LuhJ Racing 0 Bill Lee LOOKING BACK recent Riverside Nats find Im proud Dis trict 8 read report controlline racing Nats couple months ago have general idea what went now Im going crow bit about what people area did year Lets start Goodyear very small turnout year Only 19 en trants made qualifying circle small turnout Vic Garner Ed Jacobs event directors decided take 12 finals rather run semi-finals finals way met near unanimous approval fliers Out 12 seven District 8 six seven what call axisOklahoma City Dallas/Ft Worth Houston know real hot dogs werent year really shouldnt have anything brag about until looks performance levels took qualify what winning times full third times turned make last years semi-finals wouldnt have qualified year about Senior Goodyear Doug Harris Bud dad have strangle hold class put number Open fliers year just like last year winning time considerably better what won Open 606 vs 618 can competitive Texas can competitive anywhere What about Rat Race Did anybody have anything proud Rat Race CnntinupdnnOR 46 Model Aviation See easy Shortstop training lant necessary mu anew tiying you-a oeier prepared anything Les Pardue during first-place-winning Goodyear fliaht Releasing Rat racer during finals Riverside Nationals columnist Bill Lee Wonder photographer standing Bill ended up second place time 449 Hi Youd happy too just won trip Europe Riding Two best Tim Gillott Nats Fiai nace winner ana nenry damson Al Hodgkins glorious Flivver Al Henry Nelson qualifier FAI Team Race determine 1978 United States team BOX 511G HIGGINSVILLE MISSOURI 64037 plane will slow down flop maneuv ers Spacing between leadouts makes difference About 2 recommended 7 Brasher big tail has proven asset rudders may prove greater help Theyll keep plane yawing tight turns Howd like tower oer oppon ents Take hint FAI Team Race guys get yourself some Elton John shoes height advantage may some thing wont want pass up Now some way increase reach wed have monkey arms Charlie Johnson 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 CL Racing/Lee continued page 46 Tim Gillott did District 8 Rat fliers got licks qualifying four out 12 Vic Ed took finals out 24 flew finals Rat joke Once get past Tim really act together turned good 438 rest places determined screwed up least lucky enough have reason able read slow flight turned 449 second place Dickie Ritch also Houston motored 505 third just arent good times good local contest let alone Nats times supposed best wouldnt believe some things happened Rat Ron Esman Houston excellent shot last heat finals blew blade off fiberglass prop tore up plane badly Pete Storrie Denton Texas blew HP heat lot problems kept some awfully good people out money Texas typically fly tem peratures 90s humidity usually 50% range Both Rats built least three years ago until year using K&B 40S setup fuel tanks about 3 4 oz good about 55 laps year switched K&B 65 ABC engines significantly increased speed also fuel consumption However tanks still good about 50 laps using 50% fuel normally run bit mar ginal serious problem Until got Riverside temperatures Riverside usu ally 95-105 range day Along relative humidity about 1520% result increase fuel consumption about 15% sudden 50 laps per tank dwindled 42 laps still OK qualifying need 35 laps per tank should happen make finals need about 47 laps per tank go entire 140 laps two required pit stops practice night before thought might problem brought along some 40% just case made finals during break before heats began wished see what required get mileage back up turned out could get about 46 laps 42% fuel thats what ran final pilot Richard Stub blefield worked out would signal him 45 laps would hit shutoff lap later bring ship 47 laps no margin got three good tanks way made 140 laps close 138 laps engine began go lean lack fuel brought 140 plug element completely gone would never have made another lap needed Close Slow Rat owned Nashville Rats just last year have act together point being consistently better rest us year fliers pushing bunch District 8 year something like 35 Nats pre entries 20 processed flew small number 10 taken finals four being Axis Nashville bunch took first through third fourth going Harold Lambert Florida fifth sixth seventh eighth came Texas Contest Report past Labor Day participated annual Southwestern Control Line Championships Dallas Texas top contest held year District 8 racing other control-line events Judg ing results racing particu larly good Goodyear won good 609 second 612 Low qualifying 259 Rat also quite competitive three teams under 500 qualifying times event won Ron Esman Houston 443 Slow Rat best competition nine entries since time getting short event director decided run single quali fying heat take four two final heats dust settled low qualify ing 302 seventh fastest time 3159 times close together decided take six three finals 3159 didnt qualify consider cutoff time Nats two heats high six-minute area very respectable times final saw Larry Hoffman Corpus Christi winning time 6102 good some times weve heard about other areas get ting very close W R Lee 3522 Tamarisk Lane Mis souri City TX 77459 CL Scale/Gretz continued page 47 take granted being too basic send Pros cons current AMA rules ideas possible changes can aired Send Contest announcements contest results send too added encourage ment Model Aviation will pay picture ideas hints appear print Please lets hear Noise About Mufflers Several rules change proposals CL AMA Scale recently passed Scale Contest Board use 1978 sanctioned contests CL Scale proposals passed initially published Dec 76 MA controversial change requires use muffler noise limiting device AMA Scale models CL Sport Scale rules already require muffler RC Sport Scale CL RC FAT Scale rules think Scale Board made respon sible far-sighted decision seems appro priate competition modelers especially scale builders experts being realistic should lead way theuse thus development silencers No matter part country live what type model build using muffler first time usually tends rub wrong way Old Say ing #1 Its hard teach old dog new 98 Model Aviation I Since weve business 24 years can sure stay offer service customers years come youre interested what have offer send Si complete catalog Add $50 1st CIa mail return .
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/01
Page Numbers: 46, 98
LuhJ Racing 0 Bill Lee LOOKING BACK recent Riverside Nats find Im proud Dis trict 8 read report controlline racing Nats couple months ago have general idea what went now Im going crow bit about what people area did year Lets start Goodyear very small turnout year Only 19 en trants made qualifying circle small turnout Vic Garner Ed Jacobs event directors decided take 12 finals rather run semi-finals finals way met near unanimous approval fliers Out 12 seven District 8 six seven what call axisOklahoma City Dallas/Ft Worth Houston know real hot dogs werent year really shouldnt have anything brag about until looks performance levels took qualify what winning times full third times turned make last years semi-finals wouldnt have qualified year about Senior Goodyear Doug Harris Bud dad have strangle hold class put number Open fliers year just like last year winning time considerably better what won Open 606 vs 618 can competitive Texas can competitive anywhere What about Rat Race Did anybody have anything proud Rat Race CnntinupdnnOR 46 Model Aviation See easy Shortstop training lant necessary mu anew tiying you-a oeier prepared anything Les Pardue during first-place-winning Goodyear fliaht Releasing Rat racer during finals Riverside Nationals columnist Bill Lee Wonder photographer standing Bill ended up second place time 449 Hi Youd happy too just won trip Europe Riding Two best Tim Gillott Nats Fiai nace winner ana nenry damson Al Hodgkins glorious Flivver Al Henry Nelson qualifier FAI Team Race determine 1978 United States team BOX 511G HIGGINSVILLE MISSOURI 64037 plane will slow down flop maneuv ers Spacing between leadouts makes difference About 2 recommended 7 Brasher big tail has proven asset rudders may prove greater help Theyll keep plane yawing tight turns Howd like tower oer oppon ents Take hint FAI Team Race guys get yourself some Elton John shoes height advantage may some thing wont want pass up Now some way increase reach wed have monkey arms Charlie Johnson 3716 Ingraham St San Diego CA 92109 CL Racing/Lee continued page 46 Tim Gillott did District 8 Rat fliers got licks qualifying four out 12 Vic Ed took finals out 24 flew finals Rat joke Once get past Tim really act together turned good 438 rest places determined screwed up least lucky enough have reason able read slow flight turned 449 second place Dickie Ritch also Houston motored 505 third just arent good times good local contest let alone Nats times supposed best wouldnt believe some things happened Rat Ron Esman Houston excellent shot last heat finals blew blade off fiberglass prop tore up plane badly Pete Storrie Denton Texas blew HP heat lot problems kept some awfully good people out money Texas typically fly tem peratures 90s humidity usually 50% range Both Rats built least three years ago until year using K&B 40S setup fuel tanks about 3 4 oz good about 55 laps year switched K&B 65 ABC engines significantly increased speed also fuel consumption However tanks still good about 50 laps using 50% fuel normally run bit mar ginal serious problem Until got Riverside temperatures Riverside usu ally 95-105 range day Along relative humidity about 1520% result increase fuel consumption about 15% sudden 50 laps per tank dwindled 42 laps still OK qualifying need 35 laps per tank should happen make finals need about 47 laps per tank go entire 140 laps two required pit stops practice night before thought might problem brought along some 40% just case made finals during break before heats began wished see what required get mileage back up turned out could get about 46 laps 42% fuel thats what ran final pilot Richard Stub blefield worked out would signal him 45 laps would hit shutoff lap later bring ship 47 laps no margin got three good tanks way made 140 laps close 138 laps engine began go lean lack fuel brought 140 plug element completely gone would never have made another lap needed Close Slow Rat owned Nashville Rats just last year have act together point being consistently better rest us year fliers pushing bunch District 8 year something like 35 Nats pre entries 20 processed flew small number 10 taken finals four being Axis Nashville bunch took first through third fourth going Harold Lambert Florida fifth sixth seventh eighth came Texas Contest Report past Labor Day participated annual Southwestern Control Line Championships Dallas Texas top contest held year District 8 racing other control-line events Judg ing results racing particu larly good Goodyear won good 609 second 612 Low qualifying 259 Rat also quite competitive three teams under 500 qualifying times event won Ron Esman Houston 443 Slow Rat best competition nine entries since time getting short event director decided run single quali fying heat take four two final heats dust settled low qualify ing 302 seventh fastest time 3159 times close together decided take six three finals 3159 didnt qualify consider cutoff time Nats two heats high six-minute area very respectable times final saw Larry Hoffman Corpus Christi winning time 6102 good some times weve heard about other areas get ting very close W R Lee 3522 Tamarisk Lane Mis souri City TX 77459 CL Scale/Gretz continued page 47 take granted being too basic send Pros cons current AMA rules ideas possible changes can aired Send Contest announcements contest results send too added encourage ment Model Aviation will pay picture ideas hints appear print Please lets hear Noise About Mufflers Several rules change proposals CL AMA Scale recently passed Scale Contest Board use 1978 sanctioned contests CL Scale proposals passed initially published Dec 76 MA controversial change requires use muffler noise limiting device AMA Scale models CL Sport Scale rules already require muffler RC Sport Scale CL RC FAT Scale rules think Scale Board made respon sible far-sighted decision seems appro priate competition modelers especially scale builders experts being realistic should lead way theuse thus development silencers No matter part country live what type model build using muffler first time usually tends rub wrong way Old Say ing #1 Its hard teach old dog new 98 Model Aviation I Since weve business 24 years can sure stay offer service customers years come youre interested what have offer send Si complete catalog Add $50 1st CIa mail return .