Free Flight: Old-Timers

FREE FLIGHT OLD-TIMERS E--11 II latest discovery interest anyone uses iron-on coverings Several paint manufacturers now make water-based acrylic sanding sealer am using Behr brand purchased Home Depot also found similar product Ace hardware house-brand label stuff milky white color dries clear has no odor clean brush water Sand lightly after first coat apply second dry will get much-improved adhesion iron coverings including over fiberglassed areas wood now sealed oil can spread rapidly capillary action wherever can get unsealed wood cost about $8-$9 quart can now buy excellent instructional videotape 117 minutes long Larry Kruse demonstrates three methods covering models Japanese tissue professional-quality tape Larry superb modeler times Nationals scale winner Price $1995 plus $3 priority mail phone fax orders welcome Visa MasterCard accepted Robins View Productions LLC Box 68 Stockertown PA 18083 Tel 610 7460106 Fax 610 746-9638 PAL code copies available overseas orders $2 plus overseas postage great things about SAM Speaks newsletter days ads People live places lots modelers similar interest Free Flight activity cannot appreciate hard us live places no else shares similar interest example May-June issue advertises instructional video Larry Davidson nonprofessional good use Polyspan $20 plus $3 postage also can supply Super Cyclone engines spark plugs other ignition supplies B-Y&O propellers Texas timers etc Larry Davidson 1 Salisbury Drive N East NorthportNY 11731 Tel 516 261-1265 SuperCyclone engines being manufactured repaired Apollo Motors 665 Chaparro Road Covina CA 91724 Tel 818 332-0023 another example what might learn SAM Speaks Repair rebuild service Brown Juniors available Jack Van Dusen 189 Centenary Lane Warminster PA 18974 Tel 215 672-0608 might also pleased know P&W partial kits Old-Timers again available Aerodyne 1924 E Edinger Santa Ana CA 92705 Tel 714 258-0805 SAM Speaks will cost $18 year US Canada $30 airmail anywhere else included membership SAM Society Antique Modelers Larry Clark Box 528 Lucerne Valley CA 92356 have probably seen ads Andersons Blue Book Model Airplane Engine Collectors listings book great interest use collector antique engines historian data provided could determine approximately production history engine have fits well photos drawings data such metal type bearings etc unique thing approximate dollar value derived study ads MECA Model Engine Collectors Association Swap Sheet other sources does have operational instructions performance data Cost Priority Mail $2995 plus $4 direct Frank Anderson 1200 Eagle Trail Longwood FL 32750-3002 has another series started history model airplanes three volumes Volume covers 19 14-1935 Volume II 1936-1940 will especially interesting price Volume $2795 plus $4 S&H US $8 S&H Europe Canada $10 Pacific Rim mentioned MECA Swap Sheet recently rejoined Model Engine Collectors Association after dropping out few years because really collector still am collector first issue able get 1946 book have wanting just missed couple out-ofproduction kits have looking members advertise free monthly Swap Sheet sell trade current antique modeling items annual cost $25 Bob McClelland 3007 Travis Street West Lake LA 70669 mentioned operational instructions performance data old engines Robert Eierman has quality reprints 29 different antique engine instructions available nominal cost better opinion has copies Model Engine Reviews Arthur G Suhr 213 pages gives reprints model magazine reviews 1935 1955 well feature articles period really need ignition engines antique diesel glow engines Cost $33 plus $4 P&H send another $3 ask list modeling items comes out four times year engines kits sorts modeling items Robert Eierman 504 Las Posas Ridgecrest CA 93555 Tel/Fax 619 375-5537 Good grief concludes ten years doing column would have thunk possible n late 1930s Bill Sherman Highland Park IL test- Bill Sherman L Carl Goldberg Stan East St Louis contest glides Comet Clipper Mkl designed Carl Goldberg Bill started modeling late 19308 Carls guidance November1997 117