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SNOOPY SITS dog house sit inside has summer discontent Whoever said cabin fever wintertime malaise must have talking penguins Cabin fever summertime torture two months temperature bubbled 90s along eastern seaboard wet sauna Fantasy reality blur Carl Goldberg tugging back pants standing high ground Shangri-la Electric fading distant lift Occasionally screwball foam RC delta whizzed like berserk Concorde piloted famed rubber-powered Scale flier Allan Schanzle Srulls Electric Sparky whining faintly speck-high behind us Off side small group Maxe cuters launching Rubber Scale jobs dreamy circles said Carl must get back narrow road hind us land Puzzled asked land grass tip up shaft will bend responded am forever twisting shaft like Rubber model shaft tweaking way check tracking Let guide offered great Goldberg started pull backwards down slope positioned circling crate overhead now slide tween trees over cars end one-lane tarmac walled 15 ft away woods Dizzy stumbling backwards now digging heels Carl kept pulling supposes spectacle Goldberg facing north pulling Winter facing south crate gliding overhead circles sub lime vision advanced technique another afternoon Joe Ott 80s sitting couch showing samples three-bladed props sizes up Kawasaki stuff super lightweight wheels plans crates building exotic control systems Joe good wife drove up orange van doing Washington DC way to Nats followed fishing Mon tauk off Ida Grove watch biggies perform Otts spend 75% time cruising around visiting meets modelers hobby shops factories fishing Joes models Popular Aviation during Twenties built day summer long kid liv ing history den Flashing mirrors Caesars Palace Vegas signal Otts van en route Manitoba Joe reports Ida Grove tremendous Byron God berson worlds greatest showman know about full-rigged ship moat castleBob Beckman will tell about IMAA Fun Fly Festival elsewhere issueand now Blue Angels flew during meet first time ever anything 20 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Shangri-la things fly high glide long silence Carl Goldberg L joined Bill Winter C Don Srull RI assorted Maxecuters days flying Electrics Rubber Scale Bill holding Le Crate RC Electric future MA project Tom Schmitt pic Left From South Africas Stan Ohlsson comes picture Bill Winters early 1960s design Pal Joey Christmas-issue fold-out full-size plan long-ago Aeromodeller Originally 049 rudder-only escapement Stan converted 09 three channels text Right Will wonders never cease Thats Ohlssons Dakota Joe Wagners 30plus-year FF classic 049 1962 picture What hadnt seen before Dakota floats Ohlssons has three tiny ones says flew great major air show metropolitan area Nine years 80 shall get orange van go bananas Joe saying glory days Joe Ott Mfg produced 46000 kits day sold full-size plans8000 day compressed-air motor kits buck 8500 day Just few gals room packaged motor kits Joes plant worked 300 days year thats almost 14000000 kits nually Comet bigger Megow about same Guillow others Could have 50 mil lion kits year Lots 10centers nevertheless did go Dave Linstrum got out bed 730 Ill house 830 said second So looked endless color photos West Baden midwest atrium Camelot Indoor fliers sum mer 1983 Midsummer Nights Dream Just dog day fantasies Tom Schmitt shows us picture Carl Gold berg says really happened Dave Linstrum mails few prints West Baden caught fancy someday Joe Ott comes off road hell probably send front-yard photo two guys accumulated 130-plus years active modeling still sun grows scorching Can humidity pass 100% thermos boiling over Darn darn darn Modeler month Methinks talk too much folks visit column space priorities prevent telling stories Since really writing perhaps should yield floor just once month So Stan Ohlsson Mossel 88 pages 8/4 x 11% 248 B&W color photos 29 drawings $995 reviewer finds difficult remain ob jective about work book faintest gleam its fathers eye Bob Beckman quiet afternoons discussion over three years ago Bob Duke suggested Bob could book Beckman knew subject backwards forwards modest man tremen dous respect anything important book perfectionist would think proposing build F-i 6s nation moved took startling ap proach requiring much work words blood sweat tears came mind 14 chapters beginning Giant Scale Fly-In set mood going Before Start Choosing Kit Engine Radio Control System winding up Flying Techniques Along way covers tough how-to things Installing Controls Installing Engine Covering Painting etc remarkable thing Bob able use two Giant Scale Tomahawks differ ent makes built depicted kit box flying field dazzling array close-up photos details yo need know about Superb photos Tomahawk built-up wood other fiber glass foam mass hands-on stuff never gets way purpose theme readability find remarkable achievement Beckman originally built flew Ed Rockwood first reed radios before WW II circle stars good writer fine photographer active modeler Model Aviation columnist course en gineer crackerjack draftsman could make own fine drawings Books terribly difficult work unending sacrifice years per petual exhaustion no quickie way getting rich authors field driven get information out need better modeling well impress public what hobby-sport about enough say Ive come think Bob Beckman Mr Competence follows review could done word Competent Lets add adjec tive Exceptional Bobs work towering achievementill Winter December 1983 21 Building Flying Giant Scale Radio Con trol Aircraft Bob Beckman Kaimbach Books 1027 N Seventh St Milwaukee WI 55233 speakerlike apparatus side large Sailplane being held late great Jim Walker actually sensor audio signals steer model via rudder Dale Willoughby Bill Winter have say about Walkers experiments text AMA Executive Director John Worth must have heard curiosity kills cat used popsicle sticks mount second foam wing Airtronics Kitty RC Electric Winter says flew doggily still managed get 80% Kittys normal flight duration Oldie books said biplanes four-fifths efficient monoplanes Gee Bay South Africa has remarkable twist built first model Japanese kit way back 1932 seven years old Stan begins no hobby shop general store periodi cally got Japanese kitsbasswood bamboo beautiful propellers SCRAPBOOK SCALE 3-Views &Nostlgia Volun EIU CIFEVA 55121{EE B1R1fYP sowrrH GEE BEES INIELJPORT WILl HANNAH Scrapbook Scale 3-Views & Nostalgia Vol 1 Bill Hannan WC Hannan Graphics PO Box Escondido CA 92025 8A x 11 56 pgs $895 plus $100 handling Bill Hannan conducts Hannans Hang ar Model Builder magazne aero nautical fisherman likes cast rod using light line sport quiet pools generation peers Bill rare model ing writer has fascinating perception exotic unusual planes tidbits rare history love little Rubber jobs Peanuts especially sensitive whimsy No can precisely describe Hannan title should clue Theres blurb cover begins word Etc followed names Cierva Bucker Bleriot Sopwith Farmans Gee Bees Nieu port Barnwell Chauviere Need another clue cover line drawing Nieuport diving flight like etching familiar style Hannans sketchwork abounds inside covers considerable number large three-views mixture Hannan would think Thirteen exact including Jungmann 1910 Nieuport 1910-11 Barnwell Mono Bleriot 1911 Type 25 canard pusher Sopwith Tripe Cierva 0-4 flew 1923 modified least 15 times series Moustiques Gee Bee Z racer Gee Bee Ascender crazy canard cabin rear tractor prop front pilots face Seventeen articles 13 three-views four planslike profile Panther jet I-IL Glider Caricature Citabria rubber-powered profile Peanut-size Pilatus Turbo Porter NFFS 10-Best selections has great historic photos odd interesting articles like Mail Order Isnt Easy Scale Palm Trees Giros Quick Flit Gun Its fun grab-bag Dont stop world dont want get offill Winter stick-type ROGs duration types flew well got some lads interested no adult modelers muddle through learn mistakes 1936 visited Cape Town Stan recalls saw first hobby shop discovered Model Airplane News enthralled bought several copies read reread until knew word heart discovered balsawood kits until joined South African Air Force 1942 happy time building kits turned out Comet Peerless Megow etc built Comet Clipper 1939 uthor Carl Goldbergi ellipticalwinged cabin model powered famous/infamous GHQ took six 1 months start GHQ after reading book two-stroke engines learning about crankcase compres sion noticed fuel pushing out between crankcase halves Instructions called metal-to-metal joint made thin card gasket shellacked place After half-dozen flips GHQ burst life ran out full tank fuel next day Clipper its first test flight first Power model fly Mossel Bay Author Hundreds thousands people tangled chea pie G H Q refuse believe will run Based upon earlier Loutrel bad engine may have preceded Brown GHQ about Continued page 24 JUNIOR 60 ORIGINAL 1946 VERSION DESIGNED BYAlbert EHatfull—Th FREE FLIGHT GAS POWERED MODEL WING SPAN 63 INS L FuSELAGE LENGTH 41 INS POWER 5 TO 7 cc ENGINES WEIGHT APPROX 4 LBS OM BEN BUcKLE OT PLAN SERVICE S SLAY CRESCENT IHIGHWORTHWILTSII/X SN 6HL ---.IN INCHES 0 2 3 46510121416hid plane might dubbed British Buzzard Bombshell rivals Joe Konefes famed bird perpetual Old-Timer popularity full-size Junior 60 plans came Winter David Hipperson proprietor Scale Craft western Australia says imports Ben Buckle Englands John Pondnote address plan Herb Clukey made simplified three-view Winter says wing center section flat split centerline buttjoined outer panelan odd prop 145 Its old 60 engine probably 25% power modern mills great torque Get weight well forward maybe put several yards downthrust Its floater present-day glow 25 would plentyor 05 31 381 reduction Electric 128 138 prop six seven sub-C cells 22 Model Aviation RATH APANE DIVISION KE ZE P GRAPI-IICSU IF YOU CAN BUILD KIT YOU CAN BUILD SCRATCH PLANE MI IS SCRATCH-A-PLANE Professionally engineered designs accessories discnmtnating modeler design tested top flight performance excellent parts fit ease construction plans reproduced professionally engineered inked mylars complete full size templates separate plans simplified building instructions accessories heavy gauge plastic clean detall BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! El U U 4 IU IA engine could buy during World War IL three mounted table Air Trails editorial office visitors invited attempt start failed Paul Plecan guy ever got run ning flaming its wet exhaust flickered office walls like sheet lightning Sheer panic farm boy invited see engine mounted hefty bench chicken coop kid ran GHQ its vibration walked bench over concrete floor Detroit Nats saw buzz overhead strained level flight will astound old-timers Later Stan goes fitted Ohlsson 60 marked improve ment performance Magazines came way began regard Strucks Grants Goldbergs per sonal friends After discharge settled Cape Town joined model club spent happy years build ing flying Free Flight Control Line single-channel RC best deBolts Champ own Krackerjac Author Champs extensively flown worldwide during SOs can still get updated Champ Midwest deBolt built super-light Champ nice old lady fly its happy slow cruise dont overpower Krackerjac Jetco kit Air Trails feature constantly pops up although cant see cause compact short-coupled enlarging produces ever-increasing wing area relation rest machine six-footer ideal Giant Scale traineran odd bird Scale-ups clude 9 15 ftthey have got slow-motion billboards 1972 bought propo outfit built Falcon 56 taught myself fly full-house began flying rud der-only brought engine elevator finally ailerons 1980 Stan continues retired Mossel Bay managed get about 20 chaps interested great hobby Only previously built models RC oriented Some profess interest old-timers no doubt im pressed Clipper MK well Playboy Sr 70 kit bought 1947 just finished Two friends busy Clipper own Old Square Sides Author 1936-3 7 cabin An tique originally fora Cyclone 45 Mossel Bay modelers paradise have three flying fields including magnificent piece grazing land some two miles square rivers dams hydro several Slope Soar ing sites within 10 miles town blessed warm unpleasantly hot summers mild winters gives us year-round flying Sioux FF Gas cabins Continued page 26 24 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time explain ing trying retrieve modeland Peeping Tom likely story think day flying Stinson 150 FF Gassie Stan recalls fel low next neighbor grown up partially retarded could speak properly could walk could use hands unable dress feed himself day said long ing tone Gee wish could build planes like decided try teach him family doctor said wasting timepart brain deadhe would never use hands perse vered after months able hold sanding block balsa knife After about 18 months proudly showed basic chuck-glider cut out stuck together further assist him mother also started build models As years passed aeromodeling became life turned precise competent modeler can see Veron Phoenix glider holding Finally color photo should heart good plane built friend Pieter Breedt full-size plan issued Aeromodeller years ago powered Enya 10 has fitted rudder elevator engine controls Last Sunday made first flight bloody marvelous weight extra ser vos seems make no difference glides like single-channel job Loops 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SNOOPY SITS dog house sit inside has summer discontent Whoever said cabin fever wintertime malaise must have talking penguins Cabin fever summertime torture two months temperature bubbled 90s along eastern seaboard wet sauna Fantasy reality blur Carl Goldberg tugging back pants standing high ground Shangri-la Electric fading distant lift Occasionally screwball foam RC delta whizzed like berserk Concorde piloted famed rubber-powered Scale flier Allan Schanzle Srulls Electric Sparky whining faintly speck-high behind us Off side small group Maxe cuters launching Rubber Scale jobs dreamy circles said Carl must get back narrow road hind us land Puzzled asked land grass tip up shaft will bend responded am forever twisting shaft like Rubber model shaft tweaking way check tracking Let guide offered great Goldberg started pull backwards down slope positioned circling crate overhead now slide tween trees over cars end one-lane tarmac walled 15 ft away woods Dizzy stumbling backwards now digging heels Carl kept pulling supposes spectacle Goldberg facing north pulling Winter facing south crate gliding overhead circles sub lime vision advanced technique another afternoon Joe Ott 80s sitting couch showing samples three-bladed props sizes up Kawasaki stuff super lightweight wheels plans crates building exotic control systems Joe good wife drove up orange van doing Washington DC way to Nats followed fishing Mon tauk off Ida Grove watch biggies perform Otts spend 75% time cruising around visiting meets modelers hobby shops factories fishing Joes models Popular Aviation during Twenties built day summer long kid liv ing history den Flashing mirrors Caesars Palace Vegas signal Otts van en route Manitoba Joe reports Ida Grove tremendous Byron God berson worlds greatest showman know about full-rigged ship moat castleBob Beckman will tell about IMAA Fun Fly Festival elsewhere issueand now Blue Angels flew during meet first time ever anything 20 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Shangri-la things fly high glide long silence Carl Goldberg L joined Bill Winter C Don Srull RI assorted Maxecuters days flying Electrics Rubber Scale Bill holding Le Crate RC Electric future MA project Tom Schmitt pic Left From South Africas Stan Ohlsson comes picture Bill Winters early 1960s design Pal Joey Christmas-issue fold-out full-size plan long-ago Aeromodeller Originally 049 rudder-only escapement Stan converted 09 three channels text Right Will wonders never cease Thats Ohlssons Dakota Joe Wagners 30plus-year FF classic 049 1962 picture What hadnt seen before Dakota floats Ohlssons has three tiny ones says flew great major air show metropolitan area Nine years 80 shall get orange van go bananas Joe saying glory days Joe Ott Mfg produced 46000 kits day sold full-size plans8000 day compressed-air motor kits buck 8500 day Just few gals room packaged motor kits Joes plant worked 300 days year thats almost 14000000 kits nually Comet bigger Megow about same Guillow others Could have 50 mil lion kits year Lots 10centers nevertheless did go Dave Linstrum got out bed 730 Ill house 830 said second So looked endless color photos West Baden midwest atrium Camelot Indoor fliers sum mer 1983 Midsummer Nights Dream Just dog day fantasies Tom Schmitt shows us picture Carl Gold berg says really happened Dave Linstrum mails few prints West Baden caught fancy someday Joe Ott comes off road hell probably send front-yard photo two guys accumulated 130-plus years active modeling still sun grows scorching Can humidity pass 100% thermos boiling over Darn darn darn Modeler month Methinks talk too much folks visit column space priorities prevent telling stories Since really writing perhaps should yield floor just once month So Stan Ohlsson Mossel 88 pages 8/4 x 11% 248 B&W color photos 29 drawings $995 reviewer finds difficult remain ob jective about work book faintest gleam its fathers eye Bob Beckman quiet afternoons discussion over three years ago Bob Duke suggested Bob could book Beckman knew subject backwards forwards modest man tremen dous respect anything important book perfectionist would think proposing build F-i 6s nation moved took startling ap proach requiring much work words blood sweat tears came mind 14 chapters beginning Giant Scale Fly-In set mood going Before Start Choosing Kit Engine Radio Control System winding up Flying Techniques Along way covers tough how-to things Installing Controls Installing Engine Covering Painting etc remarkable thing Bob able use two Giant Scale Tomahawks differ ent makes built depicted kit box flying field dazzling array close-up photos details yo need know about Superb photos Tomahawk built-up wood other fiber glass foam mass hands-on stuff never gets way purpose theme readability find remarkable achievement Beckman originally built flew Ed Rockwood first reed radios before WW II circle stars good writer fine photographer active modeler Model Aviation columnist course en gineer crackerjack draftsman could make own fine drawings Books terribly difficult work unending sacrifice years per petual exhaustion no quickie way getting rich authors field driven get information out need better modeling well impress public what hobby-sport about enough say Ive come think Bob Beckman Mr Competence follows review could done word Competent Lets add adjec tive Exceptional Bobs work towering achievementill Winter December 1983 21 Building Flying Giant Scale Radio Con trol Aircraft Bob Beckman Kaimbach Books 1027 N Seventh St Milwaukee WI 55233 speakerlike apparatus side large Sailplane being held late great Jim Walker actually sensor audio signals steer model via rudder Dale Willoughby Bill Winter have say about Walkers experiments text AMA Executive Director John Worth must have heard curiosity kills cat used popsicle sticks mount second foam wing Airtronics Kitty RC Electric Winter says flew doggily still managed get 80% Kittys normal flight duration Oldie books said biplanes four-fifths efficient monoplanes Gee Bay South Africa has remarkable twist built first model Japanese kit way back 1932 seven years old Stan begins no hobby shop general store periodi cally got Japanese kitsbasswood bamboo beautiful propellers SCRAPBOOK SCALE 3-Views &Nostlgia Volun EIU CIFEVA 55121{EE B1R1fYP sowrrH GEE BEES INIELJPORT WILl HANNAH Scrapbook Scale 3-Views & Nostalgia Vol 1 Bill Hannan WC Hannan Graphics PO Box Escondido CA 92025 8A x 11 56 pgs $895 plus $100 handling Bill Hannan conducts Hannans Hang ar Model Builder magazne aero nautical fisherman likes cast rod using light line sport quiet pools generation peers Bill rare model ing writer has fascinating perception exotic unusual planes tidbits rare history love little Rubber jobs Peanuts especially sensitive whimsy No can precisely describe Hannan title should clue Theres blurb cover begins word Etc followed names Cierva Bucker Bleriot Sopwith Farmans Gee Bees Nieu port Barnwell Chauviere Need another clue cover line drawing Nieuport diving flight like etching familiar style Hannans sketchwork abounds inside covers considerable number large three-views mixture Hannan would think Thirteen exact including Jungmann 1910 Nieuport 1910-11 Barnwell Mono Bleriot 1911 Type 25 canard pusher Sopwith Tripe Cierva 0-4 flew 1923 modified least 15 times series Moustiques Gee Bee Z racer Gee Bee Ascender crazy canard cabin rear tractor prop front pilots face Seventeen articles 13 three-views four planslike profile Panther jet I-IL Glider Caricature Citabria rubber-powered profile Peanut-size Pilatus Turbo Porter NFFS 10-Best selections has great historic photos odd interesting articles like Mail Order Isnt Easy Scale Palm Trees Giros Quick Flit Gun Its fun grab-bag Dont stop world dont want get offill Winter stick-type ROGs duration types flew well got some lads interested no adult modelers muddle through learn mistakes 1936 visited Cape Town Stan recalls saw first hobby shop discovered Model Airplane News enthralled bought several copies read reread until knew word heart discovered balsawood kits until joined South African Air Force 1942 happy time building kits turned out Comet Peerless Megow etc built Comet Clipper 1939 uthor Carl Goldbergi ellipticalwinged cabin model powered famous/infamous GHQ took six 1 months start GHQ after reading book two-stroke engines learning about crankcase compres sion noticed fuel pushing out between crankcase halves Instructions called metal-to-metal joint made thin card gasket shellacked place After half-dozen flips GHQ burst life ran out full tank fuel next day Clipper its first test flight first Power model fly Mossel Bay Author Hundreds thousands people tangled chea pie G H Q refuse believe will run Based upon earlier Loutrel bad engine may have preceded Brown GHQ about Continued page 24 JUNIOR 60 ORIGINAL 1946 VERSION DESIGNED BYAlbert EHatfull—Th FREE FLIGHT GAS POWERED MODEL WING SPAN 63 INS L FuSELAGE LENGTH 41 INS POWER 5 TO 7 cc ENGINES WEIGHT APPROX 4 LBS OM BEN BUcKLE OT PLAN SERVICE S SLAY CRESCENT IHIGHWORTHWILTSII/X SN 6HL ---.IN INCHES 0 2 3 46510121416hid plane might dubbed British Buzzard Bombshell rivals Joe Konefes famed bird perpetual Old-Timer popularity full-size Junior 60 plans came Winter David Hipperson proprietor Scale Craft western Australia says imports Ben Buckle Englands John Pondnote address plan Herb Clukey made simplified three-view Winter says wing center section flat split centerline buttjoined outer panelan odd prop 145 Its old 60 engine probably 25% power modern mills great torque Get weight well forward maybe put several yards downthrust Its floater present-day glow 25 would plentyor 05 31 381 reduction Electric 128 138 prop six seven sub-C cells 22 Model Aviation RATH APANE DIVISION KE ZE P GRAPI-IICSU IF YOU CAN BUILD KIT YOU CAN BUILD SCRATCH PLANE MI IS SCRATCH-A-PLANE Professionally engineered designs accessories discnmtnating modeler design tested top flight performance excellent parts fit ease construction plans reproduced professionally engineered inked mylars complete full size templates separate plans simplified building instructions accessories heavy gauge plastic clean detall BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! El U U 4 IU IA engine could buy during World War IL three mounted table Air Trails editorial office visitors invited attempt start failed Paul Plecan guy ever got run ning flaming its wet exhaust flickered office walls like sheet lightning Sheer panic farm boy invited see engine mounted hefty bench chicken coop kid ran GHQ its vibration walked bench over concrete floor Detroit Nats saw buzz overhead strained level flight will astound old-timers Later Stan goes fitted Ohlsson 60 marked improve ment performance Magazines came way began regard Strucks Grants Goldbergs per sonal friends After discharge settled Cape Town joined model club spent happy years build ing flying Free Flight Control Line single-channel RC best deBolts Champ own Krackerjac Author Champs extensively flown worldwide during SOs can still get updated Champ Midwest deBolt built super-light Champ nice old lady fly its happy slow cruise dont overpower Krackerjac Jetco kit Air Trails feature constantly pops up although cant see cause compact short-coupled enlarging produces ever-increasing wing area relation rest machine six-footer ideal Giant Scale traineran odd bird Scale-ups clude 9 15 ftthey have got slow-motion billboards 1972 bought propo outfit built Falcon 56 taught myself fly full-house began flying rud der-only brought engine elevator finally ailerons 1980 Stan continues retired Mossel Bay managed get about 20 chaps interested great hobby Only previously built models RC oriented Some profess interest old-timers no doubt im pressed Clipper MK well Playboy Sr 70 kit bought 1947 just finished Two friends busy Clipper own Old Square Sides Author 1936-3 7 cabin An tique originally fora Cyclone 45 Mossel Bay modelers paradise have three flying fields including magnificent piece grazing land some two miles square rivers dams hydro several Slope Soar ing sites within 10 miles town blessed warm unpleasantly hot summers mild winters gives us year-round flying Sioux FF Gas cabins Continued page 26 24 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time explain ing trying retrieve modeland Peeping Tom likely story think day flying Stinson 150 FF Gassie Stan recalls fel low next neighbor grown up partially retarded could speak properly could walk could use hands unable dress feed himself day said long ing tone Gee wish could build planes like decided try teach him family doctor said wasting timepart brain deadhe would never use hands perse vered after months able hold sanding block balsa knife After about 18 months proudly showed basic chuck-glider cut out stuck together further assist him mother also started build models As years passed aeromodeling became life turned precise competent modeler can see Veron Phoenix glider holding Finally color photo should heart good plane built friend Pieter Breedt full-size plan issued Aeromodeller years ago powered Enya 10 has fitted rudder elevator engine controls Last Sunday made first flight bloody marvelous weight extra ser vos seems make no difference glides like single-channel job Loops spins some perfect touchand-goes course Pal Joey Author early 60s Aeromod eller commissioned full-size plan bound magazin&r Christmas issue 049 rudder thing simple Ive blocked memory Youll note picture shows box cabin fake windshield straight open wingjust escapement Really ashamed take money Which goes show Cinderella b6x has flown over globe wherever Aeromodeller went plane eye-balled quickie designed can understand think anyone can design own models senseless awed some supposed geniuses feel everything must die-cut shaped bent youll never know adventure satisfaction being able say airplane Trick treat Dale Willoughby Scale Continued page 28 26 Model Aviation ADVANCED INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY 1 ITAL TACHOME YOU get coflt15j accurate RPMru out Snt topend adlUS WIth dual cajeiOOC capabili~ l QualitY bUi5 510fl elec Nor AVIONIUS INC 3-FUNCTION UTACH V 2 CcLE BAilERI k cycle ombOS TXIR batterYleto pOSS e memory Makes r attery e hag eras determln capacitY 3 E VOLTMT state DetermIe huer Nicad 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SNOOPY SITS dog house sit inside has summer discontent Whoever said cabin fever wintertime malaise must have talking penguins Cabin fever summertime torture two months temperature bubbled 90s along eastern seaboard wet sauna Fantasy reality blur Carl Goldberg tugging back pants standing high ground Shangri-la Electric fading distant lift Occasionally screwball foam RC delta whizzed like berserk Concorde piloted famed rubber-powered Scale flier Allan Schanzle Srulls Electric Sparky whining faintly speck-high behind us Off side small group Maxe cuters launching Rubber Scale jobs dreamy circles said Carl must get back narrow road hind us land Puzzled asked land grass tip up shaft will bend responded am forever twisting shaft like Rubber model shaft tweaking way check tracking Let guide offered great Goldberg started pull backwards down slope positioned circling crate overhead now slide tween trees over cars end one-lane tarmac walled 15 ft away woods Dizzy stumbling backwards now digging heels Carl kept pulling supposes spectacle Goldberg facing north pulling Winter facing south crate gliding overhead circles sub lime vision advanced technique another afternoon Joe Ott 80s sitting couch showing samples three-bladed props sizes up Kawasaki stuff super lightweight wheels plans crates building exotic control systems Joe good wife drove up orange van doing Washington DC way to Nats followed fishing Mon tauk off Ida Grove watch biggies perform Otts spend 75% time cruising around visiting meets modelers hobby shops factories fishing Joes models Popular Aviation during Twenties built day summer long kid liv ing history den Flashing mirrors Caesars Palace Vegas signal Otts van en route Manitoba Joe reports Ida Grove tremendous Byron God berson worlds greatest showman know about full-rigged ship moat castleBob Beckman will tell about IMAA Fun Fly Festival elsewhere issueand now Blue Angels flew during meet first time ever anything 20 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Shangri-la things fly high glide long silence Carl Goldberg L joined Bill Winter C Don Srull RI assorted Maxecuters days flying Electrics Rubber Scale Bill holding Le Crate RC Electric future MA project Tom Schmitt pic Left From South Africas Stan Ohlsson comes picture Bill Winters early 1960s design Pal Joey Christmas-issue fold-out full-size plan long-ago Aeromodeller Originally 049 rudder-only escapement Stan converted 09 three channels text Right Will wonders never cease Thats Ohlssons Dakota Joe Wagners 30plus-year FF classic 049 1962 picture What hadnt seen before Dakota floats Ohlssons has three tiny ones says flew great major air show metropolitan area Nine years 80 shall get orange van go bananas Joe saying glory days Joe Ott Mfg produced 46000 kits day sold full-size plans8000 day compressed-air motor kits buck 8500 day Just few gals room packaged motor kits Joes plant worked 300 days year thats almost 14000000 kits nually Comet bigger Megow about same Guillow others Could have 50 mil lion kits year Lots 10centers nevertheless did go Dave Linstrum got out bed 730 Ill house 830 said second So looked endless color photos West Baden midwest atrium Camelot Indoor fliers sum mer 1983 Midsummer Nights Dream Just dog day fantasies Tom Schmitt shows us picture Carl Gold berg says really happened Dave Linstrum mails few prints West Baden caught fancy someday Joe Ott comes off road hell probably send front-yard photo two guys accumulated 130-plus years active modeling still sun grows scorching Can humidity pass 100% thermos boiling over Darn darn darn Modeler month Methinks talk too much folks visit column space priorities prevent telling stories Since really writing perhaps should yield floor just once month So Stan Ohlsson Mossel 88 pages 8/4 x 11% 248 B&W color photos 29 drawings $995 reviewer finds difficult remain ob jective about work book faintest gleam its fathers eye Bob Beckman quiet afternoons discussion over three years ago Bob Duke suggested Bob could book Beckman knew subject backwards forwards modest man tremen dous respect anything important book perfectionist would think proposing build F-i 6s nation moved took startling ap proach requiring much work words blood sweat tears came mind 14 chapters beginning Giant Scale Fly-In set mood going Before Start Choosing Kit Engine Radio Control System winding up Flying Techniques Along way covers tough how-to things Installing Controls Installing Engine Covering Painting etc remarkable thing Bob able use two Giant Scale Tomahawks differ ent makes built depicted kit box flying field dazzling array close-up photos details yo need know about Superb photos Tomahawk built-up wood other fiber glass foam mass hands-on stuff never gets way purpose theme readability find remarkable achievement Beckman originally built flew Ed Rockwood first reed radios before WW II circle stars good writer fine photographer active modeler Model Aviation columnist course en gineer crackerjack draftsman could make own fine drawings Books terribly difficult work unending sacrifice years per petual exhaustion no quickie way getting rich authors field driven get information out need better modeling well impress public what hobby-sport about enough say Ive come think Bob Beckman Mr Competence follows review could done word Competent Lets add adjec tive Exceptional Bobs work towering achievementill Winter December 1983 21 Building Flying Giant Scale Radio Con trol Aircraft Bob Beckman Kaimbach Books 1027 N Seventh St Milwaukee WI 55233 speakerlike apparatus side large Sailplane being held late great Jim Walker actually sensor audio signals steer model via rudder Dale Willoughby Bill Winter have say about Walkers experiments text AMA Executive Director John Worth must have heard curiosity kills cat used popsicle sticks mount second foam wing Airtronics Kitty RC Electric Winter says flew doggily still managed get 80% Kittys normal flight duration Oldie books said biplanes four-fifths efficient monoplanes Gee Bay South Africa has remarkable twist built first model Japanese kit way back 1932 seven years old Stan begins no hobby shop general store periodi cally got Japanese kitsbasswood bamboo beautiful propellers SCRAPBOOK SCALE 3-Views &Nostlgia Volun EIU CIFEVA 55121{EE B1R1fYP sowrrH GEE BEES INIELJPORT WILl HANNAH Scrapbook Scale 3-Views & Nostalgia Vol 1 Bill Hannan WC Hannan Graphics PO Box Escondido CA 92025 8A x 11 56 pgs $895 plus $100 handling Bill Hannan conducts Hannans Hang ar Model Builder magazne aero nautical fisherman likes cast rod using light line sport quiet pools generation peers Bill rare model ing writer has fascinating perception exotic unusual planes tidbits rare history love little Rubber jobs Peanuts especially sensitive whimsy No can precisely describe Hannan title should clue Theres blurb cover begins word Etc followed names Cierva Bucker Bleriot Sopwith Farmans Gee Bees Nieu port Barnwell Chauviere Need another clue cover line drawing Nieuport diving flight like etching familiar style Hannans sketchwork abounds inside covers considerable number large three-views mixture Hannan would think Thirteen exact including Jungmann 1910 Nieuport 1910-11 Barnwell Mono Bleriot 1911 Type 25 canard pusher Sopwith Tripe Cierva 0-4 flew 1923 modified least 15 times series Moustiques Gee Bee Z racer Gee Bee Ascender crazy canard cabin rear tractor prop front pilots face Seventeen articles 13 three-views four planslike profile Panther jet I-IL Glider Caricature Citabria rubber-powered profile Peanut-size Pilatus Turbo Porter NFFS 10-Best selections has great historic photos odd interesting articles like Mail Order Isnt Easy Scale Palm Trees Giros Quick Flit Gun Its fun grab-bag Dont stop world dont want get offill Winter stick-type ROGs duration types flew well got some lads interested no adult modelers muddle through learn mistakes 1936 visited Cape Town Stan recalls saw first hobby shop discovered Model Airplane News enthralled bought several copies read reread until knew word heart discovered balsawood kits until joined South African Air Force 1942 happy time building kits turned out Comet Peerless Megow etc built Comet Clipper 1939 uthor Carl Goldbergi ellipticalwinged cabin model powered famous/infamous GHQ took six 1 months start GHQ after reading book two-stroke engines learning about crankcase compres sion noticed fuel pushing out between crankcase halves Instructions called metal-to-metal joint made thin card gasket shellacked place After half-dozen flips GHQ burst life ran out full tank fuel next day Clipper its first test flight first Power model fly Mossel Bay Author Hundreds thousands people tangled chea pie G H Q refuse believe will run Based upon earlier Loutrel bad engine may have preceded Brown GHQ about Continued page 24 JUNIOR 60 ORIGINAL 1946 VERSION DESIGNED BYAlbert EHatfull—Th FREE FLIGHT GAS POWERED MODEL WING SPAN 63 INS L FuSELAGE LENGTH 41 INS POWER 5 TO 7 cc ENGINES WEIGHT APPROX 4 LBS OM BEN BUcKLE OT PLAN SERVICE S SLAY CRESCENT IHIGHWORTHWILTSII/X SN 6HL ---.IN INCHES 0 2 3 46510121416hid plane might dubbed British Buzzard Bombshell rivals Joe Konefes famed bird perpetual Old-Timer popularity full-size Junior 60 plans came Winter David Hipperson proprietor Scale Craft western Australia says imports Ben Buckle Englands John Pondnote address plan Herb Clukey made simplified three-view Winter says wing center section flat split centerline buttjoined outer panelan odd prop 145 Its old 60 engine probably 25% power modern mills great torque Get weight well forward maybe put several yards downthrust Its floater present-day glow 25 would plentyor 05 31 381 reduction Electric 128 138 prop six seven sub-C cells 22 Model Aviation RATH APANE DIVISION KE ZE P GRAPI-IICSU IF YOU CAN BUILD KIT YOU CAN BUILD SCRATCH PLANE MI IS SCRATCH-A-PLANE Professionally engineered designs accessories discnmtnating modeler design tested top flight performance excellent parts fit ease construction plans reproduced professionally engineered inked mylars complete full size templates separate plans simplified building instructions accessories heavy gauge plastic clean detall BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! El U U 4 IU IA engine could buy during World War IL three mounted table Air Trails editorial office visitors invited attempt start failed Paul Plecan guy ever got run ning flaming its wet exhaust flickered office walls like sheet lightning Sheer panic farm boy invited see engine mounted hefty bench chicken coop kid ran GHQ its vibration walked bench over concrete floor Detroit Nats saw buzz overhead strained level flight will astound old-timers Later Stan goes fitted Ohlsson 60 marked improve ment performance Magazines came way began regard Strucks Grants Goldbergs per sonal friends After discharge settled Cape Town joined model club spent happy years build ing flying Free Flight Control Line single-channel RC best deBolts Champ own Krackerjac Author Champs extensively flown worldwide during SOs can still get updated Champ Midwest deBolt built super-light Champ nice old lady fly its happy slow cruise dont overpower Krackerjac Jetco kit Air Trails feature constantly pops up although cant see cause compact short-coupled enlarging produces ever-increasing wing area relation rest machine six-footer ideal Giant Scale traineran odd bird Scale-ups clude 9 15 ftthey have got slow-motion billboards 1972 bought propo outfit built Falcon 56 taught myself fly full-house began flying rud der-only brought engine elevator finally ailerons 1980 Stan continues retired Mossel Bay managed get about 20 chaps interested great hobby Only previously built models RC oriented Some profess interest old-timers no doubt im pressed Clipper MK well Playboy Sr 70 kit bought 1947 just finished Two friends busy Clipper own Old Square Sides Author 1936-3 7 cabin An tique originally fora Cyclone 45 Mossel Bay modelers paradise have three flying fields including magnificent piece grazing land some two miles square rivers dams hydro several Slope Soar ing sites within 10 miles town blessed warm unpleasantly hot summers mild winters gives us year-round flying Sioux FF Gas cabins Continued page 26 24 Model Aviation 01934 AVIA B53-IV 4Eng Size 60 90 0Wing Span 62Wt 9 lb Rolled plans 82295Cowl Canopy & Radiator 81495 de HAVILLAND LEOPARD MOTH Wing Span 63Wt 6 lb Eng 2 Stroke 354 Stroke 40 Rolled Plans S1995 Cowl Wheelpaxlts & Canopy $1495 U lE U U I. 4 U MI z U El Ia 0 C z 4 1 e C- 4 SCALE FOKKER DR-I Wing Span 70/2Weight 16 lbs Engine 2 Cubic Inch QUADRA Rolled plans $2495 Cowl $11 SCALE FOKKER D-VBI w 2 Wing Span 82 U Al 1973 DAE Revolutionized Modeling Statement Now Battery Can ALL AGAIN DAE ADVANCES THE ART OF ELECTRONIC ENGNE STARTING LOW POWER CONSUMPTIONOnly 800 milliamps maximum battery drain SOLID 15v PLUG OUTPUTMaintains 15v starter LIGHTS ANY 11/2V PLUGAutomatically adjusts current plug needs EFFICIENT OPERATION tarter MARK V can also run 6v batter FEATURES AMERICAN MADE QUALITY PULSE DRIVER FOR ANY 1 v PLUG 6v 12v FUEL PUMP SUPPLY DIRECTIONAL PUMP FLOW SWITCHES 48v 96v FAST CHARGER AMMETER MONITORING PLUG CHARGER CONNECTING HARDWARE INCLUDED TWIN OWNERS MARK V lights 2 plugs NO ADJUSTMENTS Only $4795 Also Available Kit Form $3995 SEE DEALER FIRSTDA Enteipfises unavailableOrder DirectAOr INDIANA 47625 I4AtT 512 7654026 Scale dimensions near-scale construction unique prouee contest winner joy flybeautiful model worlds first practical airplane 1Q11 AVRO D 62nn S129OO WRIGHT FLYER III 61span $19500 j 1 Plans above Quarter Scale Set tour wheels Water cooled engine Geared belt drive Plans beauty 96 spool documentation$6500drive train parts included plus plansdocumentation and instructions $3000for scale takeoff catapultinstructions $3000 kits include rolled full size plans building instructions documentation photos specs moulded heads hands wing building jig quick GE MARSOEN accurate scale-type wing frames sheet aluminum copper brass preprinted7621 Mary Cassett Drive sheet ply preprinted spruce balsa rigging etc Potomac Md 20854 drifted off Rondebosch Common summers evening alight tall tree girls schooL Stan climbing tree surrounded lady teachers terrible time explain ing trying retrieve modeland Peeping Tom likely story think day flying Stinson 150 FF Gassie Stan recalls fel low next neighbor grown up partially retarded could speak properly could walk could use hands unable dress feed himself day said long ing tone Gee wish could build planes like decided try teach him family doctor said wasting timepart brain deadhe would never use hands perse vered after months able hold sanding block balsa knife After about 18 months proudly showed basic chuck-glider cut out stuck together further assist him mother also started build models As years passed aeromodeling became life turned precise competent modeler can see Veron Phoenix glider holding Finally color photo should heart good plane built friend Pieter Breedt full-size plan issued Aeromodeller years ago powered Enya 10 has fitted rudder elevator engine controls Last Sunday made first flight bloody marvelous weight extra ser vos seems make no difference glides like single-channel job Loops spins some perfect touchand-goes course Pal Joey Author early 60s Aeromod eller commissioned full-size plan bound magazin&r Christmas issue 049 rudder thing simple Ive blocked memory Youll note picture shows box cabin fake windshield straight open wingjust escapement Really ashamed take money Which goes show Cinderella b6x has flown over globe wherever Aeromodeller went plane eye-balled quickie designed can understand think anyone can design own models senseless awed some supposed geniuses feel everything must die-cut shaped bent youll never know adventure satisfaction being able say airplane Trick treat Dale Willoughby Scale Continued page 28 26 Model Aviation ADVANCED INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY 1 ITAL TACHOME YOU get coflt15j accurate RPMru out Snt topend adlUS WIth dual cajeiOOC capabili~ l QualitY bUi5 510fl elec Nor AVIONIUS INC 3-FUNCTION UTACH V 2 CcLE BAilERI k cycle ombOS TXIR batterYleto pOSS e memory Makes r attery e hag eras determln capacitY 3 E VOLTMT state DetermIe huer Nicad 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sound-controlled airplane past crate speaker-like drum its side Jim called dulcet strident tones octaves Wagnerian voice Although managed chase occasional inquisitive sea gull found mod els fabric covering loose else drumming covering caused serious glitching Dale witnessed Jims failure Although saw photo Jim shouting through giant mega phone ship flew overhead Dale says rudder-only servo came right whenever French bicycle horn sounded either fast slow neu tralized no sound heard could fly right-hand pattern cow pasture mooing cows bellowing bulls also made change direction can also tell about night Jim loaded down drum horns whistles revolver tested responses walked down street fired gun police arrived helpful officer actually joined fireworkshis gun louder Joe Utasi Jomar chap recent how-to making own proportional electric motor speed con troller has second generation control ler called SC-2 response question about controlling Keller 25 supplied test sample Size 23 x 15 weight 30 grams offers two extra control outputs via user-sup plied relays bypass unit zero power loss desired other whatever such braking resistor great use folders stop wmdmilling has four instead three Mosfet transistors resist ance parallel less 025 ohms Thats 25% better SC-l mag installed Le Crate will handle 40 amps 35 voltsequal 8 hp Speaking Flectrics Bob Boucher Astro Flight has compiled highiy Continued page 132 28 Model Aviation Start Right FLEDGLING Wingspan 56 23 40 Engines Spinks Akromaster $20995 Add $1000 postage/handling * 90 Span 15-17 lbs * Fiberglass CowllPants * Built-up Fuselage * Foam Wing * Quadra Power Fun/Winter Continued page 28 workmanlike set proposed competi tion rules two fine-print pages feels printing rules col umn would major service agree tis impossible proposed rules certainly provide much-needed launch platform rules committee come up something will curtail increasingly maddening situation know AMA president John Grigg has researching stuff fly ing 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SNOOPY SITS dog house sit inside has summer discontent Whoever said cabin fever wintertime malaise must have talking penguins Cabin fever summertime torture two months temperature bubbled 90s along eastern seaboard wet sauna Fantasy reality blur Carl Goldberg tugging back pants standing high ground Shangri-la Electric fading distant lift Occasionally screwball foam RC delta whizzed like berserk Concorde piloted famed rubber-powered Scale flier Allan Schanzle Srulls Electric Sparky whining faintly speck-high behind us Off side small group Maxe cuters launching Rubber Scale jobs dreamy circles said Carl must get back narrow road hind us land Puzzled asked land grass tip up shaft will bend responded am forever twisting shaft like Rubber model shaft tweaking way check tracking Let guide offered great Goldberg started pull backwards down slope positioned circling crate overhead now slide tween trees over cars end one-lane tarmac walled 15 ft away woods Dizzy stumbling backwards now digging heels Carl kept pulling supposes spectacle Goldberg facing north pulling Winter facing south crate gliding overhead circles sub lime vision advanced technique another afternoon Joe Ott 80s sitting couch showing samples three-bladed props sizes up Kawasaki stuff super lightweight wheels plans crates building exotic control systems Joe good wife drove up orange van doing Washington DC way to Nats followed fishing Mon tauk off Ida Grove watch biggies perform Otts spend 75% time cruising around visiting meets modelers hobby shops factories fishing Joes models Popular Aviation during Twenties built day summer long kid liv ing history den Flashing mirrors Caesars Palace Vegas signal Otts van en route Manitoba Joe reports Ida Grove tremendous Byron God berson worlds greatest showman know about full-rigged ship moat castleBob Beckman will tell about IMAA Fun Fly Festival elsewhere issueand now Blue Angels flew during meet first time ever anything 20 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Shangri-la things fly high glide long silence Carl Goldberg L joined Bill Winter C Don Srull RI assorted Maxecuters days flying Electrics Rubber Scale Bill holding Le Crate RC Electric future MA project Tom Schmitt pic Left From South Africas Stan Ohlsson comes picture Bill Winters early 1960s design Pal Joey Christmas-issue fold-out full-size plan long-ago Aeromodeller Originally 049 rudder-only escapement Stan converted 09 three channels text Right Will wonders never cease Thats Ohlssons Dakota Joe Wagners 30plus-year FF classic 049 1962 picture What hadnt seen before Dakota floats Ohlssons has three tiny ones says flew great major air show metropolitan area Nine years 80 shall get orange van go bananas Joe saying glory days Joe Ott Mfg produced 46000 kits day sold full-size plans8000 day compressed-air motor kits buck 8500 day Just few gals room packaged motor kits Joes plant worked 300 days year thats almost 14000000 kits nually Comet bigger Megow about same Guillow others Could have 50 mil lion kits year Lots 10centers nevertheless did go Dave Linstrum got out bed 730 Ill house 830 said second So looked endless color photos West Baden midwest atrium Camelot Indoor fliers sum mer 1983 Midsummer Nights Dream Just dog day fantasies Tom Schmitt shows us picture Carl Gold berg says really happened Dave Linstrum mails few prints West Baden caught fancy someday Joe Ott comes off road hell probably send front-yard photo two guys accumulated 130-plus years active modeling still sun grows scorching Can humidity pass 100% thermos boiling over Darn darn darn Modeler month Methinks talk too much folks visit column space priorities prevent telling stories Since really writing perhaps should yield floor just once month So Stan Ohlsson Mossel 88 pages 8/4 x 11% 248 B&W color photos 29 drawings $995 reviewer finds difficult remain ob jective about work book faintest gleam its fathers eye Bob Beckman quiet afternoons discussion over three years ago Bob Duke suggested Bob could book Beckman knew subject backwards forwards modest man tremen dous respect anything important book perfectionist would think proposing build F-i 6s nation moved took startling ap proach requiring much work words blood sweat tears came mind 14 chapters beginning Giant Scale Fly-In set mood going Before Start Choosing Kit Engine Radio Control System winding up Flying Techniques Along way covers tough how-to things Installing Controls Installing Engine Covering Painting etc remarkable thing Bob able use two Giant Scale Tomahawks differ ent makes built depicted kit box flying field dazzling array close-up photos details yo need know about Superb photos Tomahawk built-up wood other fiber glass foam mass hands-on stuff never gets way purpose theme readability find remarkable achievement Beckman originally built flew Ed Rockwood first reed radios before WW II circle stars good writer fine photographer active modeler Model Aviation columnist course en gineer crackerjack draftsman could make own fine drawings Books terribly difficult work unending sacrifice years per petual exhaustion no quickie way getting rich authors field driven get information out need better modeling well impress public what hobby-sport about enough say Ive come think Bob Beckman Mr Competence follows review could done word Competent Lets add adjec tive Exceptional Bobs work towering achievementill Winter December 1983 21 Building Flying Giant Scale Radio Con trol Aircraft Bob Beckman Kaimbach Books 1027 N Seventh St Milwaukee WI 55233 speakerlike apparatus side large Sailplane being held late great Jim Walker actually sensor audio signals steer model via rudder Dale Willoughby Bill Winter have say about Walkers experiments text AMA Executive Director John Worth must have heard curiosity kills cat used popsicle sticks mount second foam wing Airtronics Kitty RC Electric Winter says flew doggily still managed get 80% Kittys normal flight duration Oldie books said biplanes four-fifths efficient monoplanes Gee Bay South Africa has remarkable twist built first model Japanese kit way back 1932 seven years old Stan begins no hobby shop general store periodi cally got Japanese kitsbasswood bamboo beautiful propellers SCRAPBOOK SCALE 3-Views &Nostlgia Volun EIU CIFEVA 55121{EE B1R1fYP sowrrH GEE BEES INIELJPORT WILl HANNAH Scrapbook Scale 3-Views & Nostalgia Vol 1 Bill Hannan WC Hannan Graphics PO Box Escondido CA 92025 8A x 11 56 pgs $895 plus $100 handling Bill Hannan conducts Hannans Hang ar Model Builder magazne aero nautical fisherman likes cast rod using light line sport quiet pools generation peers Bill rare model ing writer has fascinating perception exotic unusual planes tidbits rare history love little Rubber jobs Peanuts especially sensitive whimsy No can precisely describe Hannan title should clue Theres blurb cover begins word Etc followed names Cierva Bucker Bleriot Sopwith Farmans Gee Bees Nieu port Barnwell Chauviere Need another clue cover line drawing Nieuport diving flight like etching familiar style Hannans sketchwork abounds inside covers considerable number large three-views mixture Hannan would think Thirteen exact including Jungmann 1910 Nieuport 1910-11 Barnwell Mono Bleriot 1911 Type 25 canard pusher Sopwith Tripe Cierva 0-4 flew 1923 modified least 15 times series Moustiques Gee Bee Z racer Gee Bee Ascender crazy canard cabin rear tractor prop front pilots face Seventeen articles 13 three-views four planslike profile Panther jet I-IL Glider Caricature Citabria rubber-powered profile Peanut-size Pilatus Turbo Porter NFFS 10-Best selections has great historic photos odd interesting articles like Mail Order Isnt Easy Scale Palm Trees Giros Quick Flit Gun Its fun grab-bag Dont stop world dont want get offill Winter stick-type ROGs duration types flew well got some lads interested no adult modelers muddle through learn mistakes 1936 visited Cape Town Stan recalls saw first hobby shop discovered Model Airplane News enthralled bought several copies read reread until knew word heart discovered balsawood kits until joined South African Air Force 1942 happy time building kits turned out Comet Peerless Megow etc built Comet Clipper 1939 uthor Carl Goldbergi ellipticalwinged cabin model powered famous/infamous GHQ took six 1 months start GHQ after reading book two-stroke engines learning about crankcase compres sion noticed fuel pushing out between crankcase halves Instructions called metal-to-metal joint made thin card gasket shellacked place After half-dozen flips GHQ burst life ran out full tank fuel next day Clipper its first test flight first Power model fly Mossel Bay Author Hundreds thousands people tangled chea pie G H Q refuse believe will run Based upon earlier Loutrel bad engine may have preceded Brown GHQ about Continued page 24 JUNIOR 60 ORIGINAL 1946 VERSION DESIGNED BYAlbert EHatfull—Th FREE FLIGHT GAS POWERED MODEL WING SPAN 63 INS L FuSELAGE LENGTH 41 INS POWER 5 TO 7 cc ENGINES WEIGHT APPROX 4 LBS OM BEN BUcKLE OT PLAN SERVICE S SLAY CRESCENT IHIGHWORTHWILTSII/X SN 6HL ---.IN INCHES 0 2 3 46510121416hid plane might dubbed British Buzzard Bombshell rivals Joe Konefes famed bird perpetual Old-Timer popularity full-size Junior 60 plans came Winter David Hipperson proprietor Scale Craft western Australia says imports Ben Buckle Englands John Pondnote address plan Herb Clukey made simplified three-view Winter says wing center section flat split centerline buttjoined outer panelan odd prop 145 Its old 60 engine probably 25% power modern mills great torque Get weight well forward maybe put several yards downthrust Its floater present-day glow 25 would plentyor 05 31 381 reduction Electric 128 138 prop six seven sub-C cells 22 Model Aviation RATH APANE DIVISION KE ZE P GRAPI-IICSU IF YOU CAN BUILD KIT YOU CAN BUILD SCRATCH PLANE MI IS SCRATCH-A-PLANE Professionally engineered designs accessories discnmtnating modeler design tested top flight performance excellent parts fit ease construction plans reproduced professionally engineered inked mylars complete full size templates separate plans simplified building instructions accessories heavy gauge plastic clean detall BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! El U U 4 IU IA engine could buy during World War IL three mounted table Air Trails editorial office visitors invited attempt start failed Paul Plecan guy ever got run ning flaming its wet exhaust flickered office walls like sheet lightning Sheer panic farm boy invited see engine mounted hefty bench chicken coop kid ran GHQ its vibration walked bench over concrete floor Detroit Nats saw buzz overhead strained level flight will astound old-timers Later Stan goes fitted Ohlsson 60 marked improve ment performance Magazines came way began regard Strucks Grants Goldbergs per sonal friends After discharge settled Cape Town joined model club spent happy years build ing flying Free Flight Control Line single-channel RC best deBolts Champ own Krackerjac Author Champs extensively flown worldwide during SOs can still get updated Champ Midwest deBolt built super-light Champ nice old lady fly its happy slow cruise dont overpower Krackerjac Jetco kit Air Trails feature constantly pops up although cant see cause compact short-coupled enlarging produces ever-increasing wing area relation rest machine six-footer ideal Giant Scale traineran odd bird Scale-ups clude 9 15 ftthey have got slow-motion billboards 1972 bought propo outfit built Falcon 56 taught myself fly full-house began flying rud der-only brought engine elevator finally ailerons 1980 Stan continues retired Mossel Bay managed get about 20 chaps interested great hobby Only previously built models RC oriented Some profess interest old-timers no doubt im pressed Clipper MK well Playboy Sr 70 kit bought 1947 just finished Two friends busy Clipper own Old Square Sides Author 1936-3 7 cabin An tique originally fora Cyclone 45 Mossel Bay modelers paradise have three flying fields including magnificent piece grazing land some two miles square rivers dams hydro several Slope Soar ing sites within 10 miles town blessed warm unpleasantly hot summers mild winters gives us year-round flying Sioux FF Gas cabins Continued page 26 24 Model Aviation 01934 AVIA B53-IV 4Eng Size 60 90 0Wing Span 62Wt 9 lb Rolled plans 82295Cowl Canopy & Radiator 81495 de HAVILLAND LEOPARD MOTH Wing Span 63Wt 6 lb Eng 2 Stroke 354 Stroke 40 Rolled Plans S1995 Cowl Wheelpaxlts & Canopy $1495 U lE U U I. 4 U MI z U El Ia 0 C z 4 1 e C- 4 SCALE FOKKER DR-I Wing Span 70/2Weight 16 lbs Engine 2 Cubic Inch QUADRA Rolled plans $2495 Cowl $11 SCALE FOKKER D-VBI w 2 Wing Span 82 U Al 1973 DAE Revolutionized Modeling Statement Now Battery Can ALL AGAIN DAE ADVANCES THE ART OF ELECTRONIC ENGNE STARTING LOW POWER CONSUMPTIONOnly 800 milliamps maximum battery drain SOLID 15v PLUG OUTPUTMaintains 15v starter LIGHTS ANY 11/2V PLUGAutomatically adjusts current plug needs EFFICIENT OPERATION tarter MARK V can also run 6v batter FEATURES AMERICAN MADE QUALITY PULSE DRIVER FOR ANY 1 v PLUG 6v 12v FUEL PUMP SUPPLY DIRECTIONAL PUMP FLOW SWITCHES 48v 96v FAST CHARGER AMMETER MONITORING PLUG CHARGER CONNECTING HARDWARE INCLUDED TWIN OWNERS MARK V lights 2 plugs NO ADJUSTMENTS Only $4795 Also Available Kit Form $3995 SEE DEALER FIRSTDA Enteipfises unavailableOrder DirectAOr INDIANA 47625 I4AtT 512 7654026 Scale dimensions near-scale construction unique prouee contest winner joy flybeautiful model worlds first practical airplane 1Q11 AVRO D 62nn S129OO WRIGHT FLYER III 61span $19500 j 1 Plans above Quarter Scale Set tour wheels Water cooled engine Geared belt drive Plans beauty 96 spool documentation$6500drive train parts included plus plansdocumentation and instructions $3000for scale takeoff catapultinstructions $3000 kits include rolled full size plans building instructions documentation photos specs moulded heads hands wing building jig quick GE MARSOEN accurate scale-type wing frames sheet aluminum copper brass preprinted7621 Mary Cassett Drive sheet ply preprinted spruce balsa rigging etc Potomac Md 20854 drifted off Rondebosch Common summers evening alight tall tree girls schooL Stan climbing tree surrounded lady teachers terrible time explain ing trying retrieve modeland Peeping Tom likely story think day flying Stinson 150 FF Gassie Stan recalls fel low next neighbor grown up partially retarded could speak properly could walk could use hands unable dress feed himself day said long ing tone Gee wish could build planes like decided try teach him family doctor said wasting timepart brain deadhe would never use hands perse vered after months able hold sanding block balsa knife After about 18 months proudly showed basic chuck-glider cut out stuck together further assist him mother also started build models As years passed aeromodeling became life turned precise competent modeler can see Veron Phoenix glider holding Finally color photo should heart good plane built friend Pieter Breedt full-size plan issued Aeromodeller years ago powered Enya 10 has fitted rudder elevator engine controls Last Sunday made first flight bloody marvelous weight extra ser vos seems make no difference glides like single-channel job Loops spins some perfect touchand-goes course Pal Joey Author early 60s Aeromod eller commissioned full-size plan bound magazin&r Christmas issue 049 rudder thing simple Ive blocked memory Youll note picture shows box cabin fake windshield straight open wingjust escapement Really ashamed take money Which goes show Cinderella b6x has flown over globe wherever Aeromodeller went plane eye-balled quickie designed can understand think anyone can design own models senseless awed some supposed geniuses feel everything must die-cut shaped bent youll never know adventure satisfaction being able say airplane Trick treat Dale Willoughby Scale Continued page 28 26 Model Aviation ADVANCED INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY 1 ITAL TACHOME YOU get coflt15j accurate RPMru out Snt topend adlUS WIth dual cajeiOOC capabili~ l QualitY bUi5 510fl elec Nor AVIONIUS INC 3-FUNCTION UTACH V 2 CcLE BAilERI k cycle ombOS TXIR batterYleto pOSS e memory Makes r attery e hag eras determln capacitY 3 E VOLTMT state DetermIe huer Nicad 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sound-controlled airplane past crate speaker-like drum its side Jim called dulcet strident tones octaves Wagnerian voice Although managed chase occasional inquisitive sea gull found mod els fabric covering loose else drumming covering caused serious glitching Dale witnessed Jims failure Although saw photo Jim shouting through giant mega phone ship flew overhead Dale says rudder-only servo came right whenever French bicycle horn sounded either fast slow neu tralized no sound heard could fly right-hand pattern cow pasture mooing cows bellowing bulls also made change direction can also tell about night Jim loaded down drum horns whistles revolver tested responses walked down street fired gun police arrived helpful officer actually joined fireworkshis gun louder Joe Utasi Jomar chap recent how-to making own proportional electric motor speed con troller has second generation control ler called SC-2 response question about controlling Keller 25 supplied test sample Size 23 x 15 weight 30 grams offers two extra control outputs via user-sup plied relays bypass unit zero power loss desired other whatever such braking resistor great use folders stop wmdmilling has four instead three Mosfet transistors resist ance parallel less 025 ohms Thats 25% better SC-l mag installed Le Crate will handle 40 amps 35 voltsequal 8 hp Speaking Flectrics Bob Boucher Astro Flight has compiled highiy Continued page 132 28 Model Aviation Start Right FLEDGLING Wingspan 56 23 40 Engines Spinks Akromaster $20995 Add $1000 postage/handling * 90 Span 15-17 lbs * Fiberglass CowllPants * Built-up Fuselage * Foam Wing * Quadra Power Fun/Winter Continued page 28 workmanlike set proposed competi tion rules two fine-print pages feels printing rules col umn would major service agree tis impossible proposed rules certainly provide much-needed launch platform rules committee come up something will curtail increasingly maddening situation know AMA president John Grigg has researching stuff fly ing high-performance competition-type electric-powered gliders dont get off duffs well have electronic Tower Babel confused manufac turers going daft vacuum Incidentally have Astros new AC DC charger marvelous piece equip ment am impressed excel lent instructions course art charging Astro has off line year due heavy government con tracts including servos over 30 lb force Bob put $100000 machin ery went night school become machinist hired fellow students now poised flood upcoming items completes muchneeded easy-to-understand instructions stuff maybe well have long last central source informa GIANT FUN SCALE AIRCRAFT Immediate Delivery tion no such animal right now Clear basswood Giant Scale mod els Over year ago received Xeroxed longhand list sizes prices George McGinnis 144 Murray Ave Goshen NY 10924 Since have impression ad vent big models saw mills stills woods waited year see George still around suggested send some samples list mentioned everything 1/8 sq up 1/2 x - 4- 5- 6-ft lengths have bundle smooth-cut clear-grained stuff hope George other cottage industry guys wont take offense first deal unknowns may want make first order moderate size like service go fences George cuts special sizes Thats nice imagine hell send list zilch send SASE requests Ed Rogala Midwest Products checked last March ouch info new woods First youll find bet ter dealers open stock 6-ft spruce sq 3/8 sq hould handle spars longerons fQr Giant Scale etc Also 3 6mm Lite-Ply about 1/8 s 6 x 12 12 x 24 12 x 48 Lite-Ply being used more majority cases can substituted aircraft ply great weight sayDEAL ER INQUIRIES WEL COME Send $100 catalogue ings find can use Lite-Ply exclusively Electrics bigholed key bulkheads must said other folks also sell Lite-Ply Should fuse Electric Ex perts say no have three two servos quick shut-off ability Don Srull Hurst Bowers started Electrics burned up both batter ies motors Stupid course anything new strange still play safe fuse big argu ment SEAM Newsletter over 1usd no fuse fuse proponent actually stated fuse pops 1000000th second guy first measured speed light must have get flag-type fuses holders Radio Shack now Bill Doyle 1929 Oliver St No San Diego CA 92109 offers right-angled blade-type fuse kit $250 plus 50 cents postage get 20-amp flag fuse two fuse connectors solder instructions Mine looks good Biggest dimension 11/4 weight about four grams soldering As hacker another let tell burning up motor battery pack few sec onds traumatic now Doyle ex pected have Two-Meter Sportsman Class Electric Sailplane EX-Cel 05 37 oz 625 squares Lei sure 05 system said plans works maybe its just plans C Nick Zirolis F4U COAIR 2 Cu size Engnrn Cowling available design GIANT R/C SCALE PLAN DESIGNS AT6 TEXAN24 I101Span$2700pp USA FOKKERDR127 163Trpe$2500pp USA POP BEARCAT 2%I 86 Span $2700 pp USA CURTISS P40 24 Span $2700 pp USA F4U CORSAIR 2/ Span $2700 pp USA Fiberglass Cowlings & Casopies available also bend stamp detailed brochures ear Giant boale Accessories lOr Plans em sent Postpaid within UbAl 0. 132 Model Aviation PO Box 9044 Little Rock AwknntnR 15011224-8044 JddW Designed Quickie 500 racing sport u flying Kit features hand cut balsa ply Darts Easy MILLS Insta Build System Custom aluminum gear exclusive torque absorption nose 1AA structure Hardware package full size plans Build fixed removable wing Yellow Fever has won moreQuickie 200 Maryland races four years other Quickie 500 racersTorque absorp combinedtion nose struc Dave Latshas T-Tailed Rivets-ture Americas Custom glass fuse Complete kitfastest 1AA wheels News Flash RI- Quickie 200 vets wins Tangerine Intl $2695 MILLSSee local deale order directMd residents add 5% tax AIRPLANE MODELS 2868 Hambleton Rd Riva MD 21140 SEVENTH ANNUAL JANUARY 14 & 15 1984 SEE THE LATEST PRODUCTS AND VISIT WITH MAJOR MANUFACTURERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF MODEL AIRCRAFT rip MODEL BOATS MODEL CARS MODEL ENGINES____________________________________ RADIO CONTROL SYSTEMSWIN TRIP TO HAWAII MODELING ACCESSORIES___________________________________ RC vets remember DMECO deBolt Rebel think best far rudder-only cabin models Hal deBolt achieved easily adaptable todays multi controls Nice looking right just perfection enjoyed enormously Present thought scaled-up version 4cycle engine maybe lightweight up scale Astro 15 belt-reduction electric motorwith 12-8 13-8 prop just got original Rebel kit plan last seems Fran Ptaszkiewicz 23 Marlee Dr Tonawan da NY 14150 has listings deBolt kit plans can offer interested par tiesone list Radio Control another Control Line third Free Flight Hal world-class areas particularly Control Line DMFCO produced great subjects RC AA Kitten 1963 World Champion Perigree ancients back Live Wire Jr think first-ever RC kit Old-timers will interested Hals 1944 FF Airfoiler44 span 19s 29s day Dont see thing prices Check out Send SASE separate list RC CL FF Bernard Klein BCFK Publications PO Box 128 Midland Park NJ 07432 sends review copy 20-pg book titled Airplane 3-View Journal $150 US Canada $200 foreign Dimen sions magazine size threeview presents two views page another facing page brief background info stats thus ex terior-detailed drawings fairly large What appeals fact number overlooked fighter sub jects would make great RC mod els example Polish PZL P62 looks much like Maccu monoplane low-winger WW II rather like Airacobra top view nice outline plenty area Swedish SAAB 23 goodie synthesis Zero Macchi P-40with Messer schmitt 109 nose Bit like Mustang too Both have great proportions Swiss K&W C-3 602 fixed gear mentioned tail-draggers first cousin Don Srulls big Schlepp Also Continued page 136 HETALI OJ MREThIERESTOFORDERF SPNGTiS LI7TLE AMEMPLLOT US SIP LIIE TOTIJIS OFFICE SOONAS POSSIBLE US URGENT1 TOP SECRET ThING EPE USYOU UNDERSTAND NOWAYSIT \ ELLLY -\TNJAIR K 9 -1 tEA 7H47 cember 1983 133 OVERSEAS EXHILIIUU5 CORD/ALLY IN VI TED INTERNATIONAL MODELER SHOW BOX 127 COSTA MESA CA g2627 7141 548-4700 115 SCALE W Golden Era biplanes will come alive smooth flying easy building flying machine Its big enough catch attention yet small enough use everyday glow engine 2657 N E 188th Street Miam Rlcrroa 33180 Telepeone 935-1436 KIT FEATURES Machined die cut balsa select plywood hardwoods Hardware package Pre-bent landing gear cabine wire Vacuum formed ABS cowl aleleron caps gas cover Mylar decals Full size plans instruction book including isometric drawings SPECIFICATIONS 1/5 Scale 72in Span Area 1530 sqin 4 channel Radio 61-12 Engine Weight 12 lbs Fuse 54 1/2 Fun/Winter Continued paqe 133 Bell XFL-l Airacobra tail-dragger carrier use Nice long-winged Messerschmitt Bf 1091-2a carrier-based fighter Some few wild things mixed vintages over whelming book worth look-see want good documentation plane isnt duplicated zillion other guys coupla guys stuff see big FAC Newsletter Maybe like little rubber-powered things Dave Diels sent slew cute plans urges build couple Diels PO Box 101 Woodville OH 43489 started five plans three years ago over 30 last January 1 oh expecting expand printwood molded canopies popular subjects theres David Aronstein 50 Pasture Lane Poughkeepsie NY 12603 see 28 illustrated subjects plan listing mad variety ultralights racers originals various scales Real cute flukies like 8-in Beercat 12-in Mini-Twinan old-style twin-pusher about Roland trimotor Peanut Drawings will seem rudimentary RC kit builders builders FF Rubber Scale get inspired basic lines SOS thermometer says 103 degrees Bill Winter 4426 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 China Clipper/Chappell Continued oaoe 40 end strip iron heats up stretch little go effect corrugated panels quite good done way also used silver strips cover joint wing orange white come together makes decorating little neater wing struts just looks quite functional lend lot strength wing/hull joint Start four pieces streamlined brass tubing hobby shops metal display Squeeze ends bench vise flatten neatly drilling operation next front view plans determine approximate location vertical smaller struts intersect diago nals wrap piece masking tape around diagonals point Mark tape exact point intersection drill through tape struts 5/32-in bit Use 1/16-in drill make starter hole After drilling larger hole strut remove tape sand off rough edges Cut length /e-in pieces brass round tubing bend according plan Solder together intersection making nice smooth filled joints Cut general fit sections small hardwood dowel go between spon son under surface wing will find round brass tubing sockets dowels deep enough permit dowels slid up down allow good fit against wing sponson struts finished remove paint two coats silver dope Other finishing details include various wires visible Make small hooks common pins heads re moved press locations shown wifes favorite fabric store purchase some elastic silver metallic thread After tieing knot end thread trimming off excess loop thread hook hook little practice will find can rig whole section single piecesuch piece under 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