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Free Flight: Sport and Scale

Author: B. Warner


Edition: Model Aviation - 1998/04
Page Numbers: 109, 110, 113

FREE FLIGHT SPORT SCALE Stop Name Reduced Drag December San Diego Scale Staffel newsletter Tom Arnold wrote shock learning Red Boyles Tony won mass-launch events including FAC Nationals nonfreewheeling propeller Tom quoted Red saying Freewheelers never seemed help stays up just long stopped prop bother What make world-shaking statement Whenever prop stops Rubber model relative wind wants spin aircraft its longitudinal axis inducing dropped right-hand wingtip subsequent loss lift spiral down earth first thought Red might putting us slipping non-freewbeeler scale judging practical joke would have fun see fliers come out field try emulate Reds success using trick method wind up ditch worth telephone call Arizona find out soon became clear talking Red stopped-prop thing did come being too lazy build freewheeling device researched number aeronautical texts intrigued stating fullscale aircraft feathered prop gave 01 drag coefficient stopped prop gave 10 windmilling gave 40 considering blade area diameter Rubber model propeller much greater might still significant difference testing time Red set up model glide mode fairly tightly braided motor few winds keep center gravity belonged taped prop cowl horizontal attitude keep turning Over grass park glided about 20 times until getting maximum distance possible removed tape allowed prop freewheel distance could reach dropped 1/3 something Red modified nose block stop guys fly folding-prop models stop consists stub music wire protruding back block An extra bit tang bent onto 5 hook rear prop shaft just misses stop under tension fully-wound braided motor will make contact stop turns run out little spring washer made bit folded-over plastic vellum oval hole end center ends folded overlap center hole goes between Peck thrust washer prop expands just enough end motor run move prop shaft forward contact-and-stop mode prop horizontal position model set fly RH pattern little positive right wing As prop stopped position wants rotate airplane right wash-in counteracts tendency Rudder used make final adjustments Red says model flies wing down under April 1998 109 Otto Kuhnis Gasparin G-24 C02-powered ARUP Stable flieri 1/2 minute-flights 10-inch span 24 grams Fritz Mueller photo Dave Stotts 1925 Motyl Butterfly Towline Glider Poznan School Heavy Machinery students built original Stott photo Ulises Alvarez Uruguays Miss Los Angeles Brown Racer Authors Astro 02-powered Bleriot Traversee de Ia Manche Anzani Peanut Carved jointed Roy Minor fits cockpit used motorcycle engine cylinders transverse fins power glides left builds very light models means fly slower speeds normal tends make little warps twists less effective might kind stuff us build believe models larger-thanusual props might difficult handle models prone go spiral dives upset because large fin areas might also pose problems Still Red has made Tony winner cannot argue away success Let know stopped prop method works Cottage Wings Resource Guide coverage Free Flight FF Scale gets magazines might lead believe very much available way plans kits supplies clubs etc opposite true ton good stuff out small outfits dedicated modelers across world get copy latest Cottage Wingsthe nonprofit annotated list hundreds useful sourcessend two dollar bills legal-size large selfaddressed stamped envelope two first class stamps Carlo Godel 5726 Case Ave North Hollywood CA 91601 time printed Carlo should retired will moving Grand Junction Colorado dont wait too long Free Flight Internet world rapidly coming point being computer literate necessity quick check weather morning city going attend contest saved 400-mile round trip paid months $20 server fee being hooked up Net can shop model supplies see photos other guys models download documentation send mail chat other modelers get information clubs etc possibilities much time energy does cost club get monthly newsletter out few dozen people Imagine reaching hundreds thousands people less Joe Joseph editor Windy Sock FAC Flying Aces Club Alamo Escadrille suggests percentage FF coverage model press today inadequate agree number modelers considered getting about going get long advertising revenue comes mainly big spenders Radio Control majority Free Flighters buy pound rubber fifteen bucks lasts five years dedicated quarter-scale flier probably uses much worth fuel mornings flying So rather spending time bemoaning facts life dont get hip make Internet work us Joe suggests clubs have someone online can scan existing sites print stuff interest bring club meetings small fee cover costs say five cents page club has someone computer literate such Alamo Escadrilles George Bredehoft DC Maxecuters Don Srull consider club Web Page can visited anyone anytimeand color pictures Alamo site can reached punching http /wwwbattlecreeknetfvolare/alamo gets about 500 visits month 1000 easy envision club can get advertising help defray monthly cost site After site constructed requires monthly service charge keep going computer bank owned server Considering what costs get out black-and-white newsletter Web Site could real bargain could boost club immensely Sites usually contain linksquick routes other sites interest click button can read about guy flew before Wrights maybe get electronic mail model friends order Bill Hannans latest model book leaving chair dragged kicking screaming computer age being ardent Luddite heart Once Magic Kingdom Cyberspace no going back dont believe arrange tour someone already set up Check out Joe Josephs site try Maxecuters pages http/wwwhiscoml-tschmittl FF Scale Movies Alan Naomi film about young Jewish boy New York during WW II tries help Parisian refugee girl moves across street recover horror seeing father murdered 110 Model Aviation Wetherells C02-powered DH Puss MothBest Show John Morrell shows secret saving landing gear struts 50th Anniversary Flightmasters Annual 1996 Tom Schmitt photo original Rearwin Speedster plug-ins Sensational flier Bob Thompson examines Dave Livesays L Time Flies 1996 FAC NATS Bob Clemens holds camera Mark Fineman scans skies Gestapo boys relationship best friend says hates girls threatened new person Building flying rubber-powered Scale models figures prominently bond between boys helps hero reach out emotionally damaged girl Put must see list Seamless Paper Background Cheap Photo Backgrounds Bill Hannan writes has using roll developed blueprint paper blue side white other purchased three four bucks kept closet prevent fading will last years Check out local blueprint place phone book see what have Reproducing Selling Old Plans have received quite pile mail subject plans piracy Most differentiates between people selling plans still available original sources and/or copyright protected plans have abandoned Tom Dixon Marietta GA sums up referring find make plans available might otherwise lost bulk modelers treasure hunters rather pirates Rescuing lost stuff Tom says honorable endeavor hobby whole benefits Flying Aces Nats biennial FAC Nats coming Geneseo NY Scale judging will July 16 flying 17-19 final day will capped off banquet Mark calendar planning attend dont wait another minute make arrangements Contact FAC GHQ 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 details Its time build last model take Geneseo about that youve always wanted build never got have three months youre getting younger See ya -131 Same days/upping Payment m US funds Add $6 5Mb a/ISO states Canada & Mexico add $12 others add $18 CA add 825% tan April1998 113 ALLDELTA FIBERGLASSWINGS PREMIER DISTRIBUTING205-974-1307 http//wwwhiwaay net/rfrady Scales Sport flyer Pro Pylon Racef top performance m]uut fun basic secret top engine performance fit dud balance Its easy halanco engine precision scales halancing inufruct ions scale hghter mInvestment longer fib stay up$h9dSr S&u Now can weigh parts before glue oh together airbrunhing really hghter9 Tissue silk -4 rtomore guessing, Now youSknow before ds bombed13 digital mode/u weigh Ooz N 1 tdlbs Model V-600Model GS-200Accumey 1/2835th ounce CHAMPION 1924 E Edinger Ave a Ana CA 92705 259-1142 Fax 714-259-1025

Author: B. Warner


Edition: Model Aviation - 1998/04
Page Numbers: 109, 110, 113

FREE FLIGHT SPORT SCALE Stop Name Reduced Drag December San Diego Scale Staffel newsletter Tom Arnold wrote shock learning Red Boyles Tony won mass-launch events including FAC Nationals nonfreewheeling propeller Tom quoted Red saying Freewheelers never seemed help stays up just long stopped prop bother What make world-shaking statement Whenever prop stops Rubber model relative wind wants spin aircraft its longitudinal axis inducing dropped right-hand wingtip subsequent loss lift spiral down earth first thought Red might putting us slipping non-freewbeeler scale judging practical joke would have fun see fliers come out field try emulate Reds success using trick method wind up ditch worth telephone call Arizona find out soon became clear talking Red stopped-prop thing did come being too lazy build freewheeling device researched number aeronautical texts intrigued stating fullscale aircraft feathered prop gave 01 drag coefficient stopped prop gave 10 windmilling gave 40 considering blade area diameter Rubber model propeller much greater might still significant difference testing time Red set up model glide mode fairly tightly braided motor few winds keep center gravity belonged taped prop cowl horizontal attitude keep turning Over grass park glided about 20 times until getting maximum distance possible removed tape allowed prop freewheel distance could reach dropped 1/3 something Red modified nose block stop guys fly folding-prop models stop consists stub music wire protruding back block An extra bit tang bent onto 5 hook rear prop shaft just misses stop under tension fully-wound braided motor will make contact stop turns run out little spring washer made bit folded-over plastic vellum oval hole end center ends folded overlap center hole goes between Peck thrust washer prop expands just enough end motor run move prop shaft forward contact-and-stop mode prop horizontal position model set fly RH pattern little positive right wing As prop stopped position wants rotate airplane right wash-in counteracts tendency Rudder used make final adjustments Red says model flies wing down under April 1998 109 Otto Kuhnis Gasparin G-24 C02-powered ARUP Stable flieri 1/2 minute-flights 10-inch span 24 grams Fritz Mueller photo Dave Stotts 1925 Motyl Butterfly Towline Glider Poznan School Heavy Machinery students built original Stott photo Ulises Alvarez Uruguays Miss Los Angeles Brown Racer Authors Astro 02-powered Bleriot Traversee de Ia Manche Anzani Peanut Carved jointed Roy Minor fits cockpit used motorcycle engine cylinders transverse fins power glides left builds very light models means fly slower speeds normal tends make little warps twists less effective might kind stuff us build believe models larger-thanusual props might difficult handle models prone go spiral dives upset because large fin areas might also pose problems Still Red has made Tony winner cannot argue away success Let know stopped prop method works Cottage Wings Resource Guide coverage Free Flight FF Scale gets magazines might lead believe very much available way plans kits supplies clubs etc opposite true ton good stuff out small outfits dedicated modelers across world get copy latest Cottage Wingsthe nonprofit annotated list hundreds useful sourcessend two dollar bills legal-size large selfaddressed stamped envelope two first class stamps Carlo Godel 5726 Case Ave North Hollywood CA 91601 time printed Carlo should retired will moving Grand Junction Colorado dont wait too long Free Flight Internet world rapidly coming point being computer literate necessity quick check weather morning city going attend contest saved 400-mile round trip paid months $20 server fee being hooked up Net can shop model supplies see photos other guys models download documentation send mail chat other modelers get information clubs etc possibilities much time energy does cost club get monthly newsletter out few dozen people Imagine reaching hundreds thousands people less Joe Joseph editor Windy Sock FAC Flying Aces Club Alamo Escadrille suggests percentage FF coverage model press today inadequate agree number modelers considered getting about going get long advertising revenue comes mainly big spenders Radio Control majority Free Flighters buy pound rubber fifteen bucks lasts five years dedicated quarter-scale flier probably uses much worth fuel mornings flying So rather spending time bemoaning facts life dont get hip make Internet work us Joe suggests clubs have someone online can scan existing sites print stuff interest bring club meetings small fee cover costs say five cents page club has someone computer literate such Alamo Escadrilles George Bredehoft DC Maxecuters Don Srull consider club Web Page can visited anyone anytimeand color pictures Alamo site can reached punching http /wwwbattlecreeknetfvolare/alamo gets about 500 visits month 1000 easy envision club can get advertising help defray monthly cost site After site constructed requires monthly service charge keep going computer bank owned server Considering what costs get out black-and-white newsletter Web Site could real bargain could boost club immensely Sites usually contain linksquick routes other sites interest click button can read about guy flew before Wrights maybe get electronic mail model friends order Bill Hannans latest model book leaving chair dragged kicking screaming computer age being ardent Luddite heart Once Magic Kingdom Cyberspace no going back dont believe arrange tour someone already set up Check out Joe Josephs site try Maxecuters pages http/wwwhiscoml-tschmittl FF Scale Movies Alan Naomi film about young Jewish boy New York during WW II tries help Parisian refugee girl moves across street recover horror seeing father murdered 110 Model Aviation Wetherells C02-powered DH Puss MothBest Show John Morrell shows secret saving landing gear struts 50th Anniversary Flightmasters Annual 1996 Tom Schmitt photo original Rearwin Speedster plug-ins Sensational flier Bob Thompson examines Dave Livesays L Time Flies 1996 FAC NATS Bob Clemens holds camera Mark Fineman scans skies Gestapo boys relationship best friend says hates girls threatened new person Building flying rubber-powered Scale models figures prominently bond between boys helps hero reach out emotionally damaged girl Put must see list Seamless Paper Background Cheap Photo Backgrounds Bill Hannan writes has using roll developed blueprint paper blue side white other purchased three four bucks kept closet prevent fading will last years Check out local blueprint place phone book see what have Reproducing Selling Old Plans have received quite pile mail subject plans piracy Most differentiates between people selling plans still available original sources and/or copyright protected plans have abandoned Tom Dixon Marietta GA sums up referring find make plans available might otherwise lost bulk modelers treasure hunters rather pirates Rescuing lost stuff Tom says honorable endeavor hobby whole benefits Flying Aces Nats biennial FAC Nats coming Geneseo NY Scale judging will July 16 flying 17-19 final day will capped off banquet Mark calendar planning attend dont wait another minute make arrangements Contact FAC GHQ 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 details Its time build last model take Geneseo about that youve always wanted build never got have three months youre getting younger See ya -131 Same days/upping Payment m US funds Add $6 5Mb a/ISO states Canada & Mexico add $12 others add $18 CA add 825% tan April1998 113 ALLDELTA FIBERGLASSWINGS PREMIER DISTRIBUTING205-974-1307 http//wwwhiwaay net/rfrady Scales Sport flyer Pro Pylon Racef top performance m]uut fun basic secret top engine performance fit dud balance Its easy halanco engine precision scales halancing inufruct ions scale hghter mInvestment longer fib stay up$h9dSr S&u Now can weigh parts before glue oh together airbrunhing really hghter9 Tissue silk -4 rtomore guessing, Now youSknow before ds bombed13 digital mode/u weigh Ooz N 1 tdlbs Model V-600Model GS-200Accumey 1/2835th ounce CHAMPION 1924 E Edinger Ave a Ana CA 92705 259-1142 Fax 714-259-1025

Author: B. Warner


Edition: Model Aviation - 1998/04
Page Numbers: 109, 110, 113

FREE FLIGHT SPORT SCALE Stop Name Reduced Drag December San Diego Scale Staffel newsletter Tom Arnold wrote shock learning Red Boyles Tony won mass-launch events including FAC Nationals nonfreewheeling propeller Tom quoted Red saying Freewheelers never seemed help stays up just long stopped prop bother What make world-shaking statement Whenever prop stops Rubber model relative wind wants spin aircraft its longitudinal axis inducing dropped right-hand wingtip subsequent loss lift spiral down earth first thought Red might putting us slipping non-freewbeeler scale judging practical joke would have fun see fliers come out field try emulate Reds success using trick method wind up ditch worth telephone call Arizona find out soon became clear talking Red stopped-prop thing did come being too lazy build freewheeling device researched number aeronautical texts intrigued stating fullscale aircraft feathered prop gave 01 drag coefficient stopped prop gave 10 windmilling gave 40 considering blade area diameter Rubber model propeller much greater might still significant difference testing time Red set up model glide mode fairly tightly braided motor few winds keep center gravity belonged taped prop cowl horizontal attitude keep turning Over grass park glided about 20 times until getting maximum distance possible removed tape allowed prop freewheel distance could reach dropped 1/3 something Red modified nose block stop guys fly folding-prop models stop consists stub music wire protruding back block An extra bit tang bent onto 5 hook rear prop shaft just misses stop under tension fully-wound braided motor will make contact stop turns run out little spring washer made bit folded-over plastic vellum oval hole end center ends folded overlap center hole goes between Peck thrust washer prop expands just enough end motor run move prop shaft forward contact-and-stop mode prop horizontal position model set fly RH pattern little positive right wing As prop stopped position wants rotate airplane right wash-in counteracts tendency Rudder used make final adjustments Red says model flies wing down under April 1998 109 Otto Kuhnis Gasparin G-24 C02-powered ARUP Stable flieri 1/2 minute-flights 10-inch span 24 grams Fritz Mueller photo Dave Stotts 1925 Motyl Butterfly Towline Glider Poznan School Heavy Machinery students built original Stott photo Ulises Alvarez Uruguays Miss Los Angeles Brown Racer Authors Astro 02-powered Bleriot Traversee de Ia Manche Anzani Peanut Carved jointed Roy Minor fits cockpit used motorcycle engine cylinders transverse fins power glides left builds very light models means fly slower speeds normal tends make little warps twists less effective might kind stuff us build believe models larger-thanusual props might difficult handle models prone go spiral dives upset because large fin areas might also pose problems Still Red has made Tony winner cannot argue away success Let know stopped prop method works Cottage Wings Resource Guide coverage Free Flight FF Scale gets magazines might lead believe very much available way plans kits supplies clubs etc opposite true ton good stuff out small outfits dedicated modelers across world get copy latest Cottage Wingsthe nonprofit annotated list hundreds useful sourcessend two dollar bills legal-size large selfaddressed stamped envelope two first class stamps Carlo Godel 5726 Case Ave North Hollywood CA 91601 time printed Carlo should retired will moving Grand Junction Colorado dont wait too long Free Flight Internet world rapidly coming point being computer literate necessity quick check weather morning city going attend contest saved 400-mile round trip paid months $20 server fee being hooked up Net can shop model supplies see photos other guys models download documentation send mail chat other modelers get information clubs etc possibilities much time energy does cost club get monthly newsletter out few dozen people Imagine reaching hundreds thousands people less Joe Joseph editor Windy Sock FAC Flying Aces Club Alamo Escadrille suggests percentage FF coverage model press today inadequate agree number modelers considered getting about going get long advertising revenue comes mainly big spenders Radio Control majority Free Flighters buy pound rubber fifteen bucks lasts five years dedicated quarter-scale flier probably uses much worth fuel mornings flying So rather spending time bemoaning facts life dont get hip make Internet work us Joe suggests clubs have someone online can scan existing sites print stuff interest bring club meetings small fee cover costs say five cents page club has someone computer literate such Alamo Escadrilles George Bredehoft DC Maxecuters Don Srull consider club Web Page can visited anyone anytimeand color pictures Alamo site can reached punching http /wwwbattlecreeknetfvolare/alamo gets about 500 visits month 1000 easy envision club can get advertising help defray monthly cost site After site constructed requires monthly service charge keep going computer bank owned server Considering what costs get out black-and-white newsletter Web Site could real bargain could boost club immensely Sites usually contain linksquick routes other sites interest click button can read about guy flew before Wrights maybe get electronic mail model friends order Bill Hannans latest model book leaving chair dragged kicking screaming computer age being ardent Luddite heart Once Magic Kingdom Cyberspace no going back dont believe arrange tour someone already set up Check out Joe Josephs site try Maxecuters pages http/wwwhiscoml-tschmittl FF Scale Movies Alan Naomi film about young Jewish boy New York during WW II tries help Parisian refugee girl moves across street recover horror seeing father murdered 110 Model Aviation Wetherells C02-powered DH Puss MothBest Show John Morrell shows secret saving landing gear struts 50th Anniversary Flightmasters Annual 1996 Tom Schmitt photo original Rearwin Speedster plug-ins Sensational flier Bob Thompson examines Dave Livesays L Time Flies 1996 FAC NATS Bob Clemens holds camera Mark Fineman scans skies Gestapo boys relationship best friend says hates girls threatened new person Building flying rubber-powered Scale models figures prominently bond between boys helps hero reach out emotionally damaged girl Put must see list Seamless Paper Background Cheap Photo Backgrounds Bill Hannan writes has using roll developed blueprint paper blue side white other purchased three four bucks kept closet prevent fading will last years Check out local blueprint place phone book see what have Reproducing Selling Old Plans have received quite pile mail subject plans piracy Most differentiates between people selling plans still available original sources and/or copyright protected plans have abandoned Tom Dixon Marietta GA sums up referring find make plans available might otherwise lost bulk modelers treasure hunters rather pirates Rescuing lost stuff Tom says honorable endeavor hobby whole benefits Flying Aces Nats biennial FAC Nats coming Geneseo NY Scale judging will July 16 flying 17-19 final day will capped off banquet Mark calendar planning attend dont wait another minute make arrangements Contact FAC GHQ 3301 Cindy Lane Erie PA 16506 details Its time build last model take Geneseo about that youve always wanted build never got have three months youre getting younger See ya -131 Same days/upping Payment m US funds Add $6 5Mb a/ISO states Canada & Mexico add $12 others add $18 CA add 825% tan April1998 113 ALLDELTA FIBERGLASSWINGS PREMIER DISTRIBUTING205-974-1307 http//wwwhiwaay net/rfrady Scales Sport flyer Pro Pylon Racef top performance m]uut fun basic secret top engine performance fit dud balance Its easy halanco engine precision scales halancing inufruct ions scale hghter mInvestment longer fib stay up$h9dSr S&u Now can weigh parts before glue oh together airbrunhing really hghter9 Tissue silk -4 rtomore guessing, Now youSknow before ds bombed13 digital mode/u weigh Ooz N 1 tdlbs Model V-600Model GS-200Accumey 1/2835th ounce CHAMPION 1924 E Edinger Ave a Ana CA 92705 259-1142 Fax 714-259-1025

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