1st long-ran derbolt variation o During CIe Vincent Bendix NJ set unof n much faster tim aces fnm yes enthusiast i37 1939 F ard Hughes uci Bendix 50 Model Aviation Se ers 1 Lu-metal n kV 1 igcd th play bk g Germn ceti tnc n Arm Ilte vi vcep Seversky/Berli ner continued page 51 built fuselage AP-2 Seversky wrecked 1937 Miss Cochran used machine set womens world speed record 29227 mph Detroit powered 1200hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-45 Twin Wasp radial engine 1938 Bendix hoped-for clean sweep Seversky airplanes though speeds down year fore Cochran won 24974 mph went right Bendix NJ set unofficial womens transcontinental record 24209 mph Frank Fuller second 23860 mph 1937 winner third-place airplane Paul Mantzs Lockheed Orion took hour longer get Cleveland Anyone watching could see Seversky airplanesnot exactly military pursuits closehad plenty speed over very long distances Cleveland Air Races main showcase American aviation obviously Severskys plan impress job award military contracts last seen Jackie Cochrans highly polished naturalaluminum #13 Some time later caught hangar fire Tampa FL burned beyond salvage didnt race Bendix again until after war though did sponsor Staggerwing Beech flown final prewar race Max Constant year 1939 big Frank Fuller strength first second two preceding races clear favorite didnt disappoint fans time 7 hours 14 minutes 19 seconds average speed 28210 mph 40 minutes quicker 24 mph faster 1937 record comfortable hour seven minutes front runner-up Art Bussey flew strange Bellanca tn-motor Fuller didnt pause Cleveland flew Bendix NJ another socalled coast-to-coast record 8 hours 58 minutes 8 seconds 37 minutes less 1937 time speed 27341 mph almost 14 mph faster course Howard Hughes flown LosAngeles New York 1937 much faster clip 72825 327 mph never entered Hughes Racer Bendix event records set Fuller remain prewar best An interesting little sequel story Seversky Bendix occurred final civilian running race 1949 Completely overshadowed blistering speed Mustangs Re public AT-12 N5581 1 two-seat trainer started race made far Grand Junction CO before pilot Vincent Perron forced down after having flown about one-third distance AT-12 50 two-seat divebomber derivatives P-35 bought Royal Swedish Air Force 1940 Forty-eight 50 never delivered political reasons connected relative neutrality Sweden USA time Model 2-PA-204A dive bombers converted advanced trainers scattered among bases US Army Air Corps rather brief history Seversky Aircraft Corporation tangled finally coming end June 1939 dissolved Republic Aviation Corp formed its place Seversky Aircraft considerable fi nancial trouble produced too few airplanes enable make ends meet Its 76 P-35 pursuits about 30 BT-8 trainers main products through 1937 Twenty Model 2PA-B3 Convoy Fighters delivered Japanese 1938 profit made deal obscured storm protest over dealing country seen future enemy Once Republic created Seversky things began happen though must recognized approach war boon business almost airplane builder P-35 de veloped Republic P-43 Lancer Army bought 250 follow-on P-44 Rocket never materialized further developed XP-47 XP-47A have September1978 103 Please send me......... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 Circle numbers plans wish order118 I 121123124125131134 136141146149155 159165 166168169174177178 181183184185186 189192 I 193194195198201202203204205206207208209 210211212213214215216217218219220221222 I223224225226227228229230231232233234235 II Please print carefullyEnclosed $I NAME STREETH II CITYI II ESTATEZIP_____ IPrice includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC 20005I Allison V-12 engines never built either Needing ever horsepower Repub lic enlarged what originally have lightweight fighter beefy Thunderbolt powered 2000-hp Pratt & Whitney Starting P-47B production lines didnt stop moving un til 15000 builtmore other American fighter plane World War II other era began some slick little pursuit planes did lot better racing Los Angeles Cleveland mock dog fights against successful rivals ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control90 Andrews Aircraft Model Co101 Boynton Associates103 Collect-Air Photos100 Coverite102 Cox Hobbies Inc. de Front Cover Davis Diesel Development102 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products85 EK-Products7 Experimental Aircraft Assoc95 Flyline Models86 Fox Mfg Company7 Fusite Emerson Electric Co97 Gilbert Electronics Corp99 Carl Goldberg Models Inc5 Grish Brothers89 HB Engines83 Hobbypoxy87 K&BMfg12 Kraft Southwestern Inc102 Midwest Model Products6 Miniature Aircraft100 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech98 Pactra Industries92 Peck-Polymers100 Pica Products88-9 1 Progress Mfg Co84 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc82 Tatone Products Inc96 Top Flite Models Inc3 Westport International Inc93 Williams Brothers94 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/09
Page Numbers: 50, 51, 103, 104
1st long-ran derbolt variation o During CIe Vincent Bendix NJ set unof n much faster tim aces fnm yes enthusiast i37 1939 F ard Hughes uci Bendix 50 Model Aviation Se ers 1 Lu-metal n kV 1 igcd th play bk g Germn ceti tnc n Arm Ilte vi vcep Seversky/Berli ner continued page 51 built fuselage AP-2 Seversky wrecked 1937 Miss Cochran used machine set womens world speed record 29227 mph Detroit powered 1200hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-45 Twin Wasp radial engine 1938 Bendix hoped-for clean sweep Seversky airplanes though speeds down year fore Cochran won 24974 mph went right Bendix NJ set unofficial womens transcontinental record 24209 mph Frank Fuller second 23860 mph 1937 winner third-place airplane Paul Mantzs Lockheed Orion took hour longer get Cleveland Anyone watching could see Seversky airplanesnot exactly military pursuits closehad plenty speed over very long distances Cleveland Air Races main showcase American aviation obviously Severskys plan impress job award military contracts last seen Jackie Cochrans highly polished naturalaluminum #13 Some time later caught hangar fire Tampa FL burned beyond salvage didnt race Bendix again until after war though did sponsor Staggerwing Beech flown final prewar race Max Constant year 1939 big Frank Fuller strength first second two preceding races clear favorite didnt disappoint fans time 7 hours 14 minutes 19 seconds average speed 28210 mph 40 minutes quicker 24 mph faster 1937 record comfortable hour seven minutes front runner-up Art Bussey flew strange Bellanca tn-motor Fuller didnt pause Cleveland flew Bendix NJ another socalled coast-to-coast record 8 hours 58 minutes 8 seconds 37 minutes less 1937 time speed 27341 mph almost 14 mph faster course Howard Hughes flown LosAngeles New York 1937 much faster clip 72825 327 mph never entered Hughes Racer Bendix event records set Fuller remain prewar best An interesting little sequel story Seversky Bendix occurred final civilian running race 1949 Completely overshadowed blistering speed Mustangs Re public AT-12 N5581 1 two-seat trainer started race made far Grand Junction CO before pilot Vincent Perron forced down after having flown about one-third distance AT-12 50 two-seat divebomber derivatives P-35 bought Royal Swedish Air Force 1940 Forty-eight 50 never delivered political reasons connected relative neutrality Sweden USA time Model 2-PA-204A dive bombers converted advanced trainers scattered among bases US Army Air Corps rather brief history Seversky Aircraft Corporation tangled finally coming end June 1939 dissolved Republic Aviation Corp formed its place Seversky Aircraft considerable fi nancial trouble produced too few airplanes enable make ends meet Its 76 P-35 pursuits about 30 BT-8 trainers main products through 1937 Twenty Model 2PA-B3 Convoy Fighters delivered Japanese 1938 profit made deal obscured storm protest over dealing country seen future enemy Once Republic created Seversky things began happen though must recognized approach war boon business almost airplane builder P-35 de veloped Republic P-43 Lancer Army bought 250 follow-on P-44 Rocket never materialized further developed XP-47 XP-47A have September1978 103 Please send me......... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 Circle numbers plans wish order118 I 121123124125131134 136141146149155 159165 166168169174177178 181183184185186 189192 I 193194195198201202203204205206207208209 210211212213214215216217218219220221222 I223224225226227228229230231232233234235 II Please print carefullyEnclosed $I NAME STREETH II CITYI II ESTATEZIP_____ IPrice includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC 20005I Allison V-12 engines never built either Needing ever horsepower Repub lic enlarged what originally have lightweight fighter beefy Thunderbolt powered 2000-hp Pratt & Whitney Starting P-47B production lines didnt stop moving un til 15000 builtmore other American fighter plane World War II other era began some slick little pursuit planes did lot better racing Los Angeles Cleveland mock dog fights against successful rivals ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control90 Andrews Aircraft Model Co101 Boynton Associates103 Collect-Air Photos100 Coverite102 Cox Hobbies Inc. de Front Cover Davis Diesel Development102 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products85 EK-Products7 Experimental Aircraft Assoc95 Flyline Models86 Fox Mfg Company7 Fusite Emerson Electric Co97 Gilbert Electronics Corp99 Carl Goldberg Models Inc5 Grish Brothers89 HB Engines83 Hobbypoxy87 K&BMfg12 Kraft Southwestern Inc102 Midwest Model Products6 Miniature Aircraft100 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech98 Pactra Industries92 Peck-Polymers100 Pica Products88-9 1 Progress Mfg Co84 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc82 Tatone Products Inc96 Top Flite Models Inc3 Westport International Inc93 Williams Brothers94 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/09
Page Numbers: 50, 51, 103, 104
1st long-ran derbolt variation o During CIe Vincent Bendix NJ set unof n much faster tim aces fnm yes enthusiast i37 1939 F ard Hughes uci Bendix 50 Model Aviation Se ers 1 Lu-metal n kV 1 igcd th play bk g Germn ceti tnc n Arm Ilte vi vcep Seversky/Berli ner continued page 51 built fuselage AP-2 Seversky wrecked 1937 Miss Cochran used machine set womens world speed record 29227 mph Detroit powered 1200hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-45 Twin Wasp radial engine 1938 Bendix hoped-for clean sweep Seversky airplanes though speeds down year fore Cochran won 24974 mph went right Bendix NJ set unofficial womens transcontinental record 24209 mph Frank Fuller second 23860 mph 1937 winner third-place airplane Paul Mantzs Lockheed Orion took hour longer get Cleveland Anyone watching could see Seversky airplanesnot exactly military pursuits closehad plenty speed over very long distances Cleveland Air Races main showcase American aviation obviously Severskys plan impress job award military contracts last seen Jackie Cochrans highly polished naturalaluminum #13 Some time later caught hangar fire Tampa FL burned beyond salvage didnt race Bendix again until after war though did sponsor Staggerwing Beech flown final prewar race Max Constant year 1939 big Frank Fuller strength first second two preceding races clear favorite didnt disappoint fans time 7 hours 14 minutes 19 seconds average speed 28210 mph 40 minutes quicker 24 mph faster 1937 record comfortable hour seven minutes front runner-up Art Bussey flew strange Bellanca tn-motor Fuller didnt pause Cleveland flew Bendix NJ another socalled coast-to-coast record 8 hours 58 minutes 8 seconds 37 minutes less 1937 time speed 27341 mph almost 14 mph faster course Howard Hughes flown LosAngeles New York 1937 much faster clip 72825 327 mph never entered Hughes Racer Bendix event records set Fuller remain prewar best An interesting little sequel story Seversky Bendix occurred final civilian running race 1949 Completely overshadowed blistering speed Mustangs Re public AT-12 N5581 1 two-seat trainer started race made far Grand Junction CO before pilot Vincent Perron forced down after having flown about one-third distance AT-12 50 two-seat divebomber derivatives P-35 bought Royal Swedish Air Force 1940 Forty-eight 50 never delivered political reasons connected relative neutrality Sweden USA time Model 2-PA-204A dive bombers converted advanced trainers scattered among bases US Army Air Corps rather brief history Seversky Aircraft Corporation tangled finally coming end June 1939 dissolved Republic Aviation Corp formed its place Seversky Aircraft considerable fi nancial trouble produced too few airplanes enable make ends meet Its 76 P-35 pursuits about 30 BT-8 trainers main products through 1937 Twenty Model 2PA-B3 Convoy Fighters delivered Japanese 1938 profit made deal obscured storm protest over dealing country seen future enemy Once Republic created Seversky things began happen though must recognized approach war boon business almost airplane builder P-35 de veloped Republic P-43 Lancer Army bought 250 follow-on P-44 Rocket never materialized further developed XP-47 XP-47A have September1978 103 Please send me......... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 Circle numbers plans wish order118 I 121123124125131134 136141146149155 159165 166168169174177178 181183184185186 189192 I 193194195198201202203204205206207208209 210211212213214215216217218219220221222 I223224225226227228229230231232233234235 II Please print carefullyEnclosed $I NAME STREETH II CITYI II ESTATEZIP_____ IPrice includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC 20005I Allison V-12 engines never built either Needing ever horsepower Repub lic enlarged what originally have lightweight fighter beefy Thunderbolt powered 2000-hp Pratt & Whitney Starting P-47B production lines didnt stop moving un til 15000 builtmore other American fighter plane World War II other era began some slick little pursuit planes did lot better racing Los Angeles Cleveland mock dog fights against successful rivals ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control90 Andrews Aircraft Model Co101 Boynton Associates103 Collect-Air Photos100 Coverite102 Cox Hobbies Inc. de Front Cover Davis Diesel Development102 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products85 EK-Products7 Experimental Aircraft Assoc95 Flyline Models86 Fox Mfg Company7 Fusite Emerson Electric Co97 Gilbert Electronics Corp99 Carl Goldberg Models Inc5 Grish Brothers89 HB Engines83 Hobbypoxy87 K&BMfg12 Kraft Southwestern Inc102 Midwest Model Products6 Miniature Aircraft100 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech98 Pactra Industries92 Peck-Polymers100 Pica Products88-9 1 Progress Mfg Co84 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc82 Tatone Products Inc96 Top Flite Models Inc3 Westport International Inc93 Williams Brothers94 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/09
Page Numbers: 50, 51, 103, 104
1st long-ran derbolt variation o During CIe Vincent Bendix NJ set unof n much faster tim aces fnm yes enthusiast i37 1939 F ard Hughes uci Bendix 50 Model Aviation Se ers 1 Lu-metal n kV 1 igcd th play bk g Germn ceti tnc n Arm Ilte vi vcep Seversky/Berli ner continued page 51 built fuselage AP-2 Seversky wrecked 1937 Miss Cochran used machine set womens world speed record 29227 mph Detroit powered 1200hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-45 Twin Wasp radial engine 1938 Bendix hoped-for clean sweep Seversky airplanes though speeds down year fore Cochran won 24974 mph went right Bendix NJ set unofficial womens transcontinental record 24209 mph Frank Fuller second 23860 mph 1937 winner third-place airplane Paul Mantzs Lockheed Orion took hour longer get Cleveland Anyone watching could see Seversky airplanesnot exactly military pursuits closehad plenty speed over very long distances Cleveland Air Races main showcase American aviation obviously Severskys plan impress job award military contracts last seen Jackie Cochrans highly polished naturalaluminum #13 Some time later caught hangar fire Tampa FL burned beyond salvage didnt race Bendix again until after war though did sponsor Staggerwing Beech flown final prewar race Max Constant year 1939 big Frank Fuller strength first second two preceding races clear favorite didnt disappoint fans time 7 hours 14 minutes 19 seconds average speed 28210 mph 40 minutes quicker 24 mph faster 1937 record comfortable hour seven minutes front runner-up Art Bussey flew strange Bellanca tn-motor Fuller didnt pause Cleveland flew Bendix NJ another socalled coast-to-coast record 8 hours 58 minutes 8 seconds 37 minutes less 1937 time speed 27341 mph almost 14 mph faster course Howard Hughes flown LosAngeles New York 1937 much faster clip 72825 327 mph never entered Hughes Racer Bendix event records set Fuller remain prewar best An interesting little sequel story Seversky Bendix occurred final civilian running race 1949 Completely overshadowed blistering speed Mustangs Re public AT-12 N5581 1 two-seat trainer started race made far Grand Junction CO before pilot Vincent Perron forced down after having flown about one-third distance AT-12 50 two-seat divebomber derivatives P-35 bought Royal Swedish Air Force 1940 Forty-eight 50 never delivered political reasons connected relative neutrality Sweden USA time Model 2-PA-204A dive bombers converted advanced trainers scattered among bases US Army Air Corps rather brief history Seversky Aircraft Corporation tangled finally coming end June 1939 dissolved Republic Aviation Corp formed its place Seversky Aircraft considerable fi nancial trouble produced too few airplanes enable make ends meet Its 76 P-35 pursuits about 30 BT-8 trainers main products through 1937 Twenty Model 2PA-B3 Convoy Fighters delivered Japanese 1938 profit made deal obscured storm protest over dealing country seen future enemy Once Republic created Seversky things began happen though must recognized approach war boon business almost airplane builder P-35 de veloped Republic P-43 Lancer Army bought 250 follow-on P-44 Rocket never materialized further developed XP-47 XP-47A have September1978 103 Please send me......... copies new fourth edition Radio Control Buyers Guide Enclosed $600 copy ordered $525 Guide plus $75 postage & handling Total Enclosed __________ anada City State ZIP Return Boynton & Assoc Clifton House Clifton VA 22024 Circle numbers plans wish order118 I 121123124125131134 136141146149155 159165 166168169174177178 181183184185186 189192 I 193194195198201202203204205206207208209 210211212213214215216217218219220221222 I223224225226227228229230231232233234235 II Please print carefullyEnclosed $I NAME STREETH II CITYI II ESTATEZIP_____ IPrice includes first-class postage Send check money order payable Mode/Aviation AMA 815 Fifteenth St. NW. Washington DC 20005I Allison V-12 engines never built either Needing ever horsepower Repub lic enlarged what originally have lightweight fighter beefy Thunderbolt powered 2000-hp Pratt & Whitney Starting P-47B production lines didnt stop moving un til 15000 builtmore other American fighter plane World War II other era began some slick little pursuit planes did lot better racing Los Angeles Cleveland mock dog fights against successful rivals ADVERTISERS INDEX Ace Radio Control90 Andrews Aircraft Model Co101 Boynton Associates103 Collect-Air Photos100 Coverite102 Cox Hobbies Inc. de Front Cover Davis Diesel Development102 DGM Industries102 Du-Bro Products85 EK-Products7 Experimental Aircraft Assoc95 Flyline Models86 Fox Mfg Company7 Fusite Emerson Electric Co97 Gilbert Electronics Corp99 Carl Goldberg Models Inc5 Grish Brothers89 HB Engines83 Hobbypoxy87 K&BMfg12 Kraft Southwestern Inc102 Midwest Model Products6 Miniature Aircraft100 Modernistic Models98 Morrison Repla-Tech98 Pactra Industries92 Peck-Polymers100 Pica Products88-9 1 Progress Mfg Co84 Sig Mfg Company1 Sterling Models Inc82 Tatone Products Inc96 Top Flite Models Inc3 Westport International Inc93 Williams Brothers94 World EnginesBack Cover 104 Model Aviation Full-Size Plan List Available complete listing plans pre viously published mag azine through No 224 may obtained free charge writing enclose stamped self-addressed business-size envelope Model Aviation 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005