Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive 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examples swept first three places Bob Peru top gun Class B Ignition LER another Bomber fracas going four deep Larry Davidsons McCoy 29-powered entry won event Ohlsson Sideport O&R 60s used entries Eut Tilestons Taylor Cub bested bunch 31 entrants Euts Cubs marvelous watch fly As one-design flier certainly get workshop cluttered up lot plans models will never build anyway Friday seemed final day compe tition windiest four SAM days certainly hottest lots humidity boot Sylvias Porkburger stand sold out lemonade dry tongues sought thirst-quenching remedies free ffight group number special events left its card would attract very much activity long week downwind corn trap seemed have taken toll energy would combatants point Slag Engine/Ohlsson 19/23 Sideport Cabin events Bob Edlestein came compete won both events Megow Ranger So Long respectively Gas Scale went Jon Bortnak s Skyfarer Rubber Scale won Bud Browns Puss Moth Compressed Air won Ed Matess X-Fighter entry gave best in-flight 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Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive aircraft problems making progress upwind against forces nature After ROG rise-off groundEd launch middle hard-surfaced runway models required land grassy area front between runway taxiway land elsewhere have flight score negated Some models blown too far downwind enable controlled return designated grassy area thereby earning OUR REV-UP INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 9000 PROPS! PROMPT SHIPMENT ON VISAIMC RACING WHEELS KLOTZ OIL CARBON FIBER SOLID LINES ALL KINDS OF TUBING THREE BRANDS OF GLOW PLUGS HARD-TO-FIND HARDWARE NEW PITODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT AIRFOIL DATA DISKS FOILED AGAIN! Now popular demand shipping dlsks ready-made airfoils use F0ILO AQAINIII MORE THAN 50 AIRFOIL DATA FILES ON EACH DISK IN NEW STANDARDIZED DATA FORMAT ILLUSTRATED 58-PAGE MANUAL WITH MULTIPLE PLOTS & COORDINATE DATA FOR EACH AIRFOIL Dick Selig-Donovan Eppler other Airt oils Dick B NACA Symmetric Cambered Airfoils requires FOILED AGAIN! VI35 IAIer ORDER YOUR COPIES NOW $25oo WATCH DUB ASS FDA NEWS SF DTIIER DATA DISK RELEASES CYGNET Software619 792-8021 3525 Del Mar Heights #2378 San Diego CA 92130 SUNGLASSES 195 $2S&H 100% VV Protection Shatterproof Excellent Optical Quality Tints Fit Over Prescriptions S KYS PO BOX 1000 DUMFRIES VA 22026 800-227-9318 KFLIG5T I5DU2T51/9 SIwo S-A Sb 1116 IYoow L,ssus 17151 ros sop op 51515 1w Clstt U 37111OHS f3f 112 spreop w 6i5 6221171015 2030 11OHS bASS ,sA ply flight scores zero Thus some RC fliers joined free fighting associates downwind treks retrieve models Class C Glow LER Limited Engine Run event somewhat different story Most large Vintage models seemed overpowered comparison Nelson Rossi other racing power plants noses took wind penetration well stride pair Lanzo Bombers Fred Mulholland Dale Tower would top field 49 entrants Fred would make double win also mastering Class Ignition LER event scaled-down Playboy Sr Its bit ludicrous call latter event ignition event three out four entrants used Elfin 249cc diesel engines power event could appropriately relabeled Class Diesel LER event Jim Reynolds Playboy copped Ohlsson 23 event usingwhat elsean Ohlsson 23 power late afternoon thunderstorm curbed serious competition remainder day Wednesday clouds rain still around morning both dissipated day wore leaving persistent wind cope Free Flight Class B Fuselage would won John Bortnak ignitionconverted 0S Max 25 So Long Only seven 36 registered event entries would attempt official flights against horizontal air coming out southwest Class C Pylon saw ratio get little better 13 out 41 entrants fought elements Bob Johannes won New Ruler yanked aloft O&R 60 sideport Large Rubber Stick won Richard Thompson using Wallenhorst Stick design Richard few compete both FF RC Assist categoriesand no constructs neater model gentleman Imlay City Michigan Small Rubber Fuselage event winner Don Reid Double Feature bested George Perryman s Jabberwock top honors OT Catapult Glider special event epitomized day drew respectable total 43 entrants South Bend Indiana father-and-son team Ralph Bill Schlarb captured top two slots five seconds separating first time duo topped Hand-Held Catapult event national competitions let known hereby goodnatured Ralph 76 years young sports pacemaker left chest Some accomplishment eb Up RC Assist area west end would hair em scare em LER stuff today both Antique classes carded special Brown Engine event promised slow pace further Antique event LA Johnstons Fox Eagle-powered Dallaire hung airborne longest total time Pure Antique event Lamoine Schrock s Lanzo Bomber sported McCoy 60 power tops fact top seven places would go Bombers design keeps making champions out lot fliers Vintage models underpowered Brown Engine event grunted groaned against wind however 28 39 entrants got airborne Bob Perus Kloud Queen eking out victory over Skip Williamss Air Chief Scale Duration things models common Cox reed-valve engines designs varied greatly Walt Gearys Cessna AW declared winner Thursday rain now out area Thursday Friday remained quite windy skies gradually cleared humidity moved up maximum Friday Thursdays FF Gas events would see staging both Class Pylon Fuselage categories JOMAR PRODUCTS SM-4 Electric Throttle best bargain Long Run SM4 runs 7 24 cells handles over SO amps current optically isolated high rate includes Futaba 1 lead sermos connectors heatsink plastic cover Weight 13 ounces Smooth reliable performance Best market Dont settle less! Now $110 GLITCH Buster 6 CHANNELS OPTICAL Isolation PLUS Reliable SIGNAL BOOST long servo runs high povcr jumbo servos Must used separate servo battery pack Eliminates glitches caused 1w long leads big servos flying tail wires Allows new PCM radios drive ANY type servo! add own input/output leads Measures 15 X 15 X 75 weighs 3/4 ounce Still just $45 Battery Backer use 4 S cell packs main other backup Backup kicks main pack craps out Capable handling current youll ever need Cheap peace mind expensive project! Buy before s too late measly $49 GLOW SWITCH 77YY1 X 15 X 4 half ounce unit can handle up 200 watts load Optical/v isolated unit replaces mechanical switch servo Simple 2 wire hookup just like regular switch! High OR Low side switching Includes indicator LED reversing switch point adjust futaba J lead Great Video camera smoke fluid pump glow plug power ignition system switch etc. Osslv $39 Lots other stuff too. like super fine wire #22 #15 #12 gauge sample ON/OFF motor controls etc Also RIC related consulting services reasonable rates! Call wnte address below info today 8606 Susanview Lane Cincinnati OH 45244 513-474-0985 February 1993 139 U A-26 IN VADER DESIGNED BY HAL PARENT 88 SPAN 25 TO 50 ENGINES 748 SO IN AREA BASIC SEMI-KIT$6915 FULL COMBO PACKAGE CLUDES SEMI-KIT SIG WOOD PAK COMPLETE SPRING-AIR RETRACT GEAR SYSTEM DECAL SHEET HARD WARE AND WING SHEETING GLUE 29c9 COMBO SPECIAL$26g95 ADD $750 SHIPPING IN USAIL RESIDENTS ADD 7% TAX VISA & MASTER CARD ACCEPTEDCALL 309-342-3009 WING MFG 306 E SIMMONS GALESBURO IL 91401 AUTHENTIC DROP TANKS SCALE DROP TANKS CAN ACTUALLY BE DROPPED IN FLIGHT WOE OF HIGH MI00CT PLO STIC AND COME IN TWO PRE-FORMED SHELL HALVES ASSEUBLES IN MINUTES WITH CA GLUE *501 15 LONG FOR 50 TO 75 WARINRDS SSJ5EA 1901-A IEILONG FOR 25 TO 50 WARBIRDS EA BOMB & DROP TANK RELEASE KIT HEAVY DUTY RELEASE MECHANISM HOLDS BOMBS AND TANKS FIRMLY IN POSITION UNTIL YOU WANT THEM TO DROP *900 BOMB RELEASE KIT WYTH INSTRUCTIONS $349 EA j/4fG MFG Phone 3093423009 AT YOUR OVA LEO OR OFlOER DIRECT VISA AND MASTER CARD ACCEPTED SEND OSINFOR 60 PA GE CA TALOG AND GA TA SiIEETS WING MEG SOSE SIMMONS GALESBURG IL 61401 a A Pylon Don Reids Elfin 249D-powered Ranger bested other entries goodly margin Fuselage Don became double winner Elfin-powered So Long event both FF RC Assist categories new reproduction Elfin diesels have definitely proven superior performance ignition-engine-powered counterparts a 37 Wakefield George Perryman led list once again gumband event aging Ying design OTIILG Old-Time Hand-Launched GliderEd Guy Eaves hecame entrant post three maxes accomplished Joe Hervat design 30-Second Antique Tom Lucas Atwood-propelled Rambler competitor max out added fourth max prove first three no flukes wonder Tom owns other kind engine besides Atwood RC Texaco Up front RV tent city RC Assist site 41 58 models entered took airwind Bombers took first four places top three using 05 60 fourcycle engines Tom Botkin edged Larry Davidson close finish Class Glow LER Gil Moms s Kerswap top design examples swept first three places Bob Peru top gun Class B Ignition LER another Bomber fracas going four deep Larry Davidsons McCoy 29-powered entry won event Ohlsson Sideport O&R 60s used entries Eut Tilestons Taylor Cub bested bunch 31 entrants Euts Cubs marvelous watch fly As one-design flier certainly get workshop cluttered up lot plans models will never build anyway Friday seemed final day compe tition windiest four SAM days certainly hottest lots humidity boot Sylvias Porkburger stand sold out lemonade dry tongues sought thirst-quenching remedies free ffight group number special events left its card would attract very much activity long week downwind corn trap seemed have taken toll energy would combatants point Slag Engine/Ohlsson 19/23 Sideport Cabin events Bob Edlestein came compete won both events Megow Ranger So Long respectively Gas Scale went Jon Bortnak s Skyfarer Rubber Scale won Bud Browns Puss Moth Compressed Air won Ed Matess X-Fighter entry gave best in-flight performance ever seen event Would believe maxout cant ever remember things getting single max before let alone three Commercial Rubber Don Reids Korda CRS get maxout event wellthus completing weeks free flight schedule events RC Assist agenda three events remaining final day competition began Class C Ignition Larry Davidsons Playboy Sr O&R 60 up front captured event whopping 65 original entries Class B Glow LER Pete Raffertys Bomber topped 26 actual fliers original 36 entered LA Johnstons deBolt Blitzkrieg sporting HB 25 power great crowd-pleaser penetrated excess wind ease chugged second place Eut Tileston put another handsome Taylor Cubs fourth place behind Bill Tibbss Bomber third OT Electric Some event entries would suffer effects insufficient power against strong wind being unable get far enough upwind land specified grassy area Bombers went five deep category using 05-size electric motors Dale Tower posted strong score win over George Chaplik over another year Finale After fine banqnet staged once again Executive Inn pack-up time trip home Certain individuals cannot applauded enough carrying off weeklong affair enjoyment attended So Contest Directors numerous backups aides-de camp offer sincere knowingly insufficient thank workhorse Contest Manger Don Sachtjen say Youre hell efficient guy 4RC Scale/Troy Continued page 132 hand started Again started easily two flips started booster battery transferred magnetos running could run short bursts small cooling channels block bad flow characteristics engine overheated quite fast hindsight wonder much due unducted radiator Once again seemed lot power tap whether enough flight couldnt judge As internal friction such complex engine would high amazing ran well did engine didnt really idle very slowly unlike BR2 shown previous 140 Model Aviation e 195 Kits available hobby shops everywhere write current product information PO Box 553 East Northport NY 11731 516-754-6628 DIET YOUR ENGINE $395 1 beak Koash tough flexible rabben/faboc IIbeMIS laninate softenS vibindox between engine macnt waunt firewall Sheet 2kc4xAn Sick tats blade aracia- vrbraflan Maney hack riot campletely satiSfied Send heck TSTT arderfar $395 plan $490 IS 5015 10515 easily minuteS WeIbS wherever theren J BALSSDUSr $0 Rex 78 New Yad 10021 Help pewerve ReF enHmIIININII no rv aEoeaIIIrvIIIsaotIYsby-preducIT LATHES MtLLS METALS SOOKS PRECtStOh tNOTRUMENTS COMPLETE CATALOG $200 CAMPBELL TOOLS CO SOOCs items 2100Snace noad Sprinafinid xv 45505 1513 322a562 SCALE DOCUMENTATION] F are/Antique/Classic Aircraft IlSSOs ol photoc ItOOl RI 3-niawe Imany rarefuniquelone RI kind Isanislaelion guaranteed celaing $275 US lands ModelsJ 027 S Rood Lak WOOd CO 80226
Edition: Model Aviation - 1993/02
Page Numbers: 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 138, 139, 140
Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive aircraft problems making progress upwind against forces nature After ROG rise-off groundEd launch middle hard-surfaced runway models required land grassy area front between runway taxiway land elsewhere have flight score negated Some models blown too far downwind enable controlled return designated grassy area thereby earning OUR REV-UP INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 9000 PROPS! PROMPT SHIPMENT ON VISAIMC RACING WHEELS KLOTZ OIL CARBON FIBER SOLID LINES ALL KINDS OF TUBING THREE BRANDS OF GLOW PLUGS HARD-TO-FIND HARDWARE NEW PITODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT AIRFOIL DATA DISKS FOILED AGAIN! Now popular demand shipping dlsks ready-made airfoils use F0ILO AQAINIII MORE THAN 50 AIRFOIL DATA FILES ON EACH DISK IN NEW STANDARDIZED DATA FORMAT ILLUSTRATED 58-PAGE MANUAL WITH MULTIPLE PLOTS & COORDINATE DATA FOR EACH AIRFOIL Dick Selig-Donovan Eppler other Airt oils Dick B NACA Symmetric Cambered Airfoils requires FOILED AGAIN! VI35 IAIer ORDER YOUR COPIES NOW $25oo WATCH DUB ASS FDA NEWS SF DTIIER DATA DISK RELEASES CYGNET Software619 792-8021 3525 Del Mar Heights #2378 San Diego CA 92130 SUNGLASSES 195 $2S&H 100% VV Protection Shatterproof Excellent Optical Quality Tints Fit Over Prescriptions S KYS PO BOX 1000 DUMFRIES VA 22026 800-227-9318 KFLIG5T I5DU2T51/9 SIwo S-A Sb 1116 IYoow L,ssus 17151 ros sop op 51515 1w Clstt U 37111OHS f3f 112 spreop w 6i5 6221171015 2030 11OHS bASS ,sA ply flight scores zero Thus some RC fliers joined free fighting associates downwind treks retrieve models Class C Glow LER Limited Engine Run event somewhat different story Most large Vintage models seemed overpowered comparison Nelson Rossi other racing power plants noses took wind penetration well stride pair Lanzo Bombers Fred Mulholland Dale Tower would top field 49 entrants Fred would make double win also mastering Class Ignition LER event scaled-down Playboy Sr Its bit ludicrous call latter event ignition event three out four entrants used Elfin 249cc diesel engines power event could appropriately relabeled Class Diesel LER event Jim Reynolds Playboy copped Ohlsson 23 event usingwhat elsean Ohlsson 23 power late afternoon thunderstorm curbed serious competition remainder day Wednesday clouds rain still around morning both dissipated day wore leaving persistent wind cope Free Flight Class B Fuselage would won John Bortnak ignitionconverted 0S Max 25 So Long Only seven 36 registered event entries would attempt official flights against horizontal air coming out southwest Class C Pylon saw ratio get little better 13 out 41 entrants fought elements Bob Johannes won New Ruler yanked aloft O&R 60 sideport Large Rubber Stick won Richard Thompson using Wallenhorst Stick design Richard few compete both FF RC Assist categoriesand no constructs neater model gentleman Imlay City Michigan Small Rubber Fuselage event winner Don Reid Double Feature bested George Perryman s Jabberwock top honors OT Catapult Glider special event epitomized day drew respectable total 43 entrants South Bend Indiana father-and-son team Ralph Bill Schlarb captured top two slots five seconds separating first time duo topped Hand-Held Catapult event national competitions let known hereby goodnatured Ralph 76 years young sports pacemaker left chest Some accomplishment eb Up RC Assist area west end would hair em scare em LER stuff today both Antique classes carded special Brown Engine event promised slow pace further Antique event LA Johnstons Fox Eagle-powered Dallaire hung airborne longest total time Pure Antique event Lamoine Schrock s Lanzo Bomber sported McCoy 60 power tops fact top seven places would go Bombers design keeps making champions out lot fliers Vintage models underpowered Brown Engine event grunted groaned against wind however 28 39 entrants got airborne Bob Perus Kloud Queen eking out victory over Skip Williamss Air Chief Scale Duration things models common Cox reed-valve engines designs varied greatly Walt Gearys Cessna AW declared winner Thursday rain now out area Thursday Friday remained quite windy skies gradually cleared humidity moved up maximum Friday Thursdays FF Gas events would see staging both Class Pylon Fuselage categories JOMAR PRODUCTS SM-4 Electric Throttle best bargain Long Run SM4 runs 7 24 cells handles over SO amps current optically isolated high rate includes Futaba 1 lead sermos connectors heatsink plastic cover Weight 13 ounces Smooth reliable performance Best market Dont settle less! Now $110 GLITCH Buster 6 CHANNELS OPTICAL Isolation PLUS Reliable SIGNAL BOOST long servo runs high povcr jumbo servos Must used separate servo battery pack Eliminates glitches caused 1w long leads big servos flying tail wires Allows new PCM radios drive ANY type servo! add own input/output leads Measures 15 X 15 X 75 weighs 3/4 ounce Still just $45 Battery Backer use 4 S cell packs main other backup Backup kicks main pack craps out Capable handling current youll ever need Cheap peace mind expensive project! Buy before s too late measly $49 GLOW SWITCH 77YY1 X 15 X 4 half ounce unit can handle up 200 watts load Optical/v isolated unit replaces mechanical switch servo Simple 2 wire hookup just like regular switch! High OR Low side switching Includes indicator LED reversing switch point adjust futaba J lead Great Video camera smoke fluid pump glow plug power ignition system switch etc. Osslv $39 Lots other stuff too. like super fine wire #22 #15 #12 gauge sample ON/OFF motor controls etc Also RIC related consulting services reasonable rates! Call wnte address below info today 8606 Susanview Lane Cincinnati OH 45244 513-474-0985 February 1993 139 U A-26 IN VADER DESIGNED BY HAL PARENT 88 SPAN 25 TO 50 ENGINES 748 SO IN AREA BASIC SEMI-KIT$6915 FULL COMBO PACKAGE CLUDES SEMI-KIT SIG WOOD PAK COMPLETE SPRING-AIR RETRACT GEAR SYSTEM DECAL SHEET HARD WARE AND WING SHEETING GLUE 29c9 COMBO SPECIAL$26g95 ADD $750 SHIPPING IN USAIL RESIDENTS ADD 7% TAX VISA & MASTER CARD ACCEPTEDCALL 309-342-3009 WING MFG 306 E SIMMONS GALESBURO IL 91401 AUTHENTIC DROP TANKS SCALE DROP TANKS CAN ACTUALLY BE DROPPED IN FLIGHT WOE OF HIGH MI00CT PLO STIC AND COME IN TWO PRE-FORMED SHELL HALVES ASSEUBLES IN MINUTES WITH CA GLUE *501 15 LONG FOR 50 TO 75 WARINRDS SSJ5EA 1901-A IEILONG FOR 25 TO 50 WARBIRDS EA BOMB & DROP TANK RELEASE KIT HEAVY DUTY RELEASE MECHANISM HOLDS BOMBS AND TANKS FIRMLY IN POSITION UNTIL YOU WANT THEM TO DROP *900 BOMB RELEASE KIT WYTH INSTRUCTIONS $349 EA j/4fG MFG Phone 3093423009 AT YOUR OVA LEO OR OFlOER DIRECT VISA AND MASTER CARD ACCEPTED SEND OSINFOR 60 PA GE CA TALOG AND GA TA SiIEETS WING MEG SOSE SIMMONS GALESBURG IL 61401 a A Pylon Don Reids Elfin 249D-powered Ranger bested other entries goodly margin Fuselage Don became double winner Elfin-powered So Long event both FF RC Assist categories new reproduction Elfin diesels have definitely proven superior performance ignition-engine-powered counterparts a 37 Wakefield George Perryman led list once again gumband event aging Ying design OTIILG Old-Time Hand-Launched GliderEd Guy Eaves hecame entrant post three maxes accomplished Joe Hervat design 30-Second Antique Tom Lucas Atwood-propelled Rambler competitor max out added fourth max prove first three no flukes wonder Tom owns other kind engine besides Atwood RC Texaco Up front RV tent city RC Assist site 41 58 models entered took airwind Bombers took first four places top three using 05 60 fourcycle engines Tom Botkin edged Larry Davidson close finish Class Glow LER Gil Moms s Kerswap top design examples swept first three places Bob Peru top gun Class B Ignition LER another Bomber fracas going four deep Larry Davidsons McCoy 29-powered entry won event Ohlsson Sideport O&R 60s used entries Eut Tilestons Taylor Cub bested bunch 31 entrants Euts Cubs marvelous watch fly As one-design flier certainly get workshop cluttered up lot plans models will never build anyway Friday seemed final day compe tition windiest four SAM days certainly hottest lots humidity boot Sylvias Porkburger stand sold out lemonade dry tongues sought thirst-quenching remedies free ffight group number special events left its card would attract very much activity long week downwind corn trap seemed have taken toll energy would combatants point Slag Engine/Ohlsson 19/23 Sideport Cabin events Bob Edlestein came compete won both events Megow Ranger So Long respectively Gas Scale went Jon Bortnak s Skyfarer Rubber Scale won Bud Browns Puss Moth Compressed Air won Ed Matess X-Fighter entry gave best in-flight performance ever seen event Would believe maxout cant ever remember things getting single max before let alone three Commercial Rubber Don Reids Korda CRS get maxout event wellthus completing weeks free flight schedule events RC Assist agenda three events remaining final day competition began Class C Ignition Larry Davidsons Playboy Sr O&R 60 up front captured event whopping 65 original entries Class B Glow LER Pete Raffertys Bomber topped 26 actual fliers original 36 entered LA Johnstons deBolt Blitzkrieg sporting HB 25 power great crowd-pleaser penetrated excess wind ease chugged second place Eut Tileston put another handsome Taylor Cubs fourth place behind Bill Tibbss Bomber third OT Electric Some event entries would suffer effects insufficient power against strong wind being unable get far enough upwind land specified grassy area Bombers went five deep category using 05-size electric motors Dale Tower posted strong score win over George Chaplik over another year Finale After fine banqnet staged once again Executive Inn pack-up time trip home Certain individuals cannot applauded enough carrying off weeklong affair enjoyment attended So Contest Directors numerous backups aides-de camp offer sincere knowingly insufficient thank workhorse Contest Manger Don Sachtjen say Youre hell efficient guy 4RC Scale/Troy Continued page 132 hand started Again started easily two flips started booster battery transferred magnetos running could run short bursts small cooling channels block bad flow characteristics engine overheated quite fast hindsight wonder much due unducted radiator Once again seemed lot power tap whether enough flight couldnt judge As internal friction such complex engine would high amazing ran well did engine didnt really idle very slowly unlike BR2 shown previous 140 Model Aviation e 195 Kits available hobby shops everywhere write current product information PO Box 553 East Northport NY 11731 516-754-6628 DIET YOUR ENGINE $395 1 beak Koash tough flexible rabben/faboc IIbeMIS laninate softenS vibindox between engine macnt waunt firewall Sheet 2kc4xAn Sick tats blade aracia- vrbraflan Maney hack riot campletely satiSfied Send heck TSTT arderfar $395 plan $490 IS 5015 10515 easily minuteS WeIbS wherever theren J BALSSDUSr $0 Rex 78 New Yad 10021 Help pewerve ReF enHmIIININII no rv aEoeaIIIrvIIIsaotIYsby-preducIT LATHES MtLLS METALS SOOKS PRECtStOh tNOTRUMENTS COMPLETE CATALOG $200 CAMPBELL TOOLS CO SOOCs items 2100Snace noad Sprinafinid xv 45505 1513 322a562 SCALE DOCUMENTATION] F are/Antique/Classic Aircraft IlSSOs ol photoc ItOOl RI 3-niawe Imany rarefuniquelone RI kind Isanislaelion guaranteed celaing $275 US lands ModelsJ 027 S Rood Lak WOOd CO 80226
Edition: Model Aviation - 1993/02
Page Numbers: 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 138, 139, 140
Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive aircraft problems making progress upwind against forces nature After ROG rise-off groundEd launch middle hard-surfaced runway models required land grassy area front between runway taxiway land elsewhere have flight score negated Some models blown too far downwind enable controlled return designated grassy area thereby earning OUR REV-UP INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 9000 PROPS! 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1993/02
Page Numbers: 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 138, 139, 140
Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive aircraft problems making progress upwind against forces nature After ROG rise-off groundEd launch middle hard-surfaced runway models required land grassy area front between runway taxiway land elsewhere have flight score negated Some models blown too far downwind enable controlled return designated grassy area thereby earning OUR REV-UP INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 9000 PROPS! PROMPT SHIPMENT ON VISAIMC RACING WHEELS KLOTZ OIL CARBON FIBER SOLID LINES ALL KINDS OF TUBING THREE BRANDS OF GLOW PLUGS HARD-TO-FIND HARDWARE NEW PITODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT AIRFOIL DATA DISKS FOILED AGAIN! Now popular demand shipping dlsks ready-made airfoils use F0ILO AQAINIII MORE THAN 50 AIRFOIL DATA FILES ON EACH DISK IN NEW STANDARDIZED DATA FORMAT ILLUSTRATED 58-PAGE MANUAL WITH MULTIPLE PLOTS & COORDINATE DATA FOR EACH AIRFOIL Dick Selig-Donovan Eppler other Airt oils Dick B NACA Symmetric Cambered Airfoils requires FOILED AGAIN! VI35 IAIer ORDER YOUR COPIES NOW $25oo WATCH DUB ASS FDA NEWS SF DTIIER DATA DISK RELEASES CYGNET Software619 792-8021 3525 Del Mar Heights #2378 San Diego CA 92130 SUNGLASSES 195 $2S&H 100% VV Protection Shatterproof Excellent Optical Quality Tints Fit Over Prescriptions S KYS PO BOX 1000 DUMFRIES VA 22026 800-227-9318 KFLIG5T I5DU2T51/9 SIwo S-A Sb 1116 IYoow L,ssus 17151 ros sop op 51515 1w Clstt U 37111OHS f3f 112 spreop w 6i5 6221171015 2030 11OHS bASS ,sA ply flight scores zero Thus some RC fliers joined free fighting associates downwind treks retrieve models Class C Glow LER Limited Engine Run event somewhat different story Most large Vintage models seemed overpowered comparison Nelson Rossi other racing power plants noses took wind penetration well stride pair Lanzo Bombers Fred Mulholland Dale Tower would top field 49 entrants Fred would make double win also mastering Class Ignition LER event scaled-down Playboy Sr Its bit ludicrous call latter event ignition event three out four entrants used Elfin 249cc diesel engines power event could appropriately relabeled Class Diesel LER event Jim Reynolds Playboy copped Ohlsson 23 event usingwhat elsean Ohlsson 23 power late afternoon thunderstorm curbed serious competition remainder day Wednesday clouds rain still around morning both dissipated day wore leaving persistent wind cope Free Flight Class B Fuselage would won John Bortnak ignitionconverted 0S Max 25 So Long Only seven 36 registered event entries would attempt official flights against horizontal air coming out southwest Class C Pylon saw ratio get little better 13 out 41 entrants fought elements Bob Johannes won New Ruler yanked aloft O&R 60 sideport Large Rubber Stick won Richard Thompson using Wallenhorst Stick design Richard few compete both FF RC Assist categoriesand no constructs neater model gentleman Imlay City Michigan Small Rubber Fuselage event winner Don Reid Double Feature bested George Perryman s Jabberwock top honors OT Catapult Glider special event epitomized day drew respectable total 43 entrants South Bend Indiana father-and-son team Ralph Bill Schlarb captured top two slots five seconds separating first time duo topped Hand-Held Catapult event national competitions let known hereby goodnatured Ralph 76 years young sports pacemaker left chest Some accomplishment eb Up RC Assist area west end would hair em scare em LER stuff today both Antique classes carded special Brown Engine event promised slow pace further Antique event LA Johnstons Fox Eagle-powered Dallaire hung airborne longest total time Pure Antique event Lamoine Schrock s Lanzo Bomber sported McCoy 60 power tops fact top seven places would go Bombers design keeps making champions out lot fliers Vintage models underpowered Brown Engine event grunted groaned against wind however 28 39 entrants got airborne Bob Perus Kloud Queen eking out victory over Skip Williamss Air Chief Scale Duration things models common Cox reed-valve engines designs varied greatly Walt Gearys Cessna AW declared winner Thursday rain now out area Thursday Friday remained quite windy skies gradually cleared humidity moved up maximum Friday Thursdays FF Gas events would see staging both Class Pylon Fuselage categories JOMAR PRODUCTS SM-4 Electric Throttle best bargain Long Run SM4 runs 7 24 cells handles over SO amps current optically isolated high rate includes Futaba 1 lead sermos connectors heatsink plastic cover Weight 13 ounces Smooth reliable performance Best market Dont settle less! Now $110 GLITCH Buster 6 CHANNELS OPTICAL Isolation PLUS Reliable SIGNAL BOOST long servo runs high povcr jumbo servos Must used separate servo battery pack Eliminates glitches caused 1w long leads big servos flying tail wires Allows new PCM radios drive ANY type servo! add own input/output leads Measures 15 X 15 X 75 weighs 3/4 ounce Still just $45 Battery Backer use 4 S cell packs main other backup Backup kicks main pack craps out Capable handling current youll ever need Cheap peace mind expensive project! Buy before s too late measly $49 GLOW SWITCH 77YY1 X 15 X 4 half ounce unit can handle up 200 watts load Optical/v isolated unit replaces mechanical switch servo Simple 2 wire hookup just like regular switch! High OR Low side switching Includes indicator LED reversing switch point adjust futaba J lead Great Video camera smoke fluid pump glow plug power ignition system switch etc. Osslv $39 Lots other stuff too. like super fine wire #22 #15 #12 gauge sample ON/OFF motor controls etc Also RIC related consulting services reasonable rates! Call wnte address below info today 8606 Susanview Lane Cincinnati OH 45244 513-474-0985 February 1993 139 U A-26 IN VADER DESIGNED BY HAL PARENT 88 SPAN 25 TO 50 ENGINES 748 SO IN AREA BASIC SEMI-KIT$6915 FULL COMBO PACKAGE CLUDES SEMI-KIT SIG WOOD PAK COMPLETE SPRING-AIR RETRACT GEAR SYSTEM DECAL SHEET HARD WARE AND WING SHEETING GLUE 29c9 COMBO SPECIAL$26g95 ADD $750 SHIPPING IN USAIL RESIDENTS ADD 7% TAX VISA & MASTER CARD ACCEPTEDCALL 309-342-3009 WING MFG 306 E SIMMONS GALESBURO IL 91401 AUTHENTIC DROP TANKS SCALE DROP TANKS CAN ACTUALLY BE DROPPED IN FLIGHT WOE OF HIGH MI00CT PLO STIC AND COME IN TWO PRE-FORMED SHELL HALVES ASSEUBLES IN MINUTES WITH CA GLUE *501 15 LONG FOR 50 TO 75 WARINRDS SSJ5EA 1901-A IEILONG FOR 25 TO 50 WARBIRDS EA BOMB & DROP TANK RELEASE KIT HEAVY DUTY RELEASE MECHANISM HOLDS BOMBS AND TANKS FIRMLY IN POSITION UNTIL YOU WANT THEM TO DROP *900 BOMB RELEASE KIT WYTH INSTRUCTIONS $349 EA j/4fG MFG Phone 3093423009 AT YOUR OVA LEO OR OFlOER DIRECT VISA AND MASTER CARD ACCEPTED SEND OSINFOR 60 PA GE CA TALOG AND GA TA SiIEETS WING MEG SOSE SIMMONS GALESBURG IL 61401 a A Pylon Don Reids Elfin 249D-powered Ranger bested other entries goodly margin Fuselage Don became double winner Elfin-powered So Long event both FF RC Assist categories new reproduction Elfin diesels have definitely proven superior performance ignition-engine-powered counterparts a 37 Wakefield George Perryman led list once again gumband event aging Ying design OTIILG Old-Time Hand-Launched GliderEd Guy Eaves hecame entrant post three maxes accomplished Joe Hervat design 30-Second Antique Tom Lucas Atwood-propelled Rambler competitor max out added fourth max prove first three no flukes wonder Tom owns other kind engine besides Atwood RC Texaco Up front RV tent city RC Assist site 41 58 models entered took airwind Bombers took first four places top three using 05 60 fourcycle engines Tom Botkin edged Larry Davidson close finish Class Glow LER Gil Moms s Kerswap top design examples swept first three places Bob Peru top gun Class B Ignition LER another Bomber fracas going four deep Larry Davidsons McCoy 29-powered entry won event Ohlsson Sideport O&R 60s used entries Eut Tilestons Taylor Cub bested bunch 31 entrants Euts Cubs marvelous watch fly As one-design flier certainly get workshop cluttered up lot plans models will never build anyway Friday seemed final day compe tition windiest four SAM days certainly hottest lots humidity boot Sylvias Porkburger stand sold out lemonade dry tongues sought thirst-quenching remedies free ffight group number special events left its card would attract very much activity long week downwind corn trap seemed have taken toll energy would combatants point Slag Engine/Ohlsson 19/23 Sideport Cabin events Bob Edlestein came compete won both events Megow Ranger So Long respectively Gas Scale went Jon Bortnak s Skyfarer Rubber Scale won Bud Browns Puss Moth Compressed Air won Ed Matess X-Fighter entry gave best in-flight performance ever seen event Would believe maxout cant ever remember things getting single max before let alone three Commercial Rubber Don Reids Korda CRS get maxout event wellthus completing weeks free flight schedule events RC Assist agenda three events remaining final day competition began Class C Ignition Larry Davidsons Playboy Sr O&R 60 up front captured event whopping 65 original entries Class B Glow LER Pete Raffertys Bomber topped 26 actual fliers original 36 entered LA Johnstons deBolt Blitzkrieg sporting HB 25 power great crowd-pleaser penetrated excess wind ease chugged second place Eut Tileston put another handsome Taylor Cubs fourth place behind Bill Tibbss Bomber third OT Electric Some event entries would suffer effects insufficient power against strong wind being unable get far enough upwind land specified grassy area Bombers went five deep category using 05-size electric motors Dale Tower posted strong score win over George Chaplik over another year Finale After fine banqnet staged once again Executive Inn pack-up time trip home Certain individuals cannot applauded enough carrying off weeklong affair enjoyment attended So Contest Directors numerous backups aides-de camp offer sincere knowingly insufficient thank workhorse Contest Manger Don Sachtjen say Youre hell efficient guy 4RC Scale/Troy Continued page 132 hand started Again started easily two flips started booster battery transferred magnetos running could run short bursts small cooling channels block bad flow characteristics engine overheated quite fast hindsight wonder much due unducted radiator Once again seemed lot power tap whether enough flight couldnt judge As internal friction such complex engine would high amazing ran well did engine didnt really idle very slowly unlike BR2 shown previous 140 Model Aviation e 195 Kits available hobby shops everywhere write current product information PO Box 553 East Northport NY 11731 516-754-6628 DIET YOUR ENGINE $395 1 beak Koash tough flexible rabben/faboc IIbeMIS laninate softenS vibindox between engine macnt waunt firewall Sheet 2kc4xAn Sick tats blade aracia- vrbraflan Maney hack riot campletely satiSfied Send heck TSTT arderfar $395 plan $490 IS 5015 10515 easily minuteS WeIbS wherever theren J BALSSDUSr $0 Rex 78 New Yad 10021 Help pewerve ReF enHmIIININII no rv aEoeaIIIrvIIIsaotIYsby-preducIT LATHES MtLLS METALS SOOKS PRECtStOh tNOTRUMENTS COMPLETE CATALOG $200 CAMPBELL TOOLS CO SOOCs items 2100Snace noad Sprinafinid xv 45505 1513 322a562 SCALE DOCUMENTATION] F are/Antique/Classic Aircraft IlSSOs ol photoc ItOOl RI 3-niawe Imany rarefuniquelone RI kind Isanislaelion guaranteed celaing $275 US lands ModelsJ 027 S Rood Lak WOOd CO 80226
Edition: Model Aviation - 1993/02
Page Numbers: 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 138, 139, 140
Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive aircraft problems making progress upwind against forces nature After ROG rise-off groundEd launch middle hard-surfaced runway models required land grassy area front between runway taxiway land elsewhere have flight score negated Some models blown too far downwind enable controlled return designated grassy area thereby earning OUR REV-UP INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 9000 PROPS! PROMPT SHIPMENT ON VISAIMC RACING WHEELS KLOTZ OIL CARBON FIBER SOLID LINES ALL KINDS OF TUBING THREE BRANDS OF GLOW PLUGS HARD-TO-FIND HARDWARE NEW PITODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT AIRFOIL DATA DISKS FOILED AGAIN! Now popular demand shipping dlsks ready-made airfoils use F0ILO AQAINIII MORE THAN 50 AIRFOIL DATA FILES ON EACH DISK IN NEW STANDARDIZED DATA FORMAT ILLUSTRATED 58-PAGE MANUAL WITH MULTIPLE PLOTS & COORDINATE DATA FOR EACH AIRFOIL Dick Selig-Donovan Eppler other Airt oils Dick B NACA Symmetric Cambered Airfoils requires FOILED AGAIN! VI35 IAIer ORDER YOUR COPIES NOW $25oo WATCH DUB ASS FDA NEWS SF DTIIER DATA DISK RELEASES CYGNET Software619 792-8021 3525 Del Mar Heights #2378 San Diego CA 92130 SUNGLASSES 195 $2S&H 100% VV Protection Shatterproof Excellent Optical Quality Tints Fit Over Prescriptions S KYS PO BOX 1000 DUMFRIES VA 22026 800-227-9318 KFLIG5T I5DU2T51/9 SIwo S-A Sb 1116 IYoow L,ssus 17151 ros sop op 51515 1w Clstt U 37111OHS f3f 112 spreop w 6i5 6221171015 2030 11OHS bASS ,sA ply flight scores zero Thus some RC fliers joined free fighting associates downwind treks retrieve models Class C Glow LER Limited Engine Run event somewhat different story Most large Vintage models seemed overpowered comparison Nelson Rossi other racing power plants noses took wind penetration well stride pair Lanzo Bombers Fred Mulholland Dale Tower would top field 49 entrants Fred would make double win also mastering Class Ignition LER event scaled-down Playboy Sr Its bit ludicrous call latter event ignition event three out four entrants used Elfin 249cc diesel engines power event could appropriately relabeled Class Diesel LER event Jim Reynolds Playboy copped Ohlsson 23 event usingwhat elsean Ohlsson 23 power late afternoon thunderstorm curbed serious competition remainder day Wednesday clouds rain still around morning both dissipated day wore leaving persistent wind cope Free Flight Class B Fuselage would won John Bortnak ignitionconverted 0S Max 25 So Long Only seven 36 registered event entries would attempt official flights against horizontal air coming out southwest Class C Pylon saw ratio get little better 13 out 41 entrants fought elements Bob Johannes won New Ruler yanked aloft O&R 60 sideport Large Rubber Stick won Richard Thompson using Wallenhorst Stick design Richard few compete both FF RC Assist categoriesand no constructs neater model gentleman Imlay City Michigan Small Rubber Fuselage event winner Don Reid Double Feature bested George Perryman s Jabberwock top honors OT Catapult Glider special event epitomized day drew respectable total 43 entrants South Bend Indiana father-and-son team Ralph Bill Schlarb captured top two slots five seconds separating first time duo topped Hand-Held Catapult event national competitions let known hereby goodnatured Ralph 76 years young sports pacemaker left chest Some accomplishment eb Up RC Assist area west end would hair em scare em LER stuff today both Antique classes carded special Brown Engine event promised slow pace further Antique event LA Johnstons Fox Eagle-powered Dallaire hung airborne longest total time Pure Antique event Lamoine Schrock s Lanzo Bomber sported McCoy 60 power tops fact top seven places would go Bombers design keeps making champions out lot fliers Vintage models underpowered Brown Engine event grunted groaned against wind however 28 39 entrants got airborne Bob Perus Kloud Queen eking out victory over Skip Williamss Air Chief Scale Duration things models common Cox reed-valve engines designs varied greatly Walt Gearys Cessna AW declared winner Thursday rain now out area Thursday Friday remained quite windy skies gradually cleared humidity moved up maximum Friday Thursdays FF Gas events would see staging both Class Pylon Fuselage categories JOMAR PRODUCTS SM-4 Electric Throttle best bargain Long Run SM4 runs 7 24 cells handles over SO amps current optically isolated high rate includes Futaba 1 lead sermos connectors heatsink plastic cover Weight 13 ounces Smooth reliable performance Best market Dont settle less! Now $110 GLITCH Buster 6 CHANNELS OPTICAL Isolation PLUS Reliable SIGNAL BOOST long servo runs high povcr jumbo servos Must used separate servo battery pack Eliminates glitches caused 1w long leads big servos flying tail wires Allows new PCM radios drive ANY type servo! add own input/output leads Measures 15 X 15 X 75 weighs 3/4 ounce Still just $45 Battery Backer use 4 S cell packs main other backup Backup kicks main pack craps out Capable handling current youll ever need Cheap peace mind expensive project! Buy before s too late measly $49 GLOW SWITCH 77YY1 X 15 X 4 half ounce unit can handle up 200 watts load Optical/v isolated unit replaces mechanical switch servo Simple 2 wire hookup just like regular switch! High OR Low side switching Includes indicator LED reversing switch point adjust futaba J lead Great Video camera smoke fluid pump glow plug power ignition system switch etc. Osslv $39 Lots other stuff too. like super fine wire #22 #15 #12 gauge sample ON/OFF motor controls etc Also RIC related consulting services reasonable rates! Call wnte address below info today 8606 Susanview Lane Cincinnati OH 45244 513-474-0985 February 1993 139 U A-26 IN VADER DESIGNED BY HAL PARENT 88 SPAN 25 TO 50 ENGINES 748 SO IN AREA BASIC SEMI-KIT$6915 FULL COMBO PACKAGE CLUDES SEMI-KIT SIG WOOD PAK COMPLETE SPRING-AIR RETRACT GEAR SYSTEM DECAL SHEET HARD WARE AND WING SHEETING GLUE 29c9 COMBO SPECIAL$26g95 ADD $750 SHIPPING IN USAIL RESIDENTS ADD 7% TAX VISA & MASTER CARD ACCEPTEDCALL 309-342-3009 WING MFG 306 E SIMMONS GALESBURO IL 91401 AUTHENTIC DROP TANKS SCALE DROP TANKS CAN ACTUALLY BE DROPPED IN FLIGHT WOE OF HIGH MI00CT PLO STIC AND COME IN TWO PRE-FORMED SHELL HALVES ASSEUBLES IN MINUTES WITH CA GLUE *501 15 LONG FOR 50 TO 75 WARINRDS SSJ5EA 1901-A IEILONG FOR 25 TO 50 WARBIRDS EA BOMB & DROP TANK RELEASE KIT HEAVY DUTY RELEASE MECHANISM HOLDS BOMBS AND TANKS FIRMLY IN POSITION UNTIL YOU WANT THEM TO DROP *900 BOMB RELEASE KIT WYTH INSTRUCTIONS $349 EA j/4fG MFG Phone 3093423009 AT YOUR OVA LEO OR OFlOER DIRECT VISA AND MASTER CARD ACCEPTED SEND OSINFOR 60 PA GE CA TALOG AND GA TA SiIEETS WING MEG SOSE SIMMONS GALESBURG IL 61401 a A Pylon Don Reids Elfin 249D-powered Ranger bested other entries goodly margin Fuselage Don became double winner Elfin-powered So Long event both FF RC Assist categories new reproduction Elfin diesels have definitely proven superior performance ignition-engine-powered counterparts a 37 Wakefield George Perryman led list once again gumband event aging Ying design OTIILG Old-Time Hand-Launched GliderEd Guy Eaves hecame entrant post three maxes accomplished Joe Hervat design 30-Second Antique Tom Lucas Atwood-propelled Rambler competitor max out added fourth max prove first three no flukes wonder Tom owns other kind engine besides Atwood RC Texaco Up front RV tent city RC Assist site 41 58 models entered took airwind Bombers took first four places top three using 05 60 fourcycle engines Tom Botkin edged Larry Davidson close finish Class Glow LER Gil Moms s Kerswap top design examples swept first three places Bob Peru top gun Class B Ignition LER another Bomber fracas going four deep Larry Davidsons McCoy 29-powered entry won event Ohlsson Sideport O&R 60s used entries Eut Tilestons Taylor Cub bested bunch 31 entrants Euts Cubs marvelous watch fly As one-design flier certainly get workshop cluttered up lot plans models will never build anyway Friday seemed final day compe tition windiest four SAM days certainly hottest lots humidity boot Sylvias Porkburger stand sold out lemonade dry tongues sought thirst-quenching remedies free ffight group number special events left its card would attract very much activity long week downwind corn trap seemed have taken toll energy would combatants point Slag Engine/Ohlsson 19/23 Sideport Cabin events Bob Edlestein came compete won both events Megow Ranger So Long respectively Gas Scale went Jon Bortnak s Skyfarer Rubber Scale won Bud Browns Puss Moth Compressed Air won Ed Matess X-Fighter entry gave best in-flight performance ever seen event Would believe maxout cant ever remember things getting single max before let alone three Commercial Rubber Don Reids Korda CRS get maxout event wellthus completing weeks free flight schedule events RC Assist agenda three events remaining final day competition began Class C Ignition Larry Davidsons Playboy Sr O&R 60 up front captured event whopping 65 original entries Class B Glow LER Pete Raffertys Bomber topped 26 actual fliers original 36 entered LA Johnstons deBolt Blitzkrieg sporting HB 25 power great crowd-pleaser penetrated excess wind ease chugged second place Eut Tileston put another handsome Taylor Cubs fourth place behind Bill Tibbss Bomber third OT Electric Some event entries would suffer effects insufficient power against strong wind being unable get far enough upwind land specified grassy area Bombers went five deep category using 05-size electric motors Dale Tower posted strong score win over George Chaplik over another year Finale After fine banqnet staged once again Executive Inn pack-up time trip home Certain individuals cannot applauded enough carrying off weeklong affair enjoyment attended So Contest Directors numerous backups aides-de camp offer sincere knowingly insufficient thank workhorse Contest Manger Don Sachtjen say Youre hell efficient guy 4RC Scale/Troy Continued page 132 hand started Again started easily two flips started booster battery transferred magnetos running could run short bursts small cooling channels block bad flow characteristics engine overheated quite fast hindsight wonder much due unducted radiator Once again seemed lot power tap whether enough flight couldnt judge As internal friction such complex engine would high amazing ran well did engine didnt really idle very slowly unlike BR2 shown previous 140 Model Aviation e 195 Kits available hobby shops everywhere write current product information PO Box 553 East Northport NY 11731 516-754-6628 DIET YOUR ENGINE $395 1 beak Koash tough flexible rabben/faboc IIbeMIS laninate softenS vibindox between engine macnt waunt firewall Sheet 2kc4xAn Sick tats blade aracia- vrbraflan Maney hack riot campletely satiSfied Send heck TSTT arderfar $395 plan $490 IS 5015 10515 easily minuteS WeIbS wherever theren J BALSSDUSr $0 Rex 78 New Yad 10021 Help pewerve ReF enHmIIININII no rv aEoeaIIIrvIIIsaotIYsby-preducIT LATHES MtLLS METALS SOOKS PRECtStOh tNOTRUMENTS COMPLETE CATALOG $200 CAMPBELL TOOLS CO SOOCs items 2100Snace noad Sprinafinid xv 45505 1513 322a562 SCALE DOCUMENTATION] F are/Antique/Classic Aircraft IlSSOs ol photoc ItOOl RI 3-niawe Imany rarefuniquelone RI kind Isanislaelion guaranteed celaing $275 US lands ModelsJ 027 S Rood Lak WOOd CO 80226
Edition: Model Aviation - 1993/02
Page Numbers: 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 138, 139, 140
Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive aircraft problems making progress upwind against forces nature After ROG rise-off groundEd launch middle hard-surfaced runway models required land grassy area front between runway taxiway land elsewhere have flight score negated Some models blown too far downwind enable controlled return designated grassy area thereby earning OUR REV-UP INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 9000 PROPS! 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1993/02
Page Numbers: 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 138, 139, 140
Top Gun OT Catapult Glider 76-yearold Ralph Schlarbheart pacemaker Son Bill 5 seconds behind him Jim Kutkuhns twin-finned Pacemaker Commercial Rubber entry rare design streamlined styling John Pond seated Bill Bowen Ted Dock discuss proper way wind rubber motors Johns Twin Pusher Texan Charlie Bruce rare O&R 23-powered Porlock Puffin entry 30-Second Antique event Ed Mates fine-flying X-Fighter won Compressed Air event air tank Evian-brand bottled-water container February 1993 47 Too windy said Richard Thompson returned beautifully built full-scale McCoy 60-powered Lanzo Bomber station wagon daily wind velocities kept number contestantsincluding free flight contingentfrom competing INITIAL activities connected 26th Annual Championships Society Antique Modelers SAM exploded action Fourth July neat well-groomed campus Vincennes University Vincennes Indiana Although official SAM Champs didnt begin until Tuesday doors spacious Bob Green Auditorium opened 900 am Saturday July 41992 23rd annual Grand National Collectogether Model Engine Collectors Associa tion MECA Arriving modelers ventured watchful eye cloudless sky emerged vehicles parking lot commented about warm temperature minimal wind drift Would day representative weather store ensuing week Only time would tell Most modelers spent least hour half perusing rows tables loaded relic engines engine parts old kits magazines other associated vintage modeling paraphernalia before exiting check local hostelries university dorms other motels across Wabash Rivers Red Skelton Bridge near Lawrenceville Illinois area course ultimate destination some point time day would Mid-Amer ican Air Center assess battlefield conditions upcoming week Well wheat gone soybeans about ankie deep corn abundance although tolerable height comfortable distance downwind wind direction velocity behaved themselves familiar expanses hard-surfaced runways taxiways provided some assurance site would adequate Arrivees mingling groups exchange greetings old friends Some making last-minute test flights nail down final adjustments model another eager hear latest weather reports sun began sink horizon back Vincennes watch downtown Fourth July fireworks display Going downtown surprised find street carnival progress 500 pm full-blown parade bands governor Indiana himself Catholic bishop other dignitaries Following public fireworks show began dusk off newfound hideaways good nights rest after very busy day Sunday 800 am SAM Chapter 57sponsored two-day Nostalgia Gas meet got under way warm sun winds 5-10 mph Right cue weatherman 48 Model Aviation ey DeAngeliss Kioud King entry special Brown Engine event Such events guarantee docile flying Elmer Jordans innovative rear-mounted bike luggage rack brought em back alive However Anderson Spitfire-powered Comet Sailplane did lie out overnight cornfield located downwind contest site Bucky Walters RC Class Ignition model Morrill Hornet 19-powered Lanzo Stick-with-a-cabin-on-it RC Scale Duration event entry Taylorcraft Harold Erickson Event models catch eye Bob Larsh stamps processing approval Wayne Cains Class B Ignition Zipper SAM events begin Tuesday after two days NosGas competition trio FF CDs smiling approval background eight scheduled NosGas events divided two-day program entry levels five basic classes through C averaging exactly 30 contestants per eventa fine turnout Guy Eaves would first win event initial day competition field outset would have thought scaled-down Midwest Sniffer would best army 80%-scale I-Birds Well accomplished feat nearly full minute total time few seconds short five maxes Bob Johannes placed K&B Greenhead 19-powered Ramrod 600 far Out ifl front Class just few seconds short eight maxes Denny Dock distant second flying personal favorite designsa scaled-up Provincial can find Zaic Yearbooks powered OS Max 15 OC Stewart posted seemingly out-ofthe-running score five seconds short three maxes Forster 35-powered Spacer Class C end time held up win event OC made number preliminary test flights some begot some dents model kept gallery razzing helpers entertained large pieces chrome Mylar covering would fly off wings model zoomed aloft under power added Mylar over original tissue covering apparently adhesive used greatest task Crazy OC would have last laugh maxout did materialize fourth final event day either Continued page 55 Legendary modeler Bill Brown made Jim Robinson fires up Curtiss Robin powered OS 25 official flight visits up down flight lines Free Flight Gas Scale event onetime Ohioan Jim retired California pockets full tiny C02 motors could fly models year-round February 1993 49 Lanzo Bomber pilot Robert Miller OT Electric entry Most electric motors entries event Astro Leisure 05 size Relatively low power size plane made pretty leisurely flying too Canadian John Bortnaks British-designed 1/2A V-Bar helped him become high-point winner both NosGas SAM FF Gas Continued page 49 Bill Prenskys Simplex 19-powered Spearhead Jr pulled up just two seconds short three maxes Small Ignition event Yet total good first place ahead hot-climbing Arden 19-powered 47 Zeek hands Gene Bowers Sunday evening dinner hour Vincennes Executive Inn concluded tremendous thunderstorm giving us sorts heavenly fireworks competed man-made downtown show evening before couple explosions high-tension electric towers across street motel quite spec tacularand scared bejabbers out standing under motels entrance canopy waiting downpour subside enough could run vehicles Subsequent street flooding common few hours afterward including street front dormitory staying water about 21/2 feet deep places Monday Expecting worst water mud department arrived airport February 1993 55 Spacer comes sizes demonstrated its original Sal Taibi-designed class A/B Spacers popular designer Sal Taibi Cox Tee Dee 020-powered Nostalgia Gas fliers happy Emmett Holt copped second place Nostalgia Gas entry placed fifth Class B 08 29-powered rendition several Taylor Cubs entered Eut Tileston Nelson 40 up front won 4th Class C Glow LER event bearded duo Ben Strauss Bill Jackson entered Korda Victory Peerless Senior Endurance respectively Commercial Rubber event beards helped picking thermals told Steve Bebbetts Class B Glow LER entry fine enlarged version Megow Aero Champ SuperTigre 29 business end seen being activated hand-held Sullivan Products electric starter facility following morning pleasantly surprised find little evidence storm dropped wet stuff thereabouts hut day would enjoy best flying weather weekiong affair warm sun comfortable near-cool air 5-10-mph breezes east taking drifting models right down main runway ideal conditions hoped would Guy Eaves again head trophy line 1/2A event time Cox 049-powered Fubar posted six maxestwo maxes better John Bortnaks Black Widow-powered Top Banana its popular NosGas design West Coast Top Banana Denny Dock flew beautiful enlarged Texan Class C Nostalgia Gas McCoy 60 provides motive power almost unheard Midwest competition An enlarged solid red Zeek Dooling 29 up front used Keith Fulmer accomplish identical two-max margin over pair OS Max 29-powered 56 Model Aviation Eavess Cox-powered 1hA Fubar flew six maxes 1st place 1AA NosGas two maxes ahead 2nd-place finisher Jack Fidler steadies Saito four-cycle-powered Dallaire Texaco entry gusty wind crosswind caused wingover nearby van takeoffluckily minor damage model van Si Jordan Donnelsville OH beams happy smile behind crop whiskers Playboy Cabin Continued page 138 Bob Johannes flew O&R 60-powered New Ruler first place Class C Pylon Pitman Lou Marlotti restrains model being upset gusty wind SPECIALIST IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S 074S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS IInsV OLD TIMER SUPPLIES COILS CONDENSERS NGK & STIIT SPARK PLUGS SILK S COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP 1/4 RUBBERBANDS TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HIGH TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLAYBOY SR KIT 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS KSB & IGNITION TIMERS RUBBER POWER KITS PROPS TISSUE AND OThER SUPPLIES CYANOACRYLATES & EPOXIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 619 728-4365 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING HANDLING AND INSURANCE FEE $350 STOCK ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HRS 138 Model Aviation 4'92 SAM ChampslMurphy Continued page 56 Spacers Emmett Holt Dick Hall re spectively Class B competition 30-oz Spacer must carry lot spare luggage make minimum weight requirement seemed time looked up would see Tom Lucass Atwood 60powered six-foot Playboy Sr floating overhead Tom would eventually post six maxes win NosGas Large Ignition event writer would also accomplish six maxes 47 Phoenix however three engine overruns caused faulty ignition cutoff timer Foiled again Unfortunately Bob Rotherss PAA Master model single NosGas PAA Load get airborne seems event may have died sudden death popularity departmentand new NosGas rule book divides event two classes Oh well Widespread popularity forte PAA Load 50s maybe should expect too much too soon time slot two days NosGas events concluded time get serious about SAM Champs itself first order things eat traditional eve-of-theChamps bean feed took place Executive Inn Vincennes Monday fine array victuals everyone winning raffle prize worth much price meal ticket Only SAM Champs Manager Don Sachtjen could accomplish such feat dont know does Tuesday dreaded wind began held steady next four days ideal situation persevered since contestants must battle same undesirable environmental elements Also day quite cloudy skies threatened rain materialized afternoon got mighty wet cornfields Contest Directors Bud Brown Free flight Bill Brenchley RC up speed respective locations 800 am starting time however contestants seemed walting around weather improve within hour swing various events FF 020 Replica event man Guy Eaves again set pace four maxeswind no wind As fellow put guy should doing TV endorsements Cox engines such things Super Cyke-powered Playboy Cabin put Mitch Post Class C Fuselage catbird seat five maxesquite way mark return model flying after rather extended illness Good show Mitch palr Canadian Wasps John Bortnak Bob Edlestein respectively went one-two four-second separation FF Class B Pylon Rubber-powered models seemed oblivious pesky wind Gas models winning scores Rubber events doubled comparable Gas event times day Ray Factor bested Don Reid Gollywock Class Small Rubber Stick event its officially known Gawg Perryman Lanzo design ran up score 1080 seconds Large Rubber Fuselage established highest flight total free flight event whole week Gawg would also post best time one-flight mass-launch Twin Pusher eventa popular spectator attraction SAM Champs Most fliers halted own activities observe classic multiplemodel melee simultaneous launch RC Assist contingent extreme west end field having its own problems brisk breezes 83 entrants lined up first flights 1/2A Texaco event alone underpowered diminutive aircraft problems making progress upwind against forces nature After ROG rise-off groundEd launch middle hard-surfaced runway models required land grassy area front between runway taxiway land elsewhere have flight score negated Some models blown too far downwind enable controlled return designated grassy area thereby earning OUR REV-UP INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 9000 PROPS! PROMPT SHIPMENT ON VISAIMC RACING WHEELS KLOTZ OIL CARBON FIBER SOLID LINES ALL KINDS OF TUBING THREE BRANDS OF GLOW PLUGS HARD-TO-FIND HARDWARE NEW PITODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT NEW PRODUCT AIRFOIL DATA DISKS FOILED AGAIN! Now popular demand shipping dlsks ready-made airfoils use F0ILO AQAINIII MORE THAN 50 AIRFOIL DATA FILES ON EACH DISK IN NEW STANDARDIZED DATA FORMAT ILLUSTRATED 58-PAGE MANUAL WITH MULTIPLE PLOTS & COORDINATE DATA FOR EACH AIRFOIL Dick Selig-Donovan Eppler other Airt oils Dick B NACA Symmetric Cambered Airfoils requires FOILED AGAIN! 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