NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS 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Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
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NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/09
Page Numbers: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 106
NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/09
Page Numbers: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 106
NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/09
Page Numbers: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 106
NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/09
Page Numbers: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 106
NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS 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Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
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NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/09
Page Numbers: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 106
NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/09
Page Numbers: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 106
NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/09
Page Numbers: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 106
NO OCR TEXT VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM IT WAS glamorous time long colorful history aviation began mushrooming excitement followed Lindberghs electrilring flight across Atlantic first phase ended literally Second World War exploding across Europe Cleveland National Air Races symbol purity flight airplanes meant speed expense sensible practical men women willing risk everything wild lunge brass ring grabbed legends missed cost progress Labor Day weekend 1979 remember will gather Lakefront Airport Cleveland Ohio celebrate went before talk will GeeBees Wedell-Willianis Lairds Folk erts Howards Doolittle Turner Chester Haizlip Cochran man holds place story right out Hollywood fiction began ended crash Nazi tanks across Poland started up again after war era ended began third time. hes spirit 1931 lives again Bill Turners oration GeeBee Z far roar ing crowds yesteryeer flies less quietly over California countryside still cockpit racer created bare hands brilliant mind legendary Steve Wittman dean worlds motor racers Cleveland Air Races career began stock Pheasant biplane progressed through pre-war Chief Oshkosh Bonzo modi fied Bell Kingoobra long-lived Boazo midget racer finally newest Fonnula Vee 50th anniversary Cleveland Races will also 50th anniversary Steves racing Cleveland Witt lot others memories will vivid brave men fast airplanes waving flags cheering crowds course twisted wreck age plumes black smoke wasnt fun games wasnt checkered flags glistening trophies garlands flowers also sadness tears other kinds flowers failures few compared successes success time someone poured heart brave effort win gold silver went few names recall anniversaries honor having raced Cleveland went turned pylon airport southeast city Lake Erie financial problems have now made butt jokes 1929 Cleveland no joke center world flying Aug 24 Sept 2 engines roared Drawings Blorn Karistromcolor Photography Hiroahi Seo Super Sportster S E 0 0 N C 7m 0 IO ~ September1979 11 final day first Cleveland Races 1929 Doug Davis flying Travel Air won unlImIted-dIsplacement race ever held Neither Bendix orThompson yet named 1949 DougtoppedCurtissP3Aatl88S Military racing supremacy ended year Golden Age Air Racing begun IndMdual close-ups courtesy TRW VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELI fans howled America riding high great surge enthusiasm aviation triggered Lindbergh being turned booming aircraft indus try flood new pilots two months time would collapse Great Depression now things couldnt have better feeling first Cleve land Air Races opened schedule 10 days racing stunt flying spot landing contests parachute jump ing efficiency races record attempts would forerunners two classic events American air racing Non-Stop Air Derby Los Angeles would become Bendix Race Free-For-All would become Thompson Trophy Race longest cross-country races 2000 miles California drew four entries failed finish another Roscoe Turner arrived after deadline winner flying Lockheed Air Express Henry Brown averaged 156 mph won largest single prize meet$5000 quite bundle days $78000 paid out sum recently reached Reno Air Races First pylon races second day dozen National Guard pilots flew Douglas 0-2 Curtiss 0-11 obser 12 Model Aviation Cleveland place August24 through September 2 1929 great surge enthusiasm triggered Undbergh turned booming aircraft industryand Great Depression still two months away Hordes people daring pilots fast airplanesand NaWs Los Angeles VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM vation planes seven laps around 10mile course Prophetically winner disqualified having streamlined stock airplane races airplanes powered Liberty OX5 engines races just women races racers limited engine displacements ranging 275 800 cu pylon race multi-engined planes teams four pilots airplane relay race Aug 28 ran Event #8 0X5 race drew Travel Airs Curtiss Robins Eaglerock Waco 9 Pheasant H1O flown young Steve Witt man As befitting limited experience Steve placed last won no money Fourth taken Art Chester Wittman play major role development Formula almost two decades later final day 1929 Races unlimited-displacement pylon race held pitted nine civilian air planes against two military first time history civilians won Doug Davis red-and-black Travel Air beat RG Breene Curtiss P-3A 1949 mph 1868 mph Army Navy would play second fiddle backyard mechanics start Thompson Trophy Race 1939 last prewar racethe inVasion Poland custom-built racers Golden Age took place last day time trialswith Roscoe Turner way 298 mph 9 soAir Racing begun conds better Tony LeVier Firecracker out front Wedell-Williams extreme 1930 National Air Races moved right middle ground distinctive Wittman Ioband perhaps Rider R-3 Guesses Chicago back Cleveland 1931 just two years entire picture changed now-famous names scene race planes Keith Rider Wedell Williams Chester Wittman Laird Howard Granville Brothers pilots named Doo little Turner Chester Wittman Haizlip Howard Livingston Bayles Roger Don Rae undisputed star 31 Races fierce yellow-and-black GeeBee Model Z flown Lowell Bayles captured imagination crowd nation like no speed plane before GeeBee business hefty Pratt & Whitney radial nose no behind absolutely necessary keep thing air under control Bayles won Thompson Race almost full minute ahead Jimmy Wedell #44 averaged 2362 mph 2280 mph Bayles passed fast-starting Wedell fifth 10 laps Jimmy Doolittle gaining fast Bayles until blew cylinder lap 7 total loss Doolittle won Bendix Race Santa Monica hour over five Lockheeds legendary leader Tokyo raid flew Laird Solution now being restored Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association 1932 major competitors hand improved versions September 1979 13 EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA what raced year before Bendix Thompson what made era exciting Improve- 2000-mile race Burbank Cleve ments came fast no time land Wedell-Williams first anyone get bored fact 1932 may going Jimmy Haizlip record 245 have greatest mph second Wedell 232 mph year GeeBee vs Wedell-Williams 3rd Roscoe Turner 226 mph Lee two new barrell-shaped GeeBee Gehlbach fourth GeeBee #7 210 Super Sportsters three Wedell-Williams mph wasnt bad airplane Racers #44 #92 #121 made people remember pylon machine shambles opposition sweeping both Thompson Trophy went Doo little made GeeBees reputation time winning 253-mph record would stand years Wedell Turner Haizlip followed Gehlbach fifth other GeeBee R- 1 height success Granville Brothers never again would see amazing racers winners circle 1933 National Air Races returned Los Angeles Turner won Bendix Wedell won Thompson both followed other Wedell-Williams racers Accidents put GeeBees out action wasnt long before training crash took Jimmy Wedells life Yet though Jimmy gone air planes Bendix Race Cleveland 1934 victory Doug Davis #44 John Worthen second #92 speeds well below record winning what really counts race other starter Gehlbach stretched GeeBee QED landed after 6 pm deadline Thompson Trophy Race Turner Davis Worthen Wedell Williams against field five small machines powered 6-cylinder Menasco engines far less power big radials time horsepower paid off Turner won way wanted almost three full laps 5-mile course ahead Roy Minor Brown Miss Los Angeles triple displacement horses Turner kept busy passing 14 Model Aviation tremendous diving finish Rudy Kling flying Folkerts nosed out Earl Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg 1937 Thompson Ultraclean lower horsepower inIine lobs giving powerful roundengine jobs run money VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI slower airplanes some lapped five times 20-lap race Thompson hymn horsepower new Greve Trophy Race limited 550 cu engines focused attention airframe design piloting skill series three heats produced winner Lee Miles Miles & Atwood Special best speed 206 mph Art Chester Jeep Roger Don Rae Keith Rider San Francisco tied 2nd despite Don Raes best speed 211 mph Chesters 203 mph battle lines now clearly drawn between favored potent radial engines churning out much 1000 hp preferred ma chines long pointy noses full Men asco Pirate Buccaneer in-lines So far big radials top day in-line seemed coming 1935 pilots airplanes winning pushed back ground designer Ben 0 Howard pilot Harold Neumann waiting wings several years chose time move spotlight Howard started things off grand style winning Bendix Mr Mulligan slim mest margins 23 seconds front Turner familiar gold Wedell Williams #57 closest transcon tinental race ever Neumann took reins allwhite Mulligan did impossible / Charles W Speed Holman won Thompson 1930 flying biplane Laird Solution went inverted during 810w pass crowd-pleaser demonstration winning Thompson Trophy highwing airplane outsped Steve Wittman Curtiss D-1 2-powered Bonzo averaging 2202 mph Steves 2187 mph first last time airplane won both Bendix Thompson Trophies finish off Benny Howard National Air Races Neumann took Greve Trophy Howards Mike best heat speed 213 mph Mike its near-twin Ike now belong Joe Binder Fremont Ohio may eventually restore both 1936 National Air Races moved back Los Angeles rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat French Caudron C460 wiped out American opposition winning Greve Race 247 mph using small engine Thompson record 264 mph slightly larger Renault much powerful Keith Rider R-3 left panting distance Bendix Race Louise Thaden Blanche Noyes won Beech Staggerwing ho-hum 165 mph Ben Howard crashed Mr Mulligan remains great racer re covered few years ago airplane restored destroyed record attempt late 1977 1937 back Cleveland stay approach war could heard anyone listened appropriate Bendix Race won military prototype Frank Fullers allmetal Seversky 258 mph finally broke Haizlips 1932 record finished al two hours before runner-up Earl September 1979 15 NELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELA 16 Model Aviation VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAI Lowell Bayles beat out Jimmy Wedell 44 flying GeeBee Zshown true color cover Bayles later died during attempt world straight-away speed record Ortman Marcoux-Bromberg Jackie Cochran Staggerwing Frank Sin clair another Seversky Greve Race great races pre-war era less five Jimmy Doolittle Laird SuperSolution 1931 Bendix winner 1 93Othe NationalAir Races held Chicago covered ourCieveland story 1933 races held Los Angeles Turner winning Bendix Wedell Thompson both flying Wedell-Williams LA 1936a rare foreign entry Michel Detroyat Caudron won Bendix Grove September 1979 17 Photographs Truman C Weaver except otherwise noted EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AII RACES CLEVEL 1939 Frank Fullers Seversky won 2000 mile grind wasthe Bendix second place hour behind strange tn-motored Bellanca originally designed England Australia race Fuller also won 1937 Ben dix Jackie Cockran also flying Seversky beat him 1938 seconds separated first three finishers front end Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph Close behind Steve Wittman Chief Oshkosh 23199 mph Third CH Gotch Schoenfeldt Fire cracker 23159 mph racing its best classic Thompson Race retain its position honor would have produce its years GeeBee flashing past stands no else sight may bring pangs yearning today wasnt very good racing just great people can rise Still racing great Steve Wittman National Air Races began 1937 posed picture Bonzo Chief Oshkosh ran second Klings Jup iter Greve occasion can great events 1937 Thompson will remembered closest finish ever shattered peace quiet Clevelands West Side first 17 laps 20 Steve Wittman ever-faster Bonzo race hip pocket Steves prop hit bird forced him back off Roscoe Turner new Meteor roared circled pylon thought cut rare photo Art Chester Jeep suggests plane always model ing interest Pretty little ship tied second Greve won Lee Miles Miles & wood Special Undoubtedly famous best remembered racer prew. .. , u u v dubbed flying silo 1932 year Wedell-WIlliams head-to-heed Doolittle flew en i-i iu top Thompson Never again would Granville brothers see racers winners circle legend own time Jimmy Doolittle made barrel-shaped GeeBee SuperSport ster won 1932 Thompson 253 mpha markthatwasto stand foryears won Bendix 1931 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELM lost lead Earl Ortman 20th lap Ortman cruised down final home stretch Rudy Kling supposedly too far behind As neared checkered flag Kling pushed nose little Folkerts down gaining just enough speed pass Ortman win margin of5 7 seconds speed 25691 mph Ortmans 25686 mph Turners 25380 mph Frank Sinclairs 25236 mph Seversky As 1930s drew toward close outlook Cleveland Air Races began dim closeness 1937 Races needed shot arm sad fact fewer fewer events being held fewer fewer airplanes serious lack meaningful new designs lifeblood sport 1938 three racing events entire three-day program Clevelandthe Bendix Greve Thompson Races racers limiteddisplacement engines scrapped due lack interest 10 entries Bendix Transcontinental Speed Dash six finished Jackie Cochran won Seversky similar Fullers 1937 winner Fuller second next fastest hour behind single custom-built racer made way Greve Race great battle between Tony LeVier Firecracker Art Chester new Goon After changes lead LeVier won 25088 mph Chesters 25042 mph Only September 1979 19 VELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL sensation 1935 raceswas Harold Neu man beat Turners Wedell by231/2 seconds Bendixthe closest everthen topped Witt mans Bonzo Thompson 2202 mph flew Ben Howards Mr Mulligan both races 20 Model Aviation Jimmy Wedell 1933 wIth ma amoua NO ui-wiuiams yearthe Wedell-WIlliams swept Thompson arch-rival GeeBees out mechanical troubles Wedell-WIlliams finished 1 2 3 1932 Bendix 1 Randix Jimmv killed 1933 whn other pilots finished Thompson belonged Roscoe Turner habit losing track pylons could keep him solid vtw, sleek Meteor just too EVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVELAND AIR RACES CLEVEL last pre-war Thompson Roscoe Turner pitted against world qualifying speed 298 mph 9 seconds per lap better closest rival LeVier race Turner way LeVier hanging winning speed 282 mph shade slower record comfortable 10 mph complete lap ahead LeVier gave up almost 1300 cu big Pratt & Whitney Roscoe Turner formally retired racing era ended world war began Racing planes quickly shoved dark corners hangars pilots Continued page 106 much second-placer Earl Ortman Marcoux Bromberg finished 15 minutes back Turner latter set Thompson record 28342 mph became first man win priceless trophy twice Steve Wittman third red Bonzo 259 mph well behind Ortmans 270 mph final pre-war Cleveland Air Races turned out far historic anyone realized time last day time trials September 1 same day Wehrmacht rolled defenseless Poland start World War II paid attention such things then-isola tionist America aware war close would last National Air Races few suspected American airplanes tearing around checkered pylons Nazi airplanes would dive-bombing nocent civilians fleeing burned out homes last try normalcy Races went planned Frank Fuller won second Bendix Race jumping old record 258 mph 282 mph finished 2000-mile grind hour ahead Arthur Bussey strange trimotored Bellanca hint things come movie stunt man Paul Mantz third Lockheed Greve Race another battle between LeVier Chester super charged Menasco racers LeVier led 11 20 laps amazing 272 mph forced drop out let Chester speed victory very respectable 263 mph five entered event four started crashed scatter pylon other two dropped out lap 13 leavingChesteralone Itwasntmuchof race spectators 1 937s exciting Greve Race Rudy Kling Folkerts Jupiter 23227 mph beat out Wltt mans Chief Oshkosh Gotchs Firecracker less 5 seconds Waving crowd after Thompson victory nolding trophy pilots fought famous racing pilots Roscos Turner stands cockpit Laird-Turner Below 1937 theniiew LairdTurner Steve Wittman led 17 20 laps Bonzo until prop hit bird Turner roaring Meteor cut py Ion lose Rudy Kting 20th lap closest finish Thomoson event history wheel pants canopies etc works home oven hose type vacuum cleaner FOECAT@R MOLD YOUR OWN PARTS FOR PLANES BOATS CARS ETC PLASTICBulk Pack Vacuum former piastics ASS PIAlw Sheets foe Form alto Easy make own cowlsAllah Btho17 Packs Only PCSPACK THICKNESS PER PACK PRICE 0201/50301300 030 1132201300 045 3/64131300 0601/16101300 0903/3261300 Assortment Pack see below 1300 Aootowt Pooh no0300 0020/ *oa%3.o45 2550/ 000 1000 ohot. y pooh p12 0000 oOwd wilt Fowtoto ALL AM S winE Over 3/ Lbs per pack Idea Development Inc ox 7399 rk Delaware 19711 Instructions assembly & use Included $39 Lincludes A88t Pack ABS SHIPPED PREPAID 9VIA UPS US ONLY dealer order direct Qualified Dealer Inquiries Invited new ruleasos Bucker ITTTMEISTER radio control lwingspan Seagulltor rubber available soon C 02 power SEE YOURsend 254 DEALER NOWcatalog FLYLINE MODELS INC 2820 DORA AVENUE RIO FAIRFAX VIRON2 22031703 RIO 2238 ANNOUNCING Post Stoop Climb FLat Slow Glide 4 new P 30 class model designed novice mind ond has potential won toughest THE POTENT30 Deluxe kit leatures include Rolled balsa lusela no ond wing mount dl Completed prop d nose plug tail plug & rudder Precut wing ribs spar notches job rated balsa strips Highest quality tissue lubed contest rubber Detailed instructionsfiying tips help win CAT NO R2 Sees pp check money order CHAS WERLE 3620 MORSE AVE NOS SACTO CALIF 95821 Cleveland Races/Berliner continued tram page 21 builders mechanics prepared enter much serious race ofthe airplanes ever raced again Turners two-time Thompson-winning Meteor now display Washing tons National Air & Space Museum LeViers Firecracker exists pieces California Chesters Goon complete West Coast doesnt fly Earl Ortmans Marcoux Bromberg finally being restored Connecticut Wittmans Bonzo EAA Mu seum near Milwaukee Most others just seemed disappear though few enthusiasts continue try follow up faint leads pilots few went race briefly after war Wittman stuck racing career stood 52 words being written end yet sight other pre-war racing name remains competitive Harold Neumann winner 1935 Thompson Greve Races regularly places well aerobatic contests Monocoupe painted just like old racer called Harolds Little Mulligan Thanks Golden Age Air Racing still alive thanks too memories others continued RC Technique/Myers continued page 23 field face new situation either because last time out told go home make some kind change because minor accident resulted some rebuilding change airplanes characteris tics As result waste air-time fighting plane instead learning new maneuvers Begin Ground School proper ground school session deals what student supposed learn ground demonstrate air particular day Learning has planned experience order have rapid progress Air time should limited maximum four minutes per flight until student ready solo Very few beginners can go longer two minutes during first 10 sessions get behind become desperate trying catch up Learning ceases Long flights early learning teach bad habit reacting airplane instead leading around sky Work plan student should have copy training plan pocket Before ground school begins whip out training plan discuss instruc tor parts already covered Agree what next step will before starting ground school session approach keeps starting over begin ning time meet new instructor club doesnt already have training plan syllabus might try 1 Demonstration 4 controlfunc dons Instructor emphasizes control stick position proportional rate roll pitch yaw angle airplane flies 2 Racetrack straight out back student learns about apparent control reversal hell make lot circles far end course 3 Racetrack other way plus loop Get over loop pre pared Half beginners will Fig ure 9 4 S-turns going out straight flight back works best can use runway ground reference keeping left- right-hand turns equal Never mind wind concentrate keeping altitude constant Teaches coordination 5 Spin recovery instructor puts plane spin student gets out Spin recognition what important 6 Inverted Racetrack now student should making own takeoffs Get him inverted before has chance afraid may also demonstrate really learned 5 should make point instructor looking demonstration fact student understands what wanted trying 106 Model Aviation great schoolyard scale TRAVEL AIR 020 ruboe power 36 span 12 channel R/C tree flight 51495