Bill Winter Yiist53r o5ev cfr ZERO DISPLACEMENT ENGINES Fairey Flycatcher think name classic British military biplane Now understand indebted ydu experts have explained fly-catching techniques arent surprised impressive solution comes old-timer Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research name rings bell its because shaker mover world Scale pioneer fiberglass shells Lets just say has forgotten us remember developed fly-catching fine artsays took him back 30 years Thats can myself greatest success catching flies recounts using wide-mouthjar holes punched lid air Fly-Power Storage Area Upon spotting fly would care fully place clear glass over approaching down-sun cast shadow fly inside glass slipped piece card board underneath matched mouth glass mayonnaisejar remov ing cardboard allow fly fly upward took patience ice box Dale goes relentlessly let him quiet down about 20 minutes Modern-day refrigerators might take less time never put flies freezer compartment die like flies ready installation use pair tweezers dab Ambroid nose aircraft dibble feet glue fly equipped miniature half dumbbell extending abdomen must vibrate has no desire fly fly begins warm up become active fastdrying cement probably better launch hold aircraft between thumb forefinger very lightly until pulls out hand Have smidge clay handy case misjudged CG dont count straight flights Knowing thousands reading revelations breathlessly urge patience big green bottle fly best Horse flies scarce horses produce too much Winter has having very good luck Ni-Cd glow plug boosters left McDaniel RCs Ni-Stafler- right Ace RCs Nilight fly power spurts Also good fly looks like honey beedo carefuL double ball-bearing jobbies recognized insignia H back hang around butterflies throng flowers covering Dale used Japanese Super Lite white tissue dope made acetone toothbrush handles sparingly applied Any gen uine old-timer remembers dissolving celluloid toowho could afford banana oil spot clue Flies air-breathing power plants Baf fling however Dale managed select him flies cant tell difference between boy girl chickens almost said chicks saw fly-powered model Thats Incredible Dont forget column first tell find free engines next step sub-contract fine-mesh butterfly net some white-coated sourpuss coarse-mesh net doesnt get us first Ole way Schenectady Union-Star August 16 1946 carried four-column story time-capsule pix members Schenec tady Aeroneer Club members Theres twoline banner headline Aeroneers Zoom Back Flying Picture Members Return War Service days friend first Jackie Gleason used say little traveling music please RC rage sure what next rage During four flights Winters Aristocrat Fort Meade Fly-In pilot Srull practicing scale procedure away time Ed Brandlis huge Sopwith Pup looping directly beneath Aristocrats fly-bysand no nervous huge Balsa USA kit turns loops dime Right two 1 2-ft Telemasters attendance land like parachutes hardly roll-out belongs Walter Pace Hobby Lobby kit Evra 1 9 engine Nifty model covered nine rolls MonoKote note reflections wing Drum-like covering sounded like thunderstorm engine fired up 14 Model Aviation could possibly since RC supposedly ultimate undoubtedly will have rages before shortly after Wrights until Lindbergh flight 1927 sizeable hobby developed rubber poweralthough peppered compressed air Little three-cylinder engines worked like CO-2 huge balloon thin-walled metal tanks wrapped spot-soldered music wire airplane magic Kids forgot about wanting streetcar conductors magazines never hear famous clubs andfrom about 1920 onmanufacturers made 2000 3000 ready-to-fly models day about 1909 catalogs filled juicy pix kit models Wright Bleriot up Jenny DH-4 long time quest merely make something fly Models flown remarkably well before ancient writer born com munications bad still reinvent ing wheel 20 years later might use flour paste tissue kite sticks sliced inner tubes next town guys balsa silk big lightweight Loening amphibs Heath Bullets Wacos caveman co existed nuclear physicist speak Never forget Model Airplane News scene 1929 ignited bit later one-and-only Charlie Grant got stam pede traiL until almost 25-year battle merely prove supremacy tractor twin pusher Until early Thirties rubber king although occasional gas models around ever since Ray Ardens 1904he met wife crate flew mile across New Yorks Van Courtlandt Park land feet sensational appearance Brown Junior flown Max Bassett 1932-33 Nats brought Space Shuttie-type excitement place jumped Free Flights Contests common long before WW first Nats encouraged National Aero nautic Assn 1923just Chicago St Louis groups Airplane Model League America AMLA got together about 1927-1930 large meets Nats tie-in American Boy magazine pubSCALING UP OR DOWN-BY RALPH PREY EXAMPLE ON ENLARGING RAM ROD 600 TO RAM ROD 1000 RAM ROD 600 DIMENSIONS BELOW FIGURE IN IS SQ INS IIT I80 1775 100 177580 10 817751017758 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 615 SQ INS TO ACHIEVE ENTER DATA IN POCKET CALCULATOR AND DIVIDE 1000 BY 615 WHICH EQUALS 1626 ENTER 1626 AND TAKE SQUARE ROOT WHICH PRODUCES THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 1275 MULTIPLY ALL DIMENSIONS ON 600 PLAN BYL275 RAM ROD 1000 DIMENSIONS USING ABOVE FIGURES BY MULTIPLYING BY 1275 LISTED BELOW FIGURE IN QINS 1130051288541625628854130051275 iiII 102 22631 127522631 102 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 99974 SQ INS OR 1000 THE SYSTEM WORKS make model twice largewould double dimensions No increases area fourtimes Handy chart Ralph Preyfrom San Valeers Satellite covers incrementforscaling up down wary scale-downsthe ares melts like ice cube sun 075 TO 10 TO 15 AEROBATIC TIP 115% TO 125% LI SCOTCH BRAND PLASTIC ROOT PE-CLEARPECES OF TAPE SPRUCEvBALSA10% 7ikI/4WEBBING Two fine airfoils electric models courtesy Heinz Koerner Good RC jobs regardless power will make crate groovy ballooning tendency get flatbottomed airfoil Both low-drag Ideal direct-drive electric lished excellent thingsone stick model gained its flier trip Olympics jont know model event AMLA faded AMA via Charlie Grants International Gas Model Association MAN turned over NAA Air Youths Division handed off AMA still division ofNAA Disappearing before war Hearst papers Junior Birdmen Scripps-Howards Junior Aviators Lady Luck ruled Everyone figured could beat anyone else including Bassett Clubs went meets en masse Sport competition inseparable Wild giorious fun barnstormers martin HCCSC ano Mighty Mite roooara/Toamooara /3 somewhat-scale built eight weeks for$68 Aerobatic including hammerheads hard-working Gemini Twin Above son white whale Planes moments scaleno wonder its maneuverable March 198215 Meet fellow modelers say 35 years ago brighteagerfaces Schenectady NY Aeroneers dedicated picking up 1946 after boys came home Second War End Wars% members served place library may have meeting rather dinner wonder because several wives girl friends grandfathers grandmothers few 10- 1 2-year-olds photo carnival everybody glassy-eyed lure flight would never better Jim Walkers UControl suddenly seemed like brick strin& McCoy-Hatfield feud sissy stuff com pared strife between Free Flighters Control Liners everything seething turmoil end wild-eyed age innocence World War II upon us Said Union Star model airplane club Aeroneers declined during war cause two-thirds its members went armed forces now very much back Schenectady picture. biggest item clubs agenda 1946 Sixth Annual Invitation AMA sponsored Model Airplane Contest. Rubber-Powered models Towline Gliders Free Flight Control Line Gas models People swarmed meets over America New York 1947 Mirror drew 250000 spectators Grummans Bethpage field Radio flown few wizards like Good Brothers Walker before war soon shake up troops AMAs successful attempt get examination-free frequency required no Ham license CL Speed briefly Numero Uno followed craze U-control Stunt Free Flight mass sport skids Little things turned us off could love Pencil Bomber gassie Gosh editor-pub lisher did Ditto Wakefield super shrewdies began weigh individual cross pieces cut down rubber us washed up takeoff requirement Power abandoned CL Team Racing looked exciting year two Rat Racing quickie outcome demolition-derby whapped together quickies soon became science thing else too cant go home again Nor recapture flaming spirit zany time So thanks Danny Sheelds dug up historic material us can show few nostalgic Aeroneer pictures faces planes tell story No doubt well receive letters California Europe some folks perhaps well get share some wonderful stories note Aeroneers Club organized home Jack Thelen killed over Marshall Islands Marine Corsair easily forget Bats belfry Now last summers mileContinued pige 18 MA Assistant Editor Doug Pratts idea good time sun slowly setting electric plane charging away merrily BBC shortwave radio Plane Astro Sport 05 power built aileron-elevatorversion can also made cabin rudder-elevator style Pratt keeps electric ship car times take advantage bit decent weather 16 Model Aviation changing guard Aeroneer prolects show cabin FF gull- Award-winning Aeroneer members judging trophieswith wing glider way-it-was Wakefield Korda mysterious flying pretty girl make guys look good Model top left resembles boat 3-blader sponsons Comet Clipper thats well Schroders Jersey Javelin lower right Walt Good FF Guff prewar also after WW II floats center well-dressed maybe Any guesses third ship Cards over place dont pioneer holding early Control Line Speed job Details may show say PHOF Thats PILOT orACE PILOT Datesare 1945 remembers picture guy flew clockwise meant thattorque helped hold line tension same library toowed now guess meeting place Photos Danny Sheelds stone recedes mind cluttered great-grandmothers attic pipe dreams things build Two kids fly ground ex-Pattern type out six years flew humble Kadet visit made look good make look bad did Another tech-rep brat area repaired first guys Phoenix V bought brandnew unflown Mach chap suddenly vamped Quarter Scale bought two Futabas whistles bells new Airtronics XL Unlimited also has chimes have too last night spent listening jazz plays boys also have sundiy Kraft stuff should mention fly Quarter Scalers Airtronics XL sometimes Ace Silver 7 mixing etc Also have World Engines Expert charged up no place go well crazy mix two old Futabas Krafts Sanwas Airtronics Aceafter cant fly everything once what see field radios seem work fine nothing has ever failed am hacker has trouble approaches Naturally grandson got turned spent $20 paints etc tail-wagging Dicks Dream possible old man uncle also have battered three-year-old Concept Air Scout lightweight Midwest OS 15powered Champion lovethey fly gales Lord protects daft also sneaked away Realistic Stinson kit now framed Top Flite J-3thats ready go valiant effort keep up middle-aged youngsters got new glasses order see blue Kadet white also stinks unless against blue sky has 73 flights dont write off am wiser after last years confrontations After three seasons Ive decided glow drivers arent pot Ive blown plugs right left So have guys use box un invited dont talk find Aces Nilight Ni-Cd booster McDaniels NiStarter better dry batteries 12 volts hold nice bright light dont over-prime finger doesnt get whapped Flip prop through few times attach booster hold prop rotate feel bump dont crank plastic prop cold day Engines get ornery plastic prop edge sharp Ive counted six transmitters impound switches needles pegged Must check things like fly big Aristocrat Ive seen dozens crates shot down Nobody ever proves anything after en croaching civilization brings paging services evil surprises closer closer Thank goodness FCC moving have hit slow sport stuff Ive made saves Post checks never find anything wrong radios good made humans smart get new system checked out Weve seen shorted crystals bad solderingjoints solder bridges uncleaned resin solder flakes like gold-plated connectors especially thin upright pins Some other pins accrue invisible crud system may have jitters first turned go bananas taxi out slide connectors out few times before first fly new system Better possible have service man clean connectors before fly Wish George Myers would tell George vibration test rubberbanding system ply Dremel jig saw table other day two servos unflown system drop dead Bill Hershberger found poor receiver contact pins See what mean guys bewildered almost Continued page 62 18 Model Aviation o New Expandable concept R ilcopters o The Competitor will fly 45 50 060 size engines o model can take novice flying winning AMA expert class Advanced design features never before seen R/C Helicopter Triple ball bearings main tail rotor hubsLight weight l construction itorotation standardLow cost parts ntrols designed inverted flightA11 versions fully aerobatic FAI patterns tail drives Safety Comes First/Preston Continued page 12 consequences could have far tragic Amen first time have reported fuel can exploding hope yours will next have field box has both fuel can electrical power take time look ask yourself question Could happen Maybe some minor changes layout could make safer Finally month about embark effort investigate causes number glitches seem occurring everincreasing number local flying field strongly suspect outside interference such pocket pagers FCC grants AMA petition get choice 50 fre quencies 72 MHz band operate still will sharing band other users seems like club should aware other users frequency scanner may way track down future column Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 simultaneous appearance 1936-37 Old Squares Sides Model Builder Model Aviation yes really MBs credited designer John Sprague middle names Just funning Bill Northrop Couldnt resist shak ing up liver bile Incidentally Polling Bob Boucher tell ship perfect electric Astro 15 belt reducer 12-8 13-8 Tis mad mad world Eight weeks plus S68 equals Va Mooney Saw last column picture card board airplane begins Marvin Reese Wichita would Art Schmalzs -scale Eastbourne So heres pictures first cardboard foam-core board attempt Lots help Dennis Reichenberger has never built plane anything else Dennis come forward Stand far enough away re sembles Mooney Mite M-18 -scale modi fied plans took liberties expedite project moments correct Wanted throw together fast possible see project feasible Gemini Twinor engine matter Eight weeks $68 Came heavy 18 pounds really heavy 1800 squares almost too heavy twin Gemini Wings tail foam-core board Strongest lightest frame ever built Also gentle planes ever flew Marvin continues Looks flies sounds totally real Landings make look superiorsmooth mink Rolls loops hammerheads ease Havent tried sustained inverted enough down elevator will added logbook will use foam-board cardboard heavily now Gere fuselage took two weeks build came out bit crooked Continued page 99 THE BEST IN GIANT SCALE Make Right Choice First Time New Kioritz Jr 13 Cu Kioritz 24 Mfg Suggested List $21995 Dealer Direct Zinger Props t5 24 doereter Ii ptches Exhaust Manifold Kitftts Kioritz Kawasaki &others Velocity Stack Kit Kiorttz Quadra Six-Bolt Prop Hub Quadra Kioritz 1 -Pc Cast Mount rot 24 tod 3 Kioritz Digital Tach Spark mpalse triggered Rennet Muffler B&B Spectaittes Champion Plugs RCJ-8 resistor Belray MC-1 Synthetic Oil 12 501 met Send 50 0ROUSH NE WI R MTITAN 43Culn 61/2HP $28995 Direct Only 30% off $1000 300 1 995 1595 5995 1795 250 295 62 Model Aviation IL INTRODUCING COVER ITES AMAZING MIC4FIL~A RIP PROOF IRON-ON THAT ADHERES WITH BALSARITE S 40%-70% LIGHTER U 700% TOUGHER U REVERSIBLE U PAINTABLE COVERITE 420 BABYLON RD HORSHAM PA 19044 USA Box 251 YVILLE OHIO 44671 MPG Phone 216 866-9462 484-4374 Fun/Winter Cant p 62 framed cardboard Marvin thinks chopped lightening holes added long stringer both sides eliminate square look covered usual would have stronger lighter could have done two nights $200 plus covering Such kits would cinch Just sheets material patterns People have demonstrated get cambered surfaces both coreboard corrugated cardboard once saw Bridi 60 cabin job fieldlovely what Later playing back video heard back ground conversation foam-core board Good paintjob Youd never know difference Ron St Jean has bonded silkspan-like paper hot-wire cut cores stand up big comp Free-Flight stresses Composites coming Editor An article Ron St Jean describing processes will appear magazine soon can scheduled Joe Ott caper Joe back business man turned us during Twenties Rubber Scale jobs Popular Aviation might just shake up industry expect have details next month Hes got radio system never-seen-before features trainer assembles jigs Very advanced features techniques scratch-built either ex ample molded cabin has pilot painted Nifty removable motor mount allows replacement bigger engine minutes Two wings calm windy weather Four channels die-cutsprinted sheets remarkable product remarkable man 83 sounds like 20-year-old walking before Wrights flew Kitty Hawk pre-run kit way Spooky stuff mid-1800s Hensons 150-ft Aerial Carriage Experts say might have flown given suitable power plant Construction equalled 1900-era stuff modern features including trike gear laughed him scorn friend John Stringfellow years tried prove concept series models about 20 ft powered own model steam engine enough power steam engine about 1 feet tall developing about horsepower exhibit National Air & Space Museum Stringfellow first build workable model airplane power plant Langley father power Free Flights Stringfellow father engines Henson two full-size versions Aerial Carriage years ago Smithsonian bought Engiand great institution ordered priceless power plant shipped America Titanic Bill Winter 4330 Alta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Supercat/K ilsdonk Continued page 35 except fuel following do-it-yourself steps will add small benefits depending particular engine Drill out venturi 5/32-in diameter still use pins Lap crankshaft crankcase Lap piston cylinder fit alter crankshaft cylinder timing detailed how-to description provided 3-part series Joe Klause Model Builder magazine work done properly Now back purchased horsepowerfuel Ordinary 5-15% sport fuel will give very good performance adding propylene oxide up 10% can really bring life provides extra heat As love also respond very well additional nitromethane Continued page 100 Catalog 8150 98 RUBBER POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L R/C Accessories Books 4 444444 MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th Street Cleveland Ohio 44111 March 1982 99 Fine Quality Flying Models GONTIOLIII TillS PROFILE0 COMBA rRA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 Capacities UNIFLOW & STINDD Custom D1mn Vials 5to40% Nitro& FAI detailed brochure send 60 cents CAROLINA TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/03
Page Numbers: 14, 15, 16, 18, 62, 99
Bill Winter Yiist53r o5ev cfr ZERO DISPLACEMENT ENGINES Fairey Flycatcher think name classic British military biplane Now understand indebted ydu experts have explained fly-catching techniques arent surprised impressive solution comes old-timer Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research name rings bell its because shaker mover world Scale pioneer fiberglass shells Lets just say has forgotten us remember developed fly-catching fine artsays took him back 30 years Thats can myself greatest success catching flies recounts using wide-mouthjar holes punched lid air Fly-Power Storage Area Upon spotting fly would care fully place clear glass over approaching down-sun cast shadow fly inside glass slipped piece card board underneath matched mouth glass mayonnaisejar remov ing cardboard allow fly fly upward took patience ice box Dale goes relentlessly let him quiet down about 20 minutes Modern-day refrigerators might take less time never put flies freezer compartment die like flies ready installation use pair tweezers dab Ambroid nose aircraft dibble feet glue fly equipped miniature half dumbbell extending abdomen must vibrate has no desire fly fly begins warm up become active fastdrying cement probably better launch hold aircraft between thumb forefinger very lightly until pulls out hand Have smidge clay handy case misjudged CG dont count straight flights Knowing thousands reading revelations breathlessly urge patience big green bottle fly best Horse flies scarce horses produce too much Winter has having very good luck Ni-Cd glow plug boosters left McDaniel RCs Ni-Stafler- right Ace RCs Nilight fly power spurts Also good fly looks like honey beedo carefuL double ball-bearing jobbies recognized insignia H back hang around butterflies throng flowers covering Dale used Japanese Super Lite white tissue dope made acetone toothbrush handles sparingly applied Any gen uine old-timer remembers dissolving celluloid toowho could afford banana oil spot clue Flies air-breathing power plants Baf fling however Dale managed select him flies cant tell difference between boy girl chickens almost said chicks saw fly-powered model Thats Incredible Dont forget column first tell find free engines next step sub-contract fine-mesh butterfly net some white-coated sourpuss coarse-mesh net doesnt get us first Ole way Schenectady Union-Star August 16 1946 carried four-column story time-capsule pix members Schenec tady Aeroneer Club members Theres twoline banner headline Aeroneers Zoom Back Flying Picture Members Return War Service days friend first Jackie Gleason used say little traveling music please RC rage sure what next rage During four flights Winters Aristocrat Fort Meade Fly-In pilot Srull practicing scale procedure away time Ed Brandlis huge Sopwith Pup looping directly beneath Aristocrats fly-bysand no nervous huge Balsa USA kit turns loops dime Right two 1 2-ft Telemasters attendance land like parachutes hardly roll-out belongs Walter Pace Hobby Lobby kit Evra 1 9 engine Nifty model covered nine rolls MonoKote note reflections wing Drum-like covering sounded like thunderstorm engine fired up 14 Model Aviation could possibly since RC supposedly ultimate undoubtedly will have rages before shortly after Wrights until Lindbergh flight 1927 sizeable hobby developed rubber poweralthough peppered compressed air Little three-cylinder engines worked like CO-2 huge balloon thin-walled metal tanks wrapped spot-soldered music wire airplane magic Kids forgot about wanting streetcar conductors magazines never hear famous clubs andfrom about 1920 onmanufacturers made 2000 3000 ready-to-fly models day about 1909 catalogs filled juicy pix kit models Wright Bleriot up Jenny DH-4 long time quest merely make something fly Models flown remarkably well before ancient writer born com munications bad still reinvent ing wheel 20 years later might use flour paste tissue kite sticks sliced inner tubes next town guys balsa silk big lightweight Loening amphibs Heath Bullets Wacos caveman co existed nuclear physicist speak Never forget Model Airplane News scene 1929 ignited bit later one-and-only Charlie Grant got stam pede traiL until almost 25-year battle merely prove supremacy tractor twin pusher Until early Thirties rubber king although occasional gas models around ever since Ray Ardens 1904he met wife crate flew mile across New Yorks Van Courtlandt Park land feet sensational appearance Brown Junior flown Max Bassett 1932-33 Nats brought Space Shuttie-type excitement place jumped Free Flights Contests common long before WW first Nats encouraged National Aero nautic Assn 1923just Chicago St Louis groups Airplane Model League America AMLA got together about 1927-1930 large meets Nats tie-in American Boy magazine pubSCALING UP OR DOWN-BY RALPH PREY EXAMPLE ON ENLARGING RAM ROD 600 TO RAM ROD 1000 RAM ROD 600 DIMENSIONS BELOW FIGURE IN IS SQ INS IIT I80 1775 100 177580 10 817751017758 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 615 SQ INS TO ACHIEVE ENTER DATA IN POCKET CALCULATOR AND DIVIDE 1000 BY 615 WHICH EQUALS 1626 ENTER 1626 AND TAKE SQUARE ROOT WHICH PRODUCES THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 1275 MULTIPLY ALL DIMENSIONS ON 600 PLAN BYL275 RAM ROD 1000 DIMENSIONS USING ABOVE FIGURES BY MULTIPLYING BY 1275 LISTED BELOW FIGURE IN QINS 1130051288541625628854130051275 iiII 102 22631 127522631 102 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 99974 SQ INS OR 1000 THE SYSTEM WORKS make model twice largewould double dimensions No increases area fourtimes Handy chart Ralph Preyfrom San Valeers Satellite covers incrementforscaling up down wary scale-downsthe ares melts like ice cube sun 075 TO 10 TO 15 AEROBATIC TIP 115% TO 125% LI SCOTCH BRAND PLASTIC ROOT PE-CLEARPECES OF TAPE SPRUCEvBALSA10% 7ikI/4WEBBING Two fine airfoils electric models courtesy Heinz Koerner Good RC jobs regardless power will make crate groovy ballooning tendency get flatbottomed airfoil Both low-drag Ideal direct-drive electric lished excellent thingsone stick model gained its flier trip Olympics jont know model event AMLA faded AMA via Charlie Grants International Gas Model Association MAN turned over NAA Air Youths Division handed off AMA still division ofNAA Disappearing before war Hearst papers Junior Birdmen Scripps-Howards Junior Aviators Lady Luck ruled Everyone figured could beat anyone else including Bassett Clubs went meets en masse Sport competition inseparable Wild giorious fun barnstormers martin HCCSC ano Mighty Mite roooara/Toamooara /3 somewhat-scale built eight weeks for$68 Aerobatic including hammerheads hard-working Gemini Twin Above son white whale Planes moments scaleno wonder its maneuverable March 198215 Meet fellow modelers say 35 years ago brighteagerfaces Schenectady NY Aeroneers dedicated picking up 1946 after boys came home Second War End Wars% members served place library may have meeting rather dinner wonder because several wives girl friends grandfathers grandmothers few 10- 1 2-year-olds photo carnival everybody glassy-eyed lure flight would never better Jim Walkers UControl suddenly seemed like brick strin& McCoy-Hatfield feud sissy stuff com pared strife between Free Flighters Control Liners everything seething turmoil end wild-eyed age innocence World War II upon us Said Union Star model airplane club Aeroneers declined during war cause two-thirds its members went armed forces now very much back Schenectady picture. biggest item clubs agenda 1946 Sixth Annual Invitation AMA sponsored Model Airplane Contest. Rubber-Powered models Towline Gliders Free Flight Control Line Gas models People swarmed meets over America New York 1947 Mirror drew 250000 spectators Grummans Bethpage field Radio flown few wizards like Good Brothers Walker before war soon shake up troops AMAs successful attempt get examination-free frequency required no Ham license CL Speed briefly Numero Uno followed craze U-control Stunt Free Flight mass sport skids Little things turned us off could love Pencil Bomber gassie Gosh editor-pub lisher did Ditto Wakefield super shrewdies began weigh individual cross pieces cut down rubber us washed up takeoff requirement Power abandoned CL Team Racing looked exciting year two Rat Racing quickie outcome demolition-derby whapped together quickies soon became science thing else too cant go home again Nor recapture flaming spirit zany time So thanks Danny Sheelds dug up historic material us can show few nostalgic Aeroneer pictures faces planes tell story No doubt well receive letters California Europe some folks perhaps well get share some wonderful stories note Aeroneers Club organized home Jack Thelen killed over Marshall Islands Marine Corsair easily forget Bats belfry Now last summers mileContinued pige 18 MA Assistant Editor Doug Pratts idea good time sun slowly setting electric plane charging away merrily BBC shortwave radio Plane Astro Sport 05 power built aileron-elevatorversion can also made cabin rudder-elevator style Pratt keeps electric ship car times take advantage bit decent weather 16 Model Aviation changing guard Aeroneer prolects show cabin FF gull- Award-winning Aeroneer members judging trophieswith wing glider way-it-was Wakefield Korda mysterious flying pretty girl make guys look good Model top left resembles boat 3-blader sponsons Comet Clipper thats well Schroders Jersey Javelin lower right Walt Good FF Guff prewar also after WW II floats center well-dressed maybe Any guesses third ship Cards over place dont pioneer holding early Control Line Speed job Details may show say PHOF Thats PILOT orACE PILOT Datesare 1945 remembers picture guy flew clockwise meant thattorque helped hold line tension same library toowed now guess meeting place Photos Danny Sheelds stone recedes mind cluttered great-grandmothers attic pipe dreams things build Two kids fly ground ex-Pattern type out six years flew humble Kadet visit made look good make look bad did Another tech-rep brat area repaired first guys Phoenix V bought brandnew unflown Mach chap suddenly vamped Quarter Scale bought two Futabas whistles bells new Airtronics XL Unlimited also has chimes have too last night spent listening jazz plays boys also have sundiy Kraft stuff should mention fly Quarter Scalers Airtronics XL sometimes Ace Silver 7 mixing etc Also have World Engines Expert charged up no place go well crazy mix two old Futabas Krafts Sanwas Airtronics Aceafter cant fly everything once what see field radios seem work fine nothing has ever failed am hacker has trouble approaches Naturally grandson got turned spent $20 paints etc tail-wagging Dicks Dream possible old man uncle also have battered three-year-old Concept Air Scout lightweight Midwest OS 15powered Champion lovethey fly gales Lord protects daft also sneaked away Realistic Stinson kit now framed Top Flite J-3thats ready go valiant effort keep up middle-aged youngsters got new glasses order see blue Kadet white also stinks unless against blue sky has 73 flights dont write off am wiser after last years confrontations After three seasons Ive decided glow drivers arent pot Ive blown plugs right left So have guys use box un invited dont talk find Aces Nilight Ni-Cd booster McDaniels NiStarter better dry batteries 12 volts hold nice bright light dont over-prime finger doesnt get whapped Flip prop through few times attach booster hold prop rotate feel bump dont crank plastic prop cold day Engines get ornery plastic prop edge sharp Ive counted six transmitters impound switches needles pegged Must check things like fly big Aristocrat Ive seen dozens crates shot down Nobody ever proves anything after en croaching civilization brings paging services evil surprises closer closer Thank goodness FCC moving have hit slow sport stuff Ive made saves Post checks never find anything wrong radios good made humans smart get new system checked out Weve seen shorted crystals bad solderingjoints solder bridges uncleaned resin solder flakes like gold-plated connectors especially thin upright pins Some other pins accrue invisible crud system may have jitters first turned go bananas taxi out slide connectors out few times before first fly new system Better possible have service man clean connectors before fly Wish George Myers would tell George vibration test rubberbanding system ply Dremel jig saw table other day two servos unflown system drop dead Bill Hershberger found poor receiver contact pins See what mean guys bewildered almost Continued page 62 18 Model Aviation o New Expandable concept R ilcopters o The Competitor will fly 45 50 060 size engines o model can take novice flying winning AMA expert class Advanced design features never before seen R/C Helicopter Triple ball bearings main tail rotor hubsLight weight l construction itorotation standardLow cost parts ntrols designed inverted flightA11 versions fully aerobatic FAI patterns tail drives Safety Comes First/Preston Continued page 12 consequences could have far tragic Amen first time have reported fuel can exploding hope yours will next have field box has both fuel can electrical power take time look ask yourself question Could happen Maybe some minor changes layout could make safer Finally month about embark effort investigate causes number glitches seem occurring everincreasing number local flying field strongly suspect outside interference such pocket pagers FCC grants AMA petition get choice 50 fre quencies 72 MHz band operate still will sharing band other users seems like club should aware other users frequency scanner may way track down future column Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 simultaneous appearance 1936-37 Old Squares Sides Model Builder Model Aviation yes really MBs credited designer John Sprague middle names Just funning Bill Northrop Couldnt resist shak ing up liver bile Incidentally Polling Bob Boucher tell ship perfect electric Astro 15 belt reducer 12-8 13-8 Tis mad mad world Eight weeks plus S68 equals Va Mooney Saw last column picture card board airplane begins Marvin Reese Wichita would Art Schmalzs -scale Eastbourne So heres pictures first cardboard foam-core board attempt Lots help Dennis Reichenberger has never built plane anything else Dennis come forward Stand far enough away re sembles Mooney Mite M-18 -scale modi fied plans took liberties expedite project moments correct Wanted throw together fast possible see project feasible Gemini Twinor engine matter Eight weeks $68 Came heavy 18 pounds really heavy 1800 squares almost too heavy twin Gemini Wings tail foam-core board Strongest lightest frame ever built Also gentle planes ever flew Marvin continues Looks flies sounds totally real Landings make look superiorsmooth mink Rolls loops hammerheads ease Havent tried sustained inverted enough down elevator will added logbook will use foam-board cardboard heavily now Gere fuselage took two weeks build came out bit crooked Continued page 99 THE BEST IN GIANT SCALE Make Right Choice First Time New Kioritz Jr 13 Cu Kioritz 24 Mfg Suggested List $21995 Dealer Direct Zinger Props t5 24 doereter Ii ptches Exhaust Manifold Kitftts Kioritz Kawasaki &others Velocity Stack Kit Kiorttz Quadra Six-Bolt Prop Hub Quadra Kioritz 1 -Pc Cast Mount rot 24 tod 3 Kioritz Digital Tach Spark mpalse triggered Rennet Muffler B&B Spectaittes Champion Plugs RCJ-8 resistor Belray MC-1 Synthetic Oil 12 501 met Send 50 0ROUSH NE WI R MTITAN 43Culn 61/2HP $28995 Direct Only 30% off $1000 300 1 995 1595 5995 1795 250 295 62 Model Aviation IL INTRODUCING COVER ITES AMAZING MIC4FIL~A RIP PROOF IRON-ON THAT ADHERES WITH BALSARITE S 40%-70% LIGHTER U 700% TOUGHER U REVERSIBLE U PAINTABLE COVERITE 420 BABYLON RD HORSHAM PA 19044 USA Box 251 YVILLE OHIO 44671 MPG Phone 216 866-9462 484-4374 Fun/Winter Cant p 62 framed cardboard Marvin thinks chopped lightening holes added long stringer both sides eliminate square look covered usual would have stronger lighter could have done two nights $200 plus covering Such kits would cinch Just sheets material patterns People have demonstrated get cambered surfaces both coreboard corrugated cardboard once saw Bridi 60 cabin job fieldlovely what Later playing back video heard back ground conversation foam-core board Good paintjob Youd never know difference Ron St Jean has bonded silkspan-like paper hot-wire cut cores stand up big comp Free-Flight stresses Composites coming Editor An article Ron St Jean describing processes will appear magazine soon can scheduled Joe Ott caper Joe back business man turned us during Twenties Rubber Scale jobs Popular Aviation might just shake up industry expect have details next month Hes got radio system never-seen-before features trainer assembles jigs Very advanced features techniques scratch-built either ex ample molded cabin has pilot painted Nifty removable motor mount allows replacement bigger engine minutes Two wings calm windy weather Four channels die-cutsprinted sheets remarkable product remarkable man 83 sounds like 20-year-old walking before Wrights flew Kitty Hawk pre-run kit way Spooky stuff mid-1800s Hensons 150-ft Aerial Carriage Experts say might have flown given suitable power plant Construction equalled 1900-era stuff modern features including trike gear laughed him scorn friend John Stringfellow years tried prove concept series models about 20 ft powered own model steam engine enough power steam engine about 1 feet tall developing about horsepower exhibit National Air & Space Museum Stringfellow first build workable model airplane power plant Langley father power Free Flights Stringfellow father engines Henson two full-size versions Aerial Carriage years ago Smithsonian bought Engiand great institution ordered priceless power plant shipped America Titanic Bill Winter 4330 Alta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Supercat/K ilsdonk Continued page 35 except fuel following do-it-yourself steps will add small benefits depending particular engine Drill out venturi 5/32-in diameter still use pins Lap crankshaft crankcase Lap piston cylinder fit alter crankshaft cylinder timing detailed how-to description provided 3-part series Joe Klause Model Builder magazine work done properly Now back purchased horsepowerfuel Ordinary 5-15% sport fuel will give very good performance adding propylene oxide up 10% can really bring life provides extra heat As love also respond very well additional nitromethane Continued page 100 Catalog 8150 98 RUBBER POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L R/C Accessories Books 4 444444 MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th Street Cleveland Ohio 44111 March 1982 99 Fine Quality Flying Models GONTIOLIII TillS PROFILE0 COMBA rRA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 Capacities UNIFLOW & STINDD Custom D1mn Vials 5to40% Nitro& FAI detailed brochure send 60 cents CAROLINA TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/03
Page Numbers: 14, 15, 16, 18, 62, 99
Bill Winter Yiist53r o5ev cfr ZERO DISPLACEMENT ENGINES Fairey Flycatcher think name classic British military biplane Now understand indebted ydu experts have explained fly-catching techniques arent surprised impressive solution comes old-timer Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research name rings bell its because shaker mover world Scale pioneer fiberglass shells Lets just say has forgotten us remember developed fly-catching fine artsays took him back 30 years Thats can myself greatest success catching flies recounts using wide-mouthjar holes punched lid air Fly-Power Storage Area Upon spotting fly would care fully place clear glass over approaching down-sun cast shadow fly inside glass slipped piece card board underneath matched mouth glass mayonnaisejar remov ing cardboard allow fly fly upward took patience ice box Dale goes relentlessly let him quiet down about 20 minutes Modern-day refrigerators might take less time never put flies freezer compartment die like flies ready installation use pair tweezers dab Ambroid nose aircraft dibble feet glue fly equipped miniature half dumbbell extending abdomen must vibrate has no desire fly fly begins warm up become active fastdrying cement probably better launch hold aircraft between thumb forefinger very lightly until pulls out hand Have smidge clay handy case misjudged CG dont count straight flights Knowing thousands reading revelations breathlessly urge patience big green bottle fly best Horse flies scarce horses produce too much Winter has having very good luck Ni-Cd glow plug boosters left McDaniel RCs Ni-Stafler- right Ace RCs Nilight fly power spurts Also good fly looks like honey beedo carefuL double ball-bearing jobbies recognized insignia H back hang around butterflies throng flowers covering Dale used Japanese Super Lite white tissue dope made acetone toothbrush handles sparingly applied Any gen uine old-timer remembers dissolving celluloid toowho could afford banana oil spot clue Flies air-breathing power plants Baf fling however Dale managed select him flies cant tell difference between boy girl chickens almost said chicks saw fly-powered model Thats Incredible Dont forget column first tell find free engines next step sub-contract fine-mesh butterfly net some white-coated sourpuss coarse-mesh net doesnt get us first Ole way Schenectady Union-Star August 16 1946 carried four-column story time-capsule pix members Schenec tady Aeroneer Club members Theres twoline banner headline Aeroneers Zoom Back Flying Picture Members Return War Service days friend first Jackie Gleason used say little traveling music please RC rage sure what next rage During four flights Winters Aristocrat Fort Meade Fly-In pilot Srull practicing scale procedure away time Ed Brandlis huge Sopwith Pup looping directly beneath Aristocrats fly-bysand no nervous huge Balsa USA kit turns loops dime Right two 1 2-ft Telemasters attendance land like parachutes hardly roll-out belongs Walter Pace Hobby Lobby kit Evra 1 9 engine Nifty model covered nine rolls MonoKote note reflections wing Drum-like covering sounded like thunderstorm engine fired up 14 Model Aviation could possibly since RC supposedly ultimate undoubtedly will have rages before shortly after Wrights until Lindbergh flight 1927 sizeable hobby developed rubber poweralthough peppered compressed air Little three-cylinder engines worked like CO-2 huge balloon thin-walled metal tanks wrapped spot-soldered music wire airplane magic Kids forgot about wanting streetcar conductors magazines never hear famous clubs andfrom about 1920 onmanufacturers made 2000 3000 ready-to-fly models day about 1909 catalogs filled juicy pix kit models Wright Bleriot up Jenny DH-4 long time quest merely make something fly Models flown remarkably well before ancient writer born com munications bad still reinvent ing wheel 20 years later might use flour paste tissue kite sticks sliced inner tubes next town guys balsa silk big lightweight Loening amphibs Heath Bullets Wacos caveman co existed nuclear physicist speak Never forget Model Airplane News scene 1929 ignited bit later one-and-only Charlie Grant got stam pede traiL until almost 25-year battle merely prove supremacy tractor twin pusher Until early Thirties rubber king although occasional gas models around ever since Ray Ardens 1904he met wife crate flew mile across New Yorks Van Courtlandt Park land feet sensational appearance Brown Junior flown Max Bassett 1932-33 Nats brought Space Shuttie-type excitement place jumped Free Flights Contests common long before WW first Nats encouraged National Aero nautic Assn 1923just Chicago St Louis groups Airplane Model League America AMLA got together about 1927-1930 large meets Nats tie-in American Boy magazine pubSCALING UP OR DOWN-BY RALPH PREY EXAMPLE ON ENLARGING RAM ROD 600 TO RAM ROD 1000 RAM ROD 600 DIMENSIONS BELOW FIGURE IN IS SQ INS IIT I80 1775 100 177580 10 817751017758 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 615 SQ INS TO ACHIEVE ENTER DATA IN POCKET CALCULATOR AND DIVIDE 1000 BY 615 WHICH EQUALS 1626 ENTER 1626 AND TAKE SQUARE ROOT WHICH PRODUCES THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 1275 MULTIPLY ALL DIMENSIONS ON 600 PLAN BYL275 RAM ROD 1000 DIMENSIONS USING ABOVE FIGURES BY MULTIPLYING BY 1275 LISTED BELOW FIGURE IN QINS 1130051288541625628854130051275 iiII 102 22631 127522631 102 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 99974 SQ INS OR 1000 THE SYSTEM WORKS make model twice largewould double dimensions No increases area fourtimes Handy chart Ralph Preyfrom San Valeers Satellite covers incrementforscaling up down wary scale-downsthe ares melts like ice cube sun 075 TO 10 TO 15 AEROBATIC TIP 115% TO 125% LI SCOTCH BRAND PLASTIC ROOT PE-CLEARPECES OF TAPE SPRUCEvBALSA10% 7ikI/4WEBBING Two fine airfoils electric models courtesy Heinz Koerner Good RC jobs regardless power will make crate groovy ballooning tendency get flatbottomed airfoil Both low-drag Ideal direct-drive electric lished excellent thingsone stick model gained its flier trip Olympics jont know model event AMLA faded AMA via Charlie Grants International Gas Model Association MAN turned over NAA Air Youths Division handed off AMA still division ofNAA Disappearing before war Hearst papers Junior Birdmen Scripps-Howards Junior Aviators Lady Luck ruled Everyone figured could beat anyone else including Bassett Clubs went meets en masse Sport competition inseparable Wild giorious fun barnstormers martin HCCSC ano Mighty Mite roooara/Toamooara /3 somewhat-scale built eight weeks for$68 Aerobatic including hammerheads hard-working Gemini Twin Above son white whale Planes moments scaleno wonder its maneuverable March 198215 Meet fellow modelers say 35 years ago brighteagerfaces Schenectady NY Aeroneers dedicated picking up 1946 after boys came home Second War End Wars% members served place library may have meeting rather dinner wonder because several wives girl friends grandfathers grandmothers few 10- 1 2-year-olds photo carnival everybody glassy-eyed lure flight would never better Jim Walkers UControl suddenly seemed like brick strin& McCoy-Hatfield feud sissy stuff com pared strife between Free Flighters Control Liners everything seething turmoil end wild-eyed age innocence World War II upon us Said Union Star model airplane club Aeroneers declined during war cause two-thirds its members went armed forces now very much back Schenectady picture. biggest item clubs agenda 1946 Sixth Annual Invitation AMA sponsored Model Airplane Contest. Rubber-Powered models Towline Gliders Free Flight Control Line Gas models People swarmed meets over America New York 1947 Mirror drew 250000 spectators Grummans Bethpage field Radio flown few wizards like Good Brothers Walker before war soon shake up troops AMAs successful attempt get examination-free frequency required no Ham license CL Speed briefly Numero Uno followed craze U-control Stunt Free Flight mass sport skids Little things turned us off could love Pencil Bomber gassie Gosh editor-pub lisher did Ditto Wakefield super shrewdies began weigh individual cross pieces cut down rubber us washed up takeoff requirement Power abandoned CL Team Racing looked exciting year two Rat Racing quickie outcome demolition-derby whapped together quickies soon became science thing else too cant go home again Nor recapture flaming spirit zany time So thanks Danny Sheelds dug up historic material us can show few nostalgic Aeroneer pictures faces planes tell story No doubt well receive letters California Europe some folks perhaps well get share some wonderful stories note Aeroneers Club organized home Jack Thelen killed over Marshall Islands Marine Corsair easily forget Bats belfry Now last summers mileContinued pige 18 MA Assistant Editor Doug Pratts idea good time sun slowly setting electric plane charging away merrily BBC shortwave radio Plane Astro Sport 05 power built aileron-elevatorversion can also made cabin rudder-elevator style Pratt keeps electric ship car times take advantage bit decent weather 16 Model Aviation changing guard Aeroneer prolects show cabin FF gull- Award-winning Aeroneer members judging trophieswith wing glider way-it-was Wakefield Korda mysterious flying pretty girl make guys look good Model top left resembles boat 3-blader sponsons Comet Clipper thats well Schroders Jersey Javelin lower right Walt Good FF Guff prewar also after WW II floats center well-dressed maybe Any guesses third ship Cards over place dont pioneer holding early Control Line Speed job Details may show say PHOF Thats PILOT orACE PILOT Datesare 1945 remembers picture guy flew clockwise meant thattorque helped hold line tension same library toowed now guess meeting place Photos Danny Sheelds stone recedes mind cluttered great-grandmothers attic pipe dreams things build Two kids fly ground ex-Pattern type out six years flew humble Kadet visit made look good make look bad did Another tech-rep brat area repaired first guys Phoenix V bought brandnew unflown Mach chap suddenly vamped Quarter Scale bought two Futabas whistles bells new Airtronics XL Unlimited also has chimes have too last night spent listening jazz plays boys also have sundiy Kraft stuff should mention fly Quarter Scalers Airtronics XL sometimes Ace Silver 7 mixing etc Also have World Engines Expert charged up no place go well crazy mix two old Futabas Krafts Sanwas Airtronics Aceafter cant fly everything once what see field radios seem work fine nothing has ever failed am hacker has trouble approaches Naturally grandson got turned spent $20 paints etc tail-wagging Dicks Dream possible old man uncle also have battered three-year-old Concept Air Scout lightweight Midwest OS 15powered Champion lovethey fly gales Lord protects daft also sneaked away Realistic Stinson kit now framed Top Flite J-3thats ready go valiant effort keep up middle-aged youngsters got new glasses order see blue Kadet white also stinks unless against blue sky has 73 flights dont write off am wiser after last years confrontations After three seasons Ive decided glow drivers arent pot Ive blown plugs right left So have guys use box un invited dont talk find Aces Nilight Ni-Cd booster McDaniels NiStarter better dry batteries 12 volts hold nice bright light dont over-prime finger doesnt get whapped Flip prop through few times attach booster hold prop rotate feel bump dont crank plastic prop cold day Engines get ornery plastic prop edge sharp Ive counted six transmitters impound switches needles pegged Must check things like fly big Aristocrat Ive seen dozens crates shot down Nobody ever proves anything after en croaching civilization brings paging services evil surprises closer closer Thank goodness FCC moving have hit slow sport stuff Ive made saves Post checks never find anything wrong radios good made humans smart get new system checked out Weve seen shorted crystals bad solderingjoints solder bridges uncleaned resin solder flakes like gold-plated connectors especially thin upright pins Some other pins accrue invisible crud system may have jitters first turned go bananas taxi out slide connectors out few times before first fly new system Better possible have service man clean connectors before fly Wish George Myers would tell George vibration test rubberbanding system ply Dremel jig saw table other day two servos unflown system drop dead Bill Hershberger found poor receiver contact pins See what mean guys bewildered almost Continued page 62 18 Model Aviation o New Expandable concept R ilcopters o The Competitor will fly 45 50 060 size engines o model can take novice flying winning AMA expert class Advanced design features never before seen R/C Helicopter Triple ball bearings main tail rotor hubsLight weight l construction itorotation standardLow cost parts ntrols designed inverted flightA11 versions fully aerobatic FAI patterns tail drives Safety Comes First/Preston Continued page 12 consequences could have far tragic Amen first time have reported fuel can exploding hope yours will next have field box has both fuel can electrical power take time look ask yourself question Could happen Maybe some minor changes layout could make safer Finally month about embark effort investigate causes number glitches seem occurring everincreasing number local flying field strongly suspect outside interference such pocket pagers FCC grants AMA petition get choice 50 fre quencies 72 MHz band operate still will sharing band other users seems like club should aware other users frequency scanner may way track down future column Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 simultaneous appearance 1936-37 Old Squares Sides Model Builder Model Aviation yes really MBs credited designer John Sprague middle names Just funning Bill Northrop Couldnt resist shak ing up liver bile Incidentally Polling Bob Boucher tell ship perfect electric Astro 15 belt reducer 12-8 13-8 Tis mad mad world Eight weeks plus S68 equals Va Mooney Saw last column picture card board airplane begins Marvin Reese Wichita would Art Schmalzs -scale Eastbourne So heres pictures first cardboard foam-core board attempt Lots help Dennis Reichenberger has never built plane anything else Dennis come forward Stand far enough away re sembles Mooney Mite M-18 -scale modi fied plans took liberties expedite project moments correct Wanted throw together fast possible see project feasible Gemini Twinor engine matter Eight weeks $68 Came heavy 18 pounds really heavy 1800 squares almost too heavy twin Gemini Wings tail foam-core board Strongest lightest frame ever built Also gentle planes ever flew Marvin continues Looks flies sounds totally real Landings make look superiorsmooth mink Rolls loops hammerheads ease Havent tried sustained inverted enough down elevator will added logbook will use foam-board cardboard heavily now Gere fuselage took two weeks build came out bit crooked Continued page 99 THE BEST IN GIANT SCALE Make Right Choice First Time New Kioritz Jr 13 Cu Kioritz 24 Mfg Suggested List $21995 Dealer Direct Zinger Props t5 24 doereter Ii ptches Exhaust Manifold Kitftts Kioritz Kawasaki &others Velocity Stack Kit Kiorttz Quadra Six-Bolt Prop Hub Quadra Kioritz 1 -Pc Cast Mount rot 24 tod 3 Kioritz Digital Tach Spark mpalse triggered Rennet Muffler B&B Spectaittes Champion Plugs RCJ-8 resistor Belray MC-1 Synthetic Oil 12 501 met Send 50 0ROUSH NE WI R MTITAN 43Culn 61/2HP $28995 Direct Only 30% off $1000 300 1 995 1595 5995 1795 250 295 62 Model Aviation IL INTRODUCING COVER ITES AMAZING MIC4FIL~A RIP PROOF IRON-ON THAT ADHERES WITH BALSARITE S 40%-70% LIGHTER U 700% TOUGHER U REVERSIBLE U PAINTABLE COVERITE 420 BABYLON RD HORSHAM PA 19044 USA Box 251 YVILLE OHIO 44671 MPG Phone 216 866-9462 484-4374 Fun/Winter Cant p 62 framed cardboard Marvin thinks chopped lightening holes added long stringer both sides eliminate square look covered usual would have stronger lighter could have done two nights $200 plus covering Such kits would cinch Just sheets material patterns People have demonstrated get cambered surfaces both coreboard corrugated cardboard once saw Bridi 60 cabin job fieldlovely what Later playing back video heard back ground conversation foam-core board Good paintjob Youd never know difference Ron St Jean has bonded silkspan-like paper hot-wire cut cores stand up big comp Free-Flight stresses Composites coming Editor An article Ron St Jean describing processes will appear magazine soon can scheduled Joe Ott caper Joe back business man turned us during Twenties Rubber Scale jobs Popular Aviation might just shake up industry expect have details next month Hes got radio system never-seen-before features trainer assembles jigs Very advanced features techniques scratch-built either ex ample molded cabin has pilot painted Nifty removable motor mount allows replacement bigger engine minutes Two wings calm windy weather Four channels die-cutsprinted sheets remarkable product remarkable man 83 sounds like 20-year-old walking before Wrights flew Kitty Hawk pre-run kit way Spooky stuff mid-1800s Hensons 150-ft Aerial Carriage Experts say might have flown given suitable power plant Construction equalled 1900-era stuff modern features including trike gear laughed him scorn friend John Stringfellow years tried prove concept series models about 20 ft powered own model steam engine enough power steam engine about 1 feet tall developing about horsepower exhibit National Air & Space Museum Stringfellow first build workable model airplane power plant Langley father power Free Flights Stringfellow father engines Henson two full-size versions Aerial Carriage years ago Smithsonian bought Engiand great institution ordered priceless power plant shipped America Titanic Bill Winter 4330 Alta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Supercat/K ilsdonk Continued page 35 except fuel following do-it-yourself steps will add small benefits depending particular engine Drill out venturi 5/32-in diameter still use pins Lap crankshaft crankcase Lap piston cylinder fit alter crankshaft cylinder timing detailed how-to description provided 3-part series Joe Klause Model Builder magazine work done properly Now back purchased horsepowerfuel Ordinary 5-15% sport fuel will give very good performance adding propylene oxide up 10% can really bring life provides extra heat As love also respond very well additional nitromethane Continued page 100 Catalog 8150 98 RUBBER POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L R/C Accessories Books 4 444444 MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th Street Cleveland Ohio 44111 March 1982 99 Fine Quality Flying Models GONTIOLIII TillS PROFILE0 COMBA rRA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 Capacities UNIFLOW & STINDD Custom D1mn Vials 5to40% Nitro& FAI detailed brochure send 60 cents CAROLINA TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/03
Page Numbers: 14, 15, 16, 18, 62, 99
Bill Winter Yiist53r o5ev cfr ZERO DISPLACEMENT ENGINES Fairey Flycatcher think name classic British military biplane Now understand indebted ydu experts have explained fly-catching techniques arent surprised impressive solution comes old-timer Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research name rings bell its because shaker mover world Scale pioneer fiberglass shells Lets just say has forgotten us remember developed fly-catching fine artsays took him back 30 years Thats can myself greatest success catching flies recounts using wide-mouthjar holes punched lid air Fly-Power Storage Area Upon spotting fly would care fully place clear glass over approaching down-sun cast shadow fly inside glass slipped piece card board underneath matched mouth glass mayonnaisejar remov ing cardboard allow fly fly upward took patience ice box Dale goes relentlessly let him quiet down about 20 minutes Modern-day refrigerators might take less time never put flies freezer compartment die like flies ready installation use pair tweezers dab Ambroid nose aircraft dibble feet glue fly equipped miniature half dumbbell extending abdomen must vibrate has no desire fly fly begins warm up become active fastdrying cement probably better launch hold aircraft between thumb forefinger very lightly until pulls out hand Have smidge clay handy case misjudged CG dont count straight flights Knowing thousands reading revelations breathlessly urge patience big green bottle fly best Horse flies scarce horses produce too much Winter has having very good luck Ni-Cd glow plug boosters left McDaniel RCs Ni-Stafler- right Ace RCs Nilight fly power spurts Also good fly looks like honey beedo carefuL double ball-bearing jobbies recognized insignia H back hang around butterflies throng flowers covering Dale used Japanese Super Lite white tissue dope made acetone toothbrush handles sparingly applied Any gen uine old-timer remembers dissolving celluloid toowho could afford banana oil spot clue Flies air-breathing power plants Baf fling however Dale managed select him flies cant tell difference between boy girl chickens almost said chicks saw fly-powered model Thats Incredible Dont forget column first tell find free engines next step sub-contract fine-mesh butterfly net some white-coated sourpuss coarse-mesh net doesnt get us first Ole way Schenectady Union-Star August 16 1946 carried four-column story time-capsule pix members Schenec tady Aeroneer Club members Theres twoline banner headline Aeroneers Zoom Back Flying Picture Members Return War Service days friend first Jackie Gleason used say little traveling music please RC rage sure what next rage During four flights Winters Aristocrat Fort Meade Fly-In pilot Srull practicing scale procedure away time Ed Brandlis huge Sopwith Pup looping directly beneath Aristocrats fly-bysand no nervous huge Balsa USA kit turns loops dime Right two 1 2-ft Telemasters attendance land like parachutes hardly roll-out belongs Walter Pace Hobby Lobby kit Evra 1 9 engine Nifty model covered nine rolls MonoKote note reflections wing Drum-like covering sounded like thunderstorm engine fired up 14 Model Aviation could possibly since RC supposedly ultimate undoubtedly will have rages before shortly after Wrights until Lindbergh flight 1927 sizeable hobby developed rubber poweralthough peppered compressed air Little three-cylinder engines worked like CO-2 huge balloon thin-walled metal tanks wrapped spot-soldered music wire airplane magic Kids forgot about wanting streetcar conductors magazines never hear famous clubs andfrom about 1920 onmanufacturers made 2000 3000 ready-to-fly models day about 1909 catalogs filled juicy pix kit models Wright Bleriot up Jenny DH-4 long time quest merely make something fly Models flown remarkably well before ancient writer born com munications bad still reinvent ing wheel 20 years later might use flour paste tissue kite sticks sliced inner tubes next town guys balsa silk big lightweight Loening amphibs Heath Bullets Wacos caveman co existed nuclear physicist speak Never forget Model Airplane News scene 1929 ignited bit later one-and-only Charlie Grant got stam pede traiL until almost 25-year battle merely prove supremacy tractor twin pusher Until early Thirties rubber king although occasional gas models around ever since Ray Ardens 1904he met wife crate flew mile across New Yorks Van Courtlandt Park land feet sensational appearance Brown Junior flown Max Bassett 1932-33 Nats brought Space Shuttie-type excitement place jumped Free Flights Contests common long before WW first Nats encouraged National Aero nautic Assn 1923just Chicago St Louis groups Airplane Model League America AMLA got together about 1927-1930 large meets Nats tie-in American Boy magazine pubSCALING UP OR DOWN-BY RALPH PREY EXAMPLE ON ENLARGING RAM ROD 600 TO RAM ROD 1000 RAM ROD 600 DIMENSIONS BELOW FIGURE IN IS SQ INS IIT I80 1775 100 177580 10 817751017758 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 615 SQ INS TO ACHIEVE ENTER DATA IN POCKET CALCULATOR AND DIVIDE 1000 BY 615 WHICH EQUALS 1626 ENTER 1626 AND TAKE SQUARE ROOT WHICH PRODUCES THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 1275 MULTIPLY ALL DIMENSIONS ON 600 PLAN BYL275 RAM ROD 1000 DIMENSIONS USING ABOVE FIGURES BY MULTIPLYING BY 1275 LISTED BELOW FIGURE IN QINS 1130051288541625628854130051275 iiII 102 22631 127522631 102 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 99974 SQ INS OR 1000 THE SYSTEM WORKS make model twice largewould double dimensions No increases area fourtimes Handy chart Ralph Preyfrom San Valeers Satellite covers incrementforscaling up down wary scale-downsthe ares melts like ice cube sun 075 TO 10 TO 15 AEROBATIC TIP 115% TO 125% LI SCOTCH BRAND PLASTIC ROOT PE-CLEARPECES OF TAPE SPRUCEvBALSA10% 7ikI/4WEBBING Two fine airfoils electric models courtesy Heinz Koerner Good RC jobs regardless power will make crate groovy ballooning tendency get flatbottomed airfoil Both low-drag Ideal direct-drive electric lished excellent thingsone stick model gained its flier trip Olympics jont know model event AMLA faded AMA via Charlie Grants International Gas Model Association MAN turned over NAA Air Youths Division handed off AMA still division ofNAA Disappearing before war Hearst papers Junior Birdmen Scripps-Howards Junior Aviators Lady Luck ruled Everyone figured could beat anyone else including Bassett Clubs went meets en masse Sport competition inseparable Wild giorious fun barnstormers martin HCCSC ano Mighty Mite roooara/Toamooara /3 somewhat-scale built eight weeks for$68 Aerobatic including hammerheads hard-working Gemini Twin Above son white whale Planes moments scaleno wonder its maneuverable March 198215 Meet fellow modelers say 35 years ago brighteagerfaces Schenectady NY Aeroneers dedicated picking up 1946 after boys came home Second War End Wars% members served place library may have meeting rather dinner wonder because several wives girl friends grandfathers grandmothers few 10- 1 2-year-olds photo carnival everybody glassy-eyed lure flight would never better Jim Walkers UControl suddenly seemed like brick strin& McCoy-Hatfield feud sissy stuff com pared strife between Free Flighters Control Liners everything seething turmoil end wild-eyed age innocence World War II upon us Said Union Star model airplane club Aeroneers declined during war cause two-thirds its members went armed forces now very much back Schenectady picture. biggest item clubs agenda 1946 Sixth Annual Invitation AMA sponsored Model Airplane Contest. Rubber-Powered models Towline Gliders Free Flight Control Line Gas models People swarmed meets over America New York 1947 Mirror drew 250000 spectators Grummans Bethpage field Radio flown few wizards like Good Brothers Walker before war soon shake up troops AMAs successful attempt get examination-free frequency required no Ham license CL Speed briefly Numero Uno followed craze U-control Stunt Free Flight mass sport skids Little things turned us off could love Pencil Bomber gassie Gosh editor-pub lisher did Ditto Wakefield super shrewdies began weigh individual cross pieces cut down rubber us washed up takeoff requirement Power abandoned CL Team Racing looked exciting year two Rat Racing quickie outcome demolition-derby whapped together quickies soon became science thing else too cant go home again Nor recapture flaming spirit zany time So thanks Danny Sheelds dug up historic material us can show few nostalgic Aeroneer pictures faces planes tell story No doubt well receive letters California Europe some folks perhaps well get share some wonderful stories note Aeroneers Club organized home Jack Thelen killed over Marshall Islands Marine Corsair easily forget Bats belfry Now last summers mileContinued pige 18 MA Assistant Editor Doug Pratts idea good time sun slowly setting electric plane charging away merrily BBC shortwave radio Plane Astro Sport 05 power built aileron-elevatorversion can also made cabin rudder-elevator style Pratt keeps electric ship car times take advantage bit decent weather 16 Model Aviation changing guard Aeroneer prolects show cabin FF gull- Award-winning Aeroneer members judging trophieswith wing glider way-it-was Wakefield Korda mysterious flying pretty girl make guys look good Model top left resembles boat 3-blader sponsons Comet Clipper thats well Schroders Jersey Javelin lower right Walt Good FF Guff prewar also after WW II floats center well-dressed maybe Any guesses third ship Cards over place dont pioneer holding early Control Line Speed job Details may show say PHOF Thats PILOT orACE PILOT Datesare 1945 remembers picture guy flew clockwise meant thattorque helped hold line tension same library toowed now guess meeting place Photos Danny Sheelds stone recedes mind cluttered great-grandmothers attic pipe dreams things build Two kids fly ground ex-Pattern type out six years flew humble Kadet visit made look good make look bad did Another tech-rep brat area repaired first guys Phoenix V bought brandnew unflown Mach chap suddenly vamped Quarter Scale bought two Futabas whistles bells new Airtronics XL Unlimited also has chimes have too last night spent listening jazz plays boys also have sundiy Kraft stuff should mention fly Quarter Scalers Airtronics XL sometimes Ace Silver 7 mixing etc Also have World Engines Expert charged up no place go well crazy mix two old Futabas Krafts Sanwas Airtronics Aceafter cant fly everything once what see field radios seem work fine nothing has ever failed am hacker has trouble approaches Naturally grandson got turned spent $20 paints etc tail-wagging Dicks Dream possible old man uncle also have battered three-year-old Concept Air Scout lightweight Midwest OS 15powered Champion lovethey fly gales Lord protects daft also sneaked away Realistic Stinson kit now framed Top Flite J-3thats ready go valiant effort keep up middle-aged youngsters got new glasses order see blue Kadet white also stinks unless against blue sky has 73 flights dont write off am wiser after last years confrontations After three seasons Ive decided glow drivers arent pot Ive blown plugs right left So have guys use box un invited dont talk find Aces Nilight Ni-Cd booster McDaniels NiStarter better dry batteries 12 volts hold nice bright light dont over-prime finger doesnt get whapped Flip prop through few times attach booster hold prop rotate feel bump dont crank plastic prop cold day Engines get ornery plastic prop edge sharp Ive counted six transmitters impound switches needles pegged Must check things like fly big Aristocrat Ive seen dozens crates shot down Nobody ever proves anything after en croaching civilization brings paging services evil surprises closer closer Thank goodness FCC moving have hit slow sport stuff Ive made saves Post checks never find anything wrong radios good made humans smart get new system checked out Weve seen shorted crystals bad solderingjoints solder bridges uncleaned resin solder flakes like gold-plated connectors especially thin upright pins Some other pins accrue invisible crud system may have jitters first turned go bananas taxi out slide connectors out few times before first fly new system Better possible have service man clean connectors before fly Wish George Myers would tell George vibration test rubberbanding system ply Dremel jig saw table other day two servos unflown system drop dead Bill Hershberger found poor receiver contact pins See what mean guys bewildered almost Continued page 62 18 Model Aviation o New Expandable concept R ilcopters o The Competitor will fly 45 50 060 size engines o model can take novice flying winning AMA expert class Advanced design features never before seen R/C Helicopter Triple ball bearings main tail rotor hubsLight weight l construction itorotation standardLow cost parts ntrols designed inverted flightA11 versions fully aerobatic FAI patterns tail drives Safety Comes First/Preston Continued page 12 consequences could have far tragic Amen first time have reported fuel can exploding hope yours will next have field box has both fuel can electrical power take time look ask yourself question Could happen Maybe some minor changes layout could make safer Finally month about embark effort investigate causes number glitches seem occurring everincreasing number local flying field strongly suspect outside interference such pocket pagers FCC grants AMA petition get choice 50 fre quencies 72 MHz band operate still will sharing band other users seems like club should aware other users frequency scanner may way track down future column Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 simultaneous appearance 1936-37 Old Squares Sides Model Builder Model Aviation yes really MBs credited designer John Sprague middle names Just funning Bill Northrop Couldnt resist shak ing up liver bile Incidentally Polling Bob Boucher tell ship perfect electric Astro 15 belt reducer 12-8 13-8 Tis mad mad world Eight weeks plus S68 equals Va Mooney Saw last column picture card board airplane begins Marvin Reese Wichita would Art Schmalzs -scale Eastbourne So heres pictures first cardboard foam-core board attempt Lots help Dennis Reichenberger has never built plane anything else Dennis come forward Stand far enough away re sembles Mooney Mite M-18 -scale modi fied plans took liberties expedite project moments correct Wanted throw together fast possible see project feasible Gemini Twinor engine matter Eight weeks $68 Came heavy 18 pounds really heavy 1800 squares almost too heavy twin Gemini Wings tail foam-core board Strongest lightest frame ever built Also gentle planes ever flew Marvin continues Looks flies sounds totally real Landings make look superiorsmooth mink Rolls loops hammerheads ease Havent tried sustained inverted enough down elevator will added logbook will use foam-board cardboard heavily now Gere fuselage took two weeks build came out bit crooked Continued page 99 THE BEST IN GIANT SCALE Make Right Choice First Time New Kioritz Jr 13 Cu Kioritz 24 Mfg Suggested List $21995 Dealer Direct Zinger Props t5 24 doereter Ii ptches Exhaust Manifold Kitftts Kioritz Kawasaki &others Velocity Stack Kit Kiorttz Quadra Six-Bolt Prop Hub Quadra Kioritz 1 -Pc Cast Mount rot 24 tod 3 Kioritz Digital Tach Spark mpalse triggered Rennet Muffler B&B Spectaittes Champion Plugs RCJ-8 resistor Belray MC-1 Synthetic Oil 12 501 met Send 50 0ROUSH NE WI R MTITAN 43Culn 61/2HP $28995 Direct Only 30% off $1000 300 1 995 1595 5995 1795 250 295 62 Model Aviation IL INTRODUCING COVER ITES AMAZING MIC4FIL~A RIP PROOF IRON-ON THAT ADHERES WITH BALSARITE S 40%-70% LIGHTER U 700% TOUGHER U REVERSIBLE U PAINTABLE COVERITE 420 BABYLON RD HORSHAM PA 19044 USA Box 251 YVILLE OHIO 44671 MPG Phone 216 866-9462 484-4374 Fun/Winter Cant p 62 framed cardboard Marvin thinks chopped lightening holes added long stringer both sides eliminate square look covered usual would have stronger lighter could have done two nights $200 plus covering Such kits would cinch Just sheets material patterns People have demonstrated get cambered surfaces both coreboard corrugated cardboard once saw Bridi 60 cabin job fieldlovely what Later playing back video heard back ground conversation foam-core board Good paintjob Youd never know difference Ron St Jean has bonded silkspan-like paper hot-wire cut cores stand up big comp Free-Flight stresses Composites coming Editor An article Ron St Jean describing processes will appear magazine soon can scheduled Joe Ott caper Joe back business man turned us during Twenties Rubber Scale jobs Popular Aviation might just shake up industry expect have details next month Hes got radio system never-seen-before features trainer assembles jigs Very advanced features techniques scratch-built either ex ample molded cabin has pilot painted Nifty removable motor mount allows replacement bigger engine minutes Two wings calm windy weather Four channels die-cutsprinted sheets remarkable product remarkable man 83 sounds like 20-year-old walking before Wrights flew Kitty Hawk pre-run kit way Spooky stuff mid-1800s Hensons 150-ft Aerial Carriage Experts say might have flown given suitable power plant Construction equalled 1900-era stuff modern features including trike gear laughed him scorn friend John Stringfellow years tried prove concept series models about 20 ft powered own model steam engine enough power steam engine about 1 feet tall developing about horsepower exhibit National Air & Space Museum Stringfellow first build workable model airplane power plant Langley father power Free Flights Stringfellow father engines Henson two full-size versions Aerial Carriage years ago Smithsonian bought Engiand great institution ordered priceless power plant shipped America Titanic Bill Winter 4330 Alta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Supercat/K ilsdonk Continued page 35 except fuel following do-it-yourself steps will add small benefits depending particular engine Drill out venturi 5/32-in diameter still use pins Lap crankshaft crankcase Lap piston cylinder fit alter crankshaft cylinder timing detailed how-to description provided 3-part series Joe Klause Model Builder magazine work done properly Now back purchased horsepowerfuel Ordinary 5-15% sport fuel will give very good performance adding propylene oxide up 10% can really bring life provides extra heat As love also respond very well additional nitromethane Continued page 100 Catalog 8150 98 RUBBER POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L R/C Accessories Books 4 444444 MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th Street Cleveland Ohio 44111 March 1982 99 Fine Quality Flying Models GONTIOLIII TillS PROFILE0 COMBA rRA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 Capacities UNIFLOW & STINDD Custom D1mn Vials 5to40% Nitro& FAI detailed brochure send 60 cents CAROLINA TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/03
Page Numbers: 14, 15, 16, 18, 62, 99
Bill Winter Yiist53r o5ev cfr ZERO DISPLACEMENT ENGINES Fairey Flycatcher think name classic British military biplane Now understand indebted ydu experts have explained fly-catching techniques arent surprised impressive solution comes old-timer Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research name rings bell its because shaker mover world Scale pioneer fiberglass shells Lets just say has forgotten us remember developed fly-catching fine artsays took him back 30 years Thats can myself greatest success catching flies recounts using wide-mouthjar holes punched lid air Fly-Power Storage Area Upon spotting fly would care fully place clear glass over approaching down-sun cast shadow fly inside glass slipped piece card board underneath matched mouth glass mayonnaisejar remov ing cardboard allow fly fly upward took patience ice box Dale goes relentlessly let him quiet down about 20 minutes Modern-day refrigerators might take less time never put flies freezer compartment die like flies ready installation use pair tweezers dab Ambroid nose aircraft dibble feet glue fly equipped miniature half dumbbell extending abdomen must vibrate has no desire fly fly begins warm up become active fastdrying cement probably better launch hold aircraft between thumb forefinger very lightly until pulls out hand Have smidge clay handy case misjudged CG dont count straight flights Knowing thousands reading revelations breathlessly urge patience big green bottle fly best Horse flies scarce horses produce too much Winter has having very good luck Ni-Cd glow plug boosters left McDaniel RCs Ni-Stafler- right Ace RCs Nilight fly power spurts Also good fly looks like honey beedo carefuL double ball-bearing jobbies recognized insignia H back hang around butterflies throng flowers covering Dale used Japanese Super Lite white tissue dope made acetone toothbrush handles sparingly applied Any gen uine old-timer remembers dissolving celluloid toowho could afford banana oil spot clue Flies air-breathing power plants Baf fling however Dale managed select him flies cant tell difference between boy girl chickens almost said chicks saw fly-powered model Thats Incredible Dont forget column first tell find free engines next step sub-contract fine-mesh butterfly net some white-coated sourpuss coarse-mesh net doesnt get us first Ole way Schenectady Union-Star August 16 1946 carried four-column story time-capsule pix members Schenec tady Aeroneer Club members Theres twoline banner headline Aeroneers Zoom Back Flying Picture Members Return War Service days friend first Jackie Gleason used say little traveling music please RC rage sure what next rage During four flights Winters Aristocrat Fort Meade Fly-In pilot Srull practicing scale procedure away time Ed Brandlis huge Sopwith Pup looping directly beneath Aristocrats fly-bysand no nervous huge Balsa USA kit turns loops dime Right two 1 2-ft Telemasters attendance land like parachutes hardly roll-out belongs Walter Pace Hobby Lobby kit Evra 1 9 engine Nifty model covered nine rolls MonoKote note reflections wing Drum-like covering sounded like thunderstorm engine fired up 14 Model Aviation could possibly since RC supposedly ultimate undoubtedly will have rages before shortly after Wrights until Lindbergh flight 1927 sizeable hobby developed rubber poweralthough peppered compressed air Little three-cylinder engines worked like CO-2 huge balloon thin-walled metal tanks wrapped spot-soldered music wire airplane magic Kids forgot about wanting streetcar conductors magazines never hear famous clubs andfrom about 1920 onmanufacturers made 2000 3000 ready-to-fly models day about 1909 catalogs filled juicy pix kit models Wright Bleriot up Jenny DH-4 long time quest merely make something fly Models flown remarkably well before ancient writer born com munications bad still reinvent ing wheel 20 years later might use flour paste tissue kite sticks sliced inner tubes next town guys balsa silk big lightweight Loening amphibs Heath Bullets Wacos caveman co existed nuclear physicist speak Never forget Model Airplane News scene 1929 ignited bit later one-and-only Charlie Grant got stam pede traiL until almost 25-year battle merely prove supremacy tractor twin pusher Until early Thirties rubber king although occasional gas models around ever since Ray Ardens 1904he met wife crate flew mile across New Yorks Van Courtlandt Park land feet sensational appearance Brown Junior flown Max Bassett 1932-33 Nats brought Space Shuttie-type excitement place jumped Free Flights Contests common long before WW first Nats encouraged National Aero nautic Assn 1923just Chicago St Louis groups Airplane Model League America AMLA got together about 1927-1930 large meets Nats tie-in American Boy magazine pubSCALING UP OR DOWN-BY RALPH PREY EXAMPLE ON ENLARGING RAM ROD 600 TO RAM ROD 1000 RAM ROD 600 DIMENSIONS BELOW FIGURE IN IS SQ INS IIT I80 1775 100 177580 10 817751017758 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 615 SQ INS TO ACHIEVE ENTER DATA IN POCKET CALCULATOR AND DIVIDE 1000 BY 615 WHICH EQUALS 1626 ENTER 1626 AND TAKE SQUARE ROOT WHICH PRODUCES THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 1275 MULTIPLY ALL DIMENSIONS ON 600 PLAN BYL275 RAM ROD 1000 DIMENSIONS USING ABOVE FIGURES BY MULTIPLYING BY 1275 LISTED BELOW FIGURE IN QINS 1130051288541625628854130051275 iiII 102 22631 127522631 102 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 99974 SQ INS OR 1000 THE SYSTEM WORKS make model twice largewould double dimensions No increases area fourtimes Handy chart Ralph Preyfrom San Valeers Satellite covers incrementforscaling up down wary scale-downsthe ares melts like ice cube sun 075 TO 10 TO 15 AEROBATIC TIP 115% TO 125% LI SCOTCH BRAND PLASTIC ROOT PE-CLEARPECES OF TAPE SPRUCEvBALSA10% 7ikI/4WEBBING Two fine airfoils electric models courtesy Heinz Koerner Good RC jobs regardless power will make crate groovy ballooning tendency get flatbottomed airfoil Both low-drag Ideal direct-drive electric lished excellent thingsone stick model gained its flier trip Olympics jont know model event AMLA faded AMA via Charlie Grants International Gas Model Association MAN turned over NAA Air Youths Division handed off AMA still division ofNAA Disappearing before war Hearst papers Junior Birdmen Scripps-Howards Junior Aviators Lady Luck ruled Everyone figured could beat anyone else including Bassett Clubs went meets en masse Sport competition inseparable Wild giorious fun barnstormers martin HCCSC ano Mighty Mite roooara/Toamooara /3 somewhat-scale built eight weeks for$68 Aerobatic including hammerheads hard-working Gemini Twin Above son white whale Planes moments scaleno wonder its maneuverable March 198215 Meet fellow modelers say 35 years ago brighteagerfaces Schenectady NY Aeroneers dedicated picking up 1946 after boys came home Second War End Wars% members served place library may have meeting rather dinner wonder because several wives girl friends grandfathers grandmothers few 10- 1 2-year-olds photo carnival everybody glassy-eyed lure flight would never better Jim Walkers UControl suddenly seemed like brick strin& McCoy-Hatfield feud sissy stuff com pared strife between Free Flighters Control Liners everything seething turmoil end wild-eyed age innocence World War II upon us Said Union Star model airplane club Aeroneers declined during war cause two-thirds its members went armed forces now very much back Schenectady picture. biggest item clubs agenda 1946 Sixth Annual Invitation AMA sponsored Model Airplane Contest. Rubber-Powered models Towline Gliders Free Flight Control Line Gas models People swarmed meets over America New York 1947 Mirror drew 250000 spectators Grummans Bethpage field Radio flown few wizards like Good Brothers Walker before war soon shake up troops AMAs successful attempt get examination-free frequency required no Ham license CL Speed briefly Numero Uno followed craze U-control Stunt Free Flight mass sport skids Little things turned us off could love Pencil Bomber gassie Gosh editor-pub lisher did Ditto Wakefield super shrewdies began weigh individual cross pieces cut down rubber us washed up takeoff requirement Power abandoned CL Team Racing looked exciting year two Rat Racing quickie outcome demolition-derby whapped together quickies soon became science thing else too cant go home again Nor recapture flaming spirit zany time So thanks Danny Sheelds dug up historic material us can show few nostalgic Aeroneer pictures faces planes tell story No doubt well receive letters California Europe some folks perhaps well get share some wonderful stories note Aeroneers Club organized home Jack Thelen killed over Marshall Islands Marine Corsair easily forget Bats belfry Now last summers mileContinued pige 18 MA Assistant Editor Doug Pratts idea good time sun slowly setting electric plane charging away merrily BBC shortwave radio Plane Astro Sport 05 power built aileron-elevatorversion can also made cabin rudder-elevator style Pratt keeps electric ship car times take advantage bit decent weather 16 Model Aviation changing guard Aeroneer prolects show cabin FF gull- Award-winning Aeroneer members judging trophieswith wing glider way-it-was Wakefield Korda mysterious flying pretty girl make guys look good Model top left resembles boat 3-blader sponsons Comet Clipper thats well Schroders Jersey Javelin lower right Walt Good FF Guff prewar also after WW II floats center well-dressed maybe Any guesses third ship Cards over place dont pioneer holding early Control Line Speed job Details may show say PHOF Thats PILOT orACE PILOT Datesare 1945 remembers picture guy flew clockwise meant thattorque helped hold line tension same library toowed now guess meeting place Photos Danny Sheelds stone recedes mind cluttered great-grandmothers attic pipe dreams things build Two kids fly ground ex-Pattern type out six years flew humble Kadet visit made look good make look bad did Another tech-rep brat area repaired first guys Phoenix V bought brandnew unflown Mach chap suddenly vamped Quarter Scale bought two Futabas whistles bells new Airtronics XL Unlimited also has chimes have too last night spent listening jazz plays boys also have sundiy Kraft stuff should mention fly Quarter Scalers Airtronics XL sometimes Ace Silver 7 mixing etc Also have World Engines Expert charged up no place go well crazy mix two old Futabas Krafts Sanwas Airtronics Aceafter cant fly everything once what see field radios seem work fine nothing has ever failed am hacker has trouble approaches Naturally grandson got turned spent $20 paints etc tail-wagging Dicks Dream possible old man uncle also have battered three-year-old Concept Air Scout lightweight Midwest OS 15powered Champion lovethey fly gales Lord protects daft also sneaked away Realistic Stinson kit now framed Top Flite J-3thats ready go valiant effort keep up middle-aged youngsters got new glasses order see blue Kadet white also stinks unless against blue sky has 73 flights dont write off am wiser after last years confrontations After three seasons Ive decided glow drivers arent pot Ive blown plugs right left So have guys use box un invited dont talk find Aces Nilight Ni-Cd booster McDaniels NiStarter better dry batteries 12 volts hold nice bright light dont over-prime finger doesnt get whapped Flip prop through few times attach booster hold prop rotate feel bump dont crank plastic prop cold day Engines get ornery plastic prop edge sharp Ive counted six transmitters impound switches needles pegged Must check things like fly big Aristocrat Ive seen dozens crates shot down Nobody ever proves anything after en croaching civilization brings paging services evil surprises closer closer Thank goodness FCC moving have hit slow sport stuff Ive made saves Post checks never find anything wrong radios good made humans smart get new system checked out Weve seen shorted crystals bad solderingjoints solder bridges uncleaned resin solder flakes like gold-plated connectors especially thin upright pins Some other pins accrue invisible crud system may have jitters first turned go bananas taxi out slide connectors out few times before first fly new system Better possible have service man clean connectors before fly Wish George Myers would tell George vibration test rubberbanding system ply Dremel jig saw table other day two servos unflown system drop dead Bill Hershberger found poor receiver contact pins See what mean guys bewildered almost Continued page 62 18 Model Aviation o New Expandable concept R ilcopters o The Competitor will fly 45 50 060 size engines o model can take novice flying winning AMA expert class Advanced design features never before seen R/C Helicopter Triple ball bearings main tail rotor hubsLight weight l construction itorotation standardLow cost parts ntrols designed inverted flightA11 versions fully aerobatic FAI patterns tail drives Safety Comes First/Preston Continued page 12 consequences could have far tragic Amen first time have reported fuel can exploding hope yours will next have field box has both fuel can electrical power take time look ask yourself question Could happen Maybe some minor changes layout could make safer Finally month about embark effort investigate causes number glitches seem occurring everincreasing number local flying field strongly suspect outside interference such pocket pagers FCC grants AMA petition get choice 50 fre quencies 72 MHz band operate still will sharing band other users seems like club should aware other users frequency scanner may way track down future column Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 simultaneous appearance 1936-37 Old Squares Sides Model Builder Model Aviation yes really MBs credited designer John Sprague middle names Just funning Bill Northrop Couldnt resist shak ing up liver bile Incidentally Polling Bob Boucher tell ship perfect electric Astro 15 belt reducer 12-8 13-8 Tis mad mad world Eight weeks plus S68 equals Va Mooney Saw last column picture card board airplane begins Marvin Reese Wichita would Art Schmalzs -scale Eastbourne So heres pictures first cardboard foam-core board attempt Lots help Dennis Reichenberger has never built plane anything else Dennis come forward Stand far enough away re sembles Mooney Mite M-18 -scale modi fied plans took liberties expedite project moments correct Wanted throw together fast possible see project feasible Gemini Twinor engine matter Eight weeks $68 Came heavy 18 pounds really heavy 1800 squares almost too heavy twin Gemini Wings tail foam-core board Strongest lightest frame ever built Also gentle planes ever flew Marvin continues Looks flies sounds totally real Landings make look superiorsmooth mink Rolls loops hammerheads ease Havent tried sustained inverted enough down elevator will added logbook will use foam-board cardboard heavily now Gere fuselage took two weeks build came out bit crooked Continued page 99 THE BEST IN GIANT SCALE Make Right Choice First Time New Kioritz Jr 13 Cu Kioritz 24 Mfg Suggested List $21995 Dealer Direct Zinger Props t5 24 doereter Ii ptches Exhaust Manifold Kitftts Kioritz Kawasaki &others Velocity Stack Kit Kiorttz Quadra Six-Bolt Prop Hub Quadra Kioritz 1 -Pc Cast Mount rot 24 tod 3 Kioritz Digital Tach Spark mpalse triggered Rennet Muffler B&B Spectaittes Champion Plugs RCJ-8 resistor Belray MC-1 Synthetic Oil 12 501 met Send 50 0ROUSH NE WI R MTITAN 43Culn 61/2HP $28995 Direct Only 30% off $1000 300 1 995 1595 5995 1795 250 295 62 Model Aviation IL INTRODUCING COVER ITES AMAZING MIC4FIL~A RIP PROOF IRON-ON THAT ADHERES WITH BALSARITE S 40%-70% LIGHTER U 700% TOUGHER U REVERSIBLE U PAINTABLE COVERITE 420 BABYLON RD HORSHAM PA 19044 USA Box 251 YVILLE OHIO 44671 MPG Phone 216 866-9462 484-4374 Fun/Winter Cant p 62 framed cardboard Marvin thinks chopped lightening holes added long stringer both sides eliminate square look covered usual would have stronger lighter could have done two nights $200 plus covering Such kits would cinch Just sheets material patterns People have demonstrated get cambered surfaces both coreboard corrugated cardboard once saw Bridi 60 cabin job fieldlovely what Later playing back video heard back ground conversation foam-core board Good paintjob Youd never know difference Ron St Jean has bonded silkspan-like paper hot-wire cut cores stand up big comp Free-Flight stresses Composites coming Editor An article Ron St Jean describing processes will appear magazine soon can scheduled Joe Ott caper Joe back business man turned us during Twenties Rubber Scale jobs Popular Aviation might just shake up industry expect have details next month Hes got radio system never-seen-before features trainer assembles jigs Very advanced features techniques scratch-built either ex ample molded cabin has pilot painted Nifty removable motor mount allows replacement bigger engine minutes Two wings calm windy weather Four channels die-cutsprinted sheets remarkable product remarkable man 83 sounds like 20-year-old walking before Wrights flew Kitty Hawk pre-run kit way Spooky stuff mid-1800s Hensons 150-ft Aerial Carriage Experts say might have flown given suitable power plant Construction equalled 1900-era stuff modern features including trike gear laughed him scorn friend John Stringfellow years tried prove concept series models about 20 ft powered own model steam engine enough power steam engine about 1 feet tall developing about horsepower exhibit National Air & Space Museum Stringfellow first build workable model airplane power plant Langley father power Free Flights Stringfellow father engines Henson two full-size versions Aerial Carriage years ago Smithsonian bought Engiand great institution ordered priceless power plant shipped America Titanic Bill Winter 4330 Alta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Supercat/K ilsdonk Continued page 35 except fuel following do-it-yourself steps will add small benefits depending particular engine Drill out venturi 5/32-in diameter still use pins Lap crankshaft crankcase Lap piston cylinder fit alter crankshaft cylinder timing detailed how-to description provided 3-part series Joe Klause Model Builder magazine work done properly Now back purchased horsepowerfuel Ordinary 5-15% sport fuel will give very good performance adding propylene oxide up 10% can really bring life provides extra heat As love also respond very well additional nitromethane Continued page 100 Catalog 8150 98 RUBBER POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L R/C Accessories Books 4 444444 MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th Street Cleveland Ohio 44111 March 1982 99 Fine Quality Flying Models GONTIOLIII TillS PROFILE0 COMBA rRA T WIDE & NARROW WEDGE 15 -- 6 Capacities UNIFLOW & STINDD Custom D1mn Vials 5to40% Nitro& FAI detailed brochure send 60 cents CAROLINA TAFFINDER 8345 Delhi Road Charleston Hgts SC 29405
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/03
Page Numbers: 14, 15, 16, 18, 62, 99
Bill Winter Yiist53r o5ev cfr ZERO DISPLACEMENT ENGINES Fairey Flycatcher think name classic British military biplane Now understand indebted ydu experts have explained fly-catching techniques arent surprised impressive solution comes old-timer Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research name rings bell its because shaker mover world Scale pioneer fiberglass shells Lets just say has forgotten us remember developed fly-catching fine artsays took him back 30 years Thats can myself greatest success catching flies recounts using wide-mouthjar holes punched lid air Fly-Power Storage Area Upon spotting fly would care fully place clear glass over approaching down-sun cast shadow fly inside glass slipped piece card board underneath matched mouth glass mayonnaisejar remov ing cardboard allow fly fly upward took patience ice box Dale goes relentlessly let him quiet down about 20 minutes Modern-day refrigerators might take less time never put flies freezer compartment die like flies ready installation use pair tweezers dab Ambroid nose aircraft dibble feet glue fly equipped miniature half dumbbell extending abdomen must vibrate has no desire fly fly begins warm up become active fastdrying cement probably better launch hold aircraft between thumb forefinger very lightly until pulls out hand Have smidge clay handy case misjudged CG dont count straight flights Knowing thousands reading revelations breathlessly urge patience big green bottle fly best Horse flies scarce horses produce too much Winter has having very good luck Ni-Cd glow plug boosters left McDaniel RCs Ni-Stafler- right Ace RCs Nilight fly power spurts Also good fly looks like honey beedo carefuL double ball-bearing jobbies recognized insignia H back hang around butterflies throng flowers covering Dale used Japanese Super Lite white tissue dope made acetone toothbrush handles sparingly applied Any gen uine old-timer remembers dissolving celluloid toowho could afford banana oil spot clue Flies air-breathing power plants Baf fling however Dale managed select him flies cant tell difference between boy girl chickens almost said chicks saw fly-powered model Thats Incredible Dont forget column first tell find free engines next step sub-contract fine-mesh butterfly net some white-coated sourpuss coarse-mesh net doesnt get us first Ole way Schenectady Union-Star August 16 1946 carried four-column story time-capsule pix members Schenec tady Aeroneer Club members Theres twoline banner headline Aeroneers Zoom Back Flying Picture Members Return War Service days friend first Jackie Gleason used say little traveling music please RC rage sure what next rage During four flights Winters Aristocrat Fort Meade Fly-In pilot Srull practicing scale procedure away time Ed Brandlis huge Sopwith Pup looping directly beneath Aristocrats fly-bysand no nervous huge Balsa USA kit turns loops dime Right two 1 2-ft Telemasters attendance land like parachutes hardly roll-out belongs Walter Pace Hobby Lobby kit Evra 1 9 engine Nifty model covered nine rolls MonoKote note reflections wing Drum-like covering sounded like thunderstorm engine fired up 14 Model Aviation could possibly since RC supposedly ultimate undoubtedly will have rages before shortly after Wrights until Lindbergh flight 1927 sizeable hobby developed rubber poweralthough peppered compressed air Little three-cylinder engines worked like CO-2 huge balloon thin-walled metal tanks wrapped spot-soldered music wire airplane magic Kids forgot about wanting streetcar conductors magazines never hear famous clubs andfrom about 1920 onmanufacturers made 2000 3000 ready-to-fly models day about 1909 catalogs filled juicy pix kit models Wright Bleriot up Jenny DH-4 long time quest merely make something fly Models flown remarkably well before ancient writer born com munications bad still reinvent ing wheel 20 years later might use flour paste tissue kite sticks sliced inner tubes next town guys balsa silk big lightweight Loening amphibs Heath Bullets Wacos caveman co existed nuclear physicist speak Never forget Model Airplane News scene 1929 ignited bit later one-and-only Charlie Grant got stam pede traiL until almost 25-year battle merely prove supremacy tractor twin pusher Until early Thirties rubber king although occasional gas models around ever since Ray Ardens 1904he met wife crate flew mile across New Yorks Van Courtlandt Park land feet sensational appearance Brown Junior flown Max Bassett 1932-33 Nats brought Space Shuttie-type excitement place jumped Free Flights Contests common long before WW first Nats encouraged National Aero nautic Assn 1923just Chicago St Louis groups Airplane Model League America AMLA got together about 1927-1930 large meets Nats tie-in American Boy magazine pubSCALING UP OR DOWN-BY RALPH PREY EXAMPLE ON ENLARGING RAM ROD 600 TO RAM ROD 1000 RAM ROD 600 DIMENSIONS BELOW FIGURE IN IS SQ INS IIT I80 1775 100 177580 10 817751017758 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 615 SQ INS TO ACHIEVE ENTER DATA IN POCKET CALCULATOR AND DIVIDE 1000 BY 615 WHICH EQUALS 1626 ENTER 1626 AND TAKE SQUARE ROOT WHICH PRODUCES THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 1275 MULTIPLY ALL DIMENSIONS ON 600 PLAN BYL275 RAM ROD 1000 DIMENSIONS USING ABOVE FIGURES BY MULTIPLYING BY 1275 LISTED BELOW FIGURE IN QINS 1130051288541625628854130051275 iiII 102 22631 127522631 102 TOTAL WING AREA IS THE SUM OF 5 PIECES OR 99974 SQ INS OR 1000 THE SYSTEM WORKS make model twice largewould double dimensions No increases area fourtimes Handy chart Ralph Preyfrom San Valeers Satellite covers incrementforscaling up down wary scale-downsthe ares melts like ice cube sun 075 TO 10 TO 15 AEROBATIC TIP 115% TO 125% LI SCOTCH BRAND PLASTIC ROOT PE-CLEARPECES OF TAPE SPRUCEvBALSA10% 7ikI/4WEBBING Two fine airfoils electric models courtesy Heinz Koerner Good RC jobs regardless power will make crate groovy ballooning tendency get flatbottomed airfoil Both low-drag Ideal direct-drive electric lished excellent thingsone stick model gained its flier trip Olympics jont know model event AMLA faded AMA via Charlie Grants International Gas Model Association MAN turned over NAA Air Youths Division handed off AMA still division ofNAA Disappearing before war Hearst papers Junior Birdmen Scripps-Howards Junior Aviators Lady Luck ruled Everyone figured could beat anyone else including Bassett Clubs went meets en masse Sport competition inseparable Wild giorious fun barnstormers martin HCCSC ano Mighty Mite roooara/Toamooara /3 somewhat-scale built eight weeks for$68 Aerobatic including hammerheads hard-working Gemini Twin Above son white whale Planes moments scaleno wonder its maneuverable March 198215 Meet fellow modelers say 35 years ago brighteagerfaces Schenectady NY Aeroneers dedicated picking up 1946 after boys came home Second War End Wars% members served place library may have meeting rather dinner wonder because several wives girl friends grandfathers grandmothers few 10- 1 2-year-olds photo carnival everybody glassy-eyed lure flight would never better Jim Walkers UControl suddenly seemed like brick strin& McCoy-Hatfield feud sissy stuff com pared strife between Free Flighters Control Liners everything seething turmoil end wild-eyed age innocence World War II upon us Said Union Star model airplane club Aeroneers declined during war cause two-thirds its members went armed forces now very much back Schenectady picture. biggest item clubs agenda 1946 Sixth Annual Invitation AMA sponsored Model Airplane Contest. Rubber-Powered models Towline Gliders Free Flight Control Line Gas models People swarmed meets over America New York 1947 Mirror drew 250000 spectators Grummans Bethpage field Radio flown few wizards like Good Brothers Walker before war soon shake up troops AMAs successful attempt get examination-free frequency required no Ham license CL Speed briefly Numero Uno followed craze U-control Stunt Free Flight mass sport skids Little things turned us off could love Pencil Bomber gassie Gosh editor-pub lisher did Ditto Wakefield super shrewdies began weigh individual cross pieces cut down rubber us washed up takeoff requirement Power abandoned CL Team Racing looked exciting year two Rat Racing quickie outcome demolition-derby whapped together quickies soon became science thing else too cant go home again Nor recapture flaming spirit zany time So thanks Danny Sheelds dug up historic material us can show few nostalgic Aeroneer pictures faces planes tell story No doubt well receive letters California Europe some folks perhaps well get share some wonderful stories note Aeroneers Club organized home Jack Thelen killed over Marshall Islands Marine Corsair easily forget Bats belfry Now last summers mileContinued pige 18 MA Assistant Editor Doug Pratts idea good time sun slowly setting electric plane charging away merrily BBC shortwave radio Plane Astro Sport 05 power built aileron-elevatorversion can also made cabin rudder-elevator style Pratt keeps electric ship car times take advantage bit decent weather 16 Model Aviation changing guard Aeroneer prolects show cabin FF gull- Award-winning Aeroneer members judging trophieswith wing glider way-it-was Wakefield Korda mysterious flying pretty girl make guys look good Model top left resembles boat 3-blader sponsons Comet Clipper thats well Schroders Jersey Javelin lower right Walt Good FF Guff prewar also after WW II floats center well-dressed maybe Any guesses third ship Cards over place dont pioneer holding early Control Line Speed job Details may show say PHOF Thats PILOT orACE PILOT Datesare 1945 remembers picture guy flew clockwise meant thattorque helped hold line tension same library toowed now guess meeting place Photos Danny Sheelds stone recedes mind cluttered great-grandmothers attic pipe dreams things build Two kids fly ground ex-Pattern type out six years flew humble Kadet visit made look good make look bad did Another tech-rep brat area repaired first guys Phoenix V bought brandnew unflown Mach chap suddenly vamped Quarter Scale bought two Futabas whistles bells new Airtronics XL Unlimited also has chimes have too last night spent listening jazz plays boys also have sundiy Kraft stuff should mention fly Quarter Scalers Airtronics XL sometimes Ace Silver 7 mixing etc Also have World Engines Expert charged up no place go well crazy mix two old Futabas Krafts Sanwas Airtronics Aceafter cant fly everything once what see field radios seem work fine nothing has ever failed am hacker has trouble approaches Naturally grandson got turned spent $20 paints etc tail-wagging Dicks Dream possible old man uncle also have battered three-year-old Concept Air Scout lightweight Midwest OS 15powered Champion lovethey fly gales Lord protects daft also sneaked away Realistic Stinson kit now framed Top Flite J-3thats ready go valiant effort keep up middle-aged youngsters got new glasses order see blue Kadet white also stinks unless against blue sky has 73 flights dont write off am wiser after last years confrontations After three seasons Ive decided glow drivers arent pot Ive blown plugs right left So have guys use box un invited dont talk find Aces Nilight Ni-Cd booster McDaniels NiStarter better dry batteries 12 volts hold nice bright light dont over-prime finger doesnt get whapped Flip prop through few times attach booster hold prop rotate feel bump dont crank plastic prop cold day Engines get ornery plastic prop edge sharp Ive counted six transmitters impound switches needles pegged Must check things like fly big Aristocrat Ive seen dozens crates shot down Nobody ever proves anything after en croaching civilization brings paging services evil surprises closer closer Thank goodness FCC moving have hit slow sport stuff Ive made saves Post checks never find anything wrong radios good made humans smart get new system checked out Weve seen shorted crystals bad solderingjoints solder bridges uncleaned resin solder flakes like gold-plated connectors especially thin upright pins Some other pins accrue invisible crud system may have jitters first turned go bananas taxi out slide connectors out few times before first fly new system Better possible have service man clean connectors before fly Wish George Myers would tell George vibration test rubberbanding system ply Dremel jig saw table other day two servos unflown system drop dead Bill Hershberger found poor receiver contact pins See what mean guys bewildered almost Continued page 62 18 Model Aviation o New Expandable concept R ilcopters o The Competitor will fly 45 50 060 size engines o model can take novice flying winning AMA expert class Advanced design features never before seen R/C Helicopter Triple ball bearings main tail rotor hubsLight weight l construction itorotation standardLow cost parts ntrols designed inverted flightA11 versions fully aerobatic FAI patterns tail drives Safety Comes First/Preston Continued page 12 consequences could have far tragic Amen first time have reported fuel can exploding hope yours will next have field box has both fuel can electrical power take time look ask yourself question Could happen Maybe some minor changes layout could make safer Finally month about embark effort investigate causes number glitches seem occurring everincreasing number local flying field strongly suspect outside interference such pocket pagers FCC grants AMA petition get choice 50 fre quencies 72 MHz band operate still will sharing band other users seems like club should aware other users frequency scanner may way track down future column Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Court Falls Church VA 22042 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 simultaneous appearance 1936-37 Old Squares Sides Model Builder Model Aviation yes really MBs credited designer John Sprague middle names Just funning Bill Northrop Couldnt resist shak ing up liver bile Incidentally Polling Bob Boucher tell ship perfect electric Astro 15 belt reducer 12-8 13-8 Tis mad mad world Eight weeks plus S68 equals Va Mooney Saw last column picture card board airplane begins Marvin Reese Wichita would Art Schmalzs -scale Eastbourne So heres pictures first cardboard foam-core board attempt Lots help Dennis Reichenberger has never built plane anything else Dennis come forward Stand far enough away re sembles Mooney Mite M-18 -scale modi fied plans took liberties expedite project moments correct Wanted throw together fast possible see project feasible Gemini Twinor engine matter Eight weeks $68 Came heavy 18 pounds really heavy 1800 squares almost too heavy twin Gemini Wings tail foam-core board Strongest lightest frame ever built Also gentle planes ever flew Marvin continues Looks flies sounds totally real Landings make look superiorsmooth mink Rolls loops hammerheads ease Havent tried sustained inverted enough down elevator will added logbook will use foam-board cardboard heavily now Gere fuselage took two weeks build came out bit crooked Continued page 99 THE BEST IN GIANT SCALE Make Right Choice First Time New Kioritz Jr 13 Cu Kioritz 24 Mfg Suggested List $21995 Dealer Direct Zinger Props t5 24 doereter Ii ptches Exhaust Manifold Kitftts Kioritz Kawasaki &others Velocity Stack Kit Kiorttz Quadra Six-Bolt Prop Hub Quadra Kioritz 1 -Pc Cast Mount rot 24 tod 3 Kioritz Digital Tach Spark mpalse triggered Rennet Muffler B&B Spectaittes Champion Plugs RCJ-8 resistor Belray MC-1 Synthetic Oil 12 501 met Send 50 0ROUSH NE WI R MTITAN 43Culn 61/2HP $28995 Direct Only 30% off $1000 300 1 995 1595 5995 1795 250 295 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caper Joe back business man turned us during Twenties Rubber Scale jobs Popular Aviation might just shake up industry expect have details next month Hes got radio system never-seen-before features trainer assembles jigs Very advanced features techniques scratch-built either ex ample molded cabin has pilot painted Nifty removable motor mount allows replacement bigger engine minutes Two wings calm windy weather Four channels die-cutsprinted sheets remarkable product remarkable man 83 sounds like 20-year-old walking before Wrights flew Kitty Hawk pre-run kit way Spooky stuff mid-1800s Hensons 150-ft Aerial Carriage Experts say might have flown given suitable power plant Construction equalled 1900-era stuff modern features including trike gear laughed him scorn friend John Stringfellow years tried prove concept series models about 20 ft powered own model steam engine enough power steam engine about 1 feet tall developing about horsepower exhibit National Air & Space Museum Stringfellow first build workable model airplane power plant Langley father power Free Flights Stringfellow father engines Henson two full-size versions Aerial Carriage years ago Smithsonian bought Engiand great institution ordered priceless power plant shipped America Titanic Bill Winter 4330 Alta Vista Dr Fairfaz VA 22030 Supercat/K ilsdonk Continued page 35 except fuel following do-it-yourself steps will add small benefits depending particular engine Drill out venturi 5/32-in diameter still use pins Lap crankshaft crankcase Lap piston cylinder fit alter crankshaft cylinder timing detailed how-to description provided 3-part series Joe Klause Model Builder magazine work done properly Now back purchased horsepowerfuel Ordinary 5-15% sport fuel will give very good performance adding propylene oxide up 10% can really bring life provides extra heat As love also respond very well additional nitromethane Continued page 100 Catalog 8150 98 RUBBER POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L R/C Accessories Books 4 444444 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