132 MODEL AVIATION
Nostalgia Carrier
[[email protected]]
Control Line Navy Carrier Dick Perry
Also included in this column:
• Brodak contest
New and Old: John Vlna’s two Class I models. The Wiley-powered
MO-1, for the AMA event, and a Walt Musciano Curtiss F6C
Hawk powered by a K&B .40 engine.
Jo Shoemaker flew this Fieseler Fi 167 in Sportsman Profile
Carrier at the 2010 Brodak Fly-In. Vlna photo.
Bob Reeves’ beautiful North American FJ-4 Fury at the Brodak
contest. It features a Thunder Tiger .36 engine and a large 479-
square-inch wing.
NOSTALGIA NAVY CARRIER seems to be growing in popularity
this year, following the rules change that took effect in January. The
class originated as a means of preserving the roots of our event. It is
flown according to the scoring system that was used for the first
quarter-century of the event that emphasized high speed.
Because the scoring system is different, the flying style and models
tend to be different. Those airplanes and the style of flying that keeps
the aircraft supported by the lift of the wing throughout the flight
instead of hanging on the propeller during low-speed portions are
preferred by some and enjoyed by all who try the Nostalgia category.
To encourage the use of models that were flown during the early
years of Carrier, the historic-model bonus rewards contestants who
enter replicas of aircraft from that era. This year that bonus was
increased significantly, making vintage airplanes all but mandatory.
Also changed this year were the criteria for a model to qualify for
the bonus points. We now allow any design that can be documented as
having existed prior to January 1, 1978. That modification seems to be
largely responsible for the increasing popularity of the event this year.
I have had a great time going through old drawings and
photographs, researching models that would qualify. My Short
Seamew for Class I and my Profile A-4P were published, so they have
always qualified for the historic-model bonus.
I’ve resurrected my 1976 Handley Page HPS-1 Class II design and
have begun to prepare one for Nostalgia. I originally used an OPS
Schnuerle engine on the HPS-1, but the new one will most likely have
a SuperTigre G65, to take advantage of the non-Schnuerle-engine
bonus.
I also dusted off plans for the Profile Grumman Guardian that I
built in Arizona when I was flying with the Balsa Bugs in 1971.
Digging out the HPS-1 was particularly interesting; the only plans I
had in 1976 were sets I had found in Hermann Goering’s scrapbook
(multiple volumes, actually), in which he documented aircraft
development between World War I and World War II. I had found
those records in the Technical Library at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base while I was researching something for my degree.
A three-view of the HPS-1 was included in the Goering documents,
but its source wasn’t cited. The drawing matched photographs of the
aircraft, but without an indication of where the drawing was published,
I couldn’t use it as documentation for a Carrier model.
I have the original letter, drawing, and photocopies I sent to Frank
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Ehling, the AMA technical director at the
time, at the old downtown Washington DC
offices of the Academy. Frank’s signature is
on the drawing, approving the three-views. It
was a real nostalgia trip.
As this column is being written before the
Nats, because of publication lead time I can’t
discuss the Nostalgia models from this year’s
Nats. Watch for details of all new Carrier
models in the January MA, and check out
NatsNews on the AMA Web site for
photographs if you haven’t already done so.
The Navy Carrier coverage ran through the
week beginning on July 12.
The Brodak Fly-In takes place in
Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, and is
traditionally held in June each year. It features
AMA Carrier events, plus Sportsman Profile
Carrier and .15 Carrier. John Vlna is the event
director for two days of Carrier flying.
This year the deck was busy the whole
weekend, with 37 entries vying for awards.
John hopes to add electric to .15 Carrier in
2011. This year the Brodak event hosted one
of the biggest Navy Carrier contests in the
country, outside of the Nats.
John found time, even with his event
director duties, to take photographs at the Fly-
In. I’ve included those pictures of a couple of
new and interesting aircraft flown in Profile.
One is Jo Shoemaker’s Fieseler Fi 167
biplane. Jo flew it in .15 Profile.
The prototype Fi 167 was designed to a
German specification issued in 1937 for a
carrier-based torpedo bomber and
reconnaissance aircraft. Its original order
called for dive-bombing too, but that task
soon went to a carrier version of the Ju-87
Stuka instead.
The Fi 167 was evaluated for potential use
on the Graf Zeppelin aircraft carrier that was
launched in 1938 but not finished during
World War II. With the decision to halt work
on the Graf Zeppelin, the Fi 167 program was
scrapped after production of only maybe 12
service-evaluation aircraft.
The original North American Fury, the FJ-
1, was a straight-winged excursion into jet
propulsion offered to the Navy in 1945. With
the German work in swept wings coming to
light, the Army version of the Fury (the XP-
86) was changed to incorporate those and a
swept tail, to produce the F-86 that is familiar
to many aviation enthusiasts.
That design made it back to the Navy as
the FJ-2 Fury. With improvements (LE slats
and a larger engine), it became the FJ-3. With
a significant increase in fuel carried in the
fuselage and additional considerable changes
and enlargements to the wing, the final Fury
was quite a different airplane but still
recognizable as a descendant of the original
Fury/Sabre line.
Bob Reeves produced a Profile Carrier
version of the FJ-4 and flew it in the Brodak
Fly-In Sportsman Profile Carrier class. This
Fury is large, with roughly 479 square inches
of wing, and a Thunder Tiger .36 engine pulls
it around. It’s a great-looking model.
John Vlna has been working on electronic
controls for Carrier, with flight tests starting
as I am writing this column. He has provided
me with photos of his hardware and promises
to tell all when testing is complete. Look for it
in a future edition. MA
Sources:
Brodak Manufacturing
(724) 966-2726
www.brodak.com
Navy Carrier Society
http://clflyer.tripod.com/ncs/ncs.htm
Richard L. Perry
427 Live Oak Ln. NE
Albuquerque NM 87122
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132 MODEL AVIATION
Nostalgia Carrier
[[email protected]]
Control Line Navy Carrier Dick Perry
Also included in this column:
• Brodak contest
New and Old: John Vlna’s two Class I models. The Wiley-powered
MO-1, for the AMA event, and a Walt Musciano Curtiss F6C
Hawk powered by a K&B .40 engine.
Jo Shoemaker flew this Fieseler Fi 167 in Sportsman Profile
Carrier at the 2010 Brodak Fly-In. Vlna photo.
Bob Reeves’ beautiful North American FJ-4 Fury at the Brodak
contest. It features a Thunder Tiger .36 engine and a large 479-
square-inch wing.
NOSTALGIA NAVY CARRIER seems to be growing in popularity
this year, following the rules change that took effect in January. The
class originated as a means of preserving the roots of our event. It is
flown according to the scoring system that was used for the first
quarter-century of the event that emphasized high speed.
Because the scoring system is different, the flying style and models
tend to be different. Those airplanes and the style of flying that keeps
the aircraft supported by the lift of the wing throughout the flight
instead of hanging on the propeller during low-speed portions are
preferred by some and enjoyed by all who try the Nostalgia category.
To encourage the use of models that were flown during the early
years of Carrier, the historic-model bonus rewards contestants who
enter replicas of aircraft from that era. This year that bonus was
increased significantly, making vintage airplanes all but mandatory.
Also changed this year were the criteria for a model to qualify for
the bonus points. We now allow any design that can be documented as
having existed prior to January 1, 1978. That modification seems to be
largely responsible for the increasing popularity of the event this year.
I have had a great time going through old drawings and
photographs, researching models that would qualify. My Short
Seamew for Class I and my Profile A-4P were published, so they have
always qualified for the historic-model bonus.
I’ve resurrected my 1976 Handley Page HPS-1 Class II design and
have begun to prepare one for Nostalgia. I originally used an OPS
Schnuerle engine on the HPS-1, but the new one will most likely have
a SuperTigre G65, to take advantage of the non-Schnuerle-engine
bonus.
I also dusted off plans for the Profile Grumman Guardian that I
built in Arizona when I was flying with the Balsa Bugs in 1971.
Digging out the HPS-1 was particularly interesting; the only plans I
had in 1976 were sets I had found in Hermann Goering’s scrapbook
(multiple volumes, actually), in which he documented aircraft
development between World War I and World War II. I had found
those records in the Technical Library at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base while I was researching something for my degree.
A three-view of the HPS-1 was included in the Goering documents,
but its source wasn’t cited. The drawing matched photographs of the
aircraft, but without an indication of where the drawing was published,
I couldn’t use it as documentation for a Carrier model.
I have the original letter, drawing, and photocopies I sent to Frank
10sig5.QXD_00MSTRPG.QXD 8/20/10 1:18 PM Page 132
Ehling, the AMA technical director at the
time, at the old downtown Washington DC
offices of the Academy. Frank’s signature is
on the drawing, approving the three-views. It
was a real nostalgia trip.
As this column is being written before the
Nats, because of publication lead time I can’t
discuss the Nostalgia models from this year’s
Nats. Watch for details of all new Carrier
models in the January MA, and check out
NatsNews on the AMA Web site for
photographs if you haven’t already done so.
The Navy Carrier coverage ran through the
week beginning on July 12.
The Brodak Fly-In takes place in
Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, and is
traditionally held in June each year. It features
AMA Carrier events, plus Sportsman Profile
Carrier and .15 Carrier. John Vlna is the event
director for two days of Carrier flying.
This year the deck was busy the whole
weekend, with 37 entries vying for awards.
John hopes to add electric to .15 Carrier in
2011. This year the Brodak event hosted one
of the biggest Navy Carrier contests in the
country, outside of the Nats.
John found time, even with his event
director duties, to take photographs at the Fly-
In. I’ve included those pictures of a couple of
new and interesting aircraft flown in Profile.
One is Jo Shoemaker’s Fieseler Fi 167
biplane. Jo flew it in .15 Profile.
The prototype Fi 167 was designed to a
German specification issued in 1937 for a
carrier-based torpedo bomber and
reconnaissance aircraft. Its original order
called for dive-bombing too, but that task
soon went to a carrier version of the Ju-87
Stuka instead.
The Fi 167 was evaluated for potential use
on the Graf Zeppelin aircraft carrier that was
launched in 1938 but not finished during
World War II. With the decision to halt work
on the Graf Zeppelin, the Fi 167 program was
scrapped after production of only maybe 12
service-evaluation aircraft.
The original North American Fury, the FJ-
1, was a straight-winged excursion into jet
propulsion offered to the Navy in 1945. With
the German work in swept wings coming to
light, the Army version of the Fury (the XP-
86) was changed to incorporate those and a
swept tail, to produce the F-86 that is familiar
to many aviation enthusiasts.
That design made it back to the Navy as
the FJ-2 Fury. With improvements (LE slats
and a larger engine), it became the FJ-3. With
a significant increase in fuel carried in the
fuselage and additional considerable changes
and enlargements to the wing, the final Fury
was quite a different airplane but still
recognizable as a descendant of the original
Fury/Sabre line.
Bob Reeves produced a Profile Carrier
version of the FJ-4 and flew it in the Brodak
Fly-In Sportsman Profile Carrier class. This
Fury is large, with roughly 479 square inches
of wing, and a Thunder Tiger .36 engine pulls
it around. It’s a great-looking model.
John Vlna has been working on electronic
controls for Carrier, with flight tests starting
as I am writing this column. He has provided
me with photos of his hardware and promises
to tell all when testing is complete. Look for it
in a future edition. MA
Sources:
Brodak Manufacturing
(724) 966-2726
www.brodak.com
Navy Carrier Society
http://clflyer.tripod.com/ncs/ncs.htm
Richard L. Perry
427 Live Oak Ln. NE
Albuquerque NM 87122
