September 2003 153
CONTROL LINE SCALE
Bill Boss, 77-06 269th St., New Hyde Park NY 11040
I HAVE COVERED the subject of
documentation several times in the past few
years. However, someone always comes
along with something new in the way of
presenting the information needed for the
static-judging portion of Control Line (CL)
Scale competition. Fred Cronenwett of Los
Angeles, California, sent me a package of
information that those of you with digital
cameras and computers might be interested in.
Fred is in the process of constructing a
FG-1D Corsair that the Goodyear company
built. According to The Complete
Encyclopedia of World Aircraft by Barnes &
Noble, Chance Vought received orders for
large numbers of the Corsair in roughly April
1943. This resulted in Brewster producing the
aircraft under the designation of F3A-1 and
Goodyear producing the aircraft under the
designation FG-1. Vought, Brewster, and
Goodyear built a total of 12,571 of this great
aircraft.
The FG-1D Fred is modeling has been
“Walk-around” documentation photos show front, rear, side, and quarter views of the
FG-1D Corsair that Fred Cronenwett found in the Palm Springs Air Museum.
A sample of Fred’s documentation-page layout shows details of
the Corsair’s main landing gear, canopy, and markings.
This three-view of the FG-1D was scanned into a computer so
that extraneous information could be removed and notes added.
154 MODEL AVIATION
Providing this kind of detail/information
for the judges gives you, as a competitor, the
possibility of a better static score because
they don’t have to guess what differences
there are between the three-view and the
model you present.
This page also contains information about
the model’s weight, wingspan, engine size,
and operational functions, and, most
important, who built the model. This
information page was created using the
Microsoft Word word-processing program.
The next part is the three-view drawing.
The original three-view used for Fred’s model
contained side views of the Vought F4U-4
and F4U-1 and various fuselage crosssections.
Using a flatbed scanner, Fred
scanned the three-view into his computer as a
bitmap file so he could eliminate certain
information that did not pertain to the model
he was building.
He removed the fuselage cross-sections
and the side views of the F4U-1 and F4U-4,
thus providing a clean three-view for the
presentation of his model. This eliminates any
possible confusion about what portion of the
three-views apply to the aircraft.
Fred was also able to insert notes about
the three-view detailing the differences
between a military version and the airplane
being modeled. Some experimentation with
scanning resolution may be needed to obtain
decent image quality when scanning a threeview
drawing.
Fred took photos of the prototype with his
digital camera (a 4-megapixel-resolution
Canon G-2) and downloaded them into his
computer. As needed, he brought them into
and arranged them in the pages of the Word
document. Fred notes that a digital camera of
at least 2 megapixels or greater resolution
should be used for good results.
If you are using a flatbed scanner and 35-
millimeter photos, Fred suggests that the
pictures be scanned in a format such as .jpg
(or whatever you have) with at least 1,600 x
1,200 pixels for best resolution for printing
purposes. If you want information about
digital cameras, Fred recommends a visit to
www.steves-digicams.com, where you can
obtain reviews of all cameras and answers to
questions about them.
The documentation package was created
and completed in Microsoft Word. This
included the informational, or text, page;
importing and cleaning up the three-view and
adding notes; then arranging the photos in the
following pages to show the “walk-around”
that included the overall aircraft, front, rear,
and side views.
The remaining pages were dedicated to
showing the wing structure, elevator, rudder,
restored to flying condition and is currently
owned and operated by the Palm Springs Air
Museum in Palm Springs, California. Fred’s
documentation presentation consists of the
eight pages of information allowed for Sport
Scale; they include an informational page, a
three-view drawing, and six pages of photos
covering the entire airplane.
The informational page provides details
about differences between a military
operational aircraft and the museum’s
restored aircraft. It also includes such details
as the addition of a passenger seat behind the
pilot, that the tailhook and gun sight have
been removed, and that aerials shown on the
three-view have been replaced with more
modern radio and navigation equipment.
BRODAKManufacturing &
Distributing Co., Inc.
The largest supplier of control-line airplanes
HANDLES
2-LINE, 3-LINE, AC-U-JUST
C-1 . . . .Standard w/o Fingergrips . . . . . . . . . . .17.99
C-2 . . . .Standard with Fingergrips . . . . . . . . . . .18.99
C-5 . . . .Expert Series w/o Fingergrips . . . . . . .27.99
C-6 . . . .Expert Series with Fingergrips . . . . . . .28.99
C-7 . . . .X-PA Expert Series w/o Fingergrips . .38.99
C-8 . . . .X-PA Expert Series with Fingergrips .39.99
also available Catalogue #12 Send $4.00 to
Brodak’s 100 Park Avenue • Carmichaels, PA 15320
Phone: 724-966-2726 • Fax: 724-966-5670
E-Mail: [email protected] • Web Site: www.brodak.com
Introduces NEW!
SUPER COOL Plug with
Hi Temp Insulator
In addition to . . .
● The FIREBALL R/C IDLE BAR plug
only $2.75
● Hot & Standard Non-Idle Bar plugs
still only $2.45
only $2.75
Swanson
Associates
P.O. Box 151
Wayne, NJ
07470
Since 1948
engine cowl, main landing gear, canopy, flaps,
and tail assembly, and there was a page for
color scheme, markings, and a place for color
chips. Pictures of the prototype may not show
the airplane’s color, and colors of photos will
most likely vary from printer to printer, so
adding FS (Federal Standard) 595 color chips
is advisable for proof of color.
Fred states that the finished product is an
81⁄2 x 11-inch-format Microsoft Word
document. If you lose the documentation, no
problem; just print another copy. The same
goes for if you need several copies for judges.
Saving a document of this type with as
many photos as it contains takes up
considerable computer hard-drive space. If
you have a CD-ROM or disk drive in your
system, burn a copy of the document and any
other related information to CD or disk to
verify that it is okay, and put it away for safe
keeping. Then you can delete all
documentation information and reclaim the
hard-drive space.
Fred is building his Corsair from a
TopFlite Gold Edition kit. It will be powered
with an O.S. .61 two-stroke engine and will
feature retractable landing gear, throttle
control, movable canopy, and steerable tail
wheel, which will be controlled with a twoline
electronic control system. I am sure we
will see photos of the model when it’s
completed.
Many thanks to Fred for sharing his ideas
about using new techniques to put together a
proof-of-scale documentation presentation.
Wanted: CL Scale competitors. The Coastal
Control Liners based in Jacksonville, Florida,
are looking for CL Scale events competitors.
The club is interested in all forms of CL
modeling and will be holding a contest the
weekend of November 15-16, 2003. It will be
held at the US Navy Whitehouse OLF in
Jacksonville, where 8,000 feet of concrete
runway is available for contest work. The site
is easily accessible from I-10, I-75, and I-95.
The club contest started as a Stunt meet
last year, and although it was successful,
the group is looking to add Scale events to
this competition. The problem is that the
group has neither members who are
experienced in running Scale events nor
Scale competitors.
The club is asking for anyone who would
be willing work as an associate contest
director or Scale event director to please
contact Jim Catevenis at 12215 S.W. 9th St.,
Newberry FL 32669; E-mail:
[email protected]. He can be contacted in the
evenings at (352) 332-4683.
If CL Scale is not added to the contest
lineup this year, it’s certainly in the plans for
next year. The club’s goal for this fall is to
have a unified CL contest featuring all of the
disciplines, as did contests in the 1960s and
1970s.
This sounds like a great effort to get CL
participation and a great contest going in the
state of Florida. I hope that those who have
written to me about the lack of CL in Florida
will take advantage of this opportunity.
Please send ideas, notice of upcoming CL
Scale events, contest reports, and especially
photos of CL Scale activity to me at the
address at the top of this column. MA
Edition: Model Aviation - 2003/09
Page Numbers: 153,154,157
Edition: Model Aviation - 2003/09
Page Numbers: 153,154,157
September 2003 153
CONTROL LINE SCALE
Bill Boss, 77-06 269th St., New Hyde Park NY 11040
I HAVE COVERED the subject of
documentation several times in the past few
years. However, someone always comes
along with something new in the way of
presenting the information needed for the
static-judging portion of Control Line (CL)
Scale competition. Fred Cronenwett of Los
Angeles, California, sent me a package of
information that those of you with digital
cameras and computers might be interested in.
Fred is in the process of constructing a
FG-1D Corsair that the Goodyear company
built. According to The Complete
Encyclopedia of World Aircraft by Barnes &
Noble, Chance Vought received orders for
large numbers of the Corsair in roughly April
1943. This resulted in Brewster producing the
aircraft under the designation of F3A-1 and
Goodyear producing the aircraft under the
designation FG-1. Vought, Brewster, and
Goodyear built a total of 12,571 of this great
aircraft.
The FG-1D Fred is modeling has been
“Walk-around” documentation photos show front, rear, side, and quarter views of the
FG-1D Corsair that Fred Cronenwett found in the Palm Springs Air Museum.
A sample of Fred’s documentation-page layout shows details of
the Corsair’s main landing gear, canopy, and markings.
This three-view of the FG-1D was scanned into a computer so
that extraneous information could be removed and notes added.
154 MODEL AVIATION
Providing this kind of detail/information
for the judges gives you, as a competitor, the
possibility of a better static score because
they don’t have to guess what differences
there are between the three-view and the
model you present.
This page also contains information about
the model’s weight, wingspan, engine size,
and operational functions, and, most
important, who built the model. This
information page was created using the
Microsoft Word word-processing program.
The next part is the three-view drawing.
The original three-view used for Fred’s model
contained side views of the Vought F4U-4
and F4U-1 and various fuselage crosssections.
Using a flatbed scanner, Fred
scanned the three-view into his computer as a
bitmap file so he could eliminate certain
information that did not pertain to the model
he was building.
He removed the fuselage cross-sections
and the side views of the F4U-1 and F4U-4,
thus providing a clean three-view for the
presentation of his model. This eliminates any
possible confusion about what portion of the
three-views apply to the aircraft.
Fred was also able to insert notes about
the three-view detailing the differences
between a military version and the airplane
being modeled. Some experimentation with
scanning resolution may be needed to obtain
decent image quality when scanning a threeview
drawing.
Fred took photos of the prototype with his
digital camera (a 4-megapixel-resolution
Canon G-2) and downloaded them into his
computer. As needed, he brought them into
and arranged them in the pages of the Word
document. Fred notes that a digital camera of
at least 2 megapixels or greater resolution
should be used for good results.
If you are using a flatbed scanner and 35-
millimeter photos, Fred suggests that the
pictures be scanned in a format such as .jpg
(or whatever you have) with at least 1,600 x
1,200 pixels for best resolution for printing
purposes. If you want information about
digital cameras, Fred recommends a visit to
www.steves-digicams.com, where you can
obtain reviews of all cameras and answers to
questions about them.
The documentation package was created
and completed in Microsoft Word. This
included the informational, or text, page;
importing and cleaning up the three-view and
adding notes; then arranging the photos in the
following pages to show the “walk-around”
that included the overall aircraft, front, rear,
and side views.
The remaining pages were dedicated to
showing the wing structure, elevator, rudder,
restored to flying condition and is currently
owned and operated by the Palm Springs Air
Museum in Palm Springs, California. Fred’s
documentation presentation consists of the
eight pages of information allowed for Sport
Scale; they include an informational page, a
three-view drawing, and six pages of photos
covering the entire airplane.
The informational page provides details
about differences between a military
operational aircraft and the museum’s
restored aircraft. It also includes such details
as the addition of a passenger seat behind the
pilot, that the tailhook and gun sight have
been removed, and that aerials shown on the
three-view have been replaced with more
modern radio and navigation equipment.
BRODAKManufacturing &
Distributing Co., Inc.
The largest supplier of control-line airplanes
HANDLES
2-LINE, 3-LINE, AC-U-JUST
C-1 . . . .Standard w/o Fingergrips . . . . . . . . . . .17.99
C-2 . . . .Standard with Fingergrips . . . . . . . . . . .18.99
C-5 . . . .Expert Series w/o Fingergrips . . . . . . .27.99
C-6 . . . .Expert Series with Fingergrips . . . . . . .28.99
C-7 . . . .X-PA Expert Series w/o Fingergrips . .38.99
C-8 . . . .X-PA Expert Series with Fingergrips .39.99
also available Catalogue #12 Send $4.00 to
Brodak’s 100 Park Avenue • Carmichaels, PA 15320
Phone: 724-966-2726 • Fax: 724-966-5670
E-Mail: [email protected] • Web Site: www.brodak.com
Introduces NEW!
SUPER COOL Plug with
Hi Temp Insulator
In addition to . . .
● The FIREBALL R/C IDLE BAR plug
only $2.75
● Hot & Standard Non-Idle Bar plugs
still only $2.45
only $2.75
Swanson
Associates
P.O. Box 151
Wayne, NJ
07470
Since 1948
engine cowl, main landing gear, canopy, flaps,
and tail assembly, and there was a page for
color scheme, markings, and a place for color
chips. Pictures of the prototype may not show
the airplane’s color, and colors of photos will
most likely vary from printer to printer, so
adding FS (Federal Standard) 595 color chips
is advisable for proof of color.
Fred states that the finished product is an
81⁄2 x 11-inch-format Microsoft Word
document. If you lose the documentation, no
problem; just print another copy. The same
goes for if you need several copies for judges.
Saving a document of this type with as
many photos as it contains takes up
considerable computer hard-drive space. If
you have a CD-ROM or disk drive in your
system, burn a copy of the document and any
other related information to CD or disk to
verify that it is okay, and put it away for safe
keeping. Then you can delete all
documentation information and reclaim the
hard-drive space.
Fred is building his Corsair from a
TopFlite Gold Edition kit. It will be powered
with an O.S. .61 two-stroke engine and will
feature retractable landing gear, throttle
control, movable canopy, and steerable tail
wheel, which will be controlled with a twoline
electronic control system. I am sure we
will see photos of the model when it’s
completed.
Many thanks to Fred for sharing his ideas
about using new techniques to put together a
proof-of-scale documentation presentation.
Wanted: CL Scale competitors. The Coastal
Control Liners based in Jacksonville, Florida,
are looking for CL Scale events competitors.
The club is interested in all forms of CL
modeling and will be holding a contest the
weekend of November 15-16, 2003. It will be
held at the US Navy Whitehouse OLF in
Jacksonville, where 8,000 feet of concrete
runway is available for contest work. The site
is easily accessible from I-10, I-75, and I-95.
The club contest started as a Stunt meet
last year, and although it was successful,
the group is looking to add Scale events to
this competition. The problem is that the
group has neither members who are
experienced in running Scale events nor
Scale competitors.
The club is asking for anyone who would
be willing work as an associate contest
director or Scale event director to please
contact Jim Catevenis at 12215 S.W. 9th St.,
Newberry FL 32669; E-mail:
[email protected]. He can be contacted in the
evenings at (352) 332-4683.
If CL Scale is not added to the contest
lineup this year, it’s certainly in the plans for
next year. The club’s goal for this fall is to
have a unified CL contest featuring all of the
disciplines, as did contests in the 1960s and
1970s.
This sounds like a great effort to get CL
participation and a great contest going in the
state of Florida. I hope that those who have
written to me about the lack of CL in Florida
will take advantage of this opportunity.
Please send ideas, notice of upcoming CL
Scale events, contest reports, and especially
photos of CL Scale activity to me at the
address at the top of this column. MA
Edition: Model Aviation - 2003/09
Page Numbers: 153,154,157
September 2003 153
CONTROL LINE SCALE
Bill Boss, 77-06 269th St., New Hyde Park NY 11040
I HAVE COVERED the subject of
documentation several times in the past few
years. However, someone always comes
along with something new in the way of
presenting the information needed for the
static-judging portion of Control Line (CL)
Scale competition. Fred Cronenwett of Los
Angeles, California, sent me a package of
information that those of you with digital
cameras and computers might be interested in.
Fred is in the process of constructing a
FG-1D Corsair that the Goodyear company
built. According to The Complete
Encyclopedia of World Aircraft by Barnes &
Noble, Chance Vought received orders for
large numbers of the Corsair in roughly April
1943. This resulted in Brewster producing the
aircraft under the designation of F3A-1 and
Goodyear producing the aircraft under the
designation FG-1. Vought, Brewster, and
Goodyear built a total of 12,571 of this great
aircraft.
The FG-1D Fred is modeling has been
“Walk-around” documentation photos show front, rear, side, and quarter views of the
FG-1D Corsair that Fred Cronenwett found in the Palm Springs Air Museum.
A sample of Fred’s documentation-page layout shows details of
the Corsair’s main landing gear, canopy, and markings.
This three-view of the FG-1D was scanned into a computer so
that extraneous information could be removed and notes added.
154 MODEL AVIATION
Providing this kind of detail/information
for the judges gives you, as a competitor, the
possibility of a better static score because
they don’t have to guess what differences
there are between the three-view and the
model you present.
This page also contains information about
the model’s weight, wingspan, engine size,
and operational functions, and, most
important, who built the model. This
information page was created using the
Microsoft Word word-processing program.
The next part is the three-view drawing.
The original three-view used for Fred’s model
contained side views of the Vought F4U-4
and F4U-1 and various fuselage crosssections.
Using a flatbed scanner, Fred
scanned the three-view into his computer as a
bitmap file so he could eliminate certain
information that did not pertain to the model
he was building.
He removed the fuselage cross-sections
and the side views of the F4U-1 and F4U-4,
thus providing a clean three-view for the
presentation of his model. This eliminates any
possible confusion about what portion of the
three-views apply to the aircraft.
Fred was also able to insert notes about
the three-view detailing the differences
between a military version and the airplane
being modeled. Some experimentation with
scanning resolution may be needed to obtain
decent image quality when scanning a threeview
drawing.
Fred took photos of the prototype with his
digital camera (a 4-megapixel-resolution
Canon G-2) and downloaded them into his
computer. As needed, he brought them into
and arranged them in the pages of the Word
document. Fred notes that a digital camera of
at least 2 megapixels or greater resolution
should be used for good results.
If you are using a flatbed scanner and 35-
millimeter photos, Fred suggests that the
pictures be scanned in a format such as .jpg
(or whatever you have) with at least 1,600 x
1,200 pixels for best resolution for printing
purposes. If you want information about
digital cameras, Fred recommends a visit to
www.steves-digicams.com, where you can
obtain reviews of all cameras and answers to
questions about them.
The documentation package was created
and completed in Microsoft Word. This
included the informational, or text, page;
importing and cleaning up the three-view and
adding notes; then arranging the photos in the
following pages to show the “walk-around”
that included the overall aircraft, front, rear,
and side views.
The remaining pages were dedicated to
showing the wing structure, elevator, rudder,
restored to flying condition and is currently
owned and operated by the Palm Springs Air
Museum in Palm Springs, California. Fred’s
documentation presentation consists of the
eight pages of information allowed for Sport
Scale; they include an informational page, a
three-view drawing, and six pages of photos
covering the entire airplane.
The informational page provides details
about differences between a military
operational aircraft and the museum’s
restored aircraft. It also includes such details
as the addition of a passenger seat behind the
pilot, that the tailhook and gun sight have
been removed, and that aerials shown on the
three-view have been replaced with more
modern radio and navigation equipment.
BRODAKManufacturing &
Distributing Co., Inc.
The largest supplier of control-line airplanes
HANDLES
2-LINE, 3-LINE, AC-U-JUST
C-1 . . . .Standard w/o Fingergrips . . . . . . . . . . .17.99
C-2 . . . .Standard with Fingergrips . . . . . . . . . . .18.99
C-5 . . . .Expert Series w/o Fingergrips . . . . . . .27.99
C-6 . . . .Expert Series with Fingergrips . . . . . . .28.99
C-7 . . . .X-PA Expert Series w/o Fingergrips . .38.99
C-8 . . . .X-PA Expert Series with Fingergrips .39.99
also available Catalogue #12 Send $4.00 to
Brodak’s 100 Park Avenue • Carmichaels, PA 15320
Phone: 724-966-2726 • Fax: 724-966-5670
E-Mail: [email protected] • Web Site: www.brodak.com
Introduces NEW!
SUPER COOL Plug with
Hi Temp Insulator
In addition to . . .
● The FIREBALL R/C IDLE BAR plug
only $2.75
● Hot & Standard Non-Idle Bar plugs
still only $2.45
only $2.75
Swanson
Associates
P.O. Box 151
Wayne, NJ
07470
Since 1948
engine cowl, main landing gear, canopy, flaps,
and tail assembly, and there was a page for
color scheme, markings, and a place for color
chips. Pictures of the prototype may not show
the airplane’s color, and colors of photos will
most likely vary from printer to printer, so
adding FS (Federal Standard) 595 color chips
is advisable for proof of color.
Fred states that the finished product is an
81⁄2 x 11-inch-format Microsoft Word
document. If you lose the documentation, no
problem; just print another copy. The same
goes for if you need several copies for judges.
Saving a document of this type with as
many photos as it contains takes up
considerable computer hard-drive space. If
you have a CD-ROM or disk drive in your
system, burn a copy of the document and any
other related information to CD or disk to
verify that it is okay, and put it away for safe
keeping. Then you can delete all
documentation information and reclaim the
hard-drive space.
Fred is building his Corsair from a
TopFlite Gold Edition kit. It will be powered
with an O.S. .61 two-stroke engine and will
feature retractable landing gear, throttle
control, movable canopy, and steerable tail
wheel, which will be controlled with a twoline
electronic control system. I am sure we
will see photos of the model when it’s
completed.
Many thanks to Fred for sharing his ideas
about using new techniques to put together a
proof-of-scale documentation presentation.
Wanted: CL Scale competitors. The Coastal
Control Liners based in Jacksonville, Florida,
are looking for CL Scale events competitors.
The club is interested in all forms of CL
modeling and will be holding a contest the
weekend of November 15-16, 2003. It will be
held at the US Navy Whitehouse OLF in
Jacksonville, where 8,000 feet of concrete
runway is available for contest work. The site
is easily accessible from I-10, I-75, and I-95.
The club contest started as a Stunt meet
last year, and although it was successful,
the group is looking to add Scale events to
this competition. The problem is that the
group has neither members who are
experienced in running Scale events nor
Scale competitors.
The club is asking for anyone who would
be willing work as an associate contest
director or Scale event director to please
contact Jim Catevenis at 12215 S.W. 9th St.,
Newberry FL 32669; E-mail:
[email protected]. He can be contacted in the
evenings at (352) 332-4683.
If CL Scale is not added to the contest
lineup this year, it’s certainly in the plans for
next year. The club’s goal for this fall is to
have a unified CL contest featuring all of the
disciplines, as did contests in the 1960s and
1970s.
This sounds like a great effort to get CL
participation and a great contest going in the
state of Florida. I hope that those who have
written to me about the lack of CL in Florida
will take advantage of this opportunity.
Please send ideas, notice of upcoming CL
Scale events, contest reports, and especially
photos of CL Scale activity to me at the
address at the top of this column. MA