Free Flight: Old-Timers

FREE FLIGHT OLD-TIMERS DAVE THORNBURG IS GREAT DESIGNER AND FLIER RC sailpianes also loves free flight also writes like want able grow up paragraph two can center thought same ease grace centers thermal December 1980 Model Builder magazine wrote As modelers R/C otherwise pursue impossible dream next model flight contest will perfect Its dream lucky always recedes front us staying just out reach Like mirage desert neighbors wife Its dream carries us through long lonely spine-warping hours building board rest family improving minds Charlies Angels Dating Game Its dream pursue spite criticism condescension through thick thin free fighters pursue through dry corn stalks through knee-deep mud have read Speak Model Airplane Old Buzzards Soaring Book have missed lot reading pleasure interesting information Pony X Press 5 Monticello Drive Albuquerque NM 87123 book $20 postage paid things can learn about Speak Model Airplane history Jimmie Allen models things could add paragraph about free fighters adapt thus evade extinction least now flying fields got smaller went Category III twominute max too high-performance invent P-30 14-gram Bostonian Embryo Endurance on Clubs adapt site limitations have comes OldTimers some clubs Dime Scale Indoor Outdoor models build Comet Megow dime kits Two-bit Scale bigger 25-cent kit plans Phantom Flash event mass launch Other ideas might 3/4-size classic Wakefields available RIN AeroDyne 1924 E Edinger Santa Ana CA 92705 Tel [714] 2580805 flown P-30 propellers mini Old-Timer plan-and-printwood kits AA Lidberg 1008 E Baseline Rd Suite 1074 Tempe AZ 85283 Tel [602] 839-8154 suitable small CO2 Electric motors Jimmie Allen designs am too young remember Jimmie Allen radio show actionadventure serial kids sponsored Skelly Oil Company dramatic flying adventures Jimmie Allen Kits distributed throughout US Canada think via Skelly Oil stations approximately 1933-39 have noted years someone has sponsored Jimmie Allen Event SAM Champs recently have become aware some clubs having great time flying models club get-togethers sort fun event low-tech low cost will draw fliers may primarily Old-Timer competitors designs Scale scalelike resemble airplanes 1920s 1930s 24-40 inches span will fly duration models sense say Wakefields will take good good air two minutes Michigan Antique Modelers have really having ball Jimmie Allens think probably have experience type anyone else Michigan Antique Modelers Karl Spielmaker editor 4690 Burlingame SW Wyoming MI 49509 San Diego Orbiteers recently held club contest Jimmie Allens wrote newsletter editor pleading photos could share due time got fine photos John Oldenkamp see John says Jim Alaback won averaging just over two minutes Blue Bird also won mass-launch event total 13 flew officially John Alling CD under absolutely delightful conditions 80s low humidity 0-3 mph drift big thermals El Torbellino newsletter San Diego Orbiteers Harold Haupt 3860 Ecochee Avenue San Diego CA 92117-4622 John Pond Old Timer Model Supply two primary Jimmie Allen plan sources OTMS having also having turned balsa wheels propeller blanks other things need Up 13 different designs have identified OTMS lists eight popular Blue Bird largest probably best flyer Some designs require lots wire bending might too difficult first model great change-of-pace whatever usually obsessed John Ponds Old-Time Plan Service Box 90310 San Jose CA 95 109-3310 Old-Timer Model Supply plans supplies parts catalog $2 Box 7334 Van Nuys CA 91409 * March1996 119 Mass launch Jimmie Allen models all-up-last-down event won Jim Alaback also won regular event Members guests San Diego Orbiteers Jimmie Allen models October 1 1995 Hills background Mexico Karl Spielmakers Jimmie Allen Thunderbolt Karl sponsored ran Jimmie Allen special event SAM Champs