The rebuilt Mkii prototype wing tied down Registered G-AEXT second Dart Kitten first flew 1937 entered Engiish handicap racing some success Construction au-wood cantiievered wings foliowing British convention day trim little sport plane might have become popular collectors Tiger Moth sidelined World War II Flying 36-horsepower Aeronca-JAP engine Mkll prototype took turn English handicap racing EDon Berliner DREAMS often fall apart often causes beyond dreamers control aircraft designs have seen limited production has less designs themselves men behind circumstances under originated case Dart Kitten four prototypes built 24 years MkI MkII MkIll home-built Obviously Kitten no Ford Some airplanes come along wrong time Convairs 880 990 airliners example tried penetrate market four-engine planes after pioneering Boeing 707 Douglas DC-8 locked up Other designs come up short critical performance element underpowered Republic Seabee amphibian case point Still others such Custer Channel Wing Jim Bedes little BD-5 overpromoted couldnt possibly live up advance billing times economy has declined point no matter well designed airplanes become luxuries early 1930s Great Depression wiped out lot perfectly good aircraft along manufacturers simply because practically no could afford Now firm finds itself unable adapt new conditions opportunities thrown up political roadblocks such nation goes war Thats what happened cute little Dart Kitten introduced British flying public economical easy-to-fly sport plane time entire nation mobilizing Second World War 1934 German expatriates Alfred Weyl Eric Zander began building airplanes prospects venture seemed favorable enough Stirred 62 Model Aviation View cockpit showing simple ba sic 1 930s-style instrument panel such feats Charles Lindberghs others long-distance flights speed flights Supermarine Macchi seaplanes publics interest aviation reached peak same time second great war did yet seem inevitable two Germans produced several gliders Flying Flea followed reproductions old gliders movie progressed powered gliders 1936 changed name company Dart Aircraft Ltd Located Dunstable north London Dart Aircraft remain gliding center years Dart Aircrafts first effort Dart Pup swept-wing parasol-style aircraft pusher-mounted 27-hp two-stroke flat-four Ava engine France all-wood construction quite S F 00 DD FF m P 00 AIeped Indicate COUfltr witch. 0I2mM Scale fOr InatrUmellt Panel Wing SeCtIOnS SB DART KITTEN II S 4 AA conventional included folding wings convenient storage First flown July 1936 Pup inunediately demonstrated need power Installation 36-hp Bristol Cherub Ill engine boosted takeoff cruise performance prototype lost takeoff accident 1938 Although Weyl Zander continued May 1992 63 Side view the elevator rud der structure rudder visible neath fabric covering Continued page 142 sour uaro tuuen uulloupow~ . Aeronca-JAP engine like usuu original hed rough bunch characters want smooth out next project 9- / Hobby Dealers Nationwide PG Box 1247 St Charles IL 60174 708-584-7616 has found people make difference patience persistence get results association has p]ayed active part acquiring five new flying sites over past five years recent being Balboa Park landfill within four miles downtown San Diego got after year effort emphasizing situation management resulted flying conducted under AMA Safety Code Insurance Frequency Management plans SDCAMC now negotiating two modeling sites San Diego metropolitan area San Diego can can Form Association Plan ways help hobby grow can sure hobby isnt growing area shrinking Nothing life stands still THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS AMA association model airplane clubs MAC focused Federal government need associations focused state local governments Associations model airplane clubs come go come existence need put concentrated pressure government tend evaporate after first purpose served good five-year plan can keep happening think associations fail lack good newletter despite GSLMA experience Good newletters make good associations Roger Jaffe edits several best newsletters see think need stronger local associations because attack flying sites relentless should have associations working before need arises should maintain active continuing contacts state local governments order head off attempts close reassign MAPTs other purposes Consider recent moves FAA place restrictions flight RC vehicles FCC take away some Amatuer Radio frequencies case AMA defend interests AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AMA disbanded 1982 soon new RC channels what would have consequences Kitten/Berliner Continued page 63 build powered gliders survived until after war growing experience strongly suggested success lay direction conventional airplanes Design what become Kitten began summer 1936 construction completed Christmas year keeping British design convention continue years MkI prototype cantilevered wings wood construction throughout trim little machine Registered 142 Model Aviation Robart Ruff-N-Tuff Carbide Cutters nasty work quickly no complaints Cut through grind off clear out rough up sand down rip off smooth out guys carbide-quick cool never load up Wood fiberglass lexan plastic ceramics no modeling material scares Theyre quite abrasive bunch available variety shapes two different grits Robart Carbide Cutters rough bunch characters right can sure theyll never rub wrong way G-AERP Kitten flown first time January 15 1937 using 17-hp Ava engine Pup flew well despite being underpoweredthe Ava produced decibels horsepower annoying vibration Cruising 65 mph topping out 75-80 mph stalling just 37 mph airplane considered good buy around $1700 complete second prototype soon followed satisfy obvious need greater power MkII equipped 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine built license England quieter Aeronca added solid 20 mph Kittens cruising speed improved its takeoff performance Registered G-AEXT airplane first flew May 1937 Within weeks its first flight G-AEXT being prepared racing wild woolly sort Americans doing Cleveland Gee Bees Wedell Williamses English handicap racing Under system kinds airplanesracers antiques small airlinerscan thrown onto racecourse together wide differences speed balanced out carefully staggered takeoff times Sporting canopy wheel pants Kitten MkII less month old entered May 29 1937 air race London Isle Man Engine trouble prevented pilot F D Bradbrooke completing 250-mile race plane subsequently flown other handicap races some success Unable obtain government contracts necessary survival Dart Aircraft folded after war began September 1939 Weyl still German citizen interned Isle Man least got airplane hadnt enemy alien Zander wisely taken out British citizenship Dart company went hibernation did its airplanes prototype MkI spent war years parked small airfield After war fitted 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine plane flew until crashed 1952 MkII G-AEXT also stored during war emerged late 1945 After passing through several owners too crashed late 1964 first two Dart Kittens gone 1951 Alfred Weyl built third Registered G-AMPJ Mkm differed successful MkH having wheel brakes long novelty British lightplanes Weyl also produced major components sale kit buyers Weyls plan put MkIII production sidelined suitable small engine could found Discouraged committed suicide 1965 MkIII crashed year later Somehow remains interesting old airplanes beg put back together air ThkeA Load Off needs carry around deadweight Sullivan Skylite Its lihtest conventional style wheel can buy Engineered unique foam core thin tough rubber skin Skylite cuts weight conventional wheel about half So can take off easier fly longer maneuver better Whats Skylites rugged build hands repeated take-offs landings bit well its heftiest competitors never fails spring back round atter long model sits runway workbench So youve thinking about taking off weight talk dealer about seelngPRODUC1S light Skylite isPD Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground MkII crashed friend owner Ron Long 1966 Long kept wreckage farm dozen years later pilot vintage airplane enthusiast Melvyn Rice bought what left rear part fuselage tail surfaces some metal fittings Together parts kits produced Weyl 1951 amateur builders formed basis major rebuilding project Rice tracked down aircraft mechanic Eric Burkitt worked apprentice Dart company mid-1930s put him work making airplane pile old pieces new owner Clive Stubbings completed labor love fall 1985 Stubbings experienced commercial pilot instructor took G-AEXT its first flight since 1966 celebrated champagne cheering helpers Stubbings killed unrelated crash 1986 few months later airplane passed hands yet another owner Alan Hartfield Hartfield flies Kitten air displays fly-ins showing todays new breed sport flier exotic composite materials radical shapes arent way have fun find Dart Kitten very pleasant enjoyable fly Hartfield says Flown normal care attention respect its age actually easy fly Continued page 149 May 1992 143 Dart Kitten/Berliner Continued page 143 very safe 36-hp JAP engine does give good amount vibration has treated respect Because have people killed owning being closely concerned Dart Kitten has become known some circles British light aviation jinx aeroplane Indeed several people would own consider days numbered Fortunately believe school thought alltotal balderdash Dallas Nationals held Hensly NAS night hangar exemplified everything great about AMA Nationals meets hosted US Navy Thousands models covering hundreds benches old friends great conversationmodel talk Memories lifetime Thursday Open Stunt day wind blowing 800 am managed 40 50 practice flights less two weeksenough show Nobler wouldnt groove slow flight always used box-stock Fox 35s got high-compression head saved since 1952 As usual Don Still Out early post early scores Except plane flew fast noteworthy thing can recall about first flight landing wind bad missed sweet spot downwind side towed model around upwind side slowed dangerouslyI could just see cartwheeling circleand just came front judges table wheels started rolling No ever hit full dowi elevator faster 32133 score stood day late Malcolm Windam ran testing room repair department Fox unique model year What made airplane unique Super Duper Zilch modified resemble Nobler Fox 59 up front Malcolm gobs Continued page 151 Hitlers military buildup mid-1930s hundreds Dart Kittens might have rolled off assembly line destined no less coveted collectors restorers De Havilland Tiger Moths Instead Hartfields MkII survives Its rarity has proved well worth reviving Up Around/Aldrich Continued page 66 Stunt engine wouldnt have bothered mention numbers given above will lie can used engine determine whether will what want Just low blowdown period will provide excellent power either steady four-cycle four- two-cycle break high blowdown provides engine really wants run wide open peak setting 1956 wife settled Tyler Texas begun raising family layout draftsman air-conditioning company went bass fishing chance Sunday leaving lake after fishing night heard unmistakable sound CL model Around next curve father two boys having ball Needless say stopped wound up flying Guillows Reactor K&B Greenhead 35 should never have stopped Since wife visiting parents went home empty apartment Out came balsa box time wife returned Wednesday Nobler framed up dinette table Talk about thrown-together Stunt shipsthis built mostly contact cement didnt know about cyanoacrylate days still some 4-lb-density wood Frank Ehling cut old Jasco Co back 1953 its yellow peril paint job yellow pigment still lead-based think model lightunder 40 ounces Anyway managed get next Thursday Friday off work Wednesday night drove over 1956 n May1992 149
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/05
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 142, 143, 149
The rebuilt Mkii prototype wing tied down Registered G-AEXT second Dart Kitten first flew 1937 entered Engiish handicap racing some success Construction au-wood cantiievered wings foliowing British convention day trim little sport plane might have become popular collectors Tiger Moth sidelined World War II Flying 36-horsepower Aeronca-JAP engine Mkll prototype took turn English handicap racing EDon Berliner DREAMS often fall apart often causes beyond dreamers control aircraft designs have seen limited production has less designs themselves men behind circumstances under originated case Dart Kitten four prototypes built 24 years MkI MkII MkIll home-built Obviously Kitten no Ford Some airplanes come along wrong time Convairs 880 990 airliners example tried penetrate market four-engine planes after pioneering Boeing 707 Douglas DC-8 locked up Other designs come up short critical performance element underpowered Republic Seabee amphibian case point Still others such Custer Channel Wing Jim Bedes little BD-5 overpromoted couldnt possibly live up advance billing times economy has declined point no matter well designed airplanes become luxuries early 1930s Great Depression wiped out lot perfectly good aircraft along manufacturers simply because practically no could afford Now firm finds itself unable adapt new conditions opportunities thrown up political roadblocks such nation goes war Thats what happened cute little Dart Kitten introduced British flying public economical easy-to-fly sport plane time entire nation mobilizing Second World War 1934 German expatriates Alfred Weyl Eric Zander began building airplanes prospects venture seemed favorable enough Stirred 62 Model Aviation View cockpit showing simple ba sic 1 930s-style instrument panel such feats Charles Lindberghs others long-distance flights speed flights Supermarine Macchi seaplanes publics interest aviation reached peak same time second great war did yet seem inevitable two Germans produced several gliders Flying Flea followed reproductions old gliders movie progressed powered gliders 1936 changed name company Dart Aircraft Ltd Located Dunstable north London Dart Aircraft remain gliding center years Dart Aircrafts first effort Dart Pup swept-wing parasol-style aircraft pusher-mounted 27-hp two-stroke flat-four Ava engine France all-wood construction quite S F 00 DD FF m P 00 AIeped Indicate COUfltr witch. 0I2mM Scale fOr InatrUmellt Panel Wing SeCtIOnS SB DART KITTEN II S 4 AA conventional included folding wings convenient storage First flown July 1936 Pup inunediately demonstrated need power Installation 36-hp Bristol Cherub Ill engine boosted takeoff cruise performance prototype lost takeoff accident 1938 Although Weyl Zander continued May 1992 63 Side view the elevator rud der structure rudder visible neath fabric covering Continued page 142 sour uaro tuuen uulloupow~ . Aeronca-JAP engine like usuu original hed rough bunch characters want smooth out next project 9- / Hobby Dealers Nationwide PG Box 1247 St Charles IL 60174 708-584-7616 has found people make difference patience persistence get results association has p]ayed active part acquiring five new flying sites over past five years recent being Balboa Park landfill within four miles downtown San Diego got after year effort emphasizing situation management resulted flying conducted under AMA Safety Code Insurance Frequency Management plans SDCAMC now negotiating two modeling sites San Diego metropolitan area San Diego can can Form Association Plan ways help hobby grow can sure hobby isnt growing area shrinking Nothing life stands still THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS AMA association model airplane clubs MAC focused Federal government need associations focused state local governments Associations model airplane clubs come go come existence need put concentrated pressure government tend evaporate after first purpose served good five-year plan can keep happening think associations fail lack good newletter despite GSLMA experience Good newletters make good associations Roger Jaffe edits several best newsletters see think need stronger local associations because attack flying sites relentless should have associations working before need arises should maintain active continuing contacts state local governments order head off attempts close reassign MAPTs other purposes Consider recent moves FAA place restrictions flight RC vehicles FCC take away some Amatuer Radio frequencies case AMA defend interests AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AMA disbanded 1982 soon new RC channels what would have consequences Kitten/Berliner Continued page 63 build powered gliders survived until after war growing experience strongly suggested success lay direction conventional airplanes Design what become Kitten began summer 1936 construction completed Christmas year keeping British design convention continue years MkI prototype cantilevered wings wood construction throughout trim little machine Registered 142 Model Aviation Robart Ruff-N-Tuff Carbide Cutters nasty work quickly no complaints Cut through grind off clear out rough up sand down rip off smooth out guys carbide-quick cool never load up Wood fiberglass lexan plastic ceramics no modeling material scares Theyre quite abrasive bunch available variety shapes two different grits Robart Carbide Cutters rough bunch characters right can sure theyll never rub wrong way G-AERP Kitten flown first time January 15 1937 using 17-hp Ava engine Pup flew well despite being underpoweredthe Ava produced decibels horsepower annoying vibration Cruising 65 mph topping out 75-80 mph stalling just 37 mph airplane considered good buy around $1700 complete second prototype soon followed satisfy obvious need greater power MkII equipped 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine built license England quieter Aeronca added solid 20 mph Kittens cruising speed improved its takeoff performance Registered G-AEXT airplane first flew May 1937 Within weeks its first flight G-AEXT being prepared racing wild woolly sort Americans doing Cleveland Gee Bees Wedell Williamses English handicap racing Under system kinds airplanesracers antiques small airlinerscan thrown onto racecourse together wide differences speed balanced out carefully staggered takeoff times Sporting canopy wheel pants Kitten MkII less month old entered May 29 1937 air race London Isle Man Engine trouble prevented pilot F D Bradbrooke completing 250-mile race plane subsequently flown other handicap races some success Unable obtain government contracts necessary survival Dart Aircraft folded after war began September 1939 Weyl still German citizen interned Isle Man least got airplane hadnt enemy alien Zander wisely taken out British citizenship Dart company went hibernation did its airplanes prototype MkI spent war years parked small airfield After war fitted 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine plane flew until crashed 1952 MkII G-AEXT also stored during war emerged late 1945 After passing through several owners too crashed late 1964 first two Dart Kittens gone 1951 Alfred Weyl built third Registered G-AMPJ Mkm differed successful MkH having wheel brakes long novelty British lightplanes Weyl also produced major components sale kit buyers Weyls plan put MkIII production sidelined suitable small engine could found Discouraged committed suicide 1965 MkIII crashed year later Somehow remains interesting old airplanes beg put back together air ThkeA Load Off needs carry around deadweight Sullivan Skylite Its lihtest conventional style wheel can buy Engineered unique foam core thin tough rubber skin Skylite cuts weight conventional wheel about half So can take off easier fly longer maneuver better Whats Skylites rugged build hands repeated take-offs landings bit well its heftiest competitors never fails spring back round atter long model sits runway workbench So youve thinking about taking off weight talk dealer about seelngPRODUC1S light Skylite isPD Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground MkII crashed friend owner Ron Long 1966 Long kept wreckage farm dozen years later pilot vintage airplane enthusiast Melvyn Rice bought what left rear part fuselage tail surfaces some metal fittings Together parts kits produced Weyl 1951 amateur builders formed basis major rebuilding project Rice tracked down aircraft mechanic Eric Burkitt worked apprentice Dart company mid-1930s put him work making airplane pile old pieces new owner Clive Stubbings completed labor love fall 1985 Stubbings experienced commercial pilot instructor took G-AEXT its first flight since 1966 celebrated champagne cheering helpers Stubbings killed unrelated crash 1986 few months later airplane passed hands yet another owner Alan Hartfield Hartfield flies Kitten air displays fly-ins showing todays new breed sport flier exotic composite materials radical shapes arent way have fun find Dart Kitten very pleasant enjoyable fly Hartfield says Flown normal care attention respect its age actually easy fly Continued page 149 May 1992 143 Dart Kitten/Berliner Continued page 143 very safe 36-hp JAP engine does give good amount vibration has treated respect Because have people killed owning being closely concerned Dart Kitten has become known some circles British light aviation jinx aeroplane Indeed several people would own consider days numbered Fortunately believe school thought alltotal balderdash Dallas Nationals held Hensly NAS night hangar exemplified everything great about AMA Nationals meets hosted US Navy Thousands models covering hundreds benches old friends great conversationmodel talk Memories lifetime Thursday Open Stunt day wind blowing 800 am managed 40 50 practice flights less two weeksenough show Nobler wouldnt groove slow flight always used box-stock Fox 35s got high-compression head saved since 1952 As usual Don Still Out early post early scores Except plane flew fast noteworthy thing can recall about first flight landing wind bad missed sweet spot downwind side towed model around upwind side slowed dangerouslyI could just see cartwheeling circleand just came front judges table wheels started rolling No ever hit full dowi elevator faster 32133 score stood day late Malcolm Windam ran testing room repair department Fox unique model year What made airplane unique Super Duper Zilch modified resemble Nobler Fox 59 up front Malcolm gobs Continued page 151 Hitlers military buildup mid-1930s hundreds Dart Kittens might have rolled off assembly line destined no less coveted collectors restorers De Havilland Tiger Moths Instead Hartfields MkII survives Its rarity has proved well worth reviving Up Around/Aldrich Continued page 66 Stunt engine wouldnt have bothered mention numbers given above will lie can used engine determine whether will what want Just low blowdown period will provide excellent power either steady four-cycle four- two-cycle break high blowdown provides engine really wants run wide open peak setting 1956 wife settled Tyler Texas begun raising family layout draftsman air-conditioning company went bass fishing chance Sunday leaving lake after fishing night heard unmistakable sound CL model Around next curve father two boys having ball Needless say stopped wound up flying Guillows Reactor K&B Greenhead 35 should never have stopped Since wife visiting parents went home empty apartment Out came balsa box time wife returned Wednesday Nobler framed up dinette table Talk about thrown-together Stunt shipsthis built mostly contact cement didnt know about cyanoacrylate days still some 4-lb-density wood Frank Ehling cut old Jasco Co back 1953 its yellow peril paint job yellow pigment still lead-based think model lightunder 40 ounces Anyway managed get next Thursday Friday off work Wednesday night drove over 1956 n May1992 149
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/05
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 142, 143, 149
The rebuilt Mkii prototype wing tied down Registered G-AEXT second Dart Kitten first flew 1937 entered Engiish handicap racing some success Construction au-wood cantiievered wings foliowing British convention day trim little sport plane might have become popular collectors Tiger Moth sidelined World War II Flying 36-horsepower Aeronca-JAP engine Mkll prototype took turn English handicap racing EDon Berliner DREAMS often fall apart often causes beyond dreamers control aircraft designs have seen limited production has less designs themselves men behind circumstances under originated case Dart Kitten four prototypes built 24 years MkI MkII MkIll home-built Obviously Kitten no Ford Some airplanes come along wrong time Convairs 880 990 airliners example tried penetrate market four-engine planes after pioneering Boeing 707 Douglas DC-8 locked up Other designs come up short critical performance element underpowered Republic Seabee amphibian case point Still others such Custer Channel Wing Jim Bedes little BD-5 overpromoted couldnt possibly live up advance billing times economy has declined point no matter well designed airplanes become luxuries early 1930s Great Depression wiped out lot perfectly good aircraft along manufacturers simply because practically no could afford Now firm finds itself unable adapt new conditions opportunities thrown up political roadblocks such nation goes war Thats what happened cute little Dart Kitten introduced British flying public economical easy-to-fly sport plane time entire nation mobilizing Second World War 1934 German expatriates Alfred Weyl Eric Zander began building airplanes prospects venture seemed favorable enough Stirred 62 Model Aviation View cockpit showing simple ba sic 1 930s-style instrument panel such feats Charles Lindberghs others long-distance flights speed flights Supermarine Macchi seaplanes publics interest aviation reached peak same time second great war did yet seem inevitable two Germans produced several gliders Flying Flea followed reproductions old gliders movie progressed powered gliders 1936 changed name company Dart Aircraft Ltd Located Dunstable north London Dart Aircraft remain gliding center years Dart Aircrafts first effort Dart Pup swept-wing parasol-style aircraft pusher-mounted 27-hp two-stroke flat-four Ava engine France all-wood construction quite S F 00 DD FF m P 00 AIeped Indicate COUfltr witch. 0I2mM Scale fOr InatrUmellt Panel Wing SeCtIOnS SB DART KITTEN II S 4 AA conventional included folding wings convenient storage First flown July 1936 Pup inunediately demonstrated need power Installation 36-hp Bristol Cherub Ill engine boosted takeoff cruise performance prototype lost takeoff accident 1938 Although Weyl Zander continued May 1992 63 Side view the elevator rud der structure rudder visible neath fabric covering Continued page 142 sour uaro tuuen uulloupow~ . Aeronca-JAP engine like usuu original hed rough bunch characters want smooth out next project 9- / Hobby Dealers Nationwide PG Box 1247 St Charles IL 60174 708-584-7616 has found people make difference patience persistence get results association has p]ayed active part acquiring five new flying sites over past five years recent being Balboa Park landfill within four miles downtown San Diego got after year effort emphasizing situation management resulted flying conducted under AMA Safety Code Insurance Frequency Management plans SDCAMC now negotiating two modeling sites San Diego metropolitan area San Diego can can Form Association Plan ways help hobby grow can sure hobby isnt growing area shrinking Nothing life stands still THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS AMA association model airplane clubs MAC focused Federal government need associations focused state local governments Associations model airplane clubs come go come existence need put concentrated pressure government tend evaporate after first purpose served good five-year plan can keep happening think associations fail lack good newletter despite GSLMA experience Good newletters make good associations Roger Jaffe edits several best newsletters see think need stronger local associations because attack flying sites relentless should have associations working before need arises should maintain active continuing contacts state local governments order head off attempts close reassign MAPTs other purposes Consider recent moves FAA place restrictions flight RC vehicles FCC take away some Amatuer Radio frequencies case AMA defend interests AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AMA disbanded 1982 soon new RC channels what would have consequences Kitten/Berliner Continued page 63 build powered gliders survived until after war growing experience strongly suggested success lay direction conventional airplanes Design what become Kitten began summer 1936 construction completed Christmas year keeping British design convention continue years MkI prototype cantilevered wings wood construction throughout trim little machine Registered 142 Model Aviation Robart Ruff-N-Tuff Carbide Cutters nasty work quickly no complaints Cut through grind off clear out rough up sand down rip off smooth out guys carbide-quick cool never load up Wood fiberglass lexan plastic ceramics no modeling material scares Theyre quite abrasive bunch available variety shapes two different grits Robart Carbide Cutters rough bunch characters right can sure theyll never rub wrong way G-AERP Kitten flown first time January 15 1937 using 17-hp Ava engine Pup flew well despite being underpoweredthe Ava produced decibels horsepower annoying vibration Cruising 65 mph topping out 75-80 mph stalling just 37 mph airplane considered good buy around $1700 complete second prototype soon followed satisfy obvious need greater power MkII equipped 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine built license England quieter Aeronca added solid 20 mph Kittens cruising speed improved its takeoff performance Registered G-AEXT airplane first flew May 1937 Within weeks its first flight G-AEXT being prepared racing wild woolly sort Americans doing Cleveland Gee Bees Wedell Williamses English handicap racing Under system kinds airplanesracers antiques small airlinerscan thrown onto racecourse together wide differences speed balanced out carefully staggered takeoff times Sporting canopy wheel pants Kitten MkII less month old entered May 29 1937 air race London Isle Man Engine trouble prevented pilot F D Bradbrooke completing 250-mile race plane subsequently flown other handicap races some success Unable obtain government contracts necessary survival Dart Aircraft folded after war began September 1939 Weyl still German citizen interned Isle Man least got airplane hadnt enemy alien Zander wisely taken out British citizenship Dart company went hibernation did its airplanes prototype MkI spent war years parked small airfield After war fitted 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine plane flew until crashed 1952 MkII G-AEXT also stored during war emerged late 1945 After passing through several owners too crashed late 1964 first two Dart Kittens gone 1951 Alfred Weyl built third Registered G-AMPJ Mkm differed successful MkH having wheel brakes long novelty British lightplanes Weyl also produced major components sale kit buyers Weyls plan put MkIII production sidelined suitable small engine could found Discouraged committed suicide 1965 MkIII crashed year later Somehow remains interesting old airplanes beg put back together air ThkeA Load Off needs carry around deadweight Sullivan Skylite Its lihtest conventional style wheel can buy Engineered unique foam core thin tough rubber skin Skylite cuts weight conventional wheel about half So can take off easier fly longer maneuver better Whats Skylites rugged build hands repeated take-offs landings bit well its heftiest competitors never fails spring back round atter long model sits runway workbench So youve thinking about taking off weight talk dealer about seelngPRODUC1S light Skylite isPD Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground MkII crashed friend owner Ron Long 1966 Long kept wreckage farm dozen years later pilot vintage airplane enthusiast Melvyn Rice bought what left rear part fuselage tail surfaces some metal fittings Together parts kits produced Weyl 1951 amateur builders formed basis major rebuilding project Rice tracked down aircraft mechanic Eric Burkitt worked apprentice Dart company mid-1930s put him work making airplane pile old pieces new owner Clive Stubbings completed labor love fall 1985 Stubbings experienced commercial pilot instructor took G-AEXT its first flight since 1966 celebrated champagne cheering helpers Stubbings killed unrelated crash 1986 few months later airplane passed hands yet another owner Alan Hartfield Hartfield flies Kitten air displays fly-ins showing todays new breed sport flier exotic composite materials radical shapes arent way have fun find Dart Kitten very pleasant enjoyable fly Hartfield says Flown normal care attention respect its age actually easy fly Continued page 149 May 1992 143 Dart Kitten/Berliner Continued page 143 very safe 36-hp JAP engine does give good amount vibration has treated respect Because have people killed owning being closely concerned Dart Kitten has become known some circles British light aviation jinx aeroplane Indeed several people would own consider days numbered Fortunately believe school thought alltotal balderdash Dallas Nationals held Hensly NAS night hangar exemplified everything great about AMA Nationals meets hosted US Navy Thousands models covering hundreds benches old friends great conversationmodel talk Memories lifetime Thursday Open Stunt day wind blowing 800 am managed 40 50 practice flights less two weeksenough show Nobler wouldnt groove slow flight always used box-stock Fox 35s got high-compression head saved since 1952 As usual Don Still Out early post early scores Except plane flew fast noteworthy thing can recall about first flight landing wind bad missed sweet spot downwind side towed model around upwind side slowed dangerouslyI could just see cartwheeling circleand just came front judges table wheels started rolling No ever hit full dowi elevator faster 32133 score stood day late Malcolm Windam ran testing room repair department Fox unique model year What made airplane unique Super Duper Zilch modified resemble Nobler Fox 59 up front Malcolm gobs Continued page 151 Hitlers military buildup mid-1930s hundreds Dart Kittens might have rolled off assembly line destined no less coveted collectors restorers De Havilland Tiger Moths Instead Hartfields MkII survives Its rarity has proved well worth reviving Up Around/Aldrich Continued page 66 Stunt engine wouldnt have bothered mention numbers given above will lie can used engine determine whether will what want Just low blowdown period will provide excellent power either steady four-cycle four- two-cycle break high blowdown provides engine really wants run wide open peak setting 1956 wife settled Tyler Texas begun raising family layout draftsman air-conditioning company went bass fishing chance Sunday leaving lake after fishing night heard unmistakable sound CL model Around next curve father two boys having ball Needless say stopped wound up flying Guillows Reactor K&B Greenhead 35 should never have stopped Since wife visiting parents went home empty apartment Out came balsa box time wife returned Wednesday Nobler framed up dinette table Talk about thrown-together Stunt shipsthis built mostly contact cement didnt know about cyanoacrylate days still some 4-lb-density wood Frank Ehling cut old Jasco Co back 1953 its yellow peril paint job yellow pigment still lead-based think model lightunder 40 ounces Anyway managed get next Thursday Friday off work Wednesday night drove over 1956 n May1992 149
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/05
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 142, 143, 149
The rebuilt Mkii prototype wing tied down Registered G-AEXT second Dart Kitten first flew 1937 entered Engiish handicap racing some success Construction au-wood cantiievered wings foliowing British convention day trim little sport plane might have become popular collectors Tiger Moth sidelined World War II Flying 36-horsepower Aeronca-JAP engine Mkll prototype took turn English handicap racing EDon Berliner DREAMS often fall apart often causes beyond dreamers control aircraft designs have seen limited production has less designs themselves men behind circumstances under originated case Dart Kitten four prototypes built 24 years MkI MkII MkIll home-built Obviously Kitten no Ford Some airplanes come along wrong time Convairs 880 990 airliners example tried penetrate market four-engine planes after pioneering Boeing 707 Douglas DC-8 locked up Other designs come up short critical performance element underpowered Republic Seabee amphibian case point Still others such Custer Channel Wing Jim Bedes little BD-5 overpromoted couldnt possibly live up advance billing times economy has declined point no matter well designed airplanes become luxuries early 1930s Great Depression wiped out lot perfectly good aircraft along manufacturers simply because practically no could afford Now firm finds itself unable adapt new conditions opportunities thrown up political roadblocks such nation goes war Thats what happened cute little Dart Kitten introduced British flying public economical easy-to-fly sport plane time entire nation mobilizing Second World War 1934 German expatriates Alfred Weyl Eric Zander began building airplanes prospects venture seemed favorable enough Stirred 62 Model Aviation View cockpit showing simple ba sic 1 930s-style instrument panel such feats Charles Lindberghs others long-distance flights speed flights Supermarine Macchi seaplanes publics interest aviation reached peak same time second great war did yet seem inevitable two Germans produced several gliders Flying Flea followed reproductions old gliders movie progressed powered gliders 1936 changed name company Dart Aircraft Ltd Located Dunstable north London Dart Aircraft remain gliding center years Dart Aircrafts first effort Dart Pup swept-wing parasol-style aircraft pusher-mounted 27-hp two-stroke flat-four Ava engine France all-wood construction quite S F 00 DD FF m P 00 AIeped Indicate COUfltr witch. 0I2mM Scale fOr InatrUmellt Panel Wing SeCtIOnS SB DART KITTEN II S 4 AA conventional included folding wings convenient storage First flown July 1936 Pup inunediately demonstrated need power Installation 36-hp Bristol Cherub Ill engine boosted takeoff cruise performance prototype lost takeoff accident 1938 Although Weyl Zander continued May 1992 63 Side view the elevator rud der structure rudder visible neath fabric covering Continued page 142 sour uaro tuuen uulloupow~ . Aeronca-JAP engine like usuu original hed rough bunch characters want smooth out next project 9- / Hobby Dealers Nationwide PG Box 1247 St Charles IL 60174 708-584-7616 has found people make difference patience persistence get results association has p]ayed active part acquiring five new flying sites over past five years recent being Balboa Park landfill within four miles downtown San Diego got after year effort emphasizing situation management resulted flying conducted under AMA Safety Code Insurance Frequency Management plans SDCAMC now negotiating two modeling sites San Diego metropolitan area San Diego can can Form Association Plan ways help hobby grow can sure hobby isnt growing area shrinking Nothing life stands still THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS AMA association model airplane clubs MAC focused Federal government need associations focused state local governments Associations model airplane clubs come go come existence need put concentrated pressure government tend evaporate after first purpose served good five-year plan can keep happening think associations fail lack good newletter despite GSLMA experience Good newletters make good associations Roger Jaffe edits several best newsletters see think need stronger local associations because attack flying sites relentless should have associations working before need arises should maintain active continuing contacts state local governments order head off attempts close reassign MAPTs other purposes Consider recent moves FAA place restrictions flight RC vehicles FCC take away some Amatuer Radio frequencies case AMA defend interests AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AMA disbanded 1982 soon new RC channels what would have consequences Kitten/Berliner Continued page 63 build powered gliders survived until after war growing experience strongly suggested success lay direction conventional airplanes Design what become Kitten began summer 1936 construction completed Christmas year keeping British design convention continue years MkI prototype cantilevered wings wood construction throughout trim little machine Registered 142 Model Aviation Robart Ruff-N-Tuff Carbide Cutters nasty work quickly no complaints Cut through grind off clear out rough up sand down rip off smooth out guys carbide-quick cool never load up Wood fiberglass lexan plastic ceramics no modeling material scares Theyre quite abrasive bunch available variety shapes two different grits Robart Carbide Cutters rough bunch characters right can sure theyll never rub wrong way G-AERP Kitten flown first time January 15 1937 using 17-hp Ava engine Pup flew well despite being underpoweredthe Ava produced decibels horsepower annoying vibration Cruising 65 mph topping out 75-80 mph stalling just 37 mph airplane considered good buy around $1700 complete second prototype soon followed satisfy obvious need greater power MkII equipped 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine built license England quieter Aeronca added solid 20 mph Kittens cruising speed improved its takeoff performance Registered G-AEXT airplane first flew May 1937 Within weeks its first flight G-AEXT being prepared racing wild woolly sort Americans doing Cleveland Gee Bees Wedell Williamses English handicap racing Under system kinds airplanesracers antiques small airlinerscan thrown onto racecourse together wide differences speed balanced out carefully staggered takeoff times Sporting canopy wheel pants Kitten MkII less month old entered May 29 1937 air race London Isle Man Engine trouble prevented pilot F D Bradbrooke completing 250-mile race plane subsequently flown other handicap races some success Unable obtain government contracts necessary survival Dart Aircraft folded after war began September 1939 Weyl still German citizen interned Isle Man least got airplane hadnt enemy alien Zander wisely taken out British citizenship Dart company went hibernation did its airplanes prototype MkI spent war years parked small airfield After war fitted 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine plane flew until crashed 1952 MkII G-AEXT also stored during war emerged late 1945 After passing through several owners too crashed late 1964 first two Dart Kittens gone 1951 Alfred Weyl built third Registered G-AMPJ Mkm differed successful MkH having wheel brakes long novelty British lightplanes Weyl also produced major components sale kit buyers Weyls plan put MkIII production sidelined suitable small engine could found Discouraged committed suicide 1965 MkIII crashed year later Somehow remains interesting old airplanes beg put back together air ThkeA Load Off needs carry around deadweight Sullivan Skylite Its lihtest conventional style wheel can buy Engineered unique foam core thin tough rubber skin Skylite cuts weight conventional wheel about half So can take off easier fly longer maneuver better Whats Skylites rugged build hands repeated take-offs landings bit well its heftiest competitors never fails spring back round atter long model sits runway workbench So youve thinking about taking off weight talk dealer about seelngPRODUC1S light Skylite isPD Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground MkII crashed friend owner Ron Long 1966 Long kept wreckage farm dozen years later pilot vintage airplane enthusiast Melvyn Rice bought what left rear part fuselage tail surfaces some metal fittings Together parts kits produced Weyl 1951 amateur builders formed basis major rebuilding project Rice tracked down aircraft mechanic Eric Burkitt worked apprentice Dart company mid-1930s put him work making airplane pile old pieces new owner Clive Stubbings completed labor love fall 1985 Stubbings experienced commercial pilot instructor took G-AEXT its first flight since 1966 celebrated champagne cheering helpers Stubbings killed unrelated crash 1986 few months later airplane passed hands yet another owner Alan Hartfield Hartfield flies Kitten air displays fly-ins showing todays new breed sport flier exotic composite materials radical shapes arent way have fun find Dart Kitten very pleasant enjoyable fly Hartfield says Flown normal care attention respect its age actually easy fly Continued page 149 May 1992 143 Dart Kitten/Berliner Continued page 143 very safe 36-hp JAP engine does give good amount vibration has treated respect Because have people killed owning being closely concerned Dart Kitten has become known some circles British light aviation jinx aeroplane Indeed several people would own consider days numbered Fortunately believe school thought alltotal balderdash Dallas Nationals held Hensly NAS night hangar exemplified everything great about AMA Nationals meets hosted US Navy Thousands models covering hundreds benches old friends great conversationmodel talk Memories lifetime Thursday Open Stunt day wind blowing 800 am managed 40 50 practice flights less two weeksenough show Nobler wouldnt groove slow flight always used box-stock Fox 35s got high-compression head saved since 1952 As usual Don Still Out early post early scores Except plane flew fast noteworthy thing can recall about first flight landing wind bad missed sweet spot downwind side towed model around upwind side slowed dangerouslyI could just see cartwheeling circleand just came front judges table wheels started rolling No ever hit full dowi elevator faster 32133 score stood day late Malcolm Windam ran testing room repair department Fox unique model year What made airplane unique Super Duper Zilch modified resemble Nobler Fox 59 up front Malcolm gobs Continued page 151 Hitlers military buildup mid-1930s hundreds Dart Kittens might have rolled off assembly line destined no less coveted collectors restorers De Havilland Tiger Moths Instead Hartfields MkII survives Its rarity has proved well worth reviving Up Around/Aldrich Continued page 66 Stunt engine wouldnt have bothered mention numbers given above will lie can used engine determine whether will what want Just low blowdown period will provide excellent power either steady four-cycle four- two-cycle break high blowdown provides engine really wants run wide open peak setting 1956 wife settled Tyler Texas begun raising family layout draftsman air-conditioning company went bass fishing chance Sunday leaving lake after fishing night heard unmistakable sound CL model Around next curve father two boys having ball Needless say stopped wound up flying Guillows Reactor K&B Greenhead 35 should never have stopped Since wife visiting parents went home empty apartment Out came balsa box time wife returned Wednesday Nobler framed up dinette table Talk about thrown-together Stunt shipsthis built mostly contact cement didnt know about cyanoacrylate days still some 4-lb-density wood Frank Ehling cut old Jasco Co back 1953 its yellow peril paint job yellow pigment still lead-based think model lightunder 40 ounces Anyway managed get next Thursday Friday off work Wednesday night drove over 1956 n May1992 149
Edition: Model Aviation - 1992/05
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 142, 143, 149
The rebuilt Mkii prototype wing tied down Registered G-AEXT second Dart Kitten first flew 1937 entered Engiish handicap racing some success Construction au-wood cantiievered wings foliowing British convention day trim little sport plane might have become popular collectors Tiger Moth sidelined World War II Flying 36-horsepower Aeronca-JAP engine Mkll prototype took turn English handicap racing EDon Berliner DREAMS often fall apart often causes beyond dreamers control aircraft designs have seen limited production has less designs themselves men behind circumstances under originated case Dart Kitten four prototypes built 24 years MkI MkII MkIll home-built Obviously Kitten no Ford Some airplanes come along wrong time Convairs 880 990 airliners example tried penetrate market four-engine planes after pioneering Boeing 707 Douglas DC-8 locked up Other designs come up short critical performance element underpowered Republic Seabee amphibian case point Still others such Custer Channel Wing Jim Bedes little BD-5 overpromoted couldnt possibly live up advance billing times economy has declined point no matter well designed airplanes become luxuries early 1930s Great Depression wiped out lot perfectly good aircraft along manufacturers simply because practically no could afford Now firm finds itself unable adapt new conditions opportunities thrown up political roadblocks such nation goes war Thats what happened cute little Dart Kitten introduced British flying public economical easy-to-fly sport plane time entire nation mobilizing Second World War 1934 German expatriates Alfred Weyl Eric Zander began building airplanes prospects venture seemed favorable enough Stirred 62 Model Aviation View cockpit showing simple ba sic 1 930s-style instrument panel such feats Charles Lindberghs others long-distance flights speed flights Supermarine Macchi seaplanes publics interest aviation reached peak same time second great war did yet seem inevitable two Germans produced several gliders Flying Flea followed reproductions old gliders movie progressed powered gliders 1936 changed name company Dart Aircraft Ltd Located Dunstable north London Dart Aircraft remain gliding center years Dart Aircrafts first effort Dart Pup swept-wing parasol-style aircraft pusher-mounted 27-hp two-stroke flat-four Ava engine France all-wood construction quite S F 00 DD FF m P 00 AIeped Indicate COUfltr witch. 0I2mM Scale fOr InatrUmellt Panel Wing SeCtIOnS SB DART KITTEN II S 4 AA conventional included folding wings convenient storage First flown July 1936 Pup inunediately demonstrated need power Installation 36-hp Bristol Cherub Ill engine boosted takeoff cruise performance prototype lost takeoff accident 1938 Although Weyl Zander continued May 1992 63 Side view the elevator rud der structure rudder visible neath fabric covering Continued page 142 sour uaro tuuen uulloupow~ . Aeronca-JAP engine like usuu original hed rough bunch characters want smooth out next project 9- / Hobby Dealers Nationwide PG Box 1247 St Charles IL 60174 708-584-7616 has found people make difference patience persistence get results association has p]ayed active part acquiring five new flying sites over past five years recent being Balboa Park landfill within four miles downtown San Diego got after year effort emphasizing situation management resulted flying conducted under AMA Safety Code Insurance Frequency Management plans SDCAMC now negotiating two modeling sites San Diego metropolitan area San Diego can can Form Association Plan ways help hobby grow can sure hobby isnt growing area shrinking Nothing life stands still THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS AMA association model airplane clubs MAC focused Federal government need associations focused state local governments Associations model airplane clubs come go come existence need put concentrated pressure government tend evaporate after first purpose served good five-year plan can keep happening think associations fail lack good newletter despite GSLMA experience Good newletters make good associations Roger Jaffe edits several best newsletters see think need stronger local associations because attack flying sites relentless should have associations working before need arises should maintain active continuing contacts state local governments order head off attempts close reassign MAPTs other purposes Consider recent moves FAA place restrictions flight RC vehicles FCC take away some Amatuer Radio frequencies case AMA defend interests AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AMA disbanded 1982 soon new RC channels what would have consequences Kitten/Berliner Continued page 63 build powered gliders survived until after war growing experience strongly suggested success lay direction conventional airplanes Design what become Kitten began summer 1936 construction completed Christmas year keeping British design convention continue years MkI prototype cantilevered wings wood construction throughout trim little machine Registered 142 Model Aviation Robart Ruff-N-Tuff Carbide Cutters nasty work quickly no complaints Cut through grind off clear out rough up sand down rip off smooth out guys carbide-quick cool never load up Wood fiberglass lexan plastic ceramics no modeling material scares Theyre quite abrasive bunch available variety shapes two different grits Robart Carbide Cutters rough bunch characters right can sure theyll never rub wrong way G-AERP Kitten flown first time January 15 1937 using 17-hp Ava engine Pup flew well despite being underpoweredthe Ava produced decibels horsepower annoying vibration Cruising 65 mph topping out 75-80 mph stalling just 37 mph airplane considered good buy around $1700 complete second prototype soon followed satisfy obvious need greater power MkII equipped 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine built license England quieter Aeronca added solid 20 mph Kittens cruising speed improved its takeoff performance Registered G-AEXT airplane first flew May 1937 Within weeks its first flight G-AEXT being prepared racing wild woolly sort Americans doing Cleveland Gee Bees Wedell Williamses English handicap racing Under system kinds airplanesracers antiques small airlinerscan thrown onto racecourse together wide differences speed balanced out carefully staggered takeoff times Sporting canopy wheel pants Kitten MkII less month old entered May 29 1937 air race London Isle Man Engine trouble prevented pilot F D Bradbrooke completing 250-mile race plane subsequently flown other handicap races some success Unable obtain government contracts necessary survival Dart Aircraft folded after war began September 1939 Weyl still German citizen interned Isle Man least got airplane hadnt enemy alien Zander wisely taken out British citizenship Dart company went hibernation did its airplanes prototype MkI spent war years parked small airfield After war fitted 36-hp Aeronca-JAP engine plane flew until crashed 1952 MkII G-AEXT also stored during war emerged late 1945 After passing through several owners too crashed late 1964 first two Dart Kittens gone 1951 Alfred Weyl built third Registered G-AMPJ Mkm differed successful MkH having wheel brakes long novelty British lightplanes Weyl also produced major components sale kit buyers Weyls plan put MkIII production sidelined suitable small engine could found Discouraged committed suicide 1965 MkIII crashed year later Somehow remains interesting old airplanes beg put back together air ThkeA Load Off needs carry around deadweight Sullivan Skylite Its lihtest conventional style wheel can buy Engineered unique foam core thin tough rubber skin Skylite cuts weight conventional wheel about half So can take off easier fly longer maneuver better Whats Skylites rugged build hands repeated take-offs landings bit well its heftiest competitors never fails spring back round atter long model sits runway workbench So youve thinking about taking off weight talk dealer about seelngPRODUC1S light Skylite isPD Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground MkII crashed friend owner Ron Long 1966 Long kept wreckage farm dozen years later pilot vintage airplane enthusiast Melvyn Rice bought what left rear part fuselage tail surfaces some metal fittings Together parts kits produced Weyl 1951 amateur builders formed basis major rebuilding project Rice tracked down aircraft mechanic Eric Burkitt worked apprentice Dart company mid-1930s put him work making airplane pile old pieces new owner Clive Stubbings completed labor love fall 1985 Stubbings experienced commercial pilot instructor took G-AEXT its first flight since 1966 celebrated champagne cheering helpers Stubbings killed unrelated crash 1986 few months later airplane passed hands yet another owner Alan Hartfield Hartfield flies Kitten air displays fly-ins showing todays new breed sport flier exotic composite materials radical shapes arent way have fun find Dart Kitten very pleasant enjoyable fly Hartfield says Flown normal care attention respect its age actually easy fly Continued page 149 May 1992 143 Dart Kitten/Berliner Continued page 143 very safe 36-hp JAP engine does give good amount vibration has treated respect Because have people killed owning being closely concerned Dart Kitten has become known some circles British light aviation jinx aeroplane Indeed several people would own consider days numbered Fortunately believe school thought alltotal balderdash Dallas Nationals held Hensly NAS night hangar exemplified everything great about AMA Nationals meets hosted US Navy Thousands models covering hundreds benches old friends great conversationmodel talk Memories lifetime Thursday Open Stunt day wind blowing 800 am managed 40 50 practice flights less two weeksenough show Nobler wouldnt groove slow flight always used box-stock Fox 35s got high-compression head saved since 1952 As usual Don Still Out early post early scores Except plane flew fast noteworthy thing can recall about first flight landing wind bad missed sweet spot downwind side towed model around upwind side slowed dangerouslyI could just see cartwheeling circleand just came front judges table wheels started rolling No ever hit full dowi elevator faster 32133 score stood day late Malcolm Windam ran testing room repair department Fox unique model year What made airplane unique Super Duper Zilch modified resemble Nobler Fox 59 up front Malcolm gobs Continued page 151 Hitlers military buildup mid-1930s hundreds Dart Kittens might have rolled off assembly line destined no less coveted collectors restorers De Havilland Tiger Moths Instead Hartfields MkII survives Its rarity has proved well worth reviving Up Around/Aldrich Continued page 66 Stunt engine wouldnt have bothered mention numbers given above will lie can used engine determine whether will what want Just low blowdown period will provide excellent power either steady four-cycle four- two-cycle break high blowdown provides engine really wants run wide open peak setting 1956 wife settled Tyler Texas begun raising family layout draftsman air-conditioning company went bass fishing chance Sunday leaving lake after fishing night heard unmistakable sound CL model Around next curve father two boys having ball Needless say stopped wound up flying Guillows Reactor K&B Greenhead 35 should never have stopped Since wife visiting parents went home empty apartment Out came balsa box time wife returned Wednesday Nobler framed up dinette table Talk about thrown-together Stunt shipsthis built mostly contact cement didnt know about cyanoacrylate days still some 4-lb-density wood Frank Ehling cut old Jasco Co back 1953 its yellow peril paint job yellow pigment still lead-based think model lightunder 40 ounces Anyway managed get next Thursday Friday off work Wednesday night drove over 1956 n May1992 149