nis picture paved pit area taken early Thursday morning festival Later reaiiy fiiied up big modeis IMAAS FOURTH ANNUAL Fun Fly Festival memory now its very nice rest people half much fun did wonderful time lot things went making FFF success first probably critical fac tor effort put out local modelers hosted festival people handled myriad nitty-gritty little jobs must done rest us can indulge hobby Anyone has involved putting local contest fun fly has some idea work required Registration transmitter impound safety inspection pit supervi sion flight control flight line supervision o reads tongue-In newsierter wii recognize monmur ui flu opy fiew out runway Right festival organizers W its way flight line Walt crew commended exceileni uruanuzuhmun unu uuIiui Probably iargest moac TiOWfl WES Jim Johnsons Ia-scale Waco YMF air hard believe wasnt tne ship Right air snapped low pass Bob says looked bigger cioser through camera lens 28 Model Aviation Left JW Jones put Sacha-Doimar Ziroli Corsair performance spectacular Model has functional flaps much terior exterior detailing Right same Corsair flaps down lines up final over corn field end runway latest Lou Proctor gorgeous Travelaire 2000 left see pilot cockpits entire model exhibits struc ture detailing Lou famous Tartan Twin provides good match realistic performance beauties present frequency control PA announcements spectator control parking etc etc one- two-day local affair things can lot work Imagine prob lems four days 200 partici pants heavily populated area thousands spectators will attracted Yet things handled handled well talked lot fliers didnt hear single gripe Ralph Knight problems kept I/ scale Cobra flying plane prime eye-catchers Everyone got see what ship will look like air fuli-size Cobra flew over field Ripe racers nice model form Let Jack Kilgore describes Mr Mulligan Nosen kit supplemented generous amounts plywood yards MonoKote end results worth Right OV-1OA Bronco Nick Rivaido standout static display area Wasnt ready filght Left Jerry Rhodes Bristol Scout may have oldest model sessival four years has made 385 flIghts over 390 bythe end FFFover 105 hours air Right Immaculate Ercoupe Dick Skoglund effective counterpolnttowarbirds /vintage bipes Left The Proctor Travelaire takes air Right Harris Smoker Gary Pozzis Krier Great Lakes very effective especially against blue sky earlier days Sepulveda area great active Free Flight flying sitenow developed parks George Normington another modelerwith miniature plane once flew HisAT-B patterned afterone Harlingen TX 1945 has complete Interior detailing can see picture right Must instructor controls judging crushed cap anyone dont have room names people made possible Ill thank thank ing dictator Walt Clark organized ran things Walt knows wouldnt have happened know wouldnt have happened Walt next big factor success story location Sepulveda Flood Control Basin large area San Fernando Valley northwest Los Angeles has ringed along low dam reason California has two types sunshine liquid type can sometimes get plentiful has tendency flood basin serves Continued page 137 30 Model Aviation NormIngtons RI-OiUII nIn I1u tiuudt rotate takeoff cant get much closer tothe big shipthan model Everyone plentyof opportunityto get filghtsthisyear column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill ASSOCIAm INC 21668 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 94O45 415-783-4368 1 HinD866D 0 - 4 L IMAA/Bsckman Continued page 137 several modelers came spectators because figured talked-of 1000 airplanes would never get chance fly As mat ter fact heard no complaints score lot people got lot flying done seldom less four big birds air early morn ing until late afternoon real reason going things meet talk people especially true whatever reason dont have plane fly year Evelyn made some new friends renewed some old relationships Chief among latter Bob Iris Morse Santa Clara CA Jerry Martha Rhodes Eagle Pass TX Morses old friends way back Rhodes new friends last year Ida Grove Among years crop acquaintances Lou Proctor have long admired work first meeting Travel aire 2000 real standouts years FFF Two regular features IMAAs extrav aganza Friday evening picnic Saturday night banquet didnt make picnic heard good reports Saturday night fling / delightful food reasonably good speeches reasonably short unhappy note eve ning announcement Les Hard retiring High Flight editor owe Les lot job has done last few years should take chance get express gratitude Below listed vital statistics aircraft photos no means noteworthy models present Time didnt allow get pic tures everything available space doesnt allow print pic tures did take AT-6 George Normington Irvine CA Ziroli kit scale Kioritz 24 Dynathrust 20-10 30 lb covered chrome Mono Kote burnished 3M abrasive pad retracts Bristol Scout Jerry Rhodes Eagle Pass TX STARS plans available MAN scale Quadra original version over 105 hours running time Dynathrust 20-8 21 lb Bronco OV-1OA Nick Rivaldo Wil mington CA scratch-built based manufacturer drawings / scale two 23 Cobras Zinger 20-6 three-bladed props 52 lb two receivers 13 servos working flaps Cobra biplane racer Ralph Knight Riverside CA Santich plans MAN scale Super Tartan Zinger 20-10 23 lb Corsair F4U1D JW Jones Dallas Span 71 Area 612 sq Length 46 Engine 40- 60 Cu Radio 4 channels Weight 5% lbs Material Fiberglass fuse. balsa covered foam wing balsa tail Air Flair Mfg PO Box 11702 Kansas City MO 64138 816J 353-7854 TX Ziroli plans scale Sachs-Dolmar 37 Zinger 22-10 32 lb operating flaps added Ercoupe Erco 415C Dick Skoglund Lancaster CA Messer kit scale OS 108 Zinger 15-6 18 lb Krier Great Lakes Gary Pozzi King City CA plans Larry Scott scale Zenoah 23 18-8 prop 19 lb Mr Mulligan Howard DGA-5 Jack Kilgore Layton UT Nosen kit scale Quadra original version Dynathrust 18-8 21 lb Mustang P-51D Dick Smith Yorba Linda CA Nosen kit scale Kawasaki 315 Zinger 22-10 41 lb mods kit including working flaps Travelalre 2000 Lou Proctor San Diego CA scratch-built based factory drawings scale Tartan Twin Zinger 22-6 21 lb Waco YMF Jim Johnson Oxnard CA scratch-built scale Tecumseh 6 cu homemade 26-8 prop 48 lb Radio TechniquslMyors Continued page 41 ference report need some cheap reli able way separate Out bad systems no matter owns operates No didnt see electric Helicopters meet brings up thought Michael Bock Brooklyn NY called 140 Model Aviation UNDERDOG Factory $7895 Price Astoundingnotminaoie plastics.. Very light weight discriminating hobbiest. Either Pilot version kit.. Sportsman Barnstormer.. arn Good Airmen .. complete See Dealer add . .....Dollar direct order handling6881 MSlaeflS SOd 7% 8166e TaD HOT WIRE FOAM CUTlER ATTENTION ORATON BUILDERS r cutting foam wings ats turtle decks model parts made foom uts over 7 foot wing pan Operates 12 volt motor cycle battery cith Instructions detlar 12439 orotrder BIack Hawk MsnuIscIu, 0368ibolor 08 Fine Mode POdDDN P01ox221 Mt Morris MI 46458
Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/01
Page Numbers: 28, 29, 30, 137, 140
nis picture paved pit area taken early Thursday morning festival Later reaiiy fiiied up big modeis IMAAS FOURTH ANNUAL Fun Fly Festival memory now its very nice rest people half much fun did wonderful time lot things went making FFF success first probably critical fac tor effort put out local modelers hosted festival people handled myriad nitty-gritty little jobs must done rest us can indulge hobby Anyone has involved putting local contest fun fly has some idea work required Registration transmitter impound safety inspection pit supervi sion flight control flight line supervision o reads tongue-In newsierter wii recognize monmur ui flu opy fiew out runway Right festival organizers W its way flight line Walt crew commended exceileni uruanuzuhmun unu uuIiui Probably iargest moac TiOWfl WES Jim Johnsons Ia-scale Waco YMF air hard believe wasnt tne ship Right air snapped low pass Bob says looked bigger cioser through camera lens 28 Model Aviation Left JW Jones put Sacha-Doimar Ziroli Corsair performance spectacular Model has functional flaps much terior exterior detailing Right same Corsair flaps down lines up final over corn field end runway latest Lou Proctor gorgeous Travelaire 2000 left see pilot cockpits entire model exhibits struc ture detailing Lou famous Tartan Twin provides good match realistic performance beauties present frequency control PA announcements spectator control parking etc etc one- two-day local affair things can lot work Imagine prob lems four days 200 partici pants heavily populated area thousands spectators will attracted Yet things handled handled well talked lot fliers didnt hear single gripe Ralph Knight problems kept I/ scale Cobra flying plane prime eye-catchers Everyone got see what ship will look like air fuli-size Cobra flew over field Ripe racers nice model form Let Jack Kilgore describes Mr Mulligan Nosen kit supplemented generous amounts plywood yards MonoKote end results worth Right OV-1OA Bronco Nick Rivaido standout static display area Wasnt ready filght Left Jerry Rhodes Bristol Scout may have oldest model sessival four years has made 385 flIghts over 390 bythe end FFFover 105 hours air Right Immaculate Ercoupe Dick Skoglund effective counterpolnttowarbirds /vintage bipes Left The Proctor Travelaire takes air Right Harris Smoker Gary Pozzis Krier Great Lakes very effective especially against blue sky earlier days Sepulveda area great active Free Flight flying sitenow developed parks George Normington another modelerwith miniature plane once flew HisAT-B patterned afterone Harlingen TX 1945 has complete Interior detailing can see picture right Must instructor controls judging crushed cap anyone dont have room names people made possible Ill thank thank ing dictator Walt Clark organized ran things Walt knows wouldnt have happened know wouldnt have happened Walt next big factor success story location Sepulveda Flood Control Basin large area San Fernando Valley northwest Los Angeles has ringed along low dam reason California has two types sunshine liquid type can sometimes get plentiful has tendency flood basin serves Continued page 137 30 Model Aviation NormIngtons RI-OiUII nIn I1u tiuudt rotate takeoff cant get much closer tothe big shipthan model Everyone plentyof opportunityto get filghtsthisyear column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill ASSOCIAm INC 21668 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 94O45 415-783-4368 1 HinD866D 0 - 4 L IMAA/Bsckman Continued page 137 several modelers came spectators because figured talked-of 1000 airplanes would never get chance fly As mat ter fact heard no complaints score lot people got lot flying done seldom less four big birds air early morn ing until late afternoon real reason going things meet talk people especially true whatever reason dont have plane fly year Evelyn made some new friends renewed some old relationships Chief among latter Bob Iris Morse Santa Clara CA Jerry Martha Rhodes Eagle Pass TX Morses old friends way back Rhodes new friends last year Ida Grove Among years crop acquaintances Lou Proctor have long admired work first meeting Travel aire 2000 real standouts years FFF Two regular features IMAAs extrav aganza Friday evening picnic Saturday night banquet didnt make picnic heard good reports Saturday night fling / delightful food reasonably good speeches reasonably short unhappy note eve ning announcement Les Hard retiring High Flight editor owe Les lot job has done last few years should take chance get express gratitude Below listed vital statistics aircraft photos no means noteworthy models present Time didnt allow get pic tures everything available space doesnt allow print pic tures did take AT-6 George Normington Irvine CA Ziroli kit scale Kioritz 24 Dynathrust 20-10 30 lb covered chrome Mono Kote burnished 3M abrasive pad retracts Bristol Scout Jerry Rhodes Eagle Pass TX STARS plans available MAN scale Quadra original version over 105 hours running time Dynathrust 20-8 21 lb Bronco OV-1OA Nick Rivaldo Wil mington CA scratch-built based manufacturer drawings / scale two 23 Cobras Zinger 20-6 three-bladed props 52 lb two receivers 13 servos working flaps Cobra biplane racer Ralph Knight Riverside CA Santich plans MAN scale Super Tartan Zinger 20-10 23 lb Corsair F4U1D JW Jones Dallas Span 71 Area 612 sq Length 46 Engine 40- 60 Cu Radio 4 channels Weight 5% lbs Material Fiberglass fuse. balsa covered foam wing balsa tail Air Flair Mfg PO Box 11702 Kansas City MO 64138 816J 353-7854 TX Ziroli plans scale Sachs-Dolmar 37 Zinger 22-10 32 lb operating flaps added Ercoupe Erco 415C Dick Skoglund Lancaster CA Messer kit scale OS 108 Zinger 15-6 18 lb Krier Great Lakes Gary Pozzi King City CA plans Larry Scott scale Zenoah 23 18-8 prop 19 lb Mr Mulligan Howard DGA-5 Jack Kilgore Layton UT Nosen kit scale Quadra original version Dynathrust 18-8 21 lb Mustang P-51D Dick Smith Yorba Linda CA Nosen kit scale Kawasaki 315 Zinger 22-10 41 lb mods kit including working flaps Travelalre 2000 Lou Proctor San Diego CA scratch-built based factory drawings scale Tartan Twin Zinger 22-6 21 lb Waco YMF Jim Johnson Oxnard CA scratch-built scale Tecumseh 6 cu homemade 26-8 prop 48 lb Radio TechniquslMyors Continued page 41 ference report need some cheap reli able way separate Out bad systems no matter owns operates No didnt see electric Helicopters meet brings up thought Michael Bock Brooklyn NY called 140 Model Aviation UNDERDOG Factory $7895 Price Astoundingnotminaoie plastics.. Very light weight discriminating hobbiest. Either Pilot version kit.. Sportsman Barnstormer.. arn Good Airmen .. complete See Dealer add . .....Dollar direct order handling6881 MSlaeflS SOd 7% 8166e TaD HOT WIRE FOAM CUTlER ATTENTION ORATON BUILDERS r cutting foam wings ats turtle decks model parts made foom uts over 7 foot wing pan Operates 12 volt motor cycle battery cith Instructions detlar 12439 orotrder BIack Hawk MsnuIscIu, 0368ibolor 08 Fine Mode POdDDN P01ox221 Mt Morris MI 46458
Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/01
Page Numbers: 28, 29, 30, 137, 140
nis picture paved pit area taken early Thursday morning festival Later reaiiy fiiied up big modeis IMAAS FOURTH ANNUAL Fun Fly Festival memory now its very nice rest people half much fun did wonderful time lot things went making FFF success first probably critical fac tor effort put out local modelers hosted festival people handled myriad nitty-gritty little jobs must done rest us can indulge hobby Anyone has involved putting local contest fun fly has some idea work required Registration transmitter impound safety inspection pit supervi sion flight control flight line supervision o reads tongue-In newsierter wii recognize monmur ui flu opy fiew out runway Right festival organizers W its way flight line Walt crew commended exceileni uruanuzuhmun unu uuIiui Probably iargest moac TiOWfl WES Jim Johnsons Ia-scale Waco YMF air hard believe wasnt tne ship Right air snapped low pass Bob says looked bigger cioser through camera lens 28 Model Aviation Left JW Jones put Sacha-Doimar Ziroli Corsair performance spectacular Model has functional flaps much terior exterior detailing Right same Corsair flaps down lines up final over corn field end runway latest Lou Proctor gorgeous Travelaire 2000 left see pilot cockpits entire model exhibits struc ture detailing Lou famous Tartan Twin provides good match realistic performance beauties present frequency control PA announcements spectator control parking etc etc one- two-day local affair things can lot work Imagine prob lems four days 200 partici pants heavily populated area thousands spectators will attracted Yet things handled handled well talked lot fliers didnt hear single gripe Ralph Knight problems kept I/ scale Cobra flying plane prime eye-catchers Everyone got see what ship will look like air fuli-size Cobra flew over field Ripe racers nice model form Let Jack Kilgore describes Mr Mulligan Nosen kit supplemented generous amounts plywood yards MonoKote end results worth Right OV-1OA Bronco Nick Rivaido standout static display area Wasnt ready filght Left Jerry Rhodes Bristol Scout may have oldest model sessival four years has made 385 flIghts over 390 bythe end FFFover 105 hours air Right Immaculate Ercoupe Dick Skoglund effective counterpolnttowarbirds /vintage bipes Left The Proctor Travelaire takes air Right Harris Smoker Gary Pozzis Krier Great Lakes very effective especially against blue sky earlier days Sepulveda area great active Free Flight flying sitenow developed parks George Normington another modelerwith miniature plane once flew HisAT-B patterned afterone Harlingen TX 1945 has complete Interior detailing can see picture right Must instructor controls judging crushed cap anyone dont have room names people made possible Ill thank thank ing dictator Walt Clark organized ran things Walt knows wouldnt have happened know wouldnt have happened Walt next big factor success story location Sepulveda Flood Control Basin large area San Fernando Valley northwest Los Angeles has ringed along low dam reason California has two types sunshine liquid type can sometimes get plentiful has tendency flood basin serves Continued page 137 30 Model Aviation NormIngtons RI-OiUII nIn I1u tiuudt rotate takeoff cant get much closer tothe big shipthan model Everyone plentyof opportunityto get filghtsthisyear column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill ASSOCIAm INC 21668 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 94O45 415-783-4368 1 HinD866D 0 - 4 L IMAA/Bsckman Continued page 137 several modelers came spectators because figured talked-of 1000 airplanes would never get chance fly As mat ter fact heard no complaints score lot people got lot flying done seldom less four big birds air early morn ing until late afternoon real reason going things meet talk people especially true whatever reason dont have plane fly year Evelyn made some new friends renewed some old relationships Chief among latter Bob Iris Morse Santa Clara CA Jerry Martha Rhodes Eagle Pass TX Morses old friends way back Rhodes new friends last year Ida Grove Among years crop acquaintances Lou Proctor have long admired work first meeting Travel aire 2000 real standouts years FFF Two regular features IMAAs extrav aganza Friday evening picnic Saturday night banquet didnt make picnic heard good reports Saturday night fling / delightful food reasonably good speeches reasonably short unhappy note eve ning announcement Les Hard retiring High Flight editor owe Les lot job has done last few years should take chance get express gratitude Below listed vital statistics aircraft photos no means noteworthy models present Time didnt allow get pic tures everything available space doesnt allow print pic tures did take AT-6 George Normington Irvine CA Ziroli kit scale Kioritz 24 Dynathrust 20-10 30 lb covered chrome Mono Kote burnished 3M abrasive pad retracts Bristol Scout Jerry Rhodes Eagle Pass TX STARS plans available MAN scale Quadra original version over 105 hours running time Dynathrust 20-8 21 lb Bronco OV-1OA Nick Rivaldo Wil mington CA scratch-built based manufacturer drawings / scale two 23 Cobras Zinger 20-6 three-bladed props 52 lb two receivers 13 servos working flaps Cobra biplane racer Ralph Knight Riverside CA Santich plans MAN scale Super Tartan Zinger 20-10 23 lb Corsair F4U1D JW Jones Dallas Span 71 Area 612 sq Length 46 Engine 40- 60 Cu Radio 4 channels Weight 5% lbs Material Fiberglass fuse. balsa covered foam wing balsa tail Air Flair Mfg PO Box 11702 Kansas City MO 64138 816J 353-7854 TX Ziroli plans scale Sachs-Dolmar 37 Zinger 22-10 32 lb operating flaps added Ercoupe Erco 415C Dick Skoglund Lancaster CA Messer kit scale OS 108 Zinger 15-6 18 lb Krier Great Lakes Gary Pozzi King City CA plans Larry Scott scale Zenoah 23 18-8 prop 19 lb Mr Mulligan Howard DGA-5 Jack Kilgore Layton UT Nosen kit scale Quadra original version Dynathrust 18-8 21 lb Mustang P-51D Dick Smith Yorba Linda CA Nosen kit scale Kawasaki 315 Zinger 22-10 41 lb mods kit including working flaps Travelalre 2000 Lou Proctor San Diego CA scratch-built based factory drawings scale Tartan Twin Zinger 22-6 21 lb Waco YMF Jim Johnson Oxnard CA scratch-built scale Tecumseh 6 cu homemade 26-8 prop 48 lb Radio TechniquslMyors Continued page 41 ference report need some cheap reli able way separate Out bad systems no matter owns operates No didnt see electric Helicopters meet brings up thought Michael Bock Brooklyn NY called 140 Model Aviation UNDERDOG Factory $7895 Price Astoundingnotminaoie plastics.. Very light weight discriminating hobbiest. Either Pilot version kit.. Sportsman Barnstormer.. arn Good Airmen .. complete See Dealer add . .....Dollar direct order handling6881 MSlaeflS SOd 7% 8166e TaD HOT WIRE FOAM CUTlER ATTENTION ORATON BUILDERS r cutting foam wings ats turtle decks model parts made foom uts over 7 foot wing pan Operates 12 volt motor cycle battery cith Instructions detlar 12439 orotrder BIack Hawk MsnuIscIu, 0368ibolor 08 Fine Mode POdDDN P01ox221 Mt Morris MI 46458
Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/01
Page Numbers: 28, 29, 30, 137, 140
nis picture paved pit area taken early Thursday morning festival Later reaiiy fiiied up big modeis IMAAS FOURTH ANNUAL Fun Fly Festival memory now its very nice rest people half much fun did wonderful time lot things went making FFF success first probably critical fac tor effort put out local modelers hosted festival people handled myriad nitty-gritty little jobs must done rest us can indulge hobby Anyone has involved putting local contest fun fly has some idea work required Registration transmitter impound safety inspection pit supervi sion flight control flight line supervision o reads tongue-In newsierter wii recognize monmur ui flu opy fiew out runway Right festival organizers W its way flight line Walt crew commended exceileni uruanuzuhmun unu uuIiui Probably iargest moac TiOWfl WES Jim Johnsons Ia-scale Waco YMF air hard believe wasnt tne ship Right air snapped low pass Bob says looked bigger cioser through camera lens 28 Model Aviation Left JW Jones put Sacha-Doimar Ziroli Corsair performance spectacular Model has functional flaps much terior exterior detailing Right same Corsair flaps down lines up final over corn field end runway latest Lou Proctor gorgeous Travelaire 2000 left see pilot cockpits entire model exhibits struc ture detailing Lou famous Tartan Twin provides good match realistic performance beauties present frequency control PA announcements spectator control parking etc etc one- two-day local affair things can lot work Imagine prob lems four days 200 partici pants heavily populated area thousands spectators will attracted Yet things handled handled well talked lot fliers didnt hear single gripe Ralph Knight problems kept I/ scale Cobra flying plane prime eye-catchers Everyone got see what ship will look like air fuli-size Cobra flew over field Ripe racers nice model form Let Jack Kilgore describes Mr Mulligan Nosen kit supplemented generous amounts plywood yards MonoKote end results worth Right OV-1OA Bronco Nick Rivaido standout static display area Wasnt ready filght Left Jerry Rhodes Bristol Scout may have oldest model sessival four years has made 385 flIghts over 390 bythe end FFFover 105 hours air Right Immaculate Ercoupe Dick Skoglund effective counterpolnttowarbirds /vintage bipes Left The Proctor Travelaire takes air Right Harris Smoker Gary Pozzis Krier Great Lakes very effective especially against blue sky earlier days Sepulveda area great active Free Flight flying sitenow developed parks George Normington another modelerwith miniature plane once flew HisAT-B patterned afterone Harlingen TX 1945 has complete Interior detailing can see picture right Must instructor controls judging crushed cap anyone dont have room names people made possible Ill thank thank ing dictator Walt Clark organized ran things Walt knows wouldnt have happened know wouldnt have happened Walt next big factor success story location Sepulveda Flood Control Basin large area San Fernando Valley northwest Los Angeles has ringed along low dam reason California has two types sunshine liquid type can sometimes get plentiful has tendency flood basin serves Continued page 137 30 Model Aviation NormIngtons RI-OiUII nIn I1u tiuudt rotate takeoff cant get much closer tothe big shipthan model Everyone plentyof opportunityto get filghtsthisyear column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill ASSOCIAm INC 21668 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 94O45 415-783-4368 1 HinD866D 0 - 4 L IMAA/Bsckman Continued page 137 several modelers came spectators because figured talked-of 1000 airplanes would never get chance fly As mat ter fact heard no complaints score lot people got lot flying done seldom less four big birds air early morn ing until late afternoon real reason going things meet talk people especially true whatever reason dont have plane fly year Evelyn made some new friends renewed some old relationships Chief among latter Bob Iris Morse Santa Clara CA Jerry Martha Rhodes Eagle Pass TX Morses old friends way back Rhodes new friends last year Ida Grove Among years crop acquaintances Lou Proctor have long admired work first meeting Travel aire 2000 real standouts years FFF Two regular features IMAAs extrav aganza Friday evening picnic Saturday night banquet didnt make picnic heard good reports Saturday night fling / delightful food reasonably good speeches reasonably short unhappy note eve ning announcement Les Hard retiring High Flight editor owe Les lot job has done last few years should take chance get express gratitude Below listed vital statistics aircraft photos no means noteworthy models present Time didnt allow get pic tures everything available space doesnt allow print pic tures did take AT-6 George Normington Irvine CA Ziroli kit scale Kioritz 24 Dynathrust 20-10 30 lb covered chrome Mono Kote burnished 3M abrasive pad retracts Bristol Scout Jerry Rhodes Eagle Pass TX STARS plans available MAN scale Quadra original version over 105 hours running time Dynathrust 20-8 21 lb Bronco OV-1OA Nick Rivaldo Wil mington CA scratch-built based manufacturer drawings / scale two 23 Cobras Zinger 20-6 three-bladed props 52 lb two receivers 13 servos working flaps Cobra biplane racer Ralph Knight Riverside CA Santich plans MAN scale Super Tartan Zinger 20-10 23 lb Corsair F4U1D JW Jones Dallas Span 71 Area 612 sq Length 46 Engine 40- 60 Cu Radio 4 channels Weight 5% lbs Material Fiberglass fuse. balsa covered foam wing balsa tail Air Flair Mfg PO Box 11702 Kansas City MO 64138 816J 353-7854 TX Ziroli plans scale Sachs-Dolmar 37 Zinger 22-10 32 lb operating flaps added Ercoupe Erco 415C Dick Skoglund Lancaster CA Messer kit scale OS 108 Zinger 15-6 18 lb Krier Great Lakes Gary Pozzi King City CA plans Larry Scott scale Zenoah 23 18-8 prop 19 lb Mr Mulligan Howard DGA-5 Jack Kilgore Layton UT Nosen kit scale Quadra original version Dynathrust 18-8 21 lb Mustang P-51D Dick Smith Yorba Linda CA Nosen kit scale Kawasaki 315 Zinger 22-10 41 lb mods kit including working flaps Travelalre 2000 Lou Proctor San Diego CA scratch-built based factory drawings scale Tartan Twin Zinger 22-6 21 lb Waco YMF Jim Johnson Oxnard CA scratch-built scale Tecumseh 6 cu homemade 26-8 prop 48 lb Radio TechniquslMyors Continued page 41 ference report need some cheap reli able way separate Out bad systems no matter owns operates No didnt see electric Helicopters meet brings up thought Michael Bock Brooklyn NY called 140 Model Aviation UNDERDOG Factory $7895 Price Astoundingnotminaoie plastics.. Very light weight discriminating hobbiest. Either Pilot version kit.. Sportsman Barnstormer.. arn Good Airmen .. complete See Dealer add . .....Dollar direct order handling6881 MSlaeflS SOd 7% 8166e TaD HOT WIRE FOAM CUTlER ATTENTION ORATON BUILDERS r cutting foam wings ats turtle decks model parts made foom uts over 7 foot wing pan Operates 12 volt motor cycle battery cith Instructions detlar 12439 orotrder BIack Hawk MsnuIscIu, 0368ibolor 08 Fine Mode POdDDN P01ox221 Mt Morris MI 46458
Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/01
Page Numbers: 28, 29, 30, 137, 140
nis picture paved pit area taken early Thursday morning festival Later reaiiy fiiied up big modeis IMAAS FOURTH ANNUAL Fun Fly Festival memory now its very nice rest people half much fun did wonderful time lot things went making FFF success first probably critical fac tor effort put out local modelers hosted festival people handled myriad nitty-gritty little jobs must done rest us can indulge hobby Anyone has involved putting local contest fun fly has some idea work required Registration transmitter impound safety inspection pit supervi sion flight control flight line supervision o reads tongue-In newsierter wii recognize monmur ui flu opy fiew out runway Right festival organizers W its way flight line Walt crew commended exceileni uruanuzuhmun unu uuIiui Probably iargest moac TiOWfl WES Jim Johnsons Ia-scale Waco YMF air hard believe wasnt tne ship Right air snapped low pass Bob says looked bigger cioser through camera lens 28 Model Aviation Left JW Jones put Sacha-Doimar Ziroli Corsair performance spectacular Model has functional flaps much terior exterior detailing Right same Corsair flaps down lines up final over corn field end runway latest Lou Proctor gorgeous Travelaire 2000 left see pilot cockpits entire model exhibits struc ture detailing Lou famous Tartan Twin provides good match realistic performance beauties present frequency control PA announcements spectator control parking etc etc one- two-day local affair things can lot work Imagine prob lems four days 200 partici pants heavily populated area thousands spectators will attracted Yet things handled handled well talked lot fliers didnt hear single gripe Ralph Knight problems kept I/ scale Cobra flying plane prime eye-catchers Everyone got see what ship will look like air fuli-size Cobra flew over field Ripe racers nice model form Let Jack Kilgore describes Mr Mulligan Nosen kit supplemented generous amounts plywood yards MonoKote end results worth Right OV-1OA Bronco Nick Rivaido standout static display area Wasnt ready filght Left Jerry Rhodes Bristol Scout may have oldest model sessival four years has made 385 flIghts over 390 bythe end FFFover 105 hours air Right Immaculate Ercoupe Dick Skoglund effective counterpolnttowarbirds /vintage bipes Left The Proctor Travelaire takes air Right Harris Smoker Gary Pozzis Krier Great Lakes very effective especially against blue sky earlier days Sepulveda area great active Free Flight flying sitenow developed parks George Normington another modelerwith miniature plane once flew HisAT-B patterned afterone Harlingen TX 1945 has complete Interior detailing can see picture right Must instructor controls judging crushed cap anyone dont have room names people made possible Ill thank thank ing dictator Walt Clark organized ran things Walt knows wouldnt have happened know wouldnt have happened Walt next big factor success story location Sepulveda Flood Control Basin large area San Fernando Valley northwest Los Angeles has ringed along low dam reason California has two types sunshine liquid type can sometimes get plentiful has tendency flood basin serves Continued page 137 30 Model Aviation NormIngtons RI-OiUII nIn I1u tiuudt rotate takeoff cant get much closer tothe big shipthan model Everyone plentyof opportunityto get filghtsthisyear column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill ASSOCIAm INC 21668 CLOUD WAY ARD CA 94O45 415-783-4368 1 HinD866D 0 - 4 L IMAA/Bsckman Continued page 137 several modelers came spectators because figured talked-of 1000 airplanes would never get chance fly As mat ter fact heard no complaints score lot people got lot flying done seldom less four big birds air early morn ing until late afternoon real reason going things meet talk people especially true whatever reason dont have plane fly year Evelyn made some new friends renewed some old relationships Chief among latter Bob Iris Morse Santa Clara CA Jerry Martha Rhodes Eagle Pass TX Morses old friends way back Rhodes new friends last year Ida Grove Among years crop acquaintances Lou Proctor have long admired work first meeting Travel aire 2000 real standouts years FFF Two regular features IMAAs extrav aganza Friday evening picnic Saturday night banquet didnt make picnic heard good reports Saturday night fling / delightful food reasonably good speeches reasonably short unhappy note eve ning announcement Les Hard retiring High Flight editor owe Les lot job has done last few years should take chance get express gratitude Below listed vital statistics aircraft photos no means noteworthy models present Time didnt allow get pic tures everything available space doesnt allow print pic tures did take AT-6 George Normington Irvine CA Ziroli kit scale Kioritz 24 Dynathrust 20-10 30 lb covered chrome Mono Kote burnished 3M abrasive pad retracts Bristol Scout Jerry Rhodes Eagle Pass TX STARS plans available MAN scale Quadra original version over 105 hours running time Dynathrust 20-8 21 lb Bronco OV-1OA Nick Rivaldo Wil mington CA scratch-built based manufacturer drawings / scale two 23 Cobras Zinger 20-6 three-bladed props 52 lb two receivers 13 servos working flaps Cobra biplane racer Ralph Knight Riverside CA Santich plans MAN scale Super Tartan Zinger 20-10 23 lb Corsair F4U1D JW Jones Dallas Span 71 Area 612 sq Length 46 Engine 40- 60 Cu Radio 4 channels Weight 5% lbs Material Fiberglass fuse. balsa covered foam wing balsa tail Air Flair Mfg PO Box 11702 Kansas City MO 64138 816J 353-7854 TX Ziroli plans scale Sachs-Dolmar 37 Zinger 22-10 32 lb operating flaps added Ercoupe Erco 415C Dick Skoglund Lancaster CA Messer kit scale OS 108 Zinger 15-6 18 lb Krier Great Lakes Gary Pozzi King City CA plans Larry Scott scale Zenoah 23 18-8 prop 19 lb Mr Mulligan Howard DGA-5 Jack Kilgore Layton UT Nosen kit scale Quadra original version Dynathrust 18-8 21 lb Mustang P-51D Dick Smith Yorba Linda CA Nosen kit scale Kawasaki 315 Zinger 22-10 41 lb mods kit including working flaps Travelalre 2000 Lou Proctor San Diego CA scratch-built based factory drawings scale Tartan Twin Zinger 22-6 21 lb Waco YMF Jim Johnson Oxnard CA scratch-built scale Tecumseh 6 cu homemade 26-8 prop 48 lb Radio TechniquslMyors Continued page 41 ference report need some cheap reli able way separate Out bad systems no matter owns operates No didnt see electric Helicopters meet brings up thought Michael Bock Brooklyn NY called 140 Model Aviation UNDERDOG Factory $7895 Price Astoundingnotminaoie plastics.. Very light weight discriminating hobbiest. Either Pilot version kit.. Sportsman Barnstormer.. arn Good Airmen .. complete See Dealer add . .....Dollar direct order handling6881 MSlaeflS SOd 7% 8166e TaD HOT WIRE FOAM CUTlER ATTENTION ORATON BUILDERS r cutting foam wings ats turtle decks model parts made foom uts over 7 foot wing pan Operates 12 volt motor cycle battery cith Instructions detlar 12439 orotrder BIack Hawk MsnuIscIu, 0368ibolor 08 Fine Mode POdDDN P01ox221 Mt Morris MI 46458