out performs music wire end nichrome Pkg 8 00 noOn 00000Send $400 pius $225 shipping handling Worden WoodworksDeaier inqairies OCASsENLAROINO5'eOoSc14935 MarIa Warren MI 48093Invited 5009 USaiSSO 055 5SbO5 sc arMs 313-294-0890 scale 500uME5TsTr5Ni555i2555a ment less 100-hp Continental 0-200 used little Formula raceplane Nissan VG-30 used entries 1988 LeMans 24 Hours Pond Racer will resemble Lockheed P 38 Lightning event leak en gines will spray oil windshield will built light strong expensive graphite fuselage tail wing having carbon fiber spar ribs covering Design top speed 600 mph well jet ter ritory rights should projects far out category its Rutan operation have proven successful amaz ingly often Burt Rutan sets Out achieve goat its others have failed reach years usually does what says will doesnt mean 500 mph has broken means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name modelers must OK time us figured out kits really lousy too late already money also found very popu lar ready-to-fly plastic trainers badly need some wing-tip weight out board wing counteract weight drag control lines engine torque Its real shame really good /oA Stunt plane Control Line being pro duced countryI have more-orless aware problem 35 years real point letter am going stock up stuff needed build stuka Stunt also buy some plans Barys article great would like some info since have stuck RC since 1976 plane looks Continued page 196 194 Model Aviation main reason Im writing ask full-size P-6Es still ex isting have never seen actual photo full-size P-6E Can another MA reader provide some formation P-6E has always fa
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 193, 194
Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732 VJotldS best setlifl9 Spark lgflhttOfl system chosen Byron 0rigids T&G Mfg mid kM Aircraft Saqiply its outstanuhig reldijity Complete single cylinder system includ ng throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark fin J3iIDI plug battery pack charger 900 sh elded ____ Spark plug lead 0 Much linger mipie Hf Easy bud starts-no kickback 1JN1012INIO RPM rehidile 0% power faa strokers oni kastiation available Lower priced fuels no eltro needed 0 Shielded qiark piqued mid 9V pug cover Forniuyenpusfl&np2&4slrolte skigleuidtwhicyhders zollwouhictsavailalzle 0 Sgud coils spelt pkip shielded plug lied ft thi*ig kits aviable Sooner later youll see need Fully HALF crashes can traced dead dying receiver batteries New Plane SaverTti Applied Engineering warns low batteries flight letting safely land before losing control Installs seconds Compact Plane Saver 2 xix 3/4 unit fits neatly onboard weighs less 1 oz between receiver throttle servo battery capacity falls Plane Saver automatically lowers maximum throttle setting Thats signal bring unlike other systems Plane Saver gives throttle control up set point.all way down Very low power CMOS design ory set 46 volts can adjusted 44 6 volts Works 4 5 cell packs capacity Can used servo normal reversed mode adjustment sets failsafe throttle limit 0% 1000/0 failsafe throttle works normally up set point ttle operates normally failsafe mode atible radios unit shipped tinned leads also available installed Futaba J connectors shown $800 additional See local hobby shop call Retail Price $3995 Applied Engineering 214 241-6060 PO Box 5100 Carrollton TX 75011 drorsron AC Research co ration Prices subject change withoat tretros WOOLOS 0000005 SCCLE PUSS & ooccMcsTaTcos 00000CCThe Ultimate 00000 fljFSSrS S 50 5CAL0 OOOOL FLOSS FOAM CUTTING WIRE Out performs music wire end nichrome Pkg 8 00 noOn 00000Send $400 pius $225 shipping handling Worden WoodworksDeaier inqairies OCASsENLAROINO5'eOoSc14935 MarIa Warren MI 48093Invited 5009 USaiSSO 055 5SbO5 sc arMs 313-294-0890 scale 500uME5TsTr5Ni555i2555a ment less 100-hp Continental 0-200 used little Formula raceplane Nissan VG-30 used entries 1988 LeMans 24 Hours Pond Racer will resemble Lockheed P 38 Lightning event leak en gines will spray oil windshield will built light strong expensive graphite fuselage tail wing having carbon fiber spar ribs covering Design top speed 600 mph well jet ter ritory rights should projects far out category its Rutan operation have proven successful amaz ingly often Burt Rutan sets Out achieve goat its others have failed reach years usually does what says will doesnt mean 500 mph has broken means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name modelers must OK time us figured out kits really lousy too late already money also found very popu lar ready-to-fly plastic trainers badly need some wing-tip weight out board wing counteract weight drag control lines engine torque Its real shame really good /oA Stunt plane Control Line being pro duced countryI have more-orless aware problem 35 years real point letter am going stock up stuff needed build stuka Stunt also buy some plans Barys article great would like some info since have stuck RC since 1976 plane looks Continued page 196 194 Model Aviation main reason Im writing ask full-size P-6Es still ex isting have never seen actual photo full-size P-6E Can another MA reader provide some formation P-6E has always fa
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 193, 194
Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732 VJotldS best setlifl9 Spark lgflhttOfl system chosen Byron 0rigids T&G Mfg mid kM Aircraft Saqiply its outstanuhig reldijity Complete single cylinder system includ ng throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark fin J3iIDI plug battery pack charger 900 sh elded ____ Spark plug lead 0 Much linger mipie Hf Easy bud starts-no kickback 1JN1012INIO RPM rehidile 0% power faa strokers oni kastiation available Lower priced fuels no eltro needed 0 Shielded qiark piqued mid 9V pug cover Forniuyenpusfl&np2&4slrolte skigleuidtwhicyhders zollwouhictsavailalzle 0 Sgud coils spelt pkip shielded plug lied ft thi*ig kits aviable Sooner later youll see need Fully HALF crashes can traced dead dying receiver batteries New Plane SaverTti Applied Engineering warns low batteries flight letting safely land before losing control Installs seconds Compact Plane Saver 2 xix 3/4 unit fits neatly onboard weighs less 1 oz between receiver throttle servo battery capacity falls Plane Saver automatically lowers maximum throttle setting Thats signal bring unlike other systems Plane Saver gives throttle control up set point.all way down Very low power CMOS design ory set 46 volts can adjusted 44 6 volts Works 4 5 cell packs capacity Can used servo normal reversed mode adjustment sets failsafe throttle limit 0% 1000/0 failsafe throttle works normally up set point ttle operates normally failsafe mode atible radios unit shipped tinned leads also available installed Futaba J connectors shown $800 additional See local hobby shop call Retail Price $3995 Applied Engineering 214 241-6060 PO Box 5100 Carrollton TX 75011 drorsron AC Research co ration Prices subject change withoat tretros WOOLOS 0000005 SCCLE PUSS & ooccMcsTaTcos 00000CCThe Ultimate 00000 fljFSSrS S 50 5CAL0 OOOOL FLOSS FOAM CUTTING WIRE Out performs music wire end nichrome Pkg 8 00 noOn 00000Send $400 pius $225 shipping handling Worden WoodworksDeaier inqairies OCASsENLAROINO5'eOoSc14935 MarIa Warren MI 48093Invited 5009 USaiSSO 055 5SbO5 sc arMs 313-294-0890 scale 500uME5TsTr5Ni555i2555a ment less 100-hp Continental 0-200 used little Formula raceplane Nissan VG-30 used entries 1988 LeMans 24 Hours Pond Racer will resemble Lockheed P 38 Lightning event leak en gines will spray oil windshield will built light strong expensive graphite fuselage tail wing having carbon fiber spar ribs covering Design top speed 600 mph well jet ter ritory rights should projects far out category its Rutan operation have proven successful amaz ingly often Burt Rutan sets Out achieve goat its others have failed reach years usually does what says will doesnt mean 500 mph has broken means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name modelers must OK time us figured out kits really lousy too late already money also found very popu lar ready-to-fly plastic trainers badly need some wing-tip weight out board wing counteract weight drag control lines engine torque Its real shame really good /oA Stunt plane Control Line being pro duced countryI have more-orless aware problem 35 years real point letter am going stock up stuff needed build stuka Stunt also buy some plans Barys article great would like some info since have stuck RC since 1976 plane looks Continued page 196 194 Model Aviation main reason Im writing ask full-size P-6Es still ex isting have never seen actual photo full-size P-6E Can another MA reader provide some formation P-6E has always fa
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 193, 194
Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 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means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 193, 194
Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732 VJotldS best setlifl9 Spark lgflhttOfl system chosen Byron 0rigids T&G Mfg mid kM Aircraft Saqiply its outstanuhig reldijity Complete single cylinder system includ ng throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark fin J3iIDI plug battery pack charger 900 sh elded ____ Spark plug lead 0 Much linger mipie Hf Easy bud starts-no kickback 1JN1012INIO RPM rehidile 0% power faa strokers oni kastiation available Lower priced fuels no eltro needed 0 Shielded qiark piqued mid 9V pug cover Forniuyenpusfl&np2&4slrolte skigleuidtwhicyhders zollwouhictsavailalzle 0 Sgud coils spelt pkip shielded plug lied ft thi*ig kits aviable Sooner later youll see need Fully HALF crashes can traced dead dying receiver batteries New Plane SaverTti Applied Engineering warns low batteries flight letting safely land before losing control Installs seconds Compact Plane Saver 2 xix 3/4 unit fits neatly onboard weighs less 1 oz between receiver throttle servo battery capacity falls Plane Saver automatically lowers maximum throttle setting Thats signal bring unlike other systems Plane Saver gives throttle control up set point.all way down Very low power CMOS design ory set 46 volts can adjusted 44 6 volts Works 4 5 cell packs capacity Can used servo normal reversed mode adjustment sets failsafe throttle limit 0% 1000/0 failsafe throttle works normally up set point ttle operates normally failsafe mode atible radios unit shipped tinned leads also available installed Futaba J connectors shown $800 additional See local hobby shop call Retail Price $3995 Applied Engineering 214 241-6060 PO Box 5100 Carrollton TX 75011 drorsron AC Research co ration Prices subject change withoat tretros WOOLOS 0000005 SCCLE PUSS & ooccMcsTaTcos 00000CCThe Ultimate 00000 fljFSSrS S 50 5CAL0 OOOOL FLOSS FOAM CUTTING WIRE Out performs music wire end nichrome Pkg 8 00 noOn 00000Send $400 pius $225 shipping handling Worden WoodworksDeaier inqairies OCASsENLAROINO5'eOoSc14935 MarIa Warren MI 48093Invited 5009 USaiSSO 055 5SbO5 sc arMs 313-294-0890 scale 500uME5TsTr5Ni555i2555a ment less 100-hp Continental 0-200 used little Formula raceplane Nissan VG-30 used entries 1988 LeMans 24 Hours Pond Racer will resemble Lockheed P 38 Lightning event leak en gines will spray oil windshield will built light strong expensive graphite fuselage tail wing having carbon fiber spar ribs covering Design top speed 600 mph well jet ter ritory rights should projects far out category its Rutan operation have proven successful amaz ingly often Burt Rutan sets Out achieve goat its others have failed reach years usually does what says will doesnt mean 500 mph has broken means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name modelers must OK time us figured out kits really lousy too late already money also found very popu lar ready-to-fly plastic trainers badly need some wing-tip weight out board wing counteract weight drag control lines engine torque Its real shame really good /oA Stunt plane Control Line being pro duced countryI have more-orless aware problem 35 years real point letter am going stock up stuff needed build stuka Stunt also buy some plans Barys article great would like some info since have stuck RC since 1976 plane looks Continued page 196 194 Model Aviation main reason Im writing ask full-size P-6Es still ex isting have never seen actual photo full-size P-6E Can another MA reader provide some formation P-6E has always fa
Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/12
Page Numbers: 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 193, 194
Santos-Dumonts 1906 type 14-bis biplane first craft fly successfully Europe also set first official World Air Speed Record later year November 12 1906 French biplane flew 220 meters capture Aero Club France 1500-franc prize first flight 100 meters Note biplanes wings rear its boxkite tail front Smithsonian InstitutIon photo WHATS THE BIG deal about 500 mph way Look up clear day stand fair chance seeing airplane flying faster So has taken forever propeller-driven airplane break 500-mph barrier simple three-kilometer dash matter barrier still glaring smugly us took just six half years boost Ab solute World Air Speed Record 200 mph 300 mph barely half long get 300 400 mph last events hap pened way back 1931 57 years laters still trying get over 500-mph hurdle main reason course people concerned going faster anyone else have using jet engines instead piston en gines since mid-1940s 40 years pilots have souping up World War II fighter planes pylon racing trying break sorts speed records best theyve able low-altitude 3-km sprint 499 mph Clearly 500 mph much bigger challenge appears first glance would have exceeded long time ago challenges what have fueled aviation progress since well before Wright Brothers got Kitty Hawk speed has obvious excit ing challenge Since 1923 classic speed record distancethe 100-meter dash airhas 3-km 186-mile dash must flown lower 100 meters twice either direction can cel out boost tail wind 1923 US Navy Lt Harold Brow flew sleek Curtiss R2C1 racing biplane Mitchell Field Long Island NY record 259 mph April 1928 Mario de Bernardi clocked 319 mph Italian Macchi M-52R Schneider Trophy Racing seaplane becoming first travel officially over 300 mph Septem ber 1931 George Stainforth Royal Air Forces High Speed Flight timed 40699 mph series runs Supermarine S6B won final Schneider Trophy Race short time before 57 years ago 28 years after Wrights first flights first flying machines top 300- 400-mph marks seaplanes say doesnt make sense course doesnt make sense thats way happened good solid technological reasons problem facing designers very fast aircraft twofold lack variablepitch propellers lack long smooth run ways propellers existed powerful land planes small wings could have used low pitch takeoff available short grass runways shifted high pitch top speed other hand long hard-surface runways existed such airplanes could have taken off old-fashioned fixed-pitch propel lers since neither runways nor propellers needed small powerful airplanes available trying break Absolute World Air Speed Record face reality try end run meant building terribly pow erful racing seaplanes could use almost infi nitely long waterways takeoff slowly built up speed high-pitched maximum-speed propellers course taking off landing water meant record-speed machines sacrifice some streamlining order keep sinking since wheels tires will get lot trouble water solution problem huge twin floats slung beneath su perbly streamlined fuselages floats produced about much drag fuselage wings enlarged carry addi tional load extreme example need compromise pure design principles goal fly fast possible meant building bigger machine should have necessary Supermarine S6B now sits place honor alongside Schneider Trophy Science Museum London clean craft could created under conditions used 2240-cu-in Rolls Royce R inverted V-12 engine rated 2300 hp ferocious fuel con taining no gasoline topped 400 mph fastest land plane flown 278 mph achieved French Bernard V2 monoplane 1924 No doubt about route speed days power pontoons Italians got back race 1933 Francesco Agello flew Macchi Castoldi MC 72 423 76 mph used same seaplane 1934 raise record 440 68 mph still U Don Berliner Since 1920s Absolute Air Speed Record 3-km dash has target piston-powered aircraft go its getting tougher hit mark took six years go 200 300 mph half long reach 400 mph Now nearly 60 years later 500 mph barrier still intact wondered December 1990 89 seaplane record well unofficial record open cockpit flying lvfC72 used same general layout Supermarine power two Fiat V-12s tandem driv ing propeller contrarotating pair So far progress toward 500 mph pretty good considering disgusting rule power required must increase cube speed means increase speed 440 500 mph 114 greater demands crease horsepower l4 about 50% 3000 hp already MC72 would have taken 4500 hp hit 500 mph engines simply did exist Also unknown problems such propeller tips going supersonic losing efficiency huge stimulus prestigious Schneider Trophy gone retired British interest finally turned making land planes go fast After direct route speed streamlining power Projects launched several countries aimed honor being fastest world Frances Caudron factory source some efficient racers era set work its C714R Powered big Renault V-12 en gine designed fly 480 mph thanks excellent though perfectly conventional design Another breed cat entirely Bugatti 100 use pair Type 50 race car engines tiny airframe crowded articu lated drive shafts reverse-flow cooling England high hopes being placed Napier-Heston supersleek craft using still-secret 24-cylinder 2300-hp Napier Sabre engine ostensibly meant flying test bed engine its intended top speed 480 mph obviously linked speed record ambi tions Two projects works Nazi Ger major manufacturers Heinkel Messerschmitt both seeking very lucrative contract produce fighters Hem kel He-100V highly modified prototype souped-up engine Messer schmitt Me-209V completely new airplane Both low-wing monoplanes using Daimler Benz DB601 V-12 engines Development French English air planes slowed approach war German airplanes speeded furious rearmament program Germans af ter knew would second world war also knew less would begin English French pretty much dark 90 Model Aviation superbly streamlined Heinkel He-i 00 Developed quickly resurgent Luftwaffe flew 464 mph 1939 break existing record Photo Hans Dieterle planes pilot 0 IulllI t 0 14 1 kj Ic1 A18/ 0 HEINKEL He100V8 first new generation high-speed land planes made attempt World 3-km speed record March 30 1939 near Berlin Test pilot Hans Dieterle handled tricky 100V well averaging 46395 mph four runs finally taking record back seaplanes held 13 years Heinkel He-100V far standard fighter having clipped wings lowered canopy smoothed skin engine would develop 1800 hp short bursts would have no use combat certainly fastfast enough spur Messerschmitt immediate ac tion few weeks later April 26 1939 Fritz Wendel buckled Me-209V- 1 pro ceeded break Heinkel record just over 1% required FAI new mark 46922 mph trumpeted Nazi Propa ganda Ministry proof Germanys fighter planes totally superior other country challenging combat would futile record set stock Bf-109 modified might have made sense Me-209 strictly speed airplane terrible handling characteris tics never led production airplane Germans told FAI Me-109R set record deception remains record book record now high some projects quietly dropped French continued Caudron Bugatti airplanes until 1944 German invasion made clear nothing could done Both suc cessfully hidden during war Cau dron C714R eventually going display Musee de lAir Bugatti 100 coming USA its restoration nearing comple tion England Napier-Heston completed June 12 1940 attempt made fly preparation record attempt engine overheated quit forcing dead-stick landing destroyed airplane second Napier Heston never completed period World War II especially since headquarters FAI occupied Paris I.. 0 V o / 1 0 II II I 200//I - -i 12 G lO-FECTMESSERSCHMITT 209 Vi December 1990 91 Messerschmitt Me-209 held Absolute World Speed Record piston-engined air planes 1939-1969 Fritz Wendel flew 469 mph Photo Messerschmitt Archiv IL 0 II 5 Stories circulated during after war airplane exceeded 469-mph record Republic P47 Thunderbolt said have hit 507 mph level flight special Chrysler-powered P-47J probably flew over 500 mph runs made accordance strict rules FAT ie near ground four passes etc totally un official After war first attempt 3km record British Gloster Meteor jet hit 606 mph late 1945 Interestingly no jet anything else has set 3-km record 500-mph range industrys interest governments solidly jets Propeller-driven airplanes definitely way out least far maximum-speed airplanes concerned P-Si Mustangs F4U Corsairs P 39 Airacobras survived power revolution epded up hands pilots wanted use Cleveland National Air Races Dozens bought war surplus sales highly modified increase chances winning Bendix Thompson tro phies Airplanes could fly fast around py lons could also fly fast straight line several best what now call Unlimited class raceplanes considered attempts 3-km record After Germans lost war wasnt right hold important speed records breaking 469-mph record turned out Fiiii~ 7 1 COOLING AIR TO RADIATOR3IIIiK LANDING GEAR0I 4 IJ B -1 F i ERHESTON RACER JA5 92 Model Aviation Napier-Heston racer might have flown 480 mph wrecked its maiden flight June 12 1940 Photo courtesy Science Museum London difficult originally imagined thing record attempt costs lot money can hard individual find few made attempts discovered 474 mph 469 mph plus 1% impossible attain postwar Cleveland Air Races ended 1949 hardly anyone enough enthusiasm left make much effort 3-kin record sat untouched long time last 1964 Bill Stead recreated big-time air racing Reno NV modified P-5 1 Mus tangs F8F Bearcats soon joined Hawker Sea Furys extreme modifica tions dominating airplane first decade new era Darryl Greenamayers mighty No 1 Bearcat Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine put out solid 3000 hp completely reworked airframe yet seen 1965 flew racing lap 423 mph started think ing seriously about record try plans called attempt Lancaster CA during May 1966 California National Air Races clipped too much off vertical tail lost sta bility summer 1969 problems seemed behind him Edwards Air Force Base Californias Mojave Desert tried again August 16 made clocking av erage speed 48246 mph 30 years after Fritz Wendel set old mark government-supported Messerschmitt selffinanced individual finally broke record al three percent time celebrating also time others make plans take record away all-conquering race pilotespecially knew Mus tang faster Bearcat just Mustang sure power streamlining needed fly least 487 mph right down deck 1975 cleanest standard rac ing Mustangs transformed Red Bar RB-Si installation huge Rolls Royce Griffon V-12 engine driving pair three bladed contraprops Greenamayer pilot won 1977 Reno Unlimited class race 1977 record 431 mph airplane ca pable beating record August 14 1979 just two days short 10 years after Greenamayer set existing mark young Steve Hinton climbed bright red RB-Si Tonopab NV fired up engine took off landed few minutes later record 49904 mph elu sive 500 mph exceeded two down wind runs enough push average speed above mark bugaboo remained racing Mustang broke 500mph barrier 1983 wasnt over classic 3-km dis tance Frank Taylor flew No 7 Dago Red no less 517 mph Mojave CA what still 15-to-25-km record flew 10000 ft rather down deck doesnt count purposes barrier still stands 3-km dash isnt arent airplanes capable breaking record nor lack pi lots eager limited fame total absence fortune will accompany such feat gathering Unlimited pilots fans sub ject 3-km sure arise schemes aplenty will unfold Some interesting schemes will turn out further discussion far-fetched beyond reality though often fun thought-provoking Othersthe reasonable onesstand little chance suc cess new record must over 504 mph awfully fast within 328 feet December 1990 93 first flying machine officially exceed 400 mph Supermarine S6B Powered Rolls Royce R V12 engine drank potent fuel contained no gasoline George Stain forlh piloted British seaplane 40699 mph September 29 1931 Photo Vickers e aume aurviving maccni tasiolai Mu7 tne tastest propeller-driven seaplane history flown 44068 mph Francesco Agello 1934 Photo comes Aeronautics Macchi Five years after 1964 revIval big-time air racing Darryl Greenamayer averaged 4u4s mph No 1 Bearcat break 3-km world record machine com pletely reworked airframe yet seen Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine revved 3000 hp ground some ideas intriguing example Lyle Shelton has very powerful Grumman Bearcat big Wright R-3350 en gine has used set two Reno qualifying records two Championship Race records just few airplanes fly lap over 450 mph tight nine-mile racecourse Lyle wants record badly may now have financial backing make possible Steve Hinton current record holder now flying Tsunami first completely new custombuilt Unlimited class racer appear since 1938 resembled aside 3000-hp Rolls Royce up front what North American might have created company meant Mustang racing rather combat Steve qualified 465 mph Reno 1987 racer still has few bugs have eliminated airplane should have required speed task goes well Strega supermod ified lightweight Mustang Bill deSte fani set qualifying lap record 467 mph 1987 won finals record 453 mph perfectly conventional airplanes superior power aerodynamics also fairly large airplanes need horse power streamlining anyone can provide logical way get past 500 mph advanced materials now being used small airframes dramatic shapes materi als make possible leads us directly Burt Rutan radi cal ideas have turned airplane design upside down Starting tail-first VariEze two- Artists conception Burt Rutan-designed Pond Racer shooting 600 mph Continued page 193 Its reminiscent Lockheed P30 albeit very modern Photo Advance Engineering 94 Model Aviation Eiectramotives 32-iitre siuminum biock V-6 Nissan engine will generate 1000 hp 8000 rpm pair VG-30s wiii power Pond Racer 600 mph Photo Advance Engineer ing hobbyists Theres another qualifier paean spacious skies An active builder Norm remembers first plane well Goldberg White Cloud guided Citi zenship radio Norms second Nats ven ues meet have beyond conve nient traveling distance him Wouldnt great could hold Nats states turn Surely would heighten overall spectator appeal know suitable Nats site state suggest tell Nats search com mittee about can fish wherever theres water cant Bob Vance special sort model crafter builds beer can Stearmans Some time ago after undergoing spinal surgery Mayo Clinic Bob rewarded doctor Stearman replicas same doctor attended former President Ronald Reagan after fall horse Reagan took shine beer can artifact proudly displayed physicians office tried talk him giving up doctor didnt yield did write Bob Vance about incident think sending check $25 Bob former commander chief could easily become possessor beauties Ted Sally Rohlfing Ukia CA pair aviation buffs passion extends full-scale craft models Ted flight engineer Pan Ams Boeing fleet 3 14s 707s still available duty today told would have replaced computers Sally earned commercial instrument ratings tender age 15 licensed fly anywhere private leased plane Ted member Prop Busters RC Club loves build fly Scale semiscale models Sally enthusiastically shares enjoyment helps build ing want meet fraternize dev otees almost kind model flying Nats place want feel like part living mosaic hobby Nats place time Ive re ported contest Model Aviation Ive considered privilege get know fascinating enthusiastic people space permitted Id love re gale unique stories experiences As Ill have limit myself final mention isnt flying event Free Flight builder competitor Larry Kruse Liberal KS puts press badge does best keep Model Aviation readership informed about happenings big meet Away modeling scene MA author serves college dean Bet didnt know As footnote Nats diary want second view expressed AMA Presi dent Don Lowe about year ago coun try has vast reserve modelers havent joined AMA independents build fly fringe AMA modeling clubs hobby industry provide appropriate incentives Americas organized modeling fraternity could easily triple numbers Growing membership rosters just piece ev idence interest Viva aeromodelingviva Nats 3-Km Racers/Berliner Continued page 94 seater progressing preposterouslooking Voyager flew twice far thing else has demonstrated mastery mod ern technology begs tested all-out responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation speed Such project now under way Called Pond Racer sometimes Windsong aimed Uniimited class racing whole string speed records 3 km 500 km project engineer test piiot will Dick Rutan pilot Voyager wili run racing team industrialist/warbird coilector Bob Pond Plymouth MN new machine powered pair Nissan V-6 auto racing engines modified air piane use puts out 1000 hp 8000 rpm yet has mere 195 cu piston dispiace December 1990 193 AIR RACERS 1/32 scale piastic model kits Golden Age air racers Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $3 fully illustrated catalog other kits accessories Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II Fourmost Fuselage Fixture Mark II designed auto matically align fuselage structures built strings measuring eyeballing Price $5995 Product No 137 Simply slide four centering brackets track until align fire wall tail joint two bulkheads Clamp fuselage together lightly rubber bands structure will straight ready gluing Fixture will accomodate fuselages long four feet wide eight inches eight inches Piease include $400 Shipping Handling aii direct ordera FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24TH AVEFOREST GROVE OR 97116503 357-2732 VJotldS best setlifl9 Spark lgflhttOfl system chosen Byron 0rigids T&G Mfg mid kM Aircraft Saqiply its outstanuhig reldijity Complete single cylinder system includ ng throttlecoupled spark advance kit spark fin J3iIDI plug battery pack charger 900 sh elded ____ Spark plug lead 0 Much linger mipie Hf Easy bud starts-no kickback 1JN1012INIO RPM rehidile 0% power faa strokers oni kastiation available Lower priced fuels no eltro needed 0 Shielded qiark piqued mid 9V pug cover Forniuyenpusfl&np2&4slrolte skigleuidtwhicyhders zollwouhictsavailalzle 0 Sgud coils spelt pkip shielded plug lied ft thi*ig kits aviable Sooner later youll see need Fully HALF crashes can traced dead dying receiver batteries New Plane SaverTti Applied Engineering warns low batteries flight letting safely land before losing control Installs seconds Compact Plane Saver 2 xix 3/4 unit fits neatly onboard weighs less 1 oz between receiver throttle servo battery capacity falls Plane Saver automatically lowers maximum throttle setting Thats signal bring unlike other systems Plane Saver gives throttle control up set point.all way down Very low power CMOS design ory set 46 volts can adjusted 44 6 volts Works 4 5 cell packs capacity Can used servo normal reversed mode adjustment sets failsafe throttle limit 0% 1000/0 failsafe throttle works normally up set point ttle operates normally failsafe mode atible radios unit shipped tinned leads also available installed Futaba J connectors shown $800 additional See local hobby shop call Retail Price $3995 Applied Engineering 214 241-6060 PO Box 5100 Carrollton TX 75011 drorsron AC Research co ration Prices subject change withoat tretros WOOLOS 0000005 SCCLE PUSS & ooccMcsTaTcos 00000CCThe Ultimate 00000 fljFSSrS S 50 5CAL0 OOOOL FLOSS FOAM CUTTING WIRE Out performs music wire end nichrome Pkg 8 00 noOn 00000Send $400 pius $225 shipping handling Worden WoodworksDeaier inqairies OCASsENLAROINO5'eOoSc14935 MarIa Warren MI 48093Invited 5009 USaiSSO 055 5SbO5 sc arMs 313-294-0890 scale 500uME5TsTr5Ni555i2555a ment less 100-hp Continental 0-200 used little Formula raceplane Nissan VG-30 used entries 1988 LeMans 24 Hours Pond Racer will resemble Lockheed P 38 Lightning event leak en gines will spray oil windshield will built light strong expensive graphite fuselage tail wing having carbon fiber spar ribs covering Design top speed 600 mph well jet ter ritory rights should projects far out category its Rutan operation have proven successful amaz ingly often Burt Rutan sets Out achieve goat its others have failed reach years usually does what says will doesnt mean 500 mph has broken means near hand has broken what 600 mph course theres dream having first custom-built airplane fly super sonic first home-built space getting ahead ourselves least few years ahead Letters Editor Continued page 27 scene rest 50 RC channels open up 1991 publisher editorial staff magazine expect begin making pro gressive changes direction sug gests Keep sour eve Model Aviation coming nonths Wanted A full-size Curtiss Hawk P-6E am enclosing couple photos model Curtiss Hawk P-6E built Royal kit spans 63 Covering Coverite engine Enya 80 fourstroke have never tried fly Barbies friend ahe fionous Barbie Do/l Ed Ken makes perfect-size pilot shown photo vorite airplane Thank Frank Anglin 10270 W Greenleaf Ter Tigard OR 97224 hA Stuka Stuntand writing congratulate Barry Baxter fine fine article Stuka Stunt September 1990 issue Barry certainly right about /oA plane kitsboth past present being worthless As kids us sumed kits being pedalled some big-name manufacturers designed/en dorsed big-name modelers must OK time us figured out kits really lousy too late already money also found very popu lar ready-to-fly plastic trainers badly need some wing-tip weight out board wing counteract weight drag control lines engine torque Its real shame really good /oA Stunt plane Control Line being pro duced countryI have more-orless aware problem 35 years real point letter am going stock up stuff needed build stuka Stunt also buy some plans Barys article great would like some info since have stuck RC since 1976 plane looks Continued page 196 194 Model Aviation main reason Im writing ask full-size P-6Es still ex isting have never seen actual photo full-size P-6E Can another MA reader provide some formation P-6E has always fa