Free Flight: Sport & Scale

EARL STAHLs lost Thunderbolt plan What Tom Yanoskys Herndon VA superb Curtiss Heildiver built Cleveland plans could exciting finding another plan thse too nice fly flying Scale models belongs museum Tom built the great Earl Stahl completely unknown same model Cleveland kit back Thirties Scale Yanosky plc unpublished Wow Anyone has around Free Flight Scale very long has made Stahl Rearwin Speedster Waco E Gracing pages magazines back before todays modelers born Earls classic models Millard Wells condo Peanuts just thing modelers like bring model ever built meet Hes got quite variety Photo Frank Scott good demanded built turned out thousands de signed fly did Can imagine thrill experienced saw Stahl drawing did know ex isted February issue Scale Staffel newsletter out San Diego ran 80% reduc tion what obviously Stahl P-47 Thunderbolt early razorback vintage Tom Arnold Staffels sharp-eyed dedicated editor gleaned gem Okie Free Flight Flyer edited Bill Baker Now youve got know newsletter edi tors steal other time find something worth sharing Problem was issue Flyer US Post Allan Schanzles beautiful Gee Bee D Sportster L DC Maxecuters Coconut Scale event Tom Schmitt photo Mike Zand Cleveland FF Society both built photographed rubber-power Bellanca Racer R took 1st FAC Scale Cleveland Model Plane Show 62 Model Aviation Free Flight Sport & Scale Bill Warner 423-C San Vkente Ulvd Santa Monica CA 90402 Curtiss flying boat Walt Eggert powered Hi-Line electric motor took first place Indoor Power Scale NATC Patuxent River meet March 1989 Photo Tom Schmitt Office managed mutilate fine new processing machines destroyed pages admitted Stahl plan re ality April Fools hoax being perpetrated Baker plans author Mik Mikkelson April last year So Tom sheer accident published real thing April Lots guys got taken first time Mik visited SAM 35 England found lot guys flying Stahl Jug bit miffed find out what supposed Im sure plenty American readers including yours truly got taken also Tom red-faced repentant nounced duped Mikkel son/Baker/PO axis latest Staffel nl good laugh about ourselves Haw-w-w-w-w Stahl fan certainly wont want pass up getting famous Earl Stahl April Fools P-47 flies too . just ask British buddies Send three bucks Miks Models PO Box 1373 Hollywood CA 90078 24-in winner Just case youd like get other Stahl plans real onesI suggest try John Ponds Old Time Plan Service John has literally thousands Rubber Gas Scale plans Good Old Days including Stahls plans no less 12 different Rubber Scale Thunderbolts catalog Scale two parts hell send both $3 Send PO Box 90310 San Jose CA 95109-3310 Stop nowbefore add details response column discussing models started out flying Scale projects ended up exhibit projects April 1989 quite interesting impression get modelers really get involved beauty model working just cant force themselves leave off superscale stuff So wind up model either too heavy try out too much work risk Are thinking joining lo cal chapter Superscalers Anonymous Youll have lot company Restored 1946 Plane Takes Off Without Pi lot Sackets Harbor NY APA vintage 1946 single-engine airplane took off itself private airstrip spiraled air appar ently crashed about 10 miles away very neatly circling up up said Douglas Youngs Lorraine planes owner 2 1Iroc 3/32 301 TIPSP2003 VIEW 4 00*1 CL*AWT LAs,*Or2115. 10 0150Ir%. COLIULO 0441C00 0 5511 -000L134fl 1 %J [I[ 040031 / ns-CIT WHEEL Coven April FoolI Heres notorious fake Earl Stahl P-47 plan Bill tells us month last saw appeared 3000 ft headed northeast Youngs lost two-seat Aeronca spent four years rebuilding preparing take off 600 pm Monday small air strip near Sackets Harbor above Free Flight story comes lat est issue Crosswinds journal Cleve land Free Flight Society just goes show full-sized airplanes can fly pilotssomething Free Flight Scale nuts have Continued page 144 August 1989 63 0-Mark 03 glow enngine has throttle allows fine speed adjustments scalelike flight Throttle adapts Dart 036 diesel too Another photo little jewel also ap peared Warners June 1989 column Paul Straniks Avia Peanut does over 60 sec Indoor meets Czechoslovakia Koutny plc Parnall Pixies done both long shsort wings Britains 1923 Lympne Trials Al Backstrom Little Elm TX modeled em both short-winged version making nice Peanut has longer 21-in wings nice subject Rubber Photo Backstrom THERMAL CHARGER what looking electric sailplane good looks easy build fun fly great performance Thermal Charger Wing Span Wing Area Motor Included 60 Inches 545 Sq Inches Leisure 05 Electric %fl PRECISION PRODUCTS INC 714 592-5144 510 E Arrow Highway San Dimas CA 91773 speed RC fliers could handle clocked OS 25 VF-DF-powered planes 109 mph using police radar system hack 1987 did succeed reducing costs speeds 1988 seasonairspeeds now being 85-mph range some rea son however didnt attract newcomers lost some old-timers 25 different people fly least eight races 1987 fell off 17 people eight races 1988 average number pilots attending race also fell 136 pilots/race 87 106 pilots/race 88 Seems like harder try get people volved Racing scare off Anyway top five racers 1988 Rac ing season 1 Mike Spencer98 pt 2 Jack Lang79 pt 3 Barney Moats7 pt 4 Dave Ellis68 pt 5 Dave Edwards67 pt 1989 Q-25 Racing season will start April rules will same 1988 Quite few new people three clubs prom ise will Out Racing year few others other area clubs showing some terest also plan hold AMA-sanctioned Q500 race QSPRA race Hillbillies field year addition eight Q-25 races So should have busy schedule year As far have able determine races organized Racing state West Virginia have tried Q500 hA Rac ing years past much success Q-25 races lot fun fast enough interestingtimes averaging about 145 Quarter Midget short course opinion Q-25 true entry-level racing event Q500 planes ing far too fast average RC pilot want see clubs race report column send along some pictures See next month FF Scale/Warner Continued page 63 championing along Wideband frequencies narrow-band frequen cies getting dizzy going around circles tak ing second mortgage house keep up hobby phenomena unknown Free Flighters Still want practice fullsize aircraft expect suffer occasional losses West Coast FF Scale summer Im sure well aware AMA Nats FF Scale events coming soon July 15-23 Washingtons Tn-Cities area aware second annual No-Doe Scale meet fair state August 26-27 No-Doe means 00 documentation means fun-fly Some Scale modelers get hung-up idea have win have good time dont enjoy themselves much Contact Ric Ditt man 6001 219th SW Apt 115 Mountlake Terr WA 98043 details up-andcoming event Down Orange County part Los An geles Flightmasters all-Scale club since late Forties changing its annual FF Scale meet August 12-13 year going Fly ing Aces events first time event planned off years Eastern Flying Aces Nats calendar Information available Fernando Ramos 19361 Mesa Villa CA 92667 Experimenters corner Eric Clutton 913 Ce dar Ln Tullahoma TN 37388 man talk about adding throttle DC Dart 036 diesel has 03 G-Mark engine throttles will fit Throttles can used scale down models speed great accuracy can adapted two-speed flight have using clockwork-timer-operated speed control cam PAW 19 diesel some time adds greatly realism can take off full chat automatically throttle back idle cruise power-on landing Try down San Diego way come stories two planes chasing other over place re cent weeks Walt Mooney 01 Perfesser has puttering around pair ROGs joined wing tips secret coupling sans ver tical stabilizers take off helicoptertype flight following other sort dog fight Walt says hes going try Spitfire FW 190 next Sounds like fun ness paw Covering/doping/etc January 1989 issue NFFS Free Flight Digest Ed Lidgard sug gests try applying dope dry-coveredwith-silk wing using toilet paper Some brands TP too weak some absorbent enough take care experimenting best model cuts i/2in strip grain long way makes puddle 60% nitrate dope/40% thinner mix first inch dragged spanwise across wing Feed wet tissue puddle half-inch brush slowing down puddle gets small er Unwanted drops dope silk tend go immediately inside know can picked up laying applicator-strip over sucks up perfectly PRODUCTS Complete Line Exhaust Systems * Tuned Pipes led Tuned Pipes * Headers uri Mufflers * Expansion Mufflers copter Ball Mufflers ialized Exhaust Systems Unsurpassed Workmanshlo & Performance 144 Model Aviation DUAL STRUT UIPMI DI ATPfl UflWF AR ARC AIRCRAFT4O-65 SIZE flAERSHARK ki jODjL SHARKS GET TO THE FIELD GUICK — WRITE OR CALL FOR FREE CATALOG OR TO PLACE ORDER KINGSWAY ENTERPRISES lSOO6217783 R/C AIRCRAFT AND HOBBY SUPPLY STORE 4901 RICHMOND*200 HOUSTON TX 77027 TS TRAINER & ST SHOULDER WING.. $8495 LT LOW WING SPORT AEROBATIC... $9195 $500 HANDLINGSHIPPINGADOE1/s% TAX IN TX MCVISAAMXPMO UPS COD $3OO SHARKS ARE ALMOST READY TO COSER2OUALITY BUILT R/C AIRCRAFT FLYER DESCRIBEDTOUGH As NAILS A1L BALSA PARTS ARE MACHINE CUT & HAND SANDED TO EXACT SIZE AND FIT FUSALAGE IS JIG BUILT S HAND SANDED WINDS ARE RALSA SHEATED 1 LB FOAM CORE ONLY FINAL ASSEMBLY S COVERING TO INDIVIDUAL TASTE IS NESSARY TO COMPLETE THE SHARKS SHARKS COME AS RD IN SPAN SHOULDER WIND TRAINER SD IN SPAN SHOULDER WINO INTERMEDIATE AEROBATIC S LOW WING SPORT AEROBATIC 45 TO 65 SIZE B/C AIRCRAFT RD IN SPAN FIBERGLASS COWL INCLUDED Agr c, Fults Tooling Ed says method will fill 80% pores first go- round rest can taken care -in strip TP soft brush also suggests use good thin ner go over 40% dope Wrinkles covering can removed softening dope acetone thinner lifting softened doped silk edges stretch ing tweezers just use fingers Ed knows great deal about covering now someone will send new technique dyeing tissue Dye has nice advantage adding measurable weight has same disadvantage using transparent tissue two layers usually show up darker overlaps occur either con struction repairs Some colors tractable others experience have found condenser tissue can colored yellow Marks-a-Lot wide-tip permanent marker pen overlap marks flowing together being hardly notice able Red blue seem well Other modelers like Bob Meuser Dave Smith Dick Howard have tried using permanent marker pen dye opening pen up soaking wiek lacquer thinner dope thinner spray resulting mixture either tissue its still shrinking frame model Dick used restore color fading blue-tissued model after re moving markings good results blue Dye also available spray cans art stores though fairly expensive always reliable last can out pressure after couple months As spraying paint careful get runs vertical surfaces laying too heavily have great way dye tissue let us know have used Dr Martins dye alcohol some time find works very well Well gang have great summer flying keep mind God intended us use fancy little wrenches remove glow heads would have given us pliers FF Duration/Murphy Continued page 65 weight 70 grams 40 grams airframe about 28 grams power plant 3 Commer cially available plastic prop 4 Motorany sys tem employing Mabuchi rectangular-frame mo tor 5 Batteriestwo three 100-mAh cells Some experimentation may required deter optimum number cells prefers 100-mAb limit due low cost Russ concludes saying Free Flight has always hobby experimenter re winding motors easy enjoyable optimum wind being readily debated Theyre great fun Scale sport models too want information about Russ E-30 thoughts can reach him 215 E Montelaire Ave Milwaukee WI 53217 Hatch latch remember instructions plans some vintage Rubber Gas models hatch cowling held dress snaps Man never did get work get male female halves line up couldnt see what doing always big mystery cements good days either did accomplish trick some semblance acceptable alignment snap feature often stronger either glue joints So after waiting 24 hours glue dry joint would fail anyway Aggravating say least once saw dress-snap-retained cowling pop loose friends Gas model failure caused vibration engine before could shut off prop caught cowling made instant kindling out hours tedious work Although notorious snitching pins scissors mothers sewing box dress snap supply usually pretty safe Well put cowlings competition models much other FAI Power Scale course can really fin ish off some Old-Timers Nostalgia Gas jobs very nicely Access hatches commonplace blind hatch retention device/devices hidden exterior model much neater snag proof Personally use simple three-hook-and-a rubberband method retain battery box hatches Old-Timers caught interesting op tion Gene Stubs Bat Sheet newsletter last month Gene utilizes nylon wire ties readily available electronics shops like Radio Shack etc single strap serrated nylon molded-in ratchet mecha nism end use simply lop off ratchet end cement inside fuse lage edge hatch opening Bend right-angle strip serrated end ce ment inside hatch itself ser rations facing away hatch aligned match properly ratchet head attached fuselage have previous experience wire straps know hang Modeling Accessories MAStER AIRSCRIW5 Precision stripwood easy Balsa Strip per Strips up 1/2 wide 1/4 thick can cut quickly accurately sheet stock vernier wheel advances 1/32 precise adjust ment stripper uses std type 11 hobby blade $495 suggested retail Razor Plane Master Are w Plane uses heavy-duty industrial blade held place two locating screws allowing 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