1983 U.S. FF Championships

The flying site just outside Taft CA half-mile-square area has scraped clear flat accommodate flying parking camping 300 contestants families helpers man-made structure miles Kitty Litter factory right rear MY OVERALL IMPRESSION con test may seem very curious Sure lot activity Old-Timer AMA Gas events Im involved events being general Rubber Glider freak part Gas events involved gang usually flies events did usual thingand whale good time feeling youve got to really appreciate activityand dont think punctilious writeups would great interest modeler wasnt actually involved meet So dont really have much report about What want give flavor fanatics delightthe biggest all-FF contest held US knows maybe whole world annual basis contest site Taft CA may finest FE site earth stand point having contend minimum obstacles flight trees buildings roads like being able let models fly unrestricted flight times can chase models youd better use small motorcycle hot arid locale ends earth ease interest lies peopleGod love emand idiosyncracies ad ventures pursue favorite hobby Sunny California spared severe weather struck con tinent past winter much Northern California sun seldom showed degree certainty until mid-May modelers expected winter during Champs mildperhaps grass would still green Friday May 28 day preceding meet temperature hit 1050 F no clouds haze give tem porary relief suns direct rays Saturday temperature de gree two lower 50% cloud cover early afternoon afforded some relief Needless say little flying done during afternoon Sunday temperature dropped 950 F Monday 920 F seemed rather mild us experience temperatures like home few days decade daily 800 am starting time drift almost non-existent except Sunday Wakefield models going about mile three minutes right start wind increased continuously dur Hey engine Addle NaccaratoS IIayDoy enior 100K5 little odd some reason maybe because Electric model Closeup tH snows trickan Astro 15 Williams Brothers plastic cylinder glued engine-mount tube Note real spark plug fake high-tension lead exhaust pipe Looks suggest Brown Jr OK Super 60 58 Model Aviation ing day occasional dead spells late morning strong steady blow during afternoon Participation year high 295 compared all-time high 305 entries Seven women entered vast majority contestants California 258 Washington second place 5 Thirteen states represented Canada 4 England 2 Australia usual strong representation Mexico didnt tend Ill give glimpse madness First Id better describe what Taft con test site really like Its out middle nowhere flat arid plain An area about one-half mile square has graded smooth flat camping flying Contestants establish campsites along edge area Id guess 1500 ft frontage campsites time everyone gets Although contest doesnt begin until Saturday midThursday nearly frontage-lot claims have already staked Late comers pitch shelters row behind go sharesies guys already However doesnt seem big problem want get together efforts fact somehow get together can tell about some goofy things took place within frontage about 30 ft Id have lucky have caught third Multiply 50 100 get total picture fellow noted Wake field flier become somewhat dis gusted previous haphazard organ izational method preparing contest So took additional day off work laboriously wrote list things would need meet packed car according list After car packed thought himself Wow organizing routine really pays off cars half empty next day dis covered forgotten put Wake field modelss list September 1983 59 Roy Mayes electric-powered Dormoy Bathtub did repeat last years win Power Scaleit second time poor solder joint almost did him Note scale engine detail R psuedo-Russian FAI Power team smiles L R Doug Galberatz Ron Morganoiskovitch Ken Oliverinski victorious over real 1903 US FAI Power team Note detail T-shirt art R PAl Power fliers US FF Champs have taken organizing themselves teams give atmosphere like World Championships Martyn Cowley displays model used win Open Hand-Launched Glider outdoor Note pop-up-wing dethermalizer detail right plus fact rudder must mounted below stabor else doesnt use Ship built days earlier Next tall beardy cigareating FAI Power flier environs Detroit Pooped flying heat laid down nap six-buck plasticand-aluminum chaise lounge Two hours later awoke staggered out rented car found eager departure left-front door still open thc engine still running Also present disgustingly wellorganised note British spelling young experienced lad England model well-tuned rubber motor wound within tenth percent selfdestruction planned appropriate instant launching properly se lected Nothing hut light fuse re cord max retrieve model Ho hum nothing itsimply routine minor flaw planning instead lighting fuse bloke lit bloody wing lad pestered everyone sight potential causes motorcycle acting out gas knew certain tank full Water gas Clogged fuel lines Float level thrown off recent crash Poorly maintained battery gone sour fuel lines disconnected 60 Model Aviation Paul Bartell uses novel custom-made model carrier motorcycle hes retrieving dads models Capacity carrier ranges Lanzo Stick big Class C Gas jobs Gene Bartel watches flight other models entered Night Flying event waits fly own Models equipped lights finding theyre down sometimes difficult Bill Stroman gloats over CO-2-powered Taube Electric CO-2 now popular Scaleglow diesel seldom seen intricate diesel-powered model BE2-A won Power Scale event Tom Carman Spectators cheered its ROGs wheel landings Carol Barron helps hubby Andrew prepare launch A-2 Towliner Circle-tow technique can take 15 mm towline seeking lift Cyclist Bob Meuser gives Roger Gregory ride back flight line after Rogers Mulvihill maxes Motorcycles virtual necessity Taft sort activity Joe Foster 1 assist Ed Lidgard R hauls oft Chuck Broadhurst Memorial Perpetual Trophy awared Open Warren Williams twin-prop model entered one-flight-at-dawn Sweepstakes Fortunately Joe doesnt have try make room Unlimited Mulvihill special event spiral-dived under power car homeit stays Taft 36-exposure roll Competition Activity guess will start reportage actual competition flying looking normal' events first Yesby im plication Ill get abnormal events later start Ill play favorites go Glider Rubber first A-i Towline Glider Martyn Cowley broke record set A-I Towline Glider event last years Champs total 4048 2-mm maxes fol lowed Mike McKeever Rod Persons Martyns model full-house circle-tow zoom-launch capability seldom seen A-I s employed perfection Steve Zink topped Juniors list Continued page 159 September 1983 61 Ralph Prey can take pride glorious modified Dragstar 1100 Power K&B 40 Now thats real Free Flight Tom Hutchinson Memorial Trophy presented Jim Bradley nis win A-2 Towline Glider event Presentation Toms wife Rosemary mother R Tom remembered model designs monthly Free Flight column Model Builder magazine Stan L Mike Stoy R gave Outdoor HandLaunched Glider good try failed make winners circle However did place 1st 3rd Indoor Hand-Launch have set National Records Paul Masterman came way England light wing instead DT fuse Fortunately spare wing nothing came out sure sign clogged However putting halfgallon gas tank fixed everything George Schroedter 83 US FF team also photographer-come- will fly World Champs Australia fall lately intent getting Photo gets oft good flight Wakefield Century Lillian Andrade catching Mannys Mulvihill model midair after mile-and-a-half chase framing perfectly discovering extremely dif ficult best get 39 exposures FROM PICA E/P 1059 oz minute epoxy difference sandable epoxy available Compatible resin coating has new flip-top cap Industrial Strength 100% uncut resin paper Clean exposed surfaces well methanol alcohol go over sur face painted tack rag Mix up trim color shoot tf using touch-up gun shoot very light tack coat light color coat dont need lot paint get color dont want build up too much paint around edge masking tape just has sanded off again using air brush just light wet coat will need put enough paint get uniform color After first color has dried pull masking tape paper off area second color mask first color Clean go over area tack rag paint third fourth color just repeat procedure As soon last color has tacked-up about hour start stripping off masking sit back admire handiwork Let plane sit another day two 600 grit wet paper soapy water very carefully sand trim use sanding block just knock chinks dust off good technique sand across trim lines about 45 de gree angle edges will take excess paint off around edges built up next masking tape sand through color dont worry Just mask off area around boo-boo spot-paint Let dry sand again FOR THE NEWCOMER Its super stable gentle faster building versatile Extended Wing version RAMEUb SPECIFICATIO2 Wing Span 50 area 565 sq inches Fuselage 44V2 inches Extended Wing VersionWeight 4-4V2 pounds Wing Span 54 area 615 sq inches Engine 25-40 next issue will cover clear coat fading techniques final air plane setup club has race write something about send will see can get column have some good pictures should black white high-contrast pictures send See next month Bill Hager 706 Glen Haven Conroe TX 77302 FF Champs/Meuser Continued page 61 A-2 Towline Glider Jim Bradley 1983 US Free Flight team won A-2 Towline Glider event followed former Team Manager Dick Myers Jose Dona efforts Jim awarded Tom Hutchinson Memorial Trophy Tom friend Southern California fliers well-known accomplishments phases Free Flight Towline Gli der favorite events designs have stood test World Cham pionship competition wife Rosemary mother sister hand presentation Outdoor Rubber Bob White sort made up loss Unlimited Mul vihill event well tell about GLUIT H/P 601 12 oz heavy duty aliphatic white glue especially formulated modelers Its sandable fast drying truly heavy duty Its great hardwood plywood fiber materials subject high stress torni e 657NE lB8rnSi Main Fo1a33180 TeIerhLre 9351436 later winning regular Mulvihill Cameron Booth taking Junior Trophy P-30 event 30-in plastic-prop rubber-power models won Clarence Mather Channing Booth topping list Juniors Coupe DHiver won Richard Rourke Wakefield merely report Wakefield event won Les DeWitt would gross understatement Les did style I-fe arrived Taft full two weeks before Champs Unable secure accommodations town pet cock atoo long black Cadillac Fleetwood camped out flying field whole time afforded Les opportunity try imaginable variation pa rameters polyhedral model get almost instant feedback effect started out putting CG back far model would outside loop once got its nose down ooched forward until got sort behavior wanted Next line variations rudder stab areas stab airfoil torque-sensing control de vice full-span flap travel-limits Thats right flapsand travel limits of four sections independently adjustable mid-afternoon day became too hot windy Les cockatoo long black Cadillac would retire local city park bit 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Cleeelesd Ohia 44103 Russian team consisting Doug Gal beratz Ken Oliverinsky Ron Mor ganofskovitch won handily over US team Italian team disqualified having model air same time US team winning important thingpracticing together team US team read Rol Anderson US Team won event Marty Thompson taking sec ond Al Bissonnette third after five-man flyoff AMA Gas events sort dominated Doug Galbreath won two five daytime events Classes C D addition winning Class C Doug set high time meet won him Ocie Randall award established new national record event Doug did NFFS Model Year Award-winning model 757 Sum merwind hauled aloft OS Max en gine Other winners AMA Gas events included Half-A Junior Mike Keller HalfA Sr/Open Bob Sunberg Gas Junior Paul Funk Gas Sr/Open Peter Sahlberg B Gas Dave Wineland Outdoor Flying Scale Participation events good good could considering Southern Califor nia largest hotbed Free-Flight Scale activity country Tom Carman won Power event huge ED Diesel-powered BE2-A biplane launch two-point landing brought forth clapping shouts approval crowd indeed emotion-stirring experience see such gorgeous elaborate model fly well survive damage Roy Mayes last years winner electric-powered Dormoy Bathtub settle second place Outdoor Peanut Scale winner Farrell Papic Rubber Scale went Von Whitlock Bill McConachie took home huge Ray Berrens trophy Jumbo Scale rubber-power models flying Curie Wott Now its time abnormal events earn pejorative title merely cause have some peculiarity rules model specifications flight schedule takes out ordinary just because feel like Unlimited Mulvihill event usually first event contest albeit un official held Sunday year rather Saturday past contest traditional Mulvihill rubberpower models flown within 20-mm time-window starting dawn Bob Whites five-year winning streak broken tur bulent air made delicately-trimmed model stall putting him third place Mik Mikkelson won flight 1029 followed Joe Foster flew somewhat heavy simple model flight 913 Miks win result ofan effort team headed Loren Williams models designed especially event incredibly light 57 64 grams rubber prop-plus noseblock assemblies weighing 11 13 grams except Mik done same turbulence ruined Whites flight Despite rather poor condi tions exactly one-third field topped 7 minutes Timekeepers pooled assigned random Event Director pro vision contestant could reject assignment get another seemed such system could nightmare dawn marebut worked Spectator interest event high no short age timers although would have comfort some volunteered efforts bit earlier Youngest timers Terzians Chris 10 David 12 Young too experienced perhaps have eyes like eagleswhich about what takes see model against mountainside background poor light just after dawn Electric Power Although regu lar rule-book event electric propulsion Free Flight competition has never really quite gotten off ground somewhat dis appointingly pleased see good turnout event recently 160 Model Aviation mmmi. 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speaks worlds about dedication mentality true Free Flight devotees Despite small participation Night Flying always thrill time-honored device marking flight path big gas-engine models haywire concoction batteries wires light bulbs often shaken loose few seconds after launch I-lowever advent chemical glow-lights put end theyre infinitely reliable worse luck usually very little wind early part night models seldom drift half-mile during five-mm max flight year wind relatively strong models drifting about two miles allotted five mm good fraction models entered lost during event found until next day Tom Carman lost first flight max Forrest Staires won event three-flight total 1110 Old Timer 020 Replica event strewn 30-in Strato Streaks nothing new about Cliff Silva Bill Cohen both did flying wheel chairs Cohen winning Texaco event flown under old fuel-allotment rules flight 2114 Beyond can little list some winners Old-Timer events Rubber Stick Gene Bartel Rubber Cabin Carl Cogar 020 Replica Dick Lyons Pylon Rudy Calvo Cabin Bruce Chandler B Pylon Ken Kullman B Cabin Bruce Chandler C Pylon Leon Na dolski C Cabin Bob Oslan Half-A Texaco Carl Taylor Texaco Bill Cohen 30-Second Antique Bob Dittmer Payload shame event isnt popular difficult see five entered Tom Carman lost model strong thermal kept going up after dethermalized first flight winner 65-year-old John Drobshoff three-flight total 644 Nostalgia Gas events have shown slow steady increase popularity now official part Champs program events designs appeared Forties Fifties powered early-design glow engines Half-A won Bill Valentine total score 3818 Jack Moreland won combined A-B event Al Heinrich won combined Classes C D Just case thought Id forgotten about could door results neither normal nor abnormal theyre just Indoor MORE COLOR ~OIt4 z4"11] 4 %O B3 93~e 6¶3~oe 93 ~ 63 oO\3cI CO\35 9 e8 ~ 9O HOBBYPOXY PRODUCTS division Pettit Paint Company Inc 10 Pine Street Box 378 Rockaway NJ 07866-0378 Peanut Scale won Ken Johnson flying 1911 Cessna also entered Cler get topped static judging top flight time 68 sec posted Dick Baxters LE7 Novice Pennyplane inappro priately-named event won Earl Hoff man employed novel flying tech nique Ordinarily fliers must back off power models dont climb above light fixtures makes hangup almost certain just ticking bottoms lights OK motor stick Earls model bends lot fully-wound motor causing nose-down flight attitude So Earls model bounced along prop hitting floor about two minutes until motor relaxed motor stick straightened out point model would fly normally Easy-B event won handily Clarence Mather al ways top three Hand-Launched Glider Inasmuch Taft Mecca Free Flight competition pilgrimage least once during lifetime true believer mandatory Stan Stoy Jr decided high time got around celebrated occasion winning Indoor Hand-Launched Glider event incredible two-flight total 697 sec Ron Wittman took second place 638 sec followeds last years winner Mike Stoy 618 Rons son Steve now Senior fourth 600 Top Juniors Steve Zink Ken Keegan Jeff Wittman Rons daughter beginning show inSeptember 1983 161 DEAtER/ DISTRIBUTOR INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 2035 ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER RenolotiOnary snap on wing eliminates bolts robber bands Complete kit $54 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P0 Box 1168 Ponnac NJ 07000 PRODUCTS FOR THE DISCERNING MODELER Complete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Pipes MuffledTuned Pipes * Headers Venturi Mufflers * Expansion Mufflers Helicopter Ball Mufflers Specialized Exhaust Systems Unsurpassed Won MatcfleO rerrormance ystem TOP PERFORMANCE K&B ENGINES 16 Airplane 4 Marine K&B FUELS K&B 010W PLUGS 7 Blendo4 cboicen Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-BalloOnt FILLER K&B SUPER POSY RESIN K&B SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER POSY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS KK terest Free Flight seems well seeing lot Wittman tribe some years come Trophies awards Team Trophy honors went Orbiteers team con sisting Don Bartick Clarence Mather Bill Booth Jr Open Sweepstakes went Joe Foster followed Eugene Bartel Andrew Barron Steve Zink won Junior Sweepstakes award High-Time trophy went Douc Galbreath performance C Gas isnt endmerely conclusion report no end Free Flight forever FF SCale/Warner Continued page 63 removable nose block Mustang lost b-minute-plus flight Guil lows 6-in plastic propcertainly impres stve Well Bill certainly has done well de fending point view will admiE much vogue West opines fact prevailing winds bring air pollution garbage toward East lives historic town Fairfield CT makes necessary have sturdier planes can punch up through mess just ride around top Interesting theory also heard Guillow though rebutting points made discussion sparked Will Volny sent four kits felt best fliers Arrow Lancer non-scale Piper Super Cub Fairchild 24 semi-scale promised turn over testing committee expe rienced Junior modelers admonition build per plan no changes al lowed An initial burst enthusiasm saw three students model club Paul Revere Junior High Los Angeles madly going Lancer offering come after school finish himself An tractive kit finished despite best efforts Frank Sullivan took Super Cub home returned nothing flat drew plenty compliments flew about 30 ft heavy aerodynamic fact did attain 500 ft altitude stay up couple minutes did seem bother admiring crowd outside classroom next plane come Arrow assigned Ricky Lin half-inch warp right wing looked great offers admirers buy spot writing hes de-warping first flight Its really tail-heavy will require about half-golf-ball clay least Would kid Podunk Iowa know about warps center-of-gravity position kids did study direc tions Still Arrow really attractive design Well see much fun stretchwinding motor trying get back tiny nose-plug hole Fairchild due refusal part its 13-year-old builder follow direc tions flew well made removable noseblock giving about half-in square opening nose stretch-winding Beautiful flights about 30 sec possible Complaints kids centered around use plastic vacu-formed parts either fully-formed exhaust array Arrow sturdy enough nose Super Cub die-cut parts also gave trouble did always fit Ricky especially problems dealing weight materials having already made five Peck-Polymers kits used contest balsa hard get used kit wood almost three times density verdict Starting Guillow Comet Sterling Scientific fine expect can deliver Reading generally well-thought-out di rections can provide wealth information next level involves Mil lers lightening hop-up routine can render kits flyable use contest materials own feeling goes boutique kit Millers term such Pecks Dubois Classic Models Flyline Golden Age etc plan model se lects appropriate materials rather just using whats kit eventu ally drawing up ones own models three-views seem logical progression Still modelers no matter ad vanced delight seeing good kit good kit promise flight compliments personal satisfaction Im sure kit makers would like have clients succeed Lets encourage keep improving products May termites spare balsa An innocent little sign-off line recent column brought sad letter Bob Liefeld out New Mexico Seems though son doing 4-H project tanning hides Says Bob evening out quiet heard faint 'seritch-seritch-scritch' sound led styrofoam box Mattel Vacu-Form set Close inspection showed sounds coming sty rofoam itself Indeed innumer able /0-in -diameter holes foam little furry beasts Said beasts busy eating least boring foam Good Grief styrofoam Oh no Oh yes Most collection balsa kits finished airplanes stocks balsa wood riddled /oin dia meter holes containing furry larva point must break Bobs sad story just too heartrending sent samples damaged materials including piece Microdyne Indoor wood slant-bored along thirty-nine others Bob observed nothing spared unless presented smaller crosssection bugs What way lighten 162 Model Aviation DUAL PERSOhAUTY TRAINER GEENIS 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The flying site just outside Taft CA half-mile-square area has scraped clear flat accommodate flying parking camping 300 contestants families helpers man-made structure miles Kitty Litter factory right rear MY OVERALL IMPRESSION con test may seem very curious Sure lot activity Old-Timer AMA Gas events Im involved events being general Rubber Glider freak part Gas events involved gang usually flies events did usual thingand whale good time feeling youve got to really appreciate activityand dont think punctilious writeups would great interest modeler wasnt actually involved meet So dont really have much report about What want give flavor fanatics delightthe biggest all-FF contest held US knows maybe whole world annual basis contest site Taft CA may finest FE site earth stand point having contend minimum obstacles flight trees buildings roads like being able let models fly unrestricted flight times can chase models youd better use small motorcycle hot arid locale ends earth ease interest lies peopleGod love emand idiosyncracies ad ventures pursue favorite hobby Sunny California spared severe weather struck con tinent past winter much Northern California sun seldom showed degree certainty until mid-May modelers expected winter during Champs mildperhaps grass would still green Friday May 28 day preceding meet temperature hit 1050 F no clouds haze give tem porary relief suns direct rays Saturday temperature de gree two lower 50% cloud cover early afternoon afforded some relief Needless say little flying done during afternoon Sunday temperature dropped 950 F Monday 920 F seemed rather mild us experience temperatures like home few days decade daily 800 am starting time drift almost non-existent except Sunday Wakefield models going about mile three minutes right start wind increased continuously dur Hey engine Addle NaccaratoS IIayDoy enior 100K5 little odd some reason maybe because Electric model Closeup tH snows trickan Astro 15 Williams Brothers plastic cylinder glued engine-mount tube Note real spark plug fake high-tension lead exhaust pipe Looks suggest Brown Jr OK Super 60 58 Model Aviation ing day occasional dead spells late morning strong steady blow during afternoon Participation year high 295 compared all-time high 305 entries Seven women entered vast majority contestants California 258 Washington second place 5 Thirteen states represented Canada 4 England 2 Australia usual strong representation Mexico didnt tend Ill give glimpse madness First Id better describe what Taft con test site really like Its out middle nowhere flat arid plain An area about one-half mile square has graded smooth flat camping flying Contestants establish campsites along edge area Id guess 1500 ft frontage campsites time everyone gets Although contest doesnt begin until Saturday midThursday nearly frontage-lot claims have already staked Late comers pitch shelters row behind go sharesies guys already However doesnt seem big problem want get together efforts fact somehow get together can tell about some goofy things took place within frontage about 30 ft Id have lucky have caught third Multiply 50 100 get total picture fellow noted Wake field flier become somewhat dis gusted previous haphazard organ izational method preparing contest So took additional day off work laboriously wrote list things would need meet packed car according list After car packed thought himself Wow organizing routine really pays off cars half empty next day dis covered forgotten put Wake field modelss list September 1983 59 Roy Mayes electric-powered Dormoy Bathtub did repeat last years win Power Scaleit second time poor solder joint almost did him Note scale engine detail R psuedo-Russian FAI Power team smiles L R Doug Galberatz Ron Morganoiskovitch Ken Oliverinski victorious over real 1903 US FAI Power team Note detail T-shirt art R PAl Power fliers US FF Champs have taken organizing themselves teams give atmosphere like World Championships Martyn Cowley displays model used win Open Hand-Launched Glider outdoor Note pop-up-wing dethermalizer detail right plus fact rudder must mounted below stabor else doesnt use Ship built days earlier Next tall beardy cigareating FAI Power flier environs Detroit Pooped flying heat laid down nap six-buck plasticand-aluminum chaise lounge Two hours later awoke staggered out rented car found eager departure left-front door still open thc engine still running Also present disgustingly wellorganised note British spelling young experienced lad England model well-tuned rubber motor wound within tenth percent selfdestruction planned appropriate instant launching properly se lected Nothing hut light fuse re cord max retrieve model Ho hum nothing itsimply routine minor flaw planning instead lighting fuse bloke lit bloody wing lad pestered everyone sight potential causes motorcycle acting out gas knew certain tank full Water gas Clogged fuel lines Float level thrown off recent crash Poorly maintained battery gone sour fuel lines disconnected 60 Model Aviation Paul Bartell uses novel custom-made model carrier motorcycle hes retrieving dads models Capacity carrier ranges Lanzo Stick big Class C Gas jobs Gene Bartel watches flight other models entered Night Flying event waits fly own Models equipped lights finding theyre down sometimes difficult Bill Stroman gloats over CO-2-powered Taube Electric CO-2 now popular Scaleglow diesel seldom seen intricate diesel-powered model BE2-A won Power Scale event Tom Carman Spectators cheered its ROGs wheel landings Carol Barron helps hubby Andrew prepare launch A-2 Towliner Circle-tow technique can take 15 mm towline seeking lift Cyclist Bob Meuser gives Roger Gregory ride back flight line after Rogers Mulvihill maxes Motorcycles virtual necessity Taft sort activity Joe Foster 1 assist Ed Lidgard R hauls oft Chuck Broadhurst Memorial Perpetual Trophy awared Open Warren Williams twin-prop model entered one-flight-at-dawn Sweepstakes Fortunately Joe doesnt have try make room Unlimited Mulvihill special event spiral-dived under power car homeit stays Taft 36-exposure roll Competition Activity guess will start reportage actual competition flying looking normal' events first Yesby im plication Ill get abnormal events later start Ill play favorites go Glider Rubber first A-i Towline Glider Martyn Cowley broke record set A-I Towline Glider event last years Champs total 4048 2-mm maxes fol lowed Mike McKeever Rod Persons Martyns model full-house circle-tow zoom-launch capability seldom seen A-I s employed perfection Steve Zink topped Juniors list Continued page 159 September 1983 61 Ralph Prey can take pride glorious modified Dragstar 1100 Power K&B 40 Now thats real Free Flight Tom Hutchinson Memorial Trophy presented Jim Bradley nis win A-2 Towline Glider event Presentation Toms wife Rosemary mother R Tom remembered model designs monthly Free Flight column Model Builder magazine Stan L Mike Stoy R gave Outdoor HandLaunched Glider good try failed make winners circle However did place 1st 3rd Indoor Hand-Launch have set National Records Paul Masterman came way England light wing instead DT fuse Fortunately spare wing nothing came out sure sign clogged However putting halfgallon gas tank fixed everything George Schroedter 83 US FF team also photographer-come- will fly World Champs Australia fall lately intent getting Photo gets oft good flight Wakefield Century Lillian Andrade catching Mannys Mulvihill model midair after mile-and-a-half chase framing perfectly discovering extremely dif ficult best get 39 exposures FROM PICA E/P 1059 oz minute epoxy difference sandable epoxy available Compatible resin coating has new flip-top cap Industrial Strength 100% uncut resin paper Clean exposed surfaces well methanol alcohol go over sur face painted tack rag Mix up trim color shoot tf using touch-up gun shoot very light tack coat light color coat dont need lot paint get color dont want build up too much paint around edge masking tape just has sanded off again using air brush just light wet coat will need put enough paint get uniform color After first color has dried pull masking tape paper off area second color mask first color Clean go over area tack rag paint third fourth color just repeat procedure As soon last color has tacked-up about hour start stripping off masking sit back admire handiwork Let plane sit another day two 600 grit wet paper soapy water very carefully sand trim use sanding block just knock chinks dust off good technique sand across trim lines about 45 de gree angle edges will take excess paint off around edges built up next masking tape sand through color dont worry Just mask off area around boo-boo spot-paint Let dry sand again FOR THE NEWCOMER Its super stable gentle faster building versatile Extended Wing version RAMEUb SPECIFICATIO2 Wing Span 50 area 565 sq inches Fuselage 44V2 inches Extended Wing VersionWeight 4-4V2 pounds Wing Span 54 area 615 sq inches Engine 25-40 next issue will cover clear coat fading techniques final air plane setup club has race write something about send will see can get column have some good pictures should black white high-contrast pictures send See next month Bill Hager 706 Glen Haven Conroe TX 77302 FF Champs/Meuser Continued page 61 A-2 Towline Glider Jim Bradley 1983 US Free Flight team won A-2 Towline Glider event followed former Team Manager Dick Myers Jose Dona efforts Jim awarded Tom Hutchinson Memorial Trophy Tom friend Southern California fliers well-known accomplishments phases Free Flight Towline Gli der favorite events designs have stood test World Cham pionship competition wife Rosemary mother sister hand presentation Outdoor Rubber Bob White sort made up loss Unlimited Mul vihill event well tell about GLUIT H/P 601 12 oz heavy duty aliphatic white glue especially formulated modelers Its sandable fast drying truly heavy duty Its great hardwood plywood fiber materials subject high stress torni e 657NE lB8rnSi Main Fo1a33180 TeIerhLre 9351436 later winning regular Mulvihill Cameron Booth taking Junior Trophy P-30 event 30-in plastic-prop rubber-power models won Clarence Mather Channing Booth topping list Juniors Coupe DHiver won Richard Rourke Wakefield merely report Wakefield event won Les DeWitt would gross understatement Les did style I-fe arrived Taft full two weeks before Champs Unable secure accommodations town pet cock atoo long black Cadillac Fleetwood camped out flying field whole time afforded Les opportunity try imaginable variation pa rameters polyhedral model get almost instant feedback effect started out putting CG back far model would outside loop once got its nose down ooched forward until got sort behavior wanted Next line variations rudder stab areas stab airfoil torque-sensing control de vice full-span flap travel-limits Thats right flapsand travel limits of four sections independently adjustable mid-afternoon day became too hot windy Les cockatoo long black Cadillac would retire local city park bit relaxation perhaps snooze amusement curiosity residents no doubt also local Fine Quality Flying Med*Is Catalog $150 RUBBER 98POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L RIC Accessories Books , 4 * MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th Street Cleveland Ohio 44111 TOLEDO SENSATION * Model Magic Filler fillet builder crack ding dent gap filler balsa foam & fiberglass Past selrrS Sadeacl 10 balsa Wale etool shO SCI Sfl,l I, NocaOk,g Corealable 015 oooeirgs S frsfles eel re,, Shell S indafrt Odorless Ida aSic Seer ir Jue Model Relale Product eoews coocrg n AMA & 9 CM mass Retail pice 5595 Sf1 rft Fo dealer dsfrbure eta Model Magic Products PO Box 7784 St Paul Mn 55119 Model MagcPro&icts715 425 1397 * W Sold Oaf 8 50, INLAND SPORT 37/s Wing 049 R/C 020 Electric Phone 7031 573-2038 Flyline offers 22 beast iful Scale Designs . 50e brings catalog Brochure FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 Dorr Ave B-i 1 Fairfax Virginia 22031 September 1983 159 Irs L4S Wingspan 56 Channels 2-3 Wing Area 690 sq Engine 19- 35 urasshopper complete 1/6 scale R/C model kit designed assemblelook fly like famous WeedhopperTM Model-C Ultralight AIRCRAFT part aluminum structure pre-bent drilled nylon rip-stop coverings pre-SeWrt choice1/6 Scale $16995 Available of four colors hobby shop now 1/3 Scale $26995 Other ultralights available soon catlb@rg companies product 8170 WEST PENN AVE ROSEVILLE IL 61473 PHONE 309/426-2161 police Les performances really proved old adage Practice makes perfect Hand-Launched Glider expected see Stoy boys better Outdoor Hand-Launch Glider wasnt event won Martyn Cowley former Editor Aeromodeller magazine near-record performance 10 2-mm maxes plus 80 sec Martyn used model built just few days earlier employed unique fuse-operated pop-upwing dethermalizer Martyn followed Tulsa Glue-Dobbers Trophy winner Jim Lueken Kevin Anderson David Terzian won Junior event FAI Power addition its primary role US EF Champs afforded op portunity final get-together team will represent United States forthcoming World Championships held Australia fall FAI-Power lads about allow such oppor tunity slip past adding touch class fliers US team organized themselves pseudoteams representing other countries CLEVELAND GIANT PLANS No most. flying models 1/32 1/4 sic. 5/C Cl. F/P Rubber Static Since 1919 sottting els like trenanyuchsrel Ask old tiot ors okout finest designsouoilohlel1400 -aloas Reol Collectors items ore serious node1 echo follauce prototype pruatiac dont cOor ag yourself ony lunger send $150 pictorial catalog Meat oil histanicolly presented Partially illusttoted price list alone bOa foreign 75c Add $100 fa oir etoill Plane free N ealers Edcard T PockordAcOtuna Beat Friend- ELAND MODEL & SUPPLY CO *15307B Deerelt Au. Cleeelesd Ohia 44103 Russian team consisting Doug Gal beratz Ken Oliverinsky Ron Mor ganofskovitch won handily over US team Italian team disqualified having model air same time US team winning important thingpracticing together team US team read Rol Anderson US Team won event Marty Thompson taking sec ond Al Bissonnette third after five-man flyoff AMA Gas events sort dominated Doug Galbreath won two five daytime events Classes C D addition winning Class C Doug set high time meet won him Ocie Randall award established new national record event Doug did NFFS Model Year Award-winning model 757 Sum merwind hauled aloft OS Max en gine Other winners AMA Gas events included Half-A Junior Mike Keller HalfA Sr/Open Bob Sunberg Gas Junior Paul Funk Gas Sr/Open Peter Sahlberg B Gas Dave Wineland Outdoor Flying Scale Participation events good good could considering Southern Califor nia largest hotbed Free-Flight Scale activity country Tom Carman won Power event huge ED Diesel-powered BE2-A biplane launch two-point landing brought forth clapping shouts approval crowd indeed emotion-stirring experience see such gorgeous elaborate model fly well survive damage Roy Mayes last years winner electric-powered Dormoy Bathtub settle second place Outdoor Peanut Scale winner Farrell Papic Rubber Scale went Von Whitlock Bill McConachie took home huge Ray Berrens trophy Jumbo Scale rubber-power models flying Curie Wott Now its time abnormal events earn pejorative title merely cause have some peculiarity rules model specifications flight schedule takes out ordinary just because feel like Unlimited Mulvihill event usually first event contest albeit un official held Sunday year rather Saturday past contest traditional Mulvihill rubberpower models flown within 20-mm time-window starting dawn Bob Whites five-year winning streak broken tur bulent air made delicately-trimmed model stall putting him third place Mik Mikkelson won flight 1029 followed Joe Foster flew somewhat heavy simple model flight 913 Miks win result ofan effort team headed Loren Williams models designed especially event incredibly light 57 64 grams rubber prop-plus noseblock assemblies weighing 11 13 grams except Mik done same turbulence ruined Whites flight Despite rather poor condi tions exactly one-third field topped 7 minutes Timekeepers pooled assigned random Event Director pro vision contestant could reject assignment get another seemed such system could nightmare dawn marebut worked Spectator interest event high no short age timers although would have comfort some volunteered efforts bit earlier Youngest timers Terzians Chris 10 David 12 Young too experienced perhaps have eyes like eagleswhich about what takes see model against mountainside background poor light just after dawn Electric Power Although regu lar rule-book event electric propulsion Free Flight competition has never really quite gotten off ground somewhat dis appointingly pleased see good turnout event recently 160 Model Aviation mmmi. 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MODEL PRODUCTS 106 Valley View Dr Allegany NY 14706 RIC Capitol offers worlds finest RC custom built-up RC scale aircraft Quarter Scale PlansEa $2495PP Quarter Scale Partial KitsEn $95OOPP Quarter Scale Custom-Built DeluxEa $500OOPP Piper Pacer PA-20 89 Wingspan Piper Tn-Pacer PA-22 89 Wingspan DH-85 Leopard Moth 111 Wingspan DH-80A Puss Moth 111 Wingspan Please send $100 self-addressed stamped envelope complete list HOBBY CAPITOL R/C Est 1951 46 N Oak St. Ventura CA 93001 805 643-7616 8465 Distributors ot Finest Quality Built-up RIC Aircraft Custome Built Ready-To-Fly Radio Controlled Model Airplanes added Champs menu Jim McDermoth won flying conventional pylon model about 3-ft span powered what appeared Astro 020 Jim followed Addie Naccarato Barnaby Wainfan Addie flew Old-Timer Playboy Senior powered direct-drive Astro 15 buried under Williams Bros cylinder made look world like Arden Power provided dozen 200 mAh sub-C Ni-Cds Wainfan used novel flying wing model Night Flying certainly speaks worlds about dedication mentality true Free Flight devotees Despite small participation Night Flying always thrill time-honored device marking flight path big gas-engine models haywire concoction batteries wires light bulbs often shaken loose few seconds after launch I-lowever advent chemical glow-lights put end theyre infinitely reliable worse luck usually very little wind early part night models seldom drift half-mile during five-mm max flight year wind relatively strong models drifting about two miles allotted five mm good fraction models entered lost during event found until next day Tom Carman lost first flight max Forrest Staires won event three-flight total 1110 Old Timer 020 Replica event strewn 30-in Strato Streaks nothing new about Cliff Silva Bill Cohen both did flying wheel chairs Cohen winning Texaco event flown under old fuel-allotment rules flight 2114 Beyond can little list some winners Old-Timer events Rubber Stick Gene Bartel Rubber Cabin Carl Cogar 020 Replica Dick Lyons Pylon Rudy Calvo Cabin Bruce Chandler B Pylon Ken Kullman B Cabin Bruce Chandler C Pylon Leon Na dolski C Cabin Bob Oslan Half-A Texaco Carl Taylor Texaco Bill Cohen 30-Second Antique Bob Dittmer Payload shame event isnt popular difficult see five entered Tom Carman lost model strong thermal kept going up after dethermalized first flight winner 65-year-old John Drobshoff three-flight total 644 Nostalgia Gas events have shown slow steady increase popularity now official part Champs program events designs appeared Forties Fifties powered early-design glow engines Half-A won Bill Valentine total score 3818 Jack Moreland won combined A-B event Al Heinrich won combined Classes C D Just case thought Id forgotten about could door results neither normal nor abnormal theyre just Indoor MORE COLOR ~OIt4 z4"11] 4 %O B3 93~e 6¶3~oe 93 ~ 63 oO\3cI CO\35 9 e8 ~ 9O HOBBYPOXY PRODUCTS division Pettit Paint Company Inc 10 Pine Street Box 378 Rockaway NJ 07866-0378 Peanut Scale won Ken Johnson flying 1911 Cessna also entered Cler get topped static judging top flight time 68 sec posted Dick Baxters LE7 Novice Pennyplane inappro priately-named event won Earl Hoff man employed novel flying tech nique Ordinarily fliers must back off power models dont climb above light fixtures makes hangup almost certain just ticking bottoms lights OK motor stick Earls model bends lot fully-wound motor causing nose-down flight attitude So Earls model bounced along prop hitting floor about two minutes until motor relaxed motor stick straightened out point model would fly normally Easy-B event won handily Clarence Mather al ways top three Hand-Launched Glider Inasmuch Taft Mecca Free Flight competition pilgrimage least once during lifetime true believer mandatory Stan Stoy Jr decided high time got around celebrated occasion winning Indoor Hand-Launched Glider event incredible two-flight total 697 sec Ron Wittman took second place 638 sec followeds last years winner Mike Stoy 618 Rons son Steve now Senior fourth 600 Top Juniors Steve Zink Ken Keegan Jeff Wittman Rons daughter beginning show inSeptember 1983 161 DEAtER/ DISTRIBUTOR INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 2035 ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER RenolotiOnary snap on wing eliminates bolts robber bands Complete kit $54 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P0 Box 1168 Ponnac NJ 07000 PRODUCTS FOR THE DISCERNING MODELER Complete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Pipes MuffledTuned Pipes * Headers Venturi Mufflers * Expansion Mufflers Helicopter Ball Mufflers Specialized Exhaust Systems Unsurpassed Won MatcfleO rerrormance ystem TOP PERFORMANCE K&B ENGINES 16 Airplane 4 Marine K&B FUELS K&B 010W PLUGS 7 Blendo4 cboicen Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-BalloOnt FILLER K&B SUPER POSY RESIN K&B SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER POSY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS KK terest Free Flight seems well seeing lot Wittman tribe some years come Trophies awards Team Trophy honors went Orbiteers team con sisting Don Bartick Clarence Mather Bill Booth Jr Open Sweepstakes went Joe Foster followed Eugene Bartel Andrew Barron Steve Zink won Junior Sweepstakes award High-Time trophy went Douc Galbreath performance C Gas isnt endmerely conclusion report no end Free Flight forever FF SCale/Warner Continued page 63 removable nose block Mustang lost b-minute-plus flight Guil lows 6-in plastic propcertainly impres stve Well Bill certainly has done well de fending point view will admiE much vogue West opines fact prevailing winds bring air pollution garbage toward East lives historic town Fairfield CT makes necessary have sturdier planes can punch up through mess just ride around top Interesting theory also heard Guillow though rebutting points made discussion sparked Will Volny sent four kits felt best fliers Arrow Lancer non-scale Piper Super Cub Fairchild 24 semi-scale promised turn over testing committee expe rienced Junior modelers admonition build per plan no changes al lowed An initial burst enthusiasm saw three students model club Paul Revere Junior High Los Angeles madly going Lancer offering come after school finish himself An tractive kit finished despite best efforts Frank Sullivan took Super Cub home returned nothing flat drew plenty compliments flew about 30 ft heavy aerodynamic fact did attain 500 ft altitude stay up couple minutes did seem bother admiring crowd outside classroom next plane come Arrow assigned Ricky Lin half-inch warp right wing looked great offers admirers buy spot writing hes de-warping first flight Its really tail-heavy will require about half-golf-ball clay least Would kid Podunk Iowa know about warps center-of-gravity position kids did study direc tions Still Arrow really attractive design Well see much fun stretchwinding motor trying get back tiny nose-plug hole Fairchild due refusal part its 13-year-old builder follow direc tions flew well made removable noseblock giving about half-in square opening nose stretch-winding Beautiful flights about 30 sec possible Complaints kids centered around use plastic vacu-formed parts either fully-formed exhaust array Arrow sturdy enough nose Super Cub die-cut parts also gave trouble did always fit Ricky especially problems dealing weight materials having already made five Peck-Polymers kits used contest balsa hard get used kit wood almost three times density verdict Starting Guillow Comet Sterling Scientific fine expect can deliver Reading generally well-thought-out di rections can provide wealth information next level involves Mil lers lightening hop-up routine can render kits flyable use contest materials own feeling goes boutique kit Millers term such Pecks Dubois Classic Models Flyline Golden Age etc plan model se lects appropriate materials rather just using whats kit eventu ally drawing up ones own models three-views seem logical progression Still modelers no matter ad vanced delight seeing good kit good kit promise flight compliments personal satisfaction Im sure kit makers would like have clients succeed Lets encourage keep improving products May termites spare balsa An innocent little sign-off line recent column brought sad letter Bob Liefeld out New Mexico Seems though son doing 4-H project tanning hides Says Bob evening out quiet heard faint 'seritch-seritch-scritch' sound led styrofoam box Mattel Vacu-Form set Close inspection showed sounds coming sty rofoam itself Indeed innumer able /0-in -diameter holes foam little furry beasts Said beasts busy eating least boring foam Good Grief styrofoam Oh no Oh yes Most collection balsa kits finished airplanes stocks balsa wood riddled /oin dia meter holes containing furry larva point must break Bobs sad story just too heartrending sent samples damaged materials including piece Microdyne Indoor wood slant-bored along thirty-nine others Bob observed nothing spared unless presented smaller crosssection bugs What way lighten 162 Model Aviation DUAL PERSOhAUTY TRAINER GEENIS 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The flying site just outside Taft CA half-mile-square area has scraped clear flat accommodate flying parking camping 300 contestants families helpers man-made structure miles Kitty Litter factory right rear MY OVERALL IMPRESSION con test may seem very curious Sure lot activity Old-Timer AMA Gas events Im involved events being general Rubber Glider freak part Gas events involved gang usually flies events did usual thingand whale good time feeling youve got to really appreciate activityand dont think punctilious writeups would great interest modeler wasnt actually involved meet So dont really have much report about What want give flavor fanatics delightthe biggest all-FF contest held US knows maybe whole world annual basis contest site Taft CA may finest FE site earth stand point having contend minimum obstacles flight trees buildings roads like being able let models fly unrestricted flight times can chase models youd better use small motorcycle hot arid locale ends earth ease interest lies peopleGod love emand idiosyncracies ad ventures pursue favorite hobby Sunny California spared severe weather struck con tinent past winter much Northern California sun seldom showed degree certainty until mid-May modelers expected winter during Champs mildperhaps grass would still green Friday May 28 day preceding meet temperature hit 1050 F no clouds haze give tem porary relief suns direct rays Saturday temperature de gree two lower 50% cloud cover early afternoon afforded some relief Needless say little flying done during afternoon Sunday temperature dropped 950 F Monday 920 F seemed rather mild us experience temperatures like home few days decade daily 800 am starting time drift almost non-existent except Sunday Wakefield models going about mile three minutes right start wind increased continuously dur Hey engine Addle NaccaratoS IIayDoy enior 100K5 little odd some reason maybe because Electric model Closeup tH snows trickan Astro 15 Williams Brothers plastic cylinder glued engine-mount tube Note real spark plug fake high-tension lead exhaust pipe Looks suggest Brown Jr OK Super 60 58 Model Aviation ing day occasional dead spells late morning strong steady blow during afternoon Participation year high 295 compared all-time high 305 entries Seven women entered vast majority contestants California 258 Washington second place 5 Thirteen states represented Canada 4 England 2 Australia usual strong representation Mexico didnt tend Ill give glimpse madness First Id better describe what Taft con test site really like Its out middle nowhere flat arid plain An area about one-half mile square has graded smooth flat camping flying Contestants establish campsites along edge area Id guess 1500 ft frontage campsites time everyone gets Although contest doesnt begin until Saturday midThursday nearly frontage-lot claims have already staked Late comers pitch shelters row behind go sharesies guys already However doesnt seem big problem want get together efforts fact somehow get together can tell about some goofy things took place within frontage about 30 ft Id have lucky have caught third Multiply 50 100 get total picture fellow noted Wake field flier become somewhat dis gusted previous haphazard organ izational method preparing contest So took additional day off work laboriously wrote list things would need meet packed car according list After car packed thought himself Wow organizing routine really pays off cars half empty next day dis covered forgotten put Wake field modelss list September 1983 59 Roy Mayes electric-powered Dormoy Bathtub did repeat last years win Power Scaleit second time poor solder joint almost did him Note scale engine detail R psuedo-Russian FAI Power team smiles L R Doug Galberatz Ron Morganoiskovitch Ken Oliverinski victorious over real 1903 US FAI Power team Note detail T-shirt art R PAl Power fliers US FF Champs have taken organizing themselves teams give atmosphere like World Championships Martyn Cowley displays model used win Open Hand-Launched Glider outdoor Note pop-up-wing dethermalizer detail right plus fact rudder must mounted below stabor else doesnt use Ship built days earlier Next tall beardy cigareating FAI Power flier environs Detroit Pooped flying heat laid down nap six-buck plasticand-aluminum chaise lounge Two hours later awoke staggered out rented car found eager departure left-front door still open thc engine still running Also present disgustingly wellorganised note British spelling young experienced lad England model well-tuned rubber motor wound within tenth percent selfdestruction planned appropriate instant launching properly se lected Nothing hut light fuse re cord max retrieve model Ho hum nothing itsimply routine minor flaw planning instead lighting fuse bloke lit bloody wing lad pestered everyone sight potential causes motorcycle acting out gas knew certain tank full Water gas Clogged fuel lines Float level thrown off recent crash Poorly maintained battery gone sour fuel lines disconnected 60 Model Aviation Paul Bartell uses novel custom-made model carrier motorcycle hes retrieving dads models Capacity carrier ranges Lanzo Stick big Class C Gas jobs Gene Bartel watches flight other models entered Night Flying event waits fly own Models equipped lights finding theyre down sometimes difficult Bill Stroman gloats over CO-2-powered Taube Electric CO-2 now popular Scaleglow diesel seldom seen intricate diesel-powered model BE2-A won Power Scale event Tom Carman Spectators cheered its ROGs wheel landings Carol Barron helps hubby Andrew prepare launch A-2 Towliner Circle-tow technique can take 15 mm towline seeking lift Cyclist Bob Meuser gives Roger Gregory ride back flight line after Rogers Mulvihill maxes Motorcycles virtual necessity Taft sort activity Joe Foster 1 assist Ed Lidgard R hauls oft Chuck Broadhurst Memorial Perpetual Trophy awared Open Warren Williams twin-prop model entered one-flight-at-dawn Sweepstakes Fortunately Joe doesnt have try make room Unlimited Mulvihill special event spiral-dived under power car homeit stays Taft 36-exposure roll Competition Activity guess will start reportage actual competition flying looking normal' events first Yesby im plication Ill get abnormal events later start Ill play favorites go Glider Rubber first A-i Towline Glider Martyn Cowley broke record set A-I Towline Glider event last years Champs total 4048 2-mm maxes fol lowed Mike McKeever Rod Persons Martyns model full-house circle-tow zoom-launch capability seldom seen A-I s employed perfection Steve Zink topped Juniors list Continued page 159 September 1983 61 Ralph Prey can take pride glorious modified Dragstar 1100 Power K&B 40 Now thats real Free Flight Tom Hutchinson Memorial Trophy presented Jim Bradley nis win A-2 Towline Glider event Presentation Toms wife Rosemary mother R Tom remembered model designs monthly Free Flight column Model Builder magazine Stan L Mike Stoy R gave Outdoor HandLaunched Glider good try failed make winners circle However did place 1st 3rd Indoor Hand-Launch have set National Records Paul Masterman came way England light wing instead DT fuse Fortunately spare wing nothing came out sure sign clogged However putting halfgallon gas tank fixed everything George Schroedter 83 US FF team also photographer-come- will fly World Champs Australia fall lately intent getting Photo gets oft good flight Wakefield Century Lillian Andrade catching Mannys Mulvihill model midair after mile-and-a-half chase framing perfectly discovering extremely dif ficult best get 39 exposures FROM PICA E/P 1059 oz minute epoxy difference sandable epoxy available Compatible resin coating has new flip-top cap Industrial Strength 100% uncut resin paper Clean exposed surfaces well methanol alcohol go over sur face painted tack rag Mix up trim color shoot tf using touch-up gun shoot very light tack coat light color coat dont need lot paint get color dont want build up too much paint around edge masking tape just has sanded off again using air brush just light wet coat will need put enough paint get uniform color After first color has dried pull masking tape paper off area second color mask first color Clean go over area tack rag paint third fourth color just repeat procedure As soon last color has tacked-up about hour start stripping off masking sit back admire handiwork Let plane sit another day two 600 grit wet paper soapy water very carefully sand trim use sanding block just knock chinks dust off good technique sand across trim lines about 45 de gree angle edges will take excess paint off around edges built up next masking tape sand through color dont worry Just mask off area around boo-boo spot-paint Let dry sand again FOR THE NEWCOMER Its super stable gentle faster building versatile Extended Wing version RAMEUb SPECIFICATIO2 Wing Span 50 area 565 sq inches Fuselage 44V2 inches Extended Wing VersionWeight 4-4V2 pounds Wing Span 54 area 615 sq inches Engine 25-40 next issue will cover clear coat fading techniques final air plane setup club has race write something about send will see can get column have some good pictures should black white high-contrast pictures send See next month Bill Hager 706 Glen Haven Conroe TX 77302 FF Champs/Meuser Continued page 61 A-2 Towline Glider Jim Bradley 1983 US Free Flight team won A-2 Towline Glider event followed former Team Manager Dick Myers Jose Dona efforts Jim awarded Tom Hutchinson Memorial Trophy Tom friend Southern California fliers well-known accomplishments phases Free Flight Towline Gli der favorite events designs have stood test World Cham pionship competition wife Rosemary mother sister hand presentation Outdoor Rubber Bob White sort made up loss Unlimited Mul vihill event well tell about GLUIT H/P 601 12 oz heavy duty aliphatic white glue especially formulated modelers Its sandable fast drying truly heavy duty Its great hardwood plywood fiber materials subject high stress torni e 657NE lB8rnSi Main Fo1a33180 TeIerhLre 9351436 later winning regular Mulvihill Cameron Booth taking Junior Trophy P-30 event 30-in plastic-prop rubber-power models won Clarence Mather Channing Booth topping list Juniors Coupe DHiver won Richard Rourke Wakefield merely report Wakefield event won Les DeWitt would gross understatement Les did style I-fe arrived Taft full two weeks before Champs Unable secure accommodations town pet cock atoo long black Cadillac Fleetwood camped out flying field whole time afforded Les opportunity try imaginable variation pa rameters polyhedral model get almost instant feedback effect started out putting CG back far model would outside loop once got its nose down ooched forward until got sort behavior wanted Next line variations rudder stab areas stab airfoil torque-sensing control de vice full-span flap travel-limits Thats right flapsand travel limits of four sections independently adjustable mid-afternoon day became too hot windy Les cockatoo long black Cadillac would retire local city park bit relaxation perhaps snooze amusement curiosity residents no doubt also local Fine Quality Flying Med*Is Catalog $150 RUBBER 98POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L RIC Accessories Books , 4 * MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th Street Cleveland Ohio 44111 TOLEDO SENSATION * Model Magic Filler fillet builder crack ding dent gap filler balsa foam & fiberglass Past selrrS Sadeacl 10 balsa Wale etool shO SCI Sfl,l I, NocaOk,g Corealable 015 oooeirgs S frsfles eel re,, Shell S indafrt Odorless Ida aSic Seer ir Jue Model Relale Product eoews coocrg n AMA & 9 CM mass Retail pice 5595 Sf1 rft Fo dealer dsfrbure eta Model Magic Products PO Box 7784 St Paul Mn 55119 Model MagcPro&icts715 425 1397 * W Sold Oaf 8 50, INLAND SPORT 37/s Wing 049 R/C 020 Electric Phone 7031 573-2038 Flyline offers 22 beast iful Scale Designs . 50e brings catalog Brochure FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 Dorr Ave B-i 1 Fairfax Virginia 22031 September 1983 159 Irs L4S Wingspan 56 Channels 2-3 Wing Area 690 sq Engine 19- 35 urasshopper complete 1/6 scale R/C model kit designed assemblelook fly like famous WeedhopperTM Model-C Ultralight AIRCRAFT part aluminum structure pre-bent drilled nylon rip-stop coverings pre-SeWrt choice1/6 Scale $16995 Available of four colors hobby shop now 1/3 Scale $26995 Other ultralights available soon catlb@rg companies product 8170 WEST PENN AVE ROSEVILLE IL 61473 PHONE 309/426-2161 police Les performances really proved old adage Practice makes perfect Hand-Launched Glider expected see Stoy boys better Outdoor Hand-Launch Glider wasnt event won Martyn Cowley former Editor Aeromodeller magazine near-record performance 10 2-mm maxes plus 80 sec Martyn used model built just few days earlier employed unique fuse-operated pop-upwing dethermalizer Martyn followed Tulsa Glue-Dobbers Trophy winner Jim Lueken Kevin Anderson David Terzian won Junior event FAI Power addition its primary role US EF Champs afforded op portunity final get-together team will represent United States forthcoming World Championships held Australia fall FAI-Power lads about allow such oppor tunity slip past adding touch class fliers US team organized themselves pseudoteams representing other countries CLEVELAND GIANT PLANS No most. flying models 1/32 1/4 sic. 5/C Cl. F/P Rubber Static Since 1919 sottting els like trenanyuchsrel Ask old tiot ors okout finest designsouoilohlel1400 -aloas Reol Collectors items ore serious node1 echo follauce prototype pruatiac dont cOor ag yourself ony lunger send $150 pictorial catalog Meat oil histanicolly presented Partially illusttoted price list alone bOa foreign 75c Add $100 fa oir etoill Plane free N ealers Edcard T PockordAcOtuna Beat Friend- ELAND MODEL & SUPPLY CO *15307B Deerelt Au. Cleeelesd Ohia 44103 Russian team consisting Doug Gal beratz Ken Oliverinsky Ron Mor ganofskovitch won handily over US team Italian team disqualified having model air same time US team winning important thingpracticing together team US team read Rol Anderson US Team won event Marty Thompson taking sec ond Al Bissonnette third after five-man flyoff AMA Gas events sort dominated Doug Galbreath won two five daytime events Classes C D addition winning Class C Doug set high time meet won him Ocie Randall award established new national record event Doug did NFFS Model Year Award-winning model 757 Sum merwind hauled aloft OS Max en gine Other winners AMA Gas events included Half-A Junior Mike Keller HalfA Sr/Open Bob Sunberg Gas Junior Paul Funk Gas Sr/Open Peter Sahlberg B Gas Dave Wineland Outdoor Flying Scale Participation events good good could considering Southern Califor nia largest hotbed Free-Flight Scale activity country Tom Carman won Power event huge ED Diesel-powered BE2-A biplane launch two-point landing brought forth clapping shouts approval crowd indeed emotion-stirring experience see such gorgeous elaborate model fly well survive damage Roy Mayes last years winner electric-powered Dormoy Bathtub settle second place Outdoor Peanut Scale winner Farrell Papic Rubber Scale went Von Whitlock Bill McConachie took home huge Ray Berrens trophy Jumbo Scale rubber-power models flying Curie Wott Now its time abnormal events earn pejorative title merely cause have some peculiarity rules model specifications flight schedule takes out ordinary just because feel like Unlimited Mulvihill event usually first event contest albeit un official held Sunday year rather Saturday past contest traditional Mulvihill rubberpower models flown within 20-mm time-window starting dawn Bob Whites five-year winning streak broken tur bulent air made delicately-trimmed model stall putting him third place Mik Mikkelson won flight 1029 followed Joe Foster flew somewhat heavy simple model flight 913 Miks win result ofan effort team headed Loren Williams models designed especially event incredibly light 57 64 grams rubber prop-plus noseblock assemblies weighing 11 13 grams except Mik done same turbulence ruined Whites flight Despite rather poor condi tions exactly one-third field topped 7 minutes Timekeepers pooled assigned random Event Director pro vision contestant could reject assignment get another seemed such system could nightmare dawn marebut worked Spectator interest event high no short age timers although would have comfort some volunteered efforts bit earlier Youngest timers Terzians Chris 10 David 12 Young too experienced perhaps have eyes like eagleswhich about what takes see model against mountainside background poor light just after dawn Electric Power Although regu lar rule-book event electric propulsion Free Flight competition has never really quite gotten off ground somewhat dis appointingly pleased see good turnout event recently 160 Model Aviation mmmi. 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MODEL PRODUCTS 106 Valley View Dr Allegany NY 14706 RIC Capitol offers worlds finest RC custom built-up RC scale aircraft Quarter Scale PlansEa $2495PP Quarter Scale Partial KitsEn $95OOPP Quarter Scale Custom-Built DeluxEa $500OOPP Piper Pacer PA-20 89 Wingspan Piper Tn-Pacer PA-22 89 Wingspan DH-85 Leopard Moth 111 Wingspan DH-80A Puss Moth 111 Wingspan Please send $100 self-addressed stamped envelope complete list HOBBY CAPITOL R/C Est 1951 46 N Oak St. Ventura CA 93001 805 643-7616 8465 Distributors ot Finest Quality Built-up RIC Aircraft Custome Built Ready-To-Fly Radio Controlled Model Airplanes added Champs menu Jim McDermoth won flying conventional pylon model about 3-ft span powered what appeared Astro 020 Jim followed Addie Naccarato Barnaby Wainfan Addie flew Old-Timer Playboy Senior powered direct-drive Astro 15 buried under Williams Bros cylinder made look world like Arden Power provided dozen 200 mAh sub-C Ni-Cds Wainfan used novel flying wing model Night Flying certainly speaks worlds about dedication mentality true Free Flight devotees Despite small participation Night Flying always thrill time-honored device marking flight path big gas-engine models haywire concoction batteries wires light bulbs often shaken loose few seconds after launch I-lowever advent chemical glow-lights put end theyre infinitely reliable worse luck usually very little wind early part night models seldom drift half-mile during five-mm max flight year wind relatively strong models drifting about two miles allotted five mm good fraction models entered lost during event found until next day Tom Carman lost first flight max Forrest Staires won event three-flight total 1110 Old Timer 020 Replica event strewn 30-in Strato Streaks nothing new about Cliff Silva Bill Cohen both did flying wheel chairs Cohen winning Texaco event flown under old fuel-allotment rules flight 2114 Beyond can little list some winners Old-Timer events Rubber Stick Gene Bartel Rubber Cabin Carl Cogar 020 Replica Dick Lyons Pylon Rudy Calvo Cabin Bruce Chandler B Pylon Ken Kullman B Cabin Bruce Chandler C Pylon Leon Na dolski C Cabin Bob Oslan Half-A Texaco Carl Taylor Texaco Bill Cohen 30-Second Antique Bob Dittmer Payload shame event isnt popular difficult see five entered Tom Carman lost model strong thermal kept going up after dethermalized first flight winner 65-year-old John Drobshoff three-flight total 644 Nostalgia Gas events have shown slow steady increase popularity now official part Champs program events designs appeared Forties Fifties powered early-design glow engines Half-A won Bill Valentine total score 3818 Jack Moreland won combined A-B event Al Heinrich won combined Classes C D Just case thought Id forgotten about could door results neither normal nor abnormal theyre just Indoor MORE COLOR ~OIt4 z4"11] 4 %O B3 93~e 6¶3~oe 93 ~ 63 oO\3cI CO\35 9 e8 ~ 9O HOBBYPOXY PRODUCTS division Pettit Paint Company Inc 10 Pine Street Box 378 Rockaway NJ 07866-0378 Peanut Scale won Ken Johnson flying 1911 Cessna also entered Cler get topped static judging top flight time 68 sec posted Dick Baxters LE7 Novice Pennyplane inappro priately-named event won Earl Hoff man employed novel flying tech nique Ordinarily fliers must back off power models dont climb above light fixtures makes hangup almost certain just ticking bottoms lights OK motor stick Earls model bends lot fully-wound motor causing nose-down flight attitude So Earls model bounced along prop hitting floor about two minutes until motor relaxed motor stick straightened out point model would fly normally Easy-B event won handily Clarence Mather al ways top three Hand-Launched Glider Inasmuch Taft Mecca Free Flight competition pilgrimage least once during lifetime true believer mandatory Stan Stoy Jr decided high time got around celebrated occasion winning Indoor Hand-Launched Glider event incredible two-flight total 697 sec Ron Wittman took second place 638 sec followeds last years winner Mike Stoy 618 Rons son Steve now Senior fourth 600 Top Juniors Steve Zink Ken Keegan Jeff Wittman Rons daughter beginning show inSeptember 1983 161 DEAtER/ DISTRIBUTOR INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 2035 ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER RenolotiOnary snap on wing eliminates bolts robber bands Complete kit $54 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P0 Box 1168 Ponnac NJ 07000 PRODUCTS FOR THE DISCERNING MODELER Complete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Pipes MuffledTuned Pipes * Headers Venturi Mufflers * Expansion Mufflers Helicopter Ball Mufflers Specialized Exhaust Systems Unsurpassed Won MatcfleO rerrormance ystem TOP PERFORMANCE K&B ENGINES 16 Airplane 4 Marine K&B FUELS K&B 010W PLUGS 7 Blendo4 cboicen Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-BalloOnt FILLER K&B SUPER POSY RESIN K&B SUPER FOXY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER POSY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS KK terest Free Flight seems well seeing lot Wittman tribe some years come Trophies awards Team Trophy honors went Orbiteers team con sisting Don Bartick Clarence Mather Bill Booth Jr Open Sweepstakes went Joe Foster followed Eugene Bartel Andrew Barron Steve Zink won Junior Sweepstakes award High-Time trophy went Douc Galbreath performance C Gas isnt endmerely conclusion report no end Free Flight forever FF SCale/Warner Continued page 63 removable nose block Mustang lost b-minute-plus flight Guil lows 6-in plastic propcertainly impres stve Well Bill certainly has done well de fending point view will admiE much vogue West opines fact prevailing winds bring air pollution garbage toward East lives historic town Fairfield CT makes necessary have sturdier planes can punch up through mess just ride around top Interesting theory also heard Guillow though rebutting points made discussion sparked Will Volny sent four kits felt best fliers Arrow Lancer non-scale Piper Super Cub Fairchild 24 semi-scale promised turn over testing committee expe rienced Junior modelers admonition build per plan no changes al lowed An initial burst enthusiasm saw three students model club Paul Revere Junior High Los Angeles madly going Lancer offering come after school finish himself An tractive kit finished despite best efforts Frank Sullivan took Super Cub home returned nothing flat drew plenty compliments flew about 30 ft heavy aerodynamic fact did attain 500 ft altitude stay up couple minutes did seem bother admiring crowd outside classroom next plane come Arrow assigned Ricky Lin half-inch warp right wing looked great offers admirers buy spot writing hes de-warping first flight Its really tail-heavy will require about half-golf-ball clay least Would kid Podunk Iowa know about warps center-of-gravity position kids did study direc tions Still Arrow really attractive design Well see much fun stretchwinding motor trying get back tiny nose-plug hole Fairchild due refusal part its 13-year-old builder follow direc tions flew well made removable noseblock giving about half-in square opening nose stretch-winding Beautiful flights about 30 sec possible Complaints kids centered around use plastic vacu-formed parts either fully-formed exhaust array Arrow sturdy enough nose Super Cub die-cut parts also gave trouble did always fit Ricky especially problems dealing weight materials having already made five Peck-Polymers kits used contest balsa hard get used kit wood almost three times density verdict Starting Guillow Comet Sterling Scientific fine expect can deliver Reading generally well-thought-out di rections can provide wealth information next level involves Mil lers lightening hop-up routine can render kits flyable use contest materials own feeling goes boutique kit Millers term such Pecks Dubois Classic Models Flyline Golden Age etc plan model se lects appropriate materials rather just using whats kit eventu ally drawing up ones own models three-views seem logical progression Still modelers no matter ad vanced delight seeing good kit good kit promise flight compliments personal satisfaction Im sure kit makers would like have clients succeed Lets encourage keep improving products May termites spare balsa An innocent little sign-off line recent column brought sad letter Bob Liefeld out New Mexico Seems though son doing 4-H project tanning hides Says Bob evening out quiet heard faint 'seritch-seritch-scritch' sound led styrofoam box Mattel Vacu-Form set Close inspection showed sounds coming sty rofoam itself Indeed innumer able /0-in -diameter holes foam little furry beasts Said beasts busy eating least boring foam Good Grief styrofoam Oh no Oh yes Most collection balsa kits finished airplanes stocks balsa wood riddled /oin dia meter holes containing furry larva point must break Bobs sad story just too heartrending sent samples damaged materials including piece Microdyne Indoor wood slant-bored along thirty-nine others Bob observed nothing spared unless presented smaller crosssection bugs What way lighten 162 Model Aviation DUAL PERSOhAUTY TRAINER GEENIS 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