Ifl5T snows vennis norman OT rieveiana Free iignt society award-winning rubber-powered Lancaster big picture shows Lancaster climbing aloft Flights far gettIng over 30 sec thats remarkable test fore FF Scale model such complexity FOUR YEARS AGO privilege everywhere centerpiece full- built Ryan Spirit St Louis bringing account Flying size fuselage Fernandos latest project Bill Noonan talent style personi Aces Club Nats held Dayton another Marquardt Charger biplane fled No sooner settled down fun years FAG bash bet- welded-up almost ready cover rest living room Hells Angels ter couldnt guest tells bringing sons 4H Howard Hughes WW flying movie part Southern California contin- group hangar indif- two-wheeled variety appeared gent consisting Fernando Ramos ference lament younger telly What way start pilgrimmyself Flightmasters Bill generation kids similar age past fell love Noonan San Diego Scale Staffel experience would have kept us dreaming old planes Jean Harlow over Leaving smog-laden environs Los months Maybe thats us again Love scene Ger Angeles always pleasure couple Flying Aces Club graying bit man crew members volunteer jump out hours Fernandos hangar behind about temples San Diego zeppelin lighten up dont country estate way Noonans Noonans departure next day make movies like anymore sheer delight Models mostly Scale hang Lindbergh field remember After flick went out Bills Left. designed two sizes Nikitin-Schevohenko iS-4 biplane retracting iower wing Jack Moses bulit 13-inspan gom Right Lippiech P-13 Rubber models prototype German flying wing never got past mock-up stage Don Sruli made two both great fliers looks models youd think blood-and-guts competition Its eli fun 94 Model Aviation Left P-38J rubber-powered ship Andy Medovich has 34-In span built Comet plan Weighs 2 oz Uses custom winding JIg Right Stu Myers winds D-5 Aibatros winder once opened door rocket space twice counts turns Left hard-working judges Bob Mosher L Josh Gittlen R inspect Eric Andersons Caudron N FAC Commander-In-Chief Lin Relchel C looks Right Dudley Prisei readies rubber-powered Ercoupe under watchfui eye Dick Bennett Very stable fiier atelier gawk magnificent crea tions open door shop have uncomfortable feeling have just done something wrong quick glance behind door confirms fears see what left an cient model once biplane flattened against wall Horrors itial shock wears off notice parts too artistically arranged have result doing What Bill did put plywood sheet over Berg bipe driveway run over few times reduce model 2D collage Har Har Bill proceeded show us latest goodies like machine printing German lozenge camouflage pattern Halberstadt involves making separation artwork having four polyester plates made rubber stamp establishment tissue affixed sliding pattern moves side-toside frame printing plates inserted Bill uses Spa-Mark dye applied plastic printing plates directly Surprisingly does run printed tissue Clever drawback plates cost 10 bucks So went night tape-recorded helpful hints book titles booksellers addresseswhatever November 1984 95 might able use share Morning day wed waiting historic visit too soon time Model boxes suitcases camera bags hit hay Bill packed days field boxes loaded people OT inc moacis flown eacn OT inree mlsslons winners men yiew ins sem-minss Left iron Mike Mldkiff Texas Japanese Grace ready tropt Griffons Black Bullet 1936 issue Flying Aces magazine Dick Barkats u fit Somehow squeezed air- small boy asked got coming out baggage port Fernando Bill got docked $10 zoos gift shop very moment arrivec oversize model boxes Arrival Denver Changed 727 books Hot Airsneaked aboard brown paper 767 Sat ground hour car heaven bag trick hold Earl Stahl long line jets waiting airborne Detroit generally leti Waco SRE cabin plain sight diver- Thats what like about Free Flight. no way sion Actually people waiting open frequency rival unpacking noticed pilot copilot Detroit Amazing model boxes put models set out find Bowers charr poolside chatted presently putting order Just man uri dinner three-hour time difference catching up us late hospitality suite Seemed like mid-after noon us Ralph Kuenz worldfamous Von Rottensox outlining what host club Detroit Cloudbust ers FAC Detroiten Geschwader strictly FAC nuts within CBs store exhibit huge Na tional Champion Trophy just give Don Srull right save carrying out field superb Earl Stahl Trophy best model meet exemplifying spirit Stahl type designand containing part trophy actual compass divider Earl used drawing famous q Stahl tradition Earl Stahl Trophy won y Pres Brun nd h ahi judges Right An anxious moment Fernando plans standard plaques win California has lost end rubber-stuffer stick inside Heinkel 64-C ners beautiful etched plates featur 96 Model Aviation eft Paul Gaertners Dornier 18 two Brown A-70s flew well over minurwiih 51 Foikrts SK-2 Jumbo-size Rubbership Emerson Eiweii about readytofiy Jack Moses Left Mark Fineman makes Earl Stahl-designed Curtissacendertly like Lacey saysthat canards cant madeto flyweil Hight XP-71 Roland Hoot remarkable its being powered through differential gearing contra-rotating propsvery successful Left Wait eider half famous Eggert father-son team shows off Thunderbolt Peanut Excellent filers builders theyre hard beat Right Earl Schicks Zippy Sport twice-up ModelAvlation Peanut Scale plan fiew well enough earn Eerie trophy ing Ford triplanes Flying set next day Ford test track Utica banked 2A mile speedway im mense infield covered soft green bit uneven carpet grass old friends previous AMA FAC Nats pink lemonade provided hosts flowed freely stories came fast furious Good news via Joe Fitzgibbon Mr Golden Age Reproductions himself cheered us have found balsa great insulator cryogenic supertankers previously thought consequently billions board feet will saved horrible fate Von Loopundstall showed great work has gone participant official buttons noted entire club worked coloring Ah such togetherness broke up after mid night Whos sleepy alarm went off what us 3 am found out answer breakfast joined gang over orange juice Swapping stories such kept FAG table center tention coffee shop What heck its once two years Time go Again joy packing models Again inhaled slammed car doors Made Off Utica Taking south turn high speed up bank Noonan dropped straightaway 140 mph really November 1984 97 U resisted temptation Ford people might frown seeing rented Plymouth No use causing tagonism What flying site could actually hit ground did occa sionally breaking anything trees area outside track served stir up air creating what locals call snow fence effect rolling downdraft Continued page 148 Top Left Cox 02-powered model Santos-Dumont 1 4-DIe canara Dy FAC Champion Don Sruil Hes built em sizes varieties FAC awards extra points unusuci models Above Left Jack McGllllvray took indoor Sea Hornet outsidea fine flier Jack other Canadians put contest international category Right Leon Bennetts 360-gram Mlcafiim-covered P-39B looks great flies beautifully Covering hard butworth FAC NatslWarner Continued page 97 model has get through obtain duration wind blowing Open door lets get sky Ever three-ring circus Could see everything once Impossible nearly hundred worlds top Rubber Scale modelers place several models stable Now would see CO-2 diesel job Embryo two 13 events Rub ber Scale whipped out trusty Box Brownie like trying capture elephant butterfly net Apolo gies dozens guys didnt get included Everything great en tire issue would just barely have sufficed guys using winding stooges popular being ones consist board spiked ground couple upright side pieces back take stiff wire tween through hollow tube rear motor peg model chunk sponge rubber supports front model scheme must twin-engined ships com mon means winding consisted shoving pin up through nacelle through prop hook hold motor after wound other getting its turns packed Hi-tech much evidence Styrofoam except pilots has caught No plastic film coverings seen except shiny silver Micafilm covering Leon Bennetts P-39 jumbo talking number modelers found just too ignorant use three people talked PhDs made conscious choice traditional materials FAC old-fashioned Though innovation ap plauded something changes charac ter tradition too much regard ed suspicion Still ingenuity rewarded thrill praise ones peers guys respect comes modeling headiest stuff need win trophy prove anything question such Hey howd ya old-timers can make newcomer swell pride FAG judges worked continuously Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen did yeoman service meticulous judging hun dreds models missed flying result Still imagine fun seeing little beauties up close Make ya want volunteer help next time got benefit what figure must about 5000 years modeling experience 7 / / 4 AI Bill Warner MA columnist author FAC Nats story launches Jumbo Rubber Parnall Elf Sketches Bill Noonan mass-launch events really grow ing popularity Instead just flying against clock regular Peanut Jumbo FAG Scale Power events flying against other airplanes number entries given mass-launch event determines number groups will launch first elimination round WW II event example 21 entries required three elimination flights dropping first three planes land next round Models also dropped motor broke winding flew far owners could get back next launch generally about five minutes later Eliminations continue un til top three trophy places have decided Theres lots suspense participants spectators alike mass-launch events modeler has someone spotter shouts out contestants name model hits ground after launch official running event checks off ones dropped year mass launches WW II Golden Age Thompson Trophy radial-engined racers Greve Trophy Continued page 150 Left Dennis Norman prepares amazing rubber-powered Avro Lancaster flight Right WW II mass-launch event popular hotly contested Judging such events simple last down winner No muss fuss bother 148 Model Aviation IL Press Brunings MartIn B-26 rubber-pow ered model caused sensation Very stable Sketches Bill Noonan lines WW multiplanes divided two groups Peanut Over-13 Some things make FAG models fly well result Bill Stouts Ford Trimotor admonition Simplicate add lightness Models round fuselage cross sections almost made laminating thin balsa strips around undersize cardboard bulkhead forms instead cutting out sheet Sometimes can~ master bulkhead sheet balsa hole motor incorporated limit ~slapping~ superlong rubber motors generally use Most guys build very light use motors three four times hook-to-hook lengthfor loocong prop runs rare model will break minute 5 pm festivities broke up headed pool Don Srull came up new event flown underwater rubber-powered glider sub-planes Maybe next time banquet seven until mid night featuring exciting speakers dynam ic sing-alongs breathtaking fems scantily-clad dancing girls OK lied about dancing girls great fun anyway Off bed 1 am Sunday great meet soared wed never taken break Some memorable sights included seeing Don Srulls fabulous models flying about Cox 02-powered Santos-Dumont 14-bis Voisin Peanut-size canard hydroplane two sizes Lippisch P-13 flying wings after prototypes built Messerschmitt fly great Fly ing contest Srull modelers modeler like being beauty contest Catherine Deneuve looks like Phyllis Diller Hey Whats shouting Look that. goes Paul Gaertners twin CO-2 Dornier flying boat Aint beaut flight well over minute Paul grins congratulated him Oops goes Srulls flying wing through trees taking off wing Knowing him hell have repaired 10 minutes flat took five Look P-39 Bennetts Rock-steady air Continued page 152 Left Jack Moses builds beautiful Rubber models fly nice look P-40 spectacular Right Registration judg ing tents nerve centers Officials wives did yeoman service assuring well-run enjoyable meet deserve big hand 150 Model Aviation Genial Ralph Kuenz Contest Di rector crew complimented smooth-running fun-to-fly-In event ACCESSORZES KRAFT Gyros Long Starter Extension Ball Link Pliers t Kits Pidll Gauges Side Panels Hell Books Balls Ni Starters atteries Auto Rotation Kits s Cll PdcsI RADIOS 7 Heli$31485 Cs Heh$30395 UT OS6IH cosusuomPmovI 056tH COmA OS FSRHUti OS2OFSRH1113 m OS6IF5RH urn wan CR14 withOS8lFSRH. EM aoy F5RH win roettlon wj OS45FSRH fr belh 0W SCILUER Melicptaw NOTLINE 414 72140Z5 HA VINCi PROBLEMS CALL FOR HELP SERV1C 0FTERED Custom Bdit g Set Up Flight 4nstniction Club Group Demonstrations Send $200 Catalog GilDElt INFO $0425 add $350 $55$lOOadd $450 $101 adoer add $600 UPS COD Elte Label extra PersonalChecks will held 30 day& VISA add Mastercard accepted Wisconsin residents add 5% sa]es tax Check Baluneks Laird bipe some sweetie pie look Elwells Folkerts What climb and. h gusts top him sh Can believe No damagejust came apart Must have luck No Youre right check construction Made come apart loop-brace alumi num wire through fuselage trail ing edge limit motor slap also ab sorb shocks hard landings Jack Moses jumbo P-40 way off distance Looks like Peanut What Gordon Roberts just cleaned em out again same model Against guys like Midkiff Rees Bruning Well goes like got busy trying see photograph own model box left field forgotten until got back motel unknown FACer brought left Lone Rangerlike didnt leave name Thanks Near end last day muchawaited Lancaster made its appearance field Dennis Norman few modelers has ever thermalled out lost twin rubber-powered Tigercat scored coup meet 9-oz Lanc featuring full interior crew 32 separate vacu-formed parts sprayed enamel finish model put few elegant flights best 30 sec took home FAC Achievement Award Trophy What class credit deserved Dennis also crew consisting lovely wife Linda son Chris ground crew Del Balunek Todd Allen Youll hear ing great model Pres Bruning took home coveted Earl Stahl Trophy Earl himself judges gorgeous Fiat CR-42 Pres also made available free Nor throp Gamma plans through good graces Golden Age Reproductions entire meet like Sharing ranged Pres plans incredible screened T-shirts Noonan donated California bunch deluge hints tips ideas general camaraderie made what commonly refer contest helping make meet possible contribution keeping spirit FAC alive thank Ralph Kuenz Lin Juanita Reichel Fred Wunsche Fred Gregg Jack Moses Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen Vic Didelot Andy Mrs Mac Isaac Pres Bruning old spotting buddy George Lewis Sunday nights dinner old friends new long bull session room until wee hours so-long breakfast much part ex perience thermal flight trophy presentation planning FAC Nats Mk V two years about Postlog This advice FACers always have about days work left model contest day rolls around Next time start day earlier an Schanzle DC Maxecuters FACer Henry Komp took third place Greve Trophy mass-launch event got home award discovered goofed making small repalr between heats something allowed FAC rules Henry promptly mailed trophy back apology isnt spirit what Flying Aces Club about dont know what youd like join Flying Aces Club three greatest newsletters going available three sources GHQ Squadron Flying Aces Club News operated Lin Reichel 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 membership $9 per year $8 can join great DC Maxecuters receive Max-Fax via Allan Schanzle 20008 Spur Hill Dr Gaithersburg MD 20879 $10 last check Crosswinds membership Cleveland Free Flight Society can man write Michael C Zand 7055 Seven Hills Blvd Seven Hills OH l3l just few FAC af filiates can make modeling life enjoyable responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 152 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/11
Page Numbers: 94, 95, 96, 97, 148, 150, 152
Ifl5T snows vennis norman OT rieveiana Free iignt society award-winning rubber-powered Lancaster big picture shows Lancaster climbing aloft Flights far gettIng over 30 sec thats remarkable test fore FF Scale model such complexity FOUR YEARS AGO privilege everywhere centerpiece full- built Ryan Spirit St Louis bringing account Flying size fuselage Fernandos latest project Bill Noonan talent style personi Aces Club Nats held Dayton another Marquardt Charger biplane fled No sooner settled down fun years FAG bash bet- welded-up almost ready cover rest living room Hells Angels ter couldnt guest tells bringing sons 4H Howard Hughes WW flying movie part Southern California contin- group hangar indif- two-wheeled variety appeared gent consisting Fernando Ramos ference lament younger telly What way start pilgrimmyself Flightmasters Bill generation kids similar age past fell love Noonan San Diego Scale Staffel experience would have kept us dreaming old planes Jean Harlow over Leaving smog-laden environs Los months Maybe thats us again Love scene Ger Angeles always pleasure couple Flying Aces Club graying bit man crew members volunteer jump out hours Fernandos hangar behind about temples San Diego zeppelin lighten up dont country estate way Noonans Noonans departure next day make movies like anymore sheer delight Models mostly Scale hang Lindbergh field remember After flick went out Bills Left. designed two sizes Nikitin-Schevohenko iS-4 biplane retracting iower wing Jack Moses bulit 13-inspan gom Right Lippiech P-13 Rubber models prototype German flying wing never got past mock-up stage Don Sruli made two both great fliers looks models youd think blood-and-guts competition Its eli fun 94 Model Aviation Left P-38J rubber-powered ship Andy Medovich has 34-In span built Comet plan Weighs 2 oz Uses custom winding JIg Right Stu Myers winds D-5 Aibatros winder once opened door rocket space twice counts turns Left hard-working judges Bob Mosher L Josh Gittlen R inspect Eric Andersons Caudron N FAC Commander-In-Chief Lin Relchel C looks Right Dudley Prisei readies rubber-powered Ercoupe under watchfui eye Dick Bennett Very stable fiier atelier gawk magnificent crea tions open door shop have uncomfortable feeling have just done something wrong quick glance behind door confirms fears see what left an cient model once biplane flattened against wall Horrors itial shock wears off notice parts too artistically arranged have result doing What Bill did put plywood sheet over Berg bipe driveway run over few times reduce model 2D collage Har Har Bill proceeded show us latest goodies like machine printing German lozenge camouflage pattern Halberstadt involves making separation artwork having four polyester plates made rubber stamp establishment tissue affixed sliding pattern moves side-toside frame printing plates inserted Bill uses Spa-Mark dye applied plastic printing plates directly Surprisingly does run printed tissue Clever drawback plates cost 10 bucks So went night tape-recorded helpful hints book titles booksellers addresseswhatever November 1984 95 might able use share Morning day wed waiting historic visit too soon time Model boxes suitcases camera bags hit hay Bill packed days field boxes loaded people OT inc moacis flown eacn OT inree mlsslons winners men yiew ins sem-minss Left iron Mike Mldkiff Texas Japanese Grace ready tropt Griffons Black Bullet 1936 issue Flying Aces magazine Dick Barkats u fit Somehow squeezed air- small boy asked got coming out baggage port Fernando Bill got docked $10 zoos gift shop very moment arrivec oversize model boxes Arrival Denver Changed 727 books Hot Airsneaked aboard brown paper 767 Sat ground hour car heaven bag trick hold Earl Stahl long line jets waiting airborne Detroit generally leti Waco SRE cabin plain sight diver- Thats what like about Free Flight. no way sion Actually people waiting open frequency rival unpacking noticed pilot copilot Detroit Amazing model boxes put models set out find Bowers charr poolside chatted presently putting order Just man uri dinner three-hour time difference catching up us late hospitality suite Seemed like mid-after noon us Ralph Kuenz worldfamous Von Rottensox outlining what host club Detroit Cloudbust ers FAC Detroiten Geschwader strictly FAC nuts within CBs store exhibit huge Na tional Champion Trophy just give Don Srull right save carrying out field superb Earl Stahl Trophy best model meet exemplifying spirit Stahl type designand containing part trophy actual compass divider Earl used drawing famous q Stahl tradition Earl Stahl Trophy won y Pres Brun nd h ahi judges Right An anxious moment Fernando plans standard plaques win California has lost end rubber-stuffer stick inside Heinkel 64-C ners beautiful etched plates featur 96 Model Aviation eft Paul Gaertners Dornier 18 two Brown A-70s flew well over minurwiih 51 Foikrts SK-2 Jumbo-size Rubbership Emerson Eiweii about readytofiy Jack Moses Left Mark Fineman makes Earl Stahl-designed Curtissacendertly like Lacey saysthat canards cant madeto flyweil Hight XP-71 Roland Hoot remarkable its being powered through differential gearing contra-rotating propsvery successful Left Wait eider half famous Eggert father-son team shows off Thunderbolt Peanut Excellent filers builders theyre hard beat Right Earl Schicks Zippy Sport twice-up ModelAvlation Peanut Scale plan fiew well enough earn Eerie trophy ing Ford triplanes Flying set next day Ford test track Utica banked 2A mile speedway im mense infield covered soft green bit uneven carpet grass old friends previous AMA FAC Nats pink lemonade provided hosts flowed freely stories came fast furious Good news via Joe Fitzgibbon Mr Golden Age Reproductions himself cheered us have found balsa great insulator cryogenic supertankers previously thought consequently billions board feet will saved horrible fate Von Loopundstall showed great work has gone participant official buttons noted entire club worked coloring Ah such togetherness broke up after mid night Whos sleepy alarm went off what us 3 am found out answer breakfast joined gang over orange juice Swapping stories such kept FAG table center tention coffee shop What heck its once two years Time go Again joy packing models Again inhaled slammed car doors Made Off Utica Taking south turn high speed up bank Noonan dropped straightaway 140 mph really November 1984 97 U resisted temptation Ford people might frown seeing rented Plymouth No use causing tagonism What flying site could actually hit ground did occa sionally breaking anything trees area outside track served stir up air creating what locals call snow fence effect rolling downdraft Continued page 148 Top Left Cox 02-powered model Santos-Dumont 1 4-DIe canara Dy FAC Champion Don Sruil Hes built em sizes varieties FAC awards extra points unusuci models Above Left Jack McGllllvray took indoor Sea Hornet outsidea fine flier Jack other Canadians put contest international category Right Leon Bennetts 360-gram Mlcafiim-covered P-39B looks great flies beautifully Covering hard butworth FAC NatslWarner Continued page 97 model has get through obtain duration wind blowing Open door lets get sky Ever three-ring circus Could see everything once Impossible nearly hundred worlds top Rubber Scale modelers place several models stable Now would see CO-2 diesel job Embryo two 13 events Rub ber Scale whipped out trusty Box Brownie like trying capture elephant butterfly net Apolo gies dozens guys didnt get included Everything great en tire issue would just barely have sufficed guys using winding stooges popular being ones consist board spiked ground couple upright side pieces back take stiff wire tween through hollow tube rear motor peg model chunk sponge rubber supports front model scheme must twin-engined ships com mon means winding consisted shoving pin up through nacelle through prop hook hold motor after wound other getting its turns packed Hi-tech much evidence Styrofoam except pilots has caught No plastic film coverings seen except shiny silver Micafilm covering Leon Bennetts P-39 jumbo talking number modelers found just too ignorant use three people talked PhDs made conscious choice traditional materials FAC old-fashioned Though innovation ap plauded something changes charac ter tradition too much regard ed suspicion Still ingenuity rewarded thrill praise ones peers guys respect comes modeling headiest stuff need win trophy prove anything question such Hey howd ya old-timers can make newcomer swell pride FAG judges worked continuously Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen did yeoman service meticulous judging hun dreds models missed flying result Still imagine fun seeing little beauties up close Make ya want volunteer help next time got benefit what figure must about 5000 years modeling experience 7 / / 4 AI Bill Warner MA columnist author FAC Nats story launches Jumbo Rubber Parnall Elf Sketches Bill Noonan mass-launch events really grow ing popularity Instead just flying against clock regular Peanut Jumbo FAG Scale Power events flying against other airplanes number entries given mass-launch event determines number groups will launch first elimination round WW II event example 21 entries required three elimination flights dropping first three planes land next round Models also dropped motor broke winding flew far owners could get back next launch generally about five minutes later Eliminations continue un til top three trophy places have decided Theres lots suspense participants spectators alike mass-launch events modeler has someone spotter shouts out contestants name model hits ground after launch official running event checks off ones dropped year mass launches WW II Golden Age Thompson Trophy radial-engined racers Greve Trophy Continued page 150 Left Dennis Norman prepares amazing rubber-powered Avro Lancaster flight Right WW II mass-launch event popular hotly contested Judging such events simple last down winner No muss fuss bother 148 Model Aviation IL Press Brunings MartIn B-26 rubber-pow ered model caused sensation Very stable Sketches Bill Noonan lines WW multiplanes divided two groups Peanut Over-13 Some things make FAG models fly well result Bill Stouts Ford Trimotor admonition Simplicate add lightness Models round fuselage cross sections almost made laminating thin balsa strips around undersize cardboard bulkhead forms instead cutting out sheet Sometimes can~ master bulkhead sheet balsa hole motor incorporated limit ~slapping~ superlong rubber motors generally use Most guys build very light use motors three four times hook-to-hook lengthfor loocong prop runs rare model will break minute 5 pm festivities broke up headed pool Don Srull came up new event flown underwater rubber-powered glider sub-planes Maybe next time banquet seven until mid night featuring exciting speakers dynam ic sing-alongs breathtaking fems scantily-clad dancing girls OK lied about dancing girls great fun anyway Off bed 1 am Sunday great meet soared wed never taken break Some memorable sights included seeing Don Srulls fabulous models flying about Cox 02-powered Santos-Dumont 14-bis Voisin Peanut-size canard hydroplane two sizes Lippisch P-13 flying wings after prototypes built Messerschmitt fly great Fly ing contest Srull modelers modeler like being beauty contest Catherine Deneuve looks like Phyllis Diller Hey Whats shouting Look that. goes Paul Gaertners twin CO-2 Dornier flying boat Aint beaut flight well over minute Paul grins congratulated him Oops goes Srulls flying wing through trees taking off wing Knowing him hell have repaired 10 minutes flat took five Look P-39 Bennetts Rock-steady air Continued page 152 Left Jack Moses builds beautiful Rubber models fly nice look P-40 spectacular Right Registration judg ing tents nerve centers Officials wives did yeoman service assuring well-run enjoyable meet deserve big hand 150 Model Aviation Genial Ralph Kuenz Contest Di rector crew complimented smooth-running fun-to-fly-In event ACCESSORZES KRAFT Gyros Long Starter Extension Ball Link Pliers t Kits Pidll Gauges Side Panels Hell Books Balls Ni Starters atteries Auto Rotation Kits s Cll PdcsI RADIOS 7 Heli$31485 Cs Heh$30395 UT OS6IH cosusuomPmovI 056tH COmA OS FSRHUti OS2OFSRH1113 m OS6IF5RH urn wan CR14 withOS8lFSRH. EM aoy F5RH win roettlon wj OS45FSRH fr belh 0W SCILUER Melicptaw NOTLINE 414 72140Z5 HA VINCi PROBLEMS CALL FOR HELP SERV1C 0FTERED Custom Bdit g Set Up Flight 4nstniction Club Group Demonstrations Send $200 Catalog GilDElt INFO $0425 add $350 $55$lOOadd $450 $101 adoer add $600 UPS COD Elte Label extra PersonalChecks will held 30 day& VISA add Mastercard accepted Wisconsin residents add 5% sa]es tax Check Baluneks Laird bipe some sweetie pie look Elwells Folkerts What climb and. h gusts top him sh Can believe No damagejust came apart Must have luck No Youre right check construction Made come apart loop-brace alumi num wire through fuselage trail ing edge limit motor slap also ab sorb shocks hard landings Jack Moses jumbo P-40 way off distance Looks like Peanut What Gordon Roberts just cleaned em out again same model Against guys like Midkiff Rees Bruning Well goes like got busy trying see photograph own model box left field forgotten until got back motel unknown FACer brought left Lone Rangerlike didnt leave name Thanks Near end last day muchawaited Lancaster made its appearance field Dennis Norman few modelers has ever thermalled out lost twin rubber-powered Tigercat scored coup meet 9-oz Lanc featuring full interior crew 32 separate vacu-formed parts sprayed enamel finish model put few elegant flights best 30 sec took home FAC Achievement Award Trophy What class credit deserved Dennis also crew consisting lovely wife Linda son Chris ground crew Del Balunek Todd Allen Youll hear ing great model Pres Bruning took home coveted Earl Stahl Trophy Earl himself judges gorgeous Fiat CR-42 Pres also made available free Nor throp Gamma plans through good graces Golden Age Reproductions entire meet like Sharing ranged Pres plans incredible screened T-shirts Noonan donated California bunch deluge hints tips ideas general camaraderie made what commonly refer contest helping make meet possible contribution keeping spirit FAC alive thank Ralph Kuenz Lin Juanita Reichel Fred Wunsche Fred Gregg Jack Moses Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen Vic Didelot Andy Mrs Mac Isaac Pres Bruning old spotting buddy George Lewis Sunday nights dinner old friends new long bull session room until wee hours so-long breakfast much part ex perience thermal flight trophy presentation planning FAC Nats Mk V two years about Postlog This advice FACers always have about days work left model contest day rolls around Next time start day earlier an Schanzle DC Maxecuters FACer Henry Komp took third place Greve Trophy mass-launch event got home award discovered goofed making small repalr between heats something allowed FAC rules Henry promptly mailed trophy back apology isnt spirit what Flying Aces Club about dont know what youd like join Flying Aces Club three greatest newsletters going available three sources GHQ Squadron Flying Aces Club News operated Lin Reichel 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 membership $9 per year $8 can join great DC Maxecuters receive Max-Fax via Allan Schanzle 20008 Spur Hill Dr Gaithersburg MD 20879 $10 last check Crosswinds membership Cleveland Free Flight Society can man write Michael C Zand 7055 Seven Hills Blvd Seven Hills OH l3l just few FAC af filiates can make modeling life enjoyable responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 152 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/11
Page Numbers: 94, 95, 96, 97, 148, 150, 152
Ifl5T snows vennis norman OT rieveiana Free iignt society award-winning rubber-powered Lancaster big picture shows Lancaster climbing aloft Flights far gettIng over 30 sec thats remarkable test fore FF Scale model such complexity FOUR YEARS AGO privilege everywhere centerpiece full- built Ryan Spirit St Louis bringing account Flying size fuselage Fernandos latest project Bill Noonan talent style personi Aces Club Nats held Dayton another Marquardt Charger biplane fled No sooner settled down fun years FAG bash bet- welded-up almost ready cover rest living room Hells Angels ter couldnt guest tells bringing sons 4H Howard Hughes WW flying movie part Southern California contin- group hangar indif- two-wheeled variety appeared gent consisting Fernando Ramos ference lament younger telly What way start pilgrimmyself Flightmasters Bill generation kids similar age past fell love Noonan San Diego Scale Staffel experience would have kept us dreaming old planes Jean Harlow over Leaving smog-laden environs Los months Maybe thats us again Love scene Ger Angeles always pleasure couple Flying Aces Club graying bit man crew members volunteer jump out hours Fernandos hangar behind about temples San Diego zeppelin lighten up dont country estate way Noonans Noonans departure next day make movies like anymore sheer delight Models mostly Scale hang Lindbergh field remember After flick went out Bills Left. designed two sizes Nikitin-Schevohenko iS-4 biplane retracting iower wing Jack Moses bulit 13-inspan gom Right Lippiech P-13 Rubber models prototype German flying wing never got past mock-up stage Don Sruli made two both great fliers looks models youd think blood-and-guts competition Its eli fun 94 Model Aviation Left P-38J rubber-powered ship Andy Medovich has 34-In span built Comet plan Weighs 2 oz Uses custom winding JIg Right Stu Myers winds D-5 Aibatros winder once opened door rocket space twice counts turns Left hard-working judges Bob Mosher L Josh Gittlen R inspect Eric Andersons Caudron N FAC Commander-In-Chief Lin Relchel C looks Right Dudley Prisei readies rubber-powered Ercoupe under watchfui eye Dick Bennett Very stable fiier atelier gawk magnificent crea tions open door shop have uncomfortable feeling have just done something wrong quick glance behind door confirms fears see what left an cient model once biplane flattened against wall Horrors itial shock wears off notice parts too artistically arranged have result doing What Bill did put plywood sheet over Berg bipe driveway run over few times reduce model 2D collage Har Har Bill proceeded show us latest goodies like machine printing German lozenge camouflage pattern Halberstadt involves making separation artwork having four polyester plates made rubber stamp establishment tissue affixed sliding pattern moves side-toside frame printing plates inserted Bill uses Spa-Mark dye applied plastic printing plates directly Surprisingly does run printed tissue Clever drawback plates cost 10 bucks So went night tape-recorded helpful hints book titles booksellers addresseswhatever November 1984 95 might able use share Morning day wed waiting historic visit too soon time Model boxes suitcases camera bags hit hay Bill packed days field boxes loaded people OT inc moacis flown eacn OT inree mlsslons winners men yiew ins sem-minss Left iron Mike Mldkiff Texas Japanese Grace ready tropt Griffons Black Bullet 1936 issue Flying Aces magazine Dick Barkats u fit Somehow squeezed air- small boy asked got coming out baggage port Fernando Bill got docked $10 zoos gift shop very moment arrivec oversize model boxes Arrival Denver Changed 727 books Hot Airsneaked aboard brown paper 767 Sat ground hour car heaven bag trick hold Earl Stahl long line jets waiting airborne Detroit generally leti Waco SRE cabin plain sight diver- Thats what like about Free Flight. no way sion Actually people waiting open frequency rival unpacking noticed pilot copilot Detroit Amazing model boxes put models set out find Bowers charr poolside chatted presently putting order Just man uri dinner three-hour time difference catching up us late hospitality suite Seemed like mid-after noon us Ralph Kuenz worldfamous Von Rottensox outlining what host club Detroit Cloudbust ers FAC Detroiten Geschwader strictly FAC nuts within CBs store exhibit huge Na tional Champion Trophy just give Don Srull right save carrying out field superb Earl Stahl Trophy best model meet exemplifying spirit Stahl type designand containing part trophy actual compass divider Earl used drawing famous q Stahl tradition Earl Stahl Trophy won y Pres Brun nd h ahi judges Right An anxious moment Fernando plans standard plaques win California has lost end rubber-stuffer stick inside Heinkel 64-C ners beautiful etched plates featur 96 Model Aviation eft Paul Gaertners Dornier 18 two Brown A-70s flew well over minurwiih 51 Foikrts SK-2 Jumbo-size Rubbership Emerson Eiweii about readytofiy Jack Moses Left Mark Fineman makes Earl Stahl-designed Curtissacendertly like Lacey saysthat canards cant madeto flyweil Hight XP-71 Roland Hoot remarkable its being powered through differential gearing contra-rotating propsvery successful Left Wait eider half famous Eggert father-son team shows off Thunderbolt Peanut Excellent filers builders theyre hard beat Right Earl Schicks Zippy Sport twice-up ModelAvlation Peanut Scale plan fiew well enough earn Eerie trophy ing Ford triplanes Flying set next day Ford test track Utica banked 2A mile speedway im mense infield covered soft green bit uneven carpet grass old friends previous AMA FAC Nats pink lemonade provided hosts flowed freely stories came fast furious Good news via Joe Fitzgibbon Mr Golden Age Reproductions himself cheered us have found balsa great insulator cryogenic supertankers previously thought consequently billions board feet will saved horrible fate Von Loopundstall showed great work has gone participant official buttons noted entire club worked coloring Ah such togetherness broke up after mid night Whos sleepy alarm went off what us 3 am found out answer breakfast joined gang over orange juice Swapping stories such kept FAG table center tention coffee shop What heck its once two years Time go Again joy packing models Again inhaled slammed car doors Made Off Utica Taking south turn high speed up bank Noonan dropped straightaway 140 mph really November 1984 97 U resisted temptation Ford people might frown seeing rented Plymouth No use causing tagonism What flying site could actually hit ground did occa sionally breaking anything trees area outside track served stir up air creating what locals call snow fence effect rolling downdraft Continued page 148 Top Left Cox 02-powered model Santos-Dumont 1 4-DIe canara Dy FAC Champion Don Sruil Hes built em sizes varieties FAC awards extra points unusuci models Above Left Jack McGllllvray took indoor Sea Hornet outsidea fine flier Jack other Canadians put contest international category Right Leon Bennetts 360-gram Mlcafiim-covered P-39B looks great flies beautifully Covering hard butworth FAC NatslWarner Continued page 97 model has get through obtain duration wind blowing Open door lets get sky Ever three-ring circus Could see everything once Impossible nearly hundred worlds top Rubber Scale modelers place several models stable Now would see CO-2 diesel job Embryo two 13 events Rub ber Scale whipped out trusty Box Brownie like trying capture elephant butterfly net Apolo gies dozens guys didnt get included Everything great en tire issue would just barely have sufficed guys using winding stooges popular being ones consist board spiked ground couple upright side pieces back take stiff wire tween through hollow tube rear motor peg model chunk sponge rubber supports front model scheme must twin-engined ships com mon means winding consisted shoving pin up through nacelle through prop hook hold motor after wound other getting its turns packed Hi-tech much evidence Styrofoam except pilots has caught No plastic film coverings seen except shiny silver Micafilm covering Leon Bennetts P-39 jumbo talking number modelers found just too ignorant use three people talked PhDs made conscious choice traditional materials FAC old-fashioned Though innovation ap plauded something changes charac ter tradition too much regard ed suspicion Still ingenuity rewarded thrill praise ones peers guys respect comes modeling headiest stuff need win trophy prove anything question such Hey howd ya old-timers can make newcomer swell pride FAG judges worked continuously Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen did yeoman service meticulous judging hun dreds models missed flying result Still imagine fun seeing little beauties up close Make ya want volunteer help next time got benefit what figure must about 5000 years modeling experience 7 / / 4 AI Bill Warner MA columnist author FAC Nats story launches Jumbo Rubber Parnall Elf Sketches Bill Noonan mass-launch events really grow ing popularity Instead just flying against clock regular Peanut Jumbo FAG Scale Power events flying against other airplanes number entries given mass-launch event determines number groups will launch first elimination round WW II event example 21 entries required three elimination flights dropping first three planes land next round Models also dropped motor broke winding flew far owners could get back next launch generally about five minutes later Eliminations continue un til top three trophy places have decided Theres lots suspense participants spectators alike mass-launch events modeler has someone spotter shouts out contestants name model hits ground after launch official running event checks off ones dropped year mass launches WW II Golden Age Thompson Trophy radial-engined racers Greve Trophy Continued page 150 Left Dennis Norman prepares amazing rubber-powered Avro Lancaster flight Right WW II mass-launch event popular hotly contested Judging such events simple last down winner No muss fuss bother 148 Model Aviation IL Press Brunings MartIn B-26 rubber-pow ered model caused sensation Very stable Sketches Bill Noonan lines WW multiplanes divided two groups Peanut Over-13 Some things make FAG models fly well result Bill Stouts Ford Trimotor admonition Simplicate add lightness Models round fuselage cross sections almost made laminating thin balsa strips around undersize cardboard bulkhead forms instead cutting out sheet Sometimes can~ master bulkhead sheet balsa hole motor incorporated limit ~slapping~ superlong rubber motors generally use Most guys build very light use motors three four times hook-to-hook lengthfor loocong prop runs rare model will break minute 5 pm festivities broke up headed pool Don Srull came up new event flown underwater rubber-powered glider sub-planes Maybe next time banquet seven until mid night featuring exciting speakers dynam ic sing-alongs breathtaking fems scantily-clad dancing girls OK lied about dancing girls great fun anyway Off bed 1 am Sunday great meet soared wed never taken break Some memorable sights included seeing Don Srulls fabulous models flying about Cox 02-powered Santos-Dumont 14-bis Voisin Peanut-size canard hydroplane two sizes Lippisch P-13 flying wings after prototypes built Messerschmitt fly great Fly ing contest Srull modelers modeler like being beauty contest Catherine Deneuve looks like Phyllis Diller Hey Whats shouting Look that. goes Paul Gaertners twin CO-2 Dornier flying boat Aint beaut flight well over minute Paul grins congratulated him Oops goes Srulls flying wing through trees taking off wing Knowing him hell have repaired 10 minutes flat took five Look P-39 Bennetts Rock-steady air Continued page 152 Left Jack Moses builds beautiful Rubber models fly nice look P-40 spectacular Right Registration judg ing tents nerve centers Officials wives did yeoman service assuring well-run enjoyable meet deserve big hand 150 Model Aviation Genial Ralph Kuenz Contest Di rector crew complimented smooth-running fun-to-fly-In event ACCESSORZES KRAFT Gyros Long Starter Extension Ball Link Pliers t Kits Pidll Gauges Side Panels Hell Books Balls Ni Starters atteries Auto Rotation Kits s Cll PdcsI RADIOS 7 Heli$31485 Cs Heh$30395 UT OS6IH cosusuomPmovI 056tH COmA OS FSRHUti OS2OFSRH1113 m OS6IF5RH urn wan CR14 withOS8lFSRH. EM aoy F5RH win roettlon wj OS45FSRH fr belh 0W SCILUER Melicptaw NOTLINE 414 72140Z5 HA VINCi PROBLEMS CALL FOR HELP SERV1C 0FTERED Custom Bdit g Set Up Flight 4nstniction Club Group Demonstrations Send $200 Catalog GilDElt INFO $0425 add $350 $55$lOOadd $450 $101 adoer add $600 UPS COD Elte Label extra PersonalChecks will held 30 day& VISA add Mastercard accepted Wisconsin residents add 5% sa]es tax Check Baluneks Laird bipe some sweetie pie look Elwells Folkerts What climb and. h gusts top him sh Can believe No damagejust came apart Must have luck No Youre right check construction Made come apart loop-brace alumi num wire through fuselage trail ing edge limit motor slap also ab sorb shocks hard landings Jack Moses jumbo P-40 way off distance Looks like Peanut What Gordon Roberts just cleaned em out again same model Against guys like Midkiff Rees Bruning Well goes like got busy trying see photograph own model box left field forgotten until got back motel unknown FACer brought left Lone Rangerlike didnt leave name Thanks Near end last day muchawaited Lancaster made its appearance field Dennis Norman few modelers has ever thermalled out lost twin rubber-powered Tigercat scored coup meet 9-oz Lanc featuring full interior crew 32 separate vacu-formed parts sprayed enamel finish model put few elegant flights best 30 sec took home FAC Achievement Award Trophy What class credit deserved Dennis also crew consisting lovely wife Linda son Chris ground crew Del Balunek Todd Allen Youll hear ing great model Pres Bruning took home coveted Earl Stahl Trophy Earl himself judges gorgeous Fiat CR-42 Pres also made available free Nor throp Gamma plans through good graces Golden Age Reproductions entire meet like Sharing ranged Pres plans incredible screened T-shirts Noonan donated California bunch deluge hints tips ideas general camaraderie made what commonly refer contest helping make meet possible contribution keeping spirit FAC alive thank Ralph Kuenz Lin Juanita Reichel Fred Wunsche Fred Gregg Jack Moses Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen Vic Didelot Andy Mrs Mac Isaac Pres Bruning old spotting buddy George Lewis Sunday nights dinner old friends new long bull session room until wee hours so-long breakfast much part ex perience thermal flight trophy presentation planning FAC Nats Mk V two years about Postlog This advice FACers always have about days work left model contest day rolls around Next time start day earlier an Schanzle DC Maxecuters FACer Henry Komp took third place Greve Trophy mass-launch event got home award discovered goofed making small repalr between heats something allowed FAC rules Henry promptly mailed trophy back apology isnt spirit what Flying Aces Club about dont know what youd like join Flying Aces Club three greatest newsletters going available three sources GHQ Squadron Flying Aces Club News operated Lin Reichel 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 membership $9 per year $8 can join great DC Maxecuters receive Max-Fax via Allan Schanzle 20008 Spur Hill Dr Gaithersburg MD 20879 $10 last check Crosswinds membership Cleveland Free Flight Society can man write Michael C Zand 7055 Seven Hills Blvd Seven Hills OH l3l just few FAC af filiates can make modeling life enjoyable responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 152 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/11
Page Numbers: 94, 95, 96, 97, 148, 150, 152
Ifl5T snows vennis norman OT rieveiana Free iignt society award-winning rubber-powered Lancaster big picture shows Lancaster climbing aloft Flights far gettIng over 30 sec thats remarkable test fore FF Scale model such complexity FOUR YEARS AGO privilege everywhere centerpiece full- built Ryan Spirit St Louis bringing account Flying size fuselage Fernandos latest project Bill Noonan talent style personi Aces Club Nats held Dayton another Marquardt Charger biplane fled No sooner settled down fun years FAG bash bet- welded-up almost ready cover rest living room Hells Angels ter couldnt guest tells bringing sons 4H Howard Hughes WW flying movie part Southern California contin- group hangar indif- two-wheeled variety appeared gent consisting Fernando Ramos ference lament younger telly What way start pilgrimmyself Flightmasters Bill generation kids similar age past fell love Noonan San Diego Scale Staffel experience would have kept us dreaming old planes Jean Harlow over Leaving smog-laden environs Los months Maybe thats us again Love scene Ger Angeles always pleasure couple Flying Aces Club graying bit man crew members volunteer jump out hours Fernandos hangar behind about temples San Diego zeppelin lighten up dont country estate way Noonans Noonans departure next day make movies like anymore sheer delight Models mostly Scale hang Lindbergh field remember After flick went out Bills Left. designed two sizes Nikitin-Schevohenko iS-4 biplane retracting iower wing Jack Moses bulit 13-inspan gom Right Lippiech P-13 Rubber models prototype German flying wing never got past mock-up stage Don Sruli made two both great fliers looks models youd think blood-and-guts competition Its eli fun 94 Model Aviation Left P-38J rubber-powered ship Andy Medovich has 34-In span built Comet plan Weighs 2 oz Uses custom winding JIg Right Stu Myers winds D-5 Aibatros winder once opened door rocket space twice counts turns Left hard-working judges Bob Mosher L Josh Gittlen R inspect Eric Andersons Caudron N FAC Commander-In-Chief Lin Relchel C looks Right Dudley Prisei readies rubber-powered Ercoupe under watchfui eye Dick Bennett Very stable fiier atelier gawk magnificent crea tions open door shop have uncomfortable feeling have just done something wrong quick glance behind door confirms fears see what left an cient model once biplane flattened against wall Horrors itial shock wears off notice parts too artistically arranged have result doing What Bill did put plywood sheet over Berg bipe driveway run over few times reduce model 2D collage Har Har Bill proceeded show us latest goodies like machine printing German lozenge camouflage pattern Halberstadt involves making separation artwork having four polyester plates made rubber stamp establishment tissue affixed sliding pattern moves side-toside frame printing plates inserted Bill uses Spa-Mark dye applied plastic printing plates directly Surprisingly does run printed tissue Clever drawback plates cost 10 bucks So went night tape-recorded helpful hints book titles booksellers addresseswhatever November 1984 95 might able use share Morning day wed waiting historic visit too soon time Model boxes suitcases camera bags hit hay Bill packed days field boxes loaded people OT inc moacis flown eacn OT inree mlsslons winners men yiew ins sem-minss Left iron Mike Mldkiff Texas Japanese Grace ready tropt Griffons Black Bullet 1936 issue Flying Aces magazine Dick Barkats u fit Somehow squeezed air- small boy asked got coming out baggage port Fernando Bill got docked $10 zoos gift shop very moment arrivec oversize model boxes Arrival Denver Changed 727 books Hot Airsneaked aboard brown paper 767 Sat ground hour car heaven bag trick hold Earl Stahl long line jets waiting airborne Detroit generally leti Waco SRE cabin plain sight diver- Thats what like about Free Flight. no way sion Actually people waiting open frequency rival unpacking noticed pilot copilot Detroit Amazing model boxes put models set out find Bowers charr poolside chatted presently putting order Just man uri dinner three-hour time difference catching up us late hospitality suite Seemed like mid-after noon us Ralph Kuenz worldfamous Von Rottensox outlining what host club Detroit Cloudbust ers FAC Detroiten Geschwader strictly FAC nuts within CBs store exhibit huge Na tional Champion Trophy just give Don Srull right save carrying out field superb Earl Stahl Trophy best model meet exemplifying spirit Stahl type designand containing part trophy actual compass divider Earl used drawing famous q Stahl tradition Earl Stahl Trophy won y Pres Brun nd h ahi judges Right An anxious moment Fernando plans standard plaques win California has lost end rubber-stuffer stick inside Heinkel 64-C ners beautiful etched plates featur 96 Model Aviation eft Paul Gaertners Dornier 18 two Brown A-70s flew well over minurwiih 51 Foikrts SK-2 Jumbo-size Rubbership Emerson Eiweii about readytofiy Jack Moses Left Mark Fineman makes Earl Stahl-designed Curtissacendertly like Lacey saysthat canards cant madeto flyweil Hight XP-71 Roland Hoot remarkable its being powered through differential gearing contra-rotating propsvery successful Left Wait eider half famous Eggert father-son team shows off Thunderbolt Peanut Excellent filers builders theyre hard beat Right Earl Schicks Zippy Sport twice-up ModelAvlation Peanut Scale plan fiew well enough earn Eerie trophy ing Ford triplanes Flying set next day Ford test track Utica banked 2A mile speedway im mense infield covered soft green bit uneven carpet grass old friends previous AMA FAC Nats pink lemonade provided hosts flowed freely stories came fast furious Good news via Joe Fitzgibbon Mr Golden Age Reproductions himself cheered us have found balsa great insulator cryogenic supertankers previously thought consequently billions board feet will saved horrible fate Von Loopundstall showed great work has gone participant official buttons noted entire club worked coloring Ah such togetherness broke up after mid night Whos sleepy alarm went off what us 3 am found out answer breakfast joined gang over orange juice Swapping stories such kept FAG table center tention coffee shop What heck its once two years Time go Again joy packing models Again inhaled slammed car doors Made Off Utica Taking south turn high speed up bank Noonan dropped straightaway 140 mph really November 1984 97 U resisted temptation Ford people might frown seeing rented Plymouth No use causing tagonism What flying site could actually hit ground did occa sionally breaking anything trees area outside track served stir up air creating what locals call snow fence effect rolling downdraft Continued page 148 Top Left Cox 02-powered model Santos-Dumont 1 4-DIe canara Dy FAC Champion Don Sruil Hes built em sizes varieties FAC awards extra points unusuci models Above Left Jack McGllllvray took indoor Sea Hornet outsidea fine flier Jack other Canadians put contest international category Right Leon Bennetts 360-gram Mlcafiim-covered P-39B looks great flies beautifully Covering hard butworth FAC NatslWarner Continued page 97 model has get through obtain duration wind blowing Open door lets get sky Ever three-ring circus Could see everything once Impossible nearly hundred worlds top Rubber Scale modelers place several models stable Now would see CO-2 diesel job Embryo two 13 events Rub ber Scale whipped out trusty Box Brownie like trying capture elephant butterfly net Apolo gies dozens guys didnt get included Everything great en tire issue would just barely have sufficed guys using winding stooges popular being ones consist board spiked ground couple upright side pieces back take stiff wire tween through hollow tube rear motor peg model chunk sponge rubber supports front model scheme must twin-engined ships com mon means winding consisted shoving pin up through nacelle through prop hook hold motor after wound other getting its turns packed Hi-tech much evidence Styrofoam except pilots has caught No plastic film coverings seen except shiny silver Micafilm covering Leon Bennetts P-39 jumbo talking number modelers found just too ignorant use three people talked PhDs made conscious choice traditional materials FAC old-fashioned Though innovation ap plauded something changes charac ter tradition too much regard ed suspicion Still ingenuity rewarded thrill praise ones peers guys respect comes modeling headiest stuff need win trophy prove anything question such Hey howd ya old-timers can make newcomer swell pride FAG judges worked continuously Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen did yeoman service meticulous judging hun dreds models missed flying result Still imagine fun seeing little beauties up close Make ya want volunteer help next time got benefit what figure must about 5000 years modeling experience 7 / / 4 AI Bill Warner MA columnist author FAC Nats story launches Jumbo Rubber Parnall Elf Sketches Bill Noonan mass-launch events really grow ing popularity Instead just flying against clock regular Peanut Jumbo FAG Scale Power events flying against other airplanes number entries given mass-launch event determines number groups will launch first elimination round WW II event example 21 entries required three elimination flights dropping first three planes land next round Models also dropped motor broke winding flew far owners could get back next launch generally about five minutes later Eliminations continue un til top three trophy places have decided Theres lots suspense participants spectators alike mass-launch events modeler has someone spotter shouts out contestants name model hits ground after launch official running event checks off ones dropped year mass launches WW II Golden Age Thompson Trophy radial-engined racers Greve Trophy Continued page 150 Left Dennis Norman prepares amazing rubber-powered Avro Lancaster flight Right WW II mass-launch event popular hotly contested Judging such events simple last down winner No muss fuss bother 148 Model Aviation IL Press Brunings MartIn B-26 rubber-pow ered model caused sensation Very stable Sketches Bill Noonan lines WW multiplanes divided two groups Peanut Over-13 Some things make FAG models fly well result Bill Stouts Ford Trimotor admonition Simplicate add lightness Models round fuselage cross sections almost made laminating thin balsa strips around undersize cardboard bulkhead forms instead cutting out sheet Sometimes can~ master bulkhead sheet balsa hole motor incorporated limit ~slapping~ superlong rubber motors generally use Most guys build very light use motors three four times hook-to-hook lengthfor loocong prop runs rare model will break minute 5 pm festivities broke up headed pool Don Srull came up new event flown underwater rubber-powered glider sub-planes Maybe next time banquet seven until mid night featuring exciting speakers dynam ic sing-alongs breathtaking fems scantily-clad dancing girls OK lied about dancing girls great fun anyway Off bed 1 am Sunday great meet soared wed never taken break Some memorable sights included seeing Don Srulls fabulous models flying about Cox 02-powered Santos-Dumont 14-bis Voisin Peanut-size canard hydroplane two sizes Lippisch P-13 flying wings after prototypes built Messerschmitt fly great Fly ing contest Srull modelers modeler like being beauty contest Catherine Deneuve looks like Phyllis Diller Hey Whats shouting Look that. goes Paul Gaertners twin CO-2 Dornier flying boat Aint beaut flight well over minute Paul grins congratulated him Oops goes Srulls flying wing through trees taking off wing Knowing him hell have repaired 10 minutes flat took five Look P-39 Bennetts Rock-steady air Continued page 152 Left Jack Moses builds beautiful Rubber models fly nice look P-40 spectacular Right Registration judg ing tents nerve centers Officials wives did yeoman service assuring well-run enjoyable meet deserve big hand 150 Model Aviation Genial Ralph Kuenz Contest Di rector crew complimented smooth-running fun-to-fly-In event ACCESSORZES KRAFT Gyros Long Starter Extension Ball Link Pliers t Kits Pidll Gauges Side Panels Hell Books Balls Ni Starters atteries Auto Rotation Kits s Cll PdcsI RADIOS 7 Heli$31485 Cs Heh$30395 UT OS6IH cosusuomPmovI 056tH COmA OS FSRHUti OS2OFSRH1113 m OS6IF5RH urn wan CR14 withOS8lFSRH. EM aoy F5RH win roettlon wj OS45FSRH fr belh 0W SCILUER Melicptaw NOTLINE 414 72140Z5 HA VINCi PROBLEMS CALL FOR HELP SERV1C 0FTERED Custom Bdit g Set Up Flight 4nstniction Club Group Demonstrations Send $200 Catalog GilDElt INFO $0425 add $350 $55$lOOadd $450 $101 adoer add $600 UPS COD Elte Label extra PersonalChecks will held 30 day& VISA add Mastercard accepted Wisconsin residents add 5% sa]es tax Check Baluneks Laird bipe some sweetie pie look Elwells Folkerts What climb and. h gusts top him sh Can believe No damagejust came apart Must have luck No Youre right check construction Made come apart loop-brace alumi num wire through fuselage trail ing edge limit motor slap also ab sorb shocks hard landings Jack Moses jumbo P-40 way off distance Looks like Peanut What Gordon Roberts just cleaned em out again same model Against guys like Midkiff Rees Bruning Well goes like got busy trying see photograph own model box left field forgotten until got back motel unknown FACer brought left Lone Rangerlike didnt leave name Thanks Near end last day muchawaited Lancaster made its appearance field Dennis Norman few modelers has ever thermalled out lost twin rubber-powered Tigercat scored coup meet 9-oz Lanc featuring full interior crew 32 separate vacu-formed parts sprayed enamel finish model put few elegant flights best 30 sec took home FAC Achievement Award Trophy What class credit deserved Dennis also crew consisting lovely wife Linda son Chris ground crew Del Balunek Todd Allen Youll hear ing great model Pres Bruning took home coveted Earl Stahl Trophy Earl himself judges gorgeous Fiat CR-42 Pres also made available free Nor throp Gamma plans through good graces Golden Age Reproductions entire meet like Sharing ranged Pres plans incredible screened T-shirts Noonan donated California bunch deluge hints tips ideas general camaraderie made what commonly refer contest helping make meet possible contribution keeping spirit FAC alive thank Ralph Kuenz Lin Juanita Reichel Fred Wunsche Fred Gregg Jack Moses Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen Vic Didelot Andy Mrs Mac Isaac Pres Bruning old spotting buddy George Lewis Sunday nights dinner old friends new long bull session room until wee hours so-long breakfast much part ex perience thermal flight trophy presentation planning FAC Nats Mk V two years about Postlog This advice FACers always have about days work left model contest day rolls around Next time start day earlier an Schanzle DC Maxecuters FACer Henry Komp took third place Greve Trophy mass-launch event got home award discovered goofed making small repalr between heats something allowed FAC rules Henry promptly mailed trophy back apology isnt spirit what Flying Aces Club about dont know what youd like join Flying Aces Club three greatest newsletters going available three sources GHQ Squadron Flying Aces Club News operated Lin Reichel 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 membership $9 per year $8 can join great DC Maxecuters receive Max-Fax via Allan Schanzle 20008 Spur Hill Dr Gaithersburg MD 20879 $10 last check Crosswinds membership Cleveland Free Flight Society can man write Michael C Zand 7055 Seven Hills Blvd Seven Hills OH l3l just few FAC af filiates can make modeling life enjoyable responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 152 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/11
Page Numbers: 94, 95, 96, 97, 148, 150, 152
Ifl5T snows vennis norman OT rieveiana Free iignt society award-winning rubber-powered Lancaster big picture shows Lancaster climbing aloft Flights far gettIng over 30 sec thats remarkable test fore FF Scale model such complexity FOUR YEARS AGO privilege everywhere centerpiece full- built Ryan Spirit St Louis bringing account Flying size fuselage Fernandos latest project Bill Noonan talent style personi Aces Club Nats held Dayton another Marquardt Charger biplane fled No sooner settled down fun years FAG bash bet- welded-up almost ready cover rest living room Hells Angels ter couldnt guest tells bringing sons 4H Howard Hughes WW flying movie part Southern California contin- group hangar indif- two-wheeled variety appeared gent consisting Fernando Ramos ference lament younger telly What way start pilgrimmyself Flightmasters Bill generation kids similar age past fell love Noonan San Diego Scale Staffel experience would have kept us dreaming old planes Jean Harlow over Leaving smog-laden environs Los months Maybe thats us again Love scene Ger Angeles always pleasure couple Flying Aces Club graying bit man crew members volunteer jump out hours Fernandos hangar behind about temples San Diego zeppelin lighten up dont country estate way Noonans Noonans departure next day make movies like anymore sheer delight Models mostly Scale hang Lindbergh field remember After flick went out Bills Left. designed two sizes Nikitin-Schevohenko iS-4 biplane retracting iower wing Jack Moses bulit 13-inspan gom Right Lippiech P-13 Rubber models prototype German flying wing never got past mock-up stage Don Sruli made two both great fliers looks models youd think blood-and-guts competition Its eli fun 94 Model Aviation Left P-38J rubber-powered ship Andy Medovich has 34-In span built Comet plan Weighs 2 oz Uses custom winding JIg Right Stu Myers winds D-5 Aibatros winder once opened door rocket space twice counts turns Left hard-working judges Bob Mosher L Josh Gittlen R inspect Eric Andersons Caudron N FAC Commander-In-Chief Lin Relchel C looks Right Dudley Prisei readies rubber-powered Ercoupe under watchfui eye Dick Bennett Very stable fiier atelier gawk magnificent crea tions open door shop have uncomfortable feeling have just done something wrong quick glance behind door confirms fears see what left an cient model once biplane flattened against wall Horrors itial shock wears off notice parts too artistically arranged have result doing What Bill did put plywood sheet over Berg bipe driveway run over few times reduce model 2D collage Har Har Bill proceeded show us latest goodies like machine printing German lozenge camouflage pattern Halberstadt involves making separation artwork having four polyester plates made rubber stamp establishment tissue affixed sliding pattern moves side-toside frame printing plates inserted Bill uses Spa-Mark dye applied plastic printing plates directly Surprisingly does run printed tissue Clever drawback plates cost 10 bucks So went night tape-recorded helpful hints book titles booksellers addresseswhatever November 1984 95 might able use share Morning day wed waiting historic visit too soon time Model boxes suitcases camera bags hit hay Bill packed days field boxes loaded people OT inc moacis flown eacn OT inree mlsslons winners men yiew ins sem-minss Left iron Mike Mldkiff Texas Japanese Grace ready tropt Griffons Black Bullet 1936 issue Flying Aces magazine Dick Barkats u fit Somehow squeezed air- small boy asked got coming out baggage port Fernando Bill got docked $10 zoos gift shop very moment arrivec oversize model boxes Arrival Denver Changed 727 books Hot Airsneaked aboard brown paper 767 Sat ground hour car heaven bag trick hold Earl Stahl long line jets waiting airborne Detroit generally leti Waco SRE cabin plain sight diver- Thats what like about Free Flight. no way sion Actually people waiting open frequency rival unpacking noticed pilot copilot Detroit Amazing model boxes put models set out find Bowers charr poolside chatted presently putting order Just man uri dinner three-hour time difference catching up us late hospitality suite Seemed like mid-after noon us Ralph Kuenz worldfamous Von Rottensox outlining what host club Detroit Cloudbust ers FAC Detroiten Geschwader strictly FAC nuts within CBs store exhibit huge Na tional Champion Trophy just give Don Srull right save carrying out field superb Earl Stahl Trophy best model meet exemplifying spirit Stahl type designand containing part trophy actual compass divider Earl used drawing famous q Stahl tradition Earl Stahl Trophy won y Pres Brun nd h ahi judges Right An anxious moment Fernando plans standard plaques win California has lost end rubber-stuffer stick inside Heinkel 64-C ners beautiful etched plates featur 96 Model Aviation eft Paul Gaertners Dornier 18 two Brown A-70s flew well over minurwiih 51 Foikrts SK-2 Jumbo-size Rubbership Emerson Eiweii about readytofiy Jack Moses Left Mark Fineman makes Earl Stahl-designed Curtissacendertly like Lacey saysthat canards cant madeto flyweil Hight XP-71 Roland Hoot remarkable its being powered through differential gearing contra-rotating propsvery successful Left Wait eider half famous Eggert father-son team shows off Thunderbolt Peanut Excellent filers builders theyre hard beat Right Earl Schicks Zippy Sport twice-up ModelAvlation Peanut Scale plan fiew well enough earn Eerie trophy ing Ford triplanes Flying set next day Ford test track Utica banked 2A mile speedway im mense infield covered soft green bit uneven carpet grass old friends previous AMA FAC Nats pink lemonade provided hosts flowed freely stories came fast furious Good news via Joe Fitzgibbon Mr Golden Age Reproductions himself cheered us have found balsa great insulator cryogenic supertankers previously thought consequently billions board feet will saved horrible fate Von Loopundstall showed great work has gone participant official buttons noted entire club worked coloring Ah such togetherness broke up after mid night Whos sleepy alarm went off what us 3 am found out answer breakfast joined gang over orange juice Swapping stories such kept FAG table center tention coffee shop What heck its once two years Time go Again joy packing models Again inhaled slammed car doors Made Off Utica Taking south turn high speed up bank Noonan dropped straightaway 140 mph really November 1984 97 U resisted temptation Ford people might frown seeing rented Plymouth No use causing tagonism What flying site could actually hit ground did occa sionally breaking anything trees area outside track served stir up air creating what locals call snow fence effect rolling downdraft Continued page 148 Top Left Cox 02-powered model Santos-Dumont 1 4-DIe canara Dy FAC Champion Don Sruil Hes built em sizes varieties FAC awards extra points unusuci models Above Left Jack McGllllvray took indoor Sea Hornet outsidea fine flier Jack other Canadians put contest international category Right Leon Bennetts 360-gram Mlcafiim-covered P-39B looks great flies beautifully Covering hard butworth FAC NatslWarner Continued page 97 model has get through obtain duration wind blowing Open door lets get sky Ever three-ring circus Could see everything once Impossible nearly hundred worlds top Rubber Scale modelers place several models stable Now would see CO-2 diesel job Embryo two 13 events Rub ber Scale whipped out trusty Box Brownie like trying capture elephant butterfly net Apolo gies dozens guys didnt get included Everything great en tire issue would just barely have sufficed guys using winding stooges popular being ones consist board spiked ground couple upright side pieces back take stiff wire tween through hollow tube rear motor peg model chunk sponge rubber supports front model scheme must twin-engined ships com mon means winding consisted shoving pin up through nacelle through prop hook hold motor after wound other getting its turns packed Hi-tech much evidence Styrofoam except pilots has caught No plastic film coverings seen except shiny silver Micafilm covering Leon Bennetts P-39 jumbo talking number modelers found just too ignorant use three people talked PhDs made conscious choice traditional materials FAC old-fashioned Though innovation ap plauded something changes charac ter tradition too much regard ed suspicion Still ingenuity rewarded thrill praise ones peers guys respect comes modeling headiest stuff need win trophy prove anything question such Hey howd ya old-timers can make newcomer swell pride FAG judges worked continuously Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen did yeoman service meticulous judging hun dreds models missed flying result Still imagine fun seeing little beauties up close Make ya want volunteer help next time got benefit what figure must about 5000 years modeling experience 7 / / 4 AI Bill Warner MA columnist author FAC Nats story launches Jumbo Rubber Parnall Elf Sketches Bill Noonan mass-launch events really grow ing popularity Instead just flying against clock regular Peanut Jumbo FAG Scale Power events flying against other airplanes number entries given mass-launch event determines number groups will launch first elimination round WW II event example 21 entries required three elimination flights dropping first three planes land next round Models also dropped motor broke winding flew far owners could get back next launch generally about five minutes later Eliminations continue un til top three trophy places have decided Theres lots suspense participants spectators alike mass-launch events modeler has someone spotter shouts out contestants name model hits ground after launch official running event checks off ones dropped year mass launches WW II Golden Age Thompson Trophy radial-engined racers Greve Trophy Continued page 150 Left Dennis Norman prepares amazing rubber-powered Avro Lancaster flight Right WW II mass-launch event popular hotly contested Judging such events simple last down winner No muss fuss bother 148 Model Aviation IL Press Brunings MartIn B-26 rubber-pow ered model caused sensation Very stable Sketches Bill Noonan lines WW multiplanes divided two groups Peanut Over-13 Some things make FAG models fly well result Bill Stouts Ford Trimotor admonition Simplicate add lightness Models round fuselage cross sections almost made laminating thin balsa strips around undersize cardboard bulkhead forms instead cutting out sheet Sometimes can~ master bulkhead sheet balsa hole motor incorporated limit ~slapping~ superlong rubber motors generally use Most guys build very light use motors three four times hook-to-hook lengthfor loocong prop runs rare model will break minute 5 pm festivities broke up headed pool Don Srull came up new event flown underwater rubber-powered glider sub-planes Maybe next time banquet seven until mid night featuring exciting speakers dynam ic sing-alongs breathtaking fems scantily-clad dancing girls OK lied about dancing girls great fun anyway Off bed 1 am Sunday great meet soared wed never taken break Some memorable sights included seeing Don Srulls fabulous models flying about Cox 02-powered Santos-Dumont 14-bis Voisin Peanut-size canard hydroplane two sizes Lippisch P-13 flying wings after prototypes built Messerschmitt fly great Fly ing contest Srull modelers modeler like being beauty contest Catherine Deneuve looks like Phyllis Diller Hey Whats shouting Look that. goes Paul Gaertners twin CO-2 Dornier flying boat Aint beaut flight well over minute Paul grins congratulated him Oops goes Srulls flying wing through trees taking off wing Knowing him hell have repaired 10 minutes flat took five Look P-39 Bennetts Rock-steady air Continued page 152 Left Jack Moses builds beautiful Rubber models fly nice look P-40 spectacular Right Registration judg ing tents nerve centers Officials wives did yeoman service assuring well-run enjoyable meet deserve big hand 150 Model Aviation Genial Ralph Kuenz Contest Di rector crew complimented smooth-running fun-to-fly-In event ACCESSORZES KRAFT Gyros Long Starter Extension Ball Link Pliers t Kits Pidll Gauges Side Panels Hell Books Balls Ni Starters atteries Auto Rotation Kits s Cll PdcsI RADIOS 7 Heli$31485 Cs Heh$30395 UT OS6IH cosusuomPmovI 056tH COmA OS FSRHUti OS2OFSRH1113 m OS6IF5RH urn wan CR14 withOS8lFSRH. EM aoy F5RH win roettlon wj OS45FSRH fr belh 0W SCILUER Melicptaw NOTLINE 414 72140Z5 HA VINCi PROBLEMS CALL FOR HELP SERV1C 0FTERED Custom Bdit g Set Up Flight 4nstniction Club Group Demonstrations Send $200 Catalog GilDElt INFO $0425 add $350 $55$lOOadd $450 $101 adoer add $600 UPS COD Elte Label extra PersonalChecks will held 30 day& VISA add Mastercard accepted Wisconsin residents add 5% sa]es tax Check Baluneks Laird bipe some sweetie pie look Elwells Folkerts What climb and. h gusts top him sh Can believe No damagejust came apart Must have luck No Youre right check construction Made come apart loop-brace alumi num wire through fuselage trail ing edge limit motor slap also ab sorb shocks hard landings Jack Moses jumbo P-40 way off distance Looks like Peanut What Gordon Roberts just cleaned em out again same model Against guys like Midkiff Rees Bruning Well goes like got busy trying see photograph own model box left field forgotten until got back motel unknown FACer brought left Lone Rangerlike didnt leave name Thanks Near end last day muchawaited Lancaster made its appearance field Dennis Norman few modelers has ever thermalled out lost twin rubber-powered Tigercat scored coup meet 9-oz Lanc featuring full interior crew 32 separate vacu-formed parts sprayed enamel finish model put few elegant flights best 30 sec took home FAC Achievement Award Trophy What class credit deserved Dennis also crew consisting lovely wife Linda son Chris ground crew Del Balunek Todd Allen Youll hear ing great model Pres Bruning took home coveted Earl Stahl Trophy Earl himself judges gorgeous Fiat CR-42 Pres also made available free Nor throp Gamma plans through good graces Golden Age Reproductions entire meet like Sharing ranged Pres plans incredible screened T-shirts Noonan donated California bunch deluge hints tips ideas general camaraderie made what commonly refer contest helping make meet possible contribution keeping spirit FAC alive thank Ralph Kuenz Lin Juanita Reichel Fred Wunsche Fred Gregg Jack Moses Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen Vic Didelot Andy Mrs Mac Isaac Pres Bruning old spotting buddy George Lewis Sunday nights dinner old friends new long bull session room until wee hours so-long breakfast much part ex perience thermal flight trophy presentation planning FAC Nats Mk V two years about Postlog This advice FACers always have about days work left model contest day rolls around Next time start day earlier an Schanzle DC Maxecuters FACer Henry Komp took third place Greve Trophy mass-launch event got home award discovered goofed making small repalr between heats something allowed FAC rules Henry promptly mailed trophy back apology isnt spirit what Flying Aces Club about dont know what youd like join Flying Aces Club three greatest newsletters going available three sources GHQ Squadron Flying Aces Club News operated Lin Reichel 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 membership $9 per year $8 can join great DC Maxecuters receive Max-Fax via Allan Schanzle 20008 Spur Hill Dr Gaithersburg MD 20879 $10 last check Crosswinds membership Cleveland Free Flight Society can man write Michael C Zand 7055 Seven Hills Blvd Seven Hills OH l3l just few FAC af filiates can make modeling life enjoyable responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 152 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/11
Page Numbers: 94, 95, 96, 97, 148, 150, 152
Ifl5T snows vennis norman OT rieveiana Free iignt society award-winning rubber-powered Lancaster big picture shows Lancaster climbing aloft Flights far gettIng over 30 sec thats remarkable test fore FF Scale model such complexity FOUR YEARS AGO privilege everywhere centerpiece full- built Ryan Spirit St Louis bringing account Flying size fuselage Fernandos latest project Bill Noonan talent style personi Aces Club Nats held Dayton another Marquardt Charger biplane fled No sooner settled down fun years FAG bash bet- welded-up almost ready cover rest living room Hells Angels ter couldnt guest tells bringing sons 4H Howard Hughes WW flying movie part Southern California contin- group hangar indif- two-wheeled variety appeared gent consisting Fernando Ramos ference lament younger telly What way start pilgrimmyself Flightmasters Bill generation kids similar age past fell love Noonan San Diego Scale Staffel experience would have kept us dreaming old planes Jean Harlow over Leaving smog-laden environs Los months Maybe thats us again Love scene Ger Angeles always pleasure couple Flying Aces Club graying bit man crew members volunteer jump out hours Fernandos hangar behind about temples San Diego zeppelin lighten up dont country estate way Noonans Noonans departure next day make movies like anymore sheer delight Models mostly Scale hang Lindbergh field remember After flick went out Bills Left. designed two sizes Nikitin-Schevohenko iS-4 biplane retracting iower wing Jack Moses bulit 13-inspan gom Right Lippiech P-13 Rubber models prototype German flying wing never got past mock-up stage Don Sruli made two both great fliers looks models youd think blood-and-guts competition Its eli fun 94 Model Aviation Left P-38J rubber-powered ship Andy Medovich has 34-In span built Comet plan Weighs 2 oz Uses custom winding JIg Right Stu Myers winds D-5 Aibatros winder once opened door rocket space twice counts turns Left hard-working judges Bob Mosher L Josh Gittlen R inspect Eric Andersons Caudron N FAC Commander-In-Chief Lin Relchel C looks Right Dudley Prisei readies rubber-powered Ercoupe under watchfui eye Dick Bennett Very stable fiier atelier gawk magnificent crea tions open door shop have uncomfortable feeling have just done something wrong quick glance behind door confirms fears see what left an cient model once biplane flattened against wall Horrors itial shock wears off notice parts too artistically arranged have result doing What Bill did put plywood sheet over Berg bipe driveway run over few times reduce model 2D collage Har Har Bill proceeded show us latest goodies like machine printing German lozenge camouflage pattern Halberstadt involves making separation artwork having four polyester plates made rubber stamp establishment tissue affixed sliding pattern moves side-toside frame printing plates inserted Bill uses Spa-Mark dye applied plastic printing plates directly Surprisingly does run printed tissue Clever drawback plates cost 10 bucks So went night tape-recorded helpful hints book titles booksellers addresseswhatever November 1984 95 might able use share Morning day wed waiting historic visit too soon time Model boxes suitcases camera bags hit hay Bill packed days field boxes loaded people OT inc moacis flown eacn OT inree mlsslons winners men yiew ins sem-minss Left iron Mike Mldkiff Texas Japanese Grace ready tropt Griffons Black Bullet 1936 issue Flying Aces magazine Dick Barkats u fit Somehow squeezed air- small boy asked got coming out baggage port Fernando Bill got docked $10 zoos gift shop very moment arrivec oversize model boxes Arrival Denver Changed 727 books Hot Airsneaked aboard brown paper 767 Sat ground hour car heaven bag trick hold Earl Stahl long line jets waiting airborne Detroit generally leti Waco SRE cabin plain sight diver- Thats what like about Free Flight. no way sion Actually people waiting open frequency rival unpacking noticed pilot copilot Detroit Amazing model boxes put models set out find Bowers charr poolside chatted presently putting order Just man uri dinner three-hour time difference catching up us late hospitality suite Seemed like mid-after noon us Ralph Kuenz worldfamous Von Rottensox outlining what host club Detroit Cloudbust ers FAC Detroiten Geschwader strictly FAC nuts within CBs store exhibit huge Na tional Champion Trophy just give Don Srull right save carrying out field superb Earl Stahl Trophy best model meet exemplifying spirit Stahl type designand containing part trophy actual compass divider Earl used drawing famous q Stahl tradition Earl Stahl Trophy won y Pres Brun nd h ahi judges Right An anxious moment Fernando plans standard plaques win California has lost end rubber-stuffer stick inside Heinkel 64-C ners beautiful etched plates featur 96 Model Aviation eft Paul Gaertners Dornier 18 two Brown A-70s flew well over minurwiih 51 Foikrts SK-2 Jumbo-size Rubbership Emerson Eiweii about readytofiy Jack Moses Left Mark Fineman makes Earl Stahl-designed Curtissacendertly like Lacey saysthat canards cant madeto flyweil Hight XP-71 Roland Hoot remarkable its being powered through differential gearing contra-rotating propsvery successful Left Wait eider half famous Eggert father-son team shows off Thunderbolt Peanut Excellent filers builders theyre hard beat Right Earl Schicks Zippy Sport twice-up ModelAvlation Peanut Scale plan fiew well enough earn Eerie trophy ing Ford triplanes Flying set next day Ford test track Utica banked 2A mile speedway im mense infield covered soft green bit uneven carpet grass old friends previous AMA FAC Nats pink lemonade provided hosts flowed freely stories came fast furious Good news via Joe Fitzgibbon Mr Golden Age Reproductions himself cheered us have found balsa great insulator cryogenic supertankers previously thought consequently billions board feet will saved horrible fate Von Loopundstall showed great work has gone participant official buttons noted entire club worked coloring Ah such togetherness broke up after mid night Whos sleepy alarm went off what us 3 am found out answer breakfast joined gang over orange juice Swapping stories such kept FAG table center tention coffee shop What heck its once two years Time go Again joy packing models Again inhaled slammed car doors Made Off Utica Taking south turn high speed up bank Noonan dropped straightaway 140 mph really November 1984 97 U resisted temptation Ford people might frown seeing rented Plymouth No use causing tagonism What flying site could actually hit ground did occa sionally breaking anything trees area outside track served stir up air creating what locals call snow fence effect rolling downdraft Continued page 148 Top Left Cox 02-powered model Santos-Dumont 1 4-DIe canara Dy FAC Champion Don Sruil Hes built em sizes varieties FAC awards extra points unusuci models Above Left Jack McGllllvray took indoor Sea Hornet outsidea fine flier Jack other Canadians put contest international category Right Leon Bennetts 360-gram Mlcafiim-covered P-39B looks great flies beautifully Covering hard butworth FAC NatslWarner Continued page 97 model has get through obtain duration wind blowing Open door lets get sky Ever three-ring circus Could see everything once Impossible nearly hundred worlds top Rubber Scale modelers place several models stable Now would see CO-2 diesel job Embryo two 13 events Rub ber Scale whipped out trusty Box Brownie like trying capture elephant butterfly net Apolo gies dozens guys didnt get included Everything great en tire issue would just barely have sufficed guys using winding stooges popular being ones consist board spiked ground couple upright side pieces back take stiff wire tween through hollow tube rear motor peg model chunk sponge rubber supports front model scheme must twin-engined ships com mon means winding consisted shoving pin up through nacelle through prop hook hold motor after wound other getting its turns packed Hi-tech much evidence Styrofoam except pilots has caught No plastic film coverings seen except shiny silver Micafilm covering Leon Bennetts P-39 jumbo talking number modelers found just too ignorant use three people talked PhDs made conscious choice traditional materials FAC old-fashioned Though innovation ap plauded something changes charac ter tradition too much regard ed suspicion Still ingenuity rewarded thrill praise ones peers guys respect comes modeling headiest stuff need win trophy prove anything question such Hey howd ya old-timers can make newcomer swell pride FAG judges worked continuously Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen did yeoman service meticulous judging hun dreds models missed flying result Still imagine fun seeing little beauties up close Make ya want volunteer help next time got benefit what figure must about 5000 years modeling experience 7 / / 4 AI Bill Warner MA columnist author FAC Nats story launches Jumbo Rubber Parnall Elf Sketches Bill Noonan mass-launch events really grow ing popularity Instead just flying against clock regular Peanut Jumbo FAG Scale Power events flying against other airplanes number entries given mass-launch event determines number groups will launch first elimination round WW II event example 21 entries required three elimination flights dropping first three planes land next round Models also dropped motor broke winding flew far owners could get back next launch generally about five minutes later Eliminations continue un til top three trophy places have decided Theres lots suspense participants spectators alike mass-launch events modeler has someone spotter shouts out contestants name model hits ground after launch official running event checks off ones dropped year mass launches WW II Golden Age Thompson Trophy radial-engined racers Greve Trophy Continued page 150 Left Dennis Norman prepares amazing rubber-powered Avro Lancaster flight Right WW II mass-launch event popular hotly contested Judging such events simple last down winner No muss fuss bother 148 Model Aviation IL Press Brunings MartIn B-26 rubber-pow ered model caused sensation Very stable Sketches Bill Noonan lines WW multiplanes divided two groups Peanut Over-13 Some things make FAG models fly well result Bill Stouts Ford Trimotor admonition Simplicate add lightness Models round fuselage cross sections almost made laminating thin balsa strips around undersize cardboard bulkhead forms instead cutting out sheet Sometimes can~ master bulkhead sheet balsa hole motor incorporated limit ~slapping~ superlong rubber motors generally use Most guys build very light use motors three four times hook-to-hook lengthfor loocong prop runs rare model will break minute 5 pm festivities broke up headed pool Don Srull came up new event flown underwater rubber-powered glider sub-planes Maybe next time banquet seven until mid night featuring exciting speakers dynam ic sing-alongs breathtaking fems scantily-clad dancing girls OK lied about dancing girls great fun anyway Off bed 1 am Sunday great meet soared wed never taken break Some memorable sights included seeing Don Srulls fabulous models flying about Cox 02-powered Santos-Dumont 14-bis Voisin Peanut-size canard hydroplane two sizes Lippisch P-13 flying wings after prototypes built Messerschmitt fly great Fly ing contest Srull modelers modeler like being beauty contest Catherine Deneuve looks like Phyllis Diller Hey Whats shouting Look that. goes Paul Gaertners twin CO-2 Dornier flying boat Aint beaut flight well over minute Paul grins congratulated him Oops goes Srulls flying wing through trees taking off wing Knowing him hell have repaired 10 minutes flat took five Look P-39 Bennetts Rock-steady air Continued page 152 Left Jack Moses builds beautiful Rubber models fly nice look P-40 spectacular Right Registration judg ing tents nerve centers Officials wives did yeoman service assuring well-run enjoyable meet deserve big hand 150 Model Aviation Genial Ralph Kuenz Contest Di rector crew complimented smooth-running fun-to-fly-In event ACCESSORZES KRAFT Gyros Long Starter Extension Ball Link Pliers t Kits Pidll Gauges Side Panels Hell Books Balls Ni Starters atteries Auto Rotation Kits s Cll PdcsI RADIOS 7 Heli$31485 Cs Heh$30395 UT OS6IH cosusuomPmovI 056tH COmA OS FSRHUti OS2OFSRH1113 m OS6IF5RH urn wan CR14 withOS8lFSRH. EM aoy F5RH win roettlon wj OS45FSRH fr belh 0W SCILUER Melicptaw NOTLINE 414 72140Z5 HA VINCi PROBLEMS CALL FOR HELP SERV1C 0FTERED Custom Bdit g Set Up Flight 4nstniction Club Group Demonstrations Send $200 Catalog GilDElt INFO $0425 add $350 $55$lOOadd $450 $101 adoer add $600 UPS COD Elte Label extra PersonalChecks will held 30 day& VISA add Mastercard accepted Wisconsin residents add 5% sa]es tax Check Baluneks Laird bipe some sweetie pie look Elwells Folkerts What climb and. h gusts top him sh Can believe No damagejust came apart Must have luck No Youre right check construction Made come apart loop-brace alumi num wire through fuselage trail ing edge limit motor slap also ab sorb shocks hard landings Jack Moses jumbo P-40 way off distance Looks like Peanut What Gordon Roberts just cleaned em out again same model Against guys like Midkiff Rees Bruning Well goes like got busy trying see photograph own model box left field forgotten until got back motel unknown FACer brought left Lone Rangerlike didnt leave name Thanks Near end last day muchawaited Lancaster made its appearance field Dennis Norman few modelers has ever thermalled out lost twin rubber-powered Tigercat scored coup meet 9-oz Lanc featuring full interior crew 32 separate vacu-formed parts sprayed enamel finish model put few elegant flights best 30 sec took home FAC Achievement Award Trophy What class credit deserved Dennis also crew consisting lovely wife Linda son Chris ground crew Del Balunek Todd Allen Youll hear ing great model Pres Bruning took home coveted Earl Stahl Trophy Earl himself judges gorgeous Fiat CR-42 Pres also made available free Nor throp Gamma plans through good graces Golden Age Reproductions entire meet like Sharing ranged Pres plans incredible screened T-shirts Noonan donated California bunch deluge hints tips ideas general camaraderie made what commonly refer contest helping make meet possible contribution keeping spirit FAC alive thank Ralph Kuenz Lin Juanita Reichel Fred Wunsche Fred Gregg Jack Moses Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen Vic Didelot Andy Mrs Mac Isaac Pres Bruning old spotting buddy George Lewis Sunday nights dinner old friends new long bull session room until wee hours so-long breakfast much part ex perience thermal flight trophy presentation planning FAC Nats Mk V two years about Postlog This advice FACers always have about days work left model contest day rolls around Next time start day earlier an Schanzle DC Maxecuters FACer Henry Komp took third place Greve Trophy mass-launch event got home award discovered goofed making small repalr between heats something allowed FAC rules Henry promptly mailed trophy back apology isnt spirit what Flying Aces Club about dont know what youd like join Flying Aces Club three greatest newsletters going available three sources GHQ Squadron Flying Aces Club News operated Lin Reichel 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 membership $9 per year $8 can join great DC Maxecuters receive Max-Fax via Allan Schanzle 20008 Spur Hill Dr Gaithersburg MD 20879 $10 last check Crosswinds membership Cleveland Free Flight Society can man write Michael C Zand 7055 Seven Hills Blvd Seven Hills OH l3l just few FAC af filiates can make modeling life enjoyable responding advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 152 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/11
Page Numbers: 94, 95, 96, 97, 148, 150, 152
Ifl5T snows vennis norman OT rieveiana Free iignt society award-winning rubber-powered Lancaster big picture shows Lancaster climbing aloft Flights far gettIng over 30 sec thats remarkable test fore FF Scale model such complexity FOUR YEARS AGO privilege everywhere centerpiece full- built Ryan Spirit St Louis bringing account Flying size fuselage Fernandos latest project Bill Noonan talent style personi Aces Club Nats held Dayton another Marquardt Charger biplane fled No sooner settled down fun years FAG bash bet- welded-up almost ready cover rest living room Hells Angels ter couldnt guest tells bringing sons 4H Howard Hughes WW flying movie part Southern California contin- group hangar indif- two-wheeled variety appeared gent consisting Fernando Ramos ference lament younger telly What way start pilgrimmyself Flightmasters Bill generation kids similar age past fell love Noonan San Diego Scale Staffel experience would have kept us dreaming old planes Jean Harlow over Leaving smog-laden environs Los months Maybe thats us again Love scene Ger Angeles always pleasure couple Flying Aces Club graying bit man crew members volunteer jump out hours Fernandos hangar behind about temples San Diego zeppelin lighten up dont country estate way Noonans Noonans departure next day make movies like anymore sheer delight Models mostly Scale hang Lindbergh field remember After flick went out Bills Left. designed two sizes Nikitin-Schevohenko iS-4 biplane retracting iower wing Jack Moses bulit 13-inspan gom Right Lippiech P-13 Rubber models prototype German flying wing never got past mock-up stage Don Sruli made two both great fliers looks models youd think blood-and-guts competition Its eli fun 94 Model Aviation Left P-38J rubber-powered ship Andy Medovich has 34-In span built Comet plan Weighs 2 oz Uses custom winding JIg Right Stu Myers winds D-5 Aibatros winder once opened door rocket space twice counts turns Left hard-working judges Bob Mosher L Josh Gittlen R inspect Eric Andersons Caudron N FAC Commander-In-Chief Lin Relchel C looks Right Dudley Prisei readies rubber-powered Ercoupe under watchfui eye Dick Bennett Very stable fiier atelier gawk magnificent crea tions open door shop have uncomfortable feeling have just done something wrong quick glance behind door confirms fears see what left an cient model once biplane flattened against wall Horrors itial shock wears off notice parts too artistically arranged have result doing What Bill did put plywood sheet over Berg bipe driveway run over few times reduce model 2D collage Har Har Bill proceeded show us latest goodies like machine printing German lozenge camouflage pattern Halberstadt involves making separation artwork having four polyester plates made rubber stamp establishment tissue affixed sliding pattern moves side-toside frame printing plates inserted Bill uses Spa-Mark dye applied plastic printing plates directly Surprisingly does run printed tissue Clever drawback plates cost 10 bucks So went night tape-recorded helpful hints book titles booksellers addresseswhatever November 1984 95 might able use share Morning day wed waiting historic visit too soon time Model boxes suitcases camera bags hit hay Bill packed days field boxes loaded people OT inc moacis flown eacn OT inree mlsslons winners men yiew ins sem-minss Left iron Mike Mldkiff Texas Japanese Grace ready tropt Griffons Black Bullet 1936 issue Flying Aces magazine Dick Barkats u fit Somehow squeezed air- small boy asked got coming out baggage port Fernando Bill got docked $10 zoos gift shop very moment arrivec oversize model boxes Arrival Denver Changed 727 books Hot Airsneaked aboard brown paper 767 Sat ground hour car heaven bag trick hold Earl Stahl long line jets waiting airborne Detroit generally leti Waco SRE cabin plain sight diver- Thats what like about Free Flight. no way sion Actually people waiting open frequency rival unpacking noticed pilot copilot Detroit Amazing model boxes put models set out find Bowers charr poolside chatted presently putting order Just man uri dinner three-hour time difference catching up us late hospitality suite Seemed like mid-after noon us Ralph Kuenz worldfamous Von Rottensox outlining what host club Detroit Cloudbust ers FAC Detroiten Geschwader strictly FAC nuts within CBs store exhibit huge Na tional Champion Trophy just give Don Srull right save carrying out field superb Earl Stahl Trophy best model meet exemplifying spirit Stahl type designand containing part trophy actual compass divider Earl used drawing famous q Stahl tradition Earl Stahl Trophy won y Pres Brun nd h ahi judges Right An anxious moment Fernando plans standard plaques win California has lost end rubber-stuffer stick inside Heinkel 64-C ners beautiful etched plates featur 96 Model Aviation eft Paul Gaertners Dornier 18 two Brown A-70s flew well over minurwiih 51 Foikrts SK-2 Jumbo-size Rubbership Emerson Eiweii about readytofiy Jack Moses Left Mark Fineman makes Earl Stahl-designed Curtissacendertly like Lacey saysthat canards cant madeto flyweil Hight XP-71 Roland Hoot remarkable its being powered through differential gearing contra-rotating propsvery successful Left Wait eider half famous Eggert father-son team shows off Thunderbolt Peanut Excellent filers builders theyre hard beat Right Earl Schicks Zippy Sport twice-up ModelAvlation Peanut Scale plan fiew well enough earn Eerie trophy ing Ford triplanes Flying set next day Ford test track Utica banked 2A mile speedway im mense infield covered soft green bit uneven carpet grass old friends previous AMA FAC Nats pink lemonade provided hosts flowed freely stories came fast furious Good news via Joe Fitzgibbon Mr Golden Age Reproductions himself cheered us have found balsa great insulator cryogenic supertankers previously thought consequently billions board feet will saved horrible fate Von Loopundstall showed great work has gone participant official buttons noted entire club worked coloring Ah such togetherness broke up after mid night Whos sleepy alarm went off what us 3 am found out answer breakfast joined gang over orange juice Swapping stories such kept FAG table center tention coffee shop What heck its once two years Time go Again joy packing models Again inhaled slammed car doors Made Off Utica Taking south turn high speed up bank Noonan dropped straightaway 140 mph really November 1984 97 U resisted temptation Ford people might frown seeing rented Plymouth No use causing tagonism What flying site could actually hit ground did occa sionally breaking anything trees area outside track served stir up air creating what locals call snow fence effect rolling downdraft Continued page 148 Top Left Cox 02-powered model Santos-Dumont 1 4-DIe canara Dy FAC Champion Don Sruil Hes built em sizes varieties FAC awards extra points unusuci models Above Left Jack McGllllvray took indoor Sea Hornet outsidea fine flier Jack other Canadians put contest international category Right Leon Bennetts 360-gram Mlcafiim-covered P-39B looks great flies beautifully Covering hard butworth FAC NatslWarner Continued page 97 model has get through obtain duration wind blowing Open door lets get sky Ever three-ring circus Could see everything once Impossible nearly hundred worlds top Rubber Scale modelers place several models stable Now would see CO-2 diesel job Embryo two 13 events Rub ber Scale whipped out trusty Box Brownie like trying capture elephant butterfly net Apolo gies dozens guys didnt get included Everything great en tire issue would just barely have sufficed guys using winding stooges popular being ones consist board spiked ground couple upright side pieces back take stiff wire tween through hollow tube rear motor peg model chunk sponge rubber supports front model scheme must twin-engined ships com mon means winding consisted shoving pin up through nacelle through prop hook hold motor after wound other getting its turns packed Hi-tech much evidence Styrofoam except pilots has caught No plastic film coverings seen except shiny silver Micafilm covering Leon Bennetts P-39 jumbo talking number modelers found just too ignorant use three people talked PhDs made conscious choice traditional materials FAC old-fashioned Though innovation ap plauded something changes charac ter tradition too much regard ed suspicion Still ingenuity rewarded thrill praise ones peers guys respect comes modeling headiest stuff need win trophy prove anything question such Hey howd ya old-timers can make newcomer swell pride FAG judges worked continuously Bob Mosher Josh Gittlen did yeoman service meticulous judging hun dreds models missed flying result Still imagine fun seeing little beauties up close Make ya want volunteer help next time got benefit what figure must about 5000 years modeling experience 7 / / 4 AI Bill Warner MA columnist author FAC Nats story launches Jumbo Rubber Parnall Elf Sketches Bill Noonan mass-launch events really grow ing popularity Instead just flying against clock regular Peanut Jumbo FAG Scale Power events flying against other airplanes number entries given mass-launch event determines number groups will launch first elimination round WW II event example 21 entries required three elimination flights dropping first three planes land next round Models also dropped motor broke winding flew far owners could get back next launch generally about five minutes later Eliminations continue un til top three trophy places have decided Theres lots suspense participants spectators alike mass-launch events modeler has someone spotter shouts out contestants name model hits ground after launch official running event checks off ones dropped year mass launches WW II Golden Age Thompson Trophy radial-engined racers Greve Trophy Continued page 150 Left Dennis Norman prepares amazing rubber-powered Avro Lancaster flight Right WW II mass-launch event popular hotly contested Judging such events simple last down winner No muss fuss bother 148 Model Aviation IL Press Brunings MartIn B-26 rubber-pow ered model caused sensation Very stable Sketches Bill Noonan lines WW multiplanes divided two groups Peanut Over-13 Some things make FAG models fly well result Bill Stouts Ford Trimotor admonition Simplicate add lightness Models round fuselage cross sections almost made laminating thin balsa strips around undersize cardboard bulkhead forms instead cutting out sheet Sometimes can~ master bulkhead sheet balsa hole motor incorporated limit ~slapping~ superlong rubber motors generally use Most guys build very light use motors three four times hook-to-hook lengthfor loocong prop runs rare model will break minute 5 pm festivities broke up headed pool Don Srull came up new event flown underwater rubber-powered glider sub-planes Maybe next time banquet seven until mid night featuring exciting speakers dynam ic sing-alongs breathtaking fems scantily-clad dancing girls OK lied about dancing girls great fun anyway Off bed 1 am Sunday great meet soared wed never taken break Some memorable sights included seeing Don Srulls fabulous models flying about Cox 02-powered Santos-Dumont 14-bis Voisin Peanut-size canard hydroplane two sizes Lippisch P-13 flying wings after prototypes built Messerschmitt fly great Fly ing contest Srull modelers modeler like being beauty contest Catherine Deneuve looks like Phyllis Diller Hey Whats shouting Look that. goes Paul Gaertners twin CO-2 Dornier flying boat Aint beaut flight well over minute Paul grins congratulated him Oops goes Srulls flying wing through trees taking off wing Knowing him hell have repaired 10 minutes flat took five Look P-39 Bennetts Rock-steady air Continued page 152 Left Jack Moses builds beautiful Rubber models fly nice look P-40 spectacular Right Registration judg ing tents nerve centers Officials wives did yeoman service assuring well-run enjoyable meet deserve big hand 150 Model Aviation Genial Ralph Kuenz Contest Di rector crew complimented smooth-running fun-to-fly-In event ACCESSORZES KRAFT Gyros Long Starter Extension Ball Link Pliers t Kits Pidll Gauges Side Panels Hell Books Balls Ni Starters atteries Auto Rotation Kits s Cll PdcsI RADIOS 7 Heli$31485 Cs Heh$30395 UT OS6IH cosusuomPmovI 056tH COmA OS FSRHUti OS2OFSRH1113 m OS6IF5RH urn wan CR14 withOS8lFSRH. 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