ITS WHERE THE ELITE meet com pete 1988 second time its 28-year history World Aerobatic Cham pionships took place North American continentat Red Deer Alberta Can ada first Championships held Amer ican soil 1980 contest Oshkosh WI Aerobatic World Championships have held perhaps early 1934 Paris France However present series FAI sanctioned Federation Aeronautique Inter nationale competitions began 1960 Bratislava Czechoslovakia tourna ment site rotates among participating countries Coming together Red Deer ace fliers Canada France Ger Great Britain Russia Spain Swit zerland USA previous edi tion biennial aviation olympics staged South Cerney England Czechoslovakian pilot Ladi Bezak gold medalist inaugural 1960 competi tion paid brief visit Red Deer during Championships held us spellbound real life cloak-and-dagger story Following 1960 triumph Ladi contin ued winning ways European aer obatics circuit between 1964 1967 maintain flying proficiency decided build own airplanewhile knowing would viewed suspi ciously subversive Czechoslovakias anticapitalist society ruled time Marxist named Dubcek Scraping com ponents scrounging up parts Ladi tually built Zlin 226 first privately owned plane Czechoslovakia After simple act defiance course no escaping glare communist scrutiny Ladi airlines test pilot highest flight status attainable After building Zlin demoted captain copilot Next received clandestine tip about incarcerated Well aware would face prolonged intern ment trial Ladi set out im possible Somehow shoehorned wife four children Zlinand finally broke ground after 3000-ft takeoff roll November 1989 103 Big picture left Canadian Gordon Prices blue-and-yellow 300-hp Ultimate Harold Chappels orphaned Pitts right Harold met untimely death two months prior championships new aircraft testing shed wing its second flight Above RCers also flew World Aerobatics Championship 88 L R Ken Heck Astro Hog Brad Cleveland Super Sportster Dan Hem Quality Line Thunder bird John Ferguson EAA Bipe Behind Canadas 11 scale blue Ultimate warning about Ladis imminent sei zure must have accurate little Zlin quickly came under attack bulletspitting MiG 17 Ladi thwarted MiGs sinister designs skimming along just above treetops telegraph poles over populated areas freedom flight ended hap pily Austria Ladi family now reside safely Ontario Canadaalbeit Zlin participating countries 1988 WAC six out eight situated east big duck pond Atlantic Short make-over Burt Rutan did fliers transport large airplanes Red Deer answer elementary via ARF almost-ready-to-fly route Wings gear detached everything packed boxes boxes shunted onto large cargo planes big fuel tanks Arriving Calgary Alberta aerobats become 11 scale modelers reassemble planes gesture may reveal General Sec retary Gorbachevs fondness sport avia tion Matthias Rust caper notwithstand ing Russians arrived style governments Ilyushin transports Matthias Rust caper involved young German student pilot flew rented Cessna through Soviet air defense systems landed Red Square 1988 American fliers bit tinkering Since fuel capacity small usually single-seat aerobatic planes insufficient cross-country hops ventive aerobats slung cigar-shaped auxilia ry fuel tanks usually pairs underneath fuselage extra tanks course used traveling Forty worlds best pilots airline captains came compete Ten Russia 10 US eight France four Canada two Great Britain Spain Swit zerland West Germany Thirteen 40 womenand seven dis taff side placed among top 20 finalists total 26 planes shared 40 fliers 10 Russians shared three Suk hois Both Spaniards Swiss per formed same Pitts other Swiss two West German pilots did thing Walter Extras brand-new 300 four French pilots divided up two Cap 230s Small wonder planes shared consider cost good previously owned Pitts may around 40 grand new may set buyer back $100000 German Extra sells around $150000 new Extra 300 will marketed around $180000 new Cap DL 260 will bargain $200000 Catherine Maunourys Sirius 230 one-of-a-kind midwing Laser-like monoplane said carry price tag cool quarter-million bucks Obviously doesnt buy aerobatic sport plane proceeds social security check Fortunately pi lots seemed have corporate sponsors help finances dont have word yet what will take become proud owner nine-cylinder radial-powered Su khois Pompano Air Center Florida 104 Model Aviation Haute Savole High Savoy representing France Marianne Maires aerial beauty queen exquisitely detailed French Cap DL 260 wIth big 260-hp Lycoming engine under hood Henry Haigh eventual male champion waiting starters signal bright red white blue Laser would think aerobatics attendant 6-stresses lightning-fast reflexes required would young mans sport Henry 63 years young atop ace demanding aerobatics circuit hair still gets eyes Probably potent acrobatic aircraft WAG Russias unoi LY wv hot contender gold its nine-cylinder radial engine variable-pitch three-bladed pro peller highly skilled pilots Sukhol premier aircraft manufacturers USSR probably equivalent Grumman Pompano Air Center Florida expects im porting soon new Cap DL 260 goes $200000 Sukhoi certainly wont less Word has just arrived two new Sukhois arrived Oshkosh sold country Left The instrument panel Walter Extras Extra 300 HIs crib sheet stopwatch set up four-minute Free Style contest Right gunsight Pills SiT belonging Dr Julie Pfile cancer specialist bassoonist ace aerobatics pilot Albuquerque NM seems no two pilots concur optimum configuration wing tip orientation devices decidedly different Left Champion Russian aerobat Yurgis Kaires standing next teams Sukhois Yurgis could speak little German team interpreter genial Vladimir Garankin bridged language barrier Right Aircraft designer manufacturer Walter Extra Germany dis plays latest Extra 300 top-drawer aerobat himself Walter has built 18 aircraft date eight now reside US expects import soon Sukhoi Russias major aircraft manufacturers probably comparable Americas Grum man hands experts Russian machines incredible performers geared-down propellers among quietest planes con test RCer would take notice failed earn bonus points ever aircraft tail-draggers fixed gear None flaps biplanes ailerons both sets wings near est thing mishap occurred Sukhois ran out gas runway just after touchdown very sad note airplanes hu man little black Pitts sitting tarmac Red Deer would have disconsolate Alan Bush climbing Pitts cockpit instead its master Harold Chap pel name painted its fuse lage After wasnt Chappel selected member US team Harold Chappel killed tragic ac cident Just two months prior champi onships An ace aerobat Chappel test ing new plane Halfway through its sec ond flight plane shed wing Harold suc cumbed injuries four hours after crash some speculation about insufficient aileron counterbalance causing de structive flutter vibration actual cause may never known certainty just pilot Art Scholls untimely death never fully explained Fliers deeply mourn loss talented colleagues Since two organizations make WAC rules FAI Federation Aero nautique Internationale CIVA Com mission Internationale de Voltige Aeri enne both based France rules terpretation can get confusing Exactly what ace aerobats have to running gold Fly planes course However pi lots move through five separate contests its own rules exactly theyre expected flying point sequence can moot question Given Frances pioneering role very beginning aviation Gallic hege mony over WAC format hardly sur prising French lofted first-ever air borne vehicle Montgolfier brothers bal loon early 1783 Later manufac tured first successful commercial jet liner Caravelle recently worlds first supersonic passenger trans port Concorde joint FrenchBritish effort 14th WAC FAI CIVA provided four separate competitions its own award As other contests based Olympics model lady pi lots ranked separately gentle men first contest WAC called Known Compulsory As RC Pattern com petition 14 standard maneuvers flown full-scale aerobatics version ever maneuvers must performed side one-kilometer cubethe box lowest point box 328 ft above ground Succeeding contests also per formed inside box set international judges participating country grades pilots performance gold silver bronze medals going three high est scoring fliers second competition called Free Program contestant assembles per sonal repertoire maneuvers CIVA 1988 rule book maximum 18 maneuvers allowed Fliers submit programs judges advance Free Programs must carry maximum total points value 500 uniform compari son scores Certain compli cated maneuvers course have higher November 1989 105 Left Affable supertalented 62 years young Clint McHenry Extra 230 Its said Clint has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years however Clint associated Pompano Air Center Florida Right Linda Meyers Miami FL dark blue Laser-like Streaker An accomplished veteran aerobatics pilot member US womens team won Womens Championship Left Ellen Dean another member victorious US womens team seen polishing windscreen Pitts Right Natalya Ser geeva sitting Sukhoi being photographed German TV No isnt just publicity shotshe pushes Sukhoi its very limits points value simpler ones As gauge arduousness program Clint McHenry won 81% theoret ically achievable score third contest called Unknown Compulsory format rival teams try set traps another team se lects maneuver CIVA rule book hopes will difficult other teams perform pickers have opportunity practice maneuver submitted victims wont know until 18 hours prior contest course competing teams have equal chance trying oppo nents fourth contest purely arithmeti cal exercise individual male female flier scoring highest points total preceding three contests comes overall champion same time total points scores used se lect top 75% competitors will ad vance fifth contest four-minute Free Program fifth final competition far spectacular competitors regular air show performers given full liberty planning own original flightsand results breath taking four-minute clock becomes restriction placed aerobats second under over four-minute line flier receives 30-point penalty So performers try dip wings right whether theyve completed sequence What super show Youd think performers would get vertigo dont marveled pilots ability re Continued page 109 106 Model Aviation World Champion US mens team L-R Kermit Weeks Miami FL Henry Haigh hold ing beautiful Nesterov Trophy Howell Ml Clint McHenry Boca Raton FL cumulative scores three gentlemen highest competing teams main conscious clear-headed spin ning rolling pulling Gs capacity withstand such obvious torture Im told has acquired gradually Judging international contest re quires delicate balancing act com petitor out win compatriot judge tends favorably inclined di rection USA judge Ken Larson gave us bit insight way doing job During two-week period preceding contest team members practice hard day Ken retired airline captain aerobat himself cuing what expects way flying precision Straight lines symmetry com mandments Ken also added computer program designed Mr Tarasov Russian judges analyzes judges scoresheets will detect favoritism ie judges scoring particular contes tant way out line others Any contestants protest reviewed jury jurist protes tants country allowed sit four-minute Free-Style Program Kens criteria somewhat different looks originality smoothness rhythm harmoniously ma neuver blends next sides box arent rigidly enforced contest three others keeping its liberal spirit competitor has invented new maneuvers such Lomcevac torque-roll four-minute free sequence tounding feat saw contest Sukhoi continuously rolling about its horizon tal axis almost no forward movement gaining altitude Thats maneuver Im still having trouble believing People planes what its about Unlike what might observed Oshkosh planes marked Experi mental aerobatic sport plane entering competition must covered valid aerobatics certificate airworthiness brief must have thoroughly put through milland no doubt thats reasons high price tags Competing 1988 fray nine Pitts five Caps four Extras three Sukhois three midwings Stevens Acro ances try Weeks Solution Ultimate last two being bipes German Extras rarer Id thought Walter Ex tra mentioned manufactured 18 date eight made way States paint jobs alone works art Engines Sukhois Avco Lycomings showing unmistakable trend toward bigger muscle also evi dent growing number variable pitch three-bladed propellers As aiming sights located wing tips pilot seemed have own idea ought look No two slightly similar horsepower rating peo ple interesting far planes Language barrier course especially Russians Genial Vladimir Garan kin interpreter helped bridge gap As French speak fast some savvy French cant keep up mans point view some lady aerobats appear feminine would never expect see cock pit high-powered skull-rattling sport plane Natalya Sergeeva Elena Klimo vitch Ellen Dean Lynn Gehringer oth ers fit category Patti Wagstaff would make chapter own does regularly star air shows rides motorcycles drives Corvetteall characteristic fearless abandon likes cook Dr Julie Pfile takes flying seriously does medical profession Youve always thought aerobatics young persons sport Think again Over champion Henry Haigh has around 63 years Oops apologiesby todays standards thats young guess its vitamins low-cholesterol diet Clint McHenry having around 62 summers close secondthough hear has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years young No certified statistics Swiss champion Eric Mueller hand Im virtually certain voice changed very long time ago Eric way author book Flight Unlimited unfortunately out print German TV crew seserves men tion Husky Paul Schmidt wielded Bosch camera slender blond blue-eyed Francis Best did interviews Francis womans name German Chatting Paul referring comely helper quickly corrected Thats helperthats boss Stu Holloway Canadian special izes announcing aviation events kinds did bit WAC smooth easy-to-listen-to voice Stu has business 22 years large van equipped electronics befitting satel lite sports its own control-tower-like ob servation cube lost RCer Red Deer Stanley McCarter Shelby MT member Frontier RC Club unveiled simply beautiful Scale model Sukhoi kit company Wyoming Dave Beise Canadian modeler Co mox British Columbia arrived scratch-built Extra 230 exact replica Clint McHenrys flagship Clint graciously stood still photos During final day festivities Central Alberta Radio Fun Fliers CARFF its turn runway 60-member club recently purchased its 10-acre fly ing site $5000 Canadian ex change Guess thats wide-open West ern plains No Im jealous very four flights produced landing Continued page 194 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Made U S BARSTOCK ALUMINUM SPINNERS Pan No Size fl150B .. 1112 TT-175B .. 1314 TT-200-B TT-2258 .. 21/4 fl226B .. 2114 FAt . fl2508 12 TT-251-B 1/2FAI .. fl275-B .. 2-3/4 T1-276-B .. 2-3/4 FAt .. 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ITS WHERE THE ELITE meet com pete 1988 second time its 28-year history World Aerobatic Cham pionships took place North American continentat Red Deer Alberta Can ada first Championships held Amer ican soil 1980 contest Oshkosh WI Aerobatic World Championships have held perhaps early 1934 Paris France However present series FAI sanctioned Federation Aeronautique Inter nationale competitions began 1960 Bratislava Czechoslovakia tourna ment site rotates among participating countries Coming together Red Deer ace fliers Canada France Ger Great Britain Russia Spain Swit zerland USA previous edi tion biennial aviation olympics staged South Cerney England Czechoslovakian pilot Ladi Bezak gold medalist inaugural 1960 competi tion paid brief visit Red Deer during Championships held us spellbound real life cloak-and-dagger story Following 1960 triumph Ladi contin ued winning ways European aer obatics circuit between 1964 1967 maintain flying proficiency decided build own airplanewhile knowing would viewed suspi ciously subversive Czechoslovakias anticapitalist society ruled time Marxist named Dubcek Scraping com ponents scrounging up parts Ladi tually built Zlin 226 first privately owned plane Czechoslovakia After simple act defiance course no escaping glare communist scrutiny Ladi airlines test pilot highest flight status attainable After building Zlin demoted captain copilot Next received clandestine tip about incarcerated Well aware would face prolonged intern ment trial Ladi set out im possible Somehow shoehorned wife four children Zlinand finally broke ground after 3000-ft takeoff roll November 1989 103 Big picture left Canadian Gordon Prices blue-and-yellow 300-hp Ultimate Harold Chappels orphaned Pitts right Harold met untimely death two months prior championships new aircraft testing shed wing its second flight Above RCers also flew World Aerobatics Championship 88 L R Ken Heck Astro Hog Brad Cleveland Super Sportster Dan Hem Quality Line Thunder bird John Ferguson EAA Bipe Behind Canadas 11 scale blue Ultimate warning about Ladis imminent sei zure must have accurate little Zlin quickly came under attack bulletspitting MiG 17 Ladi thwarted MiGs sinister designs skimming along just above treetops telegraph poles over populated areas freedom flight ended hap pily Austria Ladi family now reside safely Ontario Canadaalbeit Zlin participating countries 1988 WAC six out eight situated east big duck pond Atlantic Short make-over Burt Rutan did fliers transport large airplanes Red Deer answer elementary via ARF almost-ready-to-fly route Wings gear detached everything packed boxes boxes shunted onto large cargo planes big fuel tanks Arriving Calgary Alberta aerobats become 11 scale modelers reassemble planes gesture may reveal General Sec retary Gorbachevs fondness sport avia tion Matthias Rust caper notwithstand ing Russians arrived style governments Ilyushin transports Matthias Rust caper involved young German student pilot flew rented Cessna through Soviet air defense systems landed Red Square 1988 American fliers bit tinkering Since fuel capacity small usually single-seat aerobatic planes insufficient cross-country hops ventive aerobats slung cigar-shaped auxilia ry fuel tanks usually pairs underneath fuselage extra tanks course used traveling Forty worlds best pilots airline captains came compete Ten Russia 10 US eight France four Canada two Great Britain Spain Swit zerland West Germany Thirteen 40 womenand seven dis taff side placed among top 20 finalists total 26 planes shared 40 fliers 10 Russians shared three Suk hois Both Spaniards Swiss per formed same Pitts other Swiss two West German pilots did thing Walter Extras brand-new 300 four French pilots divided up two Cap 230s Small wonder planes shared consider cost good previously owned Pitts may around 40 grand new may set buyer back $100000 German Extra sells around $150000 new Extra 300 will marketed around $180000 new Cap DL 260 will bargain $200000 Catherine Maunourys Sirius 230 one-of-a-kind midwing Laser-like monoplane said carry price tag cool quarter-million bucks Obviously doesnt buy aerobatic sport plane proceeds social security check Fortunately pi lots seemed have corporate sponsors help finances dont have word yet what will take become proud owner nine-cylinder radial-powered Su khois Pompano Air Center Florida 104 Model Aviation Haute Savole High Savoy representing France Marianne Maires aerial beauty queen exquisitely detailed French Cap DL 260 wIth big 260-hp Lycoming engine under hood Henry Haigh eventual male champion waiting starters signal bright red white blue Laser would think aerobatics attendant 6-stresses lightning-fast reflexes required would young mans sport Henry 63 years young atop ace demanding aerobatics circuit hair still gets eyes Probably potent acrobatic aircraft WAG Russias unoi LY wv hot contender gold its nine-cylinder radial engine variable-pitch three-bladed pro peller highly skilled pilots Sukhol premier aircraft manufacturers USSR probably equivalent Grumman Pompano Air Center Florida expects im porting soon new Cap DL 260 goes $200000 Sukhoi certainly wont less Word has just arrived two new Sukhois arrived Oshkosh sold country Left The instrument panel Walter Extras Extra 300 HIs crib sheet stopwatch set up four-minute Free Style contest Right gunsight Pills SiT belonging Dr Julie Pfile cancer specialist bassoonist ace aerobatics pilot Albuquerque NM seems no two pilots concur optimum configuration wing tip orientation devices decidedly different Left Champion Russian aerobat Yurgis Kaires standing next teams Sukhois Yurgis could speak little German team interpreter genial Vladimir Garankin bridged language barrier Right Aircraft designer manufacturer Walter Extra Germany dis plays latest Extra 300 top-drawer aerobat himself Walter has built 18 aircraft date eight now reside US expects import soon Sukhoi Russias major aircraft manufacturers probably comparable Americas Grum man hands experts Russian machines incredible performers geared-down propellers among quietest planes con test RCer would take notice failed earn bonus points ever aircraft tail-draggers fixed gear None flaps biplanes ailerons both sets wings near est thing mishap occurred Sukhois ran out gas runway just after touchdown very sad note airplanes hu man little black Pitts sitting tarmac Red Deer would have disconsolate Alan Bush climbing Pitts cockpit instead its master Harold Chap pel name painted its fuse lage After wasnt Chappel selected member US team Harold Chappel killed tragic ac cident Just two months prior champi onships An ace aerobat Chappel test ing new plane Halfway through its sec ond flight plane shed wing Harold suc cumbed injuries four hours after crash some speculation about insufficient aileron counterbalance causing de structive flutter vibration actual cause may never known certainty just pilot Art Scholls untimely death never fully explained Fliers deeply mourn loss talented colleagues Since two organizations make WAC rules FAI Federation Aero nautique Internationale CIVA Com mission Internationale de Voltige Aeri enne both based France rules terpretation can get confusing Exactly what ace aerobats have to running gold Fly planes course However pi lots move through five separate contests its own rules exactly theyre expected flying point sequence can moot question Given Frances pioneering role very beginning aviation Gallic hege mony over WAC format hardly sur prising French lofted first-ever air borne vehicle Montgolfier brothers bal loon early 1783 Later manufac tured first successful commercial jet liner Caravelle recently worlds first supersonic passenger trans port Concorde joint FrenchBritish effort 14th WAC FAI CIVA provided four separate competitions its own award As other contests based Olympics model lady pi lots ranked separately gentle men first contest WAC called Known Compulsory As RC Pattern com petition 14 standard maneuvers flown full-scale aerobatics version ever maneuvers must performed side one-kilometer cubethe box lowest point box 328 ft above ground Succeeding contests also per formed inside box set international judges participating country grades pilots performance gold silver bronze medals going three high est scoring fliers second competition called Free Program contestant assembles per sonal repertoire maneuvers CIVA 1988 rule book maximum 18 maneuvers allowed Fliers submit programs judges advance Free Programs must carry maximum total points value 500 uniform compari son scores Certain compli cated maneuvers course have higher November 1989 105 Left Affable supertalented 62 years young Clint McHenry Extra 230 Its said Clint has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years however Clint associated Pompano Air Center Florida Right Linda Meyers Miami FL dark blue Laser-like Streaker An accomplished veteran aerobatics pilot member US womens team won Womens Championship Left Ellen Dean another member victorious US womens team seen polishing windscreen Pitts Right Natalya Ser geeva sitting Sukhoi being photographed German TV No isnt just publicity shotshe pushes Sukhoi its very limits points value simpler ones As gauge arduousness program Clint McHenry won 81% theoret ically achievable score third contest called Unknown Compulsory format rival teams try set traps another team se lects maneuver CIVA rule book hopes will difficult other teams perform pickers have opportunity practice maneuver submitted victims wont know until 18 hours prior contest course competing teams have equal chance trying oppo nents fourth contest purely arithmeti cal exercise individual male female flier scoring highest points total preceding three contests comes overall champion same time total points scores used se lect top 75% competitors will ad vance fifth contest four-minute Free Program fifth final competition far spectacular competitors regular air show performers given full liberty planning own original flightsand results breath taking four-minute clock becomes restriction placed aerobats second under over four-minute line flier receives 30-point penalty So performers try dip wings right whether theyve completed sequence What super show Youd think performers would get vertigo dont marveled pilots ability re Continued page 109 106 Model Aviation World Champion US mens team L-R Kermit Weeks Miami FL Henry Haigh hold ing beautiful Nesterov Trophy Howell Ml Clint McHenry Boca Raton FL cumulative scores three gentlemen highest competing teams main conscious clear-headed spin ning rolling pulling Gs capacity withstand such obvious torture Im told has acquired gradually Judging international contest re quires delicate balancing act com petitor out win compatriot judge tends favorably inclined di rection USA judge Ken Larson gave us bit insight way doing job During two-week period preceding contest team members practice hard day Ken retired airline captain aerobat himself cuing what expects way flying precision Straight lines symmetry com mandments Ken also added computer program designed Mr Tarasov Russian judges analyzes judges scoresheets will detect favoritism ie judges scoring particular contes tant way out line others Any contestants protest reviewed jury jurist protes tants country allowed sit four-minute Free-Style Program Kens criteria somewhat different looks originality smoothness rhythm harmoniously ma neuver blends next sides box arent rigidly enforced contest three others keeping its liberal spirit competitor has invented new maneuvers such Lomcevac torque-roll four-minute free sequence tounding feat saw contest Sukhoi continuously rolling about its horizon tal axis almost no forward movement gaining altitude Thats maneuver Im still having trouble believing People planes what its about Unlike what might observed Oshkosh planes marked Experi mental aerobatic sport plane entering competition must covered valid aerobatics certificate airworthiness brief must have thoroughly put through milland no doubt thats reasons high price tags Competing 1988 fray nine Pitts five Caps four Extras three Sukhois three midwings Stevens Acro ances try Weeks Solution Ultimate last two being bipes German Extras rarer Id thought Walter Ex tra mentioned manufactured 18 date eight made way States paint jobs alone works art Engines Sukhois Avco Lycomings showing unmistakable trend toward bigger muscle also evi dent growing number variable pitch three-bladed propellers As aiming sights located wing tips pilot seemed have own idea ought look No two slightly similar horsepower rating peo ple interesting far planes Language barrier course especially Russians Genial Vladimir Garan kin interpreter helped bridge gap As French speak fast some savvy French cant keep up mans point view some lady aerobats appear feminine would never expect see cock pit high-powered skull-rattling sport plane Natalya Sergeeva Elena Klimo vitch Ellen Dean Lynn Gehringer oth ers fit category Patti Wagstaff would make chapter own does regularly star air shows rides motorcycles drives Corvetteall characteristic fearless abandon likes cook Dr Julie Pfile takes flying seriously does medical profession Youve always thought aerobatics young persons sport Think again Over champion Henry Haigh has around 63 years Oops apologiesby todays standards thats young guess its vitamins low-cholesterol diet Clint McHenry having around 62 summers close secondthough hear has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years young No certified statistics Swiss champion Eric Mueller hand Im virtually certain voice changed very long time ago Eric way author book Flight Unlimited unfortunately out print German TV crew seserves men tion Husky Paul Schmidt wielded Bosch camera slender blond blue-eyed Francis Best did interviews Francis womans name German Chatting Paul referring comely helper quickly corrected Thats helperthats boss Stu Holloway Canadian special izes announcing aviation events kinds did bit WAC smooth easy-to-listen-to voice Stu has business 22 years large van equipped electronics befitting satel lite sports its own control-tower-like ob servation cube lost RCer Red Deer Stanley McCarter Shelby MT member Frontier RC Club unveiled simply beautiful Scale model Sukhoi kit company Wyoming Dave Beise Canadian modeler Co mox British Columbia arrived scratch-built Extra 230 exact replica Clint McHenrys flagship Clint graciously stood still photos During final day festivities Central Alberta Radio Fun Fliers CARFF its turn runway 60-member club recently purchased its 10-acre fly ing site $5000 Canadian ex change Guess thats wide-open West ern plains No Im jealous very four flights produced landing Continued page 194 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Made U S BARSTOCK ALUMINUM SPINNERS Pan No Size fl150B .. 1112 TT-175B .. 1314 TT-200-B TT-2258 .. 21/4 fl226B .. 2114 FAt . fl2508 12 TT-251-B 1/2FAI .. fl275-B .. 2-3/4 T1-276-B .. 2-3/4 FAt .. TT300B fl301BFAt fl325-B .. 3-1/4 fl350B 1/2 fl375B .. 33/4 11-400-B RetailApprox PriceWeight S1395058 02 149509502 159510002 169516002 189515002 189519002 209517002 2295220oz 2495200oz 269526002 2895250oz 3695340oz 4995470oz 599552002 699557002 3 Pieces Cone Back Plate Retainer Screw Note 3 4 Blade Spinners Available Sizes Add $300 Per Spinner Part No Size TT-140-A 4-28 TT147A . 1/4-28/7mm . TT-610A . 0mm TT-710-A 10mm TT-516-A 16-24 TT-518-A .. 5/16-24/8mm TT-810-A 10mm TT-825-A 125mm TT-375A3/8-24 . TT-125-A 125mm Retail Approx Price Weight S495 061 02 495 061 oz 495 .. 063 02 495 082 02 495. 076 02 495. 076 02 495 02 495 . . 075 02 595 . 02 595 . 115 02 3 Pieces Nut Washer arid Machined Bushing Add $350 Shipping Handling Prices subject change notice ROMCO MFG INC OX 836 SOUTH HOUSTON TEXAS 77587 713 943-1867 November 1989 109 PROP NUT ADAPTORS No 633 Orca$675 RO Slope Soarer spans 75 uses twist-wing control 2-oh RO transmitter must have electronic mixing elevons No 634 SB2C Helidiver$575 CL Profile sport/Stunter spans 54 35140 power No 635 Gambler$200 FF Indoor Bostonian rubber-power cabin plane spans 15% No193Stiletto CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1976 1980 1982 PAl World Champs. $375 No239Blue Birds PC /ee Willards termatien plane 4-channel 10/15 power$375 No262crashmaster CL Crash-proof trainer two sioenf 5/30 35/40 power$126 No3101930 Fleet Biplane RC Sport Scale 35/40 4-channel Wingspan 56 i/s scale Two streets 5 No314Drake II PC Ken Willards flying beat 3-channel 1 5-pewer Fly 1mm land remonahie gear$375 No326Taylor cub PC Don Srulls Schoelyard-Scale 049s 2-3 channel Spans 50 in$350 No332Zephyr PC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch er tow strermal slepe soaring$200 No386Laser 200 PC Sport Scale replica championship Aerohatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Twosheets$1075 No447lf2A Miss America PC Old-Timer /sA Texaco model tar 049 glow 2-channels $650 No4604-40 PC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-sloe engine 4 channels$650 No465Blue Mas II PC Fun-fly sportoter 40-sloe engines spans 5210 Lightweight structure$700 No521comet Jr clipper Plus 35% PC Old-Timer sportoter i/nA engine 2-ch PC spans 40/a 5$050 No528SwallOw PC Lightweight holdogger 40-sioe foes-stroke engines spans SO $625 No531TerrIble coupe pp Pubber-powered Coupe dHiuer spans 40 contest-winner $475 oNo533cessna c-37 PC Schoolyard Scale famous 30s plane 040/10 power 2-ch spans 42 in$500 ~O oNo5341938 challenger PC i/nA Texaco Old-Timer spans 47r/e tar 049 engine 2-channel PC.. S550 03CJNo539Simltar Slow-Motion 15 PC Tailless flying wing 15 engines spans 60 uses 3-ch PC 03 No554Super Doubler II PC Sport AerobaticoPylon tar 40/46 tour-stroke engine spans 57 $575 No569Electroatreak PC Electric aerobatic plane spans 44 uses 05 motor. 5550 70Busy Bee FF Pee Wee-30 plane 02 power spans 30 has either sheet-halsa built-upsurfaces. $400 03 c No 572TR-260 PC Sport Scale Aerobatic plane tar 4-stroke 60/65 power spans 60 in. Sff00 575 ScorpIon 60 PC Fun-tip aerobatic plane lot 60 power spans S0/o in$ 1150 76 Serendiplnyt ndoor EZO record-holder spans l70/a in.$ 325 oNo578Schweizer 1-26B PC Quarter-ocale Sailplane spans t25 Two plan sheets 75 No581Gee Bee Model Y PC golden Age Pacer spans 72 scale 60 power Three plan sheets $ft 75 nNo583Sporewagon PC Padio-ioed sport PP model opans 54 uses 10/15 engine $700 No586Snapdragon PC Fun-tiy/sportster 25/30 engines spans 45//a in.. eQNo588Marlsh PC Slope-Souring Sailplane spans 41 in. uses 2 PC channels E 93 Tayloncrafe PC Sport Scale lightplane builds standard 2-placer clipped-wing ats show stunter Spans either 70/o SOrb 30/40 two-stroke 40/46 test-stroke engine Two plan sheets foe documentation$ 1000 C00 No 595 Sparrow PC Sportster br 25 engines spans 43 in $ 650 598 coronet 150 PC-Assist Old-Timer enlarged 1504k spans 72 uses 40-sire 4-strekel30-sioe 2-stroke$ 050 0No 601 Nickel PC Sportster /SA engine 3 PC channels Spans 44 in$ 500 No 602 Lil Bin CL /sA StonIer spans 27 has flaps$ 250 Z ENo 603 Sparrow Nawk P-30 PP Competition rubber-power plane won 07 Nuts Spans 30 inS 225 E toNo 604 AeronCa PC Electric sportster OS motor spans 60 uses 3 PC Channels $ 900 o3~No 606 Astrostar FF competition plane spans 40/a has 317 sq wing area. 5 500 o No 607 conIes Seagull PC giant Scale biplane spans 90 uses QuadralZenoah power Three plan sheets no dec$ 2400 No 608 Top Fun CL trainer spans 24 in.. $ 325 "No 609Taperwlng PC /eA Pylon Pacer spans 39i/5 Plan plus parts template sheetS600 610Protobype PC Spert biplane spans 40 in. uses 45/2-cycle 00/4-cycle power$650 c oNo 611 cablnair FF Scalelike rubber-power hiplane sport thor spans 23 00 -No 612 NVOL Dragonfly CL/nA Combat plane all-wood spans 24 reed-name engine$ 260 -SNo 614 Electrocutor PC Electric sportoter 05 direct-drixe motor spans 441/0 in$ 575 onNo 615 Argoay CL Sport Scale Twenties-era trimotor biplane transport spans 46 uses 40 twin i/nA engines $ 1100 ENo 616Raunchy FF Perrytnans Nostalgia Gas competition plane spans 40 in$400 No 617Push-Pull 240 PC Twin-engine sportster spans 66 uses 40 engines. 5 oNo 618Skyralder CL Sport Scale profile plane spans 30 15/25 power . S475 No 619KeIth Rider R4 PP Scale Golden Age racer rubber power spans 10 in$300 No 620Gimlet 40 PC Sport/Pattern plane spans 60 40/50 engine 2 sheets$1100 -0No 621 Thunderbird 60 CL Big Stunter spans 6t/e fur 60-sioe engine 2 sheets$ 1150 VNo 622 Gulck P-30 FF Competition rubber-power P-36-ciass plane spans 30 in5 325 0 2 No 623 Nenderson Longater PC Quarter-scale 1933 flinoer spans 90/u le 4-stroke 40/40 engine 3 plan shI no doc.. $ 1650 toNo 624Keleher Lark PC Quarter-scale homebuilt spans 69 60/90 4-stroke power 2 plan sheets no dec$1100 CNo 625AntoInette CL Scale eraly Preach monoplane spans 45/u uses 25/35 power$575 No 626 Sweepee PC SportlPattern canards forward-swept wing spans 04 uses 40 power 2 plan sheets . $ 1300 No 627 Apiary CL SportlStunter spans 26 uses Coe Queen Bee 074 powerS 225 No 628 Prime cut PC Spert/Aerobatic plane spaus 90 uses Qoadra 35/40-siut power Two plan sheets $ 1300 e 29 P-SIB Mustang CL Mostly-cardboard Sport Scale craft spans 60 uses 30/40 power Two plans sheets no dec $ 1275 630 OrigInal Fly Baby PC Old-Timer spans 72 uses 19/25 2-cycle 40 4-cycle power 2 plan sheets$ 1150 o NNo 631 Texas Wildcat CL Profile spurt/Stanter based 1920 plane spans 50 35 power $ 500 632 P-SIN Labamir Koutnys i/anscale Pubber model spans 23 in$ 325 ous I le numbers plans wish order best handling please include re-I C eQ i quests payment some other service plans order 193239262310314326332386 o 447460465521528531533534 O3~539554569570572575576578 81583586588593595598601 -ooE e jZZo602603604606607608609610 atbo611612614615616617618619 E 620621622623624625626627 c3~ EPlan628629630631632633634635 For orders price includes first Class postage US delivery Air Mail over 300 miles non-US address lease add $250 Air Mail osta e handlin Ian 0 us Make check money order payable US funds drawn ott US bank ModelAviation AMA 1810 0IMorse Please allow C weeks Samuel5r nesnondelivery Enclosed $ Please print carefully 00 NAME ___________________________ AMA No _________ I STREET 0 CITY 01 ZIPI C Aerobatics WC/Berman Continued page 109 nose-over flameout Exhibit pres sure does tell Competition excitement USA team does well temperature soars Kid Henry Haigh became 1988 Aerobatics World Champion US teamsboth mens ladiestook first place outstanding fliers ranking would have boggled uninitiated name just two among standouts Frenchman Patrick Paris Russias Yurgis Kairis extremely im pressive word has next World Aero batic Championships will held 1990 western Switzerland Sure hope Finally teaser What Russians idle stand-by time Answer No play chess VEND MOUNTS TNE VIBRATION KILLER Fail ana iuei euui tOrn noes axiatiur Cu 100 nes Christmas plans orders received after December 1 1989 will delivered before Christmas194 Model Aviation Southwest PC Flying Year round flight school Five day course $350 Learn fly planes Send SASE complete info 2818 Carolina NE Albuquerque NM 87110 505 881-3799 IMPORTED DIESELS A-MAuroraDOEDMVVSUUIS8nY8 PAWTapIIn Standard & RIO O364S Aero & Marine Vlntags8p@rt eaP Send 6100 Informaoloa CARLSON ENGINE IMPORTS 814 East Marconi Phoenix AZ 85022
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/11
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ITS WHERE THE ELITE meet com pete 1988 second time its 28-year history World Aerobatic Cham pionships took place North American continentat Red Deer Alberta Can ada first Championships held Amer ican soil 1980 contest Oshkosh WI Aerobatic World Championships have held perhaps early 1934 Paris France However present series FAI sanctioned Federation Aeronautique Inter nationale competitions began 1960 Bratislava Czechoslovakia tourna ment site rotates among participating countries Coming together Red Deer ace fliers Canada France Ger Great Britain Russia Spain Swit zerland USA previous edi tion biennial aviation olympics staged South Cerney England Czechoslovakian pilot Ladi Bezak gold medalist inaugural 1960 competi tion paid brief visit Red Deer during Championships held us spellbound real life cloak-and-dagger story Following 1960 triumph Ladi contin ued winning ways European aer obatics circuit between 1964 1967 maintain flying proficiency decided build own airplanewhile knowing would viewed suspi ciously subversive Czechoslovakias anticapitalist society ruled time Marxist named Dubcek Scraping com ponents scrounging up parts Ladi tually built Zlin 226 first privately owned plane Czechoslovakia After simple act defiance course no escaping glare communist scrutiny Ladi airlines test pilot highest flight status attainable After building Zlin demoted captain copilot Next received clandestine tip about incarcerated Well aware would face prolonged intern ment trial Ladi set out im possible Somehow shoehorned wife four children Zlinand finally broke ground after 3000-ft takeoff roll November 1989 103 Big picture left Canadian Gordon Prices blue-and-yellow 300-hp Ultimate Harold Chappels orphaned Pitts right Harold met untimely death two months prior championships new aircraft testing shed wing its second flight Above RCers also flew World Aerobatics Championship 88 L R Ken Heck Astro Hog Brad Cleveland Super Sportster Dan Hem Quality Line Thunder bird John Ferguson EAA Bipe Behind Canadas 11 scale blue Ultimate warning about Ladis imminent sei zure must have accurate little Zlin quickly came under attack bulletspitting MiG 17 Ladi thwarted MiGs sinister designs skimming along just above treetops telegraph poles over populated areas freedom flight ended hap pily Austria Ladi family now reside safely Ontario Canadaalbeit Zlin participating countries 1988 WAC six out eight situated east big duck pond Atlantic Short make-over Burt Rutan did fliers transport large airplanes Red Deer answer elementary via ARF almost-ready-to-fly route Wings gear detached everything packed boxes boxes shunted onto large cargo planes big fuel tanks Arriving Calgary Alberta aerobats become 11 scale modelers reassemble planes gesture may reveal General Sec retary Gorbachevs fondness sport avia tion Matthias Rust caper notwithstand ing Russians arrived style governments Ilyushin transports Matthias Rust caper involved young German student pilot flew rented Cessna through Soviet air defense systems landed Red Square 1988 American fliers bit tinkering Since fuel capacity small usually single-seat aerobatic planes insufficient cross-country hops ventive aerobats slung cigar-shaped auxilia ry fuel tanks usually pairs underneath fuselage extra tanks course used traveling Forty worlds best pilots airline captains came compete Ten Russia 10 US eight France four Canada two Great Britain Spain Swit zerland West Germany Thirteen 40 womenand seven dis taff side placed among top 20 finalists total 26 planes shared 40 fliers 10 Russians shared three Suk hois Both Spaniards Swiss per formed same Pitts other Swiss two West German pilots did thing Walter Extras brand-new 300 four French pilots divided up two Cap 230s Small wonder planes shared consider cost good previously owned Pitts may around 40 grand new may set buyer back $100000 German Extra sells around $150000 new Extra 300 will marketed around $180000 new Cap DL 260 will bargain $200000 Catherine Maunourys Sirius 230 one-of-a-kind midwing Laser-like monoplane said carry price tag cool quarter-million bucks Obviously doesnt buy aerobatic sport plane proceeds social security check Fortunately pi lots seemed have corporate sponsors help finances dont have word yet what will take become proud owner nine-cylinder radial-powered Su khois Pompano Air Center Florida 104 Model Aviation Haute Savole High Savoy representing France Marianne Maires aerial beauty queen exquisitely detailed French Cap DL 260 wIth big 260-hp Lycoming engine under hood Henry Haigh eventual male champion waiting starters signal bright red white blue Laser would think aerobatics attendant 6-stresses lightning-fast reflexes required would young mans sport Henry 63 years young atop ace demanding aerobatics circuit hair still gets eyes Probably potent acrobatic aircraft WAG Russias unoi LY wv hot contender gold its nine-cylinder radial engine variable-pitch three-bladed pro peller highly skilled pilots Sukhol premier aircraft manufacturers USSR probably equivalent Grumman Pompano Air Center Florida expects im porting soon new Cap DL 260 goes $200000 Sukhoi certainly wont less Word has just arrived two new Sukhois arrived Oshkosh sold country Left The instrument panel Walter Extras Extra 300 HIs crib sheet stopwatch set up four-minute Free Style contest Right gunsight Pills SiT belonging Dr Julie Pfile cancer specialist bassoonist ace aerobatics pilot Albuquerque NM seems no two pilots concur optimum configuration wing tip orientation devices decidedly different Left Champion Russian aerobat Yurgis Kaires standing next teams Sukhois Yurgis could speak little German team interpreter genial Vladimir Garankin bridged language barrier Right Aircraft designer manufacturer Walter Extra Germany dis plays latest Extra 300 top-drawer aerobat himself Walter has built 18 aircraft date eight now reside US expects import soon Sukhoi Russias major aircraft manufacturers probably comparable Americas Grum man hands experts Russian machines incredible performers geared-down propellers among quietest planes con test RCer would take notice failed earn bonus points ever aircraft tail-draggers fixed gear None flaps biplanes ailerons both sets wings near est thing mishap occurred Sukhois ran out gas runway just after touchdown very sad note airplanes hu man little black Pitts sitting tarmac Red Deer would have disconsolate Alan Bush climbing Pitts cockpit instead its master Harold Chap pel name painted its fuse lage After wasnt Chappel selected member US team Harold Chappel killed tragic ac cident Just two months prior champi onships An ace aerobat Chappel test ing new plane Halfway through its sec ond flight plane shed wing Harold suc cumbed injuries four hours after crash some speculation about insufficient aileron counterbalance causing de structive flutter vibration actual cause may never known certainty just pilot Art Scholls untimely death never fully explained Fliers deeply mourn loss talented colleagues Since two organizations make WAC rules FAI Federation Aero nautique Internationale CIVA Com mission Internationale de Voltige Aeri enne both based France rules terpretation can get confusing Exactly what ace aerobats have to running gold Fly planes course However pi lots move through five separate contests its own rules exactly theyre expected flying point sequence can moot question Given Frances pioneering role very beginning aviation Gallic hege mony over WAC format hardly sur prising French lofted first-ever air borne vehicle Montgolfier brothers bal loon early 1783 Later manufac tured first successful commercial jet liner Caravelle recently worlds first supersonic passenger trans port Concorde joint FrenchBritish effort 14th WAC FAI CIVA provided four separate competitions its own award As other contests based Olympics model lady pi lots ranked separately gentle men first contest WAC called Known Compulsory As RC Pattern com petition 14 standard maneuvers flown full-scale aerobatics version ever maneuvers must performed side one-kilometer cubethe box lowest point box 328 ft above ground Succeeding contests also per formed inside box set international judges participating country grades pilots performance gold silver bronze medals going three high est scoring fliers second competition called Free Program contestant assembles per sonal repertoire maneuvers CIVA 1988 rule book maximum 18 maneuvers allowed Fliers submit programs judges advance Free Programs must carry maximum total points value 500 uniform compari son scores Certain compli cated maneuvers course have higher November 1989 105 Left Affable supertalented 62 years young Clint McHenry Extra 230 Its said Clint has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years however Clint associated Pompano Air Center Florida Right Linda Meyers Miami FL dark blue Laser-like Streaker An accomplished veteran aerobatics pilot member US womens team won Womens Championship Left Ellen Dean another member victorious US womens team seen polishing windscreen Pitts Right Natalya Ser geeva sitting Sukhoi being photographed German TV No isnt just publicity shotshe pushes Sukhoi its very limits points value simpler ones As gauge arduousness program Clint McHenry won 81% theoret ically achievable score third contest called Unknown Compulsory format rival teams try set traps another team se lects maneuver CIVA rule book hopes will difficult other teams perform pickers have opportunity practice maneuver submitted victims wont know until 18 hours prior contest course competing teams have equal chance trying oppo nents fourth contest purely arithmeti cal exercise individual male female flier scoring highest points total preceding three contests comes overall champion same time total points scores used se lect top 75% competitors will ad vance fifth contest four-minute Free Program fifth final competition far spectacular competitors regular air show performers given full liberty planning own original flightsand results breath taking four-minute clock becomes restriction placed aerobats second under over four-minute line flier receives 30-point penalty So performers try dip wings right whether theyve completed sequence What super show Youd think performers would get vertigo dont marveled pilots ability re Continued page 109 106 Model Aviation World Champion US mens team L-R Kermit Weeks Miami FL Henry Haigh hold ing beautiful Nesterov Trophy Howell Ml Clint McHenry Boca Raton FL cumulative scores three gentlemen highest competing teams main conscious clear-headed spin ning rolling pulling Gs capacity withstand such obvious torture Im told has acquired gradually Judging international contest re quires delicate balancing act com petitor out win compatriot judge tends favorably inclined di rection USA judge Ken Larson gave us bit insight way doing job During two-week period preceding contest team members practice hard day Ken retired airline captain aerobat himself cuing what expects way flying precision Straight lines symmetry com mandments Ken also added computer program designed Mr Tarasov Russian judges analyzes judges scoresheets will detect favoritism ie judges scoring particular contes tant way out line others Any contestants protest reviewed jury jurist protes tants country allowed sit four-minute Free-Style Program Kens criteria somewhat different looks originality smoothness rhythm harmoniously ma neuver blends next sides box arent rigidly enforced contest three others keeping its liberal spirit competitor has invented new maneuvers such Lomcevac torque-roll four-minute free sequence tounding feat saw contest Sukhoi continuously rolling about its horizon tal axis almost no forward movement gaining altitude Thats maneuver Im still having trouble believing People planes what its about Unlike what might observed Oshkosh planes marked Experi mental aerobatic sport plane entering competition must covered valid aerobatics certificate airworthiness brief must have thoroughly put through milland no doubt thats reasons high price tags Competing 1988 fray nine Pitts five Caps four Extras three Sukhois three midwings Stevens Acro ances try Weeks Solution Ultimate last two being bipes German Extras rarer Id thought Walter Ex tra mentioned manufactured 18 date eight made way States paint jobs alone works art Engines Sukhois Avco Lycomings showing unmistakable trend toward bigger muscle also evi dent growing number variable pitch three-bladed propellers As aiming sights located wing tips pilot seemed have own idea ought look No two slightly similar horsepower rating peo ple interesting far planes Language barrier course especially Russians Genial Vladimir Garan kin interpreter helped bridge gap As French speak fast some savvy French cant keep up mans point view some lady aerobats appear feminine would never expect see cock pit high-powered skull-rattling sport plane Natalya Sergeeva Elena Klimo vitch Ellen Dean Lynn Gehringer oth ers fit category Patti Wagstaff would make chapter own does regularly star air shows rides motorcycles drives Corvetteall characteristic fearless abandon likes cook Dr Julie Pfile takes flying seriously does medical profession Youve always thought aerobatics young persons sport Think again Over champion Henry Haigh has around 63 years Oops apologiesby todays standards thats young guess its vitamins low-cholesterol diet Clint McHenry having around 62 summers close secondthough hear has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years young No certified statistics Swiss champion Eric Mueller hand Im virtually certain voice changed very long time ago Eric way author book Flight Unlimited unfortunately out print German TV crew seserves men tion Husky Paul Schmidt wielded Bosch camera slender blond blue-eyed Francis Best did interviews Francis womans name German Chatting Paul referring comely helper quickly corrected Thats helperthats boss Stu Holloway Canadian special izes announcing aviation events kinds did bit WAC smooth easy-to-listen-to voice Stu has business 22 years large van equipped electronics befitting satel lite sports its own control-tower-like ob servation cube lost RCer Red Deer Stanley McCarter Shelby MT member Frontier RC Club unveiled simply beautiful Scale model Sukhoi kit company Wyoming Dave Beise Canadian modeler Co mox British Columbia arrived scratch-built Extra 230 exact replica Clint McHenrys flagship Clint graciously stood still photos During final day festivities Central Alberta Radio Fun Fliers CARFF its turn runway 60-member club recently purchased its 10-acre fly ing site $5000 Canadian ex change Guess thats wide-open West ern plains No Im jealous very four flights produced landing Continued page 194 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Made U S BARSTOCK ALUMINUM SPINNERS Pan No Size fl150B .. 1112 TT-175B .. 1314 TT-200-B TT-2258 .. 21/4 fl226B .. 2114 FAt . fl2508 12 TT-251-B 1/2FAI .. fl275-B .. 2-3/4 T1-276-B .. 2-3/4 FAt .. TT300B fl301BFAt fl325-B .. 3-1/4 fl350B 1/2 fl375B .. 33/4 11-400-B RetailApprox PriceWeight S1395058 02 149509502 159510002 169516002 189515002 189519002 209517002 2295220oz 2495200oz 269526002 2895250oz 3695340oz 4995470oz 599552002 699557002 3 Pieces Cone Back Plate Retainer Screw Note 3 4 Blade Spinners Available Sizes Add $300 Per Spinner Part No Size TT-140-A 4-28 TT147A . 1/4-28/7mm . TT-610A . 0mm TT-710-A 10mm TT-516-A 16-24 TT-518-A .. 5/16-24/8mm TT-810-A 10mm TT-825-A 125mm TT-375A3/8-24 . TT-125-A 125mm Retail Approx Price Weight S495 061 02 495 061 oz 495 .. 063 02 495 082 02 495. 076 02 495. 076 02 495 02 495 . . 075 02 595 . 02 595 . 115 02 3 Pieces Nut Washer arid Machined Bushing Add $350 Shipping Handling Prices subject change notice ROMCO MFG INC OX 836 SOUTH HOUSTON TEXAS 77587 713 943-1867 November 1989 109 PROP NUT ADAPTORS No 633 Orca$675 RO Slope Soarer spans 75 uses twist-wing control 2-oh RO transmitter must have electronic mixing elevons No 634 SB2C Helidiver$575 CL Profile sport/Stunter spans 54 35140 power No 635 Gambler$200 FF Indoor Bostonian rubber-power cabin plane spans 15% No193Stiletto CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1976 1980 1982 PAl World Champs. $375 No239Blue Birds PC /ee Willards termatien plane 4-channel 10/15 power$375 No262crashmaster CL Crash-proof trainer two sioenf 5/30 35/40 power$126 No3101930 Fleet Biplane RC Sport Scale 35/40 4-channel Wingspan 56 i/s scale Two streets 5 No314Drake II PC Ken Willards flying beat 3-channel 1 5-pewer Fly 1mm land remonahie gear$375 No326Taylor cub PC Don Srulls Schoelyard-Scale 049s 2-3 channel Spans 50 in$350 No332Zephyr PC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch er tow strermal slepe soaring$200 No386Laser 200 PC Sport Scale replica championship Aerohatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Twosheets$1075 No447lf2A Miss America PC Old-Timer /sA Texaco model tar 049 glow 2-channels $650 No4604-40 PC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-sloe engine 4 channels$650 No465Blue Mas II PC Fun-fly sportoter 40-sloe engines spans 5210 Lightweight structure$700 No521comet Jr clipper Plus 35% PC Old-Timer sportoter i/nA engine 2-ch PC spans 40/a 5$050 No528SwallOw PC Lightweight holdogger 40-sioe foes-stroke engines spans SO $625 No531TerrIble coupe pp Pubber-powered Coupe dHiuer spans 40 contest-winner $475 oNo533cessna c-37 PC Schoolyard Scale famous 30s plane 040/10 power 2-ch spans 42 in$500 ~O oNo5341938 challenger PC i/nA Texaco Old-Timer spans 47r/e tar 049 engine 2-channel PC.. S550 03CJNo539Simltar Slow-Motion 15 PC Tailless flying wing 15 engines spans 60 uses 3-ch PC 03 No554Super Doubler II PC Sport AerobaticoPylon tar 40/46 tour-stroke engine spans 57 $575 No569Electroatreak PC Electric aerobatic plane spans 44 uses 05 motor. 5550 70Busy Bee FF Pee Wee-30 plane 02 power spans 30 has either sheet-halsa built-upsurfaces. $400 03 c No 572TR-260 PC Sport Scale Aerobatic plane tar 4-stroke 60/65 power spans 60 in. Sff00 575 ScorpIon 60 PC Fun-tip aerobatic plane lot 60 power spans S0/o in$ 1150 76 Serendiplnyt ndoor EZO record-holder spans l70/a in.$ 325 oNo578Schweizer 1-26B PC Quarter-ocale Sailplane spans t25 Two plan sheets 75 No581Gee Bee Model Y PC golden Age Pacer spans 72 scale 60 power Three plan sheets $ft 75 nNo583Sporewagon PC Padio-ioed sport PP model opans 54 uses 10/15 engine $700 No586Snapdragon PC Fun-tiy/sportster 25/30 engines spans 45//a in.. eQNo588Marlsh PC Slope-Souring Sailplane spans 41 in. uses 2 PC channels E 93 Tayloncrafe PC Sport Scale lightplane builds standard 2-placer clipped-wing ats show stunter Spans either 70/o SOrb 30/40 two-stroke 40/46 test-stroke engine Two plan sheets foe documentation$ 1000 C00 No 595 Sparrow PC Sportster br 25 engines spans 43 in $ 650 598 coronet 150 PC-Assist Old-Timer enlarged 1504k spans 72 uses 40-sire 4-strekel30-sioe 2-stroke$ 050 0No 601 Nickel PC Sportster /SA engine 3 PC channels Spans 44 in$ 500 No 602 Lil Bin CL /sA StonIer spans 27 has flaps$ 250 Z ENo 603 Sparrow Nawk P-30 PP Competition rubber-power plane won 07 Nuts Spans 30 inS 225 E toNo 604 AeronCa PC Electric sportster OS motor spans 60 uses 3 PC Channels $ 900 o3~No 606 Astrostar FF competition plane spans 40/a has 317 sq wing area. 5 500 o No 607 conIes Seagull PC giant Scale biplane spans 90 uses QuadralZenoah power Three plan sheets no dec$ 2400 No 608 Top Fun CL trainer spans 24 in.. $ 325 "No 609Taperwlng PC /eA Pylon Pacer spans 39i/5 Plan plus parts template sheetS600 610Protobype PC Spert biplane spans 40 in. uses 45/2-cycle 00/4-cycle power$650 c oNo 611 cablnair FF Scalelike rubber-power hiplane sport thor spans 23 00 -No 612 NVOL Dragonfly CL/nA Combat plane all-wood spans 24 reed-name engine$ 260 -SNo 614 Electrocutor PC Electric sportoter 05 direct-drixe motor spans 441/0 in$ 575 onNo 615 Argoay CL Sport Scale Twenties-era trimotor biplane transport spans 46 uses 40 twin i/nA engines $ 1100 ENo 616Raunchy FF Perrytnans Nostalgia Gas competition plane spans 40 in$400 No 617Push-Pull 240 PC Twin-engine sportster spans 66 uses 40 engines. 5 oNo 618Skyralder CL Sport Scale profile plane spans 30 15/25 power . S475 No 619KeIth Rider R4 PP Scale Golden Age racer rubber power spans 10 in$300 No 620Gimlet 40 PC Sport/Pattern plane spans 60 40/50 engine 2 sheets$1100 -0No 621 Thunderbird 60 CL Big Stunter spans 6t/e fur 60-sioe engine 2 sheets$ 1150 VNo 622 Gulck P-30 FF Competition rubber-power P-36-ciass plane spans 30 in5 325 0 2 No 623 Nenderson Longater PC Quarter-scale 1933 flinoer spans 90/u le 4-stroke 40/40 engine 3 plan shI no doc.. $ 1650 toNo 624Keleher Lark PC Quarter-scale homebuilt spans 69 60/90 4-stroke power 2 plan sheets no dec$1100 CNo 625AntoInette CL Scale eraly Preach monoplane spans 45/u uses 25/35 power$575 No 626 Sweepee PC SportlPattern canards forward-swept wing spans 04 uses 40 power 2 plan sheets . $ 1300 No 627 Apiary CL SportlStunter spans 26 uses Coe Queen Bee 074 powerS 225 No 628 Prime cut PC Spert/Aerobatic plane spaus 90 uses Qoadra 35/40-siut power Two plan sheets $ 1300 e 29 P-SIB Mustang CL Mostly-cardboard Sport Scale craft spans 60 uses 30/40 power Two plans sheets no dec $ 1275 630 OrigInal Fly Baby PC Old-Timer spans 72 uses 19/25 2-cycle 40 4-cycle power 2 plan sheets$ 1150 o NNo 631 Texas Wildcat CL Profile spurt/Stanter based 1920 plane spans 50 35 power $ 500 632 P-SIN Labamir Koutnys i/anscale Pubber model spans 23 in$ 325 ous I le numbers plans wish order best handling please include re-I C eQ i quests payment some other service plans order 193239262310314326332386 o 447460465521528531533534 O3~539554569570572575576578 81583586588593595598601 -ooE e jZZo602603604606607608609610 atbo611612614615616617618619 E 620621622623624625626627 c3~ EPlan628629630631632633634635 For orders price includes first Class postage US delivery Air Mail over 300 miles non-US address lease add $250 Air Mail osta e handlin Ian 0 us Make check money order payable US funds drawn ott US bank ModelAviation AMA 1810 0IMorse Please allow C weeks Samuel5r nesnondelivery Enclosed $ Please print carefully 00 NAME ___________________________ AMA No _________ I STREET 0 CITY 01 ZIPI C Aerobatics WC/Berman Continued page 109 nose-over flameout Exhibit pres sure does tell Competition excitement USA team does well temperature soars Kid Henry Haigh became 1988 Aerobatics World Champion US teamsboth mens ladiestook first place outstanding fliers ranking would have boggled uninitiated name just two among standouts Frenchman Patrick Paris Russias Yurgis Kairis extremely im pressive word has next World Aero batic Championships will held 1990 western Switzerland Sure hope Finally teaser What Russians idle stand-by time Answer No play chess VEND MOUNTS TNE VIBRATION KILLER Fail ana iuei euui tOrn noes axiatiur Cu 100 nes Christmas plans orders received after December 1 1989 will delivered before Christmas194 Model Aviation Southwest PC Flying Year round flight school Five day course $350 Learn fly planes Send SASE complete info 2818 Carolina NE Albuquerque NM 87110 505 881-3799 IMPORTED DIESELS A-MAuroraDOEDMVVSUUIS8nY8 PAWTapIIn Standard & RIO O364S Aero & Marine Vlntags8p@rt eaP Send 6100 Informaoloa CARLSON ENGINE IMPORTS 814 East Marconi Phoenix AZ 85022
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/11
Page Numbers: 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 194
ITS WHERE THE ELITE meet com pete 1988 second time its 28-year history World Aerobatic Cham pionships took place North American continentat Red Deer Alberta Can ada first Championships held Amer ican soil 1980 contest Oshkosh WI Aerobatic World Championships have held perhaps early 1934 Paris France However present series FAI sanctioned Federation Aeronautique Inter nationale competitions began 1960 Bratislava Czechoslovakia tourna ment site rotates among participating countries Coming together Red Deer ace fliers Canada France Ger Great Britain Russia Spain Swit zerland USA previous edi tion biennial aviation olympics staged South Cerney England Czechoslovakian pilot Ladi Bezak gold medalist inaugural 1960 competi tion paid brief visit Red Deer during Championships held us spellbound real life cloak-and-dagger story Following 1960 triumph Ladi contin ued winning ways European aer obatics circuit between 1964 1967 maintain flying proficiency decided build own airplanewhile knowing would viewed suspi ciously subversive Czechoslovakias anticapitalist society ruled time Marxist named Dubcek Scraping com ponents scrounging up parts Ladi tually built Zlin 226 first privately owned plane Czechoslovakia After simple act defiance course no escaping glare communist scrutiny Ladi airlines test pilot highest flight status attainable After building Zlin demoted captain copilot Next received clandestine tip about incarcerated Well aware would face prolonged intern ment trial Ladi set out im possible Somehow shoehorned wife four children Zlinand finally broke ground after 3000-ft takeoff roll November 1989 103 Big picture left Canadian Gordon Prices blue-and-yellow 300-hp Ultimate Harold Chappels orphaned Pitts right Harold met untimely death two months prior championships new aircraft testing shed wing its second flight Above RCers also flew World Aerobatics Championship 88 L R Ken Heck Astro Hog Brad Cleveland Super Sportster Dan Hem Quality Line Thunder bird John Ferguson EAA Bipe Behind Canadas 11 scale blue Ultimate warning about Ladis imminent sei zure must have accurate little Zlin quickly came under attack bulletspitting MiG 17 Ladi thwarted MiGs sinister designs skimming along just above treetops telegraph poles over populated areas freedom flight ended hap pily Austria Ladi family now reside safely Ontario Canadaalbeit Zlin participating countries 1988 WAC six out eight situated east big duck pond Atlantic Short make-over Burt Rutan did fliers transport large airplanes Red Deer answer elementary via ARF almost-ready-to-fly route Wings gear detached everything packed boxes boxes shunted onto large cargo planes big fuel tanks Arriving Calgary Alberta aerobats become 11 scale modelers reassemble planes gesture may reveal General Sec retary Gorbachevs fondness sport avia tion Matthias Rust caper notwithstand ing Russians arrived style governments Ilyushin transports Matthias Rust caper involved young German student pilot flew rented Cessna through Soviet air defense systems landed Red Square 1988 American fliers bit tinkering Since fuel capacity small usually single-seat aerobatic planes insufficient cross-country hops ventive aerobats slung cigar-shaped auxilia ry fuel tanks usually pairs underneath fuselage extra tanks course used traveling Forty worlds best pilots airline captains came compete Ten Russia 10 US eight France four Canada two Great Britain Spain Swit zerland West Germany Thirteen 40 womenand seven dis taff side placed among top 20 finalists total 26 planes shared 40 fliers 10 Russians shared three Suk hois Both Spaniards Swiss per formed same Pitts other Swiss two West German pilots did thing Walter Extras brand-new 300 four French pilots divided up two Cap 230s Small wonder planes shared consider cost good previously owned Pitts may around 40 grand new may set buyer back $100000 German Extra sells around $150000 new Extra 300 will marketed around $180000 new Cap DL 260 will bargain $200000 Catherine Maunourys Sirius 230 one-of-a-kind midwing Laser-like monoplane said carry price tag cool quarter-million bucks Obviously doesnt buy aerobatic sport plane proceeds social security check Fortunately pi lots seemed have corporate sponsors help finances dont have word yet what will take become proud owner nine-cylinder radial-powered Su khois Pompano Air Center Florida 104 Model Aviation Haute Savole High Savoy representing France Marianne Maires aerial beauty queen exquisitely detailed French Cap DL 260 wIth big 260-hp Lycoming engine under hood Henry Haigh eventual male champion waiting starters signal bright red white blue Laser would think aerobatics attendant 6-stresses lightning-fast reflexes required would young mans sport Henry 63 years young atop ace demanding aerobatics circuit hair still gets eyes Probably potent acrobatic aircraft WAG Russias unoi LY wv hot contender gold its nine-cylinder radial engine variable-pitch three-bladed pro peller highly skilled pilots Sukhol premier aircraft manufacturers USSR probably equivalent Grumman Pompano Air Center Florida expects im porting soon new Cap DL 260 goes $200000 Sukhoi certainly wont less Word has just arrived two new Sukhois arrived Oshkosh sold country Left The instrument panel Walter Extras Extra 300 HIs crib sheet stopwatch set up four-minute Free Style contest Right gunsight Pills SiT belonging Dr Julie Pfile cancer specialist bassoonist ace aerobatics pilot Albuquerque NM seems no two pilots concur optimum configuration wing tip orientation devices decidedly different Left Champion Russian aerobat Yurgis Kaires standing next teams Sukhois Yurgis could speak little German team interpreter genial Vladimir Garankin bridged language barrier Right Aircraft designer manufacturer Walter Extra Germany dis plays latest Extra 300 top-drawer aerobat himself Walter has built 18 aircraft date eight now reside US expects import soon Sukhoi Russias major aircraft manufacturers probably comparable Americas Grum man hands experts Russian machines incredible performers geared-down propellers among quietest planes con test RCer would take notice failed earn bonus points ever aircraft tail-draggers fixed gear None flaps biplanes ailerons both sets wings near est thing mishap occurred Sukhois ran out gas runway just after touchdown very sad note airplanes hu man little black Pitts sitting tarmac Red Deer would have disconsolate Alan Bush climbing Pitts cockpit instead its master Harold Chap pel name painted its fuse lage After wasnt Chappel selected member US team Harold Chappel killed tragic ac cident Just two months prior champi onships An ace aerobat Chappel test ing new plane Halfway through its sec ond flight plane shed wing Harold suc cumbed injuries four hours after crash some speculation about insufficient aileron counterbalance causing de structive flutter vibration actual cause may never known certainty just pilot Art Scholls untimely death never fully explained Fliers deeply mourn loss talented colleagues Since two organizations make WAC rules FAI Federation Aero nautique Internationale CIVA Com mission Internationale de Voltige Aeri enne both based France rules terpretation can get confusing Exactly what ace aerobats have to running gold Fly planes course However pi lots move through five separate contests its own rules exactly theyre expected flying point sequence can moot question Given Frances pioneering role very beginning aviation Gallic hege mony over WAC format hardly sur prising French lofted first-ever air borne vehicle Montgolfier brothers bal loon early 1783 Later manufac tured first successful commercial jet liner Caravelle recently worlds first supersonic passenger trans port Concorde joint FrenchBritish effort 14th WAC FAI CIVA provided four separate competitions its own award As other contests based Olympics model lady pi lots ranked separately gentle men first contest WAC called Known Compulsory As RC Pattern com petition 14 standard maneuvers flown full-scale aerobatics version ever maneuvers must performed side one-kilometer cubethe box lowest point box 328 ft above ground Succeeding contests also per formed inside box set international judges participating country grades pilots performance gold silver bronze medals going three high est scoring fliers second competition called Free Program contestant assembles per sonal repertoire maneuvers CIVA 1988 rule book maximum 18 maneuvers allowed Fliers submit programs judges advance Free Programs must carry maximum total points value 500 uniform compari son scores Certain compli cated maneuvers course have higher November 1989 105 Left Affable supertalented 62 years young Clint McHenry Extra 230 Its said Clint has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years however Clint associated Pompano Air Center Florida Right Linda Meyers Miami FL dark blue Laser-like Streaker An accomplished veteran aerobatics pilot member US womens team won Womens Championship Left Ellen Dean another member victorious US womens team seen polishing windscreen Pitts Right Natalya Ser geeva sitting Sukhoi being photographed German TV No isnt just publicity shotshe pushes Sukhoi its very limits points value simpler ones As gauge arduousness program Clint McHenry won 81% theoret ically achievable score third contest called Unknown Compulsory format rival teams try set traps another team se lects maneuver CIVA rule book hopes will difficult other teams perform pickers have opportunity practice maneuver submitted victims wont know until 18 hours prior contest course competing teams have equal chance trying oppo nents fourth contest purely arithmeti cal exercise individual male female flier scoring highest points total preceding three contests comes overall champion same time total points scores used se lect top 75% competitors will ad vance fifth contest four-minute Free Program fifth final competition far spectacular competitors regular air show performers given full liberty planning own original flightsand results breath taking four-minute clock becomes restriction placed aerobats second under over four-minute line flier receives 30-point penalty So performers try dip wings right whether theyve completed sequence What super show Youd think performers would get vertigo dont marveled pilots ability re Continued page 109 106 Model Aviation World Champion US mens team L-R Kermit Weeks Miami FL Henry Haigh hold ing beautiful Nesterov Trophy Howell Ml Clint McHenry Boca Raton FL cumulative scores three gentlemen highest competing teams main conscious clear-headed spin ning rolling pulling Gs capacity withstand such obvious torture Im told has acquired gradually Judging international contest re quires delicate balancing act com petitor out win compatriot judge tends favorably inclined di rection USA judge Ken Larson gave us bit insight way doing job During two-week period preceding contest team members practice hard day Ken retired airline captain aerobat himself cuing what expects way flying precision Straight lines symmetry com mandments Ken also added computer program designed Mr Tarasov Russian judges analyzes judges scoresheets will detect favoritism ie judges scoring particular contes tant way out line others Any contestants protest reviewed jury jurist protes tants country allowed sit four-minute Free-Style Program Kens criteria somewhat different looks originality smoothness rhythm harmoniously ma neuver blends next sides box arent rigidly enforced contest three others keeping its liberal spirit competitor has invented new maneuvers such Lomcevac torque-roll four-minute free sequence tounding feat saw contest Sukhoi continuously rolling about its horizon tal axis almost no forward movement gaining altitude Thats maneuver Im still having trouble believing People planes what its about Unlike what might observed Oshkosh planes marked Experi mental aerobatic sport plane entering competition must covered valid aerobatics certificate airworthiness brief must have thoroughly put through milland no doubt thats reasons high price tags Competing 1988 fray nine Pitts five Caps four Extras three Sukhois three midwings Stevens Acro ances try Weeks Solution Ultimate last two being bipes German Extras rarer Id thought Walter Ex tra mentioned manufactured 18 date eight made way States paint jobs alone works art Engines Sukhois Avco Lycomings showing unmistakable trend toward bigger muscle also evi dent growing number variable pitch three-bladed propellers As aiming sights located wing tips pilot seemed have own idea ought look No two slightly similar horsepower rating peo ple interesting far planes Language barrier course especially Russians Genial Vladimir Garan kin interpreter helped bridge gap As French speak fast some savvy French cant keep up mans point view some lady aerobats appear feminine would never expect see cock pit high-powered skull-rattling sport plane Natalya Sergeeva Elena Klimo vitch Ellen Dean Lynn Gehringer oth ers fit category Patti Wagstaff would make chapter own does regularly star air shows rides motorcycles drives Corvetteall characteristic fearless abandon likes cook Dr Julie Pfile takes flying seriously does medical profession Youve always thought aerobatics young persons sport Think again Over champion Henry Haigh has around 63 years Oops apologiesby todays standards thats young guess its vitamins low-cholesterol diet Clint McHenry having around 62 summers close secondthough hear has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years young No certified statistics Swiss champion Eric Mueller hand Im virtually certain voice changed very long time ago Eric way author book Flight Unlimited unfortunately out print German TV crew seserves men tion Husky Paul Schmidt wielded Bosch camera slender blond blue-eyed Francis Best did interviews Francis womans name German Chatting Paul referring comely helper quickly corrected Thats helperthats boss Stu Holloway Canadian special izes announcing aviation events kinds did bit WAC smooth easy-to-listen-to voice Stu has business 22 years large van equipped electronics befitting satel lite sports its own control-tower-like ob servation cube lost RCer Red Deer Stanley McCarter Shelby MT member Frontier RC Club unveiled simply beautiful Scale model Sukhoi kit company Wyoming Dave Beise Canadian modeler Co mox British Columbia arrived scratch-built Extra 230 exact replica Clint McHenrys flagship Clint graciously stood still photos During final day festivities Central Alberta Radio Fun Fliers CARFF its turn runway 60-member club recently purchased its 10-acre fly ing site $5000 Canadian ex change Guess thats wide-open West ern plains No Im jealous very four flights produced landing Continued page 194 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Made U S BARSTOCK ALUMINUM SPINNERS Pan No Size fl150B .. 1112 TT-175B .. 1314 TT-200-B TT-2258 .. 21/4 fl226B .. 2114 FAt . fl2508 12 TT-251-B 1/2FAI .. fl275-B .. 2-3/4 T1-276-B .. 2-3/4 FAt .. TT300B fl301BFAt fl325-B .. 3-1/4 fl350B 1/2 fl375B .. 33/4 11-400-B RetailApprox PriceWeight S1395058 02 149509502 159510002 169516002 189515002 189519002 209517002 2295220oz 2495200oz 269526002 2895250oz 3695340oz 4995470oz 599552002 699557002 3 Pieces Cone Back Plate Retainer Screw Note 3 4 Blade Spinners Available Sizes Add $300 Per Spinner Part No Size TT-140-A 4-28 TT147A . 1/4-28/7mm . TT-610A . 0mm TT-710-A 10mm TT-516-A 16-24 TT-518-A .. 5/16-24/8mm TT-810-A 10mm TT-825-A 125mm TT-375A3/8-24 . TT-125-A 125mm Retail Approx Price Weight S495 061 02 495 061 oz 495 .. 063 02 495 082 02 495. 076 02 495. 076 02 495 02 495 . . 075 02 595 . 02 595 . 115 02 3 Pieces Nut Washer arid Machined Bushing Add $350 Shipping Handling Prices subject change notice ROMCO MFG INC OX 836 SOUTH HOUSTON TEXAS 77587 713 943-1867 November 1989 109 PROP NUT ADAPTORS No 633 Orca$675 RO Slope Soarer spans 75 uses twist-wing control 2-oh RO transmitter must have electronic mixing elevons No 634 SB2C Helidiver$575 CL Profile sport/Stunter spans 54 35140 power No 635 Gambler$200 FF Indoor Bostonian rubber-power cabin plane spans 15% No193Stiletto CL Stunt model McDonald winner 1976 1980 1982 PAl World Champs. $375 No239Blue Birds PC /ee Willards termatien plane 4-channel 10/15 power$375 No262crashmaster CL Crash-proof trainer two sioenf 5/30 35/40 power$126 No3101930 Fleet Biplane RC Sport Scale 35/40 4-channel Wingspan 56 i/s scale Two streets 5 No314Drake II PC Ken Willards flying beat 3-channel 1 5-pewer Fly 1mm land remonahie gear$375 No326Taylor cub PC Don Srulls Schoelyard-Scale 049s 2-3 channel Spans 50 in$350 No332Zephyr PC Small 2-channel glider hand-launch er tow strermal slepe soaring$200 No386Laser 200 PC Sport Scale replica championship Aerohatic flier Uses 40 power 4-5 channel Twosheets$1075 No447lf2A Miss America PC Old-Timer /sA Texaco model tar 049 glow 2-channels $650 No4604-40 PC Shoulder-wing sport flier 4-cycle 40-sloe engine 4 channels$650 No465Blue Mas II PC Fun-fly sportoter 40-sloe engines spans 5210 Lightweight structure$700 No521comet Jr clipper Plus 35% PC Old-Timer sportoter i/nA engine 2-ch PC spans 40/a 5$050 No528SwallOw PC Lightweight holdogger 40-sioe foes-stroke engines spans SO $625 No531TerrIble coupe pp Pubber-powered Coupe dHiuer spans 40 contest-winner $475 oNo533cessna c-37 PC Schoolyard Scale famous 30s plane 040/10 power 2-ch spans 42 in$500 ~O oNo5341938 challenger PC i/nA Texaco Old-Timer spans 47r/e tar 049 engine 2-channel PC.. S550 03CJNo539Simltar Slow-Motion 15 PC Tailless flying wing 15 engines spans 60 uses 3-ch PC 03 No554Super Doubler II PC Sport AerobaticoPylon tar 40/46 tour-stroke engine spans 57 $575 No569Electroatreak PC Electric aerobatic plane spans 44 uses 05 motor. 5550 70Busy Bee FF Pee Wee-30 plane 02 power spans 30 has either sheet-halsa built-upsurfaces. $400 03 c No 572TR-260 PC Sport Scale Aerobatic plane tar 4-stroke 60/65 power spans 60 in. Sff00 575 ScorpIon 60 PC Fun-tip aerobatic plane lot 60 power spans S0/o in$ 1150 76 Serendiplnyt ndoor EZO record-holder spans l70/a in.$ 325 oNo578Schweizer 1-26B PC Quarter-ocale Sailplane spans t25 Two plan sheets 75 No581Gee Bee Model Y PC golden Age Pacer spans 72 scale 60 power Three plan sheets $ft 75 nNo583Sporewagon PC Padio-ioed sport PP model opans 54 uses 10/15 engine $700 No586Snapdragon PC Fun-tiy/sportster 25/30 engines spans 45//a in.. eQNo588Marlsh PC Slope-Souring Sailplane spans 41 in. uses 2 PC channels E 93 Tayloncrafe PC Sport Scale lightplane builds standard 2-placer clipped-wing ats show stunter Spans either 70/o SOrb 30/40 two-stroke 40/46 test-stroke engine Two plan sheets foe documentation$ 1000 C00 No 595 Sparrow PC Sportster br 25 engines spans 43 in $ 650 598 coronet 150 PC-Assist Old-Timer enlarged 1504k spans 72 uses 40-sire 4-strekel30-sioe 2-stroke$ 050 0No 601 Nickel PC Sportster /SA engine 3 PC channels Spans 44 in$ 500 No 602 Lil Bin CL /sA StonIer spans 27 has flaps$ 250 Z ENo 603 Sparrow Nawk P-30 PP Competition rubber-power plane won 07 Nuts Spans 30 inS 225 E toNo 604 AeronCa PC Electric sportster OS motor spans 60 uses 3 PC Channels $ 900 o3~No 606 Astrostar FF competition plane spans 40/a has 317 sq wing area. 5 500 o No 607 conIes Seagull PC giant Scale biplane spans 90 uses QuadralZenoah power Three plan sheets no dec$ 2400 No 608 Top Fun CL trainer spans 24 in.. $ 325 "No 609Taperwlng PC /eA Pylon Pacer spans 39i/5 Plan plus parts template sheetS600 610Protobype PC Spert biplane spans 40 in. uses 45/2-cycle 00/4-cycle power$650 c oNo 611 cablnair FF Scalelike rubber-power hiplane sport thor spans 23 00 -No 612 NVOL Dragonfly CL/nA Combat plane all-wood spans 24 reed-name engine$ 260 -SNo 614 Electrocutor PC Electric sportoter 05 direct-drixe motor spans 441/0 in$ 575 onNo 615 Argoay CL Sport Scale Twenties-era trimotor biplane transport spans 46 uses 40 twin i/nA engines $ 1100 ENo 616Raunchy FF Perrytnans Nostalgia Gas competition plane spans 40 in$400 No 617Push-Pull 240 PC Twin-engine sportster spans 66 uses 40 engines. 5 oNo 618Skyralder CL Sport Scale profile plane spans 30 15/25 power . S475 No 619KeIth Rider R4 PP Scale Golden Age racer rubber power spans 10 in$300 No 620Gimlet 40 PC Sport/Pattern plane spans 60 40/50 engine 2 sheets$1100 -0No 621 Thunderbird 60 CL Big Stunter spans 6t/e fur 60-sioe engine 2 sheets$ 1150 VNo 622 Gulck P-30 FF Competition rubber-power P-36-ciass plane spans 30 in5 325 0 2 No 623 Nenderson Longater PC Quarter-scale 1933 flinoer spans 90/u le 4-stroke 40/40 engine 3 plan shI no doc.. $ 1650 toNo 624Keleher Lark PC Quarter-scale homebuilt spans 69 60/90 4-stroke power 2 plan sheets no dec$1100 CNo 625AntoInette CL Scale eraly Preach monoplane spans 45/u uses 25/35 power$575 No 626 Sweepee PC SportlPattern canards forward-swept wing spans 04 uses 40 power 2 plan sheets . $ 1300 No 627 Apiary CL SportlStunter spans 26 uses Coe Queen Bee 074 powerS 225 No 628 Prime cut PC Spert/Aerobatic plane spaus 90 uses Qoadra 35/40-siut power Two plan sheets $ 1300 e 29 P-SIB Mustang CL Mostly-cardboard Sport Scale craft spans 60 uses 30/40 power Two plans sheets no dec $ 1275 630 OrigInal Fly Baby PC Old-Timer spans 72 uses 19/25 2-cycle 40 4-cycle power 2 plan sheets$ 1150 o NNo 631 Texas Wildcat CL Profile spurt/Stanter based 1920 plane spans 50 35 power $ 500 632 P-SIN Labamir Koutnys i/anscale Pubber model spans 23 in$ 325 ous I le numbers plans wish order best handling please include re-I C eQ i quests payment some other service plans order 193239262310314326332386 o 447460465521528531533534 O3~539554569570572575576578 81583586588593595598601 -ooE e jZZo602603604606607608609610 atbo611612614615616617618619 E 620621622623624625626627 c3~ EPlan628629630631632633634635 For orders price includes first Class postage US delivery Air Mail over 300 miles non-US address lease add $250 Air Mail osta e handlin Ian 0 us Make check money order payable US funds drawn ott US bank ModelAviation AMA 1810 0IMorse Please allow C weeks Samuel5r nesnondelivery Enclosed $ Please print carefully 00 NAME ___________________________ AMA No _________ I STREET 0 CITY 01 ZIPI C Aerobatics WC/Berman Continued page 109 nose-over flameout Exhibit pres sure does tell Competition excitement USA team does well temperature soars Kid Henry Haigh became 1988 Aerobatics World Champion US teamsboth mens ladiestook first place outstanding fliers ranking would have boggled uninitiated name just two among standouts Frenchman Patrick Paris Russias Yurgis Kairis extremely im pressive word has next World Aero batic Championships will held 1990 western Switzerland Sure hope Finally teaser What Russians idle stand-by time Answer No play chess VEND MOUNTS TNE VIBRATION KILLER Fail ana iuei euui tOrn noes axiatiur Cu 100 nes Christmas plans orders received after December 1 1989 will delivered before Christmas194 Model Aviation Southwest PC Flying Year round flight school Five day course $350 Learn fly planes Send SASE complete info 2818 Carolina NE Albuquerque NM 87110 505 881-3799 IMPORTED DIESELS A-MAuroraDOEDMVVSUUIS8nY8 PAWTapIIn Standard & RIO O364S Aero & Marine Vlntags8p@rt eaP Send 6100 Informaoloa CARLSON ENGINE IMPORTS 814 East Marconi Phoenix AZ 85022
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/11
Page Numbers: 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 194
ITS WHERE THE ELITE meet com pete 1988 second time its 28-year history World Aerobatic Cham pionships took place North American continentat Red Deer Alberta Can ada first Championships held Amer ican soil 1980 contest Oshkosh WI Aerobatic World Championships have held perhaps early 1934 Paris France However present series FAI sanctioned Federation Aeronautique Inter nationale competitions began 1960 Bratislava Czechoslovakia tourna ment site rotates among participating countries Coming together Red Deer ace fliers Canada France Ger Great Britain Russia Spain Swit zerland USA previous edi tion biennial aviation olympics staged South Cerney England Czechoslovakian pilot Ladi Bezak gold medalist inaugural 1960 competi tion paid brief visit Red Deer during Championships held us spellbound real life cloak-and-dagger story Following 1960 triumph Ladi contin ued winning ways European aer obatics circuit between 1964 1967 maintain flying proficiency decided build own airplanewhile knowing would viewed suspi ciously subversive Czechoslovakias anticapitalist society ruled time Marxist named Dubcek Scraping com ponents scrounging up parts Ladi tually built Zlin 226 first privately owned plane Czechoslovakia After simple act defiance course no escaping glare communist scrutiny Ladi airlines test pilot highest flight status attainable After building Zlin demoted captain copilot Next received clandestine tip about incarcerated Well aware would face prolonged intern ment trial Ladi set out im possible Somehow shoehorned wife four children Zlinand finally broke ground after 3000-ft takeoff roll November 1989 103 Big picture left Canadian Gordon Prices blue-and-yellow 300-hp Ultimate Harold Chappels orphaned Pitts right Harold met untimely death two months prior championships new aircraft testing shed wing its second flight Above RCers also flew World Aerobatics Championship 88 L R Ken Heck Astro Hog Brad Cleveland Super Sportster Dan Hem Quality Line Thunder bird John Ferguson EAA Bipe Behind Canadas 11 scale blue Ultimate warning about Ladis imminent sei zure must have accurate little Zlin quickly came under attack bulletspitting MiG 17 Ladi thwarted MiGs sinister designs skimming along just above treetops telegraph poles over populated areas freedom flight ended hap pily Austria Ladi family now reside safely Ontario Canadaalbeit Zlin participating countries 1988 WAC six out eight situated east big duck pond Atlantic Short make-over Burt Rutan did fliers transport large airplanes Red Deer answer elementary via ARF almost-ready-to-fly route Wings gear detached everything packed boxes boxes shunted onto large cargo planes big fuel tanks Arriving Calgary Alberta aerobats become 11 scale modelers reassemble planes gesture may reveal General Sec retary Gorbachevs fondness sport avia tion Matthias Rust caper notwithstand ing Russians arrived style governments Ilyushin transports Matthias Rust caper involved young German student pilot flew rented Cessna through Soviet air defense systems landed Red Square 1988 American fliers bit tinkering Since fuel capacity small usually single-seat aerobatic planes insufficient cross-country hops ventive aerobats slung cigar-shaped auxilia ry fuel tanks usually pairs underneath fuselage extra tanks course used traveling Forty worlds best pilots airline captains came compete Ten Russia 10 US eight France four Canada two Great Britain Spain Swit zerland West Germany Thirteen 40 womenand seven dis taff side placed among top 20 finalists total 26 planes shared 40 fliers 10 Russians shared three Suk hois Both Spaniards Swiss per formed same Pitts other Swiss two West German pilots did thing Walter Extras brand-new 300 four French pilots divided up two Cap 230s Small wonder planes shared consider cost good previously owned Pitts may around 40 grand new may set buyer back $100000 German Extra sells around $150000 new Extra 300 will marketed around $180000 new Cap DL 260 will bargain $200000 Catherine Maunourys Sirius 230 one-of-a-kind midwing Laser-like monoplane said carry price tag cool quarter-million bucks Obviously doesnt buy aerobatic sport plane proceeds social security check Fortunately pi lots seemed have corporate sponsors help finances dont have word yet what will take become proud owner nine-cylinder radial-powered Su khois Pompano Air Center Florida 104 Model Aviation Haute Savole High Savoy representing France Marianne Maires aerial beauty queen exquisitely detailed French Cap DL 260 wIth big 260-hp Lycoming engine under hood Henry Haigh eventual male champion waiting starters signal bright red white blue Laser would think aerobatics attendant 6-stresses lightning-fast reflexes required would young mans sport Henry 63 years young atop ace demanding aerobatics circuit hair still gets eyes Probably potent acrobatic aircraft WAG Russias unoi LY wv hot contender gold its nine-cylinder radial engine variable-pitch three-bladed pro peller highly skilled pilots Sukhol premier aircraft manufacturers USSR probably equivalent Grumman Pompano Air Center Florida expects im porting soon new Cap DL 260 goes $200000 Sukhoi certainly wont less Word has just arrived two new Sukhois arrived Oshkosh sold country Left The instrument panel Walter Extras Extra 300 HIs crib sheet stopwatch set up four-minute Free Style contest Right gunsight Pills SiT belonging Dr Julie Pfile cancer specialist bassoonist ace aerobatics pilot Albuquerque NM seems no two pilots concur optimum configuration wing tip orientation devices decidedly different Left Champion Russian aerobat Yurgis Kaires standing next teams Sukhois Yurgis could speak little German team interpreter genial Vladimir Garankin bridged language barrier Right Aircraft designer manufacturer Walter Extra Germany dis plays latest Extra 300 top-drawer aerobat himself Walter has built 18 aircraft date eight now reside US expects import soon Sukhoi Russias major aircraft manufacturers probably comparable Americas Grum man hands experts Russian machines incredible performers geared-down propellers among quietest planes con test RCer would take notice failed earn bonus points ever aircraft tail-draggers fixed gear None flaps biplanes ailerons both sets wings near est thing mishap occurred Sukhois ran out gas runway just after touchdown very sad note airplanes hu man little black Pitts sitting tarmac Red Deer would have disconsolate Alan Bush climbing Pitts cockpit instead its master Harold Chap pel name painted its fuse lage After wasnt Chappel selected member US team Harold Chappel killed tragic ac cident Just two months prior champi onships An ace aerobat Chappel test ing new plane Halfway through its sec ond flight plane shed wing Harold suc cumbed injuries four hours after crash some speculation about insufficient aileron counterbalance causing de structive flutter vibration actual cause may never known certainty just pilot Art Scholls untimely death never fully explained Fliers deeply mourn loss talented colleagues Since two organizations make WAC rules FAI Federation Aero nautique Internationale CIVA Com mission Internationale de Voltige Aeri enne both based France rules terpretation can get confusing Exactly what ace aerobats have to running gold Fly planes course However pi lots move through five separate contests its own rules exactly theyre expected flying point sequence can moot question Given Frances pioneering role very beginning aviation Gallic hege mony over WAC format hardly sur prising French lofted first-ever air borne vehicle Montgolfier brothers bal loon early 1783 Later manufac tured first successful commercial jet liner Caravelle recently worlds first supersonic passenger trans port Concorde joint FrenchBritish effort 14th WAC FAI CIVA provided four separate competitions its own award As other contests based Olympics model lady pi lots ranked separately gentle men first contest WAC called Known Compulsory As RC Pattern com petition 14 standard maneuvers flown full-scale aerobatics version ever maneuvers must performed side one-kilometer cubethe box lowest point box 328 ft above ground Succeeding contests also per formed inside box set international judges participating country grades pilots performance gold silver bronze medals going three high est scoring fliers second competition called Free Program contestant assembles per sonal repertoire maneuvers CIVA 1988 rule book maximum 18 maneuvers allowed Fliers submit programs judges advance Free Programs must carry maximum total points value 500 uniform compari son scores Certain compli cated maneuvers course have higher November 1989 105 Left Affable supertalented 62 years young Clint McHenry Extra 230 Its said Clint has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years however Clint associated Pompano Air Center Florida Right Linda Meyers Miami FL dark blue Laser-like Streaker An accomplished veteran aerobatics pilot member US womens team won Womens Championship Left Ellen Dean another member victorious US womens team seen polishing windscreen Pitts Right Natalya Ser geeva sitting Sukhoi being photographed German TV No isnt just publicity shotshe pushes Sukhoi its very limits points value simpler ones As gauge arduousness program Clint McHenry won 81% theoret ically achievable score third contest called Unknown Compulsory format rival teams try set traps another team se lects maneuver CIVA rule book hopes will difficult other teams perform pickers have opportunity practice maneuver submitted victims wont know until 18 hours prior contest course competing teams have equal chance trying oppo nents fourth contest purely arithmeti cal exercise individual male female flier scoring highest points total preceding three contests comes overall champion same time total points scores used se lect top 75% competitors will ad vance fifth contest four-minute Free Program fifth final competition far spectacular competitors regular air show performers given full liberty planning own original flightsand results breath taking four-minute clock becomes restriction placed aerobats second under over four-minute line flier receives 30-point penalty So performers try dip wings right whether theyve completed sequence What super show Youd think performers would get vertigo dont marveled pilots ability re Continued page 109 106 Model Aviation World Champion US mens team L-R Kermit Weeks Miami FL Henry Haigh hold ing beautiful Nesterov Trophy Howell Ml Clint McHenry Boca Raton FL cumulative scores three gentlemen highest competing teams main conscious clear-headed spin ning rolling pulling Gs capacity withstand such obvious torture Im told has acquired gradually Judging international contest re quires delicate balancing act com petitor out win compatriot judge tends favorably inclined di rection USA judge Ken Larson gave us bit insight way doing job During two-week period preceding contest team members practice hard day Ken retired airline captain aerobat himself cuing what expects way flying precision Straight lines symmetry com mandments Ken also added computer program designed Mr Tarasov Russian judges analyzes judges scoresheets will detect favoritism ie judges scoring particular contes tant way out line others Any contestants protest reviewed jury jurist protes tants country allowed sit four-minute Free-Style Program Kens criteria somewhat different looks originality smoothness rhythm harmoniously ma neuver blends next sides box arent rigidly enforced contest three others keeping its liberal spirit competitor has invented new maneuvers such Lomcevac torque-roll four-minute free sequence tounding feat saw contest Sukhoi continuously rolling about its horizon tal axis almost no forward movement gaining altitude Thats maneuver Im still having trouble believing People planes what its about Unlike what might observed Oshkosh planes marked Experi mental aerobatic sport plane entering competition must covered valid aerobatics certificate airworthiness brief must have thoroughly put through milland no doubt thats reasons high price tags Competing 1988 fray nine Pitts five Caps four Extras three Sukhois three midwings Stevens Acro ances try Weeks Solution Ultimate last two being bipes German Extras rarer Id thought Walter Ex tra mentioned manufactured 18 date eight made way States paint jobs alone works art Engines Sukhois Avco Lycomings showing unmistakable trend toward bigger muscle also evi dent growing number variable pitch three-bladed propellers As aiming sights located wing tips pilot seemed have own idea ought look No two slightly similar horsepower rating peo ple interesting far planes Language barrier course especially Russians Genial Vladimir Garan kin interpreter helped bridge gap As French speak fast some savvy French cant keep up mans point view some lady aerobats appear feminine would never expect see cock pit high-powered skull-rattling sport plane Natalya Sergeeva Elena Klimo vitch Ellen Dean Lynn Gehringer oth ers fit category Patti Wagstaff would make chapter own does regularly star air shows rides motorcycles drives Corvetteall characteristic fearless abandon likes cook Dr Julie Pfile takes flying seriously does medical profession Youve always thought aerobatics young persons sport Think again Over champion Henry Haigh has around 63 years Oops apologiesby todays standards thats young guess its vitamins low-cholesterol diet Clint McHenry having around 62 summers close secondthough hear has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years young No certified statistics Swiss champion Eric Mueller hand Im virtually certain voice changed very long time ago Eric way author book Flight Unlimited unfortunately out print German TV crew seserves men tion Husky Paul Schmidt wielded Bosch camera slender blond blue-eyed Francis Best did interviews Francis womans name German Chatting Paul referring comely helper quickly corrected Thats helperthats boss Stu Holloway Canadian special izes announcing aviation events kinds did bit WAC smooth easy-to-listen-to voice Stu has business 22 years large van equipped electronics befitting satel lite sports its own control-tower-like ob servation cube lost RCer Red Deer Stanley McCarter Shelby MT member Frontier RC Club unveiled simply beautiful Scale model Sukhoi kit company Wyoming Dave Beise Canadian modeler Co mox British Columbia arrived scratch-built Extra 230 exact replica Clint McHenrys flagship Clint graciously stood still photos During final day festivities Central Alberta Radio Fun Fliers CARFF its turn runway 60-member club recently purchased its 10-acre fly ing site $5000 Canadian ex change Guess thats wide-open West ern plains No Im jealous very four flights produced landing Continued page 194 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Made U S BARSTOCK ALUMINUM SPINNERS Pan No Size fl150B .. 1112 TT-175B .. 1314 TT-200-B TT-2258 .. 21/4 fl226B .. 2114 FAt . fl2508 12 TT-251-B 1/2FAI .. fl275-B .. 2-3/4 T1-276-B .. 2-3/4 FAt .. 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ITS WHERE THE ELITE meet com pete 1988 second time its 28-year history World Aerobatic Cham pionships took place North American continentat Red Deer Alberta Can ada first Championships held Amer ican soil 1980 contest Oshkosh WI Aerobatic World Championships have held perhaps early 1934 Paris France However present series FAI sanctioned Federation Aeronautique Inter nationale competitions began 1960 Bratislava Czechoslovakia tourna ment site rotates among participating countries Coming together Red Deer ace fliers Canada France Ger Great Britain Russia Spain Swit zerland USA previous edi tion biennial aviation olympics staged South Cerney England Czechoslovakian pilot Ladi Bezak gold medalist inaugural 1960 competi tion paid brief visit Red Deer during Championships held us spellbound real life cloak-and-dagger story Following 1960 triumph Ladi contin ued winning ways European aer obatics circuit between 1964 1967 maintain flying proficiency decided build own airplanewhile knowing would viewed suspi ciously subversive Czechoslovakias anticapitalist society ruled time Marxist named Dubcek Scraping com ponents scrounging up parts Ladi tually built Zlin 226 first privately owned plane Czechoslovakia After simple act defiance course no escaping glare communist scrutiny Ladi airlines test pilot highest flight status attainable After building Zlin demoted captain copilot Next received clandestine tip about incarcerated Well aware would face prolonged intern ment trial Ladi set out im possible Somehow shoehorned wife four children Zlinand finally broke ground after 3000-ft takeoff roll November 1989 103 Big picture left Canadian Gordon Prices blue-and-yellow 300-hp Ultimate Harold Chappels orphaned Pitts right Harold met untimely death two months prior championships new aircraft testing shed wing its second flight Above RCers also flew World Aerobatics Championship 88 L R Ken Heck Astro Hog Brad Cleveland Super Sportster Dan Hem Quality Line Thunder bird John Ferguson EAA Bipe Behind Canadas 11 scale blue Ultimate warning about Ladis imminent sei zure must have accurate little Zlin quickly came under attack bulletspitting MiG 17 Ladi thwarted MiGs sinister designs skimming along just above treetops telegraph poles over populated areas freedom flight ended hap pily Austria Ladi family now reside safely Ontario Canadaalbeit Zlin participating countries 1988 WAC six out eight situated east big duck pond Atlantic Short make-over Burt Rutan did fliers transport large airplanes Red Deer answer elementary via ARF almost-ready-to-fly route Wings gear detached everything packed boxes boxes shunted onto large cargo planes big fuel tanks Arriving Calgary Alberta aerobats become 11 scale modelers reassemble planes gesture may reveal General Sec retary Gorbachevs fondness sport avia tion Matthias Rust caper notwithstand ing Russians arrived style governments Ilyushin transports Matthias Rust caper involved young German student pilot flew rented Cessna through Soviet air defense systems landed Red Square 1988 American fliers bit tinkering Since fuel capacity small usually single-seat aerobatic planes insufficient cross-country hops ventive aerobats slung cigar-shaped auxilia ry fuel tanks usually pairs underneath fuselage extra tanks course used traveling Forty worlds best pilots airline captains came compete Ten Russia 10 US eight France four Canada two Great Britain Spain Swit zerland West Germany Thirteen 40 womenand seven dis taff side placed among top 20 finalists total 26 planes shared 40 fliers 10 Russians shared three Suk hois Both Spaniards Swiss per formed same Pitts other Swiss two West German pilots did thing Walter Extras brand-new 300 four French pilots divided up two Cap 230s Small wonder planes shared consider cost good previously owned Pitts may around 40 grand new may set buyer back $100000 German Extra sells around $150000 new Extra 300 will marketed around $180000 new Cap DL 260 will bargain $200000 Catherine Maunourys Sirius 230 one-of-a-kind midwing Laser-like monoplane said carry price tag cool quarter-million bucks Obviously doesnt buy aerobatic sport plane proceeds social security check Fortunately pi lots seemed have corporate sponsors help finances dont have word yet what will take become proud owner nine-cylinder radial-powered Su khois Pompano Air Center Florida 104 Model Aviation Haute Savole High Savoy representing France Marianne Maires aerial beauty queen exquisitely detailed French Cap DL 260 wIth big 260-hp Lycoming engine under hood Henry Haigh eventual male champion waiting starters signal bright red white blue Laser would think aerobatics attendant 6-stresses lightning-fast reflexes required would young mans sport Henry 63 years young atop ace demanding aerobatics circuit hair still gets eyes Probably potent acrobatic aircraft WAG Russias unoi LY wv hot contender gold its nine-cylinder radial engine variable-pitch three-bladed pro peller highly skilled pilots Sukhol premier aircraft manufacturers USSR probably equivalent Grumman Pompano Air Center Florida expects im porting soon new Cap DL 260 goes $200000 Sukhoi certainly wont less Word has just arrived two new Sukhois arrived Oshkosh sold country Left The instrument panel Walter Extras Extra 300 HIs crib sheet stopwatch set up four-minute Free Style contest Right gunsight Pills SiT belonging Dr Julie Pfile cancer specialist bassoonist ace aerobatics pilot Albuquerque NM seems no two pilots concur optimum configuration wing tip orientation devices decidedly different Left Champion Russian aerobat Yurgis Kaires standing next teams Sukhois Yurgis could speak little German team interpreter genial Vladimir Garankin bridged language barrier Right Aircraft designer manufacturer Walter Extra Germany dis plays latest Extra 300 top-drawer aerobat himself Walter has built 18 aircraft date eight now reside US expects import soon Sukhoi Russias major aircraft manufacturers probably comparable Americas Grum man hands experts Russian machines incredible performers geared-down propellers among quietest planes con test RCer would take notice failed earn bonus points ever aircraft tail-draggers fixed gear None flaps biplanes ailerons both sets wings near est thing mishap occurred Sukhois ran out gas runway just after touchdown very sad note airplanes hu man little black Pitts sitting tarmac Red Deer would have disconsolate Alan Bush climbing Pitts cockpit instead its master Harold Chap pel name painted its fuse lage After wasnt Chappel selected member US team Harold Chappel killed tragic ac cident Just two months prior champi onships An ace aerobat Chappel test ing new plane Halfway through its sec ond flight plane shed wing Harold suc cumbed injuries four hours after crash some speculation about insufficient aileron counterbalance causing de structive flutter vibration actual cause may never known certainty just pilot Art Scholls untimely death never fully explained Fliers deeply mourn loss talented colleagues Since two organizations make WAC rules FAI Federation Aero nautique Internationale CIVA Com mission Internationale de Voltige Aeri enne both based France rules terpretation can get confusing Exactly what ace aerobats have to running gold Fly planes course However pi lots move through five separate contests its own rules exactly theyre expected flying point sequence can moot question Given Frances pioneering role very beginning aviation Gallic hege mony over WAC format hardly sur prising French lofted first-ever air borne vehicle Montgolfier brothers bal loon early 1783 Later manufac tured first successful commercial jet liner Caravelle recently worlds first supersonic passenger trans port Concorde joint FrenchBritish effort 14th WAC FAI CIVA provided four separate competitions its own award As other contests based Olympics model lady pi lots ranked separately gentle men first contest WAC called Known Compulsory As RC Pattern com petition 14 standard maneuvers flown full-scale aerobatics version ever maneuvers must performed side one-kilometer cubethe box lowest point box 328 ft above ground Succeeding contests also per formed inside box set international judges participating country grades pilots performance gold silver bronze medals going three high est scoring fliers second competition called Free Program contestant assembles per sonal repertoire maneuvers CIVA 1988 rule book maximum 18 maneuvers allowed Fliers submit programs judges advance Free Programs must carry maximum total points value 500 uniform compari son scores Certain compli cated maneuvers course have higher November 1989 105 Left Affable supertalented 62 years young Clint McHenry Extra 230 Its said Clint has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years however Clint associated Pompano Air Center Florida Right Linda Meyers Miami FL dark blue Laser-like Streaker An accomplished veteran aerobatics pilot member US womens team won Womens Championship Left Ellen Dean another member victorious US womens team seen polishing windscreen Pitts Right Natalya Ser geeva sitting Sukhoi being photographed German TV No isnt just publicity shotshe pushes Sukhoi its very limits points value simpler ones As gauge arduousness program Clint McHenry won 81% theoret ically achievable score third contest called Unknown Compulsory format rival teams try set traps another team se lects maneuver CIVA rule book hopes will difficult other teams perform pickers have opportunity practice maneuver submitted victims wont know until 18 hours prior contest course competing teams have equal chance trying oppo nents fourth contest purely arithmeti cal exercise individual male female flier scoring highest points total preceding three contests comes overall champion same time total points scores used se lect top 75% competitors will ad vance fifth contest four-minute Free Program fifth final competition far spectacular competitors regular air show performers given full liberty planning own original flightsand results breath taking four-minute clock becomes restriction placed aerobats second under over four-minute line flier receives 30-point penalty So performers try dip wings right whether theyve completed sequence What super show Youd think performers would get vertigo dont marveled pilots ability re Continued page 109 106 Model Aviation World Champion US mens team L-R Kermit Weeks Miami FL Henry Haigh hold ing beautiful Nesterov Trophy Howell Ml Clint McHenry Boca Raton FL cumulative scores three gentlemen highest competing teams main conscious clear-headed spin ning rolling pulling Gs capacity withstand such obvious torture Im told has acquired gradually Judging international contest re quires delicate balancing act com petitor out win compatriot judge tends favorably inclined di rection USA judge Ken Larson gave us bit insight way doing job During two-week period preceding contest team members practice hard day Ken retired airline captain aerobat himself cuing what expects way flying precision Straight lines symmetry com mandments Ken also added computer program designed Mr Tarasov Russian judges analyzes judges scoresheets will detect favoritism ie judges scoring particular contes tant way out line others Any contestants protest reviewed jury jurist protes tants country allowed sit four-minute Free-Style Program Kens criteria somewhat different looks originality smoothness rhythm harmoniously ma neuver blends next sides box arent rigidly enforced contest three others keeping its liberal spirit competitor has invented new maneuvers such Lomcevac torque-roll four-minute free sequence tounding feat saw contest Sukhoi continuously rolling about its horizon tal axis almost no forward movement gaining altitude Thats maneuver Im still having trouble believing People planes what its about Unlike what might observed Oshkosh planes marked Experi mental aerobatic sport plane entering competition must covered valid aerobatics certificate airworthiness brief must have thoroughly put through milland no doubt thats reasons high price tags Competing 1988 fray nine Pitts five Caps four Extras three Sukhois three midwings Stevens Acro ances try Weeks Solution Ultimate last two being bipes German Extras rarer Id thought Walter Ex tra mentioned manufactured 18 date eight made way States paint jobs alone works art Engines Sukhois Avco Lycomings showing unmistakable trend toward bigger muscle also evi dent growing number variable pitch three-bladed propellers As aiming sights located wing tips pilot seemed have own idea ought look No two slightly similar horsepower rating peo ple interesting far planes Language barrier course especially Russians Genial Vladimir Garan kin interpreter helped bridge gap As French speak fast some savvy French cant keep up mans point view some lady aerobats appear feminine would never expect see cock pit high-powered skull-rattling sport plane Natalya Sergeeva Elena Klimo vitch Ellen Dean Lynn Gehringer oth ers fit category Patti Wagstaff would make chapter own does regularly star air shows rides motorcycles drives Corvetteall characteristic fearless abandon likes cook Dr Julie Pfile takes flying seriously does medical profession Youve always thought aerobatics young persons sport Think again Over champion Henry Haigh has around 63 years Oops apologiesby todays standards thats young guess its vitamins low-cholesterol diet Clint McHenry having around 62 summers close secondthough hear has practiced aerobatics 45 62 years young No certified statistics Swiss champion Eric Mueller hand Im virtually certain voice changed very long time ago Eric way author book Flight Unlimited unfortunately out print German TV crew seserves men tion Husky Paul Schmidt wielded Bosch camera slender blond blue-eyed Francis Best did interviews Francis womans name German Chatting Paul referring comely helper quickly corrected Thats helperthats boss Stu Holloway Canadian special izes announcing aviation events kinds did bit WAC smooth easy-to-listen-to voice Stu has business 22 years large van equipped electronics befitting satel lite sports its own control-tower-like ob servation cube lost RCer Red Deer Stanley McCarter Shelby MT member Frontier RC Club unveiled simply beautiful Scale model Sukhoi kit company Wyoming Dave Beise Canadian modeler Co mox British Columbia arrived scratch-built Extra 230 exact replica Clint McHenrys flagship Clint graciously stood still photos During final day festivities Central Alberta Radio Fun Fliers CARFF its turn runway 60-member club recently purchased its 10-acre fly ing site $5000 Canadian ex change Guess thats wide-open West ern plains No Im jealous very four flights produced landing Continued page 194 PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Made U S BARSTOCK ALUMINUM SPINNERS Pan No Size fl150B .. 1112 TT-175B .. 1314 TT-200-B TT-2258 .. 21/4 fl226B .. 2114 FAt . fl2508 12 TT-251-B 1/2FAI .. fl275-B .. 2-3/4 T1-276-B .. 2-3/4 FAt .. 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S475 No 619KeIth Rider R4 PP Scale Golden Age racer rubber power spans 10 in$300 No 620Gimlet 40 PC Sport/Pattern plane spans 60 40/50 engine 2 sheets$1100 -0No 621 Thunderbird 60 CL Big Stunter spans 6t/e fur 60-sioe engine 2 sheets$ 1150 VNo 622 Gulck P-30 FF Competition rubber-power P-36-ciass plane spans 30 in5 325 0 2 No 623 Nenderson Longater PC Quarter-scale 1933 flinoer spans 90/u le 4-stroke 40/40 engine 3 plan shI no doc.. $ 1650 toNo 624Keleher Lark PC Quarter-scale homebuilt spans 69 60/90 4-stroke power 2 plan sheets no dec$1100 CNo 625AntoInette CL Scale eraly Preach monoplane spans 45/u uses 25/35 power$575 No 626 Sweepee PC SportlPattern canards forward-swept wing spans 04 uses 40 power 2 plan sheets . $ 1300 No 627 Apiary CL SportlStunter spans 26 uses Coe Queen Bee 074 powerS 225 No 628 Prime cut PC Spert/Aerobatic plane spaus 90 uses Qoadra 35/40-siut power Two plan sheets $ 1300 e 29 P-SIB Mustang CL Mostly-cardboard Sport Scale craft spans 60 uses 30/40 power Two plans sheets no dec $ 1275 630 OrigInal Fly Baby PC Old-Timer spans 72 uses 19/25 2-cycle 40 4-cycle power 2 plan sheets$ 1150 o NNo 631 Texas Wildcat CL Profile spurt/Stanter based 1920 plane spans 50 35 power $ 500 632 P-SIN Labamir Koutnys i/anscale Pubber model spans 23 in$ 325 ous I le numbers plans wish order best handling please include re-I C eQ i quests payment some other service plans order 193239262310314326332386 o 447460465521528531533534 O3~539554569570572575576578 81583586588593595598601 -ooE e jZZo602603604606607608609610 atbo611612614615616617618619 E 620621622623624625626627 c3~ EPlan628629630631632633634635 For orders price includes first Class postage US delivery Air Mail over 300 miles non-US address lease add $250 Air Mail osta e handlin Ian 0 us Make check money order payable US funds drawn ott US bank ModelAviation AMA 1810 0IMorse Please allow C weeks Samuel5r nesnondelivery Enclosed $ Please print carefully 00 NAME ___________________________ AMA No _________ I STREET 0 CITY 01 ZIPI C Aerobatics WC/Berman Continued page 109 nose-over flameout Exhibit pres sure does tell Competition excitement USA team does well temperature soars Kid Henry Haigh became 1988 Aerobatics World Champion US teamsboth mens ladiestook first place outstanding fliers ranking would have boggled uninitiated name just two among standouts Frenchman Patrick Paris Russias Yurgis Kairis extremely im pressive word has next World Aero batic Championships will held 1990 western Switzerland Sure hope Finally teaser What Russians idle stand-by time Answer No play chess VEND MOUNTS TNE VIBRATION KILLER Fail ana iuei euui tOrn noes axiatiur Cu 100 nes Christmas plans orders received after December 1 1989 will delivered before Christmas194 Model Aviation Southwest PC Flying Year round flight school Five day course $350 Learn fly planes Send SASE complete info 2818 Carolina NE Albuquerque NM 87110 505 881-3799 IMPORTED DIESELS A-MAuroraDOEDMVVSUUIS8nY8 PAWTapIIn Standard & RIO O364S Aero & Marine Vlntags8p@rt eaP Send 6100 Informaoloa CARLSON ENGINE IMPORTS 814 East Marconi Phoenix AZ 85022