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Control Line: Combat

Author: R.V. Lopez


Edition: Model Aviation - 1996/06
Page Numbers: 119, 120, 122

CONTROL LINE COMBAT THIS MONTHS COLUMN focuses Combat novice Control Line Combat can take great deal time effort An ideal place start model airplane magazines Some offer sections devoted Control Line flying include Flying Models Box 700 Newton NJ 07860-0700 Model Builder Gallant Models Inc Box 2459 Capistrano Beach CA 92624-0459 course ModelAviation Aero Modeller Wise Owl Worldwide Publications 4314 West 238th Street Torrance CA 90505-4509 published England contains lots Control Line information live urban area chances will have hobby shop two listed telephone directory Shops good place go ask about clubs might located area Hobby shops can also supply some basic materials equipment will need begin building project Shop owners know best interests get novice off good start hands someone will make flying adventure positive human nature continue experiences fun get some adrenaline pumping building process has some therapeutic value will help forget days problems enjoy going out workshop garage just clean up after project rearrange tools materials Most Combat pilots always building new models rebuilding aircraft have damaged competition practice Any good Combat pilot will tell you can never have too models ready fly live rural area may have problem finding flying sites may anyone within hundred miles has heard Control Line Combat case would suggest carefully read Contest Calendar section magazine locate meets might near home Once youve located meet see can talk neighbor some friends going doesnt matter what type contest attend long modelers youll able ask questions et some answers thousands former Control Line fliers have chosen try different facets modeling may just waiting opportunity return Control Line modelers meet Sailplane Scale RC Helicopter contest arent former Control Line pilots may know fliers can give leads get touch Some fliers may want take break current discipline could give hand new interest Some fliers have drive long way fly given weekend might willing get couple flights local site during week favorite discipline Modelers modelers techniques used RC modelers can used Control Line models Find out ever club regional swap meets auctions Having some used equipment fly construction projects underway good idea precious flying time wasted Anything can home before go flying field includes making lines bolting engines balancing props finishing model tasks completed home can concentrate flying model suggestions will get started flying enable get practice need feel comfortable flying fly Combat will need observe lot Combat matches attend contests can Combat contests can ask questions get some leads used equipment serious about buying someones used engine ask demonstration test drive Most pilots will glad let see engine runs starts lots guys have flown Combat years have lots perfectly good engines sitting drawers waiting used fliers take good care equipment will have engines pickled 3-In-One oil during storage June1996 119 contents Carters Custom Cores Allenpiane kit Proven winner thats ideal Combat newcomer clamp shortens construction time making possible install spars both sides wing same time Text details build simple wing clamps Allenpiane has its spars glued will stay put Combat Las Vegas Ronnie Cash has just launched father Rons model Chuck Rudners model already air Also Available Roto Finish Stiletto Color Tile P-51 Sky Harbor R/C Fine Woods 1-800-279-2871 Recently have selling off excess stock Combat engines other fliers can get some use out old Fox Combat Specials lots extra work buyers usually get accurate information about what parts contained what speeds ran Whenever built engine wrote down information could including head clearance head-button type mainbearing type other modifications also noted can purchase engine has history can trace will save yourself lots time energy Combat pilots cut engines off dead models leave carcasses vultures kids curious modelers might good way take look model builtparticularly structures inside model might able rebuild model discarded its owner time Charlie Mackey offered some twoline controllable kites flew just like Combat models except 100-foot lines worked downwind side circle last heard kites being marketed Bear Model Products 28305 South Yates Beecher IL 60401 Tel [708] 946-6130 would worth call company order two kites us break out practice Combat windy days movement handle same Control Line model get benefit some free stick time can practice flying Combat kites wreck pile models process prepared work some horrendous line tangles funny person will develop line sense after spend some time untangling line balls Almost everyone know owns video camera least has access can film Combat matches get closer look what pilots doing center circle An quicker way get look some excellent Combat flying buy ready-made video best Combat pilots US Mike Wilcox have seen quality work can tell you will thoroughly satisfied purchase Mike has five different videos sale RW Howe 1995 Slow contest 1995 Los Angeles Money Nats 1994 World Championships Shanghai China 1995 Top Gun Tucson Arizona 1994 RW Howe Slow contest price per tape including shipping $22 Contact Mike 1927 Running Springs Kingwood TX 77339 Tel 713 358-1750 Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA newsletter includes page lists Combat equipment suppliers time time newsletter includes information about someone selling off equipment one-year membership MACA will cost $15 US $18 Canada Mexico $25 elsewhere Send money MACA treasurer Ross Leighliter 3007 Pirates Cove Aurora OH 44202 PerPilot Rqiutratics Pak phieu Awarded Sportaman & Pro Spectator * Pro LELiAL engine 60-120 51 /i necals available Call info neck LEGAL 114 Engine 60-120 Span 61 l/ Oecals available Call pack Engines BASIC TRAINER $8495 $595 P&H NEW AT THIS want gentle sport plane need KOMBAT 40 BASIC TRAINER spend days weeks months building trainer just see SMASHED TO SMITHEREENS learning Fly hour Everything except radio engine box No Gluing No Covering No Sanding No Tears CRASH required 40/46 size engine four channel radio big 60 wing span gear weighing 5-1/2 pounds BASIC TRAINER easy land can some real punishment Most crashes usually result just couple broken nylon can easily replaced minutes keep flying hours Available Red Orange Blue Order today Sport model KOMBAT 40 available $7495 VISAJMC/AMEXICOD 1-800-264-7840 FREE CATALOG 504 626-7840 must once again mention what consider best Combat model kit market Allenpiane Its offered Carters Custom Cores 912 East Sandra Street Arcadia California 91006 Tel [818] 446-0097 kit arrives practically assembled ideal place newcomer start Everything fits nice snug spars tapered proven winner pilots Southern California swear 1990 Steve Hills embarked ambitious project build 16 models time usual procedure install spars lay model its cradles fit top spar weigh down lots full soda cans next day after white glue dry would flip model over install bottom spar Agaln walt another night glue dry before could go next step discovered some rather simple clamps enabled us glue both spars place same timeeliminating full night drying time clamps made two pieces -inch plywood small blocks hardwood glued end piece hole drilled through block plywood angle tilted drill-press table bit create angle little nub see end dowel piece surgical tubing keeps dowel falling out clamp have included photograph clamps action model has its arrowshaft boom lightly clamped vise can sight down leading edge bows might building easily corrected little push hope column has some help trying get started Combat well seasoned pilots Its best interest help new guys out VEL AME ENGINES per engine CR parts stocked Ohio location 4 competition engines use same crankcase Find out what everybodys talking about Call now order Northern velocity LtdFalls Ohio 44223800 6659575 3656 State Road Cuyahoga..330 9236904 FAX 330 9234349 ____________________________________________MCA/ISA/ S & H $400 size order us flIIA AIrY OH Res add 575% tax 122 Model Aviation TER-2 Breaks Glass 1 Ceiling Wins HLG 95 Natal hii As enhanced flown glory Stewa tnmavnnI U AIRPLANE FACTORY INC 1135 FLORIDA MANDEVILLE LA 70448 NORVEL AME 049 MKII NORVEL AME 049 DIESEL NORVEL AME 061 MKII NORVEL AME 061 DIESEL DIESEL HEADNEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE GLOW PLUG HEAD STILL COMPATIBLE WITH - COX TEE DEE THREADS

Author: R.V. Lopez


Edition: Model Aviation - 1996/06
Page Numbers: 119, 120, 122

CONTROL LINE COMBAT THIS MONTHS COLUMN focuses Combat novice Control Line Combat can take great deal time effort An ideal place start model airplane magazines Some offer sections devoted Control Line flying include Flying Models Box 700 Newton NJ 07860-0700 Model Builder Gallant Models Inc Box 2459 Capistrano Beach CA 92624-0459 course ModelAviation Aero Modeller Wise Owl Worldwide Publications 4314 West 238th Street Torrance CA 90505-4509 published England contains lots Control Line information live urban area chances will have hobby shop two listed telephone directory Shops good place go ask about clubs might located area Hobby shops can also supply some basic materials equipment will need begin building project Shop owners know best interests get novice off good start hands someone will make flying adventure positive human nature continue experiences fun get some adrenaline pumping building process has some therapeutic value will help forget days problems enjoy going out workshop garage just clean up after project rearrange tools materials Most Combat pilots always building new models rebuilding aircraft have damaged competition practice Any good Combat pilot will tell you can never have too models ready fly live rural area may have problem finding flying sites may anyone within hundred miles has heard Control Line Combat case would suggest carefully read Contest Calendar section magazine locate meets might near home Once youve located meet see can talk neighbor some friends going doesnt matter what type contest attend long modelers youll able ask questions et some answers thousands former Control Line fliers have chosen try different facets modeling may just waiting opportunity return Control Line modelers meet Sailplane Scale RC Helicopter contest arent former Control Line pilots may know fliers can give leads get touch Some fliers may want take break current discipline could give hand new interest Some fliers have drive long way fly given weekend might willing get couple flights local site during week favorite discipline Modelers modelers techniques used RC modelers can used Control Line models Find out ever club regional swap meets auctions Having some used equipment fly construction projects underway good idea precious flying time wasted Anything can home before go flying field includes making lines bolting engines balancing props finishing model tasks completed home can concentrate flying model suggestions will get started flying enable get practice need feel comfortable flying fly Combat will need observe lot Combat matches attend contests can Combat contests can ask questions get some leads used equipment serious about buying someones used engine ask demonstration test drive Most pilots will glad let see engine runs starts lots guys have flown Combat years have lots perfectly good engines sitting drawers waiting used fliers take good care equipment will have engines pickled 3-In-One oil during storage June1996 119 contents Carters Custom Cores Allenpiane kit Proven winner thats ideal Combat newcomer clamp shortens construction time making possible install spars both sides wing same time Text details build simple wing clamps Allenpiane has its spars glued will stay put Combat Las Vegas Ronnie Cash has just launched father Rons model Chuck Rudners model already air Also Available Roto Finish Stiletto Color Tile P-51 Sky Harbor R/C Fine Woods 1-800-279-2871 Recently have selling off excess stock Combat engines other fliers can get some use out old Fox Combat Specials lots extra work buyers usually get accurate information about what parts contained what speeds ran Whenever built engine wrote down information could including head clearance head-button type mainbearing type other modifications also noted can purchase engine has history can trace will save yourself lots time energy Combat pilots cut engines off dead models leave carcasses vultures kids curious modelers might good way take look model builtparticularly structures inside model might able rebuild model discarded its owner time Charlie Mackey offered some twoline controllable kites flew just like Combat models except 100-foot lines worked downwind side circle last heard kites being marketed Bear Model Products 28305 South Yates Beecher IL 60401 Tel [708] 946-6130 would worth call company order two kites us break out practice Combat windy days movement handle same Control Line model get benefit some free stick time can practice flying Combat kites wreck pile models process prepared work some horrendous line tangles funny person will develop line sense after spend some time untangling line balls Almost everyone know owns video camera least has access can film Combat matches get closer look what pilots doing center circle An quicker way get look some excellent Combat flying buy ready-made video best Combat pilots US Mike Wilcox have seen quality work can tell you will thoroughly satisfied purchase Mike has five different videos sale RW Howe 1995 Slow contest 1995 Los Angeles Money Nats 1994 World Championships Shanghai China 1995 Top Gun Tucson Arizona 1994 RW Howe Slow contest price per tape including shipping $22 Contact Mike 1927 Running Springs Kingwood TX 77339 Tel 713 358-1750 Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA newsletter includes page lists Combat equipment suppliers time time newsletter includes information about someone selling off equipment one-year membership MACA will cost $15 US $18 Canada Mexico $25 elsewhere Send money MACA treasurer Ross Leighliter 3007 Pirates Cove Aurora OH 44202 PerPilot Rqiutratics Pak phieu Awarded Sportaman & Pro Spectator * Pro LELiAL engine 60-120 51 /i necals available Call info neck LEGAL 114 Engine 60-120 Span 61 l/ Oecals available Call pack Engines BASIC TRAINER $8495 $595 P&H NEW AT THIS want gentle sport plane need KOMBAT 40 BASIC TRAINER spend days weeks months building trainer just see SMASHED TO SMITHEREENS learning Fly hour Everything except radio engine box No Gluing No Covering No Sanding No Tears CRASH required 40/46 size engine four channel radio big 60 wing span gear weighing 5-1/2 pounds BASIC TRAINER easy land can some real punishment Most crashes usually result just couple broken nylon can easily replaced minutes keep flying hours Available Red Orange Blue Order today Sport model KOMBAT 40 available $7495 VISAJMC/AMEXICOD 1-800-264-7840 FREE CATALOG 504 626-7840 must once again mention what consider best Combat model kit market Allenpiane Its offered Carters Custom Cores 912 East Sandra Street Arcadia California 91006 Tel [818] 446-0097 kit arrives practically assembled ideal place newcomer start Everything fits nice snug spars tapered proven winner pilots Southern California swear 1990 Steve Hills embarked ambitious project build 16 models time usual procedure install spars lay model its cradles fit top spar weigh down lots full soda cans next day after white glue dry would flip model over install bottom spar Agaln walt another night glue dry before could go next step discovered some rather simple clamps enabled us glue both spars place same timeeliminating full night drying time clamps made two pieces -inch plywood small blocks hardwood glued end piece hole drilled through block plywood angle tilted drill-press table bit create angle little nub see end dowel piece surgical tubing keeps dowel falling out clamp have included photograph clamps action model has its arrowshaft boom lightly clamped vise can sight down leading edge bows might building easily corrected little push hope column has some help trying get started Combat well seasoned pilots Its best interest help new guys out VEL AME ENGINES per engine CR parts stocked Ohio location 4 competition engines use same crankcase Find out what everybodys talking about Call now order Northern velocity LtdFalls Ohio 44223800 6659575 3656 State Road Cuyahoga..330 9236904 FAX 330 9234349 ____________________________________________MCA/ISA/ S & H $400 size order us flIIA AIrY OH Res add 575% tax 122 Model Aviation TER-2 Breaks Glass 1 Ceiling Wins HLG 95 Natal hii As enhanced flown glory Stewa tnmavnnI U AIRPLANE FACTORY INC 1135 FLORIDA MANDEVILLE LA 70448 NORVEL AME 049 MKII NORVEL AME 049 DIESEL NORVEL AME 061 MKII NORVEL AME 061 DIESEL DIESEL HEADNEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE GLOW PLUG HEAD STILL COMPATIBLE WITH - COX TEE DEE THREADS

Author: R.V. Lopez


Edition: Model Aviation - 1996/06
Page Numbers: 119, 120, 122

CONTROL LINE COMBAT THIS MONTHS COLUMN focuses Combat novice Control Line Combat can take great deal time effort An ideal place start model airplane magazines Some offer sections devoted Control Line flying include Flying Models Box 700 Newton NJ 07860-0700 Model Builder Gallant Models Inc Box 2459 Capistrano Beach CA 92624-0459 course ModelAviation Aero Modeller Wise Owl Worldwide Publications 4314 West 238th Street Torrance CA 90505-4509 published England contains lots Control Line information live urban area chances will have hobby shop two listed telephone directory Shops good place go ask about clubs might located area Hobby shops can also supply some basic materials equipment will need begin building project Shop owners know best interests get novice off good start hands someone will make flying adventure positive human nature continue experiences fun get some adrenaline pumping building process has some therapeutic value will help forget days problems enjoy going out workshop garage just clean up after project rearrange tools materials Most Combat pilots always building new models rebuilding aircraft have damaged competition practice Any good Combat pilot will tell you can never have too models ready fly live rural area may have problem finding flying sites may anyone within hundred miles has heard Control Line Combat case would suggest carefully read Contest Calendar section magazine locate meets might near home Once youve located meet see can talk neighbor some friends going doesnt matter what type contest attend long modelers youll able ask questions et some answers thousands former Control Line fliers have chosen try different facets modeling may just waiting opportunity return Control Line modelers meet Sailplane Scale RC Helicopter contest arent former Control Line pilots may know fliers can give leads get touch Some fliers may want take break current discipline could give hand new interest Some fliers have drive long way fly given weekend might willing get couple flights local site during week favorite discipline Modelers modelers techniques used RC modelers can used Control Line models Find out ever club regional swap meets auctions Having some used equipment fly construction projects underway good idea precious flying time wasted Anything can home before go flying field includes making lines bolting engines balancing props finishing model tasks completed home can concentrate flying model suggestions will get started flying enable get practice need feel comfortable flying fly Combat will need observe lot Combat matches attend contests can Combat contests can ask questions get some leads used equipment serious about buying someones used engine ask demonstration test drive Most pilots will glad let see engine runs starts lots guys have flown Combat years have lots perfectly good engines sitting drawers waiting used fliers take good care equipment will have engines pickled 3-In-One oil during storage June1996 119 contents Carters Custom Cores Allenpiane kit Proven winner thats ideal Combat newcomer clamp shortens construction time making possible install spars both sides wing same time Text details build simple wing clamps Allenpiane has its spars glued will stay put Combat Las Vegas Ronnie Cash has just launched father Rons model Chuck Rudners model already air Also Available Roto Finish Stiletto Color Tile P-51 Sky Harbor R/C Fine Woods 1-800-279-2871 Recently have selling off excess stock Combat engines other fliers can get some use out old Fox Combat Specials lots extra work buyers usually get accurate information about what parts contained what speeds ran Whenever built engine wrote down information could including head clearance head-button type mainbearing type other modifications also noted can purchase engine has history can trace will save yourself lots time energy Combat pilots cut engines off dead models leave carcasses vultures kids curious modelers might good way take look model builtparticularly structures inside model might able rebuild model discarded its owner time Charlie Mackey offered some twoline controllable kites flew just like Combat models except 100-foot lines worked downwind side circle last heard kites being marketed Bear Model Products 28305 South Yates Beecher IL 60401 Tel [708] 946-6130 would worth call company order two kites us break out practice Combat windy days movement handle same Control Line model get benefit some free stick time can practice flying Combat kites wreck pile models process prepared work some horrendous line tangles funny person will develop line sense after spend some time untangling line balls Almost everyone know owns video camera least has access can film Combat matches get closer look what pilots doing center circle An quicker way get look some excellent Combat flying buy ready-made video best Combat pilots US Mike Wilcox have seen quality work can tell you will thoroughly satisfied purchase Mike has five different videos sale RW Howe 1995 Slow contest 1995 Los Angeles Money Nats 1994 World Championships Shanghai China 1995 Top Gun Tucson Arizona 1994 RW Howe Slow contest price per tape including shipping $22 Contact Mike 1927 Running Springs Kingwood TX 77339 Tel 713 358-1750 Miniature Aircraft Combat Association MACA newsletter includes page lists Combat equipment suppliers time time newsletter includes information about someone selling off equipment one-year membership MACA will cost $15 US $18 Canada Mexico $25 elsewhere Send money MACA treasurer Ross Leighliter 3007 Pirates Cove Aurora OH 44202 PerPilot Rqiutratics Pak phieu Awarded Sportaman & Pro Spectator * Pro LELiAL engine 60-120 51 /i necals available Call info neck LEGAL 114 Engine 60-120 Span 61 l/ Oecals available Call pack Engines BASIC TRAINER $8495 $595 P&H NEW AT THIS want gentle sport plane need KOMBAT 40 BASIC TRAINER spend days weeks months building trainer just see SMASHED TO SMITHEREENS learning Fly hour Everything except radio engine box No Gluing No Covering No Sanding No Tears CRASH required 40/46 size engine four channel radio big 60 wing span gear weighing 5-1/2 pounds BASIC TRAINER easy land can some real punishment Most crashes usually result just couple broken nylon can easily replaced minutes keep flying hours Available Red Orange Blue Order today Sport model KOMBAT 40 available $7495 VISAJMC/AMEXICOD 1-800-264-7840 FREE CATALOG 504 626-7840 must once again mention what consider best Combat model kit market Allenpiane Its offered Carters Custom Cores 912 East Sandra Street Arcadia California 91006 Tel [818] 446-0097 kit arrives practically assembled ideal place newcomer start Everything fits nice snug spars tapered proven winner pilots Southern California swear 1990 Steve Hills embarked ambitious project build 16 models time usual procedure install spars lay model its cradles fit top spar weigh down lots full soda cans next day after white glue dry would flip model over install bottom spar Agaln walt another night glue dry before could go next step discovered some rather simple clamps enabled us glue both spars place same timeeliminating full night drying time clamps made two pieces -inch plywood small blocks hardwood glued end piece hole drilled through block plywood angle tilted drill-press table bit create angle little nub see end dowel piece surgical tubing keeps dowel falling out clamp have included photograph clamps action model has its arrowshaft boom lightly clamped vise can sight down leading edge bows might building easily corrected little push hope column has some help trying get started Combat well seasoned pilots Its best interest help new guys out VEL AME ENGINES per engine CR parts stocked Ohio location 4 competition engines use same crankcase Find out what everybodys talking about Call now order Northern velocity LtdFalls Ohio 44223800 6659575 3656 State Road Cuyahoga..330 9236904 FAX 330 9234349 ____________________________________________MCA/ISA/ S & H $400 size order us flIIA AIrY OH Res add 575% tax 122 Model Aviation TER-2 Breaks Glass 1 Ceiling Wins HLG 95 Natal hii As enhanced flown glory Stewa tnmavnnI U AIRPLANE FACTORY INC 1135 FLORIDA MANDEVILLE LA 70448 NORVEL AME 049 MKII NORVEL AME 049 DIESEL NORVEL AME 061 MKII NORVEL AME 061 DIESEL DIESEL HEADNEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE GLOW PLUG HEAD STILL COMPATIBLE WITH - COX TEE DEE THREADS

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