THE SCARIEST THING about writing have start blank sheet paper past have filled sheets paper ar ticles several model magazines National Free Flight Society Digest Symposiums course Okie Free Flight Flyer So stage fright Maybe idea much larger audience Maybe just intense desire good job merit support need input news photos information Lets make page meeting-place dialogue lecture hail Timers too editor says Stick Free Flight still leaves very broad category things like 60-powered Comet Sailplane tiny tencent-kit Rubber job have SAM Champs since 1980 am life member SAM So am mostly competition oriented also enjoy building some just-for-fun models have no competition use other words whatever Old-Timer interest am interested too interested Old-Timers really should member SAM Society Antique Modelers Membership needed fly SAM Champs local contests have Old-Timer events AMA license enough $10-a-year fee get excellent newsletter edited Jim Adams nd get vote competition rules Old-Timer events want join send $10 Bob Dodds Secretary/Treasurer SAM 209 Summerside Lane Encinitas CA 92024 Most rule changes recently voted SAM membership affect RC sol will leave Doc Mathews discuss important things know Free Flight 1 Rubber Cabin Rubber Stick now divided small under 150 sq large over 150 sq events 2 Commercial Rubber added special event rule book 3 The Cabin Gas event renamed Fuse lage now inclusive models neither Pylon nor Cabin 4 Alcohol fuel now allowed small Rubber events should very popu lar Most people think first Wally Simmers designs kitted Midwest Gollywock Jaber wock Dyna-Moe other choices will column soon subject need input What can build combat mighty Gollywock Will small-stick onedesign event Send nominations Gollywock-beater Commercial Rubber fun event essentially Cabin Rubber models freewheeler props on-the-plan wingspan under 36 defin ing rules including special event may become popular think hurts event have different rules various parts country clarify SAM basic event will offered SAM Champs special event may fered choice special events hold up host club past division Gas models Cabin Pylon Cabin narrowly defined everything did meet definition Pylon Now Cabin abolished new cate gory Fuselage established Pylon now narrowly defined everything Pylon Fuselage model What means practice Pacer Wog Hayseed Jersey Javelin etc now fly Cabins Pylons change should make interest ing group models popular Alcohol fuel allowed now What OK nitromethane nitrobenzene other power addi tives So can use alcohol castor oil FAI fuel sparker Some older engines will really run better gas oil sus pect others will run cooler last longer alcohol fuels Beware Many plastic gas tanks supplied older ignition en gines will dissolve exposed alcohol Use alcohol-based fuel will also mean will need coat epoxy paint butyrate dope top nitrate dope finish prevent damage alcohol rule will never change Contests won good designs well built well trimmed flown consistency comes prac tice Jim Adams SAM newsletter editor tells did proposed rule changes pass passed very wide margins time now unite play rules majority have endorsed SAM Speaks newsletter SAM organi zation year lists new designs have approved competition may seem contradictory SAM rules allow inclusion models designed prior 1943 published later never published essential thing date design year committee approves some new/old de signs published newsletter think should know Buzzard Bomb shell can scaled five-foot-span legal Ed Konefes has Brown Jr flies great original five-foot version intended 45-49 group engines Continued page 158 Ernie Linn Wichita KS won Kansas State Championships 1938139 Wakefield design plane recently accepted official Old-Timer SAM Seen test-gliding R recent meet youd think would have trim nowa half-century later 66 Model Aviation Free Flight Old-Timers Bill Baker its Hi Old Okie Flyer Bill Baker new FF Old-Timers con tributing editor Bill says mother re quested photo printed could see what does living enjoy everything modeling Old-Timers like RC Control Line OldFrank Parmenter often leading edge AMA FAI Rubber Power events shown relaxing trailing edge Plane 020-size replica old Swoose design TIRED OF SINGLE CYLINDER VIBRATING ENGINES . HERE IS THE ANSWER Vibration worst enemies RIC modeling larger engine vibration will generated Opposing twin cylinders firing simultaneously reduces vibration half course twins cost manufacture EHS Trading Ltd has brought AFFORDABL TWIN Peoples Republic ot China SMOOTH reliable engine can yours fraction cost single cylinder II also looks fits better airplane cheekcowls radial cowls Just think very very few full scale airplanes using cylinder engine ORDER YOUR TWIN STAR TODAY Airframe valuable Radio will thank tomorrow fly ORDER YOUR TWIN STAR NOW CALL TOLL FREE information contact EHS TRADING LTD 400 HUALANI ST BLDG 13E HILO HAWAII %720 1 -800-63HOBBV 808 935-9009 HAWAII STD TIME 10 AM7PM Mon-S AUTHENTIC NASA Flight Suits Pictures Jewelry Pens $300 decal fact sheet mission patch print catalog StarBase Exchange PO Box 580423 Houston TX 77258-0423 Whip Antenna Gives Hidden Performance Gone forever nightmare heli- flier dreads stepping 3 foot tenna ripping off front prized chopper just its ready fly Base loaded short WHIPANTENNA gives hidden performance Less 7 can mounted project front helicopter inside canopy virtually invisible 218 VERNON ROAD GREENVILLE PA 16125 412 588-1321 Patches Decals Jackets Hats A# MODEL PRODUCTS 23961 CRAFTSMAN RD CALABASAS CA 91302 818 992-0195 consequences Don Larsen California Free Flighter learned hard way 020 gaspowered wings modet spoiler DT hinge line 25% chord After launch climbed Out beautifully transitioned well gliding nicely untit dethermalizer popped spoiler came out caused large nose-down moment model exe cuted square outside figure-seven dove ver tically ground Needless say Don has moved spoiler back latest models Don better flying wing builders hobby always serious threat nual Northrop Flying Wing Contest own taitless P-30s have gotten ex treme let fuse burn through wing holddown rubberbands separate wing fuselage wing fuselage attached string wing spins maple-seed fashion fuselage hangs beneath way down type DT works well light weight models also produces some amus ing expressions shock spectators dont know deliberate think witnessing disaster progress Sometimes thermal gods hungry pop-off wing will keep eat ing model learned day trimming P-30s DT actu ated wing fuselage separated properly unfortunately DT fuse burned through rubberbands also burned string holding wing fuselage together fuselage came down rapidly wing continued climb thermal tum bling end-over-end eventually lost sight often get half 005 Taft quote Martyn Cowley thermals play keeps year experience watching P-30 pop-off wing go OOS overhead clear day AFTER wing come off fuselage hanging beneath string always seems happen right after drop flight badly enough put out money contest ast got model back great charms Taft modelers out chasing things very rarely stay lost Another photos shows latest attempt flying wing dethermalizer large chunk wing pivots around axis near trailing edge makes big hole wing al lows air flow over movable piece wing hold back end model down forcing stall model shown photo comes down flat just like conventional model DT disadvantage system large hole wing structural weak spot must careful make structure around strong enough carry loads around hole San Diego Orbiteers Club held its annual contest over Labor Day weekend Taft put great contest good time addition standard AMA events Orbiteers added some new fun classes competition Night P-30 Free Flight becomes truly eerie experi ence can see little green chem light circling silently overhead second fun event terminally hyperac tive Minuteman goal put up maximum number one-minute flights possi ble half-hour Contestants could use AMA-legal model model legal unofficial event being flown contest us too lazy fly treated mass launch kind model imagin able starting gun went off winner 10-year-old Junior flying Pee Wee-30 model Unfortunately prize magnum champagne too young legally drink situation com pounded champagne bottle sitting Taft sun everyone lust after exploded hot bottle contacted cold ice ice bucket last report CD going provide replacement award appropriate 10-year-old Orbiteers Annual first chance fly Pee Wee-30 no doubt mind Orbiteers originated P-30 have done again sod expect Pee Wee-30 become extremely popular models easy build fly event heck lot fun Barnaby Wainfan 2S03 Hardwick St Lakewood CA 90712 FF Old-Timers/Baker Continued page 66 release Herb Wahls excellent Bunch Tiger replica may popular choice Another recently approved scaled design 52-in version Stratostreak Kerswap Interceptor look out Plans show Arden 19 judgment should good B too 23 25 engine can get full-sized print plan Bob Larsh 45 South Whitcomb Ave Indianapolis IN 46241 $485 postpaid ask bet will include list other Old-Timer Nostalgia plans has well list full-sized plans Old-Timer HandLaunched Gliders include Hank Cole 158 Model Aviation TWIN STARI 2OO WITHOuT MuFFLEII 40 CC/24 CU IN P&O tNbINLS AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPER POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POSY PRIMER K&B SUPER POSY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS Glider will cost another $125 post paid opinion latter will become favorite design OT HLG fliers once comes widely known Old-Timer Wakefield increasingly popular ships can flown large Cabin Rubber under new rules more frequently special events new design might want consider Ernie Linns Kansas State Champion Wakefield Two versions shown1938 freewbeeler 1939 folder can get full-sized plan Ernie $450 address 3505 East Mt Vernon Wichita KS 67218 1988 SAM Champs will week July 18 Lawrenceville IL will MECA Grand National Collecto July 18 flying will start July 19 traditional bean feed eve ning awards banquet will Friday eve ning July 22 am writing late September October 1 deadline will read December January issue meanwhile will go Mid-America FF Champs October 17-18 Lawrenceville check Out site report next column should March issue will get February will write November December 1 deadline y tention may quiz addition future columns will include rundown what now available replica en gines pans glow-to-ignition conversions sources other items needed OldTimer flier need help locate cottage industries involved Please send information news photos queries etc address below William L Baker PO Box 249 Norman OK 73070-0249 Serendipity/Noun Continued page 70 firm support hook dry trim gusset size add final light coat Ambroid trouble-free front bearing opinion Harlan EZB recommend get required /32 shaft clearance must mounted %2 hard balsa spacer shown An over size spacer glued front stick undiluted Ambroid cement dry trimmed flush front sides stick As thrust line parallel bottom stick trimming bot tom will necessary Harlan bearing should carefully trimmed edge burrs fine file mating side roughened little #400 sandpaper bearing glued position spacer Ambroid cement aligned holding up light bulb sighting through bearing holes hook end stick small balsa aiming point can attached hook help setting proper thrust line dry trim stick conform drawing Reglue bearing thin coat Ambroid entire base bearing should encased cement No other fastening required boom stripped small end first 075 width Micro-X 5 tapered sheet using Jim Jones balsa stripper brought down size large block cov ered fine sandpaper takes swipe two side get down size Trim 12y16 length careful ly sand smooth small sanders Dont try save weight cheating boom floppy boom undoes ad vantages get good stiff long boom round propeller spar made %2 sq balsa stripped 6h-lb sheet 12 long First hold sheet up bright light determine grain line Cut first edge parallel grain using steel rule guide Strip off few 3/33 sq blanks balsa stripper coruers strips trimmed off razor blade making roughly octagonal spar blanks rounded three four time using large sanding blocks shown drawing Three four blaaks placed larger block scrubbed smaller using slashing/rolling motion until round 067 in diameter takes practice patience until get hang never gets neat taper put same wayby sanding end spar time using edge area large block smaller block does strike larger tips should brought down 030 dia SPECIALISTS IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY MANY NEW PARTS FOR OLD DISCONTINUED COX ENGINES COX PROPS & GLOW HEADS COMPETITION ACCESSORIES & CUSTOMIZED K&B ENGINES ALSOiA COMPLETE LINE OF RACING PARTS -- GLO-BEE FIREBALL & KAB PLUGS SOLID LINES RACING WHEELS QUICK FILLS ETC lIE ALSO STOCK CARBON FiBER KLO7Z OIL LATEX & SILICONE FUEL TUBING PEN BLADDER MATERIALS & HARDTO-FIND HARDWARE ESPECIALLY 2-56 & 3-48 SIZES COILS CONDENSERS NGK PLUGS SILK 12 COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP RUBBER BANDS KSB SEELIG & IGNITION TIMERS GAS & DIESEL FUEL TUBING TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HI-TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLA YBOY SR K17 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR OLD TiMERINCLUDING REPLICA OR WiCK ENGiNES January 1988 159 Puzzled CALL MATT No time build Mutt Ill hive time. md knew hew 1 Complete 2 Semi-Assembled ready cover sandedi Call 9am -8 pm lEST 609275-7264 Send prices Kits Engines accessories22 Mitts Model Building 7 Hampshire Drive Plalnsboro NJ 08536 Rate cards available reel SASE 14-rIB n9-1 121 also build Cars Boats WE STOCK ALL REV-UP PROPS OUR INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 10000 PROPS! CALL FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT ON WSA OR MASTERCARD OLD TIMER SUPPLIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 714 830-5162 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING U HANDLING FEE *150 FOR INSURANCE ADD $100 ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HOURS CALIF RESIDENTS ADD 6% TAX
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/01
Page Numbers: 66, 158, 159
THE SCARIEST THING about writing have start blank sheet paper past have filled sheets paper ar ticles several model magazines National Free Flight Society Digest Symposiums course Okie Free Flight Flyer So stage fright Maybe idea much larger audience Maybe just intense desire good job merit support need input news photos information Lets make page meeting-place dialogue lecture hail Timers too editor says Stick Free Flight still leaves very broad category things like 60-powered Comet Sailplane tiny tencent-kit Rubber job have SAM Champs since 1980 am life member SAM So am mostly competition oriented also enjoy building some just-for-fun models have no competition use other words whatever Old-Timer interest am interested too interested Old-Timers really should member SAM Society Antique Modelers Membership needed fly SAM Champs local contests have Old-Timer events AMA license enough $10-a-year fee get excellent newsletter edited Jim Adams nd get vote competition rules Old-Timer events want join send $10 Bob Dodds Secretary/Treasurer SAM 209 Summerside Lane Encinitas CA 92024 Most rule changes recently voted SAM membership affect RC sol will leave Doc Mathews discuss important things know Free Flight 1 Rubber Cabin Rubber Stick now divided small under 150 sq large over 150 sq events 2 Commercial Rubber added special event rule book 3 The Cabin Gas event renamed Fuse lage now inclusive models neither Pylon nor Cabin 4 Alcohol fuel now allowed small Rubber events should very popu lar Most people think first Wally Simmers designs kitted Midwest Gollywock Jaber wock Dyna-Moe other choices will column soon subject need input What can build combat mighty Gollywock Will small-stick onedesign event Send nominations Gollywock-beater Commercial Rubber fun event essentially Cabin Rubber models freewheeler props on-the-plan wingspan under 36 defin ing rules including special event may become popular think hurts event have different rules various parts country clarify SAM basic event will offered SAM Champs special event may fered choice special events hold up host club past division Gas models Cabin Pylon Cabin narrowly defined everything did meet definition Pylon Now Cabin abolished new cate gory Fuselage established Pylon now narrowly defined everything Pylon Fuselage model What means practice Pacer Wog Hayseed Jersey Javelin etc now fly Cabins Pylons change should make interest ing group models popular Alcohol fuel allowed now What OK nitromethane nitrobenzene other power addi tives So can use alcohol castor oil FAI fuel sparker Some older engines will really run better gas oil sus pect others will run cooler last longer alcohol fuels Beware Many plastic gas tanks supplied older ignition en gines will dissolve exposed alcohol Use alcohol-based fuel will also mean will need coat epoxy paint butyrate dope top nitrate dope finish prevent damage alcohol rule will never change Contests won good designs well built well trimmed flown consistency comes prac tice Jim Adams SAM newsletter editor tells did proposed rule changes pass passed very wide margins time now unite play rules majority have endorsed SAM Speaks newsletter SAM organi zation year lists new designs have approved competition may seem contradictory SAM rules allow inclusion models designed prior 1943 published later never published essential thing date design year committee approves some new/old de signs published newsletter think should know Buzzard Bomb shell can scaled five-foot-span legal Ed Konefes has Brown Jr flies great original five-foot version intended 45-49 group engines Continued page 158 Ernie Linn Wichita KS won Kansas State Championships 1938139 Wakefield design plane recently accepted official Old-Timer SAM Seen test-gliding R recent meet youd think would have trim nowa half-century later 66 Model Aviation Free Flight Old-Timers Bill Baker its Hi Old Okie Flyer Bill Baker new FF Old-Timers con tributing editor Bill says mother re quested photo printed could see what does living enjoy everything modeling Old-Timers like RC Control Line OldFrank Parmenter often leading edge AMA FAI Rubber Power events shown relaxing trailing edge Plane 020-size replica old Swoose design TIRED OF SINGLE CYLINDER VIBRATING ENGINES . HERE IS THE ANSWER Vibration worst enemies RIC modeling larger engine vibration will generated Opposing twin cylinders firing simultaneously reduces vibration half course twins cost manufacture EHS Trading Ltd has brought AFFORDABL TWIN Peoples Republic ot China SMOOTH reliable engine can yours fraction cost single cylinder II also looks fits better airplane cheekcowls radial cowls Just think very very few full scale airplanes using cylinder engine ORDER YOUR TWIN STAR TODAY Airframe valuable Radio will thank tomorrow fly ORDER YOUR TWIN STAR NOW CALL TOLL FREE information contact EHS TRADING LTD 400 HUALANI ST BLDG 13E HILO HAWAII %720 1 -800-63HOBBV 808 935-9009 HAWAII STD TIME 10 AM7PM Mon-S AUTHENTIC NASA Flight Suits Pictures Jewelry Pens $300 decal fact sheet mission patch print catalog StarBase Exchange PO Box 580423 Houston TX 77258-0423 Whip Antenna Gives Hidden Performance Gone forever nightmare heli- flier dreads stepping 3 foot tenna ripping off front prized chopper just its ready fly Base loaded short WHIPANTENNA gives hidden performance Less 7 can mounted project front helicopter inside canopy virtually invisible 218 VERNON ROAD GREENVILLE PA 16125 412 588-1321 Patches Decals Jackets Hats A# MODEL PRODUCTS 23961 CRAFTSMAN RD CALABASAS CA 91302 818 992-0195 consequences Don Larsen California Free Flighter learned hard way 020 gaspowered wings modet spoiler DT hinge line 25% chord After launch climbed Out beautifully transitioned well gliding nicely untit dethermalizer popped spoiler came out caused large nose-down moment model exe cuted square outside figure-seven dove ver tically ground Needless say Don has moved spoiler back latest models Don better flying wing builders hobby always serious threat nual Northrop Flying Wing Contest own taitless P-30s have gotten ex treme let fuse burn through wing holddown rubberbands separate wing fuselage wing fuselage attached string wing spins maple-seed fashion fuselage hangs beneath way down type DT works well light weight models also produces some amus ing expressions shock spectators dont know deliberate think witnessing disaster progress Sometimes thermal gods hungry pop-off wing will keep eat ing model learned day trimming P-30s DT actu ated wing fuselage separated properly unfortunately DT fuse burned through rubberbands also burned string holding wing fuselage together fuselage came down rapidly wing continued climb thermal tum bling end-over-end eventually lost sight often get half 005 Taft quote Martyn Cowley thermals play keeps year experience watching P-30 pop-off wing go OOS overhead clear day AFTER wing come off fuselage hanging beneath string always seems happen right after drop flight badly enough put out money contest ast got model back great charms Taft modelers out chasing things very rarely stay lost Another photos shows latest attempt flying wing dethermalizer large chunk wing pivots around axis near trailing edge makes big hole wing al lows air flow over movable piece wing hold back end model down forcing stall model shown photo comes down flat just like conventional model DT disadvantage system large hole wing structural weak spot must careful make structure around strong enough carry loads around hole San Diego Orbiteers Club held its annual contest over Labor Day weekend Taft put great contest good time addition standard AMA events Orbiteers added some new fun classes competition Night P-30 Free Flight becomes truly eerie experi ence can see little green chem light circling silently overhead second fun event terminally hyperac tive Minuteman goal put up maximum number one-minute flights possi ble half-hour Contestants could use AMA-legal model model legal unofficial event being flown contest us too lazy fly treated mass launch kind model imagin able starting gun went off winner 10-year-old Junior flying Pee Wee-30 model Unfortunately prize magnum champagne too young legally drink situation com pounded champagne bottle sitting Taft sun everyone lust after exploded hot bottle contacted cold ice ice bucket last report CD going provide replacement award appropriate 10-year-old Orbiteers Annual first chance fly Pee Wee-30 no doubt mind Orbiteers originated P-30 have done again sod expect Pee Wee-30 become extremely popular models easy build fly event heck lot fun Barnaby Wainfan 2S03 Hardwick St Lakewood CA 90712 FF Old-Timers/Baker Continued page 66 release Herb Wahls excellent Bunch Tiger replica may popular choice Another recently approved scaled design 52-in version Stratostreak Kerswap Interceptor look out Plans show Arden 19 judgment should good B too 23 25 engine can get full-sized print plan Bob Larsh 45 South Whitcomb Ave Indianapolis IN 46241 $485 postpaid ask bet will include list other Old-Timer Nostalgia plans has well list full-sized plans Old-Timer HandLaunched Gliders include Hank Cole 158 Model Aviation TWIN STARI 2OO WITHOuT MuFFLEII 40 CC/24 CU IN P&O tNbINLS AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 Choices Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPER POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POSY PRIMER K&B SUPER POSY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS Glider will cost another $125 post paid opinion latter will become favorite design OT HLG fliers once comes widely known Old-Timer Wakefield increasingly popular ships can flown large Cabin Rubber under new rules more frequently special events new design might want consider Ernie Linns Kansas State Champion Wakefield Two versions shown1938 freewbeeler 1939 folder can get full-sized plan Ernie $450 address 3505 East Mt Vernon Wichita KS 67218 1988 SAM Champs will week July 18 Lawrenceville IL will MECA Grand National Collecto July 18 flying will start July 19 traditional bean feed eve ning awards banquet will Friday eve ning July 22 am writing late September October 1 deadline will read December January issue meanwhile will go Mid-America FF Champs October 17-18 Lawrenceville check Out site report next column should March issue will get February will write November December 1 deadline y tention may quiz addition future columns will include rundown what now available replica en gines pans glow-to-ignition conversions sources other items needed OldTimer flier need help locate cottage industries involved Please send information news photos queries etc address below William L Baker PO Box 249 Norman OK 73070-0249 Serendipity/Noun Continued page 70 firm support hook dry trim gusset size add final light coat Ambroid trouble-free front bearing opinion Harlan EZB recommend get required /32 shaft clearance must mounted %2 hard balsa spacer shown An over size spacer glued front stick undiluted Ambroid cement dry trimmed flush front sides stick As thrust line parallel bottom stick trimming bot tom will necessary Harlan bearing should carefully trimmed edge burrs fine file mating side roughened little #400 sandpaper bearing glued position spacer Ambroid cement aligned holding up light bulb sighting through bearing holes hook end stick small balsa aiming point can attached hook help setting proper thrust line dry trim stick conform drawing Reglue bearing thin coat Ambroid entire base bearing should encased cement No other fastening required boom stripped small end first 075 width Micro-X 5 tapered sheet using Jim Jones balsa stripper brought down size large block cov ered fine sandpaper takes swipe two side get down size Trim 12y16 length careful ly sand smooth small sanders Dont try save weight cheating boom floppy boom undoes ad vantages get good stiff long boom round propeller spar made %2 sq balsa stripped 6h-lb sheet 12 long First hold sheet up bright light determine grain line Cut first edge parallel grain using steel rule guide Strip off few 3/33 sq blanks balsa stripper coruers strips trimmed off razor blade making roughly octagonal spar blanks rounded three four time using large sanding blocks shown drawing Three four blaaks placed larger block scrubbed smaller using slashing/rolling motion until round 067 in diameter takes practice patience until get hang never gets neat taper put same wayby sanding end spar time using edge area large block smaller block does strike larger tips should brought down 030 dia SPECIALISTS IN CUSTOM COX TEE DEE & REED ENGINES 020S 049S 051S & 09S ALL CUSTOM & STOCK PARTS AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY MANY NEW PARTS FOR OLD DISCONTINUED COX ENGINES COX PROPS & GLOW HEADS COMPETITION ACCESSORIES & CUSTOMIZED K&B ENGINES ALSOiA COMPLETE LINE OF RACING PARTS -- GLO-BEE FIREBALL & KAB PLUGS SOLID LINES RACING WHEELS QUICK FILLS ETC lIE ALSO STOCK CARBON FiBER KLO7Z OIL LATEX & SILICONE FUEL TUBING PEN BLADDER MATERIALS & HARDTO-FIND HARDWARE ESPECIALLY 2-56 & 3-48 SIZES COILS CONDENSERS NGK PLUGS SILK 12 COLORS QUALITY DOPE BRUSHES 5 & 7 LOOP RUBBER BANDS KSB SEELIG & IGNITION TIMERS GAS & DIESEL FUEL TUBING TRANSISTOR IGNITION SYSTEMS RESISTOR HI-TENSION LEADS 1/2A TEXACO PLA YBOY SR K17 1/2A TEXACO ENGINES & PARTS EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR OLD TiMERINCLUDING REPLICA OR WiCK ENGiNES January 1988 159 Puzzled CALL MATT No time build Mutt Ill hive time. md knew hew 1 Complete 2 Semi-Assembled ready cover sandedi Call 9am -8 pm lEST 609275-7264 Send prices Kits Engines accessories22 Mitts Model Building 7 Hampshire Drive Plalnsboro NJ 08536 Rate cards available reel SASE 14-rIB n9-1 121 also build Cars Boats WE STOCK ALL REV-UP PROPS OUR INVENTORY AVERAGES OVER 10000 PROPS! CALL FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT ON WSA OR MASTERCARD OLD TIMER SUPPLIES ORDER BY MAIL OR PHONE 714 830-5162 SORRY NO COD VISA & MASTERCARD WELCOME DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED MINIMUM MERCHANDISE ORDER $1000 SHIPPING U HANDLING FEE *150 FOR INSURANCE ADD $100 ORDERS SHIPPED WITHIN 24 HOURS CALIF RESIDENTS ADD 6% TAX
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/01
Page Numbers: 66, 158, 159
THE SCARIEST THING about writing have start blank sheet paper past have filled sheets paper ar ticles several model magazines National Free Flight Society Digest Symposiums course Okie Free Flight Flyer So stage fright Maybe idea much larger audience Maybe just intense desire good job merit support need input news photos information Lets make page meeting-place dialogue lecture hail Timers too editor says Stick Free Flight still leaves very broad category things like 60-powered Comet Sailplane tiny tencent-kit Rubber job have SAM Champs since 1980 am life member SAM So am mostly competition oriented also enjoy building some just-for-fun models have no competition use other words whatever Old-Timer interest am interested too interested Old-Timers really should member SAM Society Antique Modelers Membership needed fly SAM Champs local contests have Old-Timer events AMA license enough $10-a-year fee get excellent newsletter edited Jim Adams nd get vote competition rules Old-Timer events want join send $10 Bob Dodds Secretary/Treasurer SAM 209 Summerside Lane Encinitas CA 92024 Most rule changes recently voted SAM membership affect RC sol will leave Doc Mathews discuss important things know Free Flight 1 Rubber Cabin Rubber Stick now divided small under 150 sq large over 150 sq events 2 Commercial Rubber added special event rule book 3 The Cabin Gas event renamed Fuse lage now inclusive models neither Pylon nor Cabin 4 Alcohol fuel now allowed small Rubber events should very popu lar Most people think first Wally Simmers designs kitted Midwest Gollywock Jaber wock Dyna-Moe other choices will column soon subject need input What can build combat mighty Gollywock Will small-stick onedesign event Send nominations Gollywock-beater Commercial Rubber fun event essentially Cabin Rubber models freewheeler props on-the-plan wingspan under 36 defin ing rules including special event may become popular think hurts event have different rules various parts country clarify SAM basic event will offered SAM Champs special event may fered choice special events hold up host club past division Gas models Cabin Pylon Cabin narrowly defined everything did meet definition Pylon Now Cabin abolished new cate gory Fuselage established Pylon now narrowly defined everything Pylon Fuselage model What means practice Pacer Wog Hayseed Jersey Javelin etc now fly Cabins Pylons change should make interest ing group models popular Alcohol fuel allowed now What OK nitromethane nitrobenzene other power addi tives So can use alcohol castor oil FAI fuel sparker Some older engines will really run better gas oil sus pect others will run cooler last longer alcohol fuels Beware Many plastic gas tanks supplied older ignition en gines will dissolve exposed alcohol Use alcohol-based fuel will also mean will need coat epoxy paint butyrate dope top nitrate dope finish prevent damage alcohol rule will never change Contests won good designs well built well trimmed flown consistency comes prac tice Jim Adams SAM newsletter editor tells did proposed rule changes pass passed very wide margins time now unite play rules majority have endorsed SAM Speaks newsletter SAM organi zation year lists new designs have approved competition may seem contradictory SAM rules allow inclusion models designed prior 1943 published later never published essential thing date design year committee approves some new/old de signs published newsletter think should know Buzzard Bomb shell can scaled five-foot-span legal Ed Konefes has Brown Jr flies great original five-foot version intended 45-49 group engines Continued page 158 Ernie Linn Wichita KS won Kansas State Championships 1938139 Wakefield design plane recently accepted official Old-Timer SAM Seen test-gliding R recent meet youd think would have trim nowa half-century later 66 Model Aviation Free Flight Old-Timers Bill Baker its Hi Old Okie Flyer Bill Baker new FF Old-Timers con tributing editor Bill says mother re quested photo printed could see what does living enjoy everything modeling Old-Timers like RC Control Line OldFrank Parmenter often leading edge AMA FAI Rubber Power events shown relaxing trailing edge Plane 020-size replica old Swoose design TIRED OF SINGLE CYLINDER VIBRATING ENGINES . HERE IS THE ANSWER Vibration worst enemies RIC modeling larger engine vibration will generated Opposing twin cylinders firing simultaneously reduces vibration half course twins cost manufacture EHS Trading Ltd has brought AFFORDABL TWIN Peoples Republic ot China SMOOTH reliable engine can yours fraction cost single cylinder II also looks fits better airplane cheekcowls radial cowls Just think very very few full scale airplanes using cylinder engine ORDER YOUR TWIN STAR TODAY Airframe valuable Radio will thank tomorrow fly ORDER YOUR TWIN STAR NOW CALL TOLL FREE information contact EHS TRADING LTD 400 HUALANI ST BLDG 13E HILO HAWAII %720 1 -800-63HOBBV 808 935-9009 HAWAII STD TIME 10 AM7PM Mon-S AUTHENTIC NASA Flight Suits Pictures Jewelry Pens $300 decal fact sheet mission patch print catalog StarBase Exchange PO Box 580423 Houston TX 77258-0423 Whip Antenna Gives Hidden Performance Gone forever nightmare heli- flier dreads stepping 3 foot tenna ripping off front prized chopper just its ready fly Base loaded short WHIPANTENNA gives hidden performance Less 7 can mounted project front helicopter inside canopy virtually invisible 218 VERNON ROAD GREENVILLE PA 16125 412 588-1321 Patches Decals Jackets Hats A# MODEL PRODUCTS 23961 CRAFTSMAN RD CALABASAS CA 91302 818 992-0195 consequences Don Larsen California Free Flighter learned hard way 020 gaspowered wings modet spoiler DT hinge line 25% chord After launch climbed Out beautifully transitioned well gliding nicely untit dethermalizer popped spoiler came out caused large nose-down moment model exe cuted square outside figure-seven dove ver tically ground Needless say Don has moved spoiler back latest models Don better flying wing builders hobby always serious threat nual Northrop Flying Wing Contest own taitless P-30s have gotten ex treme let fuse burn through wing holddown rubberbands separate wing fuselage wing fuselage attached string wing spins maple-seed fashion fuselage hangs beneath way down type DT works well light weight models also produces some amus ing expressions shock spectators dont know deliberate think witnessing disaster progress Sometimes thermal gods hungry pop-off wing will keep eat ing model learned day trimming P-30s DT actu ated wing fuselage separated properly unfortunately DT fuse burned through rubberbands also burned string holding wing fuselage together fuselage came down rapidly wing continued climb thermal tum bling end-over-end eventually lost sight often get half 005 Taft quote Martyn Cowley thermals play keeps year experience watching P-30 pop-off wing go OOS overhead clear day AFTER wing come off fuselage hanging beneath string always seems happen right after drop flight badly enough put out money contest ast got model back great charms Taft modelers out chasing things very rarely stay lost Another photos shows latest attempt flying wing dethermalizer large chunk wing pivots around axis near trailing edge makes big hole wing al lows air flow over movable piece wing hold back end model down forcing stall model shown photo comes down flat just like conventional model DT disadvantage system large hole wing structural weak spot must careful make structure around strong enough carry loads around hole San Diego Orbiteers Club held its annual contest over Labor Day weekend Taft put great contest good time addition standard AMA events Orbiteers added some new fun classes competition Night P-30 Free Flight becomes truly eerie experi ence can see little green chem light circling silently overhead second fun event terminally hyperac tive Minuteman goal put up maximum number one-minute flights possi ble half-hour Contestants could use AMA-legal model model legal unofficial event being flown contest us too lazy fly treated mass launch kind model imagin able starting gun went off winner 10-year-old Junior flying Pee Wee-30 model Unfortunately prize magnum champagne too young legally drink situation com pounded champagne bottle sitting Taft sun everyone lust after exploded hot bottle contacted cold ice ice bucket last report CD going provide replacement award appropriate 10-year-old Orbiteers Annual first chance fly Pee Wee-30 no doubt mind Orbiteers originated P-30 have done again sod expect Pee Wee-30 become extremely popular models easy build fly event heck lot fun Barnaby Wainfan 2S03 Hardwick St Lakewood CA 90712 FF Old-Timers/Baker Continued page 66 release Herb Wahls excellent Bunch Tiger replica may popular choice Another recently approved scaled design 52-in version Stratostreak Kerswap Interceptor look out Plans show Arden 19 judgment should good B too 23 25 engine can get full-sized print plan Bob Larsh 45 South Whitcomb Ave Indianapolis IN 46241 $485 postpaid ask bet will include list other Old-Timer Nostalgia plans has well list full-sized plans Old-Timer HandLaunched Gliders include Hank Cole 158 Model Aviation TWIN STARI 2OO WITHOuT MuFFLEII 40 CC/24 CU IN P&O tNbINLS AirplaneMarine K&B FUELSK&B GLOW PLUGS 9 Blends4 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