Just for the Fun of It

VIBES Flying sometimes has mysterious ex tra dimensions may fly routinely months least expected thing resonates field fliers flying clouds trees air itself day would never end Like projections wall images flight drift before closed eyes night sleep lose Sunday began nothing day hot hu midbut would turn cool cairn watch frequency pins instead airplanes Sun day melee would downer Other restless souls stirring seems three oclock Don Srull Hurst Bowers felt tug Shangri-la never-never land rolling Maryland countryside No planning governed what tossed wagon Don geared VL electric Bleriot ca nard FF Scaler DH-6 rubber job dusted off Mattel Super Star batteries charged eight years Bleriot DH-6 winners FAC Nats just discovered newsletter teenager used watch Rubber Scale guys Friday nights now pushes champs walked up yellow Pieten pol Don lost trees week two before immediately wound long circling flight Some planes just want fly must intangible fourth dimension design because unappreciated combina tions things can never put finger somehow enable unpromising crates endure far beyond sleekest expertly flown efficient models miniscule power work way slowly aloft free-wheeling reach out out out DH-6 rubber jobugly no stagger boxyis winner year after year its last legs first saw six years ago avoid trees end top grassy looks weary Flying Dutchman knoll stuck shining red-and-yellow flight smooth prosperous RC-Assist Vagabond its stand voyage Holding altitude idle its Veco 19 center field deep Vagabond out-glides lone RC Sailbowl rubber-power fliers plane pilots Two-Meter gets three launch not-always-successful strategy us discussion Bowers modified shell-game Top Flite J-3 Which Winter has now Pop wants meet best flier familyRobert No 2 son Hes Pattern flier got 01 man make so-so ap proaches hue tattered Kadet Cub day floating around sky Fredericks burg seems pop likes long strip Wouldnt ye know 16 Model Aviation Above I-Or way-out reasons Bill Winter thinks great photo something about Jane Eyre no less carriage Mood stuff text Crate British ARF Peter Miller totes side-mounted camera Above Right Classic French Farman Moustique flies like modern sport job Quarter Scale size 60 twin-cylinder job Norm Rosenstock spans 80 weighs just 7% lbnow slated 30 Saito 4-cycle Winter got fly says takes off just three feet Right Publicity shots dont justice Sigs Quarter Scale J-3 thinks Bill got personal shot Master Scaler Mike Gretz taking off cow-pasture style Bill Winter says reminded own drop-on stalled landings Lock Haven soloed Gretz 14%-lb J-3 flies great Webra 60 Speed Won Giant Scale Nats LAMINATED BALSA TIP PLATES S REC IF CATION S WINGSPAN72 WINS AREASINSOIN POWER6W845 THE 9QQKfE SCALE IN INCHES 04S12IA L SlOE VIEW Comet 54-in Aeronca converted rare Model K K lightweight overpow ered RC 09 Hurst flies like Vagabond speculate 6-ft light weight Scale jobs hand-launched over Shangri-las deep grass enjoyed like pow ered Sailpianes Such fantasies down fall Surprising ordinary planes will soar almost 19-oz loading late la mented RC Special tremendous dyna mic soarer throttled back near idle high up rudder trimmed circles Fredericksburg soared 45 minutes blue well between towering fleecy clouds purposely spun down Srull took over could see Old-tim er Bill Kaluf having ball wanting lose perpetual lift helping other keep red bird sight ability RC Special soar fired up ol Bill Kaluf make will another club members decided lengthen nose 1% inches lower di hedral bit go four channels ail erons flaps Love flaps Aileron neutral will 3/32-in up reflex airfoil rule out tip stalls clumsy balloon ing serene flying tis no wonder now have perfect blood pressure wanderforgive us Fun jokes tall tales zany happenings plane watching flying under limbo pole ticking rafters poetic Indoor job Fun anything givespleas ure columnist may get pleasure scribbllngs readers sees inspiring exciting letters young old usually too long print extract People something say want talk am Junior modeler 13 years old says Ronnie Johnson can afford FF models now surely like themand particularly kinds Scale models includ ing rubber-powered ones like read column especially mention FF Scale An older friend takes Model Aviation lets read copy month want tell about something really helped anything else FF modelsand has enabled help some younger model building friends book bought last winter called Making Scale Model Airplanes Ely Product Review July 1982 MA finally understand now about effect CG location Ron goes other things affect flight now have gotten Scale models friends fly well weight now know recognize troubles really troubleshoot models book has helped much know would help others knew about also explains about other types ilke pushers canards December 1982 17 FRONT VIEW TOP VIEW Li Authors Rookie early 1960s published Model Airplane News widely built some floats 6-ft span unique lightness close-in maneuvers As example construction sides soft 3132 sheetdoublers course advanced idle would remain airborne ground-effect pilot walked quickly beside Did outsides idle would glide inverted Discussion between Bill Randy Ranolph led latters Onestone published MA want tight maneuvers fun try Onestone MA Plan No 270 $5 Rookie Winter des cribes losing control inverted close its reed radioit made vast 360 coming back rolled upright landed Tip plates made small ailerons effective enough consecutive rolls Can opy painted sheet balsa built today would powered K&B 40 similar weigh 4% 5 lb used ST 56 Almost 60 years old huge rubber-powered tractor late Jim Walker appears have geared motors Judging knots guy recent photo mist know pack turns Perhaps worlds largest eggbeater Frank Macy photo Helicoptersand pushers cant climb straight up like tractor models other things Have read book know would help others FF Scale models would let know something about column Ah dear dead days beyond re call learn Rons wayand friendsabout building flying mod els took writer two seasons get model flyit skimmed ground epic distance 70 feet Before writer born modelers flown thousands feet forced reinvent wheel Old-timers remember can bet Ronand friendswill find handle problems thanks models Can anyone truly sensitively comprehend nature lumped together word flight having mastered FF rubber-power form us know fly engine wing epoxy lead magazines Yet handed-down copy takes root lucky product review good book affects still wider circle young people otherwise would never know can sure chaps have learned own chance encounter magazines put gether would able teach Bill McCombs has writing scien tifically about Scale design flying Model Airplane News published yet another works take bow Making Scale Model Airplanes Blll McCombs $795 Aircraft Data Box 32021 Dallas TX 75224 Jane Eyre Ive always sucker special picture As editor often would confront writer nifty plc ask him could write article could share marvelous shot Theres nothing beautiful about crate its setting photo show Taken Merrie England could real-plane forced landing cornfield runway faint ruts merely psychological encouragement landscape stretches distant horizonjust far behind too Men acing bare trees lurk motionless ambush shadows wing tall marking high noon So bleak atmosphere expects Rochester Jane Eyre come down faint road carriage Thanks Peter Miller Luther Hux England story go photo model Castle Models Hercules 72-in span built completely foam veneer very little plywood sez kit ready covering gear instal lation box can opened Satur day plane flown Sundaywithout working late night Power 40 carries big single-lens reflex camera space spare operates out very rough strips made first takeoff field photo STOL Opening letters packages folks like Peter Miller like Christmas morning day Christmas have perpetual king-sized gullt-complex earth does pass fascinating things people think would fill magazine Mlller tells us Dunlop parallel think Goodyear sponsors annual Pitts Special event Pitts models Dunlop Continued page 2G 18 Model Aviation Above left Aero Modeller Vintage Meeting August 16 1981 Old Warden 1936 Wakefield winner Bert Juage pieasansiy surprised find Peter Michels replica model pleasure flying Above right Dennis Fairlie Bert Judge Alwyn Greenhalgh three members British 1936 Wakefield team sailing New York event Bert returned England trophy Reunited after 45 years meeting still active hobby Below James Pelly-Fry releases replica 1929 twin-skein geared rubber model flashback days 60 seconds achievement James Pelly-Fry went command Britains finest wing attack bombers using Douglas Boston famous raid Eindhoven other daring episodes Photos courtesy Ron Moulton lumps nose tail Juniors sons AMA fathers Nor read much less see er try upmanship Rubber Scale guy build anything everythingeven things like Russian Bear Bob Thompson Connecticut winds thinkl Keystone Bomber early Thirties figure out winder hangs classy stooge left hand Bob holds nose block motor mount has unwound loop tied around left thumb other hand forefinger through still another loop auto conventional Schmitt plc 1980 FAC Nats PULL ITLL TOGE1HER Form tight clean guy wires seconds Uses wire diameters up 032 $895 ea Cat No 301 KWIKSWITCH MOUNT Set enables install battery switch anywhere fuselage drilling 3/16 hole Attractive mounts up 3/8 thick wall Cat No 203 $175 sr MO Wauconda Illinois 60084 USA MINI-MUFFL-AIRE II What appears exhaust stackes really mufflers Super clean super simple MINI- fits engines 09 25 Cat No 236 $695 THE FINAL FILTER ultimate in-line fuel filter twice much fuel filtering j- capacity others availableEAN S Cat No 162 $175 URETHANE TUBING Will harden swell gas oil diesel fuels_ 24 lenghts Med Dia Cat No 208 $1 OOPkg Cat No 209 DU BRO Large Dia PRODUCTS INC $120 Pkg colorsfor RC FF CL static slew eye-blinding color prints just went morgue topped off full-size plans own Skybo FF kitted Eagle WW IIs end stirs yet another hope less fantasies morgue 20page Catalogue Plans list No 3 1982 Ben Buckles Old Time Plans Service British John Pond illustrated great crates yore including US address 9 Islay Crescent Highworth Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Cost 20p thanks nice note Don Hartman airline pilot regularly gets England tiles Old-Timers Dave Baker editor SAM 35 Speaks can tell English publication full goodies three-views airfoils engine drawingsdo try get copy Bakers address 22 Ellington Rd Musweli Hill London Nl0 3DG England mention Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research PO Box 685 Orange CA 92666 wrote definitive piece fiberglass us Grid Leaks early 1960s pro duced list 50 great plans has Scale buffs send buck Enjoy Just found P-Si Razorback Curtiss 0-52 Owl both prime flying conditionin addition listing Appreciated comments oldtimers . arted 50 years ago Cleveland Winnie Mae have run gamut microfilm 13-ft Sailpianes two FAI RC Speed Sailplane records hanging wall After 24 years Ma rine Corps retired started import RC Sailplanes sold out Windspiel Models started Model Helicopterssold started Model Jet Aircraft R&D con tract Lockheed Missiles Flying Fish cruise missile concept didnt make now am Scale Model Research 410 different subjects finding also photography demand Found shot PBY-5 Miller Beer commercial near Moses Lake WA John Szofer Now getting data ready Quarter Scale Sopwith Snipe Plans drawn starting cut wood planks Ecuador Alvin Johnson prexy Quarryvilie RC Club Oxford PA noting Bob Benjamins search Aeronca K plan advises Hobby Helpers plan No 558 depicts 1958 60-in 15-powered job Ed Yulkesuggests 50% 100% up Giant Scale Benjamin wholl doing series cover paintings friendly model mag thanks Bob Lopshire onto perfect plan now hands eastern seaboard guy has real thing handy inspect flew alone late Ed Yulke numerous occasions can say K just lovely Hurst Bowers RC version Comet 54-in oldie kit part classic series includes Taylorcraft forever being modeled forms Indoor RC Ed used Babcock 465 freq radio probably less range 49 MHz kid stuff today forget prop diameter used Ed Yulkes model pitch 4 wonderful braking effect nose-down glides approaches throttled 5-in pitch didnt happen Someone else think 0 W Brown sends clip sheets Little Toot December 1961 American Modeler 3 3-1/8 inches span designed late Cal Smith Cal one-of-a-kind master tore out hair trying teach writer Continued page 74 20 Model Aviation -I- ~17 KITTY HAWK MODELS PRODUCTS Magnifier & Accessories Skynight-6 Kit Deluxe. Skynight-6 Kit Basic. Magnifying Lamp Windshield Kits 1/3 Scale Fiberglass Wheel Pants Super-Duty Hi-Start & Accessories Latex Fuel Tubing Nylon Bolts NEW PRODUCTS GRAPHiTE FiBERS LA-CO LIQUID SOLDERING FLUX Cable Ties Mounting Tabs KTTT HAWK MODELS RR 2 PacIl led 47454 812 723-3601 NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS! FOURMOST RECOIL TUBING four foot length super-tough fuel-proof urethanetubing pre-formed FOUR-INCH COIL allows placement field box can convenient distance aircraft boat After use tubing will retract its earlier space-saving form S Sp FUEL LINE PIPING PROBLEM 5 ze5 DPrice $150LARGE Tee 2 E bows Pen Bladder Tee price$3 95 WE HAVE THE FITTING SOLUTION ORSmallSize 3/32 IDPrice $200 1 Tee 1 Elbow i union i Plug Fun/Winter Continued page 20 fly Control Line back 1946 requires precious little modification make top RC would equal Aeromaster plan Hobby Helpers Group No 1261 Like Mississippi Frank Zaic rolls ever Frank published famous Yearbooks others distinctive orange cov ers former patent draftsman en abled him grind out formidable numbers three-views models books far know first US modeler receive world-famous Tissandier Award outstanding contributions international modeling started original JASCOthe Indoor model wood 20 long because limitations tiny saw tableduring Depression new magazine-size book 160 pages Model Airplanes Amencan Boyi 927-1934 has achieved wish lifetime Its grand collection re prints plans articlesmany fellow Hall Famer late Merrill Hamburg American Boy lasted 100 years own building Detroit support post-Lindbergh modeling enabled Hamburg build organ ization AMLA bequeathed AMA its heritage folk-lore hand-downs speak actually achieved 400000 members $995 $800 AMA HQ Supply & Service Section Franks monumental work contains comicopia plans day once-in-a-lifetime insight Americana kids last issue American Boy appeared early 40s model magazines 1920 Everyone grew older mags evolved steadi ly expert stuff stuff really Like strip mining left behind us barren landscape Now average age Ameri can modeler double time great adventure Kids may still knows Few care could afford serve dont know course can carp about terrible products made millions people took us seriously would nothing Zaic has collecting rare material since 1966 book time-warp Having bought Paul Plecans first published item P-35 three-view 1936 having hired him staff draftsman old Air Trails before war admire long career great designers drafts men Such idealism does make man rich have Plan Packet No 3 Macchi Castoldi MC 72 seaplane side 1/10th scale37-3/8 Arado 76 Trainer 1-inscale 31% span other Ive wanted bulld ages MC 72 says Paul slick configuration slim mest beautiful Schneider Cup racers wanted big version hydrodynamic rea sonsthe big uns just hop off water much better am sure Jumbo ROW events will become very popular once average guy sees effortlessly jobs rise-off-water after explosion old rubber Bede 4 recent Flightmasters meetexternal winding way fly am playing safe going motor tube route Pauls Packet No 1 049 Tornado II 30-in Pilatus Porter No 2 Howard Pete Bede 4 $450 pack two $850 three $12 Youll find Paul 74 Model Aviation Uc Ts 4040 24th Ave Forest Grove OR 97116 FO URM uT PROD Telephone 503 357-2732 3663 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 Back farm finally got see Top Flite J-3 son Mike borrowed built son Rob Pattern guy utterly fascinated thing sounded awful K&B 40 screamer lent guys custom Aldrich ST 46 ported torque lugging big props Heavens said Rob visit said stole J-3 column urged him take pleasure crate home him noted didnt put up fight So steering sedately about 100 ft conked outhe refused take back box erratic Willy put down smooth silk Maybe nothing red-and-white useless flies final ly got wring out again ancient Mach glitch have flying problems get Pattern guy comment struggle Its about feel no dig approaches suddenly look like million bucks family K&B 40 persecuted Kadet Polished inside no com pression cant possibly get pop hand-flipping springs life starter description animal right So now Kadet step up 40 35 makes far easier fly smoother ail power settings now have 3/32-in up-neutral ailerons farforward CG Yet up-trim dead en gine glides slowly holds altitude well can soared occasionaliy work Heres what Claude McCullough said comments reinforced idea have some time Namely Balance Point should part trimming model much cidence control movements etc cant put balance point down plan have right ail cases weight model power used individual differences way model built skill pilot influence choice CG particular modeL Hear hear Meanwhile son Mike left half asleep last month spread-out sheet tooled Gentle Lady 049 called about Top Flite Metrick surely have noticed companies suddenly went Two Meter bananas So pieces sez wing panels go wires stab halves gee whole stab tilts control Now understands typical Sailplane mans Two-Meter hes now MonoKoting thing Metrick defi nitely intended compete trade-wise Gentle Lady Drifter Bird Time out RCM etc suggested Mike got out 100-degreeplus day winds 30 press ail costs hed see Sailplanes cannot alike designed envelope con ditions performance Scott Christensen Top Rite top Sailplane pilot Metrick reflects input flies faster turns very flat tip stall re quires flying experience deft touch got see Norm Rosenstock fly new Quarter Scale Farman Moustique Farman strangely modern pretty looking crate spite its being French antique Bill Hannan loves crate little rubber power job John Preston has RC beauty ST 25 During its design argued Norm would crime over power such bird Norm kept saying WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Cox Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT cox division ot Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies OO W 78llSI Minneapolis MN 55135 December 1982 75 SUPERwings A DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS CREATE YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Floater 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 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crossing controls Now tells would better 35 45 sport engine thinks 30 4-cycle Saito FA-30 would ideal Old Norm will right-on sport enginestoo bad Farman just plan kit kit Id have sit yet another tantalizing fantasy photo Turbulent Septem ber issue really Jodel D-9 probably know writes Dick Konkle Just cant resist poking little fun Since two guys wrote about glaring error thank realizing gosh-aw ful typewriter did know differ ence Dick has info little history D-9 group us bought plans full-size plane around 1958I fell heir plans bought Gemini Twin looked around design exposed two-hanger also reasonably aerobaticthe Jodel choice Structure scale including sprung landing gear scale 30% wing span about 88 weight 13 lb has done well contests usually first second caption two issues back Turbulent extolled flying qualities Jodel same true Turbulent Both mag nificent subjects Rubber FF Gas CL RC size now editor screaming frequency pin Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 US Male/Haught Continued page 28 Attach fuselage No 2 x -in sheet metal screws spaced shown plan Cut engine cowling portion length Provide engine cooling hole 1 x 3 shown Also cutclearance muffler exhaust extension Cut windshield plastic sheet Frame bottom edge scrap aluminum bolt fuselage landing gear fabricated 3/16-in music wire 3/32-in music wire bracing Fix front rear components fuselage straps screws Bind parts together soft wire solder securely assembled fuselage tail wheel gear installed after covering fuselage Remove metal parts give fuse lage final sanding Covering Any popular covering tech niques can used addition flying surfaces prefer cover entire fuselageas feel lighter-weight finish may obtained way keeping commitment lowbudget model original covered polyesterdress liningfrom local sewingshop material comes myriad colors strong cheap heat-shrinkable Proceed follows Continued page 82 76 Model Aviation -a - ct2f THE PEANUT-PEOPLE PRESENT L P 0 BOX 2490-MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 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VIBES Flying sometimes has mysterious ex tra dimensions may fly routinely months least expected thing resonates field fliers flying clouds trees air itself day would never end Like projections wall images flight drift before closed eyes night sleep lose Sunday began nothing day hot hu midbut would turn cool cairn watch frequency pins instead airplanes Sun day melee would downer Other restless souls stirring seems three oclock Don Srull Hurst Bowers felt tug Shangri-la never-never land rolling Maryland countryside No planning governed what tossed wagon Don geared VL electric Bleriot ca nard FF Scaler DH-6 rubber job dusted off Mattel Super Star batteries charged eight years Bleriot DH-6 winners FAC Nats just discovered newsletter teenager used watch Rubber Scale guys Friday nights now pushes champs walked up yellow Pieten pol Don lost trees week two before immediately wound long circling flight Some planes just want fly must intangible fourth dimension design because unappreciated combina tions things can never put finger somehow enable unpromising crates endure far beyond sleekest expertly flown efficient models miniscule power work way slowly aloft free-wheeling reach out out out DH-6 rubber jobugly no stagger boxyis winner year after year its last legs first saw six years ago avoid trees end top grassy looks weary Flying Dutchman knoll stuck shining red-and-yellow flight smooth prosperous RC-Assist Vagabond its stand voyage Holding altitude idle its Veco 19 center field deep Vagabond out-glides lone RC Sailbowl rubber-power fliers plane pilots Two-Meter gets three launch not-always-successful strategy us discussion Bowers modified shell-game Top Flite J-3 Which Winter has now Pop wants meet best flier familyRobert No 2 son Hes Pattern flier got 01 man make so-so ap proaches hue tattered Kadet Cub day floating around sky Fredericks burg seems pop likes long strip Wouldnt ye know 16 Model Aviation Above I-Or way-out reasons Bill Winter thinks great photo something about Jane Eyre no less carriage Mood stuff text Crate British ARF Peter Miller totes side-mounted camera Above Right Classic French Farman Moustique flies like modern sport job Quarter Scale size 60 twin-cylinder job Norm Rosenstock spans 80 weighs just 7% lbnow slated 30 Saito 4-cycle Winter got fly says takes off just three feet Right Publicity shots dont justice Sigs Quarter Scale J-3 thinks Bill got personal shot Master Scaler Mike Gretz taking off cow-pasture style Bill Winter says reminded own drop-on stalled landings Lock Haven soloed Gretz 14%-lb J-3 flies great Webra 60 Speed Won Giant Scale Nats LAMINATED BALSA TIP PLATES S REC IF CATION S WINGSPAN72 WINS AREASINSOIN POWER6W845 THE 9QQKfE SCALE IN INCHES 04S12IA L SlOE VIEW Comet 54-in Aeronca converted rare Model K K lightweight overpow ered RC 09 Hurst flies like Vagabond speculate 6-ft light weight Scale jobs hand-launched over Shangri-las deep grass enjoyed like pow ered Sailpianes Such fantasies down fall Surprising ordinary planes will soar almost 19-oz loading late la mented RC Special tremendous dyna mic soarer throttled back near idle high up rudder trimmed circles Fredericksburg soared 45 minutes blue well between towering fleecy clouds purposely spun down Srull took over could see Old-tim er Bill Kaluf having ball wanting lose perpetual lift helping other keep red bird sight ability RC Special soar fired up ol Bill Kaluf make will another club members decided lengthen nose 1% inches lower di hedral bit go four channels ail erons flaps Love flaps Aileron neutral will 3/32-in up reflex airfoil rule out tip stalls clumsy balloon ing serene flying tis no wonder now have perfect blood pressure wanderforgive us Fun jokes tall tales zany happenings plane watching flying under limbo pole ticking rafters poetic Indoor job Fun anything givespleas ure columnist may get pleasure scribbllngs readers sees inspiring exciting letters young old usually too long print extract People something say want talk am Junior modeler 13 years old says Ronnie Johnson can afford FF models now surely like themand particularly kinds Scale models includ ing rubber-powered ones like read column especially mention FF Scale An older friend takes Model Aviation lets read copy month want tell about something really helped anything else FF modelsand has enabled help some younger model building friends book bought last winter called Making Scale Model Airplanes Ely Product Review July 1982 MA finally understand now about effect CG location Ron goes other things affect flight now have gotten Scale models friends fly well weight now know recognize troubles really troubleshoot models book has helped much know would help others knew about also explains about other types ilke pushers canards December 1982 17 FRONT VIEW TOP VIEW Li Authors Rookie early 1960s published Model Airplane News widely built some floats 6-ft span unique lightness close-in maneuvers As example construction sides soft 3132 sheetdoublers course advanced idle would remain airborne ground-effect pilot walked quickly beside Did outsides idle would glide inverted Discussion between Bill Randy Ranolph led latters Onestone published MA want tight maneuvers fun try Onestone MA Plan No 270 $5 Rookie Winter des cribes losing control inverted close its reed radioit made vast 360 coming back rolled upright landed Tip plates made small ailerons effective enough consecutive rolls Can opy painted sheet balsa built today would powered K&B 40 similar weigh 4% 5 lb used ST 56 Almost 60 years old huge rubber-powered tractor late Jim Walker appears have geared motors Judging knots guy recent photo mist know pack turns Perhaps worlds largest eggbeater Frank Macy photo Helicoptersand pushers cant climb straight up like tractor models other things Have read book know would help others FF Scale models would let know something about column Ah dear dead days beyond re call learn Rons wayand friendsabout building flying mod els took writer two seasons get model flyit skimmed ground epic distance 70 feet Before writer born modelers flown thousands feet forced reinvent wheel Old-timers remember can bet Ronand friendswill find handle problems thanks models Can anyone truly sensitively comprehend nature lumped together word flight having mastered FF rubber-power form us know fly engine wing epoxy lead magazines Yet handed-down copy takes root lucky product review good book affects still wider circle young people otherwise would never know can sure chaps have learned own chance encounter magazines put gether would able teach Bill McCombs has writing scien tifically about Scale design flying Model Airplane News published yet another works take bow Making Scale Model Airplanes Blll McCombs $795 Aircraft Data Box 32021 Dallas TX 75224 Jane Eyre Ive always sucker special picture As editor often would confront writer nifty plc ask him could write article could share marvelous shot Theres nothing beautiful about crate its setting photo show Taken Merrie England could real-plane forced landing cornfield runway faint ruts merely psychological encouragement landscape stretches distant horizonjust far behind too Men acing bare trees lurk motionless ambush shadows wing tall marking high noon So bleak atmosphere expects Rochester Jane Eyre come down faint road carriage Thanks Peter Miller Luther Hux England story go photo model Castle Models Hercules 72-in span built completely foam veneer very little plywood sez kit ready covering gear instal lation box can opened Satur day plane flown Sundaywithout working late night Power 40 carries big single-lens reflex camera space spare operates out very rough strips made first takeoff field photo STOL Opening letters packages folks like Peter Miller like Christmas morning day Christmas have perpetual king-sized gullt-complex earth does pass fascinating things people think would fill magazine Mlller tells us Dunlop parallel think Goodyear sponsors annual Pitts Special event Pitts models Dunlop Continued page 2G 18 Model Aviation Above left Aero Modeller Vintage Meeting August 16 1981 Old Warden 1936 Wakefield winner Bert Juage pieasansiy surprised find Peter Michels replica model pleasure flying Above right Dennis Fairlie Bert Judge Alwyn Greenhalgh three members British 1936 Wakefield team sailing New York event Bert returned England trophy Reunited after 45 years meeting still active hobby Below James Pelly-Fry releases replica 1929 twin-skein geared rubber model flashback days 60 seconds achievement James Pelly-Fry went command Britains finest wing attack bombers using Douglas Boston famous raid Eindhoven other daring episodes Photos courtesy Ron Moulton lumps nose tail Juniors sons AMA fathers Nor read much less see er try upmanship Rubber Scale guy build anything everythingeven things like Russian Bear Bob Thompson Connecticut winds thinkl Keystone Bomber early Thirties figure out winder hangs classy stooge left hand Bob holds nose block motor mount has unwound loop tied around left thumb other hand forefinger through still another loop auto conventional Schmitt plc 1980 FAC Nats PULL ITLL TOGE1HER Form tight clean guy wires seconds Uses wire diameters up 032 $895 ea Cat No 301 KWIKSWITCH MOUNT Set enables install battery switch anywhere fuselage drilling 3/16 hole Attractive mounts up 3/8 thick wall Cat No 203 $175 sr MO Wauconda Illinois 60084 USA MINI-MUFFL-AIRE II What appears exhaust stackes really mufflers Super clean super simple MINI- fits engines 09 25 Cat No 236 $695 THE FINAL FILTER ultimate in-line fuel filter twice much fuel filtering j- capacity others availableEAN S Cat No 162 $175 URETHANE TUBING Will harden swell gas oil diesel fuels_ 24 lenghts Med Dia Cat No 208 $1 OOPkg Cat No 209 DU BRO Large Dia PRODUCTS INC $120 Pkg colorsfor RC FF CL static slew eye-blinding color prints just went morgue topped off full-size plans own Skybo FF kitted Eagle WW IIs end stirs yet another hope less fantasies morgue 20page Catalogue Plans list No 3 1982 Ben Buckles Old Time Plans Service British John Pond illustrated great crates yore including US address 9 Islay Crescent Highworth Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Cost 20p thanks nice note Don Hartman airline pilot regularly gets England tiles Old-Timers Dave Baker editor SAM 35 Speaks can tell English publication full goodies three-views airfoils engine drawingsdo try get copy Bakers address 22 Ellington Rd Musweli Hill London Nl0 3DG England mention Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research PO Box 685 Orange CA 92666 wrote definitive piece fiberglass us Grid Leaks early 1960s pro duced list 50 great plans has Scale buffs send buck Enjoy Just found P-Si Razorback Curtiss 0-52 Owl both prime flying conditionin addition listing Appreciated comments oldtimers . arted 50 years ago Cleveland Winnie Mae have run gamut microfilm 13-ft Sailpianes two FAI RC Speed Sailplane records hanging wall After 24 years Ma rine Corps retired started import RC Sailplanes sold out Windspiel Models started Model Helicopterssold started Model Jet Aircraft R&D con tract Lockheed Missiles Flying Fish cruise missile concept didnt make now am Scale Model Research 410 different subjects finding also photography demand Found shot PBY-5 Miller Beer commercial near Moses Lake WA John Szofer Now getting data ready Quarter Scale Sopwith Snipe Plans drawn starting cut wood planks Ecuador Alvin Johnson prexy Quarryvilie RC Club Oxford PA noting Bob Benjamins search Aeronca K plan advises Hobby Helpers plan No 558 depicts 1958 60-in 15-powered job Ed Yulkesuggests 50% 100% up Giant Scale Benjamin wholl doing series cover paintings friendly model mag thanks Bob Lopshire onto perfect plan now hands eastern seaboard guy has real thing handy inspect flew alone late Ed Yulke numerous occasions can say K just lovely Hurst Bowers RC version Comet 54-in oldie kit part classic series includes Taylorcraft forever being modeled forms Indoor RC Ed used Babcock 465 freq radio probably less range 49 MHz kid stuff today forget prop diameter used Ed Yulkes model pitch 4 wonderful braking effect nose-down glides approaches throttled 5-in pitch didnt happen Someone else think 0 W Brown sends clip sheets Little Toot December 1961 American Modeler 3 3-1/8 inches span designed late Cal Smith Cal one-of-a-kind master tore out hair trying teach writer Continued page 74 20 Model Aviation -I- ~17 KITTY HAWK MODELS PRODUCTS Magnifier & Accessories Skynight-6 Kit Deluxe. Skynight-6 Kit Basic. Magnifying Lamp Windshield Kits 1/3 Scale Fiberglass Wheel Pants Super-Duty Hi-Start & Accessories Latex Fuel Tubing Nylon Bolts NEW PRODUCTS GRAPHiTE FiBERS LA-CO LIQUID SOLDERING FLUX Cable Ties Mounting Tabs KTTT HAWK MODELS RR 2 PacIl led 47454 812 723-3601 NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS! FOURMOST RECOIL TUBING four foot length super-tough fuel-proof urethanetubing pre-formed FOUR-INCH COIL allows placement field box can convenient distance aircraft boat After use tubing will retract its earlier space-saving form S Sp FUEL LINE PIPING PROBLEM 5 ze5 DPrice $150LARGE Tee 2 E bows Pen Bladder Tee price$3 95 WE HAVE THE FITTING SOLUTION ORSmallSize 3/32 IDPrice $200 1 Tee 1 Elbow i union i Plug Fun/Winter Continued page 20 fly Control Line back 1946 requires precious little modification make top RC would equal Aeromaster plan Hobby Helpers Group No 1261 Like Mississippi Frank Zaic rolls ever Frank published famous Yearbooks others distinctive orange cov ers former patent draftsman en abled him grind out formidable numbers three-views models books far know first US modeler receive world-famous Tissandier Award outstanding contributions international modeling started original JASCOthe Indoor model wood 20 long because limitations tiny saw tableduring Depression new magazine-size book 160 pages Model Airplanes Amencan Boyi 927-1934 has achieved wish lifetime Its grand collection re prints plans articlesmany fellow Hall Famer late Merrill Hamburg American Boy lasted 100 years own building Detroit support post-Lindbergh modeling enabled Hamburg build organ ization AMLA bequeathed AMA its heritage folk-lore hand-downs speak actually achieved 400000 members $995 $800 AMA HQ Supply & Service Section Franks monumental work contains comicopia plans day once-in-a-lifetime insight Americana kids last issue American Boy appeared early 40s model magazines 1920 Everyone grew older mags evolved steadi ly expert stuff stuff really Like strip mining left behind us barren landscape Now average age Ameri can modeler double time great adventure Kids may still knows Few care could afford serve dont know course can carp about terrible products made millions people took us seriously would nothing Zaic has collecting rare material since 1966 book time-warp Having bought Paul Plecans first published item P-35 three-view 1936 having hired him staff draftsman old Air Trails before war admire long career great designers drafts men Such idealism does make man rich have Plan Packet No 3 Macchi Castoldi MC 72 seaplane side 1/10th scale37-3/8 Arado 76 Trainer 1-inscale 31% span other Ive wanted bulld ages MC 72 says Paul slick configuration slim mest beautiful Schneider Cup racers wanted big version hydrodynamic rea sonsthe big uns just hop off water much better am sure Jumbo ROW events will become very popular once average guy sees effortlessly jobs rise-off-water after explosion old rubber Bede 4 recent Flightmasters meetexternal winding way fly am playing safe going motor tube route Pauls Packet No 1 049 Tornado II 30-in Pilatus Porter No 2 Howard Pete Bede 4 $450 pack two $850 three $12 Youll find Paul 74 Model Aviation Uc Ts 4040 24th Ave Forest Grove OR 97116 FO URM uT PROD Telephone 503 357-2732 3663 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 Back farm finally got see Top Flite J-3 son Mike borrowed built son Rob Pattern guy utterly fascinated thing sounded awful K&B 40 screamer lent guys custom Aldrich ST 46 ported torque lugging big props Heavens said Rob visit said stole J-3 column urged him take pleasure crate home him noted didnt put up fight So steering sedately about 100 ft conked outhe refused take back box erratic Willy put down smooth silk Maybe nothing red-and-white useless flies final ly got wring out again ancient Mach glitch have flying problems get Pattern guy comment struggle Its about feel no dig approaches suddenly look like million bucks family K&B 40 persecuted Kadet Polished inside no com pression cant possibly get pop hand-flipping springs life starter description animal right So now Kadet step up 40 35 makes far easier fly smoother ail power settings now have 3/32-in up-neutral ailerons farforward CG Yet up-trim dead en gine glides slowly holds altitude well can soared occasionaliy work Heres what Claude McCullough said comments reinforced idea have some time Namely Balance Point should part trimming model much cidence control movements etc cant put balance point down plan have right ail cases weight model power used individual differences way model built skill pilot influence choice CG particular modeL Hear hear Meanwhile son Mike left half asleep last month spread-out sheet tooled Gentle Lady 049 called about Top Flite Metrick surely have noticed companies suddenly went Two Meter bananas So pieces sez wing panels go wires stab halves gee whole stab tilts control Now understands typical Sailplane mans Two-Meter hes now MonoKoting thing Metrick defi nitely intended compete trade-wise Gentle Lady Drifter Bird Time out RCM etc suggested Mike got out 100-degreeplus day winds 30 press ail costs hed see Sailplanes cannot alike designed envelope con ditions performance Scott Christensen Top Rite top Sailplane pilot Metrick reflects input flies faster turns very flat tip stall re quires flying experience deft touch got see Norm Rosenstock fly new Quarter Scale Farman Moustique Farman strangely modern pretty looking crate spite its being French antique Bill Hannan loves crate little rubber power job John Preston has RC beauty ST 25 During its design argued Norm would crime over power such bird Norm kept saying WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Cox Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT cox division ot Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies OO W 78llSI Minneapolis MN 55135 December 1982 75 SUPERwings A DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS CREATE YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Floater 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 PEANUT SCALE MODELS MUSTANG MILES M-18ZERO DRUINEPIETENPOL COUGAR PIPER CUB GIPSY MOTHANDRESON GANAGOBIELACEY M-lO Rubber Powered Balsa Tissue Kits $595 SPORT MODELS PRAIRIE BIRD 4 $595 BABY ACE$649 ONE NITE 28$696 ONE NITE 16$595 STRINGLESS WONDER$495 PECK BOG -$l95 RUBBER OR CO-2 POWERED UVIWING NEEDS PROPS TISSUE RUBBER WINDERS BLADE SHARPENERS BEARINGS PROP SHAFTS LUBE WASHERS WHEELS FUSE CO-2 MOTORS BOOKS PLANS MORE ADVENTURE MODELS PONY BLIMP Il-FT RIC AIRSHIP KIT $24900 COMPLETE CATALOG $100 HARD TO FIND ITEMS FOR RUBBER MODELS AND AIRSHIPS plans Customers insist aerobat ics everything Wright Flyer Sure understand flight realismand no can build anything fly scale speedhut Moustique bad have zip Oh death thy sting So Ross Twin 60 span 80 145 oz wing loading 8 sq ft area 7-lb weight floater course big Aristocrat almost floats 38-oz loading Norms Moustique took off tlsree feet zero breeze recovers com plete stall about its own length flies flat unbanked 360s hy crossing controls Now tells would better 35 45 sport engine thinks 30 4-cycle Saito FA-30 would ideal Old Norm will right-on sport enginestoo bad Farman just plan kit kit Id have sit yet another tantalizing fantasy photo Turbulent Septem ber issue really Jodel D-9 probably know writes Dick Konkle Just cant resist poking little fun Since two guys wrote about glaring error thank realizing gosh-aw ful typewriter did know differ ence Dick has info little history D-9 group us bought plans full-size plane around 1958I fell heir plans bought Gemini Twin looked around design exposed two-hanger also reasonably aerobaticthe Jodel choice Structure scale including sprung landing gear scale 30% wing span about 88 weight 13 lb has done well contests usually first second caption two issues back Turbulent extolled flying qualities Jodel same true Turbulent Both mag nificent subjects Rubber FF Gas CL RC size now editor screaming frequency pin Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 US Male/Haught Continued page 28 Attach fuselage No 2 x -in sheet metal screws spaced shown plan Cut engine cowling portion length Provide engine cooling hole 1 x 3 shown Also cutclearance muffler exhaust extension Cut windshield plastic sheet Frame bottom edge scrap aluminum bolt fuselage landing gear fabricated 3/16-in music wire 3/32-in music wire bracing Fix front rear components fuselage straps screws Bind parts together soft wire solder securely assembled fuselage tail wheel gear installed after covering fuselage Remove metal parts give fuse lage final sanding Covering Any popular covering tech niques can used addition flying surfaces prefer cover entire fuselageas feel lighter-weight finish may obtained way keeping commitment lowbudget model original covered polyesterdress liningfrom local sewingshop material comes myriad colors strong cheap heat-shrinkable Proceed follows Continued page 82 76 Model Aviation -a - ct2f THE PEANUT-PEOPLE PRESENT L P 0 BOX 2490-MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 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VIBES Flying sometimes has mysterious ex tra dimensions may fly routinely months least expected thing resonates field fliers flying clouds trees air itself day would never end Like projections wall images flight drift before closed eyes night sleep lose Sunday began nothing day hot hu midbut would turn cool cairn watch frequency pins instead airplanes Sun day melee would downer Other restless souls stirring seems three oclock Don Srull Hurst Bowers felt tug Shangri-la never-never land rolling Maryland countryside No planning governed what tossed wagon Don geared VL electric Bleriot ca nard FF Scaler DH-6 rubber job dusted off Mattel Super Star batteries charged eight years Bleriot DH-6 winners FAC Nats just discovered newsletter teenager used watch Rubber Scale guys Friday nights now pushes champs walked up yellow Pieten pol Don lost trees week two before immediately wound long circling flight Some planes just want fly must intangible fourth dimension design because unappreciated combina tions things can never put finger somehow enable unpromising crates endure far beyond sleekest expertly flown efficient models miniscule power work way slowly aloft free-wheeling reach out out out DH-6 rubber jobugly no stagger boxyis winner year after year its last legs first saw six years ago avoid trees end top grassy looks weary Flying Dutchman knoll stuck shining red-and-yellow flight smooth prosperous RC-Assist Vagabond its stand voyage Holding altitude idle its Veco 19 center field deep Vagabond out-glides lone RC Sailbowl rubber-power fliers plane pilots Two-Meter gets three launch not-always-successful strategy us discussion Bowers modified shell-game Top Flite J-3 Which Winter has now Pop wants meet best flier familyRobert No 2 son Hes Pattern flier got 01 man make so-so ap proaches hue tattered Kadet Cub day floating around sky Fredericks burg seems pop likes long strip Wouldnt ye know 16 Model Aviation Above I-Or way-out reasons Bill Winter thinks great photo something about Jane Eyre no less carriage Mood stuff text Crate British ARF Peter Miller totes side-mounted camera Above Right Classic French Farman Moustique flies like modern sport job Quarter Scale size 60 twin-cylinder job Norm Rosenstock spans 80 weighs just 7% lbnow slated 30 Saito 4-cycle Winter got fly says takes off just three feet Right Publicity shots dont justice Sigs Quarter Scale J-3 thinks Bill got personal shot Master Scaler Mike Gretz taking off cow-pasture style Bill Winter says reminded own drop-on stalled landings Lock Haven soloed Gretz 14%-lb J-3 flies great Webra 60 Speed Won Giant Scale Nats LAMINATED BALSA TIP PLATES S REC IF CATION S WINGSPAN72 WINS AREASINSOIN POWER6W845 THE 9QQKfE SCALE IN INCHES 04S12IA L SlOE VIEW Comet 54-in Aeronca converted rare Model K K lightweight overpow ered RC 09 Hurst flies like Vagabond speculate 6-ft light weight Scale jobs hand-launched over Shangri-las deep grass enjoyed like pow ered Sailpianes Such fantasies down fall Surprising ordinary planes will soar almost 19-oz loading late la mented RC Special tremendous dyna mic soarer throttled back near idle high up rudder trimmed circles Fredericksburg soared 45 minutes blue well between towering fleecy clouds purposely spun down Srull took over could see Old-tim er Bill Kaluf having ball wanting lose perpetual lift helping other keep red bird sight ability RC Special soar fired up ol Bill Kaluf make will another club members decided lengthen nose 1% inches lower di hedral bit go four channels ail erons flaps Love flaps Aileron neutral will 3/32-in up reflex airfoil rule out tip stalls clumsy balloon ing serene flying tis no wonder now have perfect blood pressure wanderforgive us Fun jokes tall tales zany happenings plane watching flying under limbo pole ticking rafters poetic Indoor job Fun anything givespleas ure columnist may get pleasure scribbllngs readers sees inspiring exciting letters young old usually too long print extract People something say want talk am Junior modeler 13 years old says Ronnie Johnson can afford FF models now surely like themand particularly kinds Scale models includ ing rubber-powered ones like read column especially mention FF Scale An older friend takes Model Aviation lets read copy month want tell about something really helped anything else FF modelsand has enabled help some younger model building friends book bought last winter called Making Scale Model Airplanes Ely Product Review July 1982 MA finally understand now about effect CG location Ron goes other things affect flight now have gotten Scale models friends fly well weight now know recognize troubles really troubleshoot models book has helped much know would help others knew about also explains about other types ilke pushers canards December 1982 17 FRONT VIEW TOP VIEW Li Authors Rookie early 1960s published Model Airplane News widely built some floats 6-ft span unique lightness close-in maneuvers As example construction sides soft 3132 sheetdoublers course advanced idle would remain airborne ground-effect pilot walked quickly beside Did outsides idle would glide inverted Discussion between Bill Randy Ranolph led latters Onestone published MA want tight maneuvers fun try Onestone MA Plan No 270 $5 Rookie Winter des cribes losing control inverted close its reed radioit made vast 360 coming back rolled upright landed Tip plates made small ailerons effective enough consecutive rolls Can opy painted sheet balsa built today would powered K&B 40 similar weigh 4% 5 lb used ST 56 Almost 60 years old huge rubber-powered tractor late Jim Walker appears have geared motors Judging knots guy recent photo mist know pack turns Perhaps worlds largest eggbeater Frank Macy photo Helicoptersand pushers cant climb straight up like tractor models other things Have read book know would help others FF Scale models would let know something about column Ah dear dead days beyond re call learn Rons wayand friendsabout building flying mod els took writer two seasons get model flyit skimmed ground epic distance 70 feet Before writer born modelers flown thousands feet forced reinvent wheel Old-timers remember can bet Ronand friendswill find handle problems thanks models Can anyone truly sensitively comprehend nature lumped together word flight having mastered FF rubber-power form us know fly engine wing epoxy lead magazines Yet handed-down copy takes root lucky product review good book affects still wider circle young people otherwise would never know can sure chaps have learned own chance encounter magazines put gether would able teach Bill McCombs has writing scien tifically about Scale design flying Model Airplane News published yet another works take bow Making Scale Model Airplanes Blll McCombs $795 Aircraft Data Box 32021 Dallas TX 75224 Jane Eyre Ive always sucker special picture As editor often would confront writer nifty plc ask him could write article could share marvelous shot Theres nothing beautiful about crate its setting photo show Taken Merrie England could real-plane forced landing cornfield runway faint ruts merely psychological encouragement landscape stretches distant horizonjust far behind too Men acing bare trees lurk motionless ambush shadows wing tall marking high noon So bleak atmosphere expects Rochester Jane Eyre come down faint road carriage Thanks Peter Miller Luther Hux England story go photo model Castle Models Hercules 72-in span built completely foam veneer very little plywood sez kit ready covering gear instal lation box can opened Satur day plane flown Sundaywithout working late night Power 40 carries big single-lens reflex camera space spare operates out very rough strips made first takeoff field photo STOL Opening letters packages folks like Peter Miller like Christmas morning day Christmas have perpetual king-sized gullt-complex earth does pass fascinating things people think would fill magazine Mlller tells us Dunlop parallel think Goodyear sponsors annual Pitts Special event Pitts models Dunlop Continued page 2G 18 Model Aviation Above left Aero Modeller Vintage Meeting August 16 1981 Old Warden 1936 Wakefield winner Bert Juage pieasansiy surprised find Peter Michels replica model pleasure flying Above right Dennis Fairlie Bert Judge Alwyn Greenhalgh three members British 1936 Wakefield team sailing New York event Bert returned England trophy Reunited after 45 years meeting still active hobby Below James Pelly-Fry releases replica 1929 twin-skein geared rubber model flashback days 60 seconds achievement James Pelly-Fry went command Britains finest wing attack bombers using Douglas Boston famous raid Eindhoven other daring episodes Photos courtesy Ron Moulton lumps nose tail Juniors sons AMA fathers Nor read much less see er try upmanship Rubber Scale guy build anything everythingeven things like Russian Bear Bob Thompson Connecticut winds thinkl Keystone Bomber early Thirties figure out winder hangs classy stooge left hand Bob holds nose block motor mount has unwound loop tied around left thumb other hand forefinger through still another loop auto conventional Schmitt plc 1980 FAC Nats PULL ITLL TOGE1HER Form tight clean guy wires seconds Uses wire diameters up 032 $895 ea Cat No 301 KWIKSWITCH MOUNT Set enables install battery switch anywhere fuselage drilling 3/16 hole Attractive mounts up 3/8 thick wall Cat No 203 $175 sr MO Wauconda Illinois 60084 USA MINI-MUFFL-AIRE II What appears exhaust stackes really mufflers Super clean super simple MINI- fits engines 09 25 Cat No 236 $695 THE FINAL FILTER ultimate in-line fuel filter twice much fuel filtering j- capacity others availableEAN S Cat No 162 $175 URETHANE TUBING Will harden swell gas oil diesel fuels_ 24 lenghts Med Dia Cat No 208 $1 OOPkg Cat No 209 DU BRO Large Dia PRODUCTS INC $120 Pkg colorsfor RC FF CL static slew eye-blinding color prints just went morgue topped off full-size plans own Skybo FF kitted Eagle WW IIs end stirs yet another hope less fantasies morgue 20page Catalogue Plans list No 3 1982 Ben Buckles Old Time Plans Service British John Pond illustrated great crates yore including US address 9 Islay Crescent Highworth Wiltshire SN6 7HL England Cost 20p thanks nice note Don Hartman airline pilot regularly gets England tiles Old-Timers Dave Baker editor SAM 35 Speaks can tell English publication full goodies three-views airfoils engine drawingsdo try get copy Bakers address 22 Ellington Rd Musweli Hill London Nl0 3DG England mention Dale Willoughby Scale Model Research PO Box 685 Orange CA 92666 wrote definitive piece fiberglass us Grid Leaks early 1960s pro duced list 50 great plans has Scale buffs send buck Enjoy Just found P-Si Razorback Curtiss 0-52 Owl both prime flying conditionin addition listing Appreciated comments oldtimers . arted 50 years ago Cleveland Winnie Mae have run gamut microfilm 13-ft Sailpianes two FAI RC Speed Sailplane records hanging wall After 24 years Ma rine Corps retired started import RC Sailplanes sold out Windspiel Models started Model Helicopterssold started Model Jet Aircraft R&D con tract Lockheed Missiles Flying Fish cruise missile concept didnt make now am Scale Model Research 410 different subjects finding also photography demand Found shot PBY-5 Miller Beer commercial near Moses Lake WA John Szofer Now getting data ready Quarter Scale Sopwith Snipe Plans drawn starting cut wood planks Ecuador Alvin Johnson prexy Quarryvilie RC Club Oxford PA noting Bob Benjamins search Aeronca K plan advises Hobby Helpers plan No 558 depicts 1958 60-in 15-powered job Ed Yulkesuggests 50% 100% up Giant Scale Benjamin wholl doing series cover paintings friendly model mag thanks Bob Lopshire onto perfect plan now hands eastern seaboard guy has real thing handy inspect flew alone late Ed Yulke numerous occasions can say K just lovely Hurst Bowers RC version Comet 54-in oldie kit part classic series includes Taylorcraft forever being modeled forms Indoor RC Ed used Babcock 465 freq radio probably less range 49 MHz kid stuff today forget prop diameter used Ed Yulkes model pitch 4 wonderful braking effect nose-down glides approaches throttled 5-in pitch didnt happen Someone else think 0 W Brown sends clip sheets Little Toot December 1961 American Modeler 3 3-1/8 inches span designed late Cal Smith Cal one-of-a-kind master tore out hair trying teach writer Continued page 74 20 Model Aviation -I- ~17 KITTY HAWK MODELS PRODUCTS Magnifier & Accessories Skynight-6 Kit Deluxe. Skynight-6 Kit Basic. Magnifying Lamp Windshield Kits 1/3 Scale Fiberglass Wheel Pants Super-Duty Hi-Start & Accessories Latex Fuel Tubing Nylon Bolts NEW PRODUCTS GRAPHiTE FiBERS LA-CO LIQUID SOLDERING FLUX Cable Ties Mounting Tabs KTTT HAWK MODELS RR 2 PacIl led 47454 812 723-3601 NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS! FOURMOST RECOIL TUBING four foot length super-tough fuel-proof urethanetubing pre-formed FOUR-INCH COIL allows placement field box can convenient distance aircraft boat After use tubing will retract its earlier space-saving form S Sp FUEL LINE PIPING PROBLEM 5 ze5 DPrice $150LARGE Tee 2 E bows Pen Bladder Tee price$3 95 WE HAVE THE FITTING SOLUTION ORSmallSize 3/32 IDPrice $200 1 Tee 1 Elbow i union i Plug Fun/Winter Continued page 20 fly Control Line back 1946 requires precious little modification make top RC would equal Aeromaster plan Hobby Helpers Group No 1261 Like Mississippi Frank Zaic rolls ever Frank published famous Yearbooks others distinctive orange cov ers former patent draftsman en abled him grind out formidable numbers three-views models books far know first US modeler receive world-famous Tissandier Award outstanding contributions international modeling started original JASCOthe Indoor model wood 20 long because limitations tiny saw tableduring Depression new magazine-size book 160 pages Model Airplanes Amencan Boyi 927-1934 has achieved wish lifetime Its grand collection re prints plans articlesmany fellow Hall Famer late Merrill Hamburg American Boy lasted 100 years own building Detroit support post-Lindbergh modeling enabled Hamburg build organ ization AMLA bequeathed AMA its heritage folk-lore hand-downs speak actually achieved 400000 members $995 $800 AMA HQ Supply & Service Section Franks monumental work contains comicopia plans day once-in-a-lifetime insight Americana kids last issue American Boy appeared early 40s model magazines 1920 Everyone grew older mags evolved steadi ly expert stuff stuff really Like strip mining left behind us barren landscape Now average age Ameri can modeler double time great adventure Kids may still knows Few care could afford serve dont know course can carp about terrible products made millions people took us seriously would nothing Zaic has collecting rare material since 1966 book time-warp Having bought Paul Plecans first published item P-35 three-view 1936 having hired him staff draftsman old Air Trails before war admire long career great designers drafts men Such idealism does make man rich have Plan Packet No 3 Macchi Castoldi MC 72 seaplane side 1/10th scale37-3/8 Arado 76 Trainer 1-inscale 31% span other Ive wanted bulld ages MC 72 says Paul slick configuration slim mest beautiful Schneider Cup racers wanted big version hydrodynamic rea sonsthe big uns just hop off water much better am sure Jumbo ROW events will become very popular once average guy sees effortlessly jobs rise-off-water after explosion old rubber Bede 4 recent Flightmasters meetexternal winding way fly am playing safe going motor tube route Pauls Packet No 1 049 Tornado II 30-in Pilatus Porter No 2 Howard Pete Bede 4 $450 pack two $850 three $12 Youll find Paul 74 Model Aviation Uc Ts 4040 24th Ave Forest Grove OR 97116 FO URM uT PROD Telephone 503 357-2732 3663 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 Back farm finally got see Top Flite J-3 son Mike borrowed built son Rob Pattern guy utterly fascinated thing sounded awful K&B 40 screamer lent guys custom Aldrich ST 46 ported torque lugging big props Heavens said Rob visit said stole J-3 column urged him take pleasure crate home him noted didnt put up fight So steering sedately about 100 ft conked outhe refused take back box erratic Willy put down smooth silk Maybe nothing red-and-white useless flies final ly got wring out again ancient Mach glitch have flying problems get Pattern guy comment struggle Its about feel no dig approaches suddenly look like million bucks family K&B 40 persecuted Kadet Polished inside no com pression cant possibly get pop hand-flipping springs life starter description animal right So now Kadet step up 40 35 makes far easier fly smoother ail power settings now have 3/32-in up-neutral ailerons farforward CG Yet up-trim dead en gine glides slowly holds altitude well can soared occasionaliy work Heres what Claude McCullough said comments reinforced idea have some time Namely Balance Point should part trimming model much cidence control movements etc cant put balance point down plan have right ail cases weight model power used individual differences way model built skill pilot influence choice CG particular modeL Hear hear Meanwhile son Mike left half asleep last month spread-out sheet tooled Gentle Lady 049 called about Top Flite Metrick surely have noticed companies suddenly went Two Meter bananas So pieces sez wing panels go wires stab halves gee whole stab tilts control Now understands typical Sailplane mans Two-Meter hes now MonoKoting thing Metrick defi nitely intended compete trade-wise Gentle Lady Drifter Bird Time out RCM etc suggested Mike got out 100-degreeplus day winds 30 press ail costs hed see Sailplanes cannot alike designed envelope con ditions performance Scott Christensen Top Rite top Sailplane pilot Metrick reflects input flies faster turns very flat tip stall re quires flying experience deft touch got see Norm Rosenstock fly new Quarter Scale Farman Moustique Farman strangely modern pretty looking crate spite its being French antique Bill Hannan loves crate little rubber power job John Preston has RC beauty ST 25 During its design argued Norm would crime over power such bird Norm kept saying WE WONT LET YOU DOWN Cox Customer Service promptly handles parts service requests Cox Cox/Sanwa products CHECK IT OUT cox division ot Leisure Onamics Inc Hobbies OO W 78llSI Minneapolis MN 55135 December 1982 75 SUPERwings A DIVISION OF HI JOHNSON MODEL PRODUCTS 11015 GLENOAKS BLVD PACOIMA CA 91331 SAILPLANE COMPONENTS CREATE YOUR OWN SUPER GLIDER WING FOAM CORES Floater 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 PEANUT SCALE MODELS MUSTANG MILES M-18ZERO DRUINEPIETENPOL COUGAR PIPER CUB GIPSY MOTHANDRESON GANAGOBIELACEY M-lO Rubber Powered Balsa Tissue Kits $595 SPORT MODELS PRAIRIE BIRD 4 $595 BABY ACE$649 ONE NITE 28$696 ONE NITE 16$595 STRINGLESS WONDER$495 PECK BOG -$l95 RUBBER OR CO-2 POWERED UVIWING NEEDS PROPS TISSUE RUBBER WINDERS BLADE SHARPENERS BEARINGS PROP SHAFTS LUBE WASHERS WHEELS FUSE CO-2 MOTORS BOOKS PLANS MORE ADVENTURE MODELS PONY BLIMP Il-FT RIC AIRSHIP KIT $24900 COMPLETE CATALOG $100 HARD TO FIND ITEMS FOR RUBBER MODELS AND AIRSHIPS plans Customers insist aerobat ics everything Wright Flyer Sure understand flight realismand no can build anything fly scale speedhut Moustique bad have zip Oh death thy sting So Ross Twin 60 span 80 145 oz wing loading 8 sq ft area 7-lb weight floater course big Aristocrat almost floats 38-oz loading Norms Moustique took off tlsree feet zero breeze recovers com plete stall about its own length flies flat unbanked 360s hy crossing controls Now tells would better 35 45 sport engine thinks 30 4-cycle Saito FA-30 would ideal Old Norm will right-on sport enginestoo bad Farman just plan kit kit Id have sit yet another tantalizing fantasy photo Turbulent Septem ber issue really Jodel D-9 probably know writes Dick Konkle Just cant resist poking little fun Since two guys wrote about glaring error thank realizing gosh-aw ful typewriter did know differ ence Dick has info little history D-9 group us bought plans full-size plane around 1958I fell heir plans bought Gemini Twin looked around design exposed two-hanger also reasonably aerobaticthe Jodel choice Structure scale including sprung landing gear scale 30% wing span about 88 weight 13 lb has done well contests usually first second caption two issues back Turbulent extolled flying qualities Jodel same true Turbulent Both mag nificent subjects Rubber FF Gas CL RC size now editor screaming frequency pin Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 US Male/Haught Continued page 28 Attach fuselage No 2 x -in sheet metal screws spaced shown plan Cut engine cowling portion length Provide engine cooling hole 1 x 3 shown Also cutclearance muffler exhaust extension Cut windshield plastic sheet Frame bottom edge scrap aluminum bolt fuselage landing gear fabricated 3/16-in music wire 3/32-in music wire bracing Fix front rear components fuselage straps screws Bind parts together soft wire solder securely assembled fuselage tail wheel gear installed after covering fuselage Remove metal parts give fuse lage final sanding Covering Any popular covering tech niques can used addition flying surfaces prefer cover entire fuselageas feel lighter-weight finish may obtained way keeping commitment lowbudget model original covered polyesterdress liningfrom local sewingshop material comes myriad colors strong cheap heat-shrinkable Proceed follows Continued page 82 76 Model Aviation -a - ct2f THE PEANUT-PEOPLE PRESENT L P 0 BOX 2490-MA LA MESA CALIF 92041 PHONE 714 409-8675 714 442-4036