CONTROL LINE NAVY CARRIER - 2004/08

THIS MONTH’S COLUMN includes some interesting
reference materials for Navy Carrier and new models from Eric
Conley and Mike Potter.
Ted Kraver introduced me to a new source of information that
is relevant to our event and to modeling in general. With the
principal focus on articles and other information from older
reference materials—old model magazines in particular—
Thomas Wilk (301 W. Redwing St., Duluth MN 55803; E-mail:
[email protected]) has CDs available for a variety of
event categories.
Tom’s Navy Carrier offering contains 160 three-view
drawings of full-scale aircraft that are appropriate for Navy
Carrier, as well as magazine articles for 32 Class I and Class II
models, 24 Profile Carrier models, and eight models for .15
Carrier. The images are good quality and cover the entire page
so that information near the margins of the originals is included.
Reference books make interesting reading as well as provide
information to use in developing new models or researching
potential candidates for our events.
The Putnam Aviation Series provides summary information
about a wide variety of aircraft types with good three-view
drawings. British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 by Owen Thetford
and United States Naval Aircraft Since 1911 by Gordon
Swanborough and Peter M. Bowers are particularly useful. Many
of the Putnam books, including the latter, are still in print.
There are also books that deal exclusively with individual
manufacturers, and they provide outstanding detail if you have
selected a subject and want to learn more about its history
beyond the summary data of the country- and service-oriented
volumes.
Crescent Books publishes the Rand McNally Encyclopedia of
Military Aircraft by Enzo Angelucci. It is huge and includes 831
different types of airplanes, most of which have small three-view
drawings.
Aero Publishers offers U.S. Naval Fighters by Lloyd Jones. It
has large three-view drawings and descriptions of 91 different
aircraft.
Chartwell Books publishes The Encyclopedia of the World’s
Combat Aircraft by Bill Gunston and Naval Aircraft. The
encyclopedia describes aircraft with illustrations and some threeviews,
and the latter book provides a well-illustrated summary of
the history and development of many aspects of naval aviation in
addition to aircraft, but it offers no three-views.
Hanover House offers Ray Wagner’s American Combat
Planes, which features descriptions and photos of a large number
of well-known and obscure US military aircraft. It’s great for
looking up modeling candidates, but it lacks three-views.
Although not all of these references offer three-view
drawings needed for designing or documenting a new Carrier
model, they are useful in providing facts that are necessary to
search out the needed data in what many consider the ultimate
source for aircraft information: Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft.
Jane’s volumes are quite expensive and list only one year at a
time, so most people rely on their libraries for that particular
reference.
Eric Conley (Clovis CA) has been developing new MO-1
CONTROL LINE NAVY CARRIER
Dick Perry, 427 Live Oak Ln. NE, Albuquerque NM 87122; E-mail: [email protected]
John “Doc” Holliday’s GS/Brodak Bearcat is one of the Nostalgia
Carrier-eligible models that Bob Smurthwaite designed.
Bob Smurthwaite also designed this Martin Mauler. Mike Potter
found out about this aircraft and built it.
This is the only style of muffler that met the rules before 2003.
Eric Conley is working to adapt Nelson engines to Carrier.
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models that are designed around Nelson
engines equipped with mufflers for the
new rules, which allow us to avoid the
exhaust extension rule by burning 10%-
nitromethane fuel.
The engines are mounted with the
cylinders inclined below horizontal, to
allow the muffler to lie along the model’s
centerline. With that configuration, the
muffler is between the landing gear and
can be recessed slightly into the fuselage,
preserving at least some of the MO-1’s
aesthetics. Eric has been experimenting
with a muffler on his Me 109 Profile.
He provided the following information
about his models and his philosophy for
competing in Carrier.
“The engine I use for Class II is the
Nelson .45 which is the outboard engine.
It already has a left hand crank and as a
matter of fact it’s the left hand crank that
he uses in the heavy-case .36 and .40.
“I use the same old APC 9 x 6 pusher
that I use with the .36/.40 engines. With
that prop and 15%, I’m getting 19.8k rpm
on the ground and would expect to turn in
the high 17s without a muffler and
somewhere in the 18s with a Power
Thrust muffler and 10% fuel.
“I use these engines because they all
run hard out of the box, never seem to get
tired (I’ve used the same .36 since 1992),
and Nelson has a lot of extras that fit all
the engines. They all can use the APC 9 x
6 props, and run great on 15% fuel.
“Some may think that they are a little
pricey, but in the end I have never done
anything to my Nelson engines and have
been able to concentrate on building good
airplanes and getting lots of practice
flying.
“My time is spent in the following
way: 5% on engines, 40% on building
improved airplanes, and 55% on practice,
practice, practice, as Bill Bischoff so
aptly says. The practice is more important
than anything else you can do.
“I think many of my fellow Carrier
pilots spend 50% of their time on engines
that almost will never give them what
they will need to be competitive and in
the end will have spent way too much
money over a longer period of time
(which takes away time they could be
building and, above all, practicing).
“Money is not the number-one limiter
of how you do. It’s how much time you
have to do it. I can’t stress enough that
time is your most precious commodity.”
Mike Potter (Auburn WA) has come up
with a little-known model for Nostalgia
Profile Carrier. When Bob Smurthwaite
was introducing his Profile models (which
Brodak Manufacturing now produces), he
described the Martin Mauler that was his
inspiration. He designed the Mauler as a
companion to his Scale version of the
aircraft.
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Bob had plans to produce a newer
Mauler as a companion to his Bearcat,
Corsair, and Skyraider kits, but he was
unable to do so before his death.
Sturdi-Built kitted a Mauler and a
Corsair for Navy Carrier before there were
separate classes and before the origination
of the Profile Carrier event. Bob’s Cobra
and Swift Profile models started out as J.
Roberts Model Manufacturing Company
kits.
Bob designed the original Profile
Mauler using the same design concepts as
the Swift and Cobra models, and Sturdi-
Built produced a few experimental kits.
They came in a Swift box with the scale
Mauler picture cut to fit and pasted over
the Swift photo and stamped “Profile
Version” in red.
Mike found one of the original kits and
traced the parts to make plans. The model
has just more than 325 square inches of
wing area and a 38-inch wingspan. Mike
has flown the Mauler with a K&B 5.8
engine, but the new one for 2004 will use
a SuperTigre or a Fox engine for the
bonus points.
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on the 2005 rules in the “Focus on
Competition” section of MA or on the AMA
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