Crossword
by Kurt Blattenberger
Across
- 1. Area between ribs
- 4. Pull up prior to touchdown
- 8. Garbage
- 12. Premier model aviation organization
- 15. Device used to clock aircraft speed
- 17. Path that a propeller tip takes
- 18. Edge of a dope jar
- 19. Son of Abraham
- 21. Result
- 22. Do you fly model airplanes?
- 23. I've __ to meet a modeler I didn't like
- 24. One of the gifts of the Magi
- 25. State in AMA District IV
- 26. State in AMA District III
- 27. Wood sorrel
- 29. Not hers
- 30. State in AMA District V
- 31. State in AMA District V
- 32. State in AMA District VI
- 33. Room within a harem
- 35. Songbird
- 37. Penny
- 38. Atomic mass unit
- 39. ___ Scholl, of Super Chipmunk fame
- 41. Boeing P-26 ___ shooter
- 42. Premier organization for model-rocket enthusiasts
- 43. On sheltered side
- 44. ___ muffin
- 45. Eccentric mechanism
- 46. Charlie Brown's expression
- 47. Use a fixture—for cutting aircraft plywood
- 48. One who flies competitive aircraft for profit
- 51. British nobleman
- 53. Epoxy does this (if mixed correctly)
- 55. Allow
- 56. Crash your airplane
- 58. She ___ what it takes to fly competitively
- 59. Trim implement on a control surface
- 60. Fluid part of blood
- 62. Simpler
- 64. What kind of fuel ___ you using?
- 65. Where aircraft carriers operate
- 66. Military part-numbering system prefix
- 67. State in AMA District IX
- 68. Fish eggs
- 69. Computer department
- 70. State in AMA District I
- 71. Attempt an FAI record
- 72. Honey, I'm going ___ the flying field now
- 73. Radio modulation type
- 74. Landing gear
- 75. State in AMA District V
- 76. Soaring club in Riverside CA
- 77. Put the airplane away for the winter
- 79. They come after ems
- 80. Control line
- 81. Perform
- 82. Middle Eastern salad
- 83. Zodiacal constellation for most of August
- 89. Before
- 90. Adjust the needle valve
- 91. Emotion following a successful flight
- 97. ___ the elevator to pitch the nose upward
- 98. Type of CL Racer
- 99. Backseat airplane occupant
- 100. Argot
- 102. Cyanoacrylate
- 103. Abbreviation for AMA District V possession
- 105. Pulled up to take off
- 107. I ___ going to fly yesterday, but it rained.
- 108. "Only ___ Best From U.S. Hobby"
- 110. Portable bed
- 111. Dude's place
- 113. Resinous deposit
- 114. Fairy queen
- 116. Statute
- 117. Period of history
- 118. Blackbird
- 119. Lyric poem
- 120. Number of wings on a monoplane
- 121. Wrath
- 122. 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
- 123. Gun the engine
- 124. 1/64th of a minute
- 125. Operated the engine
- 126. Centers of gravity
- 127. Ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- 128. Airtight ring at bottom of carburetor
- 129. Unnecessarily
- 130. Supplications
- 131. Son of Isaac and Rebekah
Down
- 1. Type of electrical plug
- 2. Printed sale announcements in Model Aviation
- 3. Holly shrub
- 5. Grain direction of covering material
- 6. Ring of color
- 7. Model Aviation column by Paul Kopp—2000
- 9. Reach this department at AMA telephone extension 270
- 10. Festival
- 11. Capable at flying
- 12. Institution for mentally ill
- 13. Impair
- 14. Canton in North Switzerland
- 15. Special feature articles on commercial airplane kits
- 16. Readjust
- 19. What an Australian sailor would declare
- 20. Rejuvenates batteries
- 28. Wing-loading quotients
- 29. Shrinks Monokote®
- 34. Organize a contest
- 36. Local annual outdoor festival
- 37. Develop a new airplane design
- 38. Cherrylike fruit
- 40. Cuts grooves on screw or nut
- 41. Pennsylvania Air National Guard Association
- 47. Thou ___ not leave thy transmitter on in the impound.
- 49. Omniscient Brotherhood of Elite Academic Highbrows, abbr.
- 50. Month when the Toledo show usually occurs
- 52. Not former
- 53. What's the ___ to your perfect tissue-covering jobs?
- 54. Rendezvous
- 55. Hardware to hold the fuel-tank access hatch closed
- 57. Fernando ___, FF Sport and Scale columnist in Model Aviation—2000
- 61. Come in dead last in a flyoff
- 63. Sea eagle
- 68. ___, the USAF's facility in Cheyenne Mountain
- 83. ___ II British biplane manufacturer
- 84. British Aircraft Association
- 85. Castor and synthetic are used in glow fuels
- 86. Mast ___ your rubber winder?
- 87. Desk with slanted top
- 92. Series of steps required to complete a task
- 93. Aircraft parking area
- 94. Highest mountain in Crete
- 95. Used in an emergency landing aboard an aircraft carrier
- 96. Recluse
- 100. Russian country house
- 101. Number of wings on a triplane
- 102. Nose ___ on rockets
- 104. Type of altimeter
- 105. Maximum safe separation between transmitter and receiver
- 106. Ventrues
- 107. Item at a modeling swap shop
- 109. Overhanging lower edge of a roof
- 110. Engine body
- 112. Sandy tract
- 113. Plural of locus
- 115. Second letter of the Greek alphabet
Transcribed from original scans by AI. Minor OCR errors may remain.
