Free Flight: Sport & Scale

GOOD NEWS Classic Models making comeback remember Gene Thomas superscale models magnificent documentation packages have cause rejoic ing Gene having conquered number prob lems would have stopped lesser man tracks presently offering plans docu mentation booklets along accessories still stock Full kits presently available Gene assures us full production coming Church Midwing Cessna 1911 Heath Su per Parasol Baby Bullet Alexander Bullet Having seen plans new additions line know some great treats new darlings Ar rowsport biplane Cessna CW-6 Bellanca Columbia Spirit St Louis favorite Travelair Chevrolair racer youd like offer Gene encouragement reentry model biz drop him line 16 Scott Drive Melville NY 11747 tele phone 1-516-549-5836 Lets hope Classic Mod els back soon Thanks Gene new promotional literature almost ready get mailing list second item good news concerns 01 Perfesser Walt Mooney has new offerings sub-Peanut builders world has reduced 36 best Peanut Scale designs eight-inch wingspan has new booklet called Bag 6 volume added line Peanut Scale plan booklets have long favor ites Peanuteers worldwide will need reduce called-out wood sizes 8/13 Hows odd number means A6-in sheet would reduce Ao 1/32 standard Japanese tissue could 54 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 uric Anderson Chicago IL builds mini-marvels right vast uncluttered ex panse workspace Look familiar Peanut Peck-Polymers Drulne Turbulent Before L after R Bob Schlosbergs Scottsdale AZ outstanding Bell P-39 Airacobra about ready covered after finishing made Golden Age Reproductions kit spans 24 Golden Age Reproductions PO Box 13 Braintree MA 02184 Schlosberg pics Some DC Maxecuters L jumbo-sized Coconut Scale ships gather Indoor session Heres planes R Don Srulls featherlight Alco floats effortlessly Wingspan about 40 Tom Schmitt photos Twin-motor Peanuts L Dick Howards Lake Havasu AZ Grumman F7F Tigercat 12 grams no rubber landing gear great-flying little model Dick inventor cottage-cheese-container prop R Howard photo Northrop P-61 Black Widow R Genthers seen recent annual Peanut blowout Flemalle Belgium Weight 19 grams Photo Lubomir Koutny Ed Heyn Norwood MA sends us photo 1 171/z-in-span Boland Tailless little-known plane Rubber motors attach false crosamember under canard plane Tom Schmitt Rockville MD recently lost lovely little RWD-1O R OOS flightbut before took photo Craft CO2 powered took first Fyling Aces Club Power Galesville OH meetin 25 mph wind Schmitt photo replaced condenser paper A5-in sticks longerons instead /16-in-sq 003 transparent plastic sheet windows Styrofoam wheels save weight would good plan Walt cautions against overdoing doping wee wonders Actually can find plans model magazines reduced versions send-for plans can admirably adapted sub-Peanut-sized models thing gives trouble little models seems finding just right rubber size FAI Model Supply sells 32-in rubber will work sometimes Micro X Indoor Model Supply can help small er sizes use Indoor wood necessary advisable going over-a-minute model have photocopier neighbor hood can enlarge things Mooneys 8Y2 x 11-in sheets can blown back up Peanut larger size ease Take has chosen some dandies have personally seen air Peanuts FLY pick lot would Waco SRE bipe Laird LC-DE Warner enginehaw w-w-w Elias Aircoupe Miles M-5 Sparrowhawk LWD Szpalc-4A Wright WP-1 Tupolev ANT-2 Rearwin Speedster Avro 536C Racing Baby Compete AC-12E Andreasson BA-4B bipe Lublin RXII Udet Flamingo Druine Turbulent Gloster Gannet Jodel Mascaret Stahlwerk Mark MS Il-B cant get inspired lot might try taking up matchbook collecting hobby Send Walt five bucks PO Box 231192 San Diego CA 92123 has best bargain modeling today PS Some people call sub-Peanut models under-eight-inch wingspans Pistachios dont know couple months ago told about mil itary jet did bit free fighting after its pi lot bailed out Well seems just isolated incident Los Angeles Times Octo ber 24 1987 reports Hawker Harrier belonging RAF flew over 700 miles after pilot found dead field near Salisbury southern England ejected unknown reason C5A USAF found free fighting plane accompanied 500 mph over hour before Harrier crashed sea Actually thats pretty fast Free Flight Scale ship parts RC models come close have people write about kids coming Free Flight droves Paul Continued page JSS March 1988 55 Mik Mikkelsons Taylorcraft Grasshopper kit Earl Stahls design converted Eng lish Auster Arrow Bill Warner Wings made plug-in-type using 032-in music wire aluminum tubes rubberband passing through rolled paper tube holds panels together chairs aforementioned tool table bird will much better careful attention Thats month Keep black-andwhite photos acomin really appreciate model pictures use possi ble column Hell Radios/Tradelius Continued page 52 Lets suppose Helicopter hover collective/throttle stick mid range position engine rpm needs increased adjusting hovering throttle trim rotor rpm can increased affecting idle full-power set tings rotor rpm increased ever no change collective made Helicopter will begin climb keep climbing collective stick its mid-range position collec tive has re-trimmed case re duced pitch slightly compensate higher rotor speed can see two trim functions work together opposite other give finer control both hover rotor speed collective stick position Hover memory basic functions Helicopter radio covered column several months ago pro vide tail rotor compensation power collective changed hover settings does radio know Helicopter hover Without hov er memory feature radio must assume Heli hover throttle/col lective stick mid-point position hover memory feature however Helicopter brought hover memory feature turned allow radio memorize hover settings radio applies other mixing func tions such tail rotor compensation point especially good after using hover throttle collective trims mentioned above because may like hover throttle/collective stick out its mid-range position Warning lights Now several switches have added increased capabilities top-of-the-line radio its also easier have switches wrong position Thats warn ing lights very useful Several transmitters have red LED light-emitting diode displays illuminated power switch turned partic ular function monitoring turned will go steady light flash ing tradeoff always needed between size light amount battery operate warning lights rather small hard see direct day light Nonetheless add extra mar gin safety flying Clocks timers Closely related warning lights clocks timers keep track transmitter-on time flight time usually LCD liquid crystal displays require very little battery power give digital read-out time day transmitter-on time count up down timers flight time combination However display should protected exposure direct sunlight long periods prevent display fading seems newer radios especially PCM units require battery power older sets therefore may operate long single charge clocks stopwatches therefore use ful function keep us safe side battery limits though seems like have covered lot Helicopter functions between ar ticle previous still things individual manufac turers have supplied radios havent mentioned terested radios suggest find someone has can see goodies firsthandor write manufacturer importer owners manual list features etc Also top-of-the-line radios can expect higherquality components throughout radio including case switches control sticks appearance trim pots etc take closer look what additional cost brings flying enjoyment capabilities may well decide have its Bowman Horsham PA thinks part problem subsonic buffoons positions leadership bow scrape RC det riment meaningful Junior program Ed Lowe Holdingford MN opines avia tion has lost mystique excitement kids kids big dream get ride airplane Carl Fries NFFS founder thinks part decline FF due fact people dont know about what hobby shops going higher-profit RC items pay rent feels should shoot 24-35 age group can get Out distant flying fields FF now taking place Bill Miller Fairfield CT would like see simple Scale models market available kids sort order old 1OC-to-25C Megow models cites Jack Fikes Scale Flight kits Canadian Easybuilt line helping counts Bill Morez San Marcos CA has helped dozens Junior types over years noted stuck hobby maybe just have accept thing forever kids today listen different music have different heroes should allowed find own special joy figures pleasure Out sunshine model enough him Plenty food thought Until somebody does come up philoso phy well agree lets keep dis cussion going shall personally owe Free Flight Scale modeling far can ever repay lifetime am personally willing see go quiet grave Hannans Runway PO Box Escondido CA 92025 has couple things stock think might interest now list plastic ra dial engine kits suitable Peanut Scale models nine-cylinder P&W Wasp 14-cylinder Wasp nine-cylinder Wright $249 also cany hard-tofind five-cylinder packs plastic cylinders do-it-yourselfers % ne-inch scales also carry WW Golden Age wheels 34 1 1-in diameters can get -lb box A6 /32 /8-in FAI rubber autogiro tie tack rubber stamp Waco cabin ship Vic Smeads great Fifty Years March 1988 155 worth investment have best radio available FF Scale/Warner Continued page 55 Aeromodeller Mooneys new 36Pistachio Pack truly unique service stocks great 1932 Flying Glider Manual de tailed construction drawings Pietenpol Air Camper Ramsey Bathtub 95 mere $125 will get cat alog bargain list books publications Flying Scale Inc new enterprise based 1905 Colony Dr Metairie LA 70003 Al Ar nold sent first two plan offerings scaled 34 -in-to-the-foot consisting two sheets first BF 1OSB-l rubber CO2 small electric motor looks like real flier second nothing let finest plan have seen moon superb Vought 02U-1/2 Corsair biplane huge central float/hull features how-to building dummy engine uses modem plastic bottle prop technology good color data scale references balsa/ply-core wheels plus fact its just exuding Build charisma lacking humdrum offerings days 25-in-span jewel needs Wallace Beery Clark Gable cockpits star model show goingstatic flying Dave Diels kits getting lot comment daysall favorable Comments like first kit ever put together thing fit right Bearcat doing over 40 seconds looks like one-minute flier finished models unusual attractive suggest may soon getting business can handle have new offering gourmet Peanut P 40 goes $895 plus $150 postage front warplane builder Id build it looks like might turn out bit heavy side As wood outstanding quality maybe could made 45 seconds right hands has beautiful decals molded Lexan canopy pretty comprehen sive step-by-step instruction guide plus photocopy few photos Scale documenta tion P-40B/C lovers can get Diels En gineering Inc PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43469 Dope Ive received lots responses plea sources good old-fashioned nitrate dope staple Free Flight Bob Hatschek Douglas ton NY writes members Sky Scrapers club have largely abandoned model air plane dope lets covering limp virtually useless going full-scale aircraft dope source Al exander Aeroplane Co 900 So Pine Hill Rd Griffin GA 30223 call toll-free 1-800-8312949 gallon Randolph high-solids non tautenlng nitrate dope gallon thinner costs about $30 both delivered New York Some modelers go together split cost United Airlines pilot topnotch Scaler mc Dittman has located 55-gallon drum real stuff old Mil-Spec variety yellowish tinge Hes little leery about shipping cur rent packing codes figures de cides peddle will go $350 quart $12 gallon plus $250 UPS shipping want real thing write EW Dittman Model Supply 23322 75th Ave W Edmonds WA 98020 Doug Dahlke Oshkosh WI recommends write Randolph Products Co PO Box 67 Rutherford NJ 07072 ask Aircraft Finishes Product Manual also suggests check out Cooper Aviation Supply Co 2149 East Pratt Blvd Elk Grove Village IL 60007 Dick Davis suggests contacting Aircraft Spruce Specialty 201 W Truslow Ave Fullerton CA 92632 can call 1-800-8241930 except CA AK residents must call 1-714-870-7551 Rex Bixby now liv ing up Oregon also recommends Thanks much gang Happy hints department Rowland Hoot illustrious SOTS recommends smearing film zinc stearate bottoms floats help get plane off water n Srull recom mends adding just little aluminum powder colored dope used models aluminum air planes add realism works lt Moo ney has Indoor Scale model equipped minlature light bulbs wing tips tall op erated cigarette-lighter battery Want put some plane See model RR dollhouse store tiny grain-of-wheat smaller bulbs rwin Grigg working Peanut-sized lighting system using optical fiber battery actuated pushing model down its sprung landing gear Fiat lux Until next time keep butchering balsa twisting gum-bands SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT FF Duration/Linstrum Continued page 57 penalty about gram Join motor tail boom tubes sert made A-in balsa sheet Align tubes workbench note angle must cut end tail boom make straight top fuselage line will reduce amount incidence have add stab TB joiner should have its grain oriented vertically will lessen chance damage boom tail assembly hard DT landing joiner will split cleanly grain resulting easily aligned gluing surfaces Wing original 37-in flat span re duced span 36 two versions simple reason allowed use 36-in length TE stock models seem miss 475 sq wing area Some wings have used full ribs diagonals others /16 x /16 x 3/n latter will course save some weight Tail surfaces cross-grain insert fin vital ensure its trueness strength Cut fin extends top tail boom Add short length 015 wire low er forward corner protection plus couple formers inside boom fin area strength stab will remain true build cov er properly though ribs good dis tance apart Prop have used George Schroedters CMP Champion Model ProductsEd Coupe prop sembly package 16-in diameter 19-in pitch last three models Aim maximum weight 13 grams including small Crocket rubber hook Assembly Cut about 40% tail boom fin point forward stab leading edge position Insert A-in sheet former grain horizontal forward face former butted against tube Mark point end boom will give stab good Ia negative incidence Use very soft pen cil draw lines outside tail boom tube indicate must cut allow stab some tilt right stab tip higher left tip Ed right turn cut out portion boom Reinforce around cutout /a x A-in sheet balsa add couple cross members plus A6-in ply mount LE Wrap sandpaper around motor tube carefully sand bottom pylon until bottom former just touches boom wing will have no incidence Attach vertical-grain A2-in balsa sheeting bottom former posi 156 Model Aviation N Folding- 1~oo wThg A-i INTERCEPTOR Ready Fly $695 U-build Kit $495 Note Pleaae add 83 P & H lst3 models. 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