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Charles Harrison Grant

Author: J. Worth


Edition: Model Aviation - 1987/05
Page Numbers: 92, 93, 170

NO OCR TEXT NO OCR TEXT UUUU U U U U U mmum U U..EU. SIG QUALITY FUELS Special Igniters improve cold starting idle characteristics * High Film Strength Additives increase lubricity provide maximum lean run protection * Special Detergents help prevent varnish promote clean burning * Rust Preventatives protect expensive engines corrosion SIG CHAMPION 2-STROKE FUEL FREIGHT FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $1500COLLECT PINTQUARTGALLON55 GAL DRUM 0% Nitromethane$315$450$1050$19000 5% Nitromethane$365$525$1250$25800 10% Nitromethane$415$550$1450$32500 15% Nitrometharte$430$625$1650$38500 25% Nitromethane$495$750$2095$52000 35% Nitromethane$575$875$2495$66000 SIGPREMIUM4-STROKE FUEL 10% Nitromethane$415$550$1395$29500 15% Nitromethane$425$625$1595$35900 THE CHOICE OF CHAMPION FLYERS over 20 years SIG has blending fuel finest quality ingredients available alcohol 995% pure very best grade available nitromethane use 100% pure get honest portion based % volume masimum lubrication get perfect 50/50 blend Bakers AA Castor Oil Kiots Techniplate Racing Oil protect expensive engines finest quality fuel can made price Dont take word try some ludge yourself l See dealer first available order direct Call 800-247-5008 toll free orders Latest Catalog $300 LLJ SIG MANUFACTURING CO Montezuma IA 50171 Z Prio nobiect thong nothoot noirco CH Grant/Worth Continued page 93 undercamber warps Samples wings display AMA Museum kits highly prefabri cated requiring quick assembly flight model designs became well known time because flew wellnot true other models day Charlie knew adjust models result hours test flying preached testing models way really understand aerodynamics Charlies famous book Model Airplane Design Theory Flight also re printed Aero Science ofFree Flight bible anyone interested aspects aircraft stability pefformance both models full-scale aircraft Though source controversy some modelers disputed Charlies ideas con cerning model design book has sur vived test time still print available AMA Headquarters Another Charlies claim fame 1933 KG-i design built Joe Kovel model flying laboratory test Grants theories design stability hangs AMA Museum restored recent years Joe Kovel Charlie proud point out model completely stable both under power glide very common combination models early Thirties Aside aviation model engineering work Charles Hampson Grant probably best known modelers during Thirties editorship what premier model magazine Model Airplane News Charlie editor 1932 until 1943 During time organized Inter national Gas Model Airplane Association IGMAA used develop help then-fledgling AMA organization Charlie has often referred Father model aviation due such organizational promotional activities Through Model Airplane News magazine Grant published news Academy Model Aeronautics AMAs National Model Airplane Championships empha sizing club competition activity interest AMA particular youth participation model aircraft ac tivities continued through years until went hospital late 1986 telephone AMA Head quarters regularly always exploring what could applied past promote model aviation activity future people realize Grant very much involved development pilotless aircraft including design delta wing radio-controlled aerial tor pedo worked Army Air Corps Wright Field Ohio aircraft en gineer 19 18-19 also pursued develop ment Vertical Take Off aircraft designs Charlie now peace world quiet unsettling has much part aeromodeling over 60 years now avoid obvious no else can fill Charlies shoes kinda tireless dedicated dynamo energy active singlemindedness purpose Charlie wanted everyone aware share love aviation aeromodeling tunately left heritage will last years inspire others special exhibit area AMA Museum shows unique items Charles Hampson Grant famous dis play will assure achievements will forgotten RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 162 permanent magnets rotating armature wire wound armature poles model motors generally have two electrical connections wires connect battery switch fuse etc Voltage applied wires ultimately applied armature windings means brushes ride rotating armature commutator latter nothingmore moving set contactselectrically con nected armature windingswhich picks up voltage stationary spring-loaded brushes rotates between against physical makeup motor including magnetic properties number arma ture poles winding turns determines certain basic motor characteristics capabilities Thus six-cell motor presumably config ured characterized very good job 170 Model Aviation IA Grant memorial display case 158 tea tured exhibit AMA Museum also known National CenterforAeromod cling Reston VA AMA HO building

Author: J. Worth


Edition: Model Aviation - 1987/05
Page Numbers: 92, 93, 170

NO OCR TEXT NO OCR TEXT UUUU U U U U U mmum U U..EU. SIG QUALITY FUELS Special Igniters improve cold starting idle characteristics * High Film Strength Additives increase lubricity provide maximum lean run protection * Special Detergents help prevent varnish promote clean burning * Rust Preventatives protect expensive engines corrosion SIG CHAMPION 2-STROKE FUEL FREIGHT FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $1500COLLECT PINTQUARTGALLON55 GAL DRUM 0% Nitromethane$315$450$1050$19000 5% Nitromethane$365$525$1250$25800 10% Nitromethane$415$550$1450$32500 15% Nitrometharte$430$625$1650$38500 25% Nitromethane$495$750$2095$52000 35% Nitromethane$575$875$2495$66000 SIGPREMIUM4-STROKE FUEL 10% Nitromethane$415$550$1395$29500 15% Nitromethane$425$625$1595$35900 THE CHOICE OF CHAMPION FLYERS over 20 years SIG has blending fuel finest quality ingredients available alcohol 995% pure very best grade available nitromethane use 100% pure get honest portion based % volume masimum lubrication get perfect 50/50 blend Bakers AA Castor Oil Kiots Techniplate Racing Oil protect expensive engines finest quality fuel can made price Dont take word try some ludge yourself l See dealer first available order direct Call 800-247-5008 toll free orders Latest Catalog $300 LLJ SIG MANUFACTURING CO Montezuma IA 50171 Z Prio nobiect thong nothoot noirco CH Grant/Worth Continued page 93 undercamber warps Samples wings display AMA Museum kits highly prefabri cated requiring quick assembly flight model designs became well known time because flew wellnot true other models day Charlie knew adjust models result hours test flying preached testing models way really understand aerodynamics Charlies famous book Model Airplane Design Theory Flight also re printed Aero Science ofFree Flight bible anyone interested aspects aircraft stability pefformance both models full-scale aircraft Though source controversy some modelers disputed Charlies ideas con cerning model design book has sur vived test time still print available AMA Headquarters Another Charlies claim fame 1933 KG-i design built Joe Kovel model flying laboratory test Grants theories design stability hangs AMA Museum restored recent years Joe Kovel Charlie proud point out model completely stable both under power glide very common combination models early Thirties Aside aviation model engineering work Charles Hampson Grant probably best known modelers during Thirties editorship what premier model magazine Model Airplane News Charlie editor 1932 until 1943 During time organized Inter national Gas Model Airplane Association IGMAA used develop help then-fledgling AMA organization Charlie has often referred Father model aviation due such organizational promotional activities Through Model Airplane News magazine Grant published news Academy Model Aeronautics AMAs National Model Airplane Championships empha sizing club competition activity interest AMA particular youth participation model aircraft ac tivities continued through years until went hospital late 1986 telephone AMA Head quarters regularly always exploring what could applied past promote model aviation activity future people realize Grant very much involved development pilotless aircraft including design delta wing radio-controlled aerial tor pedo worked Army Air Corps Wright Field Ohio aircraft en gineer 19 18-19 also pursued develop ment Vertical Take Off aircraft designs Charlie now peace world quiet unsettling has much part aeromodeling over 60 years now avoid obvious no else can fill Charlies shoes kinda tireless dedicated dynamo energy active singlemindedness purpose Charlie wanted everyone aware share love aviation aeromodeling tunately left heritage will last years inspire others special exhibit area AMA Museum shows unique items Charles Hampson Grant famous dis play will assure achievements will forgotten RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 162 permanent magnets rotating armature wire wound armature poles model motors generally have two electrical connections wires connect battery switch fuse etc Voltage applied wires ultimately applied armature windings means brushes ride rotating armature commutator latter nothingmore moving set contactselectrically con nected armature windingswhich picks up voltage stationary spring-loaded brushes rotates between against physical makeup motor including magnetic properties number arma ture poles winding turns determines certain basic motor characteristics capabilities Thus six-cell motor presumably config ured characterized very good job 170 Model Aviation IA Grant memorial display case 158 tea tured exhibit AMA Museum also known National CenterforAeromod cling Reston VA AMA HO building

Author: J. Worth


Edition: Model Aviation - 1987/05
Page Numbers: 92, 93, 170

NO OCR TEXT NO OCR TEXT UUUU U U U U U mmum U U..EU. SIG QUALITY FUELS Special Igniters improve cold starting idle characteristics * High Film Strength Additives increase lubricity provide maximum lean run protection * Special Detergents help prevent varnish promote clean burning * Rust Preventatives protect expensive engines corrosion SIG CHAMPION 2-STROKE FUEL FREIGHT FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $1500COLLECT PINTQUARTGALLON55 GAL DRUM 0% Nitromethane$315$450$1050$19000 5% Nitromethane$365$525$1250$25800 10% Nitromethane$415$550$1450$32500 15% Nitrometharte$430$625$1650$38500 25% Nitromethane$495$750$2095$52000 35% Nitromethane$575$875$2495$66000 SIGPREMIUM4-STROKE FUEL 10% Nitromethane$415$550$1395$29500 15% Nitromethane$425$625$1595$35900 THE CHOICE OF CHAMPION FLYERS over 20 years SIG has blending fuel finest quality ingredients available alcohol 995% pure very best grade available nitromethane use 100% pure get honest portion based % volume masimum lubrication get perfect 50/50 blend Bakers AA Castor Oil Kiots Techniplate Racing Oil protect expensive engines finest quality fuel can made price Dont take word try some ludge yourself l See dealer first available order direct Call 800-247-5008 toll free orders Latest Catalog $300 LLJ SIG MANUFACTURING CO Montezuma IA 50171 Z Prio nobiect thong nothoot noirco CH Grant/Worth Continued page 93 undercamber warps Samples wings display AMA Museum kits highly prefabri cated requiring quick assembly flight model designs became well known time because flew wellnot true other models day Charlie knew adjust models result hours test flying preached testing models way really understand aerodynamics Charlies famous book Model Airplane Design Theory Flight also re printed Aero Science ofFree Flight bible anyone interested aspects aircraft stability pefformance both models full-scale aircraft Though source controversy some modelers disputed Charlies ideas con cerning model design book has sur vived test time still print available AMA Headquarters Another Charlies claim fame 1933 KG-i design built Joe Kovel model flying laboratory test Grants theories design stability hangs AMA Museum restored recent years Joe Kovel Charlie proud point out model completely stable both under power glide very common combination models early Thirties Aside aviation model engineering work Charles Hampson Grant probably best known modelers during Thirties editorship what premier model magazine Model Airplane News Charlie editor 1932 until 1943 During time organized Inter national Gas Model Airplane Association IGMAA used develop help then-fledgling AMA organization Charlie has often referred Father model aviation due such organizational promotional activities Through Model Airplane News magazine Grant published news Academy Model Aeronautics AMAs National Model Airplane Championships empha sizing club competition activity interest AMA particular youth participation model aircraft ac tivities continued through years until went hospital late 1986 telephone AMA Head quarters regularly always exploring what could applied past promote model aviation activity future people realize Grant very much involved development pilotless aircraft including design delta wing radio-controlled aerial tor pedo worked Army Air Corps Wright Field Ohio aircraft en gineer 19 18-19 also pursued develop ment Vertical Take Off aircraft designs Charlie now peace world quiet unsettling has much part aeromodeling over 60 years now avoid obvious no else can fill Charlies shoes kinda tireless dedicated dynamo energy active singlemindedness purpose Charlie wanted everyone aware share love aviation aeromodeling tunately left heritage will last years inspire others special exhibit area AMA Museum shows unique items Charles Hampson Grant famous dis play will assure achievements will forgotten RC Electrics/Kopski Continued page 162 permanent magnets rotating armature wire wound armature poles model motors generally have two electrical connections wires connect battery switch fuse etc Voltage applied wires ultimately applied armature windings means brushes ride rotating armature commutator latter nothingmore moving set contactselectrically con nected armature windingswhich picks up voltage stationary spring-loaded brushes rotates between against physical makeup motor including magnetic properties number arma ture poles winding turns determines certain basic motor characteristics capabilities Thus six-cell motor presumably config ured characterized very good job 170 Model Aviation IA Grant memorial display case 158 tea tured exhibit AMA Museum also known National CenterforAeromod cling Reston VA AMA HO building

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