Free Flight: Old-Timers

FREE FLIGHT OLD-TIMERS HAVE FOUND OUT what want grow up Retired find myself very busy Sal Taibi others have told wonder time work Still havent time clean out garage no hurry people flying models today doing very young just hobby way life two photos issue show Loren Dietrich now retired faithful pen pals Scientific Mercury made about 14 other photo shows Jim Adams 98 SAM Champs modified Gladiator powered O&R 60 hobby shop Pearl Harbor bombs fell Jim wrote nice letter about 1938 Wakefield Champs stimulated photo 38 Wakefield team November column Does anyone know wherabouts Ralph Baker team members Jim Loren Old Bill Baker retired still having fun after starting very young going school fighting wars raising families fun ever great time us flying 1 950s example resurgence Control Line reissuing Nobler Right Streak Ringmaster RJL see address ad under MECQA has resumed manufacture Atwood Shriek 049 great engines used SOs power Zeeks replacing OK Cubs started out bought newly made engines looks great made original castings using original toolings fixtures repros resumption manufacture So Campbells Zeek Fubar now has really suitable engine would advise moderate nitro 10-15% will likely overpower authentic designs period Fox 049 FAI also available also made original parts National Free Flight Society Nostalgia-legal engine resumption production using original parts H R Engines 5024 Old Mayfield Rd Paducah KY 42003 bought parts Fox have storage 30 years got has great feel has received great reviews Free Flight NFFS Digest Price direct H&R Engines $55 extra glow head $4 shipping $4 Free Flight fine publication addition informative articles has cottage industry ads Free Flight products too small advertise major magazines Free Flight has important you should support National Free Flight Society sending $20 NFFS Membership Office 3317 Pine Timbers Drive Johnson City TN 376041404 Under age 18 price $750 non-US residents $24 may have seen small ads BMJR Model Products Free Flights kits mostly NFFS Nostalgia designs bought Phoenix 1/2A nice kitvery modern laser-cut parts Polyspan also make Kiwi /2A Geef 250 also Nostalgia-era designs Since mentioned Polyspan want tell covered Right Streak wing heat-shrunk filled couple coats water-based polyurethane Home Depot great stuff purposes can used instead dopegood news no longer enjoy smell does shrink good news have also covered some niodels Thermalspan claim goes around compound curves better Polyspan true Polyspan carried FAI Model Supply other Free Right suppliers pleasure use long surfaces flat bottom wing has curves two dimensions top wings sort hard some wingtips other surfaces have complex curves small-radius turns Heat will often trick however get price product list suggest SASE BMJR Model Products Box 1210 Sharpes FL 32959-12 10 Tel 407 5371159 Web site wwwbmjrmodelscom mentioned Campbells Zeek Fubar kits word via grapevine has packed up moved Muncie Box 3104 Muncie IN 47307 Valentine Aijoshine made highperformance 049 called VA049 Mk II News 020 version about ready release VA engines can ordered Kitting Together 6906 Third St Lubbock TX 794 16-3724 Tel 806 796-3747 Model Aviation n Dietrich 14 photo taken Scientific Mercury deluxe kit cast about $6 1938 included dope cement air wheels Jim Adams tweaks needle valve O&R 60-powered Happy Romana Gladiator modified too much regular SAM events OK Old Ruler pre-WW II rules