Control Line: Speed

Control Line SPEED Gene Hem pet AS THE FIRST order business month would like express thanks appreciation Speed modelers readers around world have taken time write times know what would Interest modeling fraternity have questions suggestions ideas drop line will attempt accommodate request months column will devoted shar ing some letters modelers have sent mc James Van Sant Penndel PA covered highlights Big-Little Speed Meet held October 3 1982 Jonesville PA entries down could use people ones flew bad good time highlight meet Don Benesebs D Speed flight 20922 mph engine used Don OS MAX 65 9 ev-Up wood prop remainder entries made flightsbut nothing earth-shattering like Dons D Speed flight Before moving next letter would like mention new record set Nick Sher Langhorne PA Formula 40 flight 16545 mph engine used set record K&B 40 8 ass prop Formula 40 Speed event rules require fuel mix ture 40% nitro 40% alcohol 20% oil Lester Deily Douglaston NY sent following Its since last wrote heres latest Long Island Gossip Speed Sheet made trip see Don Benesch Frank Garzon visit Dons workshop much like trip archeological dig deeper probe under workbenches shop older Speed models unearth Don has enough antique Speed models field Old-Timer Speed Event would last weeks basement true Speed modelers treasure-trove Don both perplexed concerning comments fuel used Nationals Crow feathers black cape mumbo jumbo No way set record straight Don has consented let divulge much-rumored buttill nowtop-secret fuel goes needmv hip boots Gene H After carefully blending triple filtration batches fuel sent Brookhaven National Laboratory Long Island fuel will processed giant Colliding Beam Accelerator undergoes ionization spectroscopic analysis complex electro magnetic/subnuclear plotted graphics sheet prepared batch preclude problems such molecular-chain-link disinte gration before undergoing processing Colliding Beam Accelerator special computer control software cartridge prepared fuel batch Because ofthe nuclear bombardment fuel undergoes Colliding Beam Accelerator tends develop radioactive sub-proton fallout fuel glows dark about week after processing radioactive fallout subsides stated about week During period fuel must handled using lead-shielded gloves Radioactive warning posters posted fuel storage area may noted because its new tight molecular structure fuel much heavier given volume regular fuellike equal volume mercury compared equal volume water Don direct other modelers wishing have own fuel processed contact Brookhaven National Lab concerning Use-List wonder theyre trying put Please keep cards letters especially photographs coming Gene Hempel 301 N Yale Dr Garland TX 75042 68 Model Aviation Don Beneschs D Speed record-holder Silver Bullet aluminum magnesium construction i-ieres Lion enescI regular Ironsides Jet Speed models holding up tail pipe Big Bertha pulse jet What world An FAI unlimited-size Jet Speed class An undersized cruise missile oversized Dyna-Jet SAFE FLYING ISNO ACCIDENT