FIC FREE FLIGHTERS have long recognized great sport truly international Participation World Championships has dozens countries thousands around world vying spots national teams World Champs restrictive three members country can chosen event however other international competitions world classthat unrestricted affairs attracting more following provide great meeting ground spirited competition tran scendent camaraderie account describes two such European Free Right competitions good fortune participate past summer Bohemia Cup Tabor Czechoslovakia held August 13-15 followed week later Journee International de Vol Li bre commonly called Poitou held region Poitou France journey began Los Angeles boarded Air Canada flight London shopping around found flight least expensive model box packed two PlC Power models safely handled baggage people hassle just explained what box took care London picked up Heathrow Airport friend Roy Collins packed off place made ready journeying car Czecho slovakia back France pack ing batteries starters tools models food etc interrupted number times pleasantly Free Flight friends dropping say hello see crazy Californian also took time out stop Henry Nicholls shop Aviation Bookshop Soon off Dover chan nel car ferry about two-hour sailing made very enjoyable found large group Italian tourists open top deck middle great dance party Home-grown wine out huge jugs being liberally passed around Too bad couldnt take boat rest way Hans Lifidhoim Sweden believes putting name Power modeil six mazes dropped place 13th Landing Calais motored up through France Belgium east Ger journey took us along Rhine Remagen Frankfurt overnight stop through Nurnberg Czech border border crossing took about two hours visas baggage car papers etc checked made obligatory purchase Czech currency $1250 per day 62 Model Aviation ~1 Bohemia Cup Cii Song Gu North Korea Power model Robert Baits Czechoslovakia niciy has flaps auto stab bunt transition trimmed Nordic Won first fiyoff aluminum-skinned surfaces Piaced eighth TI cin Models Year di ploma banquet Ivan placed 14th stay Having made good time far con tinued Pilsen industrial city outskirts Prague found motel next day spent few hours wandering around Prague soaking up some Old World atmosphere. off competition site Tabor lies 100 miles south Prague competition headquartered community called Sezimovo Usti new town combines industry ma chine tool rtianufacturing apartments shopping centers schools recreation facili ties hotels restaurants single planned community found com petition organizers established several floors hotel soon meeting old friends entry fee $100 paid three days lodging meals banquet bus transportation field competition fee Lodging consisted double-occupancy rooms hotel ap peared used often such organized affairs about two miles flying site drove out take look Already quite few practicing grass-covered airport used local sport flying club also agricultural aircraft April 1983 63 -- ails Cup event Tabor foreground some British contingent get spirit occasion banquet artv concluding Bohemia Cup Bohemia Cup banquet snhlvenwu y enti--- --Anselmo Zens model box holds four Wakefleldsvery compact neat Model box essential FF Gypsy Another use fore model box belonging authoriunch club decal billboard Traveling lightweight email best Journee International de Vol Libre grass very soft dense deep greenabout -six inches deep Quite dif ference Taft next two days spent practice Weather good although breeze put models across field couple minutes Surrounding actual grass air field farm fields variously corn wheat clear plowed sections Beyond about mile distant forested areas Competitions FlA Nordic FlB Wakefield FIC Power held Saturday Pole positions set up rnnnitnrc chodno nne cet nf timer Rounds 1 hr 10 mm long 5-mm break between together SO-mm lunch break Saturday dawned little light rain breeze continuing rain didnt last long stayed dull overcast flight line soon alive action competitors 16 countries got busy North Korea full team present very disciplined organized entry cluded fliers Czechoslovakia Poland Sweden East Germany West Germany Holland Canada USA Italy France N Korea England Austria New Zealand Romania Soviet Union 90 entrants FIA Lift first round easy find Only about 1969 Nordic Glider World Champion Elton Drew Great Britain lots trouble second round event Author notes Elton sells very good winch third fliers able record max surprising number flights 160 177-sec range What started out flight light lift often ended sink turbulence near ground Conditions im proved later day breeze per sisted started taking models toward trees Nevertheless two Czech fliers emerged string seven maxes flyoff poor air somewhat chaotic launch patterns saw Robert Barta take honors flight 125 sec ahead Zdenek Jancar got 77 sec Well known Czech flier Pavel Dvorak placed third having dropped 3 sec both Gypsy flier Bill Haflhll gets great last-round Ken Faux Great Britain won both Bohe launch before French audience went mia Cup Poitou Nelson power bad bunt carried model ground 22 seconds Alain Landeau France shows now irs aone Power Engine problems plagued him though Mike iantnam GB gets ready winning flyoff Nordic Model looks deceptively simple effective hands teitan jensen oy uenmarx geis goou Iuruu launch pretty helper Wing structure de signed minimize twist flutter second seventh rounds Czech Ivan Horejsi recipient NFFS FlA Model Year Award 1982 content 14th place Hopes English riding star Mike Fan tham dashed dropped 111 sec fifth round place 16th Wakefield 39 entries 10 coun tries Air-picking too easy though three categories being flown together North Koreans however seemed having some success technique team manager Paik Chang Sun Wakefield champion 1975 flight launched sig nal Korean models extension previous design concepts char acteristics similar Russian Wakefields although using feathering props winner Kim Jeng Sok maxes teammate second place Kim Dong Sik dropped 51 sec third round Kim Don Sik Wakefield World Champ 1977 13th place North Korean Li Zun Ban Stemming Korean onslaught 3rd place Czech Jiri Libra Although 36 Power en tries 12 countries represented gave great international flavor proceedings Since flying event can give few details what going es pecially downwind first two rounds relatively poor air Although breeze hadnt yet come problem thermals weak turbulence seemed upsetting glide trim Nevertheless number fliers maxing looking good included North Koreans Swede Continued page 140 April 1983 65 Coupe belonging USAs Bob Pisercnio wes proxy-flown Alain Nouge femme Bob didnt too well Alainflying own Coupetook first place Louis Dupois France launching flourish took fourth place Poitou Mike Seagrave Canada now living Moncontour site Poitou competition paints lives good French country life butBeautiful curved-dihedral Power model Denis Ferrero France still able turn Out very nice Wakefieldsecond Faux flyoft short engine run oernaru outIIIIer ot France placed fifth Power Model has cowled sidemounted engine built-up wing stab structures Wire blade stubs Jacque Valerys Wakefield prop fit aluminum hinge hub Jacque French airline pilot Price $1950GET ORGANIZED LEAR FAN72 Wing SpanHere s sel 014 slorap h4e Sal frogs over 4 years favorite 6 triagazores MODEL Designed Single$495 4 MAG FILES Send 5495 plt5 Si 00 1/B Sport 45for postage handireg Scale PlansSchneurle Engine DON INDUSTRIES P0 BOX 388-K VOGEL AVIATIONDIVISIONDOVER NH 03820 BOX 54 RESEDA CA 91335 FF Gypsy/HartillSeveral Czech helpers sat under tree wondering what next Continued page 65Then along came miniature whirlwind Hans Lindholm Ken Faux Englandr Cri- shook top tree mightily Sure ngu Popa Romaniar AdIt Hajek enough model flipped out came Czechoslovakia crashing down hitting everything Thermals breeze built starting way broken wingr stab tail boom third roundr retrieval became better no model back problem long walk flight line went get out reserve downwindr no way use carsmodel bikes Some crops slowed re-With few minutes end covery process also took sixth round wasnrt chance pick round get back Fortunately good air Rounds always seem end number Czech helpers r come bad air certainly did along meetr would help findFor last round resolved would models wheat forest run wait boomer Sure enough found back flight line real trash mover Watching DT great fifth round hooked good thermal height soon realized wasnt coming watched DT good height 318 down just getting smaller Following Through binoculars looked like came foot compass heading didnt reveal down bushes After walking downwind much lot trees soon saw bushes very tall Back contest five made pine trees standing deep ra- through flyoff resolved vine took few minutes see quickly round Ken Faux tree since tree cover Great Britain managed make 4-mm dense dark Seventy-five feet up no mark Ken using new Americanlimbs built Nelson 15 glow Cringu Popa Romania 2nd Vladimir Hajek Czechoslovakia 3rd first met Vladimir some 27 years ago World Championships Finthen Ger time flies youre having fun Kang Zung Sik North Korea flying aluminum-covered model full-span deep-chord flaps polyhedral wing suffered poor climb pattern flyoff place 5th Prize-giving banquet took place evening hotel brassy band three singers kept us entertained food refreshments flowed freely pre sented NFFS Ten Models Diploma Ivan Horejsi story telling languages carried night next day took another hike through forest trail lost model Other models lost treed several trees being sawed down still no luck went back airfield Pilot members Tabor Flying Club present quite willingly agreed help aerial search After about hour returned news spotted four models made ground search couldnt locate models dense forest After packing car once again headed Czechborder rain thun der lightning striped pole across road concrete blockades guards machine guns made pretty spooky As turned out guards friendly young soldiers After quick check look through model boxes way Luck us came small German town found hotel restau rant closed owner took us kitchen us select some cold meats cheese potato salad pickles tasty supper washed down stems great beer next day went through Munich Ulm Stuttgart Black Forest another nights stop Hotel rooms small European towns averaged around $25 double occupancy dinner $5 $7 Heading west again next day crossed France Strasbourg headed Hotel Cheval Gris Pleurs sentimental stop have times competing great Pierre Trebod Contest Trebod held last time 1981 would nice some other club would rejuvenate Right schedule met planned Englishmen Martin Dilly Mike Fan tham Martin Gregory Ken Faux another great Cheval Gris dinner next day spent repairing treebroken model would have something fly Poitou Off again journey stopped bit tourism Foun tainbleau through chateau country along Loire Valley Poitou Contest held rural region east Poitiers organizers set up Continued page 142 140 Model Aviation ___________Sand 5tK catalog 216-499-5323 RC Kits Mfg U4TUinEEhLOH 44721 U 1 ULjCanton NE STEPHENS ACRO 6/aAieA SPORT WINCH LightweIght 34 lbs 155kg battery Surprising performance r develops 9 HP Reliable & durable ity components Easy use stable electrodynamic brake help prevent Complete around parachute 600 meters 90 lb braided nylon line $21500 battery Shipping charges included also sell finest 160 lb braided nylon contest towline $1920/600 meters plus shipping Send complete descriptive literature price list 4-7ek9c 68 Morgan AVe Danbury CT 06810 TEL 203 743-3312 shop very nice campsite village Moncontour Swimming boating available village provided banquet hall edge campground festivities stayed Hotel Swan Airvault few miles away bill four days included room breakfast dinner wine came $53 French food magnificent hospitality sincere also came fly off field next day site great plain fact called Plain de Noize Apparently once part sea bed now covered sea fossils turned stone Some trochoidal fossils big car wheel Hying area grassy short stubble cut recently chase area plentiful no trees just few crops Nordic Glider flown Friday entry list 104 Round schedules timer allocations similar Czech contest Weather quite good some breeze wasnt much bother considering ample site first round troublesome turned out two fliers managed max through seven rounds Mike Fantham Great Britain Martin Greg ory New Zealand now living Eng land 4-mm round both went off strong lift Mike hooked another boomer 5-mm round leaving Martin terrible air 72 sec Third fourth fifth place divided up respectively Lareau France Willi Kamp Austria Finn Bjere Denmark top Nordic designs seemed relatively simple concept tricks Wakefield Rubber attracted 52 entries eight countries Among Mike Seagrave Canada year ago bicycled England Spain World Champs Stopping Poitou way back decided settle down bit Now residence Moncontour Artist painting enjoying easy French life Wakefield competition got very inter esting closing rounds flier Gerald Nocque France maxes Joe Barnes Great Britain dropped 1 sec first round Anselmo Zen Italy now working Holland 1981 Wakefield winner Poitou 1982 dropped 16 seconds sixth round Louis Dupuis France also down some sixth round Barnes pulled off max last round putting pressure Noque Dupuis Zen followed suit game finished Noque got max third day Sunday FIC Power FiG Coupe dHiver flown Thirty-two Coupe fliers outnumbered 13 Power fliers after French started Coupe mania Along Coupe start line saw Bob Piserchio USA no wasnt Bobit Alain Nouge France flying Bobs Coupe proxy Bob didnt fare too well Alainflying own Coupemaxed out bested Louis Dupuis 2nd G Ambrogo 3rd all-French flyoff Power things looking pretty good remaining repaired model flying better ever Some carelessness crept however picking poor air fourth round cost 29 sec Meanwhile Denis Ferrero France Ken Faux pro ceeded max out resulting flyoff both no trouble 4-mm round launched together next Ken got ready launched quickly Denis launched minutes later something went wrong very short run Ken up 5 mm Denis dropped dis astrously 60 sec So Ken made two row Nelson-engined ship French spectators crowding around watch Power models finish up last round put up very nice climb bunt came Nelson stopped oh-oh hunt stayed ship right ground 22 seconds Oh well still banquet general partying night turned out equal great traditions sport few days way back California team selection fin als Free Flight Gypsy off next round writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 142 Model Aviation LOON AT THESE FEATURES BEGINNERS AND NOVICE FLYERS.Are hav ing trouble getting hang controlled RIG flying squirrely trainer Wait till expen ence smooth solid slow flight characteristics GOLDEN FALCON thin will say Now thats like EXPERIENCED FLYERS.Is fast-paced hot dogging trend RIG getting down would like spend really enjoyable relax ing afternoon flying field graceful yet aerobatic capabilities GOLDEN FALCON allow just that.ENJOY COMPLETE KIT.Except radio engine kit contains everything needed build flying model Wheels fuel tank Super Monokotecovering three types glue hardware connectors cowls etc.. nothing left out Compare other kits provide skeleton structure INSTRUCTIONS.The 48 page fully-illustrated stepby-step instruction manual takes guesswork out building radio installation PRE-FORMED PARTS.Wing saddle/windshield cowls vacuum formed ribs formers pre cision die-cut several special parts injection molded added convenience JIG CoNSTRuCTIoN.Six special jigs simplify assem ly holding parts alignment gluing ENGINE MOUNT.Unique mounting system allows engine tank removed seconds inspec tion replacement PURE PLEASURE.Building flying new GOLDEN FALCON sure provide enjoyable satisfying experience FOR MORE FREE INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL TODAY. ST CROIX OF PARK FALLS LTD PO BOX 279 PARK FALLS WI 54552 PHONE 715 762-3226 er /nquiries Invited
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/04
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 64, 65, 140, 142
FIC FREE FLIGHTERS have long recognized great sport truly international Participation World Championships has dozens countries thousands around world vying spots national teams World Champs restrictive three members country can chosen event however other international competitions world classthat unrestricted affairs attracting more following provide great meeting ground spirited competition tran scendent camaraderie account describes two such European Free Right competitions good fortune participate past summer Bohemia Cup Tabor Czechoslovakia held August 13-15 followed week later Journee International de Vol Li bre commonly called Poitou held region Poitou France journey began Los Angeles boarded Air Canada flight London shopping around found flight least expensive model box packed two PlC Power models safely handled baggage people hassle just explained what box took care London picked up Heathrow Airport friend Roy Collins packed off place made ready journeying car Czecho slovakia back France pack ing batteries starters tools models food etc interrupted number times pleasantly Free Flight friends dropping say hello see crazy Californian also took time out stop Henry Nicholls shop Aviation Bookshop Soon off Dover chan nel car ferry about two-hour sailing made very enjoyable found large group Italian tourists open top deck middle great dance party Home-grown wine out huge jugs being liberally passed around Too bad couldnt take boat rest way Hans Lifidhoim Sweden believes putting name Power modeil six mazes dropped place 13th Landing Calais motored up through France Belgium east Ger journey took us along Rhine Remagen Frankfurt overnight stop through Nurnberg Czech border border crossing took about two hours visas baggage car papers etc checked made obligatory purchase Czech currency $1250 per day 62 Model Aviation ~1 Bohemia Cup Cii Song Gu North Korea Power model Robert Baits Czechoslovakia niciy has flaps auto stab bunt transition trimmed Nordic Won first fiyoff aluminum-skinned surfaces Piaced eighth TI cin Models Year di ploma banquet Ivan placed 14th stay Having made good time far con tinued Pilsen industrial city outskirts Prague found motel next day spent few hours wandering around Prague soaking up some Old World atmosphere. off competition site Tabor lies 100 miles south Prague competition headquartered community called Sezimovo Usti new town combines industry ma chine tool rtianufacturing apartments shopping centers schools recreation facili ties hotels restaurants single planned community found com petition organizers established several floors hotel soon meeting old friends entry fee $100 paid three days lodging meals banquet bus transportation field competition fee Lodging consisted double-occupancy rooms hotel ap peared used often such organized affairs about two miles flying site drove out take look Already quite few practicing grass-covered airport used local sport flying club also agricultural aircraft April 1983 63 -- ails Cup event Tabor foreground some British contingent get spirit occasion banquet artv concluding Bohemia Cup Bohemia Cup banquet snhlvenwu y enti--- --Anselmo Zens model box holds four Wakefleldsvery compact neat Model box essential FF Gypsy Another use fore model box belonging authoriunch club decal billboard Traveling lightweight email best Journee International de Vol Libre grass very soft dense deep greenabout -six inches deep Quite dif ference Taft next two days spent practice Weather good although breeze put models across field couple minutes Surrounding actual grass air field farm fields variously corn wheat clear plowed sections Beyond about mile distant forested areas Competitions FlA Nordic FlB Wakefield FIC Power held Saturday Pole positions set up rnnnitnrc chodno nne cet nf timer Rounds 1 hr 10 mm long 5-mm break between together SO-mm lunch break Saturday dawned little light rain breeze continuing rain didnt last long stayed dull overcast flight line soon alive action competitors 16 countries got busy North Korea full team present very disciplined organized entry cluded fliers Czechoslovakia Poland Sweden East Germany West Germany Holland Canada USA Italy France N Korea England Austria New Zealand Romania Soviet Union 90 entrants FIA Lift first round easy find Only about 1969 Nordic Glider World Champion Elton Drew Great Britain lots trouble second round event Author notes Elton sells very good winch third fliers able record max surprising number flights 160 177-sec range What started out flight light lift often ended sink turbulence near ground Conditions im proved later day breeze per sisted started taking models toward trees Nevertheless two Czech fliers emerged string seven maxes flyoff poor air somewhat chaotic launch patterns saw Robert Barta take honors flight 125 sec ahead Zdenek Jancar got 77 sec Well known Czech flier Pavel Dvorak placed third having dropped 3 sec both Gypsy flier Bill Haflhll gets great last-round Ken Faux Great Britain won both Bohe launch before French audience went mia Cup Poitou Nelson power bad bunt carried model ground 22 seconds Alain Landeau France shows now irs aone Power Engine problems plagued him though Mike iantnam GB gets ready winning flyoff Nordic Model looks deceptively simple effective hands teitan jensen oy uenmarx geis goou Iuruu launch pretty helper Wing structure de signed minimize twist flutter second seventh rounds Czech Ivan Horejsi recipient NFFS FlA Model Year Award 1982 content 14th place Hopes English riding star Mike Fan tham dashed dropped 111 sec fifth round place 16th Wakefield 39 entries 10 coun tries Air-picking too easy though three categories being flown together North Koreans however seemed having some success technique team manager Paik Chang Sun Wakefield champion 1975 flight launched sig nal Korean models extension previous design concepts char acteristics similar Russian Wakefields although using feathering props winner Kim Jeng Sok maxes teammate second place Kim Dong Sik dropped 51 sec third round Kim Don Sik Wakefield World Champ 1977 13th place North Korean Li Zun Ban Stemming Korean onslaught 3rd place Czech Jiri Libra Although 36 Power en tries 12 countries represented gave great international flavor proceedings Since flying event can give few details what going es pecially downwind first two rounds relatively poor air Although breeze hadnt yet come problem thermals weak turbulence seemed upsetting glide trim Nevertheless number fliers maxing looking good included North Koreans Swede Continued page 140 April 1983 65 Coupe belonging USAs Bob Pisercnio wes proxy-flown Alain Nouge femme Bob didnt too well Alainflying own Coupetook first place Louis Dupois France launching flourish took fourth place Poitou Mike Seagrave Canada now living Moncontour site Poitou competition paints lives good French country life butBeautiful curved-dihedral Power model Denis Ferrero France still able turn Out very nice Wakefieldsecond Faux flyoft short engine run oernaru outIIIIer ot France placed fifth Power Model has cowled sidemounted engine built-up wing stab structures Wire blade stubs Jacque Valerys Wakefield prop fit aluminum hinge hub Jacque French airline pilot Price $1950GET ORGANIZED LEAR FAN72 Wing SpanHere s sel 014 slorap h4e Sal frogs over 4 years favorite 6 triagazores MODEL Designed Single$495 4 MAG FILES Send 5495 plt5 Si 00 1/B Sport 45for postage handireg Scale PlansSchneurle Engine DON INDUSTRIES P0 BOX 388-K VOGEL AVIATIONDIVISIONDOVER NH 03820 BOX 54 RESEDA CA 91335 FF Gypsy/HartillSeveral Czech helpers sat under tree wondering what next Continued page 65Then along came miniature whirlwind Hans Lindholm Ken Faux Englandr Cri- shook top tree mightily Sure ngu Popa Romaniar AdIt Hajek enough model flipped out came Czechoslovakia crashing down hitting everything Thermals breeze built starting way broken wingr stab tail boom third roundr retrieval became better no model back problem long walk flight line went get out reserve downwindr no way use carsmodel bikes Some crops slowed re-With few minutes end covery process also took sixth round wasnrt chance pick round get back Fortunately good air Rounds always seem end number Czech helpers r come bad air certainly did along meetr would help findFor last round resolved would models wheat forest run wait boomer Sure enough found back flight line real trash mover Watching DT great fifth round hooked good thermal height soon realized wasnt coming watched DT good height 318 down just getting smaller Following Through binoculars looked like came foot compass heading didnt reveal down bushes After walking downwind much lot trees soon saw bushes very tall Back contest five made pine trees standing deep ra- through flyoff resolved vine took few minutes see quickly round Ken Faux tree since tree cover Great Britain managed make 4-mm dense dark Seventy-five feet up no mark Ken using new Americanlimbs built Nelson 15 glow Cringu Popa Romania 2nd Vladimir Hajek Czechoslovakia 3rd first met Vladimir some 27 years ago World Championships Finthen Ger time flies youre having fun Kang Zung Sik North Korea flying aluminum-covered model full-span deep-chord flaps polyhedral wing suffered poor climb pattern flyoff place 5th Prize-giving banquet took place evening hotel brassy band three singers kept us entertained food refreshments flowed freely pre sented NFFS Ten Models Diploma Ivan Horejsi story telling languages carried night next day took another hike through forest trail lost model Other models lost treed several trees being sawed down still no luck went back airfield Pilot members Tabor Flying Club present quite willingly agreed help aerial search After about hour returned news spotted four models made ground search couldnt locate models dense forest After packing car once again headed Czechborder rain thun der lightning striped pole across road concrete blockades guards machine guns made pretty spooky As turned out guards friendly young soldiers After quick check look through model boxes way Luck us came small German town found hotel restau rant closed owner took us kitchen us select some cold meats cheese potato salad pickles tasty supper washed down stems great beer next day went through Munich Ulm Stuttgart Black Forest another nights stop Hotel rooms small European towns averaged around $25 double occupancy dinner $5 $7 Heading west again next day crossed France Strasbourg headed Hotel Cheval Gris Pleurs sentimental stop have times competing great Pierre Trebod Contest Trebod held last time 1981 would nice some other club would rejuvenate Right schedule met planned Englishmen Martin Dilly Mike Fan tham Martin Gregory Ken Faux another great Cheval Gris dinner next day spent repairing treebroken model would have something fly Poitou Off again journey stopped bit tourism Foun tainbleau through chateau country along Loire Valley Poitou Contest held rural region east Poitiers organizers set up Continued page 142 140 Model Aviation ___________Sand 5tK catalog 216-499-5323 RC Kits Mfg U4TUinEEhLOH 44721 U 1 ULjCanton NE STEPHENS ACRO 6/aAieA SPORT WINCH LightweIght 34 lbs 155kg battery Surprising performance r develops 9 HP Reliable & durable ity components Easy use stable electrodynamic brake help prevent Complete around parachute 600 meters 90 lb braided nylon line $21500 battery Shipping charges included also sell finest 160 lb braided nylon contest towline $1920/600 meters plus shipping Send complete descriptive literature price list 4-7ek9c 68 Morgan AVe Danbury CT 06810 TEL 203 743-3312 shop very nice campsite village Moncontour Swimming boating available village provided banquet hall edge campground festivities stayed Hotel Swan Airvault few miles away bill four days included room breakfast dinner wine came $53 French food magnificent hospitality sincere also came fly off field next day site great plain fact called Plain de Noize Apparently once part sea bed now covered sea fossils turned stone Some trochoidal fossils big car wheel Hying area grassy short stubble cut recently chase area plentiful no trees just few crops Nordic Glider flown Friday entry list 104 Round schedules timer allocations similar Czech contest Weather quite good some breeze wasnt much bother considering ample site first round troublesome turned out two fliers managed max through seven rounds Mike Fantham Great Britain Martin Greg ory New Zealand now living Eng land 4-mm round both went off strong lift Mike hooked another boomer 5-mm round leaving Martin terrible air 72 sec Third fourth fifth place divided up respectively Lareau France Willi Kamp Austria Finn Bjere Denmark top Nordic designs seemed relatively simple concept tricks Wakefield Rubber attracted 52 entries eight countries Among Mike Seagrave Canada year ago bicycled England Spain World Champs Stopping Poitou way back decided settle down bit Now residence Moncontour Artist painting enjoying easy French life Wakefield competition got very inter esting closing rounds flier Gerald Nocque France maxes Joe Barnes Great Britain dropped 1 sec first round Anselmo Zen Italy now working Holland 1981 Wakefield winner Poitou 1982 dropped 16 seconds sixth round Louis Dupuis France also down some sixth round Barnes pulled off max last round putting pressure Noque Dupuis Zen followed suit game finished Noque got max third day Sunday FIC Power FiG Coupe dHiver flown Thirty-two Coupe fliers outnumbered 13 Power fliers after French started Coupe mania Along Coupe start line saw Bob Piserchio USA no wasnt Bobit Alain Nouge France flying Bobs Coupe proxy Bob didnt fare too well Alainflying own Coupemaxed out bested Louis Dupuis 2nd G Ambrogo 3rd all-French flyoff Power things looking pretty good remaining repaired model flying better ever Some carelessness crept however picking poor air fourth round cost 29 sec Meanwhile Denis Ferrero France Ken Faux pro ceeded max out resulting flyoff both no trouble 4-mm round launched together next Ken got ready launched quickly Denis launched minutes later something went wrong very short run Ken up 5 mm Denis dropped dis astrously 60 sec So Ken made two row Nelson-engined ship French spectators crowding around watch Power models finish up last round put up very nice climb bunt came Nelson stopped oh-oh hunt stayed ship right ground 22 seconds Oh well still banquet general partying night turned out equal great traditions sport few days way back California team selection fin als Free Flight Gypsy off next round writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 142 Model Aviation LOON AT THESE FEATURES BEGINNERS AND NOVICE FLYERS.Are hav ing trouble getting hang controlled RIG flying squirrely trainer Wait till expen ence smooth solid slow flight characteristics GOLDEN FALCON thin will say Now thats like EXPERIENCED FLYERS.Is fast-paced hot dogging trend RIG getting down would like spend really enjoyable relax ing afternoon flying field graceful yet aerobatic capabilities GOLDEN FALCON allow just that.ENJOY COMPLETE KIT.Except radio engine kit contains everything needed build flying model Wheels fuel tank Super Monokotecovering three types glue hardware connectors cowls etc.. nothing left out Compare other kits provide skeleton structure INSTRUCTIONS.The 48 page fully-illustrated stepby-step instruction manual takes guesswork out building radio installation PRE-FORMED PARTS.Wing saddle/windshield cowls vacuum formed ribs formers pre cision die-cut several special parts injection molded added convenience JIG CoNSTRuCTIoN.Six special jigs simplify assem ly holding parts alignment gluing ENGINE MOUNT.Unique mounting system allows engine tank removed seconds inspec tion replacement PURE PLEASURE.Building flying new GOLDEN FALCON sure provide enjoyable satisfying experience FOR MORE FREE INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL TODAY. ST CROIX OF PARK FALLS LTD PO BOX 279 PARK FALLS WI 54552 PHONE 715 762-3226 er /nquiries Invited
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/04
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 64, 65, 140, 142
FIC FREE FLIGHTERS have long recognized great sport truly international Participation World Championships has dozens countries thousands around world vying spots national teams World Champs restrictive three members country can chosen event however other international competitions world classthat unrestricted affairs attracting more following provide great meeting ground spirited competition tran scendent camaraderie account describes two such European Free Right competitions good fortune participate past summer Bohemia Cup Tabor Czechoslovakia held August 13-15 followed week later Journee International de Vol Li bre commonly called Poitou held region Poitou France journey began Los Angeles boarded Air Canada flight London shopping around found flight least expensive model box packed two PlC Power models safely handled baggage people hassle just explained what box took care London picked up Heathrow Airport friend Roy Collins packed off place made ready journeying car Czecho slovakia back France pack ing batteries starters tools models food etc interrupted number times pleasantly Free Flight friends dropping say hello see crazy Californian also took time out stop Henry Nicholls shop Aviation Bookshop Soon off Dover chan nel car ferry about two-hour sailing made very enjoyable found large group Italian tourists open top deck middle great dance party Home-grown wine out huge jugs being liberally passed around Too bad couldnt take boat rest way Hans Lifidhoim Sweden believes putting name Power modeil six mazes dropped place 13th Landing Calais motored up through France Belgium east Ger journey took us along Rhine Remagen Frankfurt overnight stop through Nurnberg Czech border border crossing took about two hours visas baggage car papers etc checked made obligatory purchase Czech currency $1250 per day 62 Model Aviation ~1 Bohemia Cup Cii Song Gu North Korea Power model Robert Baits Czechoslovakia niciy has flaps auto stab bunt transition trimmed Nordic Won first fiyoff aluminum-skinned surfaces Piaced eighth TI cin Models Year di ploma banquet Ivan placed 14th stay Having made good time far con tinued Pilsen industrial city outskirts Prague found motel next day spent few hours wandering around Prague soaking up some Old World atmosphere. off competition site Tabor lies 100 miles south Prague competition headquartered community called Sezimovo Usti new town combines industry ma chine tool rtianufacturing apartments shopping centers schools recreation facili ties hotels restaurants single planned community found com petition organizers established several floors hotel soon meeting old friends entry fee $100 paid three days lodging meals banquet bus transportation field competition fee Lodging consisted double-occupancy rooms hotel ap peared used often such organized affairs about two miles flying site drove out take look Already quite few practicing grass-covered airport used local sport flying club also agricultural aircraft April 1983 63 -- ails Cup event Tabor foreground some British contingent get spirit occasion banquet artv concluding Bohemia Cup Bohemia Cup banquet snhlvenwu y enti--- --Anselmo Zens model box holds four Wakefleldsvery compact neat Model box essential FF Gypsy Another use fore model box belonging authoriunch club decal billboard Traveling lightweight email best Journee International de Vol Libre grass very soft dense deep greenabout -six inches deep Quite dif ference Taft next two days spent practice Weather good although breeze put models across field couple minutes Surrounding actual grass air field farm fields variously corn wheat clear plowed sections Beyond about mile distant forested areas Competitions FlA Nordic FlB Wakefield FIC Power held Saturday Pole positions set up rnnnitnrc chodno nne cet nf timer Rounds 1 hr 10 mm long 5-mm break between together SO-mm lunch break Saturday dawned little light rain breeze continuing rain didnt last long stayed dull overcast flight line soon alive action competitors 16 countries got busy North Korea full team present very disciplined organized entry cluded fliers Czechoslovakia Poland Sweden East Germany West Germany Holland Canada USA Italy France N Korea England Austria New Zealand Romania Soviet Union 90 entrants FIA Lift first round easy find Only about 1969 Nordic Glider World Champion Elton Drew Great Britain lots trouble second round event Author notes Elton sells very good winch third fliers able record max surprising number flights 160 177-sec range What started out flight light lift often ended sink turbulence near ground Conditions im proved later day breeze per sisted started taking models toward trees Nevertheless two Czech fliers emerged string seven maxes flyoff poor air somewhat chaotic launch patterns saw Robert Barta take honors flight 125 sec ahead Zdenek Jancar got 77 sec Well known Czech flier Pavel Dvorak placed third having dropped 3 sec both Gypsy flier Bill Haflhll gets great last-round Ken Faux Great Britain won both Bohe launch before French audience went mia Cup Poitou Nelson power bad bunt carried model ground 22 seconds Alain Landeau France shows now irs aone Power Engine problems plagued him though Mike iantnam GB gets ready winning flyoff Nordic Model looks deceptively simple effective hands teitan jensen oy uenmarx geis goou Iuruu launch pretty helper Wing structure de signed minimize twist flutter second seventh rounds Czech Ivan Horejsi recipient NFFS FlA Model Year Award 1982 content 14th place Hopes English riding star Mike Fan tham dashed dropped 111 sec fifth round place 16th Wakefield 39 entries 10 coun tries Air-picking too easy though three categories being flown together North Koreans however seemed having some success technique team manager Paik Chang Sun Wakefield champion 1975 flight launched sig nal Korean models extension previous design concepts char acteristics similar Russian Wakefields although using feathering props winner Kim Jeng Sok maxes teammate second place Kim Dong Sik dropped 51 sec third round Kim Don Sik Wakefield World Champ 1977 13th place North Korean Li Zun Ban Stemming Korean onslaught 3rd place Czech Jiri Libra Although 36 Power en tries 12 countries represented gave great international flavor proceedings Since flying event can give few details what going es pecially downwind first two rounds relatively poor air Although breeze hadnt yet come problem thermals weak turbulence seemed upsetting glide trim Nevertheless number fliers maxing looking good included North Koreans Swede Continued page 140 April 1983 65 Coupe belonging USAs Bob Pisercnio wes proxy-flown Alain Nouge femme Bob didnt too well Alainflying own Coupetook first place Louis Dupois France launching flourish took fourth place Poitou Mike Seagrave Canada now living Moncontour site Poitou competition paints lives good French country life butBeautiful curved-dihedral Power model Denis Ferrero France still able turn Out very nice Wakefieldsecond Faux flyoft short engine run oernaru outIIIIer ot France placed fifth Power Model has cowled sidemounted engine built-up wing stab structures Wire blade stubs Jacque Valerys Wakefield prop fit aluminum hinge hub Jacque French airline pilot Price $1950GET ORGANIZED LEAR FAN72 Wing SpanHere s sel 014 slorap h4e Sal frogs over 4 years favorite 6 triagazores MODEL Designed Single$495 4 MAG FILES Send 5495 plt5 Si 00 1/B Sport 45for postage handireg Scale PlansSchneurle Engine DON INDUSTRIES P0 BOX 388-K VOGEL AVIATIONDIVISIONDOVER NH 03820 BOX 54 RESEDA CA 91335 FF Gypsy/HartillSeveral Czech helpers sat under tree wondering what next Continued page 65Then along came miniature whirlwind Hans Lindholm Ken Faux Englandr Cri- shook top tree mightily Sure ngu Popa Romaniar AdIt Hajek enough model flipped out came Czechoslovakia crashing down hitting everything Thermals breeze built starting way broken wingr stab tail boom third roundr retrieval became better no model back problem long walk flight line went get out reserve downwindr no way use carsmodel bikes Some crops slowed re-With few minutes end covery process also took sixth round wasnrt chance pick round get back Fortunately good air Rounds always seem end number Czech helpers r come bad air certainly did along meetr would help findFor last round resolved would models wheat forest run wait boomer Sure enough found back flight line real trash mover Watching DT great fifth round hooked good thermal height soon realized wasnt coming watched DT good height 318 down just getting smaller Following Through binoculars looked like came foot compass heading didnt reveal down bushes After walking downwind much lot trees soon saw bushes very tall Back contest five made pine trees standing deep ra- through flyoff resolved vine took few minutes see quickly round Ken Faux tree since tree cover Great Britain managed make 4-mm dense dark Seventy-five feet up no mark Ken using new Americanlimbs built Nelson 15 glow Cringu Popa Romania 2nd Vladimir Hajek Czechoslovakia 3rd first met Vladimir some 27 years ago World Championships Finthen Ger time flies youre having fun Kang Zung Sik North Korea flying aluminum-covered model full-span deep-chord flaps polyhedral wing suffered poor climb pattern flyoff place 5th Prize-giving banquet took place evening hotel brassy band three singers kept us entertained food refreshments flowed freely pre sented NFFS Ten Models Diploma Ivan Horejsi story telling languages carried night next day took another hike through forest trail lost model Other models lost treed several trees being sawed down still no luck went back airfield Pilot members Tabor Flying Club present quite willingly agreed help aerial search After about hour returned news spotted four models made ground search couldnt locate models dense forest After packing car once again headed Czechborder rain thun der lightning striped pole across road concrete blockades guards machine guns made pretty spooky As turned out guards friendly young soldiers After quick check look through model boxes way Luck us came small German town found hotel restau rant closed owner took us kitchen us select some cold meats cheese potato salad pickles tasty supper washed down stems great beer next day went through Munich Ulm Stuttgart Black Forest another nights stop Hotel rooms small European towns averaged around $25 double occupancy dinner $5 $7 Heading west again next day crossed France Strasbourg headed Hotel Cheval Gris Pleurs sentimental stop have times competing great Pierre Trebod Contest Trebod held last time 1981 would nice some other club would rejuvenate Right schedule met planned Englishmen Martin Dilly Mike Fan tham Martin Gregory Ken Faux another great Cheval Gris dinner next day spent repairing treebroken model would have something fly Poitou Off again journey stopped bit tourism Foun tainbleau through chateau country along Loire Valley Poitou Contest held rural region east Poitiers organizers set up Continued page 142 140 Model Aviation ___________Sand 5tK catalog 216-499-5323 RC Kits Mfg U4TUinEEhLOH 44721 U 1 ULjCanton NE STEPHENS ACRO 6/aAieA SPORT WINCH LightweIght 34 lbs 155kg battery Surprising performance r develops 9 HP Reliable & durable ity components Easy use stable electrodynamic brake help prevent Complete around parachute 600 meters 90 lb braided nylon line $21500 battery Shipping charges included also sell finest 160 lb braided nylon contest towline $1920/600 meters plus shipping Send complete descriptive literature price list 4-7ek9c 68 Morgan AVe Danbury CT 06810 TEL 203 743-3312 shop very nice campsite village Moncontour Swimming boating available village provided banquet hall edge campground festivities stayed Hotel Swan Airvault few miles away bill four days included room breakfast dinner wine came $53 French food magnificent hospitality sincere also came fly off field next day site great plain fact called Plain de Noize Apparently once part sea bed now covered sea fossils turned stone Some trochoidal fossils big car wheel Hying area grassy short stubble cut recently chase area plentiful no trees just few crops Nordic Glider flown Friday entry list 104 Round schedules timer allocations similar Czech contest Weather quite good some breeze wasnt much bother considering ample site first round troublesome turned out two fliers managed max through seven rounds Mike Fantham Great Britain Martin Greg ory New Zealand now living Eng land 4-mm round both went off strong lift Mike hooked another boomer 5-mm round leaving Martin terrible air 72 sec Third fourth fifth place divided up respectively Lareau France Willi Kamp Austria Finn Bjere Denmark top Nordic designs seemed relatively simple concept tricks Wakefield Rubber attracted 52 entries eight countries Among Mike Seagrave Canada year ago bicycled England Spain World Champs Stopping Poitou way back decided settle down bit Now residence Moncontour Artist painting enjoying easy French life Wakefield competition got very inter esting closing rounds flier Gerald Nocque France maxes Joe Barnes Great Britain dropped 1 sec first round Anselmo Zen Italy now working Holland 1981 Wakefield winner Poitou 1982 dropped 16 seconds sixth round Louis Dupuis France also down some sixth round Barnes pulled off max last round putting pressure Noque Dupuis Zen followed suit game finished Noque got max third day Sunday FIC Power FiG Coupe dHiver flown Thirty-two Coupe fliers outnumbered 13 Power fliers after French started Coupe mania Along Coupe start line saw Bob Piserchio USA no wasnt Bobit Alain Nouge France flying Bobs Coupe proxy Bob didnt fare too well Alainflying own Coupemaxed out bested Louis Dupuis 2nd G Ambrogo 3rd all-French flyoff Power things looking pretty good remaining repaired model flying better ever Some carelessness crept however picking poor air fourth round cost 29 sec Meanwhile Denis Ferrero France Ken Faux pro ceeded max out resulting flyoff both no trouble 4-mm round launched together next Ken got ready launched quickly Denis launched minutes later something went wrong very short run Ken up 5 mm Denis dropped dis astrously 60 sec So Ken made two row Nelson-engined ship French spectators crowding around watch Power models finish up last round put up very nice climb bunt came Nelson stopped oh-oh hunt stayed ship right ground 22 seconds Oh well still banquet general partying night turned out equal great traditions sport few days way back California team selection fin als Free Flight Gypsy off next round writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 142 Model Aviation LOON AT THESE FEATURES BEGINNERS AND NOVICE FLYERS.Are hav ing trouble getting hang controlled RIG flying squirrely trainer Wait till expen ence smooth solid slow flight characteristics GOLDEN FALCON thin will say Now thats like EXPERIENCED FLYERS.Is fast-paced hot dogging trend RIG getting down would like spend really enjoyable relax ing afternoon flying field graceful yet aerobatic capabilities GOLDEN FALCON allow just that.ENJOY COMPLETE KIT.Except radio engine kit contains everything needed build flying model Wheels fuel tank Super Monokotecovering three types glue hardware connectors cowls etc.. nothing left out Compare other kits provide skeleton structure INSTRUCTIONS.The 48 page fully-illustrated stepby-step instruction manual takes guesswork out building radio installation PRE-FORMED PARTS.Wing saddle/windshield cowls vacuum formed ribs formers pre cision die-cut several special parts injection molded added convenience JIG CoNSTRuCTIoN.Six special jigs simplify assem ly holding parts alignment gluing ENGINE MOUNT.Unique mounting system allows engine tank removed seconds inspec tion replacement PURE PLEASURE.Building flying new GOLDEN FALCON sure provide enjoyable satisfying experience FOR MORE FREE INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL TODAY. ST CROIX OF PARK FALLS LTD PO BOX 279 PARK FALLS WI 54552 PHONE 715 762-3226 er /nquiries Invited
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/04
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 64, 65, 140, 142
FIC FREE FLIGHTERS have long recognized great sport truly international Participation World Championships has dozens countries thousands around world vying spots national teams World Champs restrictive three members country can chosen event however other international competitions world classthat unrestricted affairs attracting more following provide great meeting ground spirited competition tran scendent camaraderie account describes two such European Free Right competitions good fortune participate past summer Bohemia Cup Tabor Czechoslovakia held August 13-15 followed week later Journee International de Vol Li bre commonly called Poitou held region Poitou France journey began Los Angeles boarded Air Canada flight London shopping around found flight least expensive model box packed two PlC Power models safely handled baggage people hassle just explained what box took care London picked up Heathrow Airport friend Roy Collins packed off place made ready journeying car Czecho slovakia back France pack ing batteries starters tools models food etc interrupted number times pleasantly Free Flight friends dropping say hello see crazy Californian also took time out stop Henry Nicholls shop Aviation Bookshop Soon off Dover chan nel car ferry about two-hour sailing made very enjoyable found large group Italian tourists open top deck middle great dance party Home-grown wine out huge jugs being liberally passed around Too bad couldnt take boat rest way Hans Lifidhoim Sweden believes putting name Power modeil six mazes dropped place 13th Landing Calais motored up through France Belgium east Ger journey took us along Rhine Remagen Frankfurt overnight stop through Nurnberg Czech border border crossing took about two hours visas baggage car papers etc checked made obligatory purchase Czech currency $1250 per day 62 Model Aviation ~1 Bohemia Cup Cii Song Gu North Korea Power model Robert Baits Czechoslovakia niciy has flaps auto stab bunt transition trimmed Nordic Won first fiyoff aluminum-skinned surfaces Piaced eighth TI cin Models Year di ploma banquet Ivan placed 14th stay Having made good time far con tinued Pilsen industrial city outskirts Prague found motel next day spent few hours wandering around Prague soaking up some Old World atmosphere. off competition site Tabor lies 100 miles south Prague competition headquartered community called Sezimovo Usti new town combines industry ma chine tool rtianufacturing apartments shopping centers schools recreation facili ties hotels restaurants single planned community found com petition organizers established several floors hotel soon meeting old friends entry fee $100 paid three days lodging meals banquet bus transportation field competition fee Lodging consisted double-occupancy rooms hotel ap peared used often such organized affairs about two miles flying site drove out take look Already quite few practicing grass-covered airport used local sport flying club also agricultural aircraft April 1983 63 -- ails Cup event Tabor foreground some British contingent get spirit occasion banquet artv concluding Bohemia Cup Bohemia Cup banquet snhlvenwu y enti--- --Anselmo Zens model box holds four Wakefleldsvery compact neat Model box essential FF Gypsy Another use fore model box belonging authoriunch club decal billboard Traveling lightweight email best Journee International de Vol Libre grass very soft dense deep greenabout -six inches deep Quite dif ference Taft next two days spent practice Weather good although breeze put models across field couple minutes Surrounding actual grass air field farm fields variously corn wheat clear plowed sections Beyond about mile distant forested areas Competitions FlA Nordic FlB Wakefield FIC Power held Saturday Pole positions set up rnnnitnrc chodno nne cet nf timer Rounds 1 hr 10 mm long 5-mm break between together SO-mm lunch break Saturday dawned little light rain breeze continuing rain didnt last long stayed dull overcast flight line soon alive action competitors 16 countries got busy North Korea full team present very disciplined organized entry cluded fliers Czechoslovakia Poland Sweden East Germany West Germany Holland Canada USA Italy France N Korea England Austria New Zealand Romania Soviet Union 90 entrants FIA Lift first round easy find Only about 1969 Nordic Glider World Champion Elton Drew Great Britain lots trouble second round event Author notes Elton sells very good winch third fliers able record max surprising number flights 160 177-sec range What started out flight light lift often ended sink turbulence near ground Conditions im proved later day breeze per sisted started taking models toward trees Nevertheless two Czech fliers emerged string seven maxes flyoff poor air somewhat chaotic launch patterns saw Robert Barta take honors flight 125 sec ahead Zdenek Jancar got 77 sec Well known Czech flier Pavel Dvorak placed third having dropped 3 sec both Gypsy flier Bill Haflhll gets great last-round Ken Faux Great Britain won both Bohe launch before French audience went mia Cup Poitou Nelson power bad bunt carried model ground 22 seconds Alain Landeau France shows now irs aone Power Engine problems plagued him though Mike iantnam GB gets ready winning flyoff Nordic Model looks deceptively simple effective hands teitan jensen oy uenmarx geis goou Iuruu launch pretty helper Wing structure de signed minimize twist flutter second seventh rounds Czech Ivan Horejsi recipient NFFS FlA Model Year Award 1982 content 14th place Hopes English riding star Mike Fan tham dashed dropped 111 sec fifth round place 16th Wakefield 39 entries 10 coun tries Air-picking too easy though three categories being flown together North Koreans however seemed having some success technique team manager Paik Chang Sun Wakefield champion 1975 flight launched sig nal Korean models extension previous design concepts char acteristics similar Russian Wakefields although using feathering props winner Kim Jeng Sok maxes teammate second place Kim Dong Sik dropped 51 sec third round Kim Don Sik Wakefield World Champ 1977 13th place North Korean Li Zun Ban Stemming Korean onslaught 3rd place Czech Jiri Libra Although 36 Power en tries 12 countries represented gave great international flavor proceedings Since flying event can give few details what going es pecially downwind first two rounds relatively poor air Although breeze hadnt yet come problem thermals weak turbulence seemed upsetting glide trim Nevertheless number fliers maxing looking good included North Koreans Swede Continued page 140 April 1983 65 Coupe belonging USAs Bob Pisercnio wes proxy-flown Alain Nouge femme Bob didnt too well Alainflying own Coupetook first place Louis Dupois France launching flourish took fourth place Poitou Mike Seagrave Canada now living Moncontour site Poitou competition paints lives good French country life butBeautiful curved-dihedral Power model Denis Ferrero France still able turn Out very nice Wakefieldsecond Faux flyoft short engine run oernaru outIIIIer ot France placed fifth Power Model has cowled sidemounted engine built-up wing stab structures Wire blade stubs Jacque Valerys Wakefield prop fit aluminum hinge hub Jacque French airline pilot Price $1950GET ORGANIZED LEAR FAN72 Wing SpanHere s sel 014 slorap h4e Sal frogs over 4 years favorite 6 triagazores MODEL Designed Single$495 4 MAG FILES Send 5495 plt5 Si 00 1/B Sport 45for postage handireg Scale PlansSchneurle Engine DON INDUSTRIES P0 BOX 388-K VOGEL AVIATIONDIVISIONDOVER NH 03820 BOX 54 RESEDA CA 91335 FF Gypsy/HartillSeveral Czech helpers sat under tree wondering what next Continued page 65Then along came miniature whirlwind Hans Lindholm Ken Faux Englandr Cri- shook top tree mightily Sure ngu Popa Romaniar AdIt Hajek enough model flipped out came Czechoslovakia crashing down hitting everything Thermals breeze built starting way broken wingr stab tail boom third roundr retrieval became better no model back problem long walk flight line went get out reserve downwindr no way use carsmodel bikes Some crops slowed re-With few minutes end covery process also took sixth round wasnrt chance pick round get back Fortunately good air Rounds always seem end number Czech helpers r come bad air certainly did along meetr would help findFor last round resolved would models wheat forest run wait boomer Sure enough found back flight line real trash mover Watching DT great fifth round hooked good thermal height soon realized wasnt coming watched DT good height 318 down just getting smaller Following Through binoculars looked like came foot compass heading didnt reveal down bushes After walking downwind much lot trees soon saw bushes very tall Back contest five made pine trees standing deep ra- through flyoff resolved vine took few minutes see quickly round Ken Faux tree since tree cover Great Britain managed make 4-mm dense dark Seventy-five feet up no mark Ken using new Americanlimbs built Nelson 15 glow Cringu Popa Romania 2nd Vladimir Hajek Czechoslovakia 3rd first met Vladimir some 27 years ago World Championships Finthen Ger time flies youre having fun Kang Zung Sik North Korea flying aluminum-covered model full-span deep-chord flaps polyhedral wing suffered poor climb pattern flyoff place 5th Prize-giving banquet took place evening hotel brassy band three singers kept us entertained food refreshments flowed freely pre sented NFFS Ten Models Diploma Ivan Horejsi story telling languages carried night next day took another hike through forest trail lost model Other models lost treed several trees being sawed down still no luck went back airfield Pilot members Tabor Flying Club present quite willingly agreed help aerial search After about hour returned news spotted four models made ground search couldnt locate models dense forest After packing car once again headed Czechborder rain thun der lightning striped pole across road concrete blockades guards machine guns made pretty spooky As turned out guards friendly young soldiers After quick check look through model boxes way Luck us came small German town found hotel restau rant closed owner took us kitchen us select some cold meats cheese potato salad pickles tasty supper washed down stems great beer next day went through Munich Ulm Stuttgart Black Forest another nights stop Hotel rooms small European towns averaged around $25 double occupancy dinner $5 $7 Heading west again next day crossed France Strasbourg headed Hotel Cheval Gris Pleurs sentimental stop have times competing great Pierre Trebod Contest Trebod held last time 1981 would nice some other club would rejuvenate Right schedule met planned Englishmen Martin Dilly Mike Fan tham Martin Gregory Ken Faux another great Cheval Gris dinner next day spent repairing treebroken model would have something fly Poitou Off again journey stopped bit tourism Foun tainbleau through chateau country along Loire Valley Poitou Contest held rural region east Poitiers organizers set up Continued page 142 140 Model Aviation ___________Sand 5tK catalog 216-499-5323 RC Kits Mfg U4TUinEEhLOH 44721 U 1 ULjCanton NE STEPHENS ACRO 6/aAieA SPORT WINCH LightweIght 34 lbs 155kg battery Surprising performance r develops 9 HP Reliable & durable ity components Easy use stable electrodynamic brake help prevent Complete around parachute 600 meters 90 lb braided nylon line $21500 battery Shipping charges included also sell finest 160 lb braided nylon contest towline $1920/600 meters plus shipping Send complete descriptive literature price list 4-7ek9c 68 Morgan AVe Danbury CT 06810 TEL 203 743-3312 shop very nice campsite village Moncontour Swimming boating available village provided banquet hall edge campground festivities stayed Hotel Swan Airvault few miles away bill four days included room breakfast dinner wine came $53 French food magnificent hospitality sincere also came fly off field next day site great plain fact called Plain de Noize Apparently once part sea bed now covered sea fossils turned stone Some trochoidal fossils big car wheel Hying area grassy short stubble cut recently chase area plentiful no trees just few crops Nordic Glider flown Friday entry list 104 Round schedules timer allocations similar Czech contest Weather quite good some breeze wasnt much bother considering ample site first round troublesome turned out two fliers managed max through seven rounds Mike Fantham Great Britain Martin Greg ory New Zealand now living Eng land 4-mm round both went off strong lift Mike hooked another boomer 5-mm round leaving Martin terrible air 72 sec Third fourth fifth place divided up respectively Lareau France Willi Kamp Austria Finn Bjere Denmark top Nordic designs seemed relatively simple concept tricks Wakefield Rubber attracted 52 entries eight countries Among Mike Seagrave Canada year ago bicycled England Spain World Champs Stopping Poitou way back decided settle down bit Now residence Moncontour Artist painting enjoying easy French life Wakefield competition got very inter esting closing rounds flier Gerald Nocque France maxes Joe Barnes Great Britain dropped 1 sec first round Anselmo Zen Italy now working Holland 1981 Wakefield winner Poitou 1982 dropped 16 seconds sixth round Louis Dupuis France also down some sixth round Barnes pulled off max last round putting pressure Noque Dupuis Zen followed suit game finished Noque got max third day Sunday FIC Power FiG Coupe dHiver flown Thirty-two Coupe fliers outnumbered 13 Power fliers after French started Coupe mania Along Coupe start line saw Bob Piserchio USA no wasnt Bobit Alain Nouge France flying Bobs Coupe proxy Bob didnt fare too well Alainflying own Coupemaxed out bested Louis Dupuis 2nd G Ambrogo 3rd all-French flyoff Power things looking pretty good remaining repaired model flying better ever Some carelessness crept however picking poor air fourth round cost 29 sec Meanwhile Denis Ferrero France Ken Faux pro ceeded max out resulting flyoff both no trouble 4-mm round launched together next Ken got ready launched quickly Denis launched minutes later something went wrong very short run Ken up 5 mm Denis dropped dis astrously 60 sec So Ken made two row Nelson-engined ship French spectators crowding around watch Power models finish up last round put up very nice climb bunt came Nelson stopped oh-oh hunt stayed ship right ground 22 seconds Oh well still banquet general partying night turned out equal great traditions sport few days way back California team selection fin als Free Flight Gypsy off next round writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 142 Model Aviation LOON AT THESE FEATURES BEGINNERS AND NOVICE FLYERS.Are hav ing trouble getting hang controlled RIG flying squirrely trainer Wait till expen ence smooth solid slow flight characteristics GOLDEN FALCON thin will say Now thats like EXPERIENCED FLYERS.Is fast-paced hot dogging trend RIG getting down would like spend really enjoyable relax ing afternoon flying field graceful yet aerobatic capabilities GOLDEN FALCON allow just that.ENJOY COMPLETE KIT.Except radio engine kit contains everything needed build flying model Wheels fuel tank Super Monokotecovering three types glue hardware connectors cowls etc.. nothing left out Compare other kits provide skeleton structure INSTRUCTIONS.The 48 page fully-illustrated stepby-step instruction manual takes guesswork out building radio installation PRE-FORMED PARTS.Wing saddle/windshield cowls vacuum formed ribs formers pre cision die-cut several special parts injection molded added convenience JIG CoNSTRuCTIoN.Six special jigs simplify assem ly holding parts alignment gluing ENGINE MOUNT.Unique mounting system allows engine tank removed seconds inspec tion replacement PURE PLEASURE.Building flying new GOLDEN FALCON sure provide enjoyable satisfying experience FOR MORE FREE INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL TODAY. ST CROIX OF PARK FALLS LTD PO BOX 279 PARK FALLS WI 54552 PHONE 715 762-3226 er /nquiries Invited
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/04
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 64, 65, 140, 142
FIC FREE FLIGHTERS have long recognized great sport truly international Participation World Championships has dozens countries thousands around world vying spots national teams World Champs restrictive three members country can chosen event however other international competitions world classthat unrestricted affairs attracting more following provide great meeting ground spirited competition tran scendent camaraderie account describes two such European Free Right competitions good fortune participate past summer Bohemia Cup Tabor Czechoslovakia held August 13-15 followed week later Journee International de Vol Li bre commonly called Poitou held region Poitou France journey began Los Angeles boarded Air Canada flight London shopping around found flight least expensive model box packed two PlC Power models safely handled baggage people hassle just explained what box took care London picked up Heathrow Airport friend Roy Collins packed off place made ready journeying car Czecho slovakia back France pack ing batteries starters tools models food etc interrupted number times pleasantly Free Flight friends dropping say hello see crazy Californian also took time out stop Henry Nicholls shop Aviation Bookshop Soon off Dover chan nel car ferry about two-hour sailing made very enjoyable found large group Italian tourists open top deck middle great dance party Home-grown wine out huge jugs being liberally passed around Too bad couldnt take boat rest way Hans Lifidhoim Sweden believes putting name Power modeil six mazes dropped place 13th Landing Calais motored up through France Belgium east Ger journey took us along Rhine Remagen Frankfurt overnight stop through Nurnberg Czech border border crossing took about two hours visas baggage car papers etc checked made obligatory purchase Czech currency $1250 per day 62 Model Aviation ~1 Bohemia Cup Cii Song Gu North Korea Power model Robert Baits Czechoslovakia niciy has flaps auto stab bunt transition trimmed Nordic Won first fiyoff aluminum-skinned surfaces Piaced eighth TI cin Models Year di ploma banquet Ivan placed 14th stay Having made good time far con tinued Pilsen industrial city outskirts Prague found motel next day spent few hours wandering around Prague soaking up some Old World atmosphere. off competition site Tabor lies 100 miles south Prague competition headquartered community called Sezimovo Usti new town combines industry ma chine tool rtianufacturing apartments shopping centers schools recreation facili ties hotels restaurants single planned community found com petition organizers established several floors hotel soon meeting old friends entry fee $100 paid three days lodging meals banquet bus transportation field competition fee Lodging consisted double-occupancy rooms hotel ap peared used often such organized affairs about two miles flying site drove out take look Already quite few practicing grass-covered airport used local sport flying club also agricultural aircraft April 1983 63 -- ails Cup event Tabor foreground some British contingent get spirit occasion banquet artv concluding Bohemia Cup Bohemia Cup banquet snhlvenwu y enti--- --Anselmo Zens model box holds four Wakefleldsvery compact neat Model box essential FF Gypsy Another use fore model box belonging authoriunch club decal billboard Traveling lightweight email best Journee International de Vol Libre grass very soft dense deep greenabout -six inches deep Quite dif ference Taft next two days spent practice Weather good although breeze put models across field couple minutes Surrounding actual grass air field farm fields variously corn wheat clear plowed sections Beyond about mile distant forested areas Competitions FlA Nordic FlB Wakefield FIC Power held Saturday Pole positions set up rnnnitnrc chodno nne cet nf timer Rounds 1 hr 10 mm long 5-mm break between together SO-mm lunch break Saturday dawned little light rain breeze continuing rain didnt last long stayed dull overcast flight line soon alive action competitors 16 countries got busy North Korea full team present very disciplined organized entry cluded fliers Czechoslovakia Poland Sweden East Germany West Germany Holland Canada USA Italy France N Korea England Austria New Zealand Romania Soviet Union 90 entrants FIA Lift first round easy find Only about 1969 Nordic Glider World Champion Elton Drew Great Britain lots trouble second round event Author notes Elton sells very good winch third fliers able record max surprising number flights 160 177-sec range What started out flight light lift often ended sink turbulence near ground Conditions im proved later day breeze per sisted started taking models toward trees Nevertheless two Czech fliers emerged string seven maxes flyoff poor air somewhat chaotic launch patterns saw Robert Barta take honors flight 125 sec ahead Zdenek Jancar got 77 sec Well known Czech flier Pavel Dvorak placed third having dropped 3 sec both Gypsy flier Bill Haflhll gets great last-round Ken Faux Great Britain won both Bohe launch before French audience went mia Cup Poitou Nelson power bad bunt carried model ground 22 seconds Alain Landeau France shows now irs aone Power Engine problems plagued him though Mike iantnam GB gets ready winning flyoff Nordic Model looks deceptively simple effective hands teitan jensen oy uenmarx geis goou Iuruu launch pretty helper Wing structure de signed minimize twist flutter second seventh rounds Czech Ivan Horejsi recipient NFFS FlA Model Year Award 1982 content 14th place Hopes English riding star Mike Fan tham dashed dropped 111 sec fifth round place 16th Wakefield 39 entries 10 coun tries Air-picking too easy though three categories being flown together North Koreans however seemed having some success technique team manager Paik Chang Sun Wakefield champion 1975 flight launched sig nal Korean models extension previous design concepts char acteristics similar Russian Wakefields although using feathering props winner Kim Jeng Sok maxes teammate second place Kim Dong Sik dropped 51 sec third round Kim Don Sik Wakefield World Champ 1977 13th place North Korean Li Zun Ban Stemming Korean onslaught 3rd place Czech Jiri Libra Although 36 Power en tries 12 countries represented gave great international flavor proceedings Since flying event can give few details what going es pecially downwind first two rounds relatively poor air Although breeze hadnt yet come problem thermals weak turbulence seemed upsetting glide trim Nevertheless number fliers maxing looking good included North Koreans Swede Continued page 140 April 1983 65 Coupe belonging USAs Bob Pisercnio wes proxy-flown Alain Nouge femme Bob didnt too well Alainflying own Coupetook first place Louis Dupois France launching flourish took fourth place Poitou Mike Seagrave Canada now living Moncontour site Poitou competition paints lives good French country life butBeautiful curved-dihedral Power model Denis Ferrero France still able turn Out very nice Wakefieldsecond Faux flyoft short engine run oernaru outIIIIer ot France placed fifth Power Model has cowled sidemounted engine built-up wing stab structures Wire blade stubs Jacque Valerys Wakefield prop fit aluminum hinge hub Jacque French airline pilot Price $1950GET ORGANIZED LEAR FAN72 Wing SpanHere s sel 014 slorap h4e Sal frogs over 4 years favorite 6 triagazores MODEL Designed Single$495 4 MAG FILES Send 5495 plt5 Si 00 1/B Sport 45for postage handireg Scale PlansSchneurle Engine DON INDUSTRIES P0 BOX 388-K VOGEL AVIATIONDIVISIONDOVER NH 03820 BOX 54 RESEDA CA 91335 FF Gypsy/HartillSeveral Czech helpers sat under tree wondering what next Continued page 65Then along came miniature whirlwind Hans Lindholm Ken Faux Englandr Cri- shook top tree mightily Sure ngu Popa Romaniar AdIt Hajek enough model flipped out came Czechoslovakia crashing down hitting everything Thermals breeze built starting way broken wingr stab tail boom third roundr retrieval became better no model back problem long walk flight line went get out reserve downwindr no way use carsmodel bikes Some crops slowed re-With few minutes end covery process also took sixth round wasnrt chance pick round get back Fortunately good air Rounds always seem end number Czech helpers r come bad air certainly did along meetr would help findFor last round resolved would models wheat forest run wait boomer Sure enough found back flight line real trash mover Watching DT great fifth round hooked good thermal height soon realized wasnt coming watched DT good height 318 down just getting smaller Following Through binoculars looked like came foot compass heading didnt reveal down bushes After walking downwind much lot trees soon saw bushes very tall Back contest five made pine trees standing deep ra- through flyoff resolved vine took few minutes see quickly round Ken Faux tree since tree cover Great Britain managed make 4-mm dense dark Seventy-five feet up no mark Ken using new Americanlimbs built Nelson 15 glow Cringu Popa Romania 2nd Vladimir Hajek Czechoslovakia 3rd first met Vladimir some 27 years ago World Championships Finthen Ger time flies youre having fun Kang Zung Sik North Korea flying aluminum-covered model full-span deep-chord flaps polyhedral wing suffered poor climb pattern flyoff place 5th Prize-giving banquet took place evening hotel brassy band three singers kept us entertained food refreshments flowed freely pre sented NFFS Ten Models Diploma Ivan Horejsi story telling languages carried night next day took another hike through forest trail lost model Other models lost treed several trees being sawed down still no luck went back airfield Pilot members Tabor Flying Club present quite willingly agreed help aerial search After about hour returned news spotted four models made ground search couldnt locate models dense forest After packing car once again headed Czechborder rain thun der lightning striped pole across road concrete blockades guards machine guns made pretty spooky As turned out guards friendly young soldiers After quick check look through model boxes way Luck us came small German town found hotel restau rant closed owner took us kitchen us select some cold meats cheese potato salad pickles tasty supper washed down stems great beer next day went through Munich Ulm Stuttgart Black Forest another nights stop Hotel rooms small European towns averaged around $25 double occupancy dinner $5 $7 Heading west again next day crossed France Strasbourg headed Hotel Cheval Gris Pleurs sentimental stop have times competing great Pierre Trebod Contest Trebod held last time 1981 would nice some other club would rejuvenate Right schedule met planned Englishmen Martin Dilly Mike Fan tham Martin Gregory Ken Faux another great Cheval Gris dinner next day spent repairing treebroken model would have something fly Poitou Off again journey stopped bit tourism Foun tainbleau through chateau country along Loire Valley Poitou Contest held rural region east Poitiers organizers set up Continued page 142 140 Model Aviation ___________Sand 5tK catalog 216-499-5323 RC Kits Mfg U4TUinEEhLOH 44721 U 1 ULjCanton NE STEPHENS ACRO 6/aAieA SPORT WINCH LightweIght 34 lbs 155kg battery Surprising performance r develops 9 HP Reliable & durable ity components Easy use stable electrodynamic brake help prevent Complete around parachute 600 meters 90 lb braided nylon line $21500 battery Shipping charges included also sell finest 160 lb braided nylon contest towline $1920/600 meters plus shipping Send complete descriptive literature price list 4-7ek9c 68 Morgan AVe Danbury CT 06810 TEL 203 743-3312 shop very nice campsite village Moncontour Swimming boating available village provided banquet hall edge campground festivities stayed Hotel Swan Airvault few miles away bill four days included room breakfast dinner wine came $53 French food magnificent hospitality sincere also came fly off field next day site great plain fact called Plain de Noize Apparently once part sea bed now covered sea fossils turned stone Some trochoidal fossils big car wheel Hying area grassy short stubble cut recently chase area plentiful no trees just few crops Nordic Glider flown Friday entry list 104 Round schedules timer allocations similar Czech contest Weather quite good some breeze wasnt much bother considering ample site first round troublesome turned out two fliers managed max through seven rounds Mike Fantham Great Britain Martin Greg ory New Zealand now living Eng land 4-mm round both went off strong lift Mike hooked another boomer 5-mm round leaving Martin terrible air 72 sec Third fourth fifth place divided up respectively Lareau France Willi Kamp Austria Finn Bjere Denmark top Nordic designs seemed relatively simple concept tricks Wakefield Rubber attracted 52 entries eight countries Among Mike Seagrave Canada year ago bicycled England Spain World Champs Stopping Poitou way back decided settle down bit Now residence Moncontour Artist painting enjoying easy French life Wakefield competition got very inter esting closing rounds flier Gerald Nocque France maxes Joe Barnes Great Britain dropped 1 sec first round Anselmo Zen Italy now working Holland 1981 Wakefield winner Poitou 1982 dropped 16 seconds sixth round Louis Dupuis France also down some sixth round Barnes pulled off max last round putting pressure Noque Dupuis Zen followed suit game finished Noque got max third day Sunday FIC Power FiG Coupe dHiver flown Thirty-two Coupe fliers outnumbered 13 Power fliers after French started Coupe mania Along Coupe start line saw Bob Piserchio USA no wasnt Bobit Alain Nouge France flying Bobs Coupe proxy Bob didnt fare too well Alainflying own Coupemaxed out bested Louis Dupuis 2nd G Ambrogo 3rd all-French flyoff Power things looking pretty good remaining repaired model flying better ever Some carelessness crept however picking poor air fourth round cost 29 sec Meanwhile Denis Ferrero France Ken Faux pro ceeded max out resulting flyoff both no trouble 4-mm round launched together next Ken got ready launched quickly Denis launched minutes later something went wrong very short run Ken up 5 mm Denis dropped dis astrously 60 sec So Ken made two row Nelson-engined ship French spectators crowding around watch Power models finish up last round put up very nice climb bunt came Nelson stopped oh-oh hunt stayed ship right ground 22 seconds Oh well still banquet general partying night turned out equal great traditions sport few days way back California team selection fin als Free Flight Gypsy off next round writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 142 Model Aviation LOON AT THESE FEATURES BEGINNERS AND NOVICE FLYERS.Are hav ing trouble getting hang controlled RIG flying squirrely trainer Wait till expen ence smooth solid slow flight characteristics GOLDEN FALCON thin will say Now thats like EXPERIENCED FLYERS.Is fast-paced hot dogging trend RIG getting down would like spend really enjoyable relax ing afternoon flying field graceful yet aerobatic capabilities GOLDEN FALCON allow just that.ENJOY COMPLETE KIT.Except radio engine kit contains everything needed build flying model Wheels fuel tank Super Monokotecovering three types glue hardware connectors cowls etc.. nothing left out Compare other kits provide skeleton structure INSTRUCTIONS.The 48 page fully-illustrated stepby-step instruction manual takes guesswork out building radio installation PRE-FORMED PARTS.Wing saddle/windshield cowls vacuum formed ribs formers pre cision die-cut several special parts injection molded added convenience JIG CoNSTRuCTIoN.Six special jigs simplify assem ly holding parts alignment gluing ENGINE MOUNT.Unique mounting system allows engine tank removed seconds inspec tion replacement PURE PLEASURE.Building flying new GOLDEN FALCON sure provide enjoyable satisfying experience FOR MORE FREE INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL TODAY. 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/04
Page Numbers: 62, 63, 64, 65, 140, 142
FIC FREE FLIGHTERS have long recognized great sport truly international Participation World Championships has dozens countries thousands around world vying spots national teams World Champs restrictive three members country can chosen event however other international competitions world classthat unrestricted affairs attracting more following provide great meeting ground spirited competition tran scendent camaraderie account describes two such European Free Right competitions good fortune participate past summer Bohemia Cup Tabor Czechoslovakia held August 13-15 followed week later Journee International de Vol Li bre commonly called Poitou held region Poitou France journey began Los Angeles boarded Air Canada flight London shopping around found flight least expensive model box packed two PlC Power models safely handled baggage people hassle just explained what box took care London picked up Heathrow Airport friend Roy Collins packed off place made ready journeying car Czecho slovakia back France pack ing batteries starters tools models food etc interrupted number times pleasantly Free Flight friends dropping say hello see crazy Californian also took time out stop Henry Nicholls shop Aviation Bookshop Soon off Dover chan nel car ferry about two-hour sailing made very enjoyable found large group Italian tourists open top deck middle great dance party Home-grown wine out huge jugs being liberally passed around Too bad couldnt take boat rest way Hans Lifidhoim Sweden believes putting name Power modeil six mazes dropped place 13th Landing Calais motored up through France Belgium east Ger journey took us along Rhine Remagen Frankfurt overnight stop through Nurnberg Czech border border crossing took about two hours visas baggage car papers etc checked made obligatory purchase Czech currency $1250 per day 62 Model Aviation ~1 Bohemia Cup Cii Song Gu North Korea Power model Robert Baits Czechoslovakia niciy has flaps auto stab bunt transition trimmed Nordic Won first fiyoff aluminum-skinned surfaces Piaced eighth TI cin Models Year di ploma banquet Ivan placed 14th stay Having made good time far con tinued Pilsen industrial city outskirts Prague found motel next day spent few hours wandering around Prague soaking up some Old World atmosphere. off competition site Tabor lies 100 miles south Prague competition headquartered community called Sezimovo Usti new town combines industry ma chine tool rtianufacturing apartments shopping centers schools recreation facili ties hotels restaurants single planned community found com petition organizers established several floors hotel soon meeting old friends entry fee $100 paid three days lodging meals banquet bus transportation field competition fee Lodging consisted double-occupancy rooms hotel ap peared used often such organized affairs about two miles flying site drove out take look Already quite few practicing grass-covered airport used local sport flying club also agricultural aircraft April 1983 63 -- ails Cup event Tabor foreground some British contingent get spirit occasion banquet artv concluding Bohemia Cup Bohemia Cup banquet snhlvenwu y enti--- --Anselmo Zens model box holds four Wakefleldsvery compact neat Model box essential FF Gypsy Another use fore model box belonging authoriunch club decal billboard Traveling lightweight email best Journee International de Vol Libre grass very soft dense deep greenabout -six inches deep Quite dif ference Taft next two days spent practice Weather good although breeze put models across field couple minutes Surrounding actual grass air field farm fields variously corn wheat clear plowed sections Beyond about mile distant forested areas Competitions FlA Nordic FlB Wakefield FIC Power held Saturday Pole positions set up rnnnitnrc chodno nne cet nf timer Rounds 1 hr 10 mm long 5-mm break between together SO-mm lunch break Saturday dawned little light rain breeze continuing rain didnt last long stayed dull overcast flight line soon alive action competitors 16 countries got busy North Korea full team present very disciplined organized entry cluded fliers Czechoslovakia Poland Sweden East Germany West Germany Holland Canada USA Italy France N Korea England Austria New Zealand Romania Soviet Union 90 entrants FIA Lift first round easy find Only about 1969 Nordic Glider World Champion Elton Drew Great Britain lots trouble second round event Author notes Elton sells very good winch third fliers able record max surprising number flights 160 177-sec range What started out flight light lift often ended sink turbulence near ground Conditions im proved later day breeze per sisted started taking models toward trees Nevertheless two Czech fliers emerged string seven maxes flyoff poor air somewhat chaotic launch patterns saw Robert Barta take honors flight 125 sec ahead Zdenek Jancar got 77 sec Well known Czech flier Pavel Dvorak placed third having dropped 3 sec both Gypsy flier Bill Haflhll gets great last-round Ken Faux Great Britain won both Bohe launch before French audience went mia Cup Poitou Nelson power bad bunt carried model ground 22 seconds Alain Landeau France shows now irs aone Power Engine problems plagued him though Mike iantnam GB gets ready winning flyoff Nordic Model looks deceptively simple effective hands teitan jensen oy uenmarx geis goou Iuruu launch pretty helper Wing structure de signed minimize twist flutter second seventh rounds Czech Ivan Horejsi recipient NFFS FlA Model Year Award 1982 content 14th place Hopes English riding star Mike Fan tham dashed dropped 111 sec fifth round place 16th Wakefield 39 entries 10 coun tries Air-picking too easy though three categories being flown together North Koreans however seemed having some success technique team manager Paik Chang Sun Wakefield champion 1975 flight launched sig nal Korean models extension previous design concepts char acteristics similar Russian Wakefields although using feathering props winner Kim Jeng Sok maxes teammate second place Kim Dong Sik dropped 51 sec third round Kim Don Sik Wakefield World Champ 1977 13th place North Korean Li Zun Ban Stemming Korean onslaught 3rd place Czech Jiri Libra Although 36 Power en tries 12 countries represented gave great international flavor proceedings Since flying event can give few details what going es pecially downwind first two rounds relatively poor air Although breeze hadnt yet come problem thermals weak turbulence seemed upsetting glide trim Nevertheless number fliers maxing looking good included North Koreans Swede Continued page 140 April 1983 65 Coupe belonging USAs Bob Pisercnio wes proxy-flown Alain Nouge femme Bob didnt too well Alainflying own Coupetook first place Louis Dupois France launching flourish took fourth place Poitou Mike Seagrave Canada now living Moncontour site Poitou competition paints lives good French country life butBeautiful curved-dihedral Power model Denis Ferrero France still able turn Out very nice Wakefieldsecond Faux flyoft short engine run oernaru outIIIIer ot France placed fifth Power Model has cowled sidemounted engine built-up wing stab structures Wire blade stubs Jacque Valerys Wakefield prop fit aluminum hinge hub Jacque French airline pilot Price $1950GET ORGANIZED LEAR FAN72 Wing SpanHere s sel 014 slorap h4e Sal frogs over 4 years favorite 6 triagazores MODEL Designed Single$495 4 MAG FILES Send 5495 plt5 Si 00 1/B Sport 45for postage handireg Scale PlansSchneurle Engine DON INDUSTRIES P0 BOX 388-K VOGEL AVIATIONDIVISIONDOVER NH 03820 BOX 54 RESEDA CA 91335 FF Gypsy/HartillSeveral Czech helpers sat under tree wondering what next Continued page 65Then along came miniature whirlwind Hans Lindholm Ken Faux Englandr Cri- shook top tree mightily Sure ngu Popa Romaniar AdIt Hajek enough model flipped out came Czechoslovakia crashing down hitting everything Thermals breeze built starting way broken wingr stab tail boom third roundr retrieval became better no model back problem long walk flight line went get out reserve downwindr no way use carsmodel bikes Some crops slowed re-With few minutes end covery process also took sixth round wasnrt chance pick round get back Fortunately good air Rounds always seem end number Czech helpers r come bad air certainly did along meetr would help findFor last round resolved would models wheat forest run wait boomer Sure enough found back flight line real trash mover Watching DT great fifth round hooked good thermal height soon realized wasnt coming watched DT good height 318 down just getting smaller Following Through binoculars looked like came foot compass heading didnt reveal down bushes After walking downwind much lot trees soon saw bushes very tall Back contest five made pine trees standing deep ra- through flyoff resolved vine took few minutes see quickly round Ken Faux tree since tree cover Great Britain managed make 4-mm dense dark Seventy-five feet up no mark Ken using new Americanlimbs built Nelson 15 glow Cringu Popa Romania 2nd Vladimir Hajek Czechoslovakia 3rd first met Vladimir some 27 years ago World Championships Finthen Ger time flies youre having fun Kang Zung Sik North Korea flying aluminum-covered model full-span deep-chord flaps polyhedral wing suffered poor climb pattern flyoff place 5th Prize-giving banquet took place evening hotel brassy band three singers kept us entertained food refreshments flowed freely pre sented NFFS Ten Models Diploma Ivan Horejsi story telling languages carried night next day took another hike through forest trail lost model Other models lost treed several trees being sawed down still no luck went back airfield Pilot members Tabor Flying Club present quite willingly agreed help aerial search After about hour returned news spotted four models made ground search couldnt locate models dense forest After packing car once again headed Czechborder rain thun der lightning striped pole across road concrete blockades guards machine guns made pretty spooky As turned out guards friendly young soldiers After quick check look through model boxes way Luck us came small German town found hotel restau rant closed owner took us kitchen us select some cold meats cheese potato salad pickles tasty supper washed down stems great beer next day went through Munich Ulm Stuttgart Black Forest another nights stop Hotel rooms small European towns averaged around $25 double occupancy dinner $5 $7 Heading west again next day crossed France Strasbourg headed Hotel Cheval Gris Pleurs sentimental stop have times competing great Pierre Trebod Contest Trebod held last time 1981 would nice some other club would rejuvenate Right schedule met planned Englishmen Martin Dilly Mike Fan tham Martin Gregory Ken Faux another great Cheval Gris dinner next day spent repairing treebroken model would have something fly Poitou Off again journey stopped bit tourism Foun tainbleau through chateau country along Loire Valley Poitou Contest held rural region east Poitiers organizers set up Continued page 142 140 Model Aviation ___________Sand 5tK catalog 216-499-5323 RC Kits Mfg U4TUinEEhLOH 44721 U 1 ULjCanton NE STEPHENS ACRO 6/aAieA SPORT WINCH LightweIght 34 lbs 155kg battery Surprising performance r develops 9 HP Reliable & durable ity components Easy use stable electrodynamic brake help prevent Complete around parachute 600 meters 90 lb braided nylon line $21500 battery Shipping charges included also sell finest 160 lb braided nylon contest towline $1920/600 meters plus shipping Send complete descriptive literature price list 4-7ek9c 68 Morgan AVe Danbury CT 06810 TEL 203 743-3312 shop very nice campsite village Moncontour Swimming boating available village provided banquet hall edge campground festivities stayed Hotel Swan Airvault few miles away bill four days included room breakfast dinner wine came $53 French food magnificent hospitality sincere also came fly off field next day site great plain fact called Plain de Noize Apparently once part sea bed now covered sea fossils turned stone Some trochoidal fossils big car wheel Hying area grassy short stubble cut recently chase area plentiful no trees just few crops Nordic Glider flown Friday entry list 104 Round schedules timer allocations similar Czech contest Weather quite good some breeze wasnt much bother considering ample site first round troublesome turned out two fliers managed max through seven rounds Mike Fantham Great Britain Martin Greg ory New Zealand now living Eng land 4-mm round both went off strong lift Mike hooked another boomer 5-mm round leaving Martin terrible air 72 sec Third fourth fifth place divided up respectively Lareau France Willi Kamp Austria Finn Bjere Denmark top Nordic designs seemed relatively simple concept tricks Wakefield Rubber attracted 52 entries eight countries Among Mike Seagrave Canada year ago bicycled England Spain World Champs Stopping Poitou way back decided settle down bit Now residence Moncontour Artist painting enjoying easy French life Wakefield competition got very inter esting closing rounds flier Gerald Nocque France maxes Joe Barnes Great Britain dropped 1 sec first round Anselmo Zen Italy now working Holland 1981 Wakefield winner Poitou 1982 dropped 16 seconds sixth round Louis Dupuis France also down some sixth round Barnes pulled off max last round putting pressure Noque Dupuis Zen followed suit game finished Noque got max third day Sunday FIC Power FiG Coupe dHiver flown Thirty-two Coupe fliers outnumbered 13 Power fliers after French started Coupe mania Along Coupe start line saw Bob Piserchio USA no wasnt Bobit Alain Nouge France flying Bobs Coupe proxy Bob didnt fare too well Alainflying own Coupemaxed out bested Louis Dupuis 2nd G Ambrogo 3rd all-French flyoff Power things looking pretty good remaining repaired model flying better ever Some carelessness crept however picking poor air fourth round cost 29 sec Meanwhile Denis Ferrero France Ken Faux pro ceeded max out resulting flyoff both no trouble 4-mm round launched together next Ken got ready launched quickly Denis launched minutes later something went wrong very short run Ken up 5 mm Denis dropped dis astrously 60 sec So Ken made two row Nelson-engined ship French spectators crowding around watch Power models finish up last round put up very nice climb bunt came Nelson stopped oh-oh hunt stayed ship right ground 22 seconds Oh well still banquet general partying night turned out equal great traditions sport few days way back California team selection fin als Free Flight Gypsy off next round writing advertisers mention read about Model Aviation 142 Model Aviation LOON AT THESE FEATURES BEGINNERS AND NOVICE FLYERS.Are hav ing trouble getting hang controlled RIG flying squirrely trainer Wait till expen ence smooth solid slow flight characteristics GOLDEN FALCON thin will say Now thats like EXPERIENCED FLYERS.Is fast-paced hot dogging trend RIG getting down would like spend really enjoyable relax ing afternoon flying field graceful yet aerobatic capabilities GOLDEN FALCON allow just that.ENJOY COMPLETE KIT.Except radio engine kit contains everything needed build flying model Wheels fuel tank Super Monokotecovering three types glue hardware connectors cowls etc.. nothing left out Compare other kits provide skeleton structure INSTRUCTIONS.The 48 page fully-illustrated stepby-step instruction manual takes guesswork out building radio installation PRE-FORMED PARTS.Wing saddle/windshield cowls vacuum formed ribs formers pre cision die-cut several special parts injection molded added convenience JIG CoNSTRuCTIoN.Six special jigs simplify assem ly holding parts alignment gluing ENGINE MOUNT.Unique mounting system allows engine tank removed seconds inspec tion replacement PURE PLEASURE.Building flying new GOLDEN FALCON sure provide enjoyable satisfying experience FOR MORE FREE INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL TODAY. ST CROIX OF PARK FALLS LTD PO BOX 279 PARK FALLS WI 54552 PHONE 715 762-3226 er /nquiries Invited