ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock hollow 15 fuselage spacers inch apart came microfilm Sure messed up bathtub first time tried saliva could hold onto balsa frame still mystery Shimmering beautiful stuff its spectral shifting colors did have Indoor sites much account days have models fly float have tissue ones catch thermals float float vanish thrill never forgotten before folding props country boys tried pretend Indoor models flew outdoors since did know difference really enjoyed Made fuses out string saltpeterhad parachute mes sage drops delay-timed ROGs way guy name Lindbergh flew silver mono plane over town Concordia waggled wingsjust knew Remember pictures Schenectady Aeroneers 1946 printed few issues back Writes Cliff Van Wagner many-year Continued page 84 Downwash kicks up snowstorm frozen lake outside front door Bill Sewell chop per pilot Homer Alaska Enjoys Cricket Pic Greg McCullough 24 Model Aviation CREATE S SUPERwings DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Froater Thermal & Slope FUSELAGES LUSTROLEEN 2 Meter Standard Open & Scale STAB FOAM CORES Rudder & Fin Cores COVERING MATERIALS White skin & Lustroleen WING RODS Wing Tongue Kits FOR HI JOHNSONS PORTFOLIO PRICE SHEET & ORDER FORM about sailplane construction & design using foam & plastic SEND $250 CHECK OR MO CA RES ADD SALES TAX Fun/Winter Continued page 24 member Schenectady Thunderbolts Aeroneers have mug two pictures March issue taken Mount Pleasant High School allowed use classrooms meetings third shot shows Ray Mrs Voight sitting teachers desk top picture am character top left picture left lam center rear holding gull-wing gliderthe Airhopper featured January 1940 Air Trails still have mag beat-up fuselage active Free Flight night contest light bottom fuselage guy holding Control Line job second picture soon switched everyone CL Dale Springstead am now RC three systems six planes Stars Stripes Forever Its Bird Its Plane reads sidebar Time magazine sent us Doug Dahlke seems Fairfield CA almost Hitch cockian invasion birds fifth million starlings nearby Travis AFB noise kept everybody awake night cloudless days citizens walk under umbrellas Folks blew whistles banged pots rang cowbells set off aerial explosives smart aleck strangled starling recorded its death squeals played tape over loudspeakers Superman sus pect got stuck phone booth said Time Major Biestek took commandwith airpower recruited squadron RC fliers send up dozen models engage starlings dogfights airplanes have very high fright index got rid 95% birds. scared death actually dead no bird casualties confirmed Five Biesteks planes downed two totaled Air superiority lasted few days flock 50000 starlings returned within week Said model pilot have lot experience someone tells models birds gotta believe Time Marches Wed like meet guy counted birds Tom Brennan 56 years went ROGs real B-29s B-47s back ROGs modeling fun club Mann Aero Club CA have no 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ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock 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ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock 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sidebar Time magazine sent us Doug Dahlke seems Fairfield CA almost Hitch cockian invasion birds fifth million starlings nearby Travis AFB noise kept everybody awake night cloudless days citizens walk under umbrellas Folks blew whistles banged pots rang cowbells set off aerial explosives smart aleck strangled starling recorded its death squeals played tape over loudspeakers Superman sus pect got stuck phone booth said Time Major Biestek took commandwith airpower recruited squadron RC fliers send up dozen models engage starlings dogfights airplanes have very high fright index got rid 95% birds. scared death actually dead no bird casualties confirmed Five Biesteks planes downed two totaled Air superiority lasted few days flock 50000 starlings returned within week Said model pilot have lot experience someone tells models birds gotta believe Time Marches Wed like meet guy counted birds Tom Brennan 56 years went ROGs real B-29s B-47s back ROGs modeling fun club Mann Aero Club CA have no 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ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock hollow 15 fuselage spacers inch apart came microfilm Sure messed up bathtub first time tried saliva could hold onto balsa frame still mystery Shimmering beautiful stuff its spectral shifting colors did have Indoor sites much account days have models fly float have tissue ones catch thermals float float vanish thrill never forgotten before folding props country boys tried pretend Indoor models flew outdoors since did know difference really enjoyed Made fuses out string saltpeterhad parachute mes sage drops delay-timed ROGs way guy name Lindbergh flew silver mono plane over town Concordia waggled wingsjust knew Remember pictures Schenectady Aeroneers 1946 printed few issues back Writes Cliff Van Wagner many-year Continued page 84 Downwash kicks up snowstorm frozen lake outside front door Bill Sewell chop per pilot Homer Alaska Enjoys Cricket Pic Greg McCullough 24 Model Aviation CREATE S SUPERwings DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Froater Thermal & Slope FUSELAGES LUSTROLEEN 2 Meter Standard Open & Scale STAB FOAM CORES Rudder & Fin Cores COVERING MATERIALS White skin & Lustroleen WING RODS Wing Tongue Kits FOR HI JOHNSONS PORTFOLIO PRICE SHEET & ORDER FORM about sailplane construction & design using foam & plastic SEND $250 CHECK OR MO CA RES ADD SALES TAX Fun/Winter Continued page 24 member Schenectady Thunderbolts Aeroneers have mug two pictures March issue taken Mount Pleasant High School allowed use classrooms meetings third shot shows Ray Mrs Voight sitting teachers desk top picture am character top left picture left lam center rear holding gull-wing gliderthe Airhopper featured January 1940 Air Trails still have mag beat-up fuselage active Free Flight night contest light bottom fuselage guy holding Control Line job second picture soon switched everyone CL Dale Springstead am now RC three systems six planes Stars Stripes Forever Its Bird Its Plane reads sidebar Time magazine sent us Doug Dahlke seems Fairfield CA almost Hitch cockian invasion birds fifth million starlings nearby Travis AFB noise kept everybody awake night cloudless days citizens walk under umbrellas Folks blew whistles banged pots rang cowbells set off aerial explosives smart aleck strangled starling recorded its death squeals played tape over loudspeakers Superman sus pect got stuck phone booth said Time Major Biestek took commandwith airpower recruited squadron RC fliers send up dozen models engage starlings dogfights airplanes have very high fright index got rid 95% birds. scared death actually dead no bird casualties confirmed Five Biesteks planes downed two totaled Air superiority lasted few days flock 50000 starlings returned within week Said model pilot have lot experience someone tells models birds gotta believe Time Marches Wed like meet guy counted birds Tom Brennan 56 years went ROGs real B-29s B-47s back ROGs modeling fun club Mann Aero Club CA have no 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ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock hollow 15 fuselage spacers inch apart came microfilm Sure messed up bathtub first time tried saliva could hold onto balsa frame still mystery Shimmering beautiful stuff its spectral shifting colors did have Indoor sites much account days have models fly float have tissue ones catch thermals float float vanish thrill never forgotten before folding props country boys tried pretend Indoor models flew outdoors since did know difference really enjoyed Made fuses out string saltpeterhad parachute mes sage drops delay-timed ROGs way guy name Lindbergh flew silver mono plane over town Concordia waggled wingsjust knew Remember pictures Schenectady Aeroneers 1946 printed few issues back Writes Cliff Van Wagner many-year Continued page 84 Downwash kicks up snowstorm frozen lake outside front door Bill Sewell chop per pilot Homer Alaska Enjoys Cricket Pic Greg McCullough 24 Model Aviation CREATE S SUPERwings DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Froater Thermal & Slope FUSELAGES LUSTROLEEN 2 Meter Standard Open & Scale STAB FOAM CORES Rudder & Fin Cores COVERING MATERIALS White skin & Lustroleen WING RODS Wing Tongue Kits FOR HI JOHNSONS PORTFOLIO PRICE SHEET & ORDER FORM about sailplane construction & design using foam & plastic SEND $250 CHECK OR MO CA RES ADD SALES TAX Fun/Winter Continued page 24 member Schenectady Thunderbolts Aeroneers have mug two pictures March issue taken Mount Pleasant High School allowed use classrooms meetings third shot shows Ray Mrs Voight sitting teachers desk top picture am character top left picture left lam center rear holding gull-wing gliderthe Airhopper featured January 1940 Air Trails still have mag beat-up fuselage active Free Flight night contest light bottom fuselage guy holding Control Line job second picture soon switched everyone CL Dale Springstead am now RC three systems six planes Stars Stripes Forever Its Bird Its Plane reads sidebar Time magazine sent us Doug Dahlke seems Fairfield CA almost Hitch cockian invasion birds fifth million starlings nearby Travis AFB noise kept everybody awake night cloudless days citizens walk under umbrellas Folks blew whistles banged pots rang cowbells set off aerial explosives smart aleck strangled starling recorded its death squeals played tape over loudspeakers Superman sus pect got stuck phone booth said Time Major Biestek took commandwith airpower recruited squadron RC fliers send up dozen models engage starlings dogfights airplanes have very high fright index got rid 95% birds. scared death actually dead no bird casualties confirmed Five Biesteks planes downed two totaled Air superiority lasted few days flock 50000 starlings returned within week Said model pilot have lot experience someone tells models birds gotta believe Time Marches Wed like meet guy counted birds Tom Brennan 56 years went ROGs real B-29s B-47s back ROGs modeling fun club Mann Aero Club CA have no officers no dues meetings social 10contest schedule year shows yet another FAC-oriented groups lean toward Rubber strong emphasis flying fun 25-member group big Juniors Hal Makinson conducts three classes week put up trophy per eventan idea Tom says picked up MAN editorials SOsand sometimes have 30 people fly trophies outnumber contestants no honor What pleases us no end outfit picked up expressed concern such nostalgia clubs have aware significance Joe Ott true pioneer like Grant both fly 80s designated June 6 Joe Ott Day Two Scale events flown over under 20-inch spans Joe sign certifi cates issuance participants house After reportingan English safety device looks like small receiver returns up four servos preset positions event interference transmitter failures etc. Ralph Warner RAM Models Inc sent us ontinued page 119 84 Model Aviation CLASSIC RIC RETURNS T6 ~TEX4N11I SNJNick Zirolis original Sport-Scale 01 WIng2 ted Ce Engines GIANT RIC SCALEEINDECKER E-III Seealifally Molded Fiberglass Foselege 1500 Sq Aree An Easy Eatid WW Design en Winneri OteilMalded Transparent Canopy sagged Fiberglass Melded Engine CowlingConpIeteKd $2750055 Wingspan 35 45 Engines C Plywood Fiawell Herdoere joaladadplas $1000 ahpps & hanOlissPlease add $150 poalage & horldIrs o Fanned V die Lending Gee Legs p escess efasdedl Called Plans end lsstaeslasa esOents add 7/%CoIsplete Kit $3495 NY eadeets add 7/ sample ofthe RED 10 Dual Servo Setter As should know RAM has sorts exciting devices mostly lighting systems planes boats havent used yet because can make up mind two controls wish safety dual capacity might nice give low motor some down elevator OldTimers RAM has tried cascading two units would give option aileron rudder welL extremely interested hearing guys using Red 10 Dual Servo Setter CL guys need top-quality three-line bellcranks should seek out Leon Ryktarsyk 7787 Archdale Ave Detroit MI 48228 twoline sport guys can add thrilling new dimension having throttle availability Leon coming up three-line handle too As read should have completed special press make run handles Carrier buffs will interested know Bob Smurthwaite has provided quantity G-S Bearcat Skyraider kits available Leon $2895 now probably have seen Satellite Citys announcement one-hour VHS video cas sette use Hot Stuff available free 60 days clubs hobby shops Bob Hunter asks help get word out Theres $30 deposit refundable return undamaged cassettes have permission copy program depicts modeler-to-modeler building session actual construction speed-strength demonstrations time-saving techniques fast fiberglassing above items plugs nobody going take ad because Some things demand reporting mean what say about having fun Because own admission per petual beginner Aero Masters Club Fredericksburg made us honorary member Rodney Dangerfield wonders long last has gotten some respect beginners woeful lot Either experts wear blinders 33 degrees experts virtually us admit modeling life constant learning curve am talking about raw beginners faced first flight about guys sport fly actively slowly grow street-wise means knowledge comes getting mugged occasionally riding high instance have single cell failure five years nor have replaced planes fly happen have Sanyo cellsa coincidence After first season rebirth active flying knowing friends insisted must use cyclers wanted dependability Obviously correct found odd things example Sanyo 450 pack would go beyond 700 mAh cycled Yesterday scientist told means nothing high-reading pack can fail before reads much less also rigid values measure average found making thou sands cells within 20% ball park think Lord never intended man understand Ni-Cds have Taylor cycler/charger Ace Digipace has indicator knobs tell morning state packs terms mAh have completed charge Im told 16 hours safe charge time after cycling Some guys say frequent cycling harmless others must done too often hit three-times-a-year use start fly about one-third two-thirds season going year after year bragging about batteries retaining new nearnew values also carries hidden penalty Pride goeth before fall first day flying last season 19 guys cracked up club field having flown season written March checked systems morning sleepy-eyed before coffee trans fusion plugged pack charger light came Stupidly plugged charger wall No charger plug pack charger before plugging wall outlet see light gathers polarity backwards Some connectors encourage such mistakeslook smart friend fixed charger found Continued page 124 THE NAVIGATOR 4Amphibious R/C Flying Boat 049 15 Engines 52 Wingspan Fly off Ponds Lakes Snow Ice Classic Flying Boat its 18th year vacation fun Balsa construction beautiful plans real flyer Kit #RC $4500 049 099 Engines up 15 EngInes Radio Control Please add $100 Postage & Handling CA Zaic Co INC 883 Lexington Ave Brooklyn NY 11221 USA July 1982 119 popular biplane design DesiQned b /Gt ~4bZA aD me. Aeronuaster Too Easytobuild.easytofly. fully aerobatic . racy good looks trophy winner over 16 years Wingspan 48 52 U Wing Area 817864 910 sqifl* ne 60-78 U Weight 71 lbs Depending configuration build Andrews Aircraft Model Co MBox 721 Urbana IL 61801 Maion Great Planes Model Manufacturing Company 1d5II5 Ahl1I&VDICK IFILJ POST OFFICE BOX 308THOMAS MAHER AS CITY MICHIGAN 48753 TELEPHONE 517 382-8078 (XIPSIiT RI lIO\ lA SCALE HI D3AI TYPE 99 VALT-6 SNJ HARVARD Span 90 Power63 3/8 Span 0 Power $22800Si 8800 WE THINK YOU WILL AGREE THAT THEY ARE THE BEST NAWLLTD KITS YET FUSALAGE WINGS TAIL SURFACES WHITE EPOXY FiNiSH READY FOR PAINT & DETAILING EURATHANE FOAM RIOIDLY SUPPORTS EPOXY GELL COAT FIBERGLASS REINFORCED AT STRESS POINTS ONLY ASSEMBLY INSTALLATION DI EOUIPMENT PAINTING REGUIRED SCALE WHEELS INCLUDED NO NEED TO COVER WITH BALSA SHEET OR FILM SUPERIOR PRODUCT Whole ml Lelt Ta Do CLUBS CHECK OUT OUR SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER Remember Aerotrend source fine modeling hardware also offer complete line wood fiber glass field caddies other acces sories Send SASE free catalog todayDEALERS INVITED ERO TREND PRODUCTS 44W Prospect St. New Haven CT06515 Tele 203-397-3755 chargers balanced use half just airborne pack charge rate can considerably higher rated assumed Like 15 mA extra flight pack Kadet showed 24 minutes Ace Digipace trying tell somethingwhich meant didnt believe So charged 16 hours recycled got 4yes 2/Sths minute oneyear-old pack wonderfisl cells could next time reading five minutes plus Stupidly held test button few seconds because now Digipace would accept discharge mode kept switching charge confess unit now being sent back Ace fixed blew say Having checked polarities Digipace green charge light came assuming connector reversed turned around shorted Rock-headed tried Taylor cycler/charger too showed same symptoms quickly reverting charge mode didnt blow because just muggedit OK time battery pack read 5 volts under load carted junk Merlin wizardry keeps alive began testing pack under a500 mil load held So confirming Taylor cycler indeed trying tell us something Digipace put cycle mode Upon reaching partial discharge 450 mAh pack cycler reverted charge Merlin took pack apart after testing cell under 500 mil load did indeed discover tricky cell didnt short didnt go open usual things high impedance internal resistance partially discharged quit crude words Partially discharge simply decided go along ride time would take get landing strip pit putting back pin would back up 5 volts plus 1 flying way Lord knows long last season Checked itself under load cell did fade debate now Some guys replace single faulty cells Others throw out packI dont think will find Pattern fliers fooling around flying buddy just went through fleet found total 10 bad cells cant throw out packs Aberle states find bad cell another probably far behindand almost four years old have another buddy 15-year-old pack also two equally old replacement packs regularly charged 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ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock hollow 15 fuselage spacers inch apart came microfilm Sure messed up bathtub first time tried saliva could hold onto balsa frame still mystery Shimmering beautiful stuff its spectral shifting colors did have Indoor sites much account days have models fly float have tissue ones catch thermals float float vanish thrill never forgotten before folding props country boys tried pretend Indoor models flew outdoors since did know difference really enjoyed Made fuses out string saltpeterhad parachute mes sage drops delay-timed ROGs way guy name Lindbergh flew silver mono plane over town Concordia waggled wingsjust knew Remember pictures Schenectady Aeroneers 1946 printed few issues back Writes Cliff Van Wagner many-year Continued page 84 Downwash kicks up snowstorm frozen lake outside front door Bill Sewell chop per pilot Homer Alaska Enjoys Cricket Pic Greg McCullough 24 Model Aviation CREATE S SUPERwings DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Froater Thermal & Slope FUSELAGES LUSTROLEEN 2 Meter Standard Open & Scale STAB FOAM CORES Rudder & Fin Cores COVERING MATERIALS White skin & Lustroleen WING RODS Wing Tongue Kits FOR HI JOHNSONS PORTFOLIO PRICE SHEET & ORDER FORM about sailplane construction & design using foam & plastic SEND $250 CHECK OR MO CA RES ADD SALES TAX Fun/Winter Continued page 24 member Schenectady Thunderbolts Aeroneers have mug two pictures March issue taken Mount Pleasant High School allowed use classrooms meetings third shot shows Ray Mrs Voight sitting teachers desk top picture am character top left picture left lam center rear holding gull-wing gliderthe Airhopper featured January 1940 Air Trails still have mag beat-up fuselage active Free Flight night contest light bottom fuselage guy holding Control Line job second picture soon switched everyone CL Dale Springstead am now RC three systems six planes Stars Stripes Forever Its Bird Its Plane reads sidebar Time magazine sent us Doug Dahlke seems Fairfield CA almost Hitch cockian invasion birds fifth million starlings nearby Travis AFB noise kept everybody awake night cloudless days citizens walk under umbrellas Folks blew whistles banged pots rang cowbells set off aerial explosives smart aleck strangled starling recorded its death squeals played tape over loudspeakers Superman sus pect got stuck phone booth said Time Major Biestek took commandwith airpower recruited squadron RC fliers send up dozen models engage starlings dogfights airplanes have very high fright index got rid 95% birds. scared death actually dead no bird casualties confirmed Five Biesteks planes downed two totaled Air superiority lasted few days flock 50000 starlings returned within week Said model pilot have lot experience someone tells models birds gotta believe Time Marches Wed like meet guy counted birds Tom Brennan 56 years went ROGs real B-29s B-47s back ROGs modeling fun club Mann Aero Club CA have no officers no dues meetings social 10contest schedule year shows yet another FAC-oriented groups lean toward Rubber strong emphasis flying fun 25-member group big Juniors Hal Makinson conducts three classes week put up trophy per eventan idea Tom says picked up MAN editorials SOsand sometimes have 30 people fly trophies outnumber contestants no honor What pleases us no end outfit picked up expressed concern such nostalgia clubs have aware significance Joe Ott true pioneer like Grant both fly 80s designated June 6 Joe Ott Day Two Scale events flown over under 20-inch spans Joe sign certifi cates issuance participants house After reportingan English safety device looks like small receiver returns up four servos preset positions event interference transmitter failures etc. Ralph Warner RAM Models Inc sent us ontinued page 119 84 Model Aviation CLASSIC RIC RETURNS T6 ~TEX4N11I SNJNick Zirolis original Sport-Scale 01 WIng2 ted Ce Engines GIANT RIC SCALEEINDECKER E-III Seealifally Molded Fiberglass Foselege 1500 Sq Aree An Easy Eatid WW Design en Winneri OteilMalded Transparent Canopy sagged Fiberglass Melded Engine CowlingConpIeteKd $2750055 Wingspan 35 45 Engines C Plywood Fiawell Herdoere joaladadplas $1000 ahpps & hanOlissPlease add $150 poalage & horldIrs o Fanned V die Lending Gee Legs p escess efasdedl Called Plans end lsstaeslasa esOents add 7/%CoIsplete Kit $3495 NY eadeets add 7/ sample ofthe RED 10 Dual Servo Setter As should know RAM has sorts exciting devices mostly lighting systems planes boats havent used yet because can make up mind two controls wish safety dual capacity might nice give low motor some down elevator OldTimers RAM has tried cascading two units would give option aileron rudder welL extremely interested hearing guys using Red 10 Dual Servo Setter CL guys need top-quality three-line bellcranks should seek out Leon Ryktarsyk 7787 Archdale Ave Detroit MI 48228 twoline sport guys can add thrilling new dimension having throttle availability Leon coming up three-line handle too As read should have completed special press make run handles Carrier buffs will interested know Bob Smurthwaite has provided quantity G-S Bearcat Skyraider kits available Leon $2895 now probably have seen Satellite Citys announcement one-hour VHS video cas sette use Hot Stuff available free 60 days clubs hobby shops Bob Hunter asks help get word out Theres $30 deposit refundable return undamaged cassettes have permission copy program depicts modeler-to-modeler building session actual construction speed-strength demonstrations time-saving techniques fast fiberglassing above items plugs nobody going take ad because Some things demand reporting mean what say about having fun Because own admission per petual beginner Aero Masters Club Fredericksburg made us honorary member Rodney Dangerfield wonders long last has gotten some respect beginners woeful lot Either experts wear blinders 33 degrees experts virtually us admit modeling life constant learning curve am talking about raw beginners faced first flight about guys sport fly actively slowly grow street-wise means knowledge comes getting mugged occasionally riding high instance have single cell failure five years nor have replaced planes fly happen have Sanyo cellsa coincidence After first season rebirth active flying knowing friends insisted must use cyclers wanted dependability Obviously correct found odd things example Sanyo 450 pack would go beyond 700 mAh cycled Yesterday scientist told means nothing high-reading pack can fail before reads much less also rigid values measure average found making thou sands cells within 20% ball park think Lord never intended man understand Ni-Cds have Taylor cycler/charger Ace Digipace has indicator knobs tell morning state packs terms mAh have completed charge Im told 16 hours safe charge time after cycling Some guys say frequent cycling harmless others must done too often hit three-times-a-year use start fly about one-third two-thirds season going year after year bragging about batteries retaining new nearnew values also carries hidden penalty Pride goeth before fall first day flying last season 19 guys cracked up club field having flown season written March checked systems morning sleepy-eyed before coffee trans fusion plugged pack charger light came Stupidly plugged charger wall No charger plug pack charger before plugging wall outlet see light gathers polarity backwards Some connectors encourage such mistakeslook smart friend fixed charger found Continued page 124 THE NAVIGATOR 4Amphibious R/C Flying Boat 049 15 Engines 52 Wingspan Fly off Ponds Lakes Snow Ice Classic Flying Boat its 18th year vacation fun Balsa construction beautiful plans real flyer Kit #RC $4500 049 099 Engines up 15 EngInes Radio Control Please add $100 Postage & Handling CA Zaic Co INC 883 Lexington Ave Brooklyn NY 11221 USA July 1982 119 popular biplane design DesiQned b /Gt ~4bZA aD me. Aeronuaster Too Easytobuild.easytofly. fully aerobatic . racy good looks trophy winner over 16 years Wingspan 48 52 U Wing Area 817864 910 sqifl* ne 60-78 U Weight 71 lbs Depending configuration build Andrews Aircraft Model Co MBox 721 Urbana IL 61801 Maion Great Planes Model Manufacturing Company 1d5II5 Ahl1I&VDICK IFILJ POST OFFICE BOX 308THOMAS MAHER AS CITY MICHIGAN 48753 TELEPHONE 517 382-8078 (XIPSIiT RI lIO\ lA SCALE HI D3AI TYPE 99 VALT-6 SNJ HARVARD Span 90 Power63 3/8 Span 0 Power $22800Si 8800 WE THINK YOU WILL AGREE THAT THEY ARE THE BEST NAWLLTD KITS YET FUSALAGE WINGS TAIL SURFACES WHITE EPOXY FiNiSH READY FOR PAINT & DETAILING EURATHANE FOAM RIOIDLY SUPPORTS EPOXY GELL COAT FIBERGLASS REINFORCED AT STRESS POINTS ONLY ASSEMBLY INSTALLATION DI EOUIPMENT PAINTING REGUIRED SCALE WHEELS INCLUDED NO NEED TO COVER WITH BALSA SHEET OR FILM SUPERIOR PRODUCT Whole ml Lelt Ta Do CLUBS CHECK OUT OUR SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER Remember Aerotrend source fine modeling hardware also offer complete line wood fiber glass field caddies other acces sories Send SASE free catalog todayDEALERS INVITED ERO TREND PRODUCTS 44W Prospect St. New Haven CT06515 Tele 203-397-3755 chargers balanced use half just airborne pack charge rate can considerably higher rated assumed Like 15 mA extra flight pack Kadet showed 24 minutes Ace Digipace trying tell somethingwhich meant didnt believe So charged 16 hours recycled got 4yes 2/Sths minute oneyear-old pack wonderfisl cells could next time reading five minutes plus Stupidly held test button few seconds because now Digipace would accept discharge mode kept switching charge confess unit now being sent back Ace fixed blew say Having checked polarities Digipace green charge light came assuming connector reversed turned around shorted Rock-headed tried Taylor cycler/charger too showed same symptoms quickly reverting charge mode didnt blow because just muggedit OK time battery pack read 5 volts under load carted junk Merlin wizardry keeps alive began testing pack under a500 mil load held So confirming Taylor cycler indeed trying tell us something Digipace put cycle mode Upon reaching partial discharge 450 mAh pack cycler reverted charge Merlin took pack apart after testing cell under 500 mil load did indeed discover tricky cell didnt short didnt go open usual things high impedance internal resistance partially discharged quit crude words Partially discharge simply decided go along ride time would take get landing strip pit putting back pin would back up 5 volts plus 1 flying way Lord knows long last season Checked itself under load cell did fade debate now Some guys replace single faulty cells Others throw out packI dont think will find Pattern fliers fooling around flying buddy just went through fleet found total 10 bad cells cant throw out packs Aberle states find bad cell another probably far behindand almost four years old have another buddy 15-year-old pack also two equally old replacement packs regularly charged reading 500 mAh Tx 450 mAh Rx cycler Merlin took apart set must have fast-chargedthree years ago some experts convinced try way gave up tested fine crud over terminals car battery wire corroded down three strands will fly few weeks witl batterieswhich still read okaybut am going bite bullet throw out fast can replace Being pinch-penny can fatal Kadet pack read 300 mAh second cycle came upto425acceptable will ditch soon too As mAh drops flying time drops somewhere have sneaky cell did use several servos simultaneously combined high loads can cause said sneaky cell go strike new batteries good either percentagein some cases too highthat can get sons bought 24 cells found four inferior As beginner think need cyclers cant fly seat pantsone must believe instruments have reason believe MEN charger another good gadget second day 1 24 Model Aviation Catalog SiSO Fine Quality Flying Models p7 98 RUBBER POWER KITS plus Gliders C/L R/C Accessories Books 44. 44444 MAJESTIC MODELS 3273 West 129th 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quarters building downtown DC using Airtronics transmitter charger power theres voltage regulator scanner takes care fact transmitter charger puts out eight cells scanner has four Doug has picked ups variety signals thats OK because no flies RC downtown DC tried same setup house Hicks ville detected nothing Interference find took scanner road found place could hear musical tones sounded bit like pushbutton telephone signals also heard voices time time laid whip antenna parallel ground way us have antennas planes days found strong BRRR signals over flying field no flying also found same signal other places So far havent identified source think its some kind computer data transmission dozens tall towers within sight flying fields sport kinds antennas whips dishes things hidden radomes detect interference have run over scanner stop scan affected channel working AUTO MANUAL switch have compare sound way antenna pointing LEDs meter want learn anything must log time describe whatever have heard After youll build up file channels monitoring now scanner monitors 7208 7216 7224 7232 7240 7296 7564 future Should simple matter monitor others crystal swapping Bandwidth may become slight problem monitoring new frequencies doubt will significant AMA draft Phase-In Plan puts new frequencies 40 KHzapartsee RT April 1982 has demonstrated acceptable existing receiver designs such Airtronics instrument contains Any way look scanning monitor will helpful trying years immediately ahead agree want buy write directly Airtronics 12160 Woodruff Ave. Downey CA 90241 telephone 213 862 6583 may wonder danced neatly away image problems begin image problems rare encounter receiver situated frequency basis midway between two transmitters separated exactly double IF intermediate Cootinued oI page 128 July 1982 125 #70201 FOX 4-step Reamer #70202 FOX KNO Reamer moot purposes$695 icr KER Ohait sioeh 0095 HObbV B0~ habln rprazlniri TIMER KITS tOut1 Partial Kits P & W Oenri-Ruts--Rib Tip Fiurmer 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ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock hollow 15 fuselage spacers inch apart came microfilm Sure messed up bathtub first time tried saliva could hold onto balsa frame still mystery Shimmering beautiful stuff its spectral shifting colors did have Indoor sites much account days have models fly float have tissue ones catch thermals float float vanish thrill never forgotten before folding props country boys tried pretend Indoor models flew outdoors since did know difference really enjoyed Made fuses out string saltpeterhad parachute mes sage drops delay-timed ROGs way guy name Lindbergh flew silver mono plane over town Concordia waggled wingsjust knew Remember pictures Schenectady Aeroneers 1946 printed few issues back Writes Cliff Van Wagner many-year Continued page 84 Downwash kicks up snowstorm frozen lake outside front door Bill Sewell chop per pilot Homer Alaska Enjoys Cricket Pic Greg McCullough 24 Model Aviation CREATE S SUPERwings DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Froater Thermal & Slope FUSELAGES LUSTROLEEN 2 Meter Standard Open & Scale STAB FOAM CORES Rudder & Fin Cores COVERING MATERIALS White skin & Lustroleen WING RODS Wing Tongue Kits FOR HI JOHNSONS PORTFOLIO PRICE SHEET & ORDER FORM about sailplane construction & design using foam & plastic SEND $250 CHECK OR MO CA RES ADD SALES TAX Fun/Winter Continued page 24 member Schenectady Thunderbolts Aeroneers have mug two pictures March issue taken Mount Pleasant High School allowed use classrooms meetings third shot shows Ray Mrs Voight sitting teachers desk top picture am character top left picture left lam center rear holding gull-wing gliderthe Airhopper featured January 1940 Air Trails still have mag beat-up fuselage active Free Flight night contest light bottom fuselage guy holding Control Line job second picture soon switched everyone CL Dale Springstead am now RC three systems six planes Stars Stripes Forever Its Bird Its Plane reads sidebar Time magazine sent us Doug Dahlke seems Fairfield CA almost Hitch cockian invasion birds fifth million starlings nearby Travis AFB noise kept everybody awake night cloudless days citizens walk under umbrellas Folks blew whistles banged pots rang cowbells set off aerial explosives smart aleck strangled starling recorded its death squeals played tape over loudspeakers Superman sus pect got stuck phone booth said Time Major Biestek took commandwith airpower recruited squadron RC fliers send up dozen models engage starlings dogfights airplanes have very high fright index got rid 95% birds. scared death actually dead no bird casualties confirmed Five Biesteks planes downed two totaled Air superiority lasted few days flock 50000 starlings returned within week Said model pilot have lot experience someone tells models birds gotta believe Time Marches Wed like meet guy counted birds Tom Brennan 56 years went ROGs real B-29s B-47s back ROGs modeling fun club Mann Aero Club CA have no 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quarters building downtown DC using Airtronics transmitter charger power theres voltage regulator scanner takes care fact transmitter charger puts out eight cells scanner has four Doug has picked ups variety signals thats OK because no flies RC downtown DC tried same setup house Hicks ville detected nothing Interference find took scanner road found place could hear musical tones sounded bit like pushbutton telephone signals also heard voices time time laid whip antenna parallel ground way us have antennas planes days found strong BRRR signals over flying field no flying also found same signal other places So far havent identified source think its some kind computer data transmission dozens tall towers within sight flying fields sport kinds antennas whips dishes things hidden radomes detect interference have run over scanner stop scan affected channel working AUTO MANUAL switch have compare sound way antenna pointing LEDs meter want learn anything must log time describe whatever have heard After youll build up file channels monitoring now scanner monitors 7208 7216 7224 7232 7240 7296 7564 future Should simple matter monitor others crystal swapping Bandwidth may become slight problem monitoring new frequencies doubt will significant AMA draft Phase-In Plan puts new frequencies 40 KHzapartsee RT April 1982 has demonstrated acceptable existing receiver designs such Airtronics instrument contains Any way look scanning monitor will helpful trying years immediately ahead agree want buy write directly Airtronics 12160 Woodruff Ave. Downey CA 90241 telephone 213 862 6583 may wonder danced neatly away image problems begin image problems rare encounter receiver situated frequency basis midway between two transmitters separated exactly double IF intermediate Cootinued oI page 128 July 1982 125 #70201 FOX 4-step Reamer #70202 FOX KNO Reamer moot purposes$695 icr KER Ohait sioeh 0095 HObbV B0~ habln rprazlniri TIMER KITS tOut1 Partial Kits P & W Oenri-Ruts--Rib Tip Fiurmer 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ONLY ART BUCHWALD could describe decision-making process selecting model build Involved netherworld writing books take out frustration brickhouse Kadet sending Vagabond up among cloud wisps have whimsical day dreams about fantasy crates Fantasies alas must go hold must finish Quarter Scale Piper Vagabond Other guys relish building huge pilotless home-builts hate Framing goes quickly nitty gritty like years work goes finishing warship after launchedcolored ballons champagne contrary must face up drawing big Aristocrat plans just about pre-kit 8-ft Korda higher priority own 1936-37 Old Square Sides have framed blueprint hanging wall finish Quarter Scale Vaga bond have draw its plans Everything needs maintenance Eaglet 90% done call fun Ive got new game plan Instead suffering through project time am mixing up Yep everything once thing bores Ill switch another So Im making 67-in Playboy wingalong everything else Crazy glues make crazy builders Roland Boucher Leisure Electronics sent Playboy electric kit Senior Playboy con temporary Sailplane Bombshell top design Joe Elgin its time built either pylon cabinwe confess knowing latter What did wing ribs lovely airfoilwe havent made undercambered wing almost 30 yearsis just too much Ah lovely wood Turbulator spars 3/32 ess would bother sawing anything re frame super-light yet strong Everything select balsa proper grain weight Anyway wing framed lovely elliptical tips undercambered wing ribs arcing between edges Free Flight soul Leisure calls hot-wind OS Astro belt drive turn big high-pitched prop never compete hope take delightful bird Hatfield true-fun Electric Fly September 18-19 aim simply come last successful launch would accomplish much may have get Koerner Kopski show Playboy playing thermals Shake rattle roll Helicopters fascinate never built truth known barely understand working principles animated palm trees As high school freshman just conquered ROG vowed would invent copter about like going inventing fire nuclear physics Eventually became brilliant editor boss lunch Sikorsky came back elated great mans agreement write article did What about staff asked Helicopters wants know about helicop ters razzed chief transatlantic Sikorsky flying boats important didnt know Sikorskys secret Years later fullpage picture Life showed Sikorskyas did newsreelswhirling around parking lot derby place thing looked like plumbers nightmare 20 Model Aviation fascinating thing about Rubber jobs structures however unique become plausible Something would look like Hunchback Notre Dame monster size becomes beautiful Oldenkamp 32-incher rests tranquilly 2000000-year-old lake MA Asst Editor Doug Pratt obligingly launches Winters Kraft electric Cessna Hatfield 1981 Leisure system hot-wind 05 motor Bored up angle no troublefantastic uIcK Mersheys 150-lb Grumman Goose two Kioritz engines Wheels full-scale tail wheels Lost second flight being re built two gentlemen San Jose Meanwhile unknown modeler submitted Air Trails working model rubber-powered Helicopter Roy Clough machine built-up vertical motor stickit no tail rotor didnt know anything about either let go may have appeared Flying Aces predecessor todays Flying Models So what Bill Effinger Berkeley Models brought out gas-powered kit Clough design 049 engine atop rotorlike Dave Grays first successful modern chopper Du-Bro Cox has ready-to-fly chopper today dressed up version same idea will Free Flight sky wards Well main rotor turning way free-to-spin engine other its own small rotor avoided need tail rotor speculated sliding weight tilt Berkeley craft flight RC pursuit elevators single escapement rudder siren song seduced us Pity Another 15 years over40 years since boyish vow Germans gotten silly engine off top crate perfected tail rotor etc Commercial model RC Helicopters sprouted like spring grass years press talked nothing hard danged things fly manner far-out training rigs headaches maintenance on Thousands guys fly things todayby gosh still think hero may have read glowing editorial another magazine Crickett long last answer easy flying good machine no doubt So others Apparently choppers finding special niches perhaps like conventional sport RC jobs An expert friend flies Cricket says likes states everything relative Pricewise comparatively easy setup maintenance fills its nicheand thinks great someone eventually wants work up advanced stuff Gregory McCullough recently told us about heroics RC flying Alaska writes about chopper flier Homer group Bill Sewell purchased GMP Cricket after flying Mantis Greg relates much better luck Cricket course being selftaught hard tell just lot practice Mantis Cricket easier fly uses frozen lake flying field 100 yards front door never far away warm beverage photo will notice horizontal fin has removed problem chopper wanting go backwards didnt have enough trim keep still removing horizontal fin chopper handled great Bill has amazing success flying choppers used homemade training gear Mantis Cricket keep things together long enough get feel Since has flying choppers has major crash unlike fixed-wing counterparts So guy alone northernmost state teaching himself fly Mantis apparently after few teething preliminaries enjoying Cricket bit awe talked Mike Mas MJ Mas Enterprises about pictures mechan ics forthcoming book came across About time met Hans Koerner sends Bill sketches electricswhich hes flown 10 years big Sailplane appears have two 05 engines spoilers flying stab July 198221 monsters happens FF Obviously lightly built probably soars like condor Would like hear its builder whoever Stunning pic snapped John Oldenkamp Bill Kalufhe seeds duO mows I-reoerucKsourg ucla wnere Winter flew Aristcire last yearwith really-Scale Fokker 0-8 probably covered now Got go back see Winter says Left Joe Ottright 9-ft special prototype 1937 Two cameras installed floorof plexiglass cockpit No wasnt RC Twin-engined FF Optimistic undertaking Good brothers developing big Guff year Right Joes favorite model 198201 24-foot two-seater Brandous 220-hp Pinto engine Rubber-powered test model has four-wheel gear informational sheet someone put out flying demo champion time flying Kalt sheet says Mike specializes design prototype work model Heli copter field has logged over 8000 hours choppers works manufacturer including Kalt Hirobo Japan Schiuter Germany Currently national champ three years running undefeated write last 18 major contests including FAI international maneuvers 1979 surpassed full-scale technology being worlds first sustain chopper inverted flight including hover bettered world Altitude record Mexico City records Speed Dura tion adding 35mm still-frame camera undercarriage trip switch transmitter managed shots areas dare enter Reminds country airfield lightplanes flew low altitude patterns because certain swimming hole bag After commenting monsters no immortal normal RCs citing Quarter Scale 150-pound Goose totaled its first flight received amazing photo once-beautiful bird comments RB Dick Hershey first flight pretty realistic anyone could want music Kiorita engines beauti fuL However second flight pilot error no finis No regrets did fly can get biggies 1 ge anyway Ken Krohncke Duke Crow San Most famous Rubberlob time Korda 1939 Wakefield winner Greg Richardson displays replica 4K kit Oldenkamp photo Jose rebuilding fly again someday Checking Don Berliner confirm span Goose 49 ft real life reminded wasnt April 1 said model weighed 150 Thats four pounds less French Cricket lightplane has two Finnish 12-hp snowmobile engines end strut across nose Crickett does 120 stressed 10 Gs Wholl first hire daring jockey pilot model Hershey notes member IMAA Chapter Senior Renegade Clearlake CA Renegade Outlaws provides data gorgeous Goose Scratch-built help stack detailed drawings photos H Schonenberg historian Grumman Historical Museum has two 100cc Kioritz chainsaw engines full-house controls rudder elevators ailerons retracts flaps throttle throttle synchronizer two fuel Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation Left MIKe Winter checks incidence Pops Quarter Scale Vagabond incidence jig placed under both panels identical points T-shaped jig inside fuselage removed afterwards Gee somebody s working thing Right side-mounted 0 S 90 C B Associates metal mount Tatone muffler compact fully enclosed installation Exhaust stacks point down through scale openings cowl Cowl custom-made Fiberglass Master has mold anyone wants similar cowl Handsome pilot Du-Bro Quarter Scale RC Blimp Like balloon blimp March81 MA Luther Huxs lighterthan-air soda bottle fully controllable three channels RC About 4 ft long uses Royal Rx two Ace servos fly propel theship Kraft KPS1 8 forup down Material Mylar RC labels freehand stencils Gondola bit larger business card packing box before major contest So lightthey never get damagedin transit anyway 5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIAS LARGESTI DISCOUNT HOBBY SHOPI -I New high film strength lubricant creased power engine lifeI F Iwell FUEL youI Highest quality ingredients 3 I II II II II II II II II II II IHOURS Monday thru Wednesday 930-630 Thursday & Fndoy 9 30-8003 L urday 930-600 Sunday 12 00-5 00 J s holds quart Main wheels full-scale tail wheels Hows Goose months have threatening write begins Paul Runge mentions Charlie Grant Joe Ott et al did stir off stump April column did AMLA folder mention Merrill Ham burg Baby ROG did belonged venerable organization scratch-built ROGs buy plank balsa days got pop shell out 2 x 5 x 40 piece Peru Indiana Remember Sure paid less buck 2 x 4 x 72 know 40 inches long old A-frame jobs something no balsa strippers Getting 1/16 sq 1/16 x x8 fuselagesoutofabighunkof balsa exciting task 12-year-old Hard find 045 rubber ROG bit always thrill wait calm Missouri evenings get tar paper runways smell banana oil use tissue swiped out shoe boxes old AMLA introduced Carl Gold berg Paul recalls American Boy featured 12-minute Indoor record holder Made 1/64 stock hollow 15 fuselage spacers inch apart came microfilm Sure messed up bathtub first time tried saliva could hold onto balsa frame still mystery Shimmering beautiful stuff its spectral shifting colors did have Indoor sites much account days have models fly float have tissue ones catch thermals float float vanish thrill never forgotten before folding props country boys tried pretend Indoor models flew outdoors since did know difference really enjoyed Made fuses out string saltpeterhad parachute mes sage drops delay-timed ROGs way guy name Lindbergh flew silver mono plane over town Concordia waggled wingsjust knew Remember pictures Schenectady Aeroneers 1946 printed few issues back Writes Cliff Van Wagner many-year Continued page 84 Downwash kicks up snowstorm frozen lake outside front door Bill Sewell chop per pilot Homer Alaska Enjoys Cricket Pic Greg McCullough 24 Model Aviation CREATE S SUPERwings DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Froater Thermal & Slope FUSELAGES LUSTROLEEN 2 Meter Standard Open & Scale STAB FOAM CORES Rudder & Fin Cores COVERING MATERIALS White skin & Lustroleen WING RODS Wing Tongue Kits FOR HI JOHNSONS PORTFOLIO PRICE SHEET & ORDER FORM about sailplane construction & design using foam & plastic SEND $250 CHECK OR MO CA RES ADD SALES TAX Fun/Winter Continued page 24 member Schenectady Thunderbolts Aeroneers have mug two pictures March issue taken Mount Pleasant High School allowed use classrooms meetings third shot shows Ray Mrs Voight sitting teachers desk top picture am character top left picture left lam center rear holding gull-wing gliderthe Airhopper featured January 1940 Air Trails still have mag beat-up fuselage active Free Flight night contest light bottom fuselage guy holding Control Line job second picture soon switched everyone CL Dale Springstead am now RC three systems six planes Stars Stripes Forever Its Bird Its Plane reads sidebar Time magazine sent us Doug Dahlke seems Fairfield CA almost Hitch cockian invasion birds fifth million starlings nearby Travis AFB noise kept everybody awake night cloudless days citizens walk under umbrellas Folks blew whistles banged pots rang cowbells set off aerial explosives smart aleck strangled starling recorded its death squeals played tape over loudspeakers Superman sus pect got stuck phone booth said Time Major Biestek took commandwith airpower recruited squadron RC fliers send up dozen models engage starlings dogfights airplanes have very high fright index got rid 95% birds. scared death actually dead no bird casualties confirmed Five Biesteks planes downed two totaled Air superiority lasted few days flock 50000 starlings returned within week Said model pilot have lot experience someone tells models birds gotta believe Time Marches Wed like meet guy counted birds Tom Brennan 56 years went ROGs real B-29s B-47s back ROGs modeling fun club Mann Aero Club CA have no 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quarters building downtown DC using Airtronics transmitter charger power theres voltage regulator scanner takes care fact transmitter charger puts out eight cells scanner has four Doug has picked ups variety signals thats OK because no flies RC downtown DC tried same setup house Hicks ville detected nothing Interference find took scanner road found place could hear musical tones sounded bit like pushbutton telephone signals also heard voices time time laid whip antenna parallel ground way us have antennas planes days found strong BRRR signals over flying field no flying also found same signal other places So far havent identified source think its some kind computer data transmission dozens tall towers within sight flying fields sport kinds antennas whips dishes things hidden radomes detect interference have run over scanner stop scan affected channel working AUTO MANUAL switch have compare sound way antenna pointing LEDs meter want learn anything must log time describe whatever have heard After youll build up file channels monitoring now scanner monitors 7208 7216 7224 7232 7240 7296 7564 future Should simple matter monitor others crystal swapping Bandwidth may become slight problem monitoring new frequencies doubt will significant AMA draft Phase-In Plan puts new frequencies 40 KHzapartsee RT April 1982 has demonstrated acceptable existing receiver designs such Airtronics instrument contains Any way look scanning monitor will helpful trying years immediately ahead agree want buy write directly Airtronics 12160 Woodruff Ave. Downey CA 90241 telephone 213 862 6583 may wonder danced neatly away image problems begin image problems rare encounter receiver situated frequency basis midway between two transmitters separated exactly double IF intermediate Cootinued oI page 128 July 1982 125 #70201 FOX 4-step Reamer #70202 FOX KNO Reamer moot purposes$695 icr KER Ohait sioeh 0095 HObbV B0~ habln rprazlniri TIMER KITS tOut1 Partial Kits P & W Oenri-Ruts--Rib Tip Fiurmer 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