Carl Goldberg's 100th birthday
Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to meet Carl Goldberg. From all accounts he was a kind man who was quiet and unassuming. Everyone I've spoken with who met him had only nice things to say.
Carl and his company are responsible for bringing some incredible models to market that allowed many of us to be successful in building and flying model aircraft. My first glow model was a kit-built Goldberg Eagle II. In fact, I built it more than once after coming home one night to discover the family dog thought the uncovered fuselage was a chew toy!
My first sailplane flight came at the sticks of a Goldberg model, and my first-ever flight was very likely also on a Goldberg aircraft because my father owned a few of his designs.
In this issue, we pay tribute to Carl Goldberg who, on October 27, would have turned 100. I hope you enjoy the article about Carl, as well as our exclusive review of the Carl Goldberg Chipmunk EP ARF.
I plan to fly my Goldberg Chipmunk on Carl's 100th birthday, Saturday, October 27, and I urge any reader who owns a Goldberg model to do the same. Even if you don't get out to the field, upload a photo of your Goldberg model(s) to our website at www.modelaviation.com/Goldberg for all of us to enjoy.
2012 Nats
This year the National Aeromodelling Championships celebrated its 86th year and was filled with excitement and several milestones, one of which was the retirement of Ron and Jane Morgan. Ron has been a Nats volunteer and/or official for 53 years, working his way up to director and manager of the event several years ago.
In all of those years, Ron never once competed and instead enjoyed helping make the event successful. He shared with me during the 2009 Nats that he had intended to compete in 1962, but they needed help with FF Scale. In 1964 he became a Nats director and later the overall manager. Thank you, Ron and Jane, for all of the hard work and dedication throughout the years! Although I will miss seeing you at AMA Headquarters next summer, enjoy a much-deserved rest!
Air Race Airplanes
The Travel Air Mystery Ship and the Gee Bee racer are two of the most exciting aircraft to come from the late 1920s and early 1930s. Whether you want to build your own 1929 Thompson Trophy winner or fly the 1932 winning Gee Bee, we've got you covered in this issue!
Transcribed from original scans by AI. Minor OCR errors may remain.
