FR EE FLI GHT Outdoor Dick Mathis THE 1975 NATIONALS turned out dandy Free-Flight contest sur prise consider Lake Charles Chennault AFB poor site main reason success weather has unusually good throughout region summer Rarely did wind exceed 10 mph gusts Weather certainly played part separat ing winners losers in teresting challenging manner Very few airplanes wandered off-base lost on-base swamps/woods number contestants showed healthy increase over last year served relieve rather depressing mosphere observed 1974 Na tionals entries lowest memory goes back 1950 Nats changes format some events made interest ing competition three FAI events Wakefield Power A-2 run rounds first commencing 630 am lastendingat830pm rounds seven interrupted midmorning late afternoon effect minimize thermals factor place emphasis sheer airplane performance results intrigu ing first time Unlimited Rubber flyoffs held time 500 pm instead contestants choice throughout day have always thought interest ing see has best model rather can pick best thermal luckiest So welcomed changes opening competition quiet rousing As dawn broke Tuesday first round A-2 Towline began surprise officials swamped fliers wanting go early round cause moisture-laden air super could barely see down runway Most flew before 700 am 21 53 first-round flights 3-minute maxes says something about quality air airplanes weather perfect circle tow ing enables flier tow search lift long periods calm-wind condi tions exhausting himself run ning out timers range vision Only two flyers Jim Bradley Dale Elder Orlando Fla observed circle towing however Far too simply towed released taking time feel lift line seek out elsewhere Piggy-back tactics almost universal cases laugh able results hysterical mobs eight ten case 14 Nordics simul taneously launched tiny thermals often huge downers mass hys teria quite natural consider would 20 fliers standing starting line ready tow slightest hint thermal activity tension would mount very high levels especially late evening rounds thermals imperceptible evening rounds winds once again almost calm separated winners losers ruthlessly perfect scores went wayside still-air performance model became ultimate deciding factor One-by-one sometimes groups three four fliers towed off down runway release very dead last-round air Most models could better 140 seconds re leased poorly stalls half-hearted slingshot-style launches gave bigger stalls As last-round scores came positions changed dramatically Needing max beat old-pro Frank Parmenter Houston runnerup 1974 young Rich McCreary Detroit Releasing Crowley-designed Happy Hooker what must have last warm air evening McCreary watched descend back launch area three-minute-plus-a-tick flight have enjoyed experience 20 Model Aviation way wasand now still Bill Burgess releases Don Foote-designed Westerner Old Timer unassisted take-off Below Peanuts look smaller flown outdoors Waco cabin biplane flown Richard Johnson smiling Bob Dunham appears well pleased Roll-Out hand-launched glider plan form outer panels gets him what wants making winning flight Nationals before usually downwind event relative solitude chasing model Rich however picked model up 25 feet event headquarters en suing victory celebration Detroit Balsa Bugs fitting climax best Nordic A-2 event Nats years Design-wise little new A-2 Most fliers use4aiginals scratch-built magazine desigrfK nce no com petitive kits being manufactured Running simultaneously A-2 event B gas Early fliers flying started 800 am found models going outof-sight 11-second motor run right cloud bases situation plagued highest climbers several hours un til clouds burned off Class B models tend overpowered because merely class designs 15s 19s 23s 29s screwed front result whole lot wild-climbing mod els necessarily well trimmed few persons design larger models specif ically Class B engines seem suitable contest work example Open winner Jim Clem Tulsa flew f Okie Bird designs about 480 sq Fox 25 power combination definitely hottest field its power pattern manageable model could tran sition part critical engine runs reduced 11 7 5 seconds fly-off hotter climb ing models have fly less incidence difference between wing tail handle power looping makes transition glide problem unless ship has built up enough speed position banking recover engine quits result lot long swooping dives 5-second fly-off flights after power shut off Clem strung seven maxes together anyone event prove thermal picking good glide good combination wonder what would happen Unlimited gas events revised group fly-off took place end day rather permitting everyone flyoff anytime during day would exciting contestants specta tors alike would tend minimize thermals factor As now winner may put flight unnoticed anyone flight recorder its over everyone says what flying takes away lot drama competition Junior winner Steve Calhoun Calif flew Satellite Senior winner Joseph Mekina Ohio flew another Clem design ABC Scrambler Off side everything Pay Load event unraveled slowly no ones particular interest except Tulsas Mike Ransom won handily risk offending fans event has no place Nationals official AMA event Less dozen contestants flew event serves no function November1975 21 Senior Scott Gesner flew Sig Liberty Sport Gas Scale Left George Perryman heaves rubber Old Timer Lanzo stick Below Glenn Lee Speed engine man free-flight copter Jerry Murphy winds Coupes rubber motor note anchor man hangs Onto generous tubing experts have problems getting performance Coupe severe rubber limitation i FREE HT already served other events almost two decades ago Pan American Airways sponsored Pay Load lots interest several kits made sense now some other events fit description equally well Nationals Free-Flight Helicopter Clipper Cargo Rocket name three wonder also whether really prove anything hav ing B gas except gives us chance fly same airplane two events about Coupe Rubber As Junior Senior event Coupe flop kids flying Unlimited Rubber instead Coupe re stricted rubber limits Wakefield experts cant make go satisfying way Add fact un official events two kinds electric powered free flights Rise-off-Water Pow er Night Flying Class D gas Rubber Speed plus Old Timer events end up somewhere between 27 30 different events counting Indoor being flown five days skeptical reader will say sour grapes guy exhausted after trying magazine report invite consideration question whether events desirable tried sample opinions ques tion general feeling schedule too heavy Nationals Certainly some new events like Old Timer worthwhile experiments others times trends have changed have lost fascination few drain officiating manpower trophy sponsorships second day competition always good first-day jitters have calmed down optimism still runs high Class gas always popular events Nats along /2-A HLG event no exception classy group almost four fliers maxed out including Juniors Seniors weather good something about Class A-sized air planes makes very efficient people seem able handle well Perhaps combination power ful 15- 19 sized motors large relative -As airplanes fragile Class C ideal format FreeFlight gas makes wonder perhaps Class-A-size airplanes might better novices -As tradition myth says easier Anyway well-dressed Class flier wears Midi Pearl Satellite 450 definitely gauche show up 051-powered ship besides being uncom petitive Junior Open winners used Midi Pearls Randy Secor flew Red Johnsons Tartar designs tame other five Seniors fly-off hard really capture flavor competing Nats unless become intimately involved flying yourself helping someone fly story will give idea irony emotions disap pointment pure chance goes winning trophy George Hilliard orthopedic surgeon Longview Tex asked advice trimming Hys teria 600 day before Class-A event Since design felt fairly safe guess Anyway process fine-trim ming thing stab lifted off front mount loose rubber bands under power causing execute spiral dive straight crowded B-gas area Having gotten everybodys attention went outside loop about 20 feet above headlevel harrel-rolled until engine quit good doctor rather embarrassed 22 Model Aviation Left Carl Goldberg has yet miss Nats placed 12th 20-year-old HLG Above Chris Matsuno launching Wakefield took second Doing quick check before launching Pearl Express Class B Ed CaIdwell Author found B jobs overpowered very wild Mrs Jim McNeill presents McNeill Trophy FAI winner Buckets Johnson Mathis thinks 2/3s FAI jobs poor glide trim Dr George Hilliard flew Mathis design Hysteria 600 second ClassGrand National Champ Mike Ransom flew variety FF events plus Class jobs seem efficient generally well handledCL Indoor capture coveted title Ed Aber Photo amazed after uproar died down told him way could live down would win tomorrow Next day sure enough George fly-off having very little sense asked help pick air fly-off flights done eventually over sized todays standards floater eased first place check other scores showed secure position started leave Unlimited Rubber feel ing good way car Jerry Murphy asked proxy fly job him suffering case Mon tezumas Revenge declined because license current left couple hours later returned check scores found Hilliard still sweating first place feeling more confident threats fizzled half-hour left someone pointed out contestant still chance could make two maxes guessed Mike Fedor proxy-flown Murphys Midi Pearl position win five minutes left did similar story behind al win Nats George Hill iard never realized much wanted win until lost friend Ah Mulvihill Trophy coveted select few fliers thosc temperamcntal fragile brutal Unlimited Rubber machines oldest trophy modeldom Mulvihill won year after typically fierce war nerves Todays Unlimiteds will 5-6 minutes thermal assistance usually Thats assum ing air isnt bad arent power stalls rubber isnt tired 37 contestants II maxed out waited first 4-minute fly-off com mencing 500 pm Something happened tbose still-air potentials however two Open fliers two Seniors survived maxesits called pres sureand attributable excite ment simultaneous fly-off causes overwinding bad launches picking bad air four left favored Randy Secor Senior Calif flying God father smooth high climb super glide figured would beat Houstonian Fred Pearces straight-up brief-climb ing machine other two ships Bob Dunhams Joseph Mekinas did appear have glides match men tioned above near calm conditions Secor launched 5-minute fly-off suffered Rubber fliers nightmare series three power stalls Mekina launched smooth flight under four minutes beat Secor Senior Next Pearce released followed Dunham about 10 seconds later Both models climbed strongly Pearces maybe 50 feet higher As drifted off together became obvious Dunhams sinking slowly Pearces sinking few hundred feet apart Dunham missed forc ing 6-minute round 18 seconds Houston group took off inform Pearce won first Mulvihill group old-time Unlimited fliers mentioned wish someone would bring back six-footer 50s six foot fuselages long motors some kind climb patiently explained George Perryman Bob Dunham Bob Watson others arent built necessary continued page 74 November1975 23 Discussing problems finding thermals manufacturing honkin free-flight kits Ed Cald well Bill Moore Bill Hunterthe latter Satellite City group O4 E 0 S CO EC ION COMP STE WITHOUT THE AUTHENTIC UOLLS LINE OF MODELDOM yoo loon tho old olotoge oinroft oc yooIl reolly loon oony dooeoe tnntendooe onriety ne ofte, eoen tftey no oil oppeni yoo Theytodenigondothhnnnotinolooeono onddetoil nhiof dodinotion ond loloo loon non nreote Ctovelood-Doeignod nodnin ore ononid rooct nothentic doeigne ood too ootly bot yoo ooni. bet yoor hobby tfrenee no othe line look Whot ic good i onoolly nonreofrot onetly odoy roFbooms FasCal because occasionally can recycle set booms plane gets wiped out booms lot easier get off arent glued wood Add control horn Kwik-Link install motor should ready go flying didnt mention will have make up bladder fuel tank use small Tatone bladder cut down about l/2tt kind obvious isnt couple things fore going out fly new GollyGee Whiz Optional yes add immensely total enjoyment Combat flying insure will ar rive field looking like Combat jock turkey First have probably noticed Combat fliers flippin fingers always cut various stages healing quickest way get Combat hands stick fingers running prop Felt good didnt it hurts too much bite old glow plug bandage fingers way everybody will able see active Combat flier As long have some fresh cuts hand speak practice pouring raw fuel cuts wincing Second going have get yourself accustomed minor ag gravations go along using pen bladders Try blow up fuel using regular fuel bulb Cant Squeeze harder Use both hands Yuk yuk blew end right out fuel bulb didnt Go get 2 oz dose sy ringe local veterinarian hobby shop may have CMI people make Guillotine Combat kits Captains Bladders market 2-oz syringe works costs $139 Now using syringe fill bladder fuel Aiming carefully avoid wasting fuel shooting self face chest fuel full bladder Sooner later youll get hit fuel bladder might well once purpose will know what look forward next time Wipe yourself off shirt give nice touch nitro stain Now cut bleeding covered fuel biting plug go fly Assuming plane straight no warps shouldnt give trouble first flight sure dont have too much control first time up Most planes have less 1/2 total travel elevator measured TE Getting good setting engine will probably problem first few flights especially didnt get Kirn-Kraft needle valve suggested engine running lean out slowly until peaks out richen up slowly until just slightly cracks rich As soon plane launched engine should lean out right lean out richen up next flight engine requires slightly different setting experiment until can get right time No matter what setting engine requires before launching dont worry about Just concentrate getting engine run WFO level flight maneuvers Dont afraid try different props engine bogs down turns gen erally use Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 nylon prop engine might pull 5 1/4 X 4 could try Grish Tornado 5 1/2 X 3 can afford use wood props Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 Power Prop great honkin engine might go through whole box day fly much Northwest streamers use regular crepe paper material used Fast Combat streamers make 1/2 wide use carpet thread leader Most string little too tough 049 engine cut hope will give 049 Combat try whether pro Combat flyer Sport flier looking inexpensive way break Combat NW fly lots Combat 049 Combat has really caught fast like must good Try GollyGeeWhiz Youll sec what am talk ing about last thing Anybody inter est Combat should belong Miniature Aircraft Combat Association past year MACA has become super organization Tom Southern Bill Allen newsletter MACA always very good Within MACA Com bat Advisory Committee has formed advise Control Line Contest Board proposed rules affect Combat mation CAC printing newsletter just two visible things accomplished MACA mainly through efforts Tom Bill would like part MACA send check money order $500 Tom Southern 2207 Paul Longview Texas 75601 clip coupon magazine Nats/FF/Mathis continued page 23 3-minute max too fragile hard build etc detected whir mental gears meshing once reasons spoken Maybe next year someone will turn up monsters complete good old strapon winder Another 630 am saw FAI power event start unfolding tune tick ing Seeligs flipping auto surfaces squalling Rossis am convinced significant number FAI power fliers have excessively developed engine fetishes consists running ones Rossi taching until worn out ig noring trim model except climb pattern after quick D-T followed engine running etc point driven home upon observing late evening sixth-round drift non-existent body gliding down launch area dont know anyone else noticed two thirds airplanes far out glide trim fast tight side result missed maxes best FAI fliers US interest ing hear blame near-miss bad engine setting engine fetish again model practically dived runway glide appears gadgetry power have gotten out control Most FAI contestants airplane could handle best constantly wandering off trim has message fact until final round thunderstorm front caught disrupted plans Bill Hunter Hulan Matthies tied first place perfect scores flying stock Satellite 450s nothing automated Add last years near-sweep Midi Pearls plus Mark Valerius third place year Midi Pearl message clear Instead building FAI power ships will flown fly-off world cham pionships dont build simpler less exotic airplanes can win contests home might surprised Make no mistake about fine FAI power event excellent field felt seen higher overall calibre flying good old Class A-gas event Wallace Johnson Gerald Comp Senior survivors per fect scores Johnson handily winning fly-off weather dreaded officials hand-launched-glider event perfect slight drift gentle ther mals would usually spin gliders 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have win Nationals event fore NFFS sees fit award de sign year honor AMA NFFS scholarship winner Joseph Mekina Senior winner since time better Junior Open winners won coveted Tulsa Gluedobbers perpetual award As turned out Seniors much tougher Opens judging comparative times guess means arms usually better take event seriously Mekina started Max Flyer design found wouldnt stay lift switched own Maxwell design maxes Ray Harper Max Fly ers designer Open flier takes HLG seriously almost won year model fall out thermal just short max flew light glid ers early hopes taking advantage gentle lift winner Frank Sharpton waited until crowds died down thermals got stronger fly original design few notable exceptions stand ard HLG flying high should too much design-hopping fliers constantly try new designs hopes improving fact techniques need work Higher standards workmanship finish needed dethermalizers admittedly much prevalent five years ago Finally art piggy back ing needs pursued systemati cally conditions should have gene rated winning scores least six straight maxes considering piggy back oppor tunities weather Lurking 12th place HLG believe Carl Goldberg flying 20year-old glider A-l towline prestigious A-2 serious A-2 men wont both ered it always great event Nats people competing dont normally fly towline Perhaps because competitive A-I easier build A-2 Like HLG A-I thermal eventno thermalyou lose Mike Ransom maxed out win Open 5 flights flown rounds time 1/2-A Gas largest FreeFlight event rolls around everybody getting tired wondering what takes win trophy 1/2-A Free Flights have run complete cycle over years since first witnessed event Nats 1950 airplanes ran 175 sq average Gradually engines developed power sizes went over 400 sq motor runs reduced size came back about 210 area Mini Pearl very hot small Mini Pearls small Satellites require thermal help max high climb comes gets high enough hit thermals bigger necessary fly-offs require 5-second motor runs might wonder dont know what Norman Poti open winner flew another case winner emerging out chaos no knowing what happenedeven people beat Steve Calhoun flew Satellite win Junior am sorry say dont know what design Mike Stoy flew win Senior Lets have fly-offs time Fast Richard can keep better track things striking note Mini Pearls Satellites have just about com pletely established themselves stand ard designs So now its time ex citing new design variety choice kits keeps event going lets hope something happens night-flying event unofficial spon sored Western Freeflight Associa tion held Friday 9 12 terrific thunderstorm blew up right 900 oclock everyone left Satellite City bunch thought As turned out side huge airbase drenched other stayed dry Once wind died bang-up nightflying session ensued Randy Secor has done share night flying Calif won flying Tartar Phil Bayly flew 400 November1975 75 $2995 BATTERY MEDIC R J R Sales believe too hobbiest lost thru terribly expensive heartbreaking crashes 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Farmers Maxi Pearl edged Bill Hunters Satellite 1000 first Tom Bill Chenault Pearls founder helping thermal selection new 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Flying weight 21/2 oz will power 25 50 wingspan weighting up 10 oz VL-101 Electric Flight System FC-66 Field Charger Instruction Book Only Catalog Add 10% Postage & Handling Send Check MO NO CODs Calif add 6% Sales Tax S1950 S2950 $ 100 25 V PRODUCTS DIVISION OF VISTA LABS 7023-D Canoga Ave fM Canoga Park Ca 91303 See Your MODEL DEALER ORDER DIRECT Hobby Dealers send Information slimmed-down Sal Taibi maxed out waited too long improvement weather gotten breezy Satellites locked up Senior Junior tightly pleasing see young fliers like Bob Tom Scully Mini-Fred Steve Calhoun handling monsters well biggest problems hurting everyone fly-offs power-glide transition Large air planes much critical area Adjacent C event Jetex event hissed fizzled along Chris Matsuno leading handsomely Matsuno St Louis very adept less familiar events Mike Ransom Mike Fedor Jerry Murphy takes special patience make Jetex Coupe Pay Load Rubber Speed model go Matsuno also leading Wakefield after fourth round slightly ahead Fred Pearce Wakefields especially hurt early morning round schedule because damp dead Matsunos high-aspect-ratio model far best glide appeared few models capable unaided max Eventually however Pearce edged him out complete sweep rubber events Coupe Unlimited Wakefield Almost last gasp wheeled out big D gas ships jollies lot us get kick out superbig devices like Bill Moores Team Pearl Mama Pearl required Rossi 60 move moved fast enough win over Fred Calhoun Jrs Satellite another unofficial event seemed spectator sport participant sport other events come mind try bail out Sal Taibi finished flying Old Timer ignition grabbing watch him fly bellow ing old Forester 99-powered Powerhouse just fun started first flip flew like train schedule recall think ing out proportion Peanut scale airplanes relative owners make funny pictures together fascinated reaction spectators Rubber Speed event cheering laughing like ball game remem ber trying unsuccessfully locate Electric eventI hope everyone enjoyed Thank goodness complete results event being published else issue have commented least third events time dethermalize report meet publication deadlines also give chance start building next year second year have reported Nats rather flying hope observations have made teresting thank AMA giving opportunity re port thanks contestants provided such spectacular display excellence sportsmanship Build em lighter faster next year boys cause Fast Richard comm back 76 Model Aviation Tongue-in-cheek Jerry Barnette prepares tow A-2 Nordic called Lad Seppelin Launching Unlimited Rubber Greg Simon Young fliers often enter Coupes event Far OutI Terry Rimert built foam-core newspaper Flash hand-launched glider
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/11
Page Numbers: 20, 21, 22, 23, 74, 75, 76
FR EE FLI GHT Outdoor Dick Mathis THE 1975 NATIONALS turned out dandy Free-Flight contest sur prise consider Lake Charles Chennault AFB poor site main reason success weather has unusually good throughout region summer Rarely did wind exceed 10 mph gusts Weather certainly played part separat ing winners losers in teresting challenging manner Very few airplanes wandered off-base lost on-base swamps/woods number contestants showed healthy increase over last year served relieve rather depressing mosphere observed 1974 Na tionals entries lowest memory goes back 1950 Nats changes format some events made interest ing competition three FAI events Wakefield Power A-2 run rounds first commencing 630 am lastendingat830pm rounds seven interrupted midmorning late afternoon effect minimize thermals factor place emphasis sheer airplane performance results intrigu ing first time Unlimited Rubber flyoffs held time 500 pm instead contestants choice throughout day have always thought interest ing see has best model rather can pick best thermal luckiest So welcomed changes opening competition quiet rousing As dawn broke Tuesday first round A-2 Towline began surprise officials swamped fliers wanting go early round cause moisture-laden air super could barely see down runway Most flew before 700 am 21 53 first-round flights 3-minute maxes says something about quality air airplanes weather perfect circle tow ing enables flier tow search lift long periods calm-wind condi tions exhausting himself run ning out timers range vision Only two flyers Jim Bradley Dale Elder Orlando Fla observed circle towing however Far too simply towed released taking time feel lift line seek out elsewhere Piggy-back tactics almost universal cases laugh able results hysterical mobs eight ten case 14 Nordics simul taneously launched tiny thermals often huge downers mass hys teria quite natural consider would 20 fliers standing starting line ready tow slightest hint thermal activity tension would mount very high levels especially late evening rounds thermals imperceptible evening rounds winds once again almost calm separated winners losers ruthlessly perfect scores went wayside still-air performance model became ultimate deciding factor One-by-one sometimes groups three four fliers towed off down runway release very dead last-round air Most models could better 140 seconds re leased poorly stalls half-hearted slingshot-style launches gave bigger stalls As last-round scores came positions changed dramatically Needing max beat old-pro Frank Parmenter Houston runnerup 1974 young Rich McCreary Detroit Releasing Crowley-designed Happy Hooker what must have last warm air evening McCreary watched descend back launch area three-minute-plus-a-tick flight have enjoyed experience 20 Model Aviation way wasand now still Bill Burgess releases Don Foote-designed Westerner Old Timer unassisted take-off Below Peanuts look smaller flown outdoors Waco cabin biplane flown Richard Johnson smiling Bob Dunham appears well pleased Roll-Out hand-launched glider plan form outer panels gets him what wants making winning flight Nationals before usually downwind event relative solitude chasing model Rich however picked model up 25 feet event headquarters en suing victory celebration Detroit Balsa Bugs fitting climax best Nordic A-2 event Nats years Design-wise little new A-2 Most fliers use4aiginals scratch-built magazine desigrfK nce no com petitive kits being manufactured Running simultaneously A-2 event B gas Early fliers flying started 800 am found models going outof-sight 11-second motor run right cloud bases situation plagued highest climbers several hours un til clouds burned off Class B models tend overpowered because merely class designs 15s 19s 23s 29s screwed front result whole lot wild-climbing mod els necessarily well trimmed few persons design larger models specif ically Class B engines seem suitable contest work example Open winner Jim Clem Tulsa flew f Okie Bird designs about 480 sq Fox 25 power combination definitely hottest field its power pattern manageable model could tran sition part critical engine runs reduced 11 7 5 seconds fly-off hotter climb ing models have fly less incidence difference between wing tail handle power looping makes transition glide problem unless ship has built up enough speed position banking recover engine quits result lot long swooping dives 5-second fly-off flights after power shut off Clem strung seven maxes together anyone event prove thermal picking good glide good combination wonder what would happen Unlimited gas events revised group fly-off took place end day rather permitting everyone flyoff anytime during day would exciting contestants specta tors alike would tend minimize thermals factor As now winner may put flight unnoticed anyone flight recorder its over everyone says what flying takes away lot drama competition Junior winner Steve Calhoun Calif flew Satellite Senior winner Joseph Mekina Ohio flew another Clem design ABC Scrambler Off side everything Pay Load event unraveled slowly no ones particular interest except Tulsas Mike Ransom won handily risk offending fans event has no place Nationals official AMA event Less dozen contestants flew event serves no function November1975 21 Senior Scott Gesner flew Sig Liberty Sport Gas Scale Left George Perryman heaves rubber Old Timer Lanzo stick Below Glenn Lee Speed engine man free-flight copter Jerry Murphy winds Coupes rubber motor note anchor man hangs Onto generous tubing experts have problems getting performance Coupe severe rubber limitation i FREE HT already served other events almost two decades ago Pan American Airways sponsored Pay Load lots interest several kits made sense now some other events fit description equally well Nationals Free-Flight Helicopter Clipper Cargo Rocket name three wonder also whether really prove anything hav ing B gas except gives us chance fly same airplane two events about Coupe Rubber As Junior Senior event Coupe flop kids flying Unlimited Rubber instead Coupe re stricted rubber limits Wakefield experts cant make go satisfying way Add fact un official events two kinds electric powered free flights Rise-off-Water Pow er Night Flying Class D gas Rubber Speed plus Old Timer events end up somewhere between 27 30 different events counting Indoor being flown five days skeptical reader will say sour grapes guy exhausted after trying magazine report invite consideration question whether events desirable tried sample opinions ques tion general feeling schedule too heavy Nationals Certainly some new events like Old Timer worthwhile experiments others times trends have changed have lost fascination few drain officiating manpower trophy sponsorships second day competition always good first-day jitters have calmed down optimism still runs high Class gas always popular events Nats along /2-A HLG event no exception classy group almost four fliers maxed out including Juniors Seniors weather good something about Class A-sized air planes makes very efficient people seem able handle well Perhaps combination power ful 15- 19 sized motors large relative -As airplanes fragile Class C ideal format FreeFlight gas makes wonder perhaps Class-A-size airplanes might better novices -As tradition myth says easier Anyway well-dressed Class flier wears Midi Pearl Satellite 450 definitely gauche show up 051-powered ship besides being uncom petitive Junior Open winners used Midi Pearls Randy Secor flew Red Johnsons Tartar designs tame other five Seniors fly-off hard really capture flavor competing Nats unless become intimately involved flying yourself helping someone fly story will give idea irony emotions disap pointment pure chance goes winning trophy George Hilliard orthopedic surgeon Longview Tex asked advice trimming Hys teria 600 day before Class-A event Since design felt fairly safe guess Anyway process fine-trim ming thing stab lifted off front mount loose rubber bands under power causing execute spiral dive straight crowded B-gas area Having gotten everybodys attention went outside loop about 20 feet above headlevel harrel-rolled until engine quit good doctor rather embarrassed 22 Model Aviation Left Carl Goldberg has yet miss Nats placed 12th 20-year-old HLG Above Chris Matsuno launching Wakefield took second Doing quick check before launching Pearl Express Class B Ed CaIdwell Author found B jobs overpowered very wild Mrs Jim McNeill presents McNeill Trophy FAI winner Buckets Johnson Mathis thinks 2/3s FAI jobs poor glide trim Dr George Hilliard flew Mathis design Hysteria 600 second ClassGrand National Champ Mike Ransom flew variety FF events plus Class jobs seem efficient generally well handledCL Indoor capture coveted title Ed Aber Photo amazed after uproar died down told him way could live down would win tomorrow Next day sure enough George fly-off having very little sense asked help pick air fly-off flights done eventually over sized todays standards floater eased first place check other scores showed secure position started leave Unlimited Rubber feel ing good way car Jerry Murphy asked proxy fly job him suffering case Mon tezumas Revenge declined because license current left couple hours later returned check scores found Hilliard still sweating first place feeling more confident threats fizzled half-hour left someone pointed out contestant still chance could make two maxes guessed Mike Fedor proxy-flown Murphys Midi Pearl position win five minutes left did similar story behind al win Nats George Hill iard never realized much wanted win until lost friend Ah Mulvihill Trophy coveted select few fliers thosc temperamcntal fragile brutal Unlimited Rubber machines oldest trophy modeldom Mulvihill won year after typically fierce war nerves Todays Unlimiteds will 5-6 minutes thermal assistance usually Thats assum ing air isnt bad arent power stalls rubber isnt tired 37 contestants II maxed out waited first 4-minute fly-off com mencing 500 pm Something happened tbose still-air potentials however two Open fliers two Seniors survived maxesits called pres sureand attributable excite ment simultaneous fly-off causes overwinding bad launches picking bad air four left favored Randy Secor Senior Calif flying God father smooth high climb super glide figured would beat Houstonian Fred Pearces straight-up brief-climb ing machine other two ships Bob Dunhams Joseph Mekinas did appear have glides match men tioned above near calm conditions Secor launched 5-minute fly-off suffered Rubber fliers nightmare series three power stalls Mekina launched smooth flight under four minutes beat Secor Senior Next Pearce released followed Dunham about 10 seconds later Both models climbed strongly Pearces maybe 50 feet higher As drifted off together became obvious Dunhams sinking slowly Pearces sinking few hundred feet apart Dunham missed forc ing 6-minute round 18 seconds Houston group took off inform Pearce won first Mulvihill group old-time Unlimited fliers mentioned wish someone would bring back six-footer 50s six foot fuselages long motors some kind climb patiently explained George Perryman Bob Dunham Bob Watson others arent built necessary continued page 74 November1975 23 Discussing problems finding thermals manufacturing honkin free-flight kits Ed Cald well Bill Moore Bill Hunterthe latter Satellite City group O4 E 0 S CO EC ION COMP STE WITHOUT THE AUTHENTIC UOLLS LINE OF MODELDOM yoo loon tho old olotoge oinroft oc yooIl reolly loon oony dooeoe tnntendooe onriety ne ofte, eoen tftey no oil oppeni yoo Theytodenigondothhnnnotinolooeono onddetoil nhiof dodinotion ond loloo loon non nreote Ctovelood-Doeignod nodnin ore ononid rooct nothentic doeigne ood too ootly bot yoo ooni. bet yoor hobby tfrenee no othe line look Whot ic good i onoolly nonreofrot onetly odoy roFbooms FasCal because occasionally can recycle set booms plane gets wiped out booms lot easier get off arent glued wood Add control horn Kwik-Link install motor should ready go flying didnt mention will have make up bladder fuel tank use small Tatone bladder cut down about l/2tt kind obvious isnt couple things fore going out fly new GollyGee Whiz Optional yes add immensely total enjoyment Combat flying insure will ar rive field looking like Combat jock turkey First have probably noticed Combat fliers flippin fingers always cut various stages healing quickest way get Combat hands stick fingers running prop Felt good didnt it hurts too much bite old glow plug bandage fingers way everybody will able see active Combat flier As long have some fresh cuts hand speak practice pouring raw fuel cuts wincing Second going have get yourself accustomed minor ag gravations go along using pen bladders Try blow up fuel using regular fuel bulb Cant Squeeze harder Use both hands Yuk yuk blew end right out fuel bulb didnt Go get 2 oz dose sy ringe local veterinarian hobby shop may have CMI people make Guillotine Combat kits Captains Bladders market 2-oz syringe works costs $139 Now using syringe fill bladder fuel Aiming carefully avoid wasting fuel shooting self face chest fuel full bladder Sooner later youll get hit fuel bladder might well once purpose will know what look forward next time Wipe yourself off shirt give nice touch nitro stain Now cut bleeding covered fuel biting plug go fly Assuming plane straight no warps shouldnt give trouble first flight sure dont have too much control first time up Most planes have less 1/2 total travel elevator measured TE Getting good setting engine will probably problem first few flights especially didnt get Kirn-Kraft needle valve suggested engine running lean out slowly until peaks out richen up slowly until just slightly cracks rich As soon plane launched engine should lean out right lean out richen up next flight engine requires slightly different setting experiment until can get right time No matter what setting engine requires before launching dont worry about Just concentrate getting engine run WFO level flight maneuvers Dont afraid try different props engine bogs down turns gen erally use Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 nylon prop engine might pull 5 1/4 X 4 could try Grish Tornado 5 1/2 X 3 can afford use wood props Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 Power Prop great honkin engine might go through whole box day fly much Northwest streamers use regular crepe paper material used Fast Combat streamers make 1/2 wide use carpet thread leader Most string little too tough 049 engine cut hope will give 049 Combat try whether pro Combat flyer Sport flier looking inexpensive way break Combat NW fly lots Combat 049 Combat has really caught fast like must good Try GollyGeeWhiz Youll sec what am talk ing about last thing Anybody inter est Combat should belong Miniature Aircraft Combat Association past year MACA has become super organization Tom Southern Bill Allen newsletter MACA always very good Within MACA Com bat Advisory Committee has formed advise Control Line Contest Board proposed rules affect Combat mation CAC printing newsletter just two visible things accomplished MACA mainly through efforts Tom Bill would like part MACA send check money order $500 Tom Southern 2207 Paul Longview Texas 75601 clip coupon magazine Nats/FF/Mathis continued page 23 3-minute max too fragile hard build etc detected whir mental gears meshing once reasons spoken Maybe next year someone will turn up monsters complete good old strapon winder Another 630 am saw FAI power event start unfolding tune tick ing Seeligs flipping auto surfaces squalling Rossis am convinced significant number FAI power fliers have excessively developed engine fetishes consists running ones Rossi taching until worn out ig noring trim model except climb pattern after quick D-T followed engine running etc point driven home upon observing late evening sixth-round drift non-existent body gliding down launch area dont know anyone else noticed two thirds airplanes far out glide trim fast tight side result missed maxes best FAI fliers US interest ing hear blame near-miss bad engine setting engine fetish again model practically dived runway glide appears gadgetry power have gotten out control Most FAI contestants airplane could handle best constantly wandering off trim has message fact until final round thunderstorm front caught disrupted plans Bill Hunter Hulan Matthies tied first place perfect scores flying stock Satellite 450s nothing automated Add last years near-sweep Midi Pearls plus Mark Valerius third place year Midi Pearl message clear Instead building FAI power ships will flown fly-off world cham pionships dont build simpler less exotic airplanes can win contests home might surprised Make no mistake about fine FAI power event excellent field felt seen higher overall calibre flying good old Class A-gas event Wallace Johnson Gerald Comp Senior survivors per fect scores Johnson handily winning fly-off weather dreaded officials hand-launched-glider event perfect slight drift gentle ther mals would usually spin gliders popular Junior events Nats appropriately son old Nationals friend Jack Nix won US Kid design old flying business P M & P partner Tommy T plug US Kid now manufactured 74 Model Aviation GollyGeeWhiz continued NOTICE TO BEGINNING R C FLYERS!! Flying Radio Control Airplane undoubtedly ranks among tops exhilarating experiences hobby Few other hobbies make excited nervous flying first RC Model Flying maximum fun comparatively inexpensive though initial cost seems high avoid heartbreaking disappointment STRONGLY RECOM MEND seek help learning first flights instructor extremely important Just Know can fly alone less person thousand can actually After training period satisfaction sense accomplishment make flying worthwhile challenge adds fun EVERTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RADIO CONTROL FLYING folly illastrated beginners 5 Et5TH5QS**OUDk5O5book its fillesI wany asefal photngrapbs Its Easy-Tn-Understand learning systew tbat helps RADIO CONTROL FLVINOyna find tbat instractor answers tbe qaestinns tbat yoa might ask biw Chapters Airplane Selection Selection ns a ion Radio Con trols Test Flying Trimwing Flying Withoat Crashes Engine Accessories Crash Causes -And Prevention woch wore $395 III iii BOING TRAINER \\\\\\\ \ THE CRASHLESS WAY TO ADVANCED RADIO CONTROL FLYING gives yno facts orwation rthew anord heart INbreaking frostrations ThE CEASNLESS WAYhow have wore fan TO ADVANCflying book new learners Tells woid types CONTROL flYiNGcrashes Chapters EAWO Safe Flying Techniques Crashes Prenention Changes Make Airplane Fly Right Safe Flying Radio-Battery-And Servo Crash Prweotion Engine ProbleresScall Crash Producers Glider Flying Avoiding iost crash will wake book worthwhile $495 BOING TRAINER san eucelleet trainer beginners good fun airplane Senday Fliws Its almon indestroctable airplane three four channel its designnd easy repair has radio safety belt pmtect expensing receiver Preformnd Plywond plywood thats thin flexible- bends bat doesnt breakl Reinforcnd Foam wings wake trainer hard tear op can boils resemble sweral dig femnt scale models canditional guarantee fuselage wings wake lifetime airplane 25 engines Wing Span 4eA Wing Area 4B0 Fuselage length 31 Flying Weight- 2A lbs d/65 6rnA 1316 NMil BowieTexas 76230 iTfli IwThi1I HOW TO FLY UCONTROL folly illostrated book well known writer desigser Dick Mothis book covers thing frow learning flying sninti Its book UControl Chapters World ______________________________ UControl Preflight Checklist First Solo Learning Stants Easy Way Flying AMA Scant Pattern Advanced Techniqoes Stont Cnwbat Engines Accessories wich charts graphs loaded wich information Its complete book learner$295 BATTERY MEDIC R C field charger fines yno manimow safety battery tenable recharges airplane batnery bncwwn flights ynor refilling foel tank keeps nnltage constant oath flight BATTERY MEDIC ases regolar E volt lantern battety tn charge goickly bat drops off qoidsly prevent dangerous over charge Complete instroctions tell wery thing incladine field charge load test home time test ned moogeize battery problems flight safety $1495 C FIELD CI-IARQER American Balsa Corporation am associated Bryan Nix thus added another first place first Nationals wonder times US Kid will have win Nationals event fore NFFS sees fit award de sign year honor AMA NFFS scholarship winner Joseph Mekina Senior winner since time better Junior Open winners won coveted Tulsa Gluedobbers perpetual award As turned out Seniors much tougher Opens judging comparative times guess means arms usually better take event seriously Mekina started Max Flyer design found wouldnt stay lift switched own Maxwell design maxes Ray Harper Max Fly ers designer Open flier takes HLG seriously almost won year model fall out thermal just short max flew light glid ers early hopes taking advantage gentle lift winner Frank Sharpton waited until crowds died down thermals got stronger fly original design few notable exceptions stand ard HLG flying high should too much design-hopping fliers constantly try new designs hopes improving fact techniques need work Higher standards workmanship finish needed dethermalizers admittedly much prevalent five years ago Finally art piggy back ing needs pursued systemati cally conditions should have gene rated winning scores least six straight maxes considering piggy back oppor tunities weather Lurking 12th place HLG believe Carl Goldberg flying 20year-old glider A-l towline prestigious A-2 serious A-2 men wont both ered it always great event Nats people competing dont normally fly towline Perhaps because competitive A-I easier build A-2 Like HLG A-I thermal eventno thermalyou lose Mike Ransom maxed out win Open 5 flights flown rounds time 1/2-A Gas largest FreeFlight event rolls around everybody getting tired wondering what takes win trophy 1/2-A Free Flights have run complete cycle over years since first witnessed event Nats 1950 airplanes ran 175 sq average Gradually engines developed power sizes went over 400 sq motor runs reduced size came back about 210 area Mini Pearl very hot small Mini Pearls small Satellites require thermal help max high climb comes gets high enough hit thermals bigger necessary fly-offs require 5-second motor runs might wonder dont know what Norman Poti open winner flew another case winner emerging out chaos no knowing what happenedeven people beat Steve Calhoun flew Satellite win Junior am sorry say dont know what design Mike Stoy flew win Senior Lets have fly-offs time Fast Richard can keep better track things striking note Mini Pearls Satellites have just about com pletely established themselves stand ard designs So now its time ex citing new design variety choice kits keeps event going lets hope something happens night-flying event unofficial spon sored Western Freeflight Associa tion held Friday 9 12 terrific thunderstorm blew up right 900 oclock everyone left Satellite City bunch thought As turned out side huge airbase drenched other stayed dry Once wind died bang-up nightflying session ensued Randy Secor has done share night flying Calif won flying Tartar Phil Bayly flew 400 November1975 75 $2995 BATTERY MEDIC R J R Sales believe too hobbiest lost thru terribly expensive heartbreaking crashes thats feature Crash prevention products TO ORDER See Dealer First cannot supply order direct Add $100 postage handling US $150 Canada Nats/FF/Mathis continued 09-powered job second Penny Johnson flying Tartar third never witnessed night contest enthralled sensory delight noise amplified denser air glowing lights race off void seem stop mid-air like star cant tell whether air plane 500 feet high 100 gets out trim youd better pack up because no hint model climbing except noise motor diminishing think night flying could catch East anywhere other Calif once people see way definitely thermals after 900 no hint breeze Saturday C day Class C gassie today thing behold 1000 sq wings arc common now because thats about what takes slow latest honkin 40s down superior performance potential airplanes obvious because appear climb high smaller ships actually go higher Once gliding starts nothing else touches Satellites prevalent surprising number Maxi Mama Pearls flown Pearl Team Houston Tulsan Tom Farmers Maxi Pearl edged Bill Hunters Satellite 1000 first Tom Bill Chenault Pearls founder helping thermal selection new 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Flying weight 21/2 oz will power 25 50 wingspan weighting up 10 oz VL-101 Electric Flight System FC-66 Field Charger Instruction Book Only Catalog Add 10% Postage & Handling Send Check MO NO CODs Calif add 6% Sales Tax S1950 S2950 $ 100 25 V PRODUCTS DIVISION OF VISTA LABS 7023-D Canoga Ave fM Canoga Park Ca 91303 See Your MODEL DEALER ORDER DIRECT Hobby Dealers send Information slimmed-down Sal Taibi maxed out waited too long improvement weather gotten breezy Satellites locked up Senior Junior tightly pleasing see young fliers like Bob Tom Scully Mini-Fred Steve Calhoun handling monsters well biggest problems hurting everyone fly-offs power-glide transition Large air planes much critical area Adjacent C event Jetex event hissed fizzled along Chris Matsuno leading handsomely Matsuno St Louis very adept less familiar events Mike Ransom Mike Fedor Jerry Murphy takes special patience make Jetex Coupe Pay Load Rubber Speed model go Matsuno also leading Wakefield after fourth round slightly ahead Fred Pearce Wakefields especially hurt early morning round schedule because damp dead Matsunos high-aspect-ratio model far best glide appeared few models capable unaided max Eventually however Pearce edged him out complete sweep rubber events Coupe Unlimited Wakefield Almost last gasp wheeled out big D gas ships jollies lot us get kick out superbig devices like Bill Moores Team Pearl Mama Pearl required Rossi 60 move moved fast enough win over Fred Calhoun Jrs Satellite another unofficial event seemed spectator sport participant sport other events come mind try bail out Sal Taibi finished flying Old Timer ignition grabbing watch him fly bellow ing old Forester 99-powered Powerhouse just fun started first flip flew like train schedule recall think ing out proportion Peanut scale airplanes relative owners make funny pictures together fascinated reaction spectators Rubber Speed event cheering laughing like ball game remem ber trying unsuccessfully locate Electric eventI hope everyone enjoyed Thank goodness complete results event being published else issue have commented least third events time dethermalize report meet publication deadlines also give chance start building next year second year have reported Nats rather flying hope observations have made teresting thank AMA giving opportunity re port thanks contestants provided such spectacular display excellence sportsmanship Build em lighter faster next year boys cause Fast Richard comm back 76 Model Aviation Tongue-in-cheek Jerry Barnette prepares tow A-2 Nordic called Lad Seppelin Launching Unlimited Rubber Greg Simon Young fliers often enter Coupes event Far OutI Terry Rimert built foam-core newspaper Flash hand-launched glider
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/11
Page Numbers: 20, 21, 22, 23, 74, 75, 76
FR EE FLI GHT Outdoor Dick Mathis THE 1975 NATIONALS turned out dandy Free-Flight contest sur prise consider Lake Charles Chennault AFB poor site main reason success weather has unusually good throughout region summer Rarely did wind exceed 10 mph gusts Weather certainly played part separat ing winners losers in teresting challenging manner Very few airplanes wandered off-base lost on-base swamps/woods number contestants showed healthy increase over last year served relieve rather depressing mosphere observed 1974 Na tionals entries lowest memory goes back 1950 Nats changes format some events made interest ing competition three FAI events Wakefield Power A-2 run rounds first commencing 630 am lastendingat830pm rounds seven interrupted midmorning late afternoon effect minimize thermals factor place emphasis sheer airplane performance results intrigu ing first time Unlimited Rubber flyoffs held time 500 pm instead contestants choice throughout day have always thought interest ing see has best model rather can pick best thermal luckiest So welcomed changes opening competition quiet rousing As dawn broke Tuesday first round A-2 Towline began surprise officials swamped fliers wanting go early round cause moisture-laden air super could barely see down runway Most flew before 700 am 21 53 first-round flights 3-minute maxes says something about quality air airplanes weather perfect circle tow ing enables flier tow search lift long periods calm-wind condi tions exhausting himself run ning out timers range vision Only two flyers Jim Bradley Dale Elder Orlando Fla observed circle towing however Far too simply towed released taking time feel lift line seek out elsewhere Piggy-back tactics almost universal cases laugh able results hysterical mobs eight ten case 14 Nordics simul taneously launched tiny thermals often huge downers mass hys teria quite natural consider would 20 fliers standing starting line ready tow slightest hint thermal activity tension would mount very high levels especially late evening rounds thermals imperceptible evening rounds winds once again almost calm separated winners losers ruthlessly perfect scores went wayside still-air performance model became ultimate deciding factor One-by-one sometimes groups three four fliers towed off down runway release very dead last-round air Most models could better 140 seconds re leased poorly stalls half-hearted slingshot-style launches gave bigger stalls As last-round scores came positions changed dramatically Needing max beat old-pro Frank Parmenter Houston runnerup 1974 young Rich McCreary Detroit Releasing Crowley-designed Happy Hooker what must have last warm air evening McCreary watched descend back launch area three-minute-plus-a-tick flight have enjoyed experience 20 Model Aviation way wasand now still Bill Burgess releases Don Foote-designed Westerner Old Timer unassisted take-off Below Peanuts look smaller flown outdoors Waco cabin biplane flown Richard Johnson smiling Bob Dunham appears well pleased Roll-Out hand-launched glider plan form outer panels gets him what wants making winning flight Nationals before usually downwind event relative solitude chasing model Rich however picked model up 25 feet event headquarters en suing victory celebration Detroit Balsa Bugs fitting climax best Nordic A-2 event Nats years Design-wise little new A-2 Most fliers use4aiginals scratch-built magazine desigrfK nce no com petitive kits being manufactured Running simultaneously A-2 event B gas Early fliers flying started 800 am found models going outof-sight 11-second motor run right cloud bases situation plagued highest climbers several hours un til clouds burned off Class B models tend overpowered because merely class designs 15s 19s 23s 29s screwed front result whole lot wild-climbing mod els necessarily well trimmed few persons design larger models specif ically Class B engines seem suitable contest work example Open winner Jim Clem Tulsa flew f Okie Bird designs about 480 sq Fox 25 power combination definitely hottest field its power pattern manageable model could tran sition part critical engine runs reduced 11 7 5 seconds fly-off hotter climb ing models have fly less incidence difference between wing tail handle power looping makes transition glide problem unless ship has built up enough speed position banking recover engine quits result lot long swooping dives 5-second fly-off flights after power shut off Clem strung seven maxes together anyone event prove thermal picking good glide good combination wonder what would happen Unlimited gas events revised group fly-off took place end day rather permitting everyone flyoff anytime during day would exciting contestants specta tors alike would tend minimize thermals factor As now winner may put flight unnoticed anyone flight recorder its over everyone says what flying takes away lot drama competition Junior winner Steve Calhoun Calif flew Satellite Senior winner Joseph Mekina Ohio flew another Clem design ABC Scrambler Off side everything Pay Load event unraveled slowly no ones particular interest except Tulsas Mike Ransom won handily risk offending fans event has no place Nationals official AMA event Less dozen contestants flew event serves no function November1975 21 Senior Scott Gesner flew Sig Liberty Sport Gas Scale Left George Perryman heaves rubber Old Timer Lanzo stick Below Glenn Lee Speed engine man free-flight copter Jerry Murphy winds Coupes rubber motor note anchor man hangs Onto generous tubing experts have problems getting performance Coupe severe rubber limitation i FREE HT already served other events almost two decades ago Pan American Airways sponsored Pay Load lots interest several kits made sense now some other events fit description equally well Nationals Free-Flight Helicopter Clipper Cargo Rocket name three wonder also whether really prove anything hav ing B gas except gives us chance fly same airplane two events about Coupe Rubber As Junior Senior event Coupe flop kids flying Unlimited Rubber instead Coupe re stricted rubber limits Wakefield experts cant make go satisfying way Add fact un official events two kinds electric powered free flights Rise-off-Water Pow er Night Flying Class D gas Rubber Speed plus Old Timer events end up somewhere between 27 30 different events counting Indoor being flown five days skeptical reader will say sour grapes guy exhausted after trying magazine report invite consideration question whether events desirable tried sample opinions ques tion general feeling schedule too heavy Nationals Certainly some new events like Old Timer worthwhile experiments others times trends have changed have lost fascination few drain officiating manpower trophy sponsorships second day competition always good first-day jitters have calmed down optimism still runs high Class gas always popular events Nats along /2-A HLG event no exception classy group almost four fliers maxed out including Juniors Seniors weather good something about Class A-sized air planes makes very efficient people seem able handle well Perhaps combination power ful 15- 19 sized motors large relative -As airplanes fragile Class C ideal format FreeFlight gas makes wonder perhaps Class-A-size airplanes might better novices -As tradition myth says easier Anyway well-dressed Class flier wears Midi Pearl Satellite 450 definitely gauche show up 051-powered ship besides being uncom petitive Junior Open winners used Midi Pearls Randy Secor flew Red Johnsons Tartar designs tame other five Seniors fly-off hard really capture flavor competing Nats unless become intimately involved flying yourself helping someone fly story will give idea irony emotions disap pointment pure chance goes winning trophy George Hilliard orthopedic surgeon Longview Tex asked advice trimming Hys teria 600 day before Class-A event Since design felt fairly safe guess Anyway process fine-trim ming thing stab lifted off front mount loose rubber bands under power causing execute spiral dive straight crowded B-gas area Having gotten everybodys attention went outside loop about 20 feet above headlevel harrel-rolled until engine quit good doctor rather embarrassed 22 Model Aviation Left Carl Goldberg has yet miss Nats placed 12th 20-year-old HLG Above Chris Matsuno launching Wakefield took second Doing quick check before launching Pearl Express Class B Ed CaIdwell Author found B jobs overpowered very wild Mrs Jim McNeill presents McNeill Trophy FAI winner Buckets Johnson Mathis thinks 2/3s FAI jobs poor glide trim Dr George Hilliard flew Mathis design Hysteria 600 second ClassGrand National Champ Mike Ransom flew variety FF events plus Class jobs seem efficient generally well handledCL Indoor capture coveted title Ed Aber Photo amazed after uproar died down told him way could live down would win tomorrow Next day sure enough George fly-off having very little sense asked help pick air fly-off flights done eventually over sized todays standards floater eased first place check other scores showed secure position started leave Unlimited Rubber feel ing good way car Jerry Murphy asked proxy fly job him suffering case Mon tezumas Revenge declined because license current left couple hours later returned check scores found Hilliard still sweating first place feeling more confident threats fizzled half-hour left someone pointed out contestant still chance could make two maxes guessed Mike Fedor proxy-flown Murphys Midi Pearl position win five minutes left did similar story behind al win Nats George Hill iard never realized much wanted win until lost friend Ah Mulvihill Trophy coveted select few fliers thosc temperamcntal fragile brutal Unlimited Rubber machines oldest trophy modeldom Mulvihill won year after typically fierce war nerves Todays Unlimiteds will 5-6 minutes thermal assistance usually Thats assum ing air isnt bad arent power stalls rubber isnt tired 37 contestants II maxed out waited first 4-minute fly-off com mencing 500 pm Something happened tbose still-air potentials however two Open fliers two Seniors survived maxesits called pres sureand attributable excite ment simultaneous fly-off causes overwinding bad launches picking bad air four left favored Randy Secor Senior Calif flying God father smooth high climb super glide figured would beat Houstonian Fred Pearces straight-up brief-climb ing machine other two ships Bob Dunhams Joseph Mekinas did appear have glides match men tioned above near calm conditions Secor launched 5-minute fly-off suffered Rubber fliers nightmare series three power stalls Mekina launched smooth flight under four minutes beat Secor Senior Next Pearce released followed Dunham about 10 seconds later Both models climbed strongly Pearces maybe 50 feet higher As drifted off together became obvious Dunhams sinking slowly Pearces sinking few hundred feet apart Dunham missed forc ing 6-minute round 18 seconds Houston group took off inform Pearce won first Mulvihill group old-time Unlimited fliers mentioned wish someone would bring back six-footer 50s six foot fuselages long motors some kind climb patiently explained George Perryman Bob Dunham Bob Watson others arent built necessary continued page 74 November1975 23 Discussing problems finding thermals manufacturing honkin free-flight kits Ed Cald well Bill Moore Bill Hunterthe latter Satellite City group O4 E 0 S CO EC ION COMP STE WITHOUT THE AUTHENTIC UOLLS LINE OF MODELDOM yoo loon tho old olotoge oinroft oc yooIl reolly loon oony dooeoe tnntendooe onriety ne ofte, eoen tftey no oil oppeni yoo Theytodenigondothhnnnotinolooeono onddetoil nhiof dodinotion ond loloo loon non nreote Ctovelood-Doeignod nodnin ore ononid rooct nothentic doeigne ood too ootly bot yoo ooni. bet yoor hobby tfrenee no othe line look Whot ic good i onoolly nonreofrot onetly odoy roFbooms FasCal because occasionally can recycle set booms plane gets wiped out booms lot easier get off arent glued wood Add control horn Kwik-Link install motor should ready go flying didnt mention will have make up bladder fuel tank use small Tatone bladder cut down about l/2tt kind obvious isnt couple things fore going out fly new GollyGee Whiz Optional yes add immensely total enjoyment Combat flying insure will ar rive field looking like Combat jock turkey First have probably noticed Combat fliers flippin fingers always cut various stages healing quickest way get Combat hands stick fingers running prop Felt good didnt it hurts too much bite old glow plug bandage fingers way everybody will able see active Combat flier As long have some fresh cuts hand speak practice pouring raw fuel cuts wincing Second going have get yourself accustomed minor ag gravations go along using pen bladders Try blow up fuel using regular fuel bulb Cant Squeeze harder Use both hands Yuk yuk blew end right out fuel bulb didnt Go get 2 oz dose sy ringe local veterinarian hobby shop may have CMI people make Guillotine Combat kits Captains Bladders market 2-oz syringe works costs $139 Now using syringe fill bladder fuel Aiming carefully avoid wasting fuel shooting self face chest fuel full bladder Sooner later youll get hit fuel bladder might well once purpose will know what look forward next time Wipe yourself off shirt give nice touch nitro stain Now cut bleeding covered fuel biting plug go fly Assuming plane straight no warps shouldnt give trouble first flight sure dont have too much control first time up Most planes have less 1/2 total travel elevator measured TE Getting good setting engine will probably problem first few flights especially didnt get Kirn-Kraft needle valve suggested engine running lean out slowly until peaks out richen up slowly until just slightly cracks rich As soon plane launched engine should lean out right lean out richen up next flight engine requires slightly different setting experiment until can get right time No matter what setting engine requires before launching dont worry about Just concentrate getting engine run WFO level flight maneuvers Dont afraid try different props engine bogs down turns gen erally use Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 nylon prop engine might pull 5 1/4 X 4 could try Grish Tornado 5 1/2 X 3 can afford use wood props Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 Power Prop great honkin engine might go through whole box day fly much Northwest streamers use regular crepe paper material used Fast Combat streamers make 1/2 wide use carpet thread leader Most string little too tough 049 engine cut hope will give 049 Combat try whether pro Combat flyer Sport flier looking inexpensive way break Combat NW fly lots Combat 049 Combat has really caught fast like must good Try GollyGeeWhiz Youll sec what am talk ing about last thing Anybody inter est Combat should belong Miniature Aircraft Combat Association past year MACA has become super organization Tom Southern Bill Allen newsletter MACA always very good Within MACA Com bat Advisory Committee has formed advise Control Line Contest Board proposed rules affect Combat mation CAC printing newsletter just two visible things accomplished MACA mainly through efforts Tom Bill would like part MACA send check money order $500 Tom Southern 2207 Paul Longview Texas 75601 clip coupon magazine Nats/FF/Mathis continued page 23 3-minute max too fragile hard build etc detected whir mental gears meshing once reasons spoken Maybe next year someone will turn up monsters complete good old strapon winder Another 630 am saw FAI power event start unfolding tune tick ing Seeligs flipping auto surfaces squalling Rossis am convinced significant number FAI power fliers have excessively developed engine fetishes consists running ones Rossi taching until worn out ig noring trim model except climb pattern after quick D-T followed engine running etc point driven home upon observing late evening sixth-round drift non-existent body gliding down launch area dont know anyone else noticed two thirds airplanes far out glide trim fast tight side result missed maxes best FAI fliers US interest ing hear blame near-miss bad engine setting engine fetish again model practically dived runway glide appears gadgetry power have gotten out control Most FAI contestants airplane could handle best constantly wandering off trim has message fact until final round thunderstorm front caught disrupted plans Bill Hunter Hulan Matthies tied first place perfect scores flying stock Satellite 450s nothing automated Add last years near-sweep Midi Pearls plus Mark Valerius third place year Midi Pearl message clear Instead building FAI power ships will flown fly-off world cham pionships dont build simpler less exotic airplanes can win contests home might surprised Make no mistake about fine FAI power event excellent field felt seen higher overall calibre flying good old Class A-gas event Wallace Johnson Gerald Comp Senior survivors per fect scores Johnson handily winning fly-off weather dreaded officials hand-launched-glider event perfect slight drift gentle ther mals would usually spin gliders popular Junior events Nats appropriately son old Nationals friend Jack Nix won US Kid design old flying business P M & P partner Tommy T plug US Kid now manufactured 74 Model Aviation GollyGeeWhiz continued NOTICE TO BEGINNING R C FLYERS!! Flying Radio Control Airplane undoubtedly ranks among tops exhilarating experiences hobby Few other hobbies make excited nervous flying first RC Model Flying maximum fun comparatively inexpensive though initial cost seems high avoid heartbreaking disappointment STRONGLY RECOM MEND seek help learning first flights instructor extremely important Just Know can fly alone less person thousand can actually After training period satisfaction sense accomplishment make flying worthwhile challenge adds fun EVERTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RADIO CONTROL FLYING folly illastrated beginners 5 Et5TH5QS**OUDk5O5book its fillesI wany asefal photngrapbs Its Easy-Tn-Understand learning systew tbat helps RADIO CONTROL FLVINOyna find tbat instractor answers tbe qaestinns tbat yoa might ask biw Chapters Airplane Selection Selection ns a ion Radio Con trols Test Flying Trimwing Flying Withoat Crashes Engine Accessories Crash Causes -And Prevention woch wore $395 III iii BOING TRAINER \\\\\\\ \ THE CRASHLESS WAY TO ADVANCED RADIO CONTROL FLYING gives yno facts orwation rthew anord heart INbreaking frostrations ThE CEASNLESS WAYhow have wore fan TO ADVANCflying book new learners Tells woid types CONTROL flYiNGcrashes Chapters EAWO Safe Flying Techniques Crashes Prenention Changes Make Airplane Fly Right Safe Flying Radio-Battery-And Servo Crash Prweotion Engine ProbleresScall Crash Producers Glider Flying Avoiding iost crash will wake book worthwhile $495 BOING TRAINER san eucelleet trainer beginners good fun airplane Senday Fliws Its almon indestroctable airplane three four channel its designnd easy repair has radio safety belt pmtect expensing receiver Preformnd Plywond plywood thats thin flexible- bends bat doesnt breakl Reinforcnd Foam wings wake trainer hard tear op can boils resemble sweral dig femnt scale models canditional guarantee fuselage wings wake lifetime airplane 25 engines Wing Span 4eA Wing Area 4B0 Fuselage length 31 Flying Weight- 2A lbs d/65 6rnA 1316 NMil BowieTexas 76230 iTfli IwThi1I HOW TO FLY UCONTROL folly illostrated book well known writer desigser Dick Mothis book covers thing frow learning flying sninti Its book UControl Chapters World ______________________________ UControl Preflight Checklist First Solo Learning Stants Easy Way Flying AMA Scant Pattern Advanced Techniqoes Stont Cnwbat Engines Accessories wich charts graphs loaded wich information Its complete book learner$295 BATTERY MEDIC R C field charger fines yno manimow safety battery tenable recharges airplane batnery bncwwn flights ynor refilling foel tank keeps nnltage constant oath flight BATTERY MEDIC ases regolar E volt lantern battety tn charge goickly bat drops off qoidsly prevent dangerous over charge Complete instroctions tell wery thing incladine field charge load test home time test ned moogeize battery problems flight safety $1495 C FIELD CI-IARQER American Balsa Corporation am associated Bryan Nix thus added another first place first Nationals wonder times US Kid will have win Nationals event fore NFFS sees fit award de sign year honor AMA NFFS scholarship winner Joseph Mekina Senior winner since time better Junior Open winners won coveted Tulsa Gluedobbers perpetual award As turned out Seniors much tougher Opens judging comparative times guess means arms usually better take event seriously Mekina started Max Flyer design found wouldnt stay lift switched own Maxwell design maxes Ray Harper Max Fly ers designer Open flier takes HLG seriously almost won year model fall out thermal just short max flew light glid ers early hopes taking advantage gentle lift winner Frank Sharpton waited until crowds died down thermals got stronger fly original design few notable exceptions stand ard HLG flying high should too much design-hopping fliers constantly try new designs hopes improving fact techniques need work Higher standards workmanship finish needed dethermalizers admittedly much prevalent five years ago Finally art piggy back ing needs pursued systemati cally conditions should have gene rated winning scores least six straight maxes considering piggy back oppor tunities weather Lurking 12th place HLG believe Carl Goldberg flying 20year-old glider A-l towline prestigious A-2 serious A-2 men wont both ered it always great event Nats people competing dont normally fly towline Perhaps because competitive A-I easier build A-2 Like HLG A-I thermal eventno thermalyou lose Mike Ransom maxed out win Open 5 flights flown rounds time 1/2-A Gas largest FreeFlight event rolls around everybody getting tired wondering what takes win trophy 1/2-A Free Flights have run complete cycle over years since first witnessed event Nats 1950 airplanes ran 175 sq average Gradually engines developed power sizes went over 400 sq motor runs reduced size came back about 210 area Mini Pearl very hot small Mini Pearls small Satellites require thermal help max high climb comes gets high enough hit thermals bigger necessary fly-offs require 5-second motor runs might wonder dont know what Norman Poti open winner flew another case winner emerging out chaos no knowing what happenedeven people beat Steve Calhoun flew Satellite win Junior am sorry say dont know what design Mike Stoy flew win Senior Lets have fly-offs time Fast Richard can keep better track things striking note Mini Pearls Satellites have just about com pletely established themselves stand ard designs So now its time ex citing new design variety choice kits keeps event going lets hope something happens night-flying event unofficial spon sored Western Freeflight Associa tion held Friday 9 12 terrific thunderstorm blew up right 900 oclock everyone left Satellite City bunch thought As turned out side huge airbase drenched other stayed dry Once wind died bang-up nightflying session ensued Randy Secor has done share night flying Calif won flying Tartar Phil Bayly flew 400 November1975 75 $2995 BATTERY MEDIC R J R Sales believe too hobbiest lost thru terribly expensive heartbreaking crashes thats feature Crash prevention products TO ORDER See Dealer First cannot supply order direct Add $100 postage handling US $150 Canada Nats/FF/Mathis continued 09-powered job second Penny Johnson flying Tartar third never witnessed night contest enthralled sensory delight noise amplified denser air glowing lights race off void seem stop mid-air like star cant tell whether air plane 500 feet high 100 gets out trim youd better pack up because no hint model climbing except noise motor diminishing think night flying could catch East anywhere other Calif once people see way definitely thermals after 900 no hint breeze Saturday C day Class C gassie today thing behold 1000 sq wings arc common now because thats about what takes slow latest honkin 40s down superior performance potential airplanes obvious because appear climb high smaller ships actually go higher Once gliding starts nothing else touches Satellites prevalent surprising number Maxi Mama Pearls flown Pearl Team Houston Tulsan Tom Farmers Maxi Pearl edged Bill Hunters Satellite 1000 first Tom Bill Chenault Pearls founder helping thermal selection new 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Flying weight 21/2 oz will power 25 50 wingspan weighting up 10 oz VL-101 Electric Flight System FC-66 Field Charger Instruction Book Only Catalog Add 10% Postage & Handling Send Check MO NO CODs Calif add 6% Sales Tax S1950 S2950 $ 100 25 V PRODUCTS DIVISION OF VISTA LABS 7023-D Canoga Ave fM Canoga Park Ca 91303 See Your MODEL DEALER ORDER DIRECT Hobby Dealers send Information slimmed-down Sal Taibi maxed out waited too long improvement weather gotten breezy Satellites locked up Senior Junior tightly pleasing see young fliers like Bob Tom Scully Mini-Fred Steve Calhoun handling monsters well biggest problems hurting everyone fly-offs power-glide transition Large air planes much critical area Adjacent C event Jetex event hissed fizzled along Chris Matsuno leading handsomely Matsuno St Louis very adept less familiar events Mike Ransom Mike Fedor Jerry Murphy takes special patience make Jetex Coupe Pay Load Rubber Speed model go Matsuno also leading Wakefield after fourth round slightly ahead Fred Pearce Wakefields especially hurt early morning round schedule because damp dead Matsunos high-aspect-ratio model far best glide appeared few models capable unaided max Eventually however Pearce edged him out complete sweep rubber events Coupe Unlimited Wakefield Almost last gasp wheeled out big D gas ships jollies lot us get kick out superbig devices like Bill Moores Team Pearl Mama Pearl required Rossi 60 move moved fast enough win over Fred Calhoun Jrs Satellite another unofficial event seemed spectator sport participant sport other events come mind try bail out Sal Taibi finished flying Old Timer ignition grabbing watch him fly bellow ing old Forester 99-powered Powerhouse just fun started first flip flew like train schedule recall think ing out proportion Peanut scale airplanes relative owners make funny pictures together fascinated reaction spectators Rubber Speed event cheering laughing like ball game remem ber trying unsuccessfully locate Electric eventI hope everyone enjoyed Thank goodness complete results event being published else issue have commented least third events time dethermalize report meet publication deadlines also give chance start building next year second year have reported Nats rather flying hope observations have made teresting thank AMA giving opportunity re port thanks contestants provided such spectacular display excellence sportsmanship Build em lighter faster next year boys cause Fast Richard comm back 76 Model Aviation Tongue-in-cheek Jerry Barnette prepares tow A-2 Nordic called Lad Seppelin Launching Unlimited Rubber Greg Simon Young fliers often enter Coupes event Far OutI Terry Rimert built foam-core newspaper Flash hand-launched glider
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/11
Page Numbers: 20, 21, 22, 23, 74, 75, 76
FR EE FLI GHT Outdoor Dick Mathis THE 1975 NATIONALS turned out dandy Free-Flight contest sur prise consider Lake Charles Chennault AFB poor site main reason success weather has unusually good throughout region summer Rarely did wind exceed 10 mph gusts Weather certainly played part separat ing winners losers in teresting challenging manner Very few airplanes wandered off-base lost on-base swamps/woods number contestants showed healthy increase over last year served relieve rather depressing mosphere observed 1974 Na tionals entries lowest memory goes back 1950 Nats changes format some events made interest ing competition three FAI events Wakefield Power A-2 run rounds first commencing 630 am lastendingat830pm rounds seven interrupted midmorning late afternoon effect minimize thermals factor place emphasis sheer airplane performance results intrigu ing first time Unlimited Rubber flyoffs held time 500 pm instead contestants choice throughout day have always thought interest ing see has best model rather can pick best thermal luckiest So welcomed changes opening competition quiet rousing As dawn broke Tuesday first round A-2 Towline began surprise officials swamped fliers wanting go early round cause moisture-laden air super could barely see down runway Most flew before 700 am 21 53 first-round flights 3-minute maxes says something about quality air airplanes weather perfect circle tow ing enables flier tow search lift long periods calm-wind condi tions exhausting himself run ning out timers range vision Only two flyers Jim Bradley Dale Elder Orlando Fla observed circle towing however Far too simply towed released taking time feel lift line seek out elsewhere Piggy-back tactics almost universal cases laugh able results hysterical mobs eight ten case 14 Nordics simul taneously launched tiny thermals often huge downers mass hys teria quite natural consider would 20 fliers standing starting line ready tow slightest hint thermal activity tension would mount very high levels especially late evening rounds thermals imperceptible evening rounds winds once again almost calm separated winners losers ruthlessly perfect scores went wayside still-air performance model became ultimate deciding factor One-by-one sometimes groups three four fliers towed off down runway release very dead last-round air Most models could better 140 seconds re leased poorly stalls half-hearted slingshot-style launches gave bigger stalls As last-round scores came positions changed dramatically Needing max beat old-pro Frank Parmenter Houston runnerup 1974 young Rich McCreary Detroit Releasing Crowley-designed Happy Hooker what must have last warm air evening McCreary watched descend back launch area three-minute-plus-a-tick flight have enjoyed experience 20 Model Aviation way wasand now still Bill Burgess releases Don Foote-designed Westerner Old Timer unassisted take-off Below Peanuts look smaller flown outdoors Waco cabin biplane flown Richard Johnson smiling Bob Dunham appears well pleased Roll-Out hand-launched glider plan form outer panels gets him what wants making winning flight Nationals before usually downwind event relative solitude chasing model Rich however picked model up 25 feet event headquarters en suing victory celebration Detroit Balsa Bugs fitting climax best Nordic A-2 event Nats years Design-wise little new A-2 Most fliers use4aiginals scratch-built magazine desigrfK nce no com petitive kits being manufactured Running simultaneously A-2 event B gas Early fliers flying started 800 am found models going outof-sight 11-second motor run right cloud bases situation plagued highest climbers several hours un til clouds burned off Class B models tend overpowered because merely class designs 15s 19s 23s 29s screwed front result whole lot wild-climbing mod els necessarily well trimmed few persons design larger models specif ically Class B engines seem suitable contest work example Open winner Jim Clem Tulsa flew f Okie Bird designs about 480 sq Fox 25 power combination definitely hottest field its power pattern manageable model could tran sition part critical engine runs reduced 11 7 5 seconds fly-off hotter climb ing models have fly less incidence difference between wing tail handle power looping makes transition glide problem unless ship has built up enough speed position banking recover engine quits result lot long swooping dives 5-second fly-off flights after power shut off Clem strung seven maxes together anyone event prove thermal picking good glide good combination wonder what would happen Unlimited gas events revised group fly-off took place end day rather permitting everyone flyoff anytime during day would exciting contestants specta tors alike would tend minimize thermals factor As now winner may put flight unnoticed anyone flight recorder its over everyone says what flying takes away lot drama competition Junior winner Steve Calhoun Calif flew Satellite Senior winner Joseph Mekina Ohio flew another Clem design ABC Scrambler Off side everything Pay Load event unraveled slowly no ones particular interest except Tulsas Mike Ransom won handily risk offending fans event has no place Nationals official AMA event Less dozen contestants flew event serves no function November1975 21 Senior Scott Gesner flew Sig Liberty Sport Gas Scale Left George Perryman heaves rubber Old Timer Lanzo stick Below Glenn Lee Speed engine man free-flight copter Jerry Murphy winds Coupes rubber motor note anchor man hangs Onto generous tubing experts have problems getting performance Coupe severe rubber limitation i FREE HT already served other events almost two decades ago Pan American Airways sponsored Pay Load lots interest several kits made sense now some other events fit description equally well Nationals Free-Flight Helicopter Clipper Cargo Rocket name three wonder also whether really prove anything hav ing B gas except gives us chance fly same airplane two events about Coupe Rubber As Junior Senior event Coupe flop kids flying Unlimited Rubber instead Coupe re stricted rubber limits Wakefield experts cant make go satisfying way Add fact un official events two kinds electric powered free flights Rise-off-Water Pow er Night Flying Class D gas Rubber Speed plus Old Timer events end up somewhere between 27 30 different events counting Indoor being flown five days skeptical reader will say sour grapes guy exhausted after trying magazine report invite consideration question whether events desirable tried sample opinions ques tion general feeling schedule too heavy Nationals Certainly some new events like Old Timer worthwhile experiments others times trends have changed have lost fascination few drain officiating manpower trophy sponsorships second day competition always good first-day jitters have calmed down optimism still runs high Class gas always popular events Nats along /2-A HLG event no exception classy group almost four fliers maxed out including Juniors Seniors weather good something about Class A-sized air planes makes very efficient people seem able handle well Perhaps combination power ful 15- 19 sized motors large relative -As airplanes fragile Class C ideal format FreeFlight gas makes wonder perhaps Class-A-size airplanes might better novices -As tradition myth says easier Anyway well-dressed Class flier wears Midi Pearl Satellite 450 definitely gauche show up 051-powered ship besides being uncom petitive Junior Open winners used Midi Pearls Randy Secor flew Red Johnsons Tartar designs tame other five Seniors fly-off hard really capture flavor competing Nats unless become intimately involved flying yourself helping someone fly story will give idea irony emotions disap pointment pure chance goes winning trophy George Hilliard orthopedic surgeon Longview Tex asked advice trimming Hys teria 600 day before Class-A event Since design felt fairly safe guess Anyway process fine-trim ming thing stab lifted off front mount loose rubber bands under power causing execute spiral dive straight crowded B-gas area Having gotten everybodys attention went outside loop about 20 feet above headlevel harrel-rolled until engine quit good doctor rather embarrassed 22 Model Aviation Left Carl Goldberg has yet miss Nats placed 12th 20-year-old HLG Above Chris Matsuno launching Wakefield took second Doing quick check before launching Pearl Express Class B Ed CaIdwell Author found B jobs overpowered very wild Mrs Jim McNeill presents McNeill Trophy FAI winner Buckets Johnson Mathis thinks 2/3s FAI jobs poor glide trim Dr George Hilliard flew Mathis design Hysteria 600 second ClassGrand National Champ Mike Ransom flew variety FF events plus Class jobs seem efficient generally well handledCL Indoor capture coveted title Ed Aber Photo amazed after uproar died down told him way could live down would win tomorrow Next day sure enough George fly-off having very little sense asked help pick air fly-off flights done eventually over sized todays standards floater eased first place check other scores showed secure position started leave Unlimited Rubber feel ing good way car Jerry Murphy asked proxy fly job him suffering case Mon tezumas Revenge declined because license current left couple hours later returned check scores found Hilliard still sweating first place feeling more confident threats fizzled half-hour left someone pointed out contestant still chance could make two maxes guessed Mike Fedor proxy-flown Murphys Midi Pearl position win five minutes left did similar story behind al win Nats George Hill iard never realized much wanted win until lost friend Ah Mulvihill Trophy coveted select few fliers thosc temperamcntal fragile brutal Unlimited Rubber machines oldest trophy modeldom Mulvihill won year after typically fierce war nerves Todays Unlimiteds will 5-6 minutes thermal assistance usually Thats assum ing air isnt bad arent power stalls rubber isnt tired 37 contestants II maxed out waited first 4-minute fly-off com mencing 500 pm Something happened tbose still-air potentials however two Open fliers two Seniors survived maxesits called pres sureand attributable excite ment simultaneous fly-off causes overwinding bad launches picking bad air four left favored Randy Secor Senior Calif flying God father smooth high climb super glide figured would beat Houstonian Fred Pearces straight-up brief-climb ing machine other two ships Bob Dunhams Joseph Mekinas did appear have glides match men tioned above near calm conditions Secor launched 5-minute fly-off suffered Rubber fliers nightmare series three power stalls Mekina launched smooth flight under four minutes beat Secor Senior Next Pearce released followed Dunham about 10 seconds later Both models climbed strongly Pearces maybe 50 feet higher As drifted off together became obvious Dunhams sinking slowly Pearces sinking few hundred feet apart Dunham missed forc ing 6-minute round 18 seconds Houston group took off inform Pearce won first Mulvihill group old-time Unlimited fliers mentioned wish someone would bring back six-footer 50s six foot fuselages long motors some kind climb patiently explained George Perryman Bob Dunham Bob Watson others arent built necessary continued page 74 November1975 23 Discussing problems finding thermals manufacturing honkin free-flight kits Ed Cald well Bill Moore Bill Hunterthe latter Satellite City group O4 E 0 S CO EC ION COMP STE WITHOUT THE AUTHENTIC UOLLS LINE OF MODELDOM yoo loon tho old olotoge oinroft oc yooIl reolly loon oony dooeoe tnntendooe onriety ne ofte, eoen tftey no oil oppeni yoo Theytodenigondothhnnnotinolooeono onddetoil nhiof dodinotion ond loloo loon non nreote Ctovelood-Doeignod nodnin ore ononid rooct nothentic doeigne ood too ootly bot yoo ooni. bet yoor hobby tfrenee no othe line look Whot ic good i onoolly nonreofrot onetly odoy roFbooms FasCal because occasionally can recycle set booms plane gets wiped out booms lot easier get off arent glued wood Add control horn Kwik-Link install motor should ready go flying didnt mention will have make up bladder fuel tank use small Tatone bladder cut down about l/2tt kind obvious isnt couple things fore going out fly new GollyGee Whiz Optional yes add immensely total enjoyment Combat flying insure will ar rive field looking like Combat jock turkey First have probably noticed Combat fliers flippin fingers always cut various stages healing quickest way get Combat hands stick fingers running prop Felt good didnt it hurts too much bite old glow plug bandage fingers way everybody will able see active Combat flier As long have some fresh cuts hand speak practice pouring raw fuel cuts wincing Second going have get yourself accustomed minor ag gravations go along using pen bladders Try blow up fuel using regular fuel bulb Cant Squeeze harder Use both hands Yuk yuk blew end right out fuel bulb didnt Go get 2 oz dose sy ringe local veterinarian hobby shop may have CMI people make Guillotine Combat kits Captains Bladders market 2-oz syringe works costs $139 Now using syringe fill bladder fuel Aiming carefully avoid wasting fuel shooting self face chest fuel full bladder Sooner later youll get hit fuel bladder might well once purpose will know what look forward next time Wipe yourself off shirt give nice touch nitro stain Now cut bleeding covered fuel biting plug go fly Assuming plane straight no warps shouldnt give trouble first flight sure dont have too much control first time up Most planes have less 1/2 total travel elevator measured TE Getting good setting engine will probably problem first few flights especially didnt get Kirn-Kraft needle valve suggested engine running lean out slowly until peaks out richen up slowly until just slightly cracks rich As soon plane launched engine should lean out right lean out richen up next flight engine requires slightly different setting experiment until can get right time No matter what setting engine requires before launching dont worry about Just concentrate getting engine run WFO level flight maneuvers Dont afraid try different props engine bogs down turns gen erally use Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 nylon prop engine might pull 5 1/4 X 4 could try Grish Tornado 5 1/2 X 3 can afford use wood props Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 Power Prop great honkin engine might go through whole box day fly much Northwest streamers use regular crepe paper material used Fast Combat streamers make 1/2 wide use carpet thread leader Most string little too tough 049 engine cut hope will give 049 Combat try whether pro Combat flyer Sport flier looking inexpensive way break Combat NW fly lots Combat 049 Combat has really caught fast like must good Try GollyGeeWhiz Youll sec what am talk ing about last thing Anybody inter est Combat should belong Miniature Aircraft Combat Association past year MACA has become super organization Tom Southern Bill Allen newsletter MACA always very good Within MACA Com bat Advisory Committee has formed advise Control Line Contest Board proposed rules affect Combat mation CAC printing newsletter just two visible things accomplished MACA mainly through efforts Tom Bill would like part MACA send check money order $500 Tom Southern 2207 Paul Longview Texas 75601 clip coupon magazine Nats/FF/Mathis continued page 23 3-minute max too fragile hard build etc detected whir mental gears meshing once reasons spoken Maybe next year someone will turn up monsters complete good old strapon winder Another 630 am saw FAI power event start unfolding tune tick ing Seeligs flipping auto surfaces squalling Rossis am convinced significant number FAI power fliers have excessively developed engine fetishes consists running ones Rossi taching until worn out ig noring trim model except climb pattern after quick D-T followed engine running etc point driven home upon observing late evening sixth-round drift non-existent body gliding down launch area dont know anyone else noticed two thirds airplanes far out glide trim fast tight side result missed maxes best FAI fliers US interest ing hear blame near-miss bad engine setting engine fetish again model practically dived runway glide appears gadgetry power have gotten out control Most FAI contestants airplane could handle best constantly wandering off trim has message fact until final round thunderstorm front caught disrupted plans Bill Hunter Hulan Matthies tied first place perfect scores flying stock Satellite 450s nothing automated Add last years near-sweep Midi Pearls plus Mark Valerius third place year Midi Pearl message clear Instead building FAI power ships will flown fly-off world cham pionships dont build simpler less exotic airplanes can win contests home might surprised Make no mistake about fine FAI power event excellent field felt seen higher overall calibre flying good old Class A-gas event Wallace Johnson Gerald Comp Senior survivors per fect scores Johnson handily winning fly-off weather dreaded officials hand-launched-glider event perfect slight drift gentle ther mals would usually spin gliders popular Junior events Nats appropriately son old Nationals friend Jack Nix won US Kid design old flying business P M & P partner Tommy T plug US Kid now manufactured 74 Model Aviation GollyGeeWhiz continued NOTICE TO BEGINNING R C FLYERS!! 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76230 iTfli IwThi1I HOW TO FLY UCONTROL folly illostrated book well known writer desigser Dick Mothis book covers thing frow learning flying sninti Its book UControl Chapters World ______________________________ UControl Preflight Checklist First Solo Learning Stants Easy Way Flying AMA Scant Pattern Advanced Techniqoes Stont Cnwbat Engines Accessories wich charts graphs loaded wich information Its complete book learner$295 BATTERY MEDIC R C field charger fines yno manimow safety battery tenable recharges airplane batnery bncwwn flights ynor refilling foel tank keeps nnltage constant oath flight BATTERY MEDIC ases regolar E volt lantern battety tn charge goickly bat drops off qoidsly prevent dangerous over charge Complete instroctions tell wery thing incladine field charge load test home time test ned moogeize battery problems flight safety $1495 C FIELD CI-IARQER American Balsa Corporation am associated Bryan Nix thus added another first place first Nationals wonder times US Kid will have win Nationals event fore NFFS sees fit award de sign year honor AMA NFFS scholarship winner Joseph Mekina Senior winner since time better Junior Open winners won coveted Tulsa Gluedobbers perpetual award As turned out Seniors much tougher Opens judging comparative times guess means arms usually better take event seriously Mekina started Max Flyer design found wouldnt stay lift switched own Maxwell design maxes Ray Harper Max Fly ers designer Open flier takes HLG seriously almost won year model fall out thermal just short max flew light glid ers early hopes taking advantage gentle lift winner Frank Sharpton waited until crowds died down thermals got stronger fly original design few notable exceptions stand ard HLG flying high should too much design-hopping fliers constantly try new designs hopes improving fact techniques need work Higher standards workmanship finish needed dethermalizers admittedly much prevalent five years ago Finally art piggy back ing needs pursued systemati cally conditions should have gene rated winning scores least six straight maxes considering piggy back oppor tunities weather Lurking 12th place HLG believe Carl Goldberg flying 20year-old glider A-l towline prestigious A-2 serious A-2 men wont both ered it always great event Nats people competing dont normally fly towline Perhaps because competitive A-I easier build A-2 Like HLG A-I thermal eventno thermalyou lose Mike Ransom maxed out win Open 5 flights flown rounds time 1/2-A Gas largest FreeFlight event rolls around everybody getting tired wondering what takes win trophy 1/2-A Free Flights have run complete cycle over years since first witnessed event Nats 1950 airplanes ran 175 sq average Gradually engines developed power sizes went over 400 sq motor runs reduced size came back about 210 area Mini Pearl very hot small Mini Pearls small Satellites require thermal help max high climb comes gets high enough hit thermals bigger necessary fly-offs require 5-second motor runs might wonder dont know what Norman Poti open winner flew another case winner emerging out chaos no knowing what happenedeven people beat Steve Calhoun flew Satellite win Junior am sorry say dont know what design Mike Stoy flew win Senior Lets have fly-offs time Fast Richard can keep better track things striking note Mini Pearls Satellites have just about com pletely established themselves stand ard designs So now its time ex citing new design variety choice kits keeps event going lets hope something happens night-flying event unofficial spon sored Western Freeflight Associa tion held Friday 9 12 terrific thunderstorm blew up right 900 oclock everyone left Satellite City bunch thought As turned out side huge airbase drenched other stayed dry Once wind died bang-up nightflying session ensued Randy Secor has done share night flying Calif won flying Tartar Phil Bayly flew 400 November1975 75 $2995 BATTERY MEDIC R J R Sales believe too hobbiest lost thru terribly expensive heartbreaking crashes thats feature Crash prevention products TO ORDER See Dealer First cannot supply order direct Add $100 postage handling US $150 Canada Nats/FF/Mathis continued 09-powered job second Penny Johnson flying Tartar third never witnessed night contest enthralled sensory delight noise amplified denser air glowing lights race off void seem stop mid-air like star cant tell whether air plane 500 feet high 100 gets out trim youd better pack up because no hint model climbing except noise motor diminishing think night flying could catch East anywhere other Calif once people see way definitely thermals after 900 no hint breeze Saturday C day Class C gassie today thing behold 1000 sq wings arc common now because thats about what takes slow latest honkin 40s down superior performance potential airplanes obvious because appear climb high smaller ships actually go higher Once gliding starts nothing else touches Satellites prevalent surprising number Maxi Mama Pearls flown Pearl Team Houston Tulsan Tom Farmers Maxi Pearl edged Bill Hunters Satellite 1000 first Tom Bill Chenault Pearls founder helping thermal selection new 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Flying weight 21/2 oz will power 25 50 wingspan weighting up 10 oz VL-101 Electric Flight System FC-66 Field Charger Instruction Book Only Catalog Add 10% Postage & Handling Send Check MO NO CODs Calif add 6% Sales Tax S1950 S2950 $ 100 25 V PRODUCTS DIVISION OF VISTA LABS 7023-D Canoga Ave fM Canoga Park Ca 91303 See Your MODEL DEALER ORDER DIRECT Hobby Dealers send Information slimmed-down Sal Taibi maxed out waited too long improvement weather gotten breezy Satellites locked up Senior Junior tightly pleasing see young fliers like Bob Tom Scully Mini-Fred Steve Calhoun handling monsters well biggest problems hurting everyone fly-offs power-glide transition Large air planes much critical area Adjacent C event Jetex event hissed fizzled along Chris Matsuno leading handsomely Matsuno St Louis very adept less familiar events Mike Ransom Mike Fedor Jerry Murphy takes special patience make Jetex Coupe Pay Load Rubber Speed model go Matsuno also leading Wakefield after fourth round slightly ahead Fred Pearce Wakefields especially hurt early morning round schedule because damp dead Matsunos high-aspect-ratio model far best glide appeared few models capable unaided max Eventually however Pearce edged him out complete sweep rubber events Coupe Unlimited Wakefield Almost last gasp wheeled out big D gas ships jollies lot us get kick out superbig devices like Bill Moores Team Pearl Mama Pearl required Rossi 60 move moved fast enough win over Fred Calhoun Jrs Satellite another unofficial event seemed spectator sport participant sport other events come mind try bail out Sal Taibi finished flying Old Timer ignition grabbing watch him fly bellow ing old Forester 99-powered Powerhouse just fun started first flip flew like train schedule recall think ing out proportion Peanut scale airplanes relative owners make funny pictures together fascinated reaction spectators Rubber Speed event cheering laughing like ball game remem ber trying unsuccessfully locate Electric eventI hope everyone enjoyed Thank goodness complete results event being published else issue have commented least third events time dethermalize report meet publication deadlines also give chance start building next year second year have reported Nats rather flying hope observations have made teresting thank AMA giving opportunity re port thanks contestants provided such spectacular display excellence sportsmanship Build em lighter faster next year boys cause Fast Richard comm back 76 Model Aviation Tongue-in-cheek Jerry Barnette prepares tow A-2 Nordic called Lad Seppelin Launching Unlimited Rubber Greg Simon Young fliers often enter Coupes event Far OutI Terry Rimert built foam-core newspaper Flash hand-launched glider
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/11
Page Numbers: 20, 21, 22, 23, 74, 75, 76
FR EE FLI GHT Outdoor Dick Mathis THE 1975 NATIONALS turned out dandy Free-Flight contest sur prise consider Lake Charles Chennault AFB poor site main reason success weather has unusually good throughout region summer Rarely did wind exceed 10 mph gusts Weather certainly played part separat ing winners losers in teresting challenging manner Very few airplanes wandered off-base lost on-base swamps/woods number contestants showed healthy increase over last year served relieve rather depressing mosphere observed 1974 Na tionals entries lowest memory goes back 1950 Nats changes format some events made interest ing competition three FAI events Wakefield Power A-2 run rounds first commencing 630 am lastendingat830pm rounds seven interrupted midmorning late afternoon effect minimize thermals factor place emphasis sheer airplane performance results intrigu ing first time Unlimited Rubber flyoffs held time 500 pm instead contestants choice throughout day have always thought interest ing see has best model rather can pick best thermal luckiest So welcomed changes opening competition quiet rousing As dawn broke Tuesday first round A-2 Towline began surprise officials swamped fliers wanting go early round cause moisture-laden air super could barely see down runway Most flew before 700 am 21 53 first-round flights 3-minute maxes says something about quality air airplanes weather perfect circle tow ing enables flier tow search lift long periods calm-wind condi tions exhausting himself run ning out timers range vision Only two flyers Jim Bradley Dale Elder Orlando Fla observed circle towing however Far too simply towed released taking time feel lift line seek out elsewhere Piggy-back tactics almost universal cases laugh able results hysterical mobs eight ten case 14 Nordics simul taneously launched tiny thermals often huge downers mass hys teria quite natural consider would 20 fliers standing starting line ready tow slightest hint thermal activity tension would mount very high levels especially late evening rounds thermals imperceptible evening rounds winds once again almost calm separated winners losers ruthlessly perfect scores went wayside still-air performance model became ultimate deciding factor One-by-one sometimes groups three four fliers towed off down runway release very dead last-round air Most models could better 140 seconds re leased poorly stalls half-hearted slingshot-style launches gave bigger stalls As last-round scores came positions changed dramatically Needing max beat old-pro Frank Parmenter Houston runnerup 1974 young Rich McCreary Detroit Releasing Crowley-designed Happy Hooker what must have last warm air evening McCreary watched descend back launch area three-minute-plus-a-tick flight have enjoyed experience 20 Model Aviation way wasand now still Bill Burgess releases Don Foote-designed Westerner Old Timer unassisted take-off Below Peanuts look smaller flown outdoors Waco cabin biplane flown Richard Johnson smiling Bob Dunham appears well pleased Roll-Out hand-launched glider plan form outer panels gets him what wants making winning flight Nationals before usually downwind event relative solitude chasing model Rich however picked model up 25 feet event headquarters en suing victory celebration Detroit Balsa Bugs fitting climax best Nordic A-2 event Nats years Design-wise little new A-2 Most fliers use4aiginals scratch-built magazine desigrfK nce no com petitive kits being manufactured Running simultaneously A-2 event B gas Early fliers flying started 800 am found models going outof-sight 11-second motor run right cloud bases situation plagued highest climbers several hours un til clouds burned off Class B models tend overpowered because merely class designs 15s 19s 23s 29s screwed front result whole lot wild-climbing mod els necessarily well trimmed few persons design larger models specif ically Class B engines seem suitable contest work example Open winner Jim Clem Tulsa flew f Okie Bird designs about 480 sq Fox 25 power combination definitely hottest field its power pattern manageable model could tran sition part critical engine runs reduced 11 7 5 seconds fly-off hotter climb ing models have fly less incidence difference between wing tail handle power looping makes transition glide problem unless ship has built up enough speed position banking recover engine quits result lot long swooping dives 5-second fly-off flights after power shut off Clem strung seven maxes together anyone event prove thermal picking good glide good combination wonder what would happen Unlimited gas events revised group fly-off took place end day rather permitting everyone flyoff anytime during day would exciting contestants specta tors alike would tend minimize thermals factor As now winner may put flight unnoticed anyone flight recorder its over everyone says what flying takes away lot drama competition Junior winner Steve Calhoun Calif flew Satellite Senior winner Joseph Mekina Ohio flew another Clem design ABC Scrambler Off side everything Pay Load event unraveled slowly no ones particular interest except Tulsas Mike Ransom won handily risk offending fans event has no place Nationals official AMA event Less dozen contestants flew event serves no function November1975 21 Senior Scott Gesner flew Sig Liberty Sport Gas Scale Left George Perryman heaves rubber Old Timer Lanzo stick Below Glenn Lee Speed engine man free-flight copter Jerry Murphy winds Coupes rubber motor note anchor man hangs Onto generous tubing experts have problems getting performance Coupe severe rubber limitation i FREE HT already served other events almost two decades ago Pan American Airways sponsored Pay Load lots interest several kits made sense now some other events fit description equally well Nationals Free-Flight Helicopter Clipper Cargo Rocket name three wonder also whether really prove anything hav ing B gas except gives us chance fly same airplane two events about Coupe Rubber As Junior Senior event Coupe flop kids flying Unlimited Rubber instead Coupe re stricted rubber limits Wakefield experts cant make go satisfying way Add fact un official events two kinds electric powered free flights Rise-off-Water Pow er Night Flying Class D gas Rubber Speed plus Old Timer events end up somewhere between 27 30 different events counting Indoor being flown five days skeptical reader will say sour grapes guy exhausted after trying magazine report invite consideration question whether events desirable tried sample opinions ques tion general feeling schedule too heavy Nationals Certainly some new events like Old Timer worthwhile experiments others times trends have changed have lost fascination few drain officiating manpower trophy sponsorships second day competition always good first-day jitters have calmed down optimism still runs high Class gas always popular events Nats along /2-A HLG event no exception classy group almost four fliers maxed out including Juniors Seniors weather good something about Class A-sized air planes makes very efficient people seem able handle well Perhaps combination power ful 15- 19 sized motors large relative -As airplanes fragile Class C ideal format FreeFlight gas makes wonder perhaps Class-A-size airplanes might better novices -As tradition myth says easier Anyway well-dressed Class flier wears Midi Pearl Satellite 450 definitely gauche show up 051-powered ship besides being uncom petitive Junior Open winners used Midi Pearls Randy Secor flew Red Johnsons Tartar designs tame other five Seniors fly-off hard really capture flavor competing Nats unless become intimately involved flying yourself helping someone fly story will give idea irony emotions disap pointment pure chance goes winning trophy George Hilliard orthopedic surgeon Longview Tex asked advice trimming Hys teria 600 day before Class-A event Since design felt fairly safe guess Anyway process fine-trim ming thing stab lifted off front mount loose rubber bands under power causing execute spiral dive straight crowded B-gas area Having gotten everybodys attention went outside loop about 20 feet above headlevel harrel-rolled until engine quit good doctor rather embarrassed 22 Model Aviation Left Carl Goldberg has yet miss Nats placed 12th 20-year-old HLG Above Chris Matsuno launching Wakefield took second Doing quick check before launching Pearl Express Class B Ed CaIdwell Author found B jobs overpowered very wild Mrs Jim McNeill presents McNeill Trophy FAI winner Buckets Johnson Mathis thinks 2/3s FAI jobs poor glide trim Dr George Hilliard flew Mathis design Hysteria 600 second ClassGrand National Champ Mike Ransom flew variety FF events plus Class jobs seem efficient generally well handledCL Indoor capture coveted title Ed Aber Photo amazed after uproar died down told him way could live down would win tomorrow Next day sure enough George fly-off having very little sense asked help pick air fly-off flights done eventually over sized todays standards floater eased first place check other scores showed secure position started leave Unlimited Rubber feel ing good way car Jerry Murphy asked proxy fly job him suffering case Mon tezumas Revenge declined because license current left couple hours later returned check scores found Hilliard still sweating first place feeling more confident threats fizzled half-hour left someone pointed out contestant still chance could make two maxes guessed Mike Fedor proxy-flown Murphys Midi Pearl position win five minutes left did similar story behind al win Nats George Hill iard never realized much wanted win until lost friend Ah Mulvihill Trophy coveted select few fliers thosc temperamcntal fragile brutal Unlimited Rubber machines oldest trophy modeldom Mulvihill won year after typically fierce war nerves Todays Unlimiteds will 5-6 minutes thermal assistance usually Thats assum ing air isnt bad arent power stalls rubber isnt tired 37 contestants II maxed out waited first 4-minute fly-off com mencing 500 pm Something happened tbose still-air potentials however two Open fliers two Seniors survived maxesits called pres sureand attributable excite ment simultaneous fly-off causes overwinding bad launches picking bad air four left favored Randy Secor Senior Calif flying God father smooth high climb super glide figured would beat Houstonian Fred Pearces straight-up brief-climb ing machine other two ships Bob Dunhams Joseph Mekinas did appear have glides match men tioned above near calm conditions Secor launched 5-minute fly-off suffered Rubber fliers nightmare series three power stalls Mekina launched smooth flight under four minutes beat Secor Senior Next Pearce released followed Dunham about 10 seconds later Both models climbed strongly Pearces maybe 50 feet higher As drifted off together became obvious Dunhams sinking slowly Pearces sinking few hundred feet apart Dunham missed forc ing 6-minute round 18 seconds Houston group took off inform Pearce won first Mulvihill group old-time Unlimited fliers mentioned wish someone would bring back six-footer 50s six foot fuselages long motors some kind climb patiently explained George Perryman Bob Dunham Bob Watson others arent built necessary continued page 74 November1975 23 Discussing problems finding thermals manufacturing honkin free-flight kits Ed Cald well Bill Moore Bill Hunterthe latter Satellite City group O4 E 0 S CO EC ION COMP STE WITHOUT THE AUTHENTIC UOLLS LINE OF MODELDOM yoo loon tho old olotoge oinroft oc yooIl reolly loon oony dooeoe tnntendooe onriety ne ofte, eoen tftey no oil oppeni yoo Theytodenigondothhnnnotinolooeono onddetoil nhiof dodinotion ond loloo loon non nreote Ctovelood-Doeignod nodnin ore ononid rooct nothentic doeigne ood too ootly bot yoo ooni. bet yoor hobby tfrenee no othe line look Whot ic good i onoolly nonreofrot onetly odoy roFbooms FasCal because occasionally can recycle set booms plane gets wiped out booms lot easier get off arent glued wood Add control horn Kwik-Link install motor should ready go flying didnt mention will have make up bladder fuel tank use small Tatone bladder cut down about l/2tt kind obvious isnt couple things fore going out fly new GollyGee Whiz Optional yes add immensely total enjoyment Combat flying insure will ar rive field looking like Combat jock turkey First have probably noticed Combat fliers flippin fingers always cut various stages healing quickest way get Combat hands stick fingers running prop Felt good didnt it hurts too much bite old glow plug bandage fingers way everybody will able see active Combat flier As long have some fresh cuts hand speak practice pouring raw fuel cuts wincing Second going have get yourself accustomed minor ag gravations go along using pen bladders Try blow up fuel using regular fuel bulb Cant Squeeze harder Use both hands Yuk yuk blew end right out fuel bulb didnt Go get 2 oz dose sy ringe local veterinarian hobby shop may have CMI people make Guillotine Combat kits Captains Bladders market 2-oz syringe works costs $139 Now using syringe fill bladder fuel Aiming carefully avoid wasting fuel shooting self face chest fuel full bladder Sooner later youll get hit fuel bladder might well once purpose will know what look forward next time Wipe yourself off shirt give nice touch nitro stain Now cut bleeding covered fuel biting plug go fly Assuming plane straight no warps shouldnt give trouble first flight sure dont have too much control first time up Most planes have less 1/2 total travel elevator measured TE Getting good setting engine will probably problem first few flights especially didnt get Kirn-Kraft needle valve suggested engine running lean out slowly until peaks out richen up slowly until just slightly cracks rich As soon plane launched engine should lean out right lean out richen up next flight engine requires slightly different setting experiment until can get right time No matter what setting engine requires before launching dont worry about Just concentrate getting engine run WFO level flight maneuvers Dont afraid try different props engine bogs down turns gen erally use Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 nylon prop engine might pull 5 1/4 X 4 could try Grish Tornado 5 1/2 X 3 can afford use wood props Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 Power Prop great honkin engine might go through whole box day fly much Northwest streamers use regular crepe paper material used Fast Combat streamers make 1/2 wide use carpet thread leader Most string little too tough 049 engine cut hope will give 049 Combat try whether pro Combat flyer Sport flier looking inexpensive way break Combat NW fly lots Combat 049 Combat has really caught fast like must good Try GollyGeeWhiz Youll sec what am talk ing about last thing Anybody inter est Combat should belong Miniature Aircraft Combat Association past year MACA has become super organization Tom Southern Bill Allen newsletter MACA always very good Within MACA Com bat Advisory Committee has formed advise Control Line Contest Board proposed rules affect Combat mation CAC printing newsletter just two visible things accomplished MACA mainly through efforts Tom Bill would like part MACA send check money order $500 Tom Southern 2207 Paul Longview Texas 75601 clip coupon magazine Nats/FF/Mathis continued page 23 3-minute max too fragile hard build etc detected whir mental gears meshing once reasons spoken Maybe next year someone will turn up monsters complete good old strapon winder Another 630 am saw FAI power event start unfolding tune tick ing Seeligs flipping auto surfaces squalling Rossis am convinced significant number FAI power fliers have excessively developed engine fetishes consists running ones Rossi taching until worn out ig noring trim model except climb pattern after quick D-T followed engine running etc point driven home upon observing late evening sixth-round drift non-existent body gliding down launch area dont know anyone else noticed two thirds airplanes far out glide trim fast tight side result missed maxes best FAI fliers US interest ing hear blame near-miss bad engine setting engine fetish again model practically dived runway glide appears gadgetry power have gotten out control Most FAI contestants airplane could handle best constantly wandering off trim has message fact until final round thunderstorm front caught disrupted plans Bill Hunter Hulan Matthies tied first place perfect scores flying stock Satellite 450s nothing automated Add last years near-sweep Midi Pearls plus Mark Valerius third place year Midi Pearl message clear Instead building FAI power ships will flown fly-off world cham pionships dont build simpler less exotic airplanes can win contests home might surprised Make no mistake about fine FAI power event excellent field felt seen higher overall calibre flying good old Class A-gas event Wallace Johnson Gerald Comp Senior survivors per fect scores Johnson handily winning fly-off weather dreaded officials hand-launched-glider event perfect slight drift gentle ther mals would usually spin gliders 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have win Nationals event fore NFFS sees fit award de sign year honor AMA NFFS scholarship winner Joseph Mekina Senior winner since time better Junior Open winners won coveted Tulsa Gluedobbers perpetual award As turned out Seniors much tougher Opens judging comparative times guess means arms usually better take event seriously Mekina started Max Flyer design found wouldnt stay lift switched own Maxwell design maxes Ray Harper Max Fly ers designer Open flier takes HLG seriously almost won year model fall out thermal just short max flew light glid ers early hopes taking advantage gentle lift winner Frank Sharpton waited until crowds died down thermals got stronger fly original design few notable exceptions stand ard HLG flying high should too much design-hopping fliers constantly try new designs hopes improving fact techniques need work Higher standards workmanship finish needed dethermalizers admittedly much prevalent five years ago Finally art piggy back ing needs pursued systemati cally conditions should have gene rated winning scores least six straight maxes considering piggy back oppor tunities weather Lurking 12th place HLG believe Carl Goldberg flying 20year-old glider A-l towline prestigious A-2 serious A-2 men wont both ered it always great event Nats people competing dont normally fly towline Perhaps because competitive A-I easier build A-2 Like HLG A-I thermal eventno thermalyou lose Mike Ransom maxed out win Open 5 flights flown rounds time 1/2-A Gas largest FreeFlight event rolls around everybody getting tired wondering what takes win trophy 1/2-A Free Flights have run complete cycle over years since first witnessed event Nats 1950 airplanes ran 175 sq average Gradually engines developed power sizes went over 400 sq motor runs reduced size came back about 210 area Mini Pearl very hot small Mini Pearls small Satellites require thermal help max high climb comes gets high enough hit thermals bigger necessary fly-offs require 5-second motor runs might wonder dont know what Norman Poti open winner flew another case winner emerging out chaos no knowing what happenedeven people beat Steve Calhoun flew Satellite win Junior am sorry say dont know what design Mike Stoy flew win Senior Lets have fly-offs time Fast Richard can keep better track things striking note Mini Pearls Satellites have just about com pletely established themselves stand ard designs So now its time ex citing new design variety choice kits keeps event going lets hope something happens night-flying event unofficial spon sored Western Freeflight Associa tion held Friday 9 12 terrific thunderstorm blew up right 900 oclock everyone left Satellite City bunch thought As turned out side huge airbase drenched other stayed dry Once wind died bang-up nightflying session ensued Randy Secor has done share night flying Calif won flying Tartar Phil Bayly flew 400 November1975 75 $2995 BATTERY MEDIC R J R Sales believe too hobbiest lost thru terribly expensive heartbreaking crashes thats feature Crash prevention products TO ORDER See Dealer First cannot supply order direct Add $100 postage handling US $150 Canada Nats/FF/Mathis continued 09-powered job second Penny Johnson flying Tartar third never witnessed night contest enthralled sensory delight noise amplified denser air glowing lights race off void seem stop mid-air like star cant tell whether air plane 500 feet high 100 gets out trim youd better pack up because no hint model climbing except noise motor diminishing think night flying could catch East anywhere other Calif once people see way definitely thermals after 900 no hint breeze Saturday C day Class C gassie today thing behold 1000 sq wings arc common now because thats about what takes slow latest honkin 40s down superior performance potential airplanes obvious because appear climb high smaller ships actually go higher Once gliding starts nothing else touches Satellites prevalent surprising number Maxi Mama Pearls flown Pearl Team Houston Tulsan Tom Farmers Maxi Pearl edged Bill Hunters Satellite 1000 first Tom Bill Chenault Pearls founder helping thermal selection new 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Flying weight 21/2 oz will power 25 50 wingspan weighting up 10 oz VL-101 Electric Flight System FC-66 Field Charger Instruction Book Only Catalog Add 10% Postage & Handling Send Check MO NO CODs Calif add 6% Sales Tax S1950 S2950 $ 100 25 V PRODUCTS DIVISION OF VISTA LABS 7023-D Canoga Ave fM Canoga Park Ca 91303 See Your MODEL DEALER ORDER DIRECT Hobby Dealers send Information slimmed-down Sal Taibi maxed out waited too long improvement weather gotten breezy Satellites locked up Senior Junior tightly pleasing see young fliers like Bob Tom Scully Mini-Fred Steve Calhoun handling monsters well biggest problems hurting everyone fly-offs power-glide transition Large air planes much critical area Adjacent C event Jetex event hissed fizzled along Chris Matsuno leading handsomely Matsuno St Louis very adept less familiar events Mike Ransom Mike Fedor Jerry Murphy takes special patience make Jetex Coupe Pay Load Rubber Speed model go Matsuno also leading Wakefield after fourth round slightly ahead Fred Pearce Wakefields especially hurt early morning round schedule because damp dead Matsunos high-aspect-ratio model far best glide appeared few models capable unaided max Eventually however Pearce edged him out complete sweep rubber events Coupe Unlimited Wakefield Almost last gasp wheeled out big D gas ships jollies lot us get kick out superbig devices like Bill Moores Team Pearl Mama Pearl required Rossi 60 move moved fast enough win over Fred Calhoun Jrs Satellite another unofficial event seemed spectator sport participant sport other events come mind try bail out Sal Taibi finished flying Old Timer ignition grabbing watch him fly bellow ing old Forester 99-powered Powerhouse just fun started first flip flew like train schedule recall think ing out proportion Peanut scale airplanes relative owners make funny pictures together fascinated reaction spectators Rubber Speed event cheering laughing like ball game remem ber trying unsuccessfully locate Electric eventI hope everyone enjoyed Thank goodness complete results event being published else issue have commented least third events time dethermalize report meet publication deadlines also give chance start building next year second year have reported Nats rather flying hope observations have made teresting thank AMA giving opportunity re port thanks contestants provided such spectacular display excellence sportsmanship Build em lighter faster next year boys cause Fast Richard comm back 76 Model Aviation Tongue-in-cheek Jerry Barnette prepares tow A-2 Nordic called Lad Seppelin Launching Unlimited Rubber Greg Simon Young fliers often enter Coupes event Far OutI Terry Rimert built foam-core newspaper Flash hand-launched glider
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/11
Page Numbers: 20, 21, 22, 23, 74, 75, 76
FR EE FLI GHT Outdoor Dick Mathis THE 1975 NATIONALS turned out dandy Free-Flight contest sur prise consider Lake Charles Chennault AFB poor site main reason success weather has unusually good throughout region summer Rarely did wind exceed 10 mph gusts Weather certainly played part separat ing winners losers in teresting challenging manner Very few airplanes wandered off-base lost on-base swamps/woods number contestants showed healthy increase over last year served relieve rather depressing mosphere observed 1974 Na tionals entries lowest memory goes back 1950 Nats changes format some events made interest ing competition three FAI events Wakefield Power A-2 run rounds first commencing 630 am lastendingat830pm rounds seven interrupted midmorning late afternoon effect minimize thermals factor place emphasis sheer airplane performance results intrigu ing first time Unlimited Rubber flyoffs held time 500 pm instead contestants choice throughout day have always thought interest ing see has best model rather can pick best thermal luckiest So welcomed changes opening competition quiet rousing As dawn broke Tuesday first round A-2 Towline began surprise officials swamped fliers wanting go early round cause moisture-laden air super could barely see down runway Most flew before 700 am 21 53 first-round flights 3-minute maxes says something about quality air airplanes weather perfect circle tow ing enables flier tow search lift long periods calm-wind condi tions exhausting himself run ning out timers range vision Only two flyers Jim Bradley Dale Elder Orlando Fla observed circle towing however Far too simply towed released taking time feel lift line seek out elsewhere Piggy-back tactics almost universal cases laugh able results hysterical mobs eight ten case 14 Nordics simul taneously launched tiny thermals often huge downers mass hys teria quite natural consider would 20 fliers standing starting line ready tow slightest hint thermal activity tension would mount very high levels especially late evening rounds thermals imperceptible evening rounds winds once again almost calm separated winners losers ruthlessly perfect scores went wayside still-air performance model became ultimate deciding factor One-by-one sometimes groups three four fliers towed off down runway release very dead last-round air Most models could better 140 seconds re leased poorly stalls half-hearted slingshot-style launches gave bigger stalls As last-round scores came positions changed dramatically Needing max beat old-pro Frank Parmenter Houston runnerup 1974 young Rich McCreary Detroit Releasing Crowley-designed Happy Hooker what must have last warm air evening McCreary watched descend back launch area three-minute-plus-a-tick flight have enjoyed experience 20 Model Aviation way wasand now still Bill Burgess releases Don Foote-designed Westerner Old Timer unassisted take-off Below Peanuts look smaller flown outdoors Waco cabin biplane flown Richard Johnson smiling Bob Dunham appears well pleased Roll-Out hand-launched glider plan form outer panels gets him what wants making winning flight Nationals before usually downwind event relative solitude chasing model Rich however picked model up 25 feet event headquarters en suing victory celebration Detroit Balsa Bugs fitting climax best Nordic A-2 event Nats years Design-wise little new A-2 Most fliers use4aiginals scratch-built magazine desigrfK nce no com petitive kits being manufactured Running simultaneously A-2 event B gas Early fliers flying started 800 am found models going outof-sight 11-second motor run right cloud bases situation plagued highest climbers several hours un til clouds burned off Class B models tend overpowered because merely class designs 15s 19s 23s 29s screwed front result whole lot wild-climbing mod els necessarily well trimmed few persons design larger models specif ically Class B engines seem suitable contest work example Open winner Jim Clem Tulsa flew f Okie Bird designs about 480 sq Fox 25 power combination definitely hottest field its power pattern manageable model could tran sition part critical engine runs reduced 11 7 5 seconds fly-off hotter climb ing models have fly less incidence difference between wing tail handle power looping makes transition glide problem unless ship has built up enough speed position banking recover engine quits result lot long swooping dives 5-second fly-off flights after power shut off Clem strung seven maxes together anyone event prove thermal picking good glide good combination wonder what would happen Unlimited gas events revised group fly-off took place end day rather permitting everyone flyoff anytime during day would exciting contestants specta tors alike would tend minimize thermals factor As now winner may put flight unnoticed anyone flight recorder its over everyone says what flying takes away lot drama competition Junior winner Steve Calhoun Calif flew Satellite Senior winner Joseph Mekina Ohio flew another Clem design ABC Scrambler Off side everything Pay Load event unraveled slowly no ones particular interest except Tulsas Mike Ransom won handily risk offending fans event has no place Nationals official AMA event Less dozen contestants flew event serves no function November1975 21 Senior Scott Gesner flew Sig Liberty Sport Gas Scale Left George Perryman heaves rubber Old Timer Lanzo stick Below Glenn Lee Speed engine man free-flight copter Jerry Murphy winds Coupes rubber motor note anchor man hangs Onto generous tubing experts have problems getting performance Coupe severe rubber limitation i FREE HT already served other events almost two decades ago Pan American Airways sponsored Pay Load lots interest several kits made sense now some other events fit description equally well Nationals Free-Flight Helicopter Clipper Cargo Rocket name three wonder also whether really prove anything hav ing B gas except gives us chance fly same airplane two events about Coupe Rubber As Junior Senior event Coupe flop kids flying Unlimited Rubber instead Coupe re stricted rubber limits Wakefield experts cant make go satisfying way Add fact un official events two kinds electric powered free flights Rise-off-Water Pow er Night Flying Class D gas Rubber Speed plus Old Timer events end up somewhere between 27 30 different events counting Indoor being flown five days skeptical reader will say sour grapes guy exhausted after trying magazine report invite consideration question whether events desirable tried sample opinions ques tion general feeling schedule too heavy Nationals Certainly some new events like Old Timer worthwhile experiments others times trends have changed have lost fascination few drain officiating manpower trophy sponsorships second day competition always good first-day jitters have calmed down optimism still runs high Class gas always popular events Nats along /2-A HLG event no exception classy group almost four fliers maxed out including Juniors Seniors weather good something about Class A-sized air planes makes very efficient people seem able handle well Perhaps combination power ful 15- 19 sized motors large relative -As airplanes fragile Class C ideal format FreeFlight gas makes wonder perhaps Class-A-size airplanes might better novices -As tradition myth says easier Anyway well-dressed Class flier wears Midi Pearl Satellite 450 definitely gauche show up 051-powered ship besides being uncom petitive Junior Open winners used Midi Pearls Randy Secor flew Red Johnsons Tartar designs tame other five Seniors fly-off hard really capture flavor competing Nats unless become intimately involved flying yourself helping someone fly story will give idea irony emotions disap pointment pure chance goes winning trophy George Hilliard orthopedic surgeon Longview Tex asked advice trimming Hys teria 600 day before Class-A event Since design felt fairly safe guess Anyway process fine-trim ming thing stab lifted off front mount loose rubber bands under power causing execute spiral dive straight crowded B-gas area Having gotten everybodys attention went outside loop about 20 feet above headlevel harrel-rolled until engine quit good doctor rather embarrassed 22 Model Aviation Left Carl Goldberg has yet miss Nats placed 12th 20-year-old HLG Above Chris Matsuno launching Wakefield took second Doing quick check before launching Pearl Express Class B Ed CaIdwell Author found B jobs overpowered very wild Mrs Jim McNeill presents McNeill Trophy FAI winner Buckets Johnson Mathis thinks 2/3s FAI jobs poor glide trim Dr George Hilliard flew Mathis design Hysteria 600 second ClassGrand National Champ Mike Ransom flew variety FF events plus Class jobs seem efficient generally well handledCL Indoor capture coveted title Ed Aber Photo amazed after uproar died down told him way could live down would win tomorrow Next day sure enough George fly-off having very little sense asked help pick air fly-off flights done eventually over sized todays standards floater eased first place check other scores showed secure position started leave Unlimited Rubber feel ing good way car Jerry Murphy asked proxy fly job him suffering case Mon tezumas Revenge declined because license current left couple hours later returned check scores found Hilliard still sweating first place feeling more confident threats fizzled half-hour left someone pointed out contestant still chance could make two maxes guessed Mike Fedor proxy-flown Murphys Midi Pearl position win five minutes left did similar story behind al win Nats George Hill iard never realized much wanted win until lost friend Ah Mulvihill Trophy coveted select few fliers thosc temperamcntal fragile brutal Unlimited Rubber machines oldest trophy modeldom Mulvihill won year after typically fierce war nerves Todays Unlimiteds will 5-6 minutes thermal assistance usually Thats assum ing air isnt bad arent power stalls rubber isnt tired 37 contestants II maxed out waited first 4-minute fly-off com mencing 500 pm Something happened tbose still-air potentials however two Open fliers two Seniors survived maxesits called pres sureand attributable excite ment simultaneous fly-off causes overwinding bad launches picking bad air four left favored Randy Secor Senior Calif flying God father smooth high climb super glide figured would beat Houstonian Fred Pearces straight-up brief-climb ing machine other two ships Bob Dunhams Joseph Mekinas did appear have glides match men tioned above near calm conditions Secor launched 5-minute fly-off suffered Rubber fliers nightmare series three power stalls Mekina launched smooth flight under four minutes beat Secor Senior Next Pearce released followed Dunham about 10 seconds later Both models climbed strongly Pearces maybe 50 feet higher As drifted off together became obvious Dunhams sinking slowly Pearces sinking few hundred feet apart Dunham missed forc ing 6-minute round 18 seconds Houston group took off inform Pearce won first Mulvihill group old-time Unlimited fliers mentioned wish someone would bring back six-footer 50s six foot fuselages long motors some kind climb patiently explained George Perryman Bob Dunham Bob Watson others arent built necessary continued page 74 November1975 23 Discussing problems finding thermals manufacturing honkin free-flight kits Ed Cald well Bill Moore Bill Hunterthe latter Satellite City group O4 E 0 S CO EC ION COMP STE WITHOUT THE AUTHENTIC UOLLS LINE OF MODELDOM yoo loon tho old olotoge oinroft oc yooIl reolly loon oony dooeoe tnntendooe onriety ne ofte, eoen tftey no oil oppeni yoo Theytodenigondothhnnnotinolooeono onddetoil nhiof dodinotion ond loloo loon non nreote Ctovelood-Doeignod nodnin ore ononid rooct nothentic doeigne ood too ootly bot yoo ooni. bet yoor hobby tfrenee no othe line look Whot ic good i onoolly nonreofrot onetly odoy roFbooms FasCal because occasionally can recycle set booms plane gets wiped out booms lot easier get off arent glued wood Add control horn Kwik-Link install motor should ready go flying didnt mention will have make up bladder fuel tank use small Tatone bladder cut down about l/2tt kind obvious isnt couple things fore going out fly new GollyGee Whiz Optional yes add immensely total enjoyment Combat flying insure will ar rive field looking like Combat jock turkey First have probably noticed Combat fliers flippin fingers always cut various stages healing quickest way get Combat hands stick fingers running prop Felt good didnt it hurts too much bite old glow plug bandage fingers way everybody will able see active Combat flier As long have some fresh cuts hand speak practice pouring raw fuel cuts wincing Second going have get yourself accustomed minor ag gravations go along using pen bladders Try blow up fuel using regular fuel bulb Cant Squeeze harder Use both hands Yuk yuk blew end right out fuel bulb didnt Go get 2 oz dose sy ringe local veterinarian hobby shop may have CMI people make Guillotine Combat kits Captains Bladders market 2-oz syringe works costs $139 Now using syringe fill bladder fuel Aiming carefully avoid wasting fuel shooting self face chest fuel full bladder Sooner later youll get hit fuel bladder might well once purpose will know what look forward next time Wipe yourself off shirt give nice touch nitro stain Now cut bleeding covered fuel biting plug go fly Assuming plane straight no warps shouldnt give trouble first flight sure dont have too much control first time up Most planes have less 1/2 total travel elevator measured TE Getting good setting engine will probably problem first few flights especially didnt get Kirn-Kraft needle valve suggested engine running lean out slowly until peaks out richen up slowly until just slightly cracks rich As soon plane launched engine should lean out right lean out richen up next flight engine requires slightly different setting experiment until can get right time No matter what setting engine requires before launching dont worry about Just concentrate getting engine run WFO level flight maneuvers Dont afraid try different props engine bogs down turns gen erally use Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 nylon prop engine might pull 5 1/4 X 4 could try Grish Tornado 5 1/2 X 3 can afford use wood props Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 Power Prop great honkin engine might go through whole box day fly much Northwest streamers use regular crepe paper material used Fast Combat streamers make 1/2 wide use carpet thread leader Most string little too tough 049 engine cut hope will give 049 Combat try whether pro Combat flyer Sport flier looking inexpensive way break Combat NW fly lots Combat 049 Combat has really caught fast like must good Try GollyGeeWhiz Youll sec what am talk ing about last thing Anybody inter est Combat should belong Miniature Aircraft Combat Association past year MACA has become super organization Tom Southern Bill Allen newsletter MACA always very good Within MACA Com bat Advisory Committee has formed advise Control Line Contest Board proposed rules affect Combat mation CAC printing newsletter just two visible things accomplished MACA mainly through efforts Tom Bill would like part MACA send check money order $500 Tom Southern 2207 Paul Longview Texas 75601 clip coupon magazine Nats/FF/Mathis continued page 23 3-minute max too fragile hard build etc detected whir mental gears meshing once reasons spoken Maybe next year someone will turn up monsters complete good old strapon winder Another 630 am saw FAI power event start unfolding tune tick ing Seeligs flipping auto surfaces squalling Rossis am convinced significant number FAI power fliers have excessively developed engine fetishes consists running ones Rossi taching until worn out ig noring trim model except climb pattern after quick D-T followed engine running etc point driven home upon observing late evening sixth-round drift non-existent body gliding down launch area dont know anyone else noticed two thirds airplanes far out glide trim fast tight side result missed maxes best FAI fliers US interest ing hear blame near-miss bad engine setting engine fetish again model practically dived runway glide appears gadgetry power have gotten out control Most FAI contestants airplane could handle best constantly wandering off trim has message fact until final round thunderstorm front caught disrupted plans Bill Hunter Hulan Matthies tied first place perfect scores flying stock Satellite 450s nothing automated Add last years near-sweep Midi Pearls plus Mark Valerius third place year Midi Pearl message clear Instead building FAI power ships will flown fly-off world cham pionships dont build simpler less exotic airplanes can win contests home might surprised Make no mistake about fine FAI power event excellent field felt seen higher overall calibre flying good old Class A-gas event Wallace Johnson Gerald Comp Senior survivors per fect scores Johnson handily winning fly-off weather dreaded officials hand-launched-glider event perfect slight drift gentle ther mals would usually spin gliders popular Junior events Nats appropriately son old Nationals friend Jack Nix won US Kid design old flying business P M & P partner Tommy T plug US Kid now manufactured 74 Model Aviation GollyGeeWhiz continued NOTICE TO BEGINNING R C FLYERS!! Flying Radio Control Airplane undoubtedly ranks among tops exhilarating experiences hobby Few other hobbies make excited nervous flying first RC Model Flying maximum fun comparatively inexpensive though initial cost seems high avoid heartbreaking disappointment STRONGLY RECOM MEND seek help learning first flights instructor extremely important Just Know can fly alone less person thousand can actually After training period satisfaction sense accomplishment make flying worthwhile challenge adds fun EVERTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RADIO CONTROL FLYING folly illastrated beginners 5 Et5TH5QS**OUDk5O5book its fillesI wany asefal photngrapbs Its Easy-Tn-Understand learning systew tbat helps RADIO CONTROL FLVINOyna find tbat instractor answers tbe qaestinns tbat yoa might ask biw Chapters Airplane Selection Selection ns a ion Radio Con trols Test Flying Trimwing Flying Withoat Crashes Engine Accessories Crash Causes -And Prevention woch wore $395 III iii BOING TRAINER \\\\\\\ \ THE CRASHLESS WAY TO ADVANCED RADIO CONTROL FLYING gives yno facts orwation rthew anord heart INbreaking frostrations ThE CEASNLESS WAYhow have wore fan TO ADVANCflying book new learners Tells woid types CONTROL flYiNGcrashes Chapters EAWO Safe Flying Techniques Crashes Prenention Changes Make Airplane Fly Right Safe Flying Radio-Battery-And Servo Crash Prweotion Engine ProbleresScall Crash Producers Glider Flying Avoiding iost crash will wake book worthwhile $495 BOING TRAINER san eucelleet trainer beginners good fun airplane Senday Fliws Its almon indestroctable airplane three four channel its designnd easy repair has radio safety belt pmtect expensing receiver Preformnd Plywond plywood thats thin flexible- bends bat doesnt breakl Reinforcnd Foam wings wake trainer hard tear op can boils resemble sweral dig femnt scale models canditional guarantee fuselage wings wake lifetime airplane 25 engines Wing Span 4eA Wing Area 4B0 Fuselage length 31 Flying Weight- 2A lbs d/65 6rnA 1316 NMil BowieTexas 76230 iTfli IwThi1I HOW TO FLY UCONTROL folly illostrated book well known writer desigser Dick Mothis book covers thing frow learning flying sninti Its book UControl Chapters World ______________________________ UControl Preflight Checklist First Solo Learning Stants Easy Way Flying AMA Scant Pattern Advanced Techniqoes Stont Cnwbat Engines Accessories wich charts graphs loaded wich information Its complete book learner$295 BATTERY MEDIC R C field charger fines yno manimow safety battery tenable recharges airplane batnery bncwwn flights ynor refilling foel tank keeps nnltage constant oath flight BATTERY MEDIC ases regolar E volt lantern battety tn charge goickly bat drops off qoidsly prevent dangerous over charge Complete instroctions tell wery thing incladine field charge load test home time test ned moogeize battery problems flight safety $1495 C FIELD CI-IARQER American Balsa Corporation am associated Bryan Nix thus added another first place first Nationals wonder times US Kid will have win Nationals event fore NFFS sees fit award de sign year honor AMA NFFS scholarship winner Joseph Mekina Senior winner since time better Junior Open winners won coveted Tulsa Gluedobbers perpetual award As turned out Seniors much tougher Opens judging comparative times guess means arms usually better take event seriously Mekina started Max Flyer design found wouldnt stay lift switched own Maxwell design maxes Ray Harper Max Fly ers designer Open flier takes HLG seriously almost won year model fall out thermal just short max flew light glid ers early hopes taking advantage gentle lift winner Frank Sharpton waited until crowds died down thermals got stronger fly original design few notable exceptions stand ard HLG flying high should too much design-hopping fliers constantly try new designs hopes improving fact techniques need work Higher standards workmanship finish needed dethermalizers admittedly much prevalent five years ago Finally art piggy back ing needs pursued systemati cally conditions should have gene rated winning scores least six straight maxes considering piggy back oppor tunities weather Lurking 12th place HLG believe Carl Goldberg flying 20year-old glider A-l towline prestigious A-2 serious A-2 men wont both ered it always great event Nats people competing dont normally fly towline Perhaps because competitive A-I easier build A-2 Like HLG A-I thermal eventno thermalyou lose Mike Ransom maxed out win Open 5 flights flown rounds time 1/2-A Gas largest FreeFlight event rolls around everybody getting tired wondering what takes win trophy 1/2-A Free Flights have run complete cycle over years since first witnessed event Nats 1950 airplanes ran 175 sq average Gradually engines developed power sizes went over 400 sq motor runs reduced size came back about 210 area Mini Pearl very hot small Mini Pearls small Satellites require thermal help max high climb comes gets high enough hit thermals bigger necessary fly-offs require 5-second motor runs might wonder dont know what Norman Poti open winner flew another case winner emerging out chaos no knowing what happenedeven people beat Steve Calhoun flew Satellite win Junior am sorry say dont know what design Mike Stoy flew win Senior Lets have fly-offs time Fast Richard can keep better track things striking note Mini Pearls Satellites have just about com pletely established themselves stand ard designs So now its time ex citing new design variety choice kits keeps event going lets hope something happens night-flying event unofficial spon sored Western Freeflight Associa tion held Friday 9 12 terrific thunderstorm blew up right 900 oclock everyone left Satellite City bunch thought As turned out side huge airbase drenched other stayed dry Once wind died bang-up nightflying session ensued Randy Secor has done share night flying Calif won flying Tartar Phil Bayly flew 400 November1975 75 $2995 BATTERY MEDIC R J R Sales believe too hobbiest lost thru terribly expensive heartbreaking crashes thats feature Crash prevention products TO ORDER See Dealer First cannot supply order direct Add $100 postage handling US $150 Canada Nats/FF/Mathis continued 09-powered job second Penny Johnson flying Tartar third never witnessed night contest enthralled sensory delight noise amplified denser air glowing lights race off void seem stop mid-air like star cant tell whether air plane 500 feet high 100 gets out trim youd better pack up because no hint model climbing except noise motor diminishing think night flying could catch East anywhere other Calif once people see way definitely thermals after 900 no hint breeze Saturday C day Class C gassie today thing behold 1000 sq wings arc common now because thats about what takes slow latest honkin 40s down superior performance potential airplanes obvious because appear climb high smaller ships actually go higher Once gliding starts nothing else touches Satellites prevalent surprising number Maxi Mama Pearls flown Pearl Team Houston Tulsan Tom Farmers Maxi Pearl edged Bill Hunters Satellite 1000 first Tom Bill Chenault Pearls founder helping thermal selection new 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Flying weight 21/2 oz will power 25 50 wingspan weighting up 10 oz VL-101 Electric Flight System FC-66 Field Charger Instruction Book Only Catalog Add 10% Postage & Handling Send Check MO NO CODs Calif add 6% Sales Tax S1950 S2950 $ 100 25 V PRODUCTS DIVISION OF VISTA LABS 7023-D Canoga Ave fM Canoga Park Ca 91303 See Your MODEL DEALER ORDER DIRECT Hobby Dealers send Information slimmed-down Sal Taibi maxed out waited too long improvement weather gotten breezy Satellites locked up Senior Junior tightly pleasing see young fliers like Bob Tom Scully Mini-Fred Steve Calhoun handling monsters well biggest problems hurting everyone fly-offs power-glide transition Large air planes much critical area Adjacent C event Jetex event hissed fizzled along Chris Matsuno leading handsomely Matsuno St Louis very adept less familiar events Mike Ransom Mike Fedor Jerry Murphy takes special patience make Jetex Coupe Pay Load Rubber Speed model go Matsuno also leading Wakefield after fourth round slightly ahead Fred Pearce Wakefields especially hurt early morning round schedule because damp dead Matsunos high-aspect-ratio model far best glide appeared few models capable unaided max Eventually however Pearce edged him out complete sweep rubber events Coupe Unlimited Wakefield Almost last gasp wheeled out big D gas ships jollies lot us get kick out superbig devices like Bill Moores Team Pearl Mama Pearl required Rossi 60 move moved fast enough win over Fred Calhoun Jrs Satellite another unofficial event seemed spectator sport participant sport other events come mind try bail out Sal Taibi finished flying Old Timer ignition grabbing watch him fly bellow ing old Forester 99-powered Powerhouse just fun started first flip flew like train schedule recall think ing out proportion Peanut scale airplanes relative owners make funny pictures together fascinated reaction spectators Rubber Speed event cheering laughing like ball game remem ber trying unsuccessfully locate Electric eventI hope everyone enjoyed Thank goodness complete results event being published else issue have commented least third events time dethermalize report meet publication deadlines also give chance start building next year second year have reported Nats rather flying hope observations have made teresting thank AMA giving opportunity re port thanks contestants provided such spectacular display excellence sportsmanship Build em lighter faster next year boys cause Fast Richard comm back 76 Model Aviation Tongue-in-cheek Jerry Barnette prepares tow A-2 Nordic called Lad Seppelin Launching Unlimited Rubber Greg Simon Young fliers often enter Coupes event Far OutI Terry Rimert built foam-core newspaper Flash hand-launched glider
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/11
Page Numbers: 20, 21, 22, 23, 74, 75, 76
FR EE FLI GHT Outdoor Dick Mathis THE 1975 NATIONALS turned out dandy Free-Flight contest sur prise consider Lake Charles Chennault AFB poor site main reason success weather has unusually good throughout region summer Rarely did wind exceed 10 mph gusts Weather certainly played part separat ing winners losers in teresting challenging manner Very few airplanes wandered off-base lost on-base swamps/woods number contestants showed healthy increase over last year served relieve rather depressing mosphere observed 1974 Na tionals entries lowest memory goes back 1950 Nats changes format some events made interest ing competition three FAI events Wakefield Power A-2 run rounds first commencing 630 am lastendingat830pm rounds seven interrupted midmorning late afternoon effect minimize thermals factor place emphasis sheer airplane performance results intrigu ing first time Unlimited Rubber flyoffs held time 500 pm instead contestants choice throughout day have always thought interest ing see has best model rather can pick best thermal luckiest So welcomed changes opening competition quiet rousing As dawn broke Tuesday first round A-2 Towline began surprise officials swamped fliers wanting go early round cause moisture-laden air super could barely see down runway Most flew before 700 am 21 53 first-round flights 3-minute maxes says something about quality air airplanes weather perfect circle tow ing enables flier tow search lift long periods calm-wind condi tions exhausting himself run ning out timers range vision Only two flyers Jim Bradley Dale Elder Orlando Fla observed circle towing however Far too simply towed released taking time feel lift line seek out elsewhere Piggy-back tactics almost universal cases laugh able results hysterical mobs eight ten case 14 Nordics simul taneously launched tiny thermals often huge downers mass hys teria quite natural consider would 20 fliers standing starting line ready tow slightest hint thermal activity tension would mount very high levels especially late evening rounds thermals imperceptible evening rounds winds once again almost calm separated winners losers ruthlessly perfect scores went wayside still-air performance model became ultimate deciding factor One-by-one sometimes groups three four fliers towed off down runway release very dead last-round air Most models could better 140 seconds re leased poorly stalls half-hearted slingshot-style launches gave bigger stalls As last-round scores came positions changed dramatically Needing max beat old-pro Frank Parmenter Houston runnerup 1974 young Rich McCreary Detroit Releasing Crowley-designed Happy Hooker what must have last warm air evening McCreary watched descend back launch area three-minute-plus-a-tick flight have enjoyed experience 20 Model Aviation way wasand now still Bill Burgess releases Don Foote-designed Westerner Old Timer unassisted take-off Below Peanuts look smaller flown outdoors Waco cabin biplane flown Richard Johnson smiling Bob Dunham appears well pleased Roll-Out hand-launched glider plan form outer panels gets him what wants making winning flight Nationals before usually downwind event relative solitude chasing model Rich however picked model up 25 feet event headquarters en suing victory celebration Detroit Balsa Bugs fitting climax best Nordic A-2 event Nats years Design-wise little new A-2 Most fliers use4aiginals scratch-built magazine desigrfK nce no com petitive kits being manufactured Running simultaneously A-2 event B gas Early fliers flying started 800 am found models going outof-sight 11-second motor run right cloud bases situation plagued highest climbers several hours un til clouds burned off Class B models tend overpowered because merely class designs 15s 19s 23s 29s screwed front result whole lot wild-climbing mod els necessarily well trimmed few persons design larger models specif ically Class B engines seem suitable contest work example Open winner Jim Clem Tulsa flew f Okie Bird designs about 480 sq Fox 25 power combination definitely hottest field its power pattern manageable model could tran sition part critical engine runs reduced 11 7 5 seconds fly-off hotter climb ing models have fly less incidence difference between wing tail handle power looping makes transition glide problem unless ship has built up enough speed position banking recover engine quits result lot long swooping dives 5-second fly-off flights after power shut off Clem strung seven maxes together anyone event prove thermal picking good glide good combination wonder what would happen Unlimited gas events revised group fly-off took place end day rather permitting everyone flyoff anytime during day would exciting contestants specta tors alike would tend minimize thermals factor As now winner may put flight unnoticed anyone flight recorder its over everyone says what flying takes away lot drama competition Junior winner Steve Calhoun Calif flew Satellite Senior winner Joseph Mekina Ohio flew another Clem design ABC Scrambler Off side everything Pay Load event unraveled slowly no ones particular interest except Tulsas Mike Ransom won handily risk offending fans event has no place Nationals official AMA event Less dozen contestants flew event serves no function November1975 21 Senior Scott Gesner flew Sig Liberty Sport Gas Scale Left George Perryman heaves rubber Old Timer Lanzo stick Below Glenn Lee Speed engine man free-flight copter Jerry Murphy winds Coupes rubber motor note anchor man hangs Onto generous tubing experts have problems getting performance Coupe severe rubber limitation i FREE HT already served other events almost two decades ago Pan American Airways sponsored Pay Load lots interest several kits made sense now some other events fit description equally well Nationals Free-Flight Helicopter Clipper Cargo Rocket name three wonder also whether really prove anything hav ing B gas except gives us chance fly same airplane two events about Coupe Rubber As Junior Senior event Coupe flop kids flying Unlimited Rubber instead Coupe re stricted rubber limits Wakefield experts cant make go satisfying way Add fact un official events two kinds electric powered free flights Rise-off-Water Pow er Night Flying Class D gas Rubber Speed plus Old Timer events end up somewhere between 27 30 different events counting Indoor being flown five days skeptical reader will say sour grapes guy exhausted after trying magazine report invite consideration question whether events desirable tried sample opinions ques tion general feeling schedule too heavy Nationals Certainly some new events like Old Timer worthwhile experiments others times trends have changed have lost fascination few drain officiating manpower trophy sponsorships second day competition always good first-day jitters have calmed down optimism still runs high Class gas always popular events Nats along /2-A HLG event no exception classy group almost four fliers maxed out including Juniors Seniors weather good something about Class A-sized air planes makes very efficient people seem able handle well Perhaps combination power ful 15- 19 sized motors large relative -As airplanes fragile Class C ideal format FreeFlight gas makes wonder perhaps Class-A-size airplanes might better novices -As tradition myth says easier Anyway well-dressed Class flier wears Midi Pearl Satellite 450 definitely gauche show up 051-powered ship besides being uncom petitive Junior Open winners used Midi Pearls Randy Secor flew Red Johnsons Tartar designs tame other five Seniors fly-off hard really capture flavor competing Nats unless become intimately involved flying yourself helping someone fly story will give idea irony emotions disap pointment pure chance goes winning trophy George Hilliard orthopedic surgeon Longview Tex asked advice trimming Hys teria 600 day before Class-A event Since design felt fairly safe guess Anyway process fine-trim ming thing stab lifted off front mount loose rubber bands under power causing execute spiral dive straight crowded B-gas area Having gotten everybodys attention went outside loop about 20 feet above headlevel harrel-rolled until engine quit good doctor rather embarrassed 22 Model Aviation Left Carl Goldberg has yet miss Nats placed 12th 20-year-old HLG Above Chris Matsuno launching Wakefield took second Doing quick check before launching Pearl Express Class B Ed CaIdwell Author found B jobs overpowered very wild Mrs Jim McNeill presents McNeill Trophy FAI winner Buckets Johnson Mathis thinks 2/3s FAI jobs poor glide trim Dr George Hilliard flew Mathis design Hysteria 600 second ClassGrand National Champ Mike Ransom flew variety FF events plus Class jobs seem efficient generally well handledCL Indoor capture coveted title Ed Aber Photo amazed after uproar died down told him way could live down would win tomorrow Next day sure enough George fly-off having very little sense asked help pick air fly-off flights done eventually over sized todays standards floater eased first place check other scores showed secure position started leave Unlimited Rubber feel ing good way car Jerry Murphy asked proxy fly job him suffering case Mon tezumas Revenge declined because license current left couple hours later returned check scores found Hilliard still sweating first place feeling more confident threats fizzled half-hour left someone pointed out contestant still chance could make two maxes guessed Mike Fedor proxy-flown Murphys Midi Pearl position win five minutes left did similar story behind al win Nats George Hill iard never realized much wanted win until lost friend Ah Mulvihill Trophy coveted select few fliers thosc temperamcntal fragile brutal Unlimited Rubber machines oldest trophy modeldom Mulvihill won year after typically fierce war nerves Todays Unlimiteds will 5-6 minutes thermal assistance usually Thats assum ing air isnt bad arent power stalls rubber isnt tired 37 contestants II maxed out waited first 4-minute fly-off com mencing 500 pm Something happened tbose still-air potentials however two Open fliers two Seniors survived maxesits called pres sureand attributable excite ment simultaneous fly-off causes overwinding bad launches picking bad air four left favored Randy Secor Senior Calif flying God father smooth high climb super glide figured would beat Houstonian Fred Pearces straight-up brief-climb ing machine other two ships Bob Dunhams Joseph Mekinas did appear have glides match men tioned above near calm conditions Secor launched 5-minute fly-off suffered Rubber fliers nightmare series three power stalls Mekina launched smooth flight under four minutes beat Secor Senior Next Pearce released followed Dunham about 10 seconds later Both models climbed strongly Pearces maybe 50 feet higher As drifted off together became obvious Dunhams sinking slowly Pearces sinking few hundred feet apart Dunham missed forc ing 6-minute round 18 seconds Houston group took off inform Pearce won first Mulvihill group old-time Unlimited fliers mentioned wish someone would bring back six-footer 50s six foot fuselages long motors some kind climb patiently explained George Perryman Bob Dunham Bob Watson others arent built necessary continued page 74 November1975 23 Discussing problems finding thermals manufacturing honkin free-flight kits Ed Cald well Bill Moore Bill Hunterthe latter Satellite City group O4 E 0 S CO EC ION COMP STE WITHOUT THE AUTHENTIC UOLLS LINE OF MODELDOM yoo loon tho old olotoge oinroft oc yooIl reolly loon oony dooeoe tnntendooe onriety ne ofte, eoen tftey no oil oppeni yoo Theytodenigondothhnnnotinolooeono onddetoil nhiof dodinotion ond loloo loon non nreote Ctovelood-Doeignod nodnin ore ononid rooct nothentic doeigne ood too ootly bot yoo ooni. bet yoor hobby tfrenee no othe line look Whot ic good i onoolly nonreofrot onetly odoy roFbooms FasCal because occasionally can recycle set booms plane gets wiped out booms lot easier get off arent glued wood Add control horn Kwik-Link install motor should ready go flying didnt mention will have make up bladder fuel tank use small Tatone bladder cut down about l/2tt kind obvious isnt couple things fore going out fly new GollyGee Whiz Optional yes add immensely total enjoyment Combat flying insure will ar rive field looking like Combat jock turkey First have probably noticed Combat fliers flippin fingers always cut various stages healing quickest way get Combat hands stick fingers running prop Felt good didnt it hurts too much bite old glow plug bandage fingers way everybody will able see active Combat flier As long have some fresh cuts hand speak practice pouring raw fuel cuts wincing Second going have get yourself accustomed minor ag gravations go along using pen bladders Try blow up fuel using regular fuel bulb Cant Squeeze harder Use both hands Yuk yuk blew end right out fuel bulb didnt Go get 2 oz dose sy ringe local veterinarian hobby shop may have CMI people make Guillotine Combat kits Captains Bladders market 2-oz syringe works costs $139 Now using syringe fill bladder fuel Aiming carefully avoid wasting fuel shooting self face chest fuel full bladder Sooner later youll get hit fuel bladder might well once purpose will know what look forward next time Wipe yourself off shirt give nice touch nitro stain Now cut bleeding covered fuel biting plug go fly Assuming plane straight no warps shouldnt give trouble first flight sure dont have too much control first time up Most planes have less 1/2 total travel elevator measured TE Getting good setting engine will probably problem first few flights especially didnt get Kirn-Kraft needle valve suggested engine running lean out slowly until peaks out richen up slowly until just slightly cracks rich As soon plane launched engine should lean out right lean out richen up next flight engine requires slightly different setting experiment until can get right time No matter what setting engine requires before launching dont worry about Just concentrate getting engine run WFO level flight maneuvers Dont afraid try different props engine bogs down turns gen erally use Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 nylon prop engine might pull 5 1/4 X 4 could try Grish Tornado 5 1/2 X 3 can afford use wood props Top Flite 5 1/4 X 3 Power Prop great honkin engine might go through whole box day fly much Northwest streamers use regular crepe paper material used Fast Combat streamers make 1/2 wide use carpet thread leader Most string little too tough 049 engine cut hope will give 049 Combat try whether pro Combat flyer Sport flier looking inexpensive way break Combat NW fly lots Combat 049 Combat has really caught fast like must good Try GollyGeeWhiz Youll sec what am talk ing about last thing Anybody inter est Combat should belong Miniature Aircraft Combat Association past year MACA has become super organization Tom Southern Bill Allen newsletter MACA always very good Within MACA Com bat Advisory Committee has formed advise Control Line Contest Board proposed rules affect Combat mation CAC printing newsletter just two visible things accomplished MACA mainly through efforts Tom Bill would like part MACA send check money order $500 Tom Southern 2207 Paul Longview Texas 75601 clip coupon magazine Nats/FF/Mathis continued page 23 3-minute max too fragile hard build etc detected whir mental gears meshing once reasons spoken Maybe next year someone will turn up monsters complete good old strapon winder Another 630 am saw FAI power event start unfolding tune tick ing Seeligs flipping auto surfaces squalling Rossis am convinced significant number FAI power fliers have excessively developed engine fetishes consists running ones Rossi taching until worn out ig noring trim model except climb pattern after quick D-T followed engine running etc point driven home upon observing late evening sixth-round drift non-existent body gliding down launch area dont know anyone else noticed two thirds airplanes far out glide trim fast tight side result missed maxes best FAI fliers US interest ing hear blame near-miss bad engine setting engine fetish again model practically dived runway glide appears gadgetry power have gotten out control Most FAI contestants airplane could handle best constantly wandering off trim has message fact until final round thunderstorm front caught disrupted plans Bill Hunter Hulan Matthies tied first place perfect scores flying stock Satellite 450s nothing automated Add last years near-sweep Midi Pearls plus Mark Valerius third place year Midi Pearl message clear Instead building FAI power ships will flown fly-off world cham pionships dont build simpler less exotic airplanes can win contests home might surprised Make no mistake about fine FAI power event excellent field felt seen higher overall calibre flying good old Class A-gas event Wallace Johnson Gerald Comp Senior survivors per fect scores Johnson handily winning fly-off weather dreaded officials hand-launched-glider event perfect slight drift gentle ther mals would usually spin gliders popular Junior events Nats appropriately son old Nationals friend Jack Nix won US Kid design old flying business P M & P partner Tommy T plug US Kid now manufactured 74 Model Aviation GollyGeeWhiz continued NOTICE TO BEGINNING R C FLYERS!! Flying Radio Control Airplane undoubtedly ranks among tops exhilarating experiences hobby Few other hobbies make excited nervous flying first RC Model Flying maximum fun comparatively inexpensive though initial cost seems high avoid heartbreaking disappointment STRONGLY RECOM MEND seek help learning first flights instructor extremely important Just Know can fly alone less person thousand can actually After training period satisfaction sense accomplishment make flying worthwhile challenge adds fun EVERTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RADIO CONTROL FLYING folly illastrated beginners 5 Et5TH5QS**OUDk5O5book its fillesI wany asefal photngrapbs Its Easy-Tn-Understand learning systew tbat helps RADIO CONTROL FLVINOyna find tbat instractor answers tbe qaestinns tbat yoa might ask biw Chapters Airplane Selection Selection ns a ion Radio Con trols Test Flying Trimwing Flying Withoat Crashes Engine Accessories Crash Causes -And Prevention woch wore $395 III iii BOING TRAINER \\\\\\\ \ THE CRASHLESS WAY TO ADVANCED RADIO CONTROL FLYING gives yno facts orwation rthew anord heart INbreaking frostrations ThE CEASNLESS WAYhow have wore fan TO ADVANCflying book new learners Tells woid types CONTROL flYiNGcrashes Chapters EAWO Safe Flying Techniques Crashes Prenention Changes Make Airplane Fly Right Safe Flying Radio-Battery-And Servo Crash Prweotion Engine ProbleresScall Crash Producers Glider Flying Avoiding iost crash will wake book worthwhile $495 BOING TRAINER san eucelleet trainer beginners good fun airplane Senday Fliws Its almon indestroctable airplane three four channel its designnd easy repair has radio safety belt pmtect expensing receiver Preformnd Plywond plywood thats thin flexible- bends bat doesnt breakl Reinforcnd Foam wings wake trainer hard tear op can boils resemble sweral dig femnt scale models canditional guarantee fuselage wings wake lifetime airplane 25 engines Wing Span 4eA Wing Area 4B0 Fuselage length 31 Flying Weight- 2A lbs d/65 6rnA 1316 NMil BowieTexas 76230 iTfli IwThi1I HOW TO FLY UCONTROL folly illostrated book well known writer desigser Dick Mothis book covers thing frow learning flying sninti Its book UControl Chapters World ______________________________ UControl Preflight Checklist First Solo Learning Stants Easy Way Flying AMA Scant Pattern Advanced Techniqoes Stont Cnwbat Engines Accessories wich charts graphs loaded wich information Its complete book learner$295 BATTERY MEDIC R C field charger fines yno manimow safety battery tenable recharges airplane batnery bncwwn flights ynor refilling foel tank keeps nnltage constant oath flight BATTERY MEDIC ases regolar E volt lantern battety tn charge goickly bat drops off qoidsly prevent dangerous over charge Complete instroctions tell wery thing incladine field charge load test home time test ned moogeize battery problems flight safety $1495 C FIELD CI-IARQER American Balsa Corporation am associated Bryan Nix thus added another first place first Nationals wonder times US Kid will have win Nationals event fore NFFS sees fit award de sign year honor AMA NFFS scholarship winner Joseph Mekina Senior winner since time better Junior Open winners won coveted Tulsa Gluedobbers perpetual award As turned out Seniors much tougher Opens judging comparative times guess means arms usually better take event seriously Mekina started Max Flyer design found wouldnt stay lift switched own Maxwell design maxes Ray Harper Max Fly ers designer Open flier takes HLG seriously almost won year model fall out thermal just short max flew light glid ers early hopes taking advantage gentle lift winner Frank Sharpton waited until crowds died down thermals got stronger fly original design few notable exceptions stand ard HLG flying high should too much design-hopping fliers constantly try new designs hopes improving fact techniques need work Higher standards workmanship finish needed dethermalizers admittedly much prevalent five years ago Finally art piggy back ing needs pursued systemati cally conditions should have gene rated winning scores least six straight maxes considering piggy back oppor tunities weather Lurking 12th place HLG believe Carl Goldberg flying 20year-old glider A-l towline prestigious A-2 serious A-2 men wont both ered it always great event Nats people competing dont normally fly towline Perhaps because competitive A-I easier build A-2 Like HLG A-I thermal eventno thermalyou lose Mike Ransom maxed out win Open 5 flights flown rounds time 1/2-A Gas largest FreeFlight event rolls around everybody getting tired wondering what takes win trophy 1/2-A Free Flights have run complete cycle over years since first witnessed event Nats 1950 airplanes ran 175 sq average Gradually engines developed power sizes went over 400 sq motor runs reduced size came back about 210 area Mini Pearl very hot small Mini Pearls small Satellites require thermal help max high climb comes gets high enough hit thermals bigger necessary fly-offs require 5-second motor runs might wonder dont know what Norman Poti open winner flew another case winner emerging out chaos no knowing what happenedeven people beat Steve Calhoun flew Satellite win Junior am sorry say dont know what design Mike Stoy flew win Senior Lets have fly-offs time Fast Richard can keep better track things striking note Mini Pearls Satellites have just about com pletely established themselves stand ard designs So now its time ex citing new design variety choice kits keeps event going lets hope something happens night-flying event unofficial spon sored Western Freeflight Associa tion held Friday 9 12 terrific thunderstorm blew up right 900 oclock everyone left Satellite City bunch thought As turned out side huge airbase drenched other stayed dry Once wind died bang-up nightflying session ensued Randy Secor has done share night flying Calif won flying Tartar Phil Bayly flew 400 November1975 75 $2995 BATTERY MEDIC R J R Sales believe too hobbiest lost thru terribly expensive heartbreaking crashes thats feature Crash prevention products TO ORDER See Dealer First cannot supply order direct Add $100 postage handling US $150 Canada Nats/FF/Mathis continued 09-powered job second Penny Johnson flying Tartar third never witnessed night contest enthralled sensory delight noise amplified denser air glowing lights race off void seem stop mid-air like star cant tell whether air plane 500 feet high 100 gets out trim youd better pack up because no hint model climbing except noise motor diminishing think night flying could catch East anywhere other Calif once people see way definitely thermals after 900 no hint breeze Saturday C day Class C gassie today thing behold 1000 sq wings arc common now because thats about what takes slow latest honkin 40s down superior performance potential airplanes obvious because appear climb high smaller ships actually go higher Once gliding starts nothing else touches Satellites prevalent surprising number Maxi Mama Pearls flown Pearl Team Houston Tulsan Tom Farmers Maxi Pearl edged Bill Hunters Satellite 1000 first Tom Bill Chenault Pearls founder helping thermal selection new 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Flying weight 21/2 oz will power 25 50 wingspan weighting up 10 oz VL-101 Electric Flight System FC-66 Field Charger Instruction Book Only Catalog Add 10% Postage & Handling Send Check MO NO CODs Calif add 6% Sales Tax S1950 S2950 $ 100 25 V PRODUCTS DIVISION OF VISTA LABS 7023-D Canoga Ave fM Canoga Park Ca 91303 See Your MODEL DEALER ORDER DIRECT Hobby Dealers send Information slimmed-down Sal Taibi maxed out waited too long improvement weather gotten breezy Satellites locked up Senior Junior tightly pleasing see young fliers like Bob Tom Scully Mini-Fred Steve Calhoun handling monsters well biggest problems hurting everyone fly-offs power-glide transition Large air planes much critical area Adjacent C event Jetex event hissed fizzled along Chris Matsuno leading handsomely Matsuno St Louis very adept less familiar events Mike Ransom Mike Fedor Jerry Murphy takes special patience make Jetex Coupe Pay Load Rubber Speed model go Matsuno also leading Wakefield after fourth round slightly ahead Fred Pearce Wakefields especially hurt early morning round schedule because damp dead Matsunos high-aspect-ratio model far best glide appeared few models capable unaided max Eventually however Pearce edged him out complete sweep rubber events Coupe Unlimited Wakefield Almost last gasp wheeled out big D gas ships jollies lot us get kick out superbig devices like Bill Moores Team Pearl Mama Pearl required Rossi 60 move moved fast enough win over Fred Calhoun Jrs Satellite another unofficial event seemed spectator sport participant sport other events come mind try bail out Sal Taibi finished flying Old Timer ignition grabbing watch him fly bellow ing old Forester 99-powered Powerhouse just fun started first flip flew like train schedule recall think ing out proportion Peanut scale airplanes relative owners make funny pictures together fascinated reaction spectators Rubber Speed event cheering laughing like ball game remem ber trying unsuccessfully locate Electric eventI hope everyone enjoyed Thank goodness complete results event being published else issue have commented least third events time dethermalize report meet publication deadlines also give chance start building next year second year have reported Nats rather flying hope observations have made teresting thank AMA giving opportunity re port thanks contestants provided such spectacular display excellence sportsmanship Build em lighter faster next year boys cause Fast Richard comm back 76 Model Aviation Tongue-in-cheek Jerry Barnette prepares tow A-2 Nordic called Lad Seppelin Launching Unlimited Rubber Greg Simon Young fliers often enter Coupes event Far OutI Terry Rimert built foam-core newspaper Flash hand-launched glider