THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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message now something strange observed did just thatand managed get down unscathed An exam ination model showed rudder pushrod attachment servos par tially backed out pushrod connector So thanks Lees advice modelers via column model saved poten tial accident averted last word promoting safety RC flying field NEVER turn trans mitter until have checked see frequencies use club has transmitter impound system effectuse time no shortcut safety Just rememberwhen shoot down another fliers model turning transmitter wrong time plane may hit something somebody besides ground Have safe month John Preston Model Aviation 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 Fun/Winter Continued oaoe 26 Total land about 200 acres best just mile town truly busy place open public use wander bit Ive mentioned planes Id like build frustra tion allayed guys build themlike Koerners electric-powered Udet Flamingo accompanying photo Heinz built longwinged Connie four electric mo tors Connie true bird sail plane compared DC-7 full-size ones So back Eldon Wilson amused mention electric-powered Connie see has done question done right friend Little George Mcintyre chief pilot Lockheed during Connie series During later years Super Connie referred P-80 jocks granddad day P-SO operator did Im melmann turn takeoff younger guys went ape Author Blue Angels did Bearcats part actand close ground Well George didnt see thing hot about offered wager months pay same thing Connie done George did retire insistence FAA after 33 years said ready anyway Daredevil wing loading power far less favorable P-SO Super Connie emptythis guy would have know Author Don task live Cuban Air Force bought Vegas installed radio loops top instead under nose rec ommended George went Cuba could convince move loop So took Vega up 14000 ft killed engines rolled inverted dead-sticked down 4000 ft get loop bottom demonstrate work rolled out re started landed neral convinced Dead-stick 10000 ft wasnt mentioned just normal life test pilot Little 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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THE LATE John Kingfish Sadler man after own heart Lord knows really began modeling 1936 thing about weathervane vertical tails clipped off anyones big finwith permission Sadlers story unfolds like Burma Shave signs enter tained motorists 30s Like red mini-milestones signs mount ed sequence eye level along roadside presenting few words outrageous ditty eventually added up boffo message help HA Thomas shared Kingfishers fascination low wings time such eccentric subjects regarded treacherous taboo persisted RC until Astro HogSig now has kit old-timer Pattern job weve put togeth er Burma Shave sequence rare photos Low-Wing Free Flights Left Inspiration Sadlers low-wing FF Gas jobs H Thomas 1935 original first Gas model fly Arkansas Cabane apparently adjustable fore aft held fuselage rubberbands Right Parts 1935 model reworked low-winger 1936 Vis ible through landing gear pendulum pod weighted flight batteries expected provide control GI-IQ kept grounded Left Another 1936 low-winger Thomas stringered fuselage cowled enginewhich set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker Tapered wing model first flown Baby Cyke Brown Jr Right Evidence Sadlers early fascination low wings neat rubberpowered modelwhich badly damaged landed front truck Back kids werent blase about airplanes models cameras 16 Model Aviation U lust fun Bill Winter Aint beauty says Chet Lanzo holding 1948 version immortal Copeland Streamliner Wakefield Copeland Lanzo swapped models year havent hurt little bit flying Ive done honest adds Chet Unique model has laminated fuse lage former rings stringers Spar-butts plug fuselage boxes Left John Kingfish Sadler 1936 10-ft 7%-lb low-winger Brown Jr engine Tires Seiberling ashtray rims flew well huge vertical tail dihedral Right Sadler Pacemaker front him posed seven Little Rock low-wingers 1936-37 small ones Ohlsson 23s super engine day sensation 1938 National Contest Left This low-wing Bonanza look-alike rubber-powered model H Thomas would beautiful sport RC design glow electric power Both Sadler Thomas mixed Rubber Gas low-wing explorations Right An early Thomas rubber-powered design featuring folding prop things retractable two-wheel landing gear exciting stuff 1938 photos H Thomas Fliers RC-assist FE Old-Timers sometimes show up eye-catch ing low-wing Pacemaker first exposure Pacemaker Thomas Sadler occurred 30s Thomas submitted sketch unique low-winger Air Trails Anoth er magazine refused print grounds over-generous di hedral hence high-winger---a logic suggests Bassetts cabin jobs parasols After sketch Thom went prolific illus trators remembered mostly Sketchbook series began low-wingers Thomas parasol Gassie 1935 roughly time publication KG Kov el-Grant Model Airplane News looked like KG Says HA original Baby Cyke done Sadlers help lie worked out phone jack plug-in booster battery turned pine wheels lathe Wed never seen Gas modeL pine lon gerons pine I-beam spars adjustable-in cidence cabane sheet-covered wing tail leading edges cap strips just cranked up backed away trundled ahead got its tail up made sweet takeoff neat flight off races Sadlers low-winger fol lowed within weeks Thomas first own-design Gassie reworked low-winger GHQ engine full pendulum controls pendulum engine battery cells placed streamlined pod below bellyworking ailerons well elevator rudder GHQ kept grounded After HAs second model highwing cabin Brown Jr engine flew out sight its maiden flight Mississippi Valley Meet 1936 Carl February 1984 17 Above Sadler launching Thomas 1938 Rubber job shown L above Best flight 4% mm Gear up can assume models weight ground held gear extended until takeoff Right Sadler 6%-ft Pacemaker 1939 Its butterfly-like wing less dihedral earlier ships vertical tail small squat Note license number NAA AMA Since AMA born 1937 first numbers issued 1938 Pace maker could have built least two years earlier 1939 pic Picnic Shangri-la Lett With its prop tree-wheeling tne wina van uriscoli snows off Udet Flamingofrom March 1935 MAN adjusted scratch day event Right low-wing Vultee Attack daring its day January 1937 Flying Aces magazine now Flying Models Allan Schanzle built Turkish markings eating out hand Present-day adjusting techniques really work Goldberg spectator hadnt built Gas model yet built low-winger shown pictures tapered wing Baby Cyclone en gine later Brown D stringered fuselage cowl set pattern Sadlers Pacemaker bad ball model Thomas recalls fondly Sadler made career low-wingers find 1934 Rubber job shown photo taken after model landed highway front truck about 1936 Sadler pro duced first 10-ft low-wing Gassie Brown Jr hand-carved sycamore prop large Seiberling tires ashtray turnedpine hubsa majestic flier 71/2 lb two-piece wing Left Luther Hux flying RC trainer Come again come arms pillowing head Its feet man Hes controlling crate toesl Right ships what Luther flying toes Well leave rest story text 18 Model Aviation Left Entrants Bill Winter Commemorative Event 1983 Maxecuters Annual Back row L-R Bill Bell Dave Rees Tom Schmitt Bill Winter author Rubber Scale magazine designs flown event Front Dan Driscoll Allan Schanzle Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Right Tom Schmitt all-silver Dewoitine D535 parasol French fighter June 1935 Model Airplane News field used half stabilizer verti caland obviously provided ingenious side-lifting sections vertical became part adjustment package Sadler got away huge sail wed guess because monstrous dihedral soon wised-upand made wrathful shears part tool kit Another photo shows de Kingfish seven Little Rock low-wing Gas sies smaller ones having Ohlsson 23s super engine its time original Pacemaker front John multi-plane picture genuine thrill consider Thomas low-wing Rub ber job picturedit would look good today RC glow electric power boys made Rub ber part low-wing development note picture HAs 1930s Rubber job retracting landing gear folding prop distinguished gent launching ahead-of-its-time Rubber job Sadler planes best flight 4 mm final version Sadlers Pace maker flown Nats featured highly successful butterfly planform less severe dihedral smallarea squat vertical tail Note license numberNAA AMA Since AMA founded 1937 Pacemaker must have built later 1937 Big high tails play hob spiral stability especially low-wingers general craft shallow dihed ral Early competition Gas models would spiral-dive destruction almost often made successful flights FE Gas events Nats day demohtion derbies shattered engine pieces cabin jobs feeling like gravel concrete runways pylon just around corner Sad lers low-wing Pacemaker already perfected Kingfish quite man joined center cabinet hinges modelers day considered huge As learned Bassett articlesvertical tails necessity Wake-Continued page 20 Left Electric Udet Flamingo Heinz Koerner has 67in span 1200 sq area 12% semi-symmetrical airfoil 7Alb weight Power 50/24 Keller 20 sub-C cells Jomar Speed Controller Inew model modified 117 prop 8000 rpm Has Atlas servos Uses full power takeoffsa 25 75-ft run grass depending wind glides well getting field landing bit dicey full-size plane built Germany outstanding trainer aerobatics machine Continent over 20 years Later Heinz plans aileron aerobatics Right thought Winter kidding earlier issue talked about Hal deBolts FF rubberpowered Nordic heres end resultthe Goliath RB-I King Condor held Gary Frenkel Goliath Whirlwind Aircraft Co Birmingham Ml Theyve already produced several hundred tooling up bigger runs structuremolded foam spans 74 has 629 sq area weighs 22 oz Folding prop has 16 dia 18 pitch driven 16 strands A-in rubber contained tube February 1984 19 Left Earl Stahl standing honored 1982 Maxecuters Commemorative drove hours join fun him left Rolfe Gregory Pat Dailey Rolfes model Lus combe Silvaire Sedan February 1948 Flying Models Pats Fiat authentic Italian camouflage FAC Nats winner Top Right Dave Rees columnist Flying Models Navy Curtiss SOC-i Scout October 1936 MAN Bill Winter told Dave favorite Above Right Bill Bell Martin T4-MI torpedo planeoriginally June 1935 MAN torpedo slid off open hooks model nosed down Thats way confesses Winter Pictures Schanzle Schmitt Winter others Tom Schmitt High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Gal PriceDrum Price Type Nitro 0/t Lubricant Freight Paid Freight-Collect FAI00/aSynthetic$ 675$13995 Ss50/0Synthetic$ 775$21995 Sc50/aCastor$ 775$21995 4cyl70/oCastor$ 850$28995 lOs100/aSynthetic$ 895$32995 lOc100/aCastor$ 895$32995 RIG120/o Syn & Castor$ 995$34995 iSs150/aSynthetic$ 995$34995 20c200/aCastor$1395$51995 25s250/aSynthetic$1495$52995 4040/ol5Syn-5 Castor$1995$72995 50500/0Synthetic$2395$89595 60600/aSynthetic$26 95$995 95 EXCEPT 54 GAL DRUMS MINIMUM ORDER 4 Gal Asst OK DISCOUNTS 24 63 Gal Deduct 5% Asstd OK 64 Gal Orders Deduct 100/0 Asstd OK SHELDONS HOBBY SHOP 3157 Alum Rock Avenue M/C VISASan Jose California 95127 UPS COD -$165408 251-0787 U Hours Mon-Wed Fri & Sat 930-530 Thur 930-900 Sun 1200-500 Sitting hands behind head see pic Luther Hux guy made Space Shuttles fabulous camera planes aerial shots National Georgraphic Society post card Parafoil RC chutist can guided back takeoff strip Believe Luther flying model controlling toes know about trainers Anything isnt Pattern Pylon model has called trainer Finding proper trainer raw beginner has proved difficult deciphering Rosetta Stone People argue must have ailerons learn useful tech niqueswhich may may great have instructor likes social work Others say trainer should able fly like Free Flight safety just nudged gently learns about right left fly straight Some trainers beyond novice will shake up liver bile others have already soloed happily truth trainers mostly geared achieving next step up whatever happens some powerful fast-flying bombs beginner can usually does bust anything Luthers crate kind example mushing approach awkward landing can gun ned hanging nose-high far down wrong side power curve safely maneuvered mode around 360 within width mowed flight strip does touch-and-goes inside strip perimeter am curious about strange things prairie dog Over phone got rundown Span 48 Intended power 09 20 being tested OS 25F5Rand thats beaut Weight 3 lb Its three channels secret foam wing film-covered thats low-temperature film heat son has inset spar wood leading trailing edges leading edge swept back Since wing hot-wirecut foam easy give rather symmetrical root rib Clark Y tip tip zero root 40 gets washout because differ ent locations leading edge root tipdue airfoils used leading edge tri angle stock butted foam top edge 1/16 higher foam full span permitting sanding smooth curve Toward tip wood falls creasingly below foam rounding off area wood removed under neath during sanding progressively tip rib center portion wing stalls aerodynamic center outer unstalled portion lies far ther aft respect CG because sweep Thats stabiliz ing action much 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neuvers too 25 Luther says mixture go-fast-stunt goslow-and-play keeps him being bored Wonder coordinates controls toes Flying circus people claim leave bodies night soar among spheres millions light years away no less am serious flying past month has per fect example disembodied space trav el Shangri-la good beginning first time laid eyes grassy hill rural Maryland windless sum mer evening red-and-white balloon slowly arose distance just Concorde arrowed overhead sunset dozens Rubber Scale jobs circled lazi ly like lightning bugs guys get pleasure models other fliers know Ive since enjoyed oasis peace occasions idlyllic spot Rubber jobs lowpowered Old-Timers soaring Sailplanes Electrics Septem ber occurred nicest experience 57 years modeling day hot windy thermals good 5 6 mm angry thermal god Hung took holiday Strangely Rubber Scale jobs everywhere--drifted beyond reasonable chase world-class stuff superbly built flown find Nats Under cool shade some convenient trees sat great Earl Stahl taking three-ring flying circus chatting about shared magazine experiences other days event Maxecuters Annual guys have events peak ex citement funlike WW WW II Golden Age combo speed-and-naviga tion thing much What makes exciting mass launch groups five six eliminationslast man down stuff cant imagine wild gets 1982 commemorative event honoring Earl Stahlwhich speci fied published models turn 1983 awed what saw Udet Flamingo designed 5 1 years ago eat-Lakes/Martin bomber came little later planes periods life done various towns states fore children at broke riding crest No flier spoke about plane Continued page 24 22 Model Aviation 198flu u er 7 consec .as Vegas Tournament Champions Shown above Giezendanner GMP 20010 Digital Tachometer -i E Catalog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. 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prime both en gines Start left engine first Peak being careful let get overlean Now start right engine synchronize ear left engine full throttle par ticularly careful overlean either en gine extra tweak needle valve usually gains nothing rpm might cause engine go dead after takeoff certain both engines idle reliably respond unison throttle changes both engines running smoothly ready takeoff takeoff run climb-out aver age length speed As model avoid abrupt nose-high attitudes after take off until aircraft has gained sufficient airspeed Once air model will feel quite stable control surface responses normal Continued page 126 product review product review product review Stampe SV4 French primary trainer @ $100 Champion Model Aeroplane Company Inc PO Box 891 Woodbridge NJ 07095 Some slight deviation scale provides lots construction simplicity case produces Stand-Off Scale super kit love bipes hate making cabane struts kit cabane struts prebent assembled brazed proper angles simply 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