NOW babys born what shall name letters sides wings Scale model can make break Purists would dream putting fictitious registration lot modelers dont enter con tests want have fun models ways American registrations pretty dull consist letters numbers Foreign registra- ings might go plane have free proper historical period tions however offer wide latitude making hand Well sort will probably want international code often consists pre statements letters some states limit yourself markings particular coun- fix special country three four letpeople pay have personalized license plates try French plane will probably feel comfort- ters following dash separates cars can have personalized model able French markings places prefix Some prefixes examples same wayand no cost French put markings can get might make up registration Actually three-views plans idea letter sizes styles positions look- follows available give clue what mark- ing photos other planes country France F-ARAD eleetric-powered N NS CIVILS FRANCAIS SERIE -SABLIER GS12 FAUY ELji -I~AY*10/ Iji "-/ / FARMAN 200201 {N,--SALMSON E M0INEAU MAUBOUSSIN PMXGREISCH THUET 9 MORANE SAULNIER 140 ROMANO R 30*82 POU flU dELHM 21 p OT LACOURHM 8 - MORANE SAULNIER 180*185\ LAS CLAUDEMAUBOUSSIN M 40 6miptreBOURGEOIS 7.\ ~PEYRETGERARD NESSLER 4 I~-74~ ALBERT TEd'~ewn n Emmanuel Fillons second series French Civil Aircraft 1930 era just out Peanut fanciers Bill Warner tells get list of Fillons plans order overseas months column 66 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 88 Flying Aces Club FAC Nats ended just before received issue Hems shot 86 FAC Nats Fernando Ramos adjusts compression screw diesel enginepowered Bucker Jungmeister before making another flight meet FF Scale extrava ganza shouldnt miss sure make 90 Jack McCracken launches Jumbo ber Scale Turbo Ag-Cat test flight 1987 Flightmasters Annual Dick Howard Lake Havasu AZ launches KI-83 rubber-powered twin its oneminute jaunts around field full-scale plane registra tion number Walt Mooney just pulling leg youre sure plane building marked get bit creative Bill has long explanation column Poland Italy Germany Denmark Czecho slovakia Sweden Nether lands Chile Finland Great Brit ain model SP-LAT poor fliers I-CANT also poor fliers D-UMBO planes large wings GY-VAY what model OK-DOKY flyable model SE-ITGO watch PH-ONY made up CC-RYDR folk music fans OH-LOOK what G NOME rotary-engined Carlo Godel 1 Mac McJunkin subject Fernando Ramos Inland Sport Gas Scale ship some critical static judging Model built Flyline Models kit Heres some Sec what can yourself Belgium Australia Brazil Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Rep Gabon Japan Lebanon Liberia 00 VH PP TI CU HI TR JA OD EL Nicaragua Peru China Romania Spain Sudan Switzerland Tunisia Yugoslavia OB B YR EC ST HB TS YU can hear screams serious Scale fra ternity way out Well think tend take ourselves bit too seriously sometimes figure some judges contest always looking something wrong give em something Mickey Mouse watch face instrument panel better nothing less sure what went mainly flying fun anyway Please dont take mean should no serious Scale models As person re searched certain Bleriot over 20 years before building can tell quest historical exactitude rewarding itself Continued page 152 Peanut Scale has raised fine art Czechoslovakia attested modeler Alferys HE-70 made one-mm vacu formed polystyrene sheet foam makes flights 100 seconds Koutny photo Von Whitlocks Clerget Peanut really brings feel pioneer days Its little trophy-getter too Want build Plan available Peck-Polymers Maybe its loneliness Far North inspires Canadian Dick Allen mad ness amuses us What next September 1988 67 Junior Dallas Calley fine Aeronca K floatplane Comet kit Dallas family just joined Southern California model scene Detroit Ml Fifteen-year-old Ivan Simonek made nice-flying Guilleband tandem-wing Pista chio Lubomir Koutnys plan Model flies well French prototype didnt cause engine troubles Koutny photo Jane Schlosberg Scottsdale AZ made Fike E Peanut Micro-X kit Shed bet ter watch out outdoor flightsits thermal-happy plane Loren Williams used playing card material make fine cylinder fins rubberpowered Jumbo Scale model Note gap between fins about twice thickness fin material Dummy engine replicates Continental 65 L2B Taylorcraft Hungary HA-DIT old model * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse $250 Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine $250 Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 PkI2 Inserts Coarse $220 Cat No 204 Pk/2 Inserts Fine $220 FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 tion publicized word-of-mouth Fed eration ROG drew sizable entry 12 fliers representing six states Vito Gagliano top scorer achieving both best two-flight total 909 Tom laco belli best team score 1735 New York Federation ROG seems show po tential developing first-class fi nesse event Following heels hard-driving World Championships US Indoor Championships much lowkeyed contestbut definitely wasnt re cess 20 official events plus several off record 35 entrants saw lots action competition brisk FF Scale/Warner Continued page 67 lack anything scrufl little spotters three-view next little Peanut register Belgian see what imagination can come up making letters heres little help September 1950 issue Modele Magazine France height letters should % wing chord % fuse lage height measured narrowest part width letters should 21 height thickness should 1/6 height spacing between letters should /2 width letter dash should width letter Use contrasting color Emmanuel Fillon remark able modelers have ever met Although re tired south France has undertaken tasks would have frightened off mod elers long ago has modeled rubber-powered fan jets geared Helicopters tyrofoam Scale models built solar-powered models me hes done Once jokingly asked him ever tried RC Well yes ad mitted hastened add de own radio competition won 1937 Wakefield Championship still bringing home trophies Scale models Let us just say fantastic modeler series French civil monoplanes Thirties likely definitive set plans era series con sists two plans sets 20 Peanut plans nothing short fantastic second series just out contains names never heard before modelers side pond Have ever heard Peyret-Nessler Nicolas-Claude Gerard Club 45 Bourgeois Sen emaud Greisch-Thuet old favorites like Mauboussin Hemiptere Fauvel fly ing wing Bernard 201-T HM-21 Pou du Ciel youd like specimen work list plans including two Thirties series send three international reply coupons available US Post Offlee F Fillon 60 Rue du Bocage 83700 Saint Raphael France ordering plans please use Interna tional Money Order bank amount francs past hes orders two dollarsand winds up hole French banks charge $4 change dol lars francs price Thirties series 150 francs 20 plans franc usu ally worth neighborhood 20 cents have rough idea Postage extra st office should able tell what will take get 7 oz plans across France can add IMO will cost about $4 up adventure will cost about $45or around $225 per plan outrageous sounds considering rare high-quality material involved Happy hints department Writing MaxFax newsletter DC Maxecuters Pat Daily reports Stew Myers have using Teflon tubing knockoff applications small models Tubing 23 24 gauge roughed up outside CyAed hole struc ture forms female portion structural joint part sewing pin embedded strut-to-wing attachment whatever fits snugly can use thin CyA make fit snug Dont worry Teflon will re lease type attachment has double advan tage absorbing crash momentum break ing parts also allows easy separation transportation storage smaller boxes plastic insulation off small wire might work well also late Chuck Connors used use tiny neoprene tubing glued profile models nose bearings can get glue stick al anything roughen its surface first Want make great filler cracks uneven surfaces balsa parts use fine sanding dust handy-dandy little disc sander made old electric motor disc plywood having 60-grit garnet paper stuck face mixed about half-and-half tal cum powder add nitrate dope until obtain mixture having consistency somewhere tween honey January glaziers putty Ap 152 Model Aviation AIAhThe Zj NA OMVVO femous line hobby eawe Razor #200 universal #500 Replacement Blades available ai dealer FAl Model Supply U P0 Box 3957 Torrance CA 90610 14 Wingspan Paper Flying Scale Model Airplane $7 00 *ALL PARTS PRE-CUT & PRE-PAINTED 0411 *BUILD & FLY IN TWO HOURS R AIRPLANES 1521 MORNINGSIDE DRIVE BURBANK GA 91506 USA CATALOG 750 Contains lOOua paper airplanes postage stamp size 6 foot wing span Gliders rubber powered Die-cut youcut Largest known source paper airplanes world Cost catalog deducted 1st order over $2500 ASTOUNDING CataLo CORSAIR ppet aL4plane above $1050 pttsh $250 pohtage IPAVEYYSTEMS LucifER 075 HYPERIHRUSI motor fused switch harness propeller adaptor 8/ 4 fibreglass propeller LUCIFER has computeroptimized E-193 airfoil superb L/D tremendous speed range ideally suited fliers because its inherent stabilily enough flat-boffom wing floaters barely stagger up a___________________ couple hundred feet Build LUCIFER enjoy performance expect Big enough fly like sailplane should small enough repeatedly climb Pin-Head altitude baffery charge Pre-cut fuselage sides accurate die machine cut selected woods complete rolled plans hardware detailed instructions piece wing spruce spars strength simplicily building IIAVEY YSTEMS i oRPoRATIoN Special Combo Price 675 TOWER LANE WEST CUES TER PA 19380 215-430-8645 plied Popsicle stick craft stick hobby craft people call irRMcM smoothed out sands like dream dry adds little extra weight Hats off New Mexico Free Fliers have good old-fashioned approach running club including super newsletter active involvement Junior programs terested learning about what going part great Southweat get touch Ann Earl Eckerson spark plugs outfit 810 Baird Circle Aztec NM 87410 Great job FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 69 lb/cu ft pink stuff comes several weights FoamulaR 150 about 15 lb/cu ft FoamulaR 250 about 18 company has re cently introduced low-density foam FoamulaR LDA density 13 lb/cu ft under stand Styrofoam makes gray foam thats about 15 lb number European modelers combin ing foam glass cloth epoxy make molded wings Leo Reynders Belgium cuts Out wing blank foam uses waste pieces top bottom mold plywood web carbon fiber rovings soaked epoxy form spar Light fiberglass cloth laid out thin sheets polyester PVC film epoxy spread film put over bottom mold core added second layer film time epoxy-soaked glass cloth face downis put over core top form added whole mess vacuum-bagged pull mold down tight Squares balsa glued front edge help keep everything align ment see sketch Another popular European technique uses top bottom wing skins full-depth spar no ribs skin made thin typically 1mm Rohacell polyurethane foam top bottom skin covered light glass cloth epoxy would like try tech nique Rohacell available Aerospace Composite Products PO Box 16621 Irvine CA 92714 sell Rohacell 1 2 3mm thicknesses although dont list catalog Another increasingly popular construction tech nique FLC wings uses very thin hard alu minum skin over sheeted balsa wing Pioneered Russian Power flier 1987 World Champion Eugene Verbitski wings stiff smooth past getting hold 03mm aluminum has easy Some tales intrigue sound like something out spy novel midnight meetings whispered passwords dealings cashalways cash Lately aluminum has become more available although still definitely hobby shop item Basic construction involves cutting piece aluminum double-chord width epoxying top bottom balsa wing skins typically light /16 balsa adding ribs spar Finally top sheet bent back over ribs epoxied place Because dent ding shows up aluminum clean work shop must Also important cleaning aluminum using correct epoxy bond ing balsa aluminum New Orleans Power flier Doug Joyce re cently switched aluminum wing skins canard Lightning design uses three-step cleaning process First wipes aluminum al cohol lacquer thinner finally trichioroethylene careful stuffi vapors can harmful health Make sure work area well ventilatedand keep nose out vapor RMcM Doug uses paper towels makes pass liquid adhesive uses 3M 2216 gray structural ad hesive coats both aluminum balsa can find June 1986 issue Aeromo deller theres excellent article British Power flier Stafford Screen builds wings Ad ditionally 1988 NFFS Symposium editor Hermann Andersen has scheduled step-by-step photo story Sal Fruciano Randy Archers method aluminum wing construction Several other articles composite structures sched uled addition Archer article Check Fred Terzian NFFS Publications 4858 Moorpark Ave San Jose CA 95129 can order book much will cost Keeping track changes technol ogy sport Free Flight can quite chal lenge Part fun detective work necessary piece together bits informa tion something can use example Al exandre Andrujkovs fast-climbing Wakefield made quite stir last couple world championships certain details model found Three-views model have shown up several newsletters con struction details such things center gravity wing turbulators shown Also complicated variable-pitch prop hub detailed Finally found almost everything Rus sian general aviation magazine Kryl Ia Rodiny Wings Fatherland very detailed three-views reproduced Still missing September 1988 153 SIZED TO FLY
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/09
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 152, 153
NOW babys born what shall name letters sides wings Scale model can make break Purists would dream putting fictitious registration lot modelers dont enter con tests want have fun models ways American registrations pretty dull consist letters numbers Foreign registra- ings might go plane have free proper historical period tions however offer wide latitude making hand Well sort will probably want international code often consists pre statements letters some states limit yourself markings particular coun- fix special country three four letpeople pay have personalized license plates try French plane will probably feel comfort- ters following dash separates cars can have personalized model able French markings places prefix Some prefixes examples same wayand no cost French put markings can get might make up registration Actually three-views plans idea letter sizes styles positions look- follows available give clue what mark- ing photos other planes country France F-ARAD eleetric-powered N NS CIVILS FRANCAIS SERIE -SABLIER GS12 FAUY ELji -I~AY*10/ Iji "-/ / FARMAN 200201 {N,--SALMSON E M0INEAU MAUBOUSSIN PMXGREISCH THUET 9 MORANE SAULNIER 140 ROMANO R 30*82 POU flU dELHM 21 p OT LACOURHM 8 - MORANE SAULNIER 180*185\ LAS CLAUDEMAUBOUSSIN M 40 6miptreBOURGEOIS 7.\ ~PEYRETGERARD NESSLER 4 I~-74~ ALBERT TEd'~ewn n Emmanuel Fillons second series French Civil Aircraft 1930 era just out Peanut fanciers Bill Warner tells get list of Fillons plans order overseas months column 66 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 88 Flying Aces Club FAC Nats ended just before received issue Hems shot 86 FAC Nats Fernando Ramos adjusts compression screw diesel enginepowered Bucker Jungmeister before making another flight meet FF Scale extrava ganza shouldnt miss sure make 90 Jack McCracken launches Jumbo ber Scale Turbo Ag-Cat test flight 1987 Flightmasters Annual Dick Howard Lake Havasu AZ launches KI-83 rubber-powered twin its oneminute jaunts around field full-scale plane registra tion number Walt Mooney just pulling leg youre sure plane building marked get bit creative Bill has long explanation column Poland Italy Germany Denmark Czecho slovakia Sweden Nether lands Chile Finland Great Brit ain model SP-LAT poor fliers I-CANT also poor fliers D-UMBO planes large wings GY-VAY what model OK-DOKY flyable model SE-ITGO watch PH-ONY made up CC-RYDR folk music fans OH-LOOK what G NOME rotary-engined Carlo Godel 1 Mac McJunkin subject Fernando Ramos Inland Sport Gas Scale ship some critical static judging Model built Flyline Models kit Heres some Sec what can yourself Belgium Australia Brazil Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Rep Gabon Japan Lebanon Liberia 00 VH PP TI CU HI TR JA OD EL Nicaragua Peru China Romania Spain Sudan Switzerland Tunisia Yugoslavia OB B YR EC ST HB TS YU can hear screams serious Scale fra ternity way out Well think tend take ourselves bit too seriously sometimes figure some judges contest always looking something wrong give em something Mickey Mouse watch face instrument panel better nothing less sure what went mainly flying fun anyway Please dont take mean should no serious Scale models As person re searched certain Bleriot over 20 years before building can tell quest historical exactitude rewarding itself Continued page 152 Peanut Scale has raised fine art Czechoslovakia attested modeler Alferys HE-70 made one-mm vacu formed polystyrene sheet foam makes flights 100 seconds Koutny photo Von Whitlocks Clerget Peanut really brings feel pioneer days Its little trophy-getter too Want build Plan available Peck-Polymers Maybe its loneliness Far North inspires Canadian Dick Allen mad ness amuses us What next September 1988 67 Junior Dallas Calley fine Aeronca K floatplane Comet kit Dallas family just joined Southern California model scene Detroit Ml Fifteen-year-old Ivan Simonek made nice-flying Guilleband tandem-wing Pista chio Lubomir Koutnys plan Model flies well French prototype didnt cause engine troubles Koutny photo Jane Schlosberg Scottsdale AZ made Fike E Peanut Micro-X kit Shed bet ter watch out outdoor flightsits thermal-happy plane Loren Williams used playing card material make fine cylinder fins rubberpowered Jumbo Scale model Note gap between fins about twice thickness fin material Dummy engine replicates Continental 65 L2B Taylorcraft Hungary HA-DIT old model * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse $250 Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine $250 Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 PkI2 Inserts Coarse $220 Cat No 204 Pk/2 Inserts Fine $220 FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 tion publicized word-of-mouth Fed eration ROG drew sizable entry 12 fliers representing six states Vito Gagliano top scorer achieving both best two-flight total 909 Tom laco belli best team score 1735 New York Federation ROG seems show po tential developing first-class fi nesse event Following heels hard-driving World Championships US Indoor Championships much lowkeyed contestbut definitely wasnt re cess 20 official events plus several off record 35 entrants saw lots action competition brisk FF Scale/Warner Continued page 67 lack anything scrufl little spotters three-view next little Peanut register Belgian see what imagination can come up making letters heres little help September 1950 issue Modele Magazine France height letters should % wing chord % fuse lage height measured narrowest part width letters should 21 height thickness should 1/6 height spacing between letters should /2 width letter dash should width letter Use contrasting color Emmanuel Fillon remark able modelers have ever met Although re tired south France has undertaken tasks would have frightened off mod elers long ago has modeled rubber-powered fan jets geared Helicopters tyrofoam Scale models built solar-powered models me hes done Once jokingly asked him ever tried RC Well yes ad mitted hastened add de own radio competition won 1937 Wakefield Championship still bringing home trophies Scale models Let us just say fantastic modeler series French civil monoplanes Thirties likely definitive set plans era series con sists two plans sets 20 Peanut plans nothing short fantastic second series just out contains names never heard before modelers side pond Have ever heard Peyret-Nessler Nicolas-Claude Gerard Club 45 Bourgeois Sen emaud Greisch-Thuet old favorites like Mauboussin Hemiptere Fauvel fly ing wing Bernard 201-T HM-21 Pou du Ciel youd like specimen work list plans including two Thirties series send three international reply coupons available US Post Offlee F Fillon 60 Rue du Bocage 83700 Saint Raphael France ordering plans please use Interna tional Money Order bank amount francs past hes orders two dollarsand winds up hole French banks charge $4 change dol lars francs price Thirties series 150 francs 20 plans franc usu ally worth neighborhood 20 cents have rough idea Postage extra st office should able tell what will take get 7 oz plans across France can add IMO will cost about $4 up adventure will cost about $45or around $225 per plan outrageous sounds considering rare high-quality material involved Happy hints department Writing MaxFax newsletter DC Maxecuters Pat Daily reports Stew Myers have using Teflon tubing knockoff applications small models Tubing 23 24 gauge roughed up outside CyAed hole struc ture forms female portion structural joint part sewing pin embedded strut-to-wing attachment whatever fits snugly can use thin CyA make fit snug Dont worry Teflon will re lease type attachment has double advan tage absorbing crash momentum break ing parts also allows easy separation transportation storage smaller boxes plastic insulation off small wire might work well also late Chuck Connors used use tiny neoprene tubing glued profile models nose bearings can get glue stick al anything roughen its surface first Want make great filler cracks uneven surfaces balsa parts use fine sanding dust handy-dandy little disc sander made old electric motor disc plywood having 60-grit garnet paper stuck face mixed about half-and-half tal cum powder add nitrate dope until obtain mixture having consistency somewhere tween honey January glaziers putty Ap 152 Model Aviation AIAhThe Zj NA OMVVO femous line hobby eawe Razor #200 universal #500 Replacement Blades available ai dealer FAl Model Supply U P0 Box 3957 Torrance CA 90610 14 Wingspan Paper Flying Scale Model Airplane $7 00 *ALL PARTS PRE-CUT & PRE-PAINTED 0411 *BUILD & FLY IN TWO HOURS R AIRPLANES 1521 MORNINGSIDE DRIVE BURBANK GA 91506 USA CATALOG 750 Contains lOOua paper airplanes postage stamp size 6 foot wing span Gliders rubber powered Die-cut youcut Largest known source paper airplanes world Cost catalog deducted 1st order over $2500 ASTOUNDING CataLo CORSAIR ppet aL4plane above $1050 pttsh $250 pohtage IPAVEYYSTEMS LucifER 075 HYPERIHRUSI motor fused switch harness propeller adaptor 8/ 4 fibreglass propeller LUCIFER has computeroptimized E-193 airfoil superb L/D tremendous speed range ideally suited fliers because its inherent stabilily enough flat-boffom wing floaters barely stagger up a___________________ couple hundred feet Build LUCIFER enjoy performance expect Big enough fly like sailplane should small enough repeatedly climb Pin-Head altitude baffery charge Pre-cut fuselage sides accurate die machine cut selected woods complete rolled plans hardware detailed instructions piece wing spruce spars strength simplicily building IIAVEY YSTEMS i oRPoRATIoN Special Combo Price 675 TOWER LANE WEST CUES TER PA 19380 215-430-8645 plied Popsicle stick craft stick hobby craft people call irRMcM smoothed out sands like dream dry adds little extra weight Hats off New Mexico Free Fliers have good old-fashioned approach running club including super newsletter active involvement Junior programs terested learning about what going part great Southweat get touch Ann Earl Eckerson spark plugs outfit 810 Baird Circle Aztec NM 87410 Great job FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 69 lb/cu ft pink stuff comes several weights FoamulaR 150 about 15 lb/cu ft FoamulaR 250 about 18 company has re cently introduced low-density foam FoamulaR LDA density 13 lb/cu ft under stand Styrofoam makes gray foam thats about 15 lb number European modelers combin ing foam glass cloth epoxy make molded wings Leo Reynders Belgium cuts Out wing blank foam uses waste pieces top bottom mold plywood web carbon fiber rovings soaked epoxy form spar Light fiberglass cloth laid out thin sheets polyester PVC film epoxy spread film put over bottom mold core added second layer film time epoxy-soaked glass cloth face downis put over core top form added whole mess vacuum-bagged pull mold down tight Squares balsa glued front edge help keep everything align ment see sketch Another popular European technique uses top bottom wing skins full-depth spar no ribs skin made thin typically 1mm Rohacell polyurethane foam top bottom skin covered light glass cloth epoxy would like try tech nique Rohacell available Aerospace Composite Products PO Box 16621 Irvine CA 92714 sell Rohacell 1 2 3mm thicknesses although dont list catalog Another increasingly popular construction tech nique FLC wings uses very thin hard alu minum skin over sheeted balsa wing Pioneered Russian Power flier 1987 World Champion Eugene Verbitski wings stiff smooth past getting hold 03mm aluminum has easy Some tales intrigue sound like something out spy novel midnight meetings whispered passwords dealings cashalways cash Lately aluminum has become more available although still definitely hobby shop item Basic construction involves cutting piece aluminum double-chord width epoxying top bottom balsa wing skins typically light /16 balsa adding ribs spar Finally top sheet bent back over ribs epoxied place Because dent ding shows up aluminum clean work shop must Also important cleaning aluminum using correct epoxy bond ing balsa aluminum New Orleans Power flier Doug Joyce re cently switched aluminum wing skins canard Lightning design uses three-step cleaning process First wipes aluminum al cohol lacquer thinner finally trichioroethylene careful stuffi vapors can harmful health Make sure work area well ventilatedand keep nose out vapor RMcM Doug uses paper towels makes pass liquid adhesive uses 3M 2216 gray structural ad hesive coats both aluminum balsa can find June 1986 issue Aeromo deller theres excellent article British Power flier Stafford Screen builds wings Ad ditionally 1988 NFFS Symposium editor Hermann Andersen has scheduled step-by-step photo story Sal Fruciano Randy Archers method aluminum wing construction Several other articles composite structures sched uled addition Archer article Check Fred Terzian NFFS Publications 4858 Moorpark Ave San Jose CA 95129 can order book much will cost Keeping track changes technol ogy sport Free Flight can quite chal lenge Part fun detective work necessary piece together bits informa tion something can use example Al exandre Andrujkovs fast-climbing Wakefield made quite stir last couple world championships certain details model found Three-views model have shown up several newsletters con struction details such things center gravity wing turbulators shown Also complicated variable-pitch prop hub detailed Finally found almost everything Rus sian general aviation magazine Kryl Ia Rodiny Wings Fatherland very detailed three-views reproduced Still missing September 1988 153 SIZED TO FLY
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/09
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 152, 153
NOW babys born what shall name letters sides wings Scale model can make break Purists would dream putting fictitious registration lot modelers dont enter con tests want have fun models ways American registrations pretty dull consist letters numbers Foreign registra- ings might go plane have free proper historical period tions however offer wide latitude making hand Well sort will probably want international code often consists pre statements letters some states limit yourself markings particular coun- fix special country three four letpeople pay have personalized license plates try French plane will probably feel comfort- ters following dash separates cars can have personalized model able French markings places prefix Some prefixes examples same wayand no cost French put markings can get might make up registration Actually three-views plans idea letter sizes styles positions look- follows available give clue what mark- ing photos other planes country France F-ARAD eleetric-powered N NS CIVILS FRANCAIS SERIE -SABLIER GS12 FAUY ELji -I~AY*10/ Iji "-/ / FARMAN 200201 {N,--SALMSON E M0INEAU MAUBOUSSIN PMXGREISCH THUET 9 MORANE SAULNIER 140 ROMANO R 30*82 POU flU dELHM 21 p OT LACOURHM 8 - MORANE SAULNIER 180*185\ LAS CLAUDEMAUBOUSSIN M 40 6miptreBOURGEOIS 7.\ ~PEYRETGERARD NESSLER 4 I~-74~ ALBERT TEd'~ewn n Emmanuel Fillons second series French Civil Aircraft 1930 era just out Peanut fanciers Bill Warner tells get list of Fillons plans order overseas months column 66 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 88 Flying Aces Club FAC Nats ended just before received issue Hems shot 86 FAC Nats Fernando Ramos adjusts compression screw diesel enginepowered Bucker Jungmeister before making another flight meet FF Scale extrava ganza shouldnt miss sure make 90 Jack McCracken launches Jumbo ber Scale Turbo Ag-Cat test flight 1987 Flightmasters Annual Dick Howard Lake Havasu AZ launches KI-83 rubber-powered twin its oneminute jaunts around field full-scale plane registra tion number Walt Mooney just pulling leg youre sure plane building marked get bit creative Bill has long explanation column Poland Italy Germany Denmark Czecho slovakia Sweden Nether lands Chile Finland Great Brit ain model SP-LAT poor fliers I-CANT also poor fliers D-UMBO planes large wings GY-VAY what model OK-DOKY flyable model SE-ITGO watch PH-ONY made up CC-RYDR folk music fans OH-LOOK what G NOME rotary-engined Carlo Godel 1 Mac McJunkin subject Fernando Ramos Inland Sport Gas Scale ship some critical static judging Model built Flyline Models kit Heres some Sec what can yourself Belgium Australia Brazil Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Rep Gabon Japan Lebanon Liberia 00 VH PP TI CU HI TR JA OD EL Nicaragua Peru China Romania Spain Sudan Switzerland Tunisia Yugoslavia OB B YR EC ST HB TS YU can hear screams serious Scale fra ternity way out Well think tend take ourselves bit too seriously sometimes figure some judges contest always looking something wrong give em something Mickey Mouse watch face instrument panel better nothing less sure what went mainly flying fun anyway Please dont take mean should no serious Scale models As person re searched certain Bleriot over 20 years before building can tell quest historical exactitude rewarding itself Continued page 152 Peanut Scale has raised fine art Czechoslovakia attested modeler Alferys HE-70 made one-mm vacu formed polystyrene sheet foam makes flights 100 seconds Koutny photo Von Whitlocks Clerget Peanut really brings feel pioneer days Its little trophy-getter too Want build Plan available Peck-Polymers Maybe its loneliness Far North inspires Canadian Dick Allen mad ness amuses us What next September 1988 67 Junior Dallas Calley fine Aeronca K floatplane Comet kit Dallas family just joined Southern California model scene Detroit Ml Fifteen-year-old Ivan Simonek made nice-flying Guilleband tandem-wing Pista chio Lubomir Koutnys plan Model flies well French prototype didnt cause engine troubles Koutny photo Jane Schlosberg Scottsdale AZ made Fike E Peanut Micro-X kit Shed bet ter watch out outdoor flightsits thermal-happy plane Loren Williams used playing card material make fine cylinder fins rubberpowered Jumbo Scale model Note gap between fins about twice thickness fin material Dummy engine replicates Continental 65 L2B Taylorcraft Hungary HA-DIT old model * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse $250 Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine $250 Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 PkI2 Inserts Coarse $220 Cat No 204 Pk/2 Inserts Fine $220 FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 tion publicized word-of-mouth Fed eration ROG drew sizable entry 12 fliers representing six states Vito Gagliano top scorer achieving both best two-flight total 909 Tom laco belli best team score 1735 New York Federation ROG seems show po tential developing first-class fi nesse event Following heels hard-driving World Championships US Indoor Championships much lowkeyed contestbut definitely wasnt re cess 20 official events plus several off record 35 entrants saw lots action competition brisk FF Scale/Warner Continued page 67 lack anything scrufl little spotters three-view next little Peanut register Belgian see what imagination can come up making letters heres little help September 1950 issue Modele Magazine France height letters should % wing chord % fuse lage height measured narrowest part width letters should 21 height thickness should 1/6 height spacing between letters should /2 width letter dash should width letter Use contrasting color Emmanuel Fillon remark able modelers have ever met Although re tired south France has undertaken tasks would have frightened off mod elers long ago has modeled rubber-powered fan jets geared Helicopters tyrofoam Scale models built solar-powered models me hes done Once jokingly asked him ever tried RC Well yes ad mitted hastened add de own radio competition won 1937 Wakefield Championship still bringing home trophies Scale models Let us just say fantastic modeler series French civil monoplanes Thirties likely definitive set plans era series con sists two plans sets 20 Peanut plans nothing short fantastic second series just out contains names never heard before modelers side pond Have ever heard Peyret-Nessler Nicolas-Claude Gerard Club 45 Bourgeois Sen emaud Greisch-Thuet old favorites like Mauboussin Hemiptere Fauvel fly ing wing Bernard 201-T HM-21 Pou du Ciel youd like specimen work list plans including two Thirties series send three international reply coupons available US Post Offlee F Fillon 60 Rue du Bocage 83700 Saint Raphael France ordering plans please use Interna tional Money Order bank amount francs past hes orders two dollarsand winds up hole French banks charge $4 change dol lars francs price Thirties series 150 francs 20 plans franc usu ally worth neighborhood 20 cents have rough idea Postage extra st office should able tell what will take get 7 oz plans across France can add IMO will cost about $4 up adventure will cost about $45or around $225 per plan outrageous sounds considering rare high-quality material involved Happy hints department Writing MaxFax newsletter DC Maxecuters Pat Daily reports Stew Myers have using Teflon tubing knockoff applications small models Tubing 23 24 gauge roughed up outside CyAed hole struc ture forms female portion structural joint part sewing pin embedded strut-to-wing attachment whatever fits snugly can use thin CyA make fit snug Dont worry Teflon will re lease type attachment has double advan tage absorbing crash momentum break ing parts also allows easy separation transportation storage smaller boxes plastic insulation off small wire might work well also late Chuck Connors used use tiny neoprene tubing glued profile models nose bearings can get glue stick al anything roughen its surface first Want make great filler cracks uneven surfaces balsa parts use fine sanding dust handy-dandy little disc sander made old electric motor disc plywood having 60-grit garnet paper stuck face mixed about half-and-half tal cum powder add nitrate dope until obtain mixture having consistency somewhere tween honey January glaziers putty Ap 152 Model Aviation AIAhThe Zj NA OMVVO femous line hobby eawe Razor #200 universal #500 Replacement Blades available ai dealer FAl Model Supply U P0 Box 3957 Torrance CA 90610 14 Wingspan Paper Flying Scale Model Airplane $7 00 *ALL PARTS PRE-CUT & PRE-PAINTED 0411 *BUILD & FLY IN TWO HOURS R AIRPLANES 1521 MORNINGSIDE DRIVE BURBANK GA 91506 USA CATALOG 750 Contains lOOua paper airplanes postage stamp size 6 foot wing span Gliders rubber powered Die-cut youcut Largest known source paper airplanes world Cost catalog deducted 1st order over $2500 ASTOUNDING CataLo CORSAIR ppet aL4plane above $1050 pttsh $250 pohtage IPAVEYYSTEMS LucifER 075 HYPERIHRUSI motor fused switch harness propeller adaptor 8/ 4 fibreglass propeller LUCIFER has computeroptimized E-193 airfoil superb L/D tremendous speed range ideally suited fliers because its inherent stabilily enough flat-boffom wing floaters barely stagger up a___________________ couple hundred feet Build LUCIFER enjoy performance expect Big enough fly like sailplane should small enough repeatedly climb Pin-Head altitude baffery charge Pre-cut fuselage sides accurate die machine cut selected woods complete rolled plans hardware detailed instructions piece wing spruce spars strength simplicily building IIAVEY YSTEMS i oRPoRATIoN Special Combo Price 675 TOWER LANE WEST CUES TER PA 19380 215-430-8645 plied Popsicle stick craft stick hobby craft people call irRMcM smoothed out sands like dream dry adds little extra weight Hats off New Mexico Free Fliers have good old-fashioned approach running club including super newsletter active involvement Junior programs terested learning about what going part great Southweat get touch Ann Earl Eckerson spark plugs outfit 810 Baird Circle Aztec NM 87410 Great job FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 69 lb/cu ft pink stuff comes several weights FoamulaR 150 about 15 lb/cu ft FoamulaR 250 about 18 company has re cently introduced low-density foam FoamulaR LDA density 13 lb/cu ft under stand Styrofoam makes gray foam thats about 15 lb number European modelers combin ing foam glass cloth epoxy make molded wings Leo Reynders Belgium cuts Out wing blank foam uses waste pieces top bottom mold plywood web carbon fiber rovings soaked epoxy form spar Light fiberglass cloth laid out thin sheets polyester PVC film epoxy spread film put over bottom mold core added second layer film time epoxy-soaked glass cloth face downis put over core top form added whole mess vacuum-bagged pull mold down tight Squares balsa glued front edge help keep everything align ment see sketch Another popular European technique uses top bottom wing skins full-depth spar no ribs skin made thin typically 1mm Rohacell polyurethane foam top bottom skin covered light glass cloth epoxy would like try tech nique Rohacell available Aerospace Composite Products PO Box 16621 Irvine CA 92714 sell Rohacell 1 2 3mm thicknesses although dont list catalog Another increasingly popular construction tech nique FLC wings uses very thin hard alu minum skin over sheeted balsa wing Pioneered Russian Power flier 1987 World Champion Eugene Verbitski wings stiff smooth past getting hold 03mm aluminum has easy Some tales intrigue sound like something out spy novel midnight meetings whispered passwords dealings cashalways cash Lately aluminum has become more available although still definitely hobby shop item Basic construction involves cutting piece aluminum double-chord width epoxying top bottom balsa wing skins typically light /16 balsa adding ribs spar Finally top sheet bent back over ribs epoxied place Because dent ding shows up aluminum clean work shop must Also important cleaning aluminum using correct epoxy bond ing balsa aluminum New Orleans Power flier Doug Joyce re cently switched aluminum wing skins canard Lightning design uses three-step cleaning process First wipes aluminum al cohol lacquer thinner finally trichioroethylene careful stuffi vapors can harmful health Make sure work area well ventilatedand keep nose out vapor RMcM Doug uses paper towels makes pass liquid adhesive uses 3M 2216 gray structural ad hesive coats both aluminum balsa can find June 1986 issue Aeromo deller theres excellent article British Power flier Stafford Screen builds wings Ad ditionally 1988 NFFS Symposium editor Hermann Andersen has scheduled step-by-step photo story Sal Fruciano Randy Archers method aluminum wing construction Several other articles composite structures sched uled addition Archer article Check Fred Terzian NFFS Publications 4858 Moorpark Ave San Jose CA 95129 can order book much will cost Keeping track changes technol ogy sport Free Flight can quite chal lenge Part fun detective work necessary piece together bits informa tion something can use example Al exandre Andrujkovs fast-climbing Wakefield made quite stir last couple world championships certain details model found Three-views model have shown up several newsletters con struction details such things center gravity wing turbulators shown Also complicated variable-pitch prop hub detailed Finally found almost everything Rus sian general aviation magazine Kryl Ia Rodiny Wings Fatherland very detailed three-views reproduced Still missing September 1988 153 SIZED TO FLY
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/09
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 152, 153
NOW babys born what shall name letters sides wings Scale model can make break Purists would dream putting fictitious registration lot modelers dont enter con tests want have fun models ways American registrations pretty dull consist letters numbers Foreign registra- ings might go plane have free proper historical period tions however offer wide latitude making hand Well sort will probably want international code often consists pre statements letters some states limit yourself markings particular coun- fix special country three four letpeople pay have personalized license plates try French plane will probably feel comfort- ters following dash separates cars can have personalized model able French markings places prefix Some prefixes examples same wayand no cost French put markings can get might make up registration Actually three-views plans idea letter sizes styles positions look- follows available give clue what mark- ing photos other planes country France F-ARAD eleetric-powered N NS CIVILS FRANCAIS SERIE -SABLIER GS12 FAUY ELji -I~AY*10/ Iji "-/ / FARMAN 200201 {N,--SALMSON E M0INEAU MAUBOUSSIN PMXGREISCH THUET 9 MORANE SAULNIER 140 ROMANO R 30*82 POU flU dELHM 21 p OT LACOURHM 8 - MORANE SAULNIER 180*185\ LAS CLAUDEMAUBOUSSIN M 40 6miptreBOURGEOIS 7.\ ~PEYRETGERARD NESSLER 4 I~-74~ ALBERT TEd'~ewn n Emmanuel Fillons second series French Civil Aircraft 1930 era just out Peanut fanciers Bill Warner tells get list of Fillons plans order overseas months column 66 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 423-C San Vicente Blvd Santa Monica CA 90402 88 Flying Aces Club FAC Nats ended just before received issue Hems shot 86 FAC Nats Fernando Ramos adjusts compression screw diesel enginepowered Bucker Jungmeister before making another flight meet FF Scale extrava ganza shouldnt miss sure make 90 Jack McCracken launches Jumbo ber Scale Turbo Ag-Cat test flight 1987 Flightmasters Annual Dick Howard Lake Havasu AZ launches KI-83 rubber-powered twin its oneminute jaunts around field full-scale plane registra tion number Walt Mooney just pulling leg youre sure plane building marked get bit creative Bill has long explanation column Poland Italy Germany Denmark Czecho slovakia Sweden Nether lands Chile Finland Great Brit ain model SP-LAT poor fliers I-CANT also poor fliers D-UMBO planes large wings GY-VAY what model OK-DOKY flyable model SE-ITGO watch PH-ONY made up CC-RYDR folk music fans OH-LOOK what G NOME rotary-engined Carlo Godel 1 Mac McJunkin subject Fernando Ramos Inland Sport Gas Scale ship some critical static judging Model built Flyline Models kit Heres some Sec what can yourself Belgium Australia Brazil Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Rep Gabon Japan Lebanon Liberia 00 VH PP TI CU HI TR JA OD EL Nicaragua Peru China Romania Spain Sudan Switzerland Tunisia Yugoslavia OB B YR EC ST HB TS YU can hear screams serious Scale fra ternity way out Well think tend take ourselves bit too seriously sometimes figure some judges contest always looking something wrong give em something Mickey Mouse watch face instrument panel better nothing less sure what went mainly flying fun anyway Please dont take mean should no serious Scale models As person re searched certain Bleriot over 20 years before building can tell quest historical exactitude rewarding itself Continued page 152 Peanut Scale has raised fine art Czechoslovakia attested modeler Alferys HE-70 made one-mm vacu formed polystyrene sheet foam makes flights 100 seconds Koutny photo Von Whitlocks Clerget Peanut really brings feel pioneer days Its little trophy-getter too Want build Plan available Peck-Polymers Maybe its loneliness Far North inspires Canadian Dick Allen mad ness amuses us What next September 1988 67 Junior Dallas Calley fine Aeronca K floatplane Comet kit Dallas family just joined Southern California model scene Detroit Ml Fifteen-year-old Ivan Simonek made nice-flying Guilleband tandem-wing Pista chio Lubomir Koutnys plan Model flies well French prototype didnt cause engine troubles Koutny photo Jane Schlosberg Scottsdale AZ made Fike E Peanut Micro-X kit Shed bet ter watch out outdoor flightsits thermal-happy plane Loren Williams used playing card material make fine cylinder fins rubberpowered Jumbo Scale model Note gap between fins about twice thickness fin material Dummy engine replicates Continental 65 L2B Taylorcraft Hungary HA-DIT old model * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse $250 Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine $250 Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 PkI2 Inserts Coarse $220 Cat No 204 Pk/2 Inserts Fine $220 FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 tion publicized word-of-mouth Fed eration ROG drew sizable entry 12 fliers representing six states Vito Gagliano top scorer achieving both best two-flight total 909 Tom laco belli best team score 1735 New York Federation ROG seems show po tential developing first-class fi nesse event Following heels hard-driving World Championships US Indoor Championships much lowkeyed contestbut definitely wasnt re cess 20 official events plus several off record 35 entrants saw lots action competition brisk FF Scale/Warner Continued page 67 lack anything scrufl little spotters three-view next little Peanut register Belgian see what imagination can come up making letters heres little help September 1950 issue Modele Magazine France height letters should % wing chord % fuse lage height measured narrowest part width letters should 21 height thickness should 1/6 height spacing between letters should /2 width letter dash should width letter Use contrasting color Emmanuel Fillon remark able modelers have ever met Although re tired south France has undertaken tasks would have frightened off mod elers long ago has modeled rubber-powered fan jets geared Helicopters tyrofoam Scale models built solar-powered models me hes done Once jokingly asked him ever tried RC Well yes ad mitted hastened add de own radio competition won 1937 Wakefield Championship still bringing home trophies Scale models Let us just say fantastic modeler series French civil monoplanes Thirties likely definitive set plans era series con sists two plans sets 20 Peanut plans nothing short fantastic second series just out contains names never heard before modelers side pond Have ever heard Peyret-Nessler Nicolas-Claude Gerard Club 45 Bourgeois Sen emaud Greisch-Thuet old favorites like Mauboussin Hemiptere Fauvel fly ing wing Bernard 201-T HM-21 Pou du Ciel youd like specimen work list plans including two Thirties series send three international reply coupons available US Post Offlee F Fillon 60 Rue du Bocage 83700 Saint Raphael France ordering plans please use Interna tional Money Order bank amount francs past hes orders two dollarsand winds up hole French banks charge $4 change dol lars francs price Thirties series 150 francs 20 plans franc usu ally worth neighborhood 20 cents have rough idea Postage extra st office should able tell what will take get 7 oz plans across France can add IMO will cost about $4 up adventure will cost about $45or around $225 per plan outrageous sounds considering rare high-quality material involved Happy hints department Writing MaxFax newsletter DC Maxecuters Pat Daily reports Stew Myers have using Teflon tubing knockoff applications small models Tubing 23 24 gauge roughed up outside CyAed hole struc ture forms female portion structural joint part sewing pin embedded strut-to-wing attachment whatever fits snugly can use thin CyA make fit snug Dont worry Teflon will re lease type attachment has double advan tage absorbing crash momentum break ing parts also allows easy separation transportation storage smaller boxes plastic insulation off small wire might work well also late Chuck Connors used use tiny neoprene tubing glued profile models nose bearings can get glue stick al anything roughen its surface first Want make great filler cracks uneven surfaces balsa parts use fine sanding dust handy-dandy little disc sander made old electric motor disc plywood having 60-grit garnet paper stuck face mixed about half-and-half tal cum powder add nitrate dope until obtain mixture having consistency somewhere tween honey January glaziers putty Ap 152 Model Aviation AIAhThe Zj NA OMVVO femous line hobby eawe Razor #200 universal #500 Replacement Blades available ai dealer FAl Model Supply U P0 Box 3957 Torrance CA 90610 14 Wingspan Paper Flying Scale Model Airplane $7 00 *ALL PARTS PRE-CUT & PRE-PAINTED 0411 *BUILD & FLY IN TWO HOURS R AIRPLANES 1521 MORNINGSIDE DRIVE BURBANK GA 91506 USA CATALOG 750 Contains lOOua paper airplanes postage stamp size 6 foot wing span Gliders rubber powered Die-cut youcut Largest known source paper airplanes world Cost catalog deducted 1st order over $2500 ASTOUNDING CataLo CORSAIR ppet aL4plane above $1050 pttsh $250 pohtage IPAVEYYSTEMS LucifER 075 HYPERIHRUSI motor fused switch harness propeller adaptor 8/ 4 fibreglass propeller LUCIFER has computeroptimized E-193 airfoil superb L/D tremendous speed range ideally suited fliers because its inherent stabilily enough flat-boffom wing floaters barely stagger up a___________________ couple hundred feet Build LUCIFER enjoy performance expect Big enough fly like sailplane should small enough repeatedly climb Pin-Head altitude baffery charge Pre-cut fuselage sides accurate die machine cut selected woods complete rolled plans hardware detailed instructions piece wing spruce spars strength simplicily building IIAVEY YSTEMS i oRPoRATIoN Special Combo Price 675 TOWER LANE WEST CUES TER PA 19380 215-430-8645 plied Popsicle stick craft stick hobby craft people call irRMcM smoothed out sands like dream dry adds little extra weight Hats off New Mexico Free Fliers have good old-fashioned approach running club including super newsletter active involvement Junior programs terested learning about what going part great Southweat get touch Ann Earl Eckerson spark plugs outfit 810 Baird Circle Aztec NM 87410 Great job FF Duration/Joyner Continued page 69 lb/cu ft pink stuff comes several weights FoamulaR 150 about 15 lb/cu ft FoamulaR 250 about 18 company has re cently introduced low-density foam FoamulaR LDA density 13 lb/cu ft under stand Styrofoam makes gray foam thats about 15 lb number European modelers combin ing foam glass cloth epoxy make molded wings Leo Reynders Belgium cuts Out wing blank foam uses waste pieces top bottom mold plywood web carbon fiber rovings soaked epoxy form spar Light fiberglass cloth laid out thin sheets polyester PVC film epoxy spread film put over bottom mold core added second layer film time epoxy-soaked glass cloth face downis put over core top form added whole mess vacuum-bagged pull mold down tight Squares balsa glued front edge help keep everything align ment see sketch Another popular European technique uses top bottom wing skins full-depth spar no ribs skin made thin typically 1mm Rohacell polyurethane foam top bottom skin covered light glass cloth epoxy would like try tech nique Rohacell available Aerospace Composite Products PO Box 16621 Irvine CA 92714 sell Rohacell 1 2 3mm thicknesses although dont list catalog Another increasingly popular construction tech nique FLC wings uses very thin hard alu minum skin over sheeted balsa wing Pioneered Russian Power flier 1987 World Champion Eugene Verbitski wings stiff smooth past getting hold 03mm aluminum has easy Some tales intrigue sound like something out spy novel midnight meetings whispered passwords dealings cashalways cash Lately aluminum has become more available although still definitely hobby shop item Basic construction involves cutting piece aluminum double-chord width epoxying top bottom balsa wing skins typically light /16 balsa adding ribs spar Finally top sheet bent back over ribs epoxied place Because dent ding shows up aluminum clean work shop must Also important cleaning aluminum using correct epoxy bond ing balsa aluminum New Orleans Power flier Doug Joyce re cently switched aluminum wing skins canard Lightning design uses three-step cleaning process First wipes aluminum al cohol lacquer thinner finally trichioroethylene careful stuffi vapors can harmful health Make sure work area well ventilatedand keep nose out vapor RMcM Doug uses paper towels makes pass liquid adhesive uses 3M 2216 gray structural ad hesive coats both aluminum balsa can find June 1986 issue Aeromo deller theres excellent article British Power flier Stafford Screen builds wings Ad ditionally 1988 NFFS Symposium editor Hermann Andersen has scheduled step-by-step photo story Sal Fruciano Randy Archers method aluminum wing construction Several other articles composite structures sched uled addition Archer article Check Fred Terzian NFFS Publications 4858 Moorpark Ave San Jose CA 95129 can order book much will cost Keeping track changes technol ogy sport Free Flight can quite chal lenge Part fun detective work necessary piece together bits informa tion something can use example Al exandre Andrujkovs fast-climbing Wakefield made quite stir last couple world championships certain details model found Three-views model have shown up several newsletters con struction details such things center gravity wing turbulators shown Also complicated variable-pitch prop hub detailed Finally found almost everything Rus sian general aviation magazine Kryl Ia Rodiny Wings Fatherland very detailed three-views reproduced Still missing September 1988 153 SIZED TO FLY