Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series 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Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 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MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/01
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 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troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul 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MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/01
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 5p~SCCCappUSA Re seUscar2fl VW SpaSSCppUSA Fibertlass Cowlings & Canopies availabla Sand Stamp tnt the detailed StOctiares Giant Scala Accassorras Oar Piano Sant POStPAid within Ida USAl Nick Ziroli 29 Edgee Olee SnIthtewe NY 1t787 USA first everything anything week deadline appealed Pauls patriotism have mighty try described him box slabsider no frills wing sitting atop fuselage accomplished impossible both minds quickie Simplex throw away though flew away old Holmes Airport opposite presentday LaGuardia Paul Zaic Garami others flew together Now internationally-popular Old-Timer plans keep popping up journals faraway places flew good Pauls truly incredible output disap pears radar screen after neverequaled performance golden years 1940-41 old-timers will know war After 22 transfers Signal Corps losing voice drill sergeant Atlantic City digging obstacle courses Okefenoke Swamp other heroics managaed get airplanes washed-out pilot ended up gunner B-24she actually liked thatand B-29s troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul 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MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul 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MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 5p~SCCCappUSA Re seUscar2fl VW SpaSSCppUSA Fibertlass Cowlings & Canopies availabla Sand Stamp tnt the detailed StOctiares Giant Scala Accassorras Oar Piano Sant POStPAid within Ida USAl Nick Ziroli 29 Edgee Olee SnIthtewe NY 1t787 USA first everything anything week deadline appealed Pauls patriotism have mighty try described him box slabsider no frills wing sitting atop fuselage accomplished impossible both minds quickie Simplex throw away though flew away old Holmes Airport opposite presentday LaGuardia Paul Zaic Garami others flew together Now internationally-popular Old-Timer plans keep popping up journals faraway places flew good Pauls truly incredible output disap pears radar screen after neverequaled performance golden years 1940-41 old-timers will know war After 22 transfers Signal Corps losing voice drill sergeant Atlantic City digging obstacle courses Okefenoke Swamp other heroics managaed get airplanes washed-out pilot ended up gunner B-24she actually liked thatand B-29s troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul sells packs $500 $1800 five packs want know youll find Paul Plecan 3723 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 phone 714/785-5114 conclusion Almost home rare vacation tail-eisded runaway truck What say about seat belts real please wear remember Purple Plan 1 framed fuse lage have rough tail feathers Rookie30 days Purple Plan 1 Pro TtehTor THERMO MOLDEDSTRONG9 METAL FRAMEGREAT GIFT f 9 FOAM FILLED9012059 0 S Transmitter ection Casej 00of E S35 inc ode Sh PP 0 & Hondi n US CA re odd 6% Send check mo y BERGERON ENTERPRISES X ROBERTAFULLERTON CA 92632 X 138 Model Aviation Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkJ2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 Cataiog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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back covered 1/64 plywood Fiberglass cowl beautiful canopy hinges torque rods plus other machine cut sanded parts Engines 60 two cycle 60-90-120 4 stroke Ready built 1/64 plywood covered wing Johnnie Casburn Manufacturing Co 5821 E Rosedale Fort Worth TX 76112 Day 817/451-1570 t 817/572-145 NEW WING TUBE & SOCKETS NEW 1 1 dia aluminum alloy tubing plug-in wings Included pair special slip-fit phenolic sockets build wing-structure 2024 alum tube 24 long socket 12 long $8S5Iset ENGINE SLEEVE & BEARING PULLER Pull thoae tight sleeves bearings easily damage Cone cone expanding brass ring grips sleeve bearing 10 new 60s 17MM rear bearing *Speclal* Both br $1395 See Dealer Order Direct Include 75 Per Item f UPS GP Gator RIC Products 3713 Pompano Dr Pensacola FL 32514 Phone AC 904 476-863g fiberglass-products manufacturer teamed Yatescan picture Quite probably such advanced models flying during 1946 Olathe 1948 Yates think although may have Palmer flew demos nearby golf course handful invited guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 5p~SCCCappUSA Re seUscar2fl VW SpaSSCppUSA Fibertlass Cowlings & Canopies availabla Sand Stamp tnt the detailed StOctiares Giant Scala Accassorras Oar Piano Sant POStPAid within Ida USAl Nick Ziroli 29 Edgee Olee SnIthtewe NY 1t787 USA first everything anything week deadline appealed Pauls patriotism have mighty try described him box slabsider no frills wing sitting atop fuselage accomplished impossible both minds quickie Simplex throw away though flew away old Holmes Airport opposite presentday LaGuardia Paul Zaic Garami others flew together Now internationally-popular Old-Timer plans keep popping up journals faraway places flew good Pauls truly incredible output disap pears radar screen after neverequaled performance golden years 1940-41 old-timers will know war After 22 transfers Signal Corps losing voice drill sergeant Atlantic City digging obstacle courses Okefenoke Swamp other heroics managaed get airplanes washed-out pilot ended up gunner B-24she actually liked thatand B-29s troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul sells packs $500 $1800 five packs want know youll find Paul Plecan 3723 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 phone 714/785-5114 conclusion Almost home rare vacation tail-eisded runaway truck What say about seat belts real please wear remember Purple Plan 1 framed fuse lage have rough tail feathers Rookie30 days Purple Plan 1 Pro TtehTor THERMO MOLDEDSTRONG9 METAL FRAMEGREAT GIFT f 9 FOAM FILLED9012059 0 S Transmitter ection Casej 00of E S35 inc ode Sh PP 0 & Hondi n US CA re odd 6% Send check mo y BERGERON ENTERPRISES X ROBERTAFULLERTON CA 92632 X 138 Model Aviation Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkJ2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 Cataiog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting supplies power doing comes new C/b charger has LEO indicate unit charging also has removable T handle can used Torque amplifier Over 50 consecutive starts full charge rechargeable hundreds times Clips onto plug positive connection Send ad along prepayment end receive free thiopino end handling TORK-STARTER $29 95 Cherger Ill OV 220V 1 2V Fast Charger $2095 Without Charger CHARGERS $1295 Charger Only 111 OV 220V 1 2V Fast Charger 3011464-2260 NEW FOURMOST PRODUCTS Bulk head Fitting simple method feed fuel vent tubes through soIRi bulkheads DrIll hole wIth No 18 drIll sIze bulkhead ----uior fIrewall up 3/8 thIck Provides sealed tank compartment elImInates fuel lIne chaffIng Color Coded easy IdentIfIcatIon MOULOED NYLON FUELPROOF WeIght /2GM EACH SIze 3/3210 PRICE 2for $250 FOURMOST PRODUCTS 4040 24th Ave Forest Grove OR 97116 Bomb Release Fourmost Bomb-release mechanIsm sImple lIght weIght devIce lAeal fun-fly events Fasten unIt plane screws provIded Attach sprIng-loaded latch thread connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 5p~SCCCappUSA Re seUscar2fl VW SpaSSCppUSA Fibertlass Cowlings & Canopies availabla Sand Stamp tnt the detailed StOctiares Giant Scala Accassorras Oar Piano Sant POStPAid within Ida USAl Nick Ziroli 29 Edgee Olee SnIthtewe NY 1t787 USA first everything anything week deadline appealed Pauls patriotism have mighty try described him box slabsider no frills wing sitting atop fuselage accomplished impossible both minds quickie Simplex throw away though flew away old Holmes Airport opposite presentday LaGuardia Paul Zaic Garami others flew together Now internationally-popular Old-Timer plans keep popping up journals faraway places flew good Pauls truly incredible output disap pears radar screen after neverequaled performance golden years 1940-41 old-timers will know war After 22 transfers Signal Corps losing voice drill sergeant Atlantic City digging obstacle courses Okefenoke Swamp other heroics managaed get airplanes washed-out pilot ended up gunner B-24she actually liked thatand B-29s troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul sells packs $500 $1800 five packs want know youll find Paul Plecan 3723 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 phone 714/785-5114 conclusion Almost home rare vacation tail-eisded runaway truck What say about seat belts real please wear remember Purple Plan 1 framed fuse lage have rough tail feathers Rookie30 days Purple Plan 1 Pro TtehTor THERMO MOLDEDSTRONG9 METAL FRAMEGREAT GIFT f 9 FOAM FILLED9012059 0 S Transmitter ection Casej 00of E S35 inc ode Sh PP 0 & Hondi n US CA re odd 6% Send check mo y BERGERON ENTERPRISES X ROBERTAFULLERTON CA 92632 X 138 Model Aviation Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkJ2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 Cataiog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 5p~SCCCappUSA Re seUscar2fl VW SpaSSCppUSA Fibertlass Cowlings & Canopies availabla Sand Stamp tnt the detailed StOctiares Giant Scala Accassorras Oar Piano Sant POStPAid within Ida USAl Nick Ziroli 29 Edgee Olee SnIthtewe NY 1t787 USA first everything anything week deadline appealed Pauls patriotism have mighty try described him box slabsider no frills wing sitting atop fuselage accomplished impossible both minds quickie Simplex throw away though flew away old Holmes Airport opposite presentday LaGuardia Paul Zaic Garami others flew together Now internationally-popular Old-Timer plans keep popping up journals faraway places flew good Pauls truly incredible output disap pears radar screen after neverequaled performance golden years 1940-41 old-timers will know war After 22 transfers Signal Corps losing voice drill sergeant Atlantic City digging obstacle courses Okefenoke Swamp other heroics managaed get airplanes washed-out pilot ended up gunner B-24she actually liked thatand B-29s troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul sells packs $500 $1800 five packs want know youll find Paul Plecan 3723 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 phone 714/785-5114 conclusion Almost home rare vacation tail-eisded runaway truck What say about seat belts real please wear remember Purple Plan 1 framed fuse lage have rough tail feathers Rookie30 days Purple Plan 1 Pro TtehTor THERMO MOLDEDSTRONG9 METAL FRAMEGREAT GIFT f 9 FOAM FILLED9012059 0 S Transmitter ection Casej 00of E S35 inc ode Sh PP 0 & Hondi n US CA re odd 6% Send check mo y BERGERON ENTERPRISES X ROBERTAFULLERTON CA 92632 X 138 Model Aviation Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkJ2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 Cataiog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 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troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul sells packs $500 $1800 five packs want know youll find Paul Plecan 3723 Polk St Riverside CA 92505 phone 714/785-5114 conclusion Almost home rare vacation tail-eisded runaway truck What say about seat belts real please wear remember Purple Plan 1 framed fuse lage have rough tail feathers Rookie30 days Purple Plan 1 Pro TtehTor THERMO MOLDEDSTRONG9 METAL FRAMEGREAT GIFT f 9 FOAM FILLED9012059 0 S Transmitter ection Casej 00of E S35 inc ode Sh PP 0 & Hondi n US CA re odd 6% Send check mo y BERGERON ENTERPRISES X ROBERTAFULLERTON CA 92632 X 138 Model Aviation Completely Fuel Proof Nylon Rubber Parts Cat No 102 Air Cleaner Coarse Cat No 202 Air Cleaner Fine Replacement Inserts Cat No 104 Pk/2 Inserts Coarse Cat No 204 PkJ2 Inserts Fine FITS MOST ENGINES 25 UP SEE YOUR LOCAL HOBBY DEALER IF UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY SEND TO Add 75C shippingMichigan residents add 4% sales tax Bru Line Industries Inc PO Box 3786 center Line Michigan 48015 Cataiog Twelve page-Fully Illustrated complete details on. MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill
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Bill Winter Just Fun o t _______________fi II II II THIS IS rainy day columnbut sun shining dragged off two weeks solitarythe first back-toback do-nothing weeks 39 years spent appropriately Kitty Hawk NC No TV no radio no phones no models took along two untouched fat folders Fun letters Outer Banks swarm sea sun worshippers funny plastic kites flown two handles Somehow doubt few frolickers felt haunting presence Brothers wind mist reached four five degrees above mental absolute zero residual temperatore 15- 20-million-years-ago Big Bang subconscious near vacuum buzzes like hoss flies Gulls herons fish eagles terns soaring hawks catch lazy eyetaped miles-long armada porpoises dusk arcing surface north-bound Charlie Grants X-8 airfoil outlined tracing contours trout seaful X-8s Really now bugle blows charge shades Wilbur Orville cast spell mail very Small World Since column magnet pictures modeling days gone writes Dave Ritchie thought Id pass along couple old photos Carl V Carlsons Big Crate biplane gas model its first test flight May 1931 Ashbum Airport 83rd Cicero Ave Chicago wish could have photo include article Carlson August 1982 MA pp 32-34 discovered recently -flight photos model period pretty rare such early gas model particularly significant figure lower right corner Carlsons friend fellow illinois Model Aero Club member Don Lockwood Au famous Rubber modeler recalls flight lasted about 40 seconds second photo same model about month later Dayton 1931 Nationals Carlson says entered Wakefield event tcok off stalled crashed almost irnniediately Almost S4years ago CarIcon Big Crate 1 powered bye Wail 153 Cu two-cycle engine attained 50-75 ft altitude aftera 15-ft takeoff run partial stall dive followed slowly descending circles untli struck post momentous occa sion recorded right-hand photo Waiter Brook famous fuli-scale aviation circles 20s credited designer left photo 11-ft 1 0-lb bipiene ready flight Wright-Patterson AAB June 1931 Dayton Nets July year Big Crate stalied shortly after takeoff failed record official time first gas-powered model enter Nets Two years later Maxwell Bassetts Brown-powered monoplenes swept Nets flying against rubber-powered ships P1cc via Dave Ritchie 18 Model Aviation Left Carl Carisons Big Crete appeared May 1932 Aero Digest Since printed matter tQo smali re duction readable see text data big wings gave area 15 sq ft Above End section views Wail Junior gas engine Carison used similar no official flight time ever recorded Au Wakes now strictly rubber-powered rules never anticip ate future course Maxwell Bas sett using new Brown engine ap peared 1932 Nats swept Rubber events 1933 gas age upon us Actually successful gas engines appeared over twogeneration period before Brown Ray Arden gave us glow plug 1947 flew gas model across Van Courtlandt Park NYover milein 1904 Ray described flight 1949 Carisons recent update Dave contin ues also included enclosed photocopy Dayton newspapers coverage Nats event Au headlineJuly 1 portion photocopy refers Gatty sighted near W lot name didnt fit photo copy page Gatty must have navigator would last missing name Wake page-one picture story headed Worlds Records Are Broken ModelAirplanes Fly picture shows Carlson Big Crate after crash another shows Emmanuel Fineberg 17 famous holding dupe Stout model disappeared judges sight after recordflight of29 mm 30 sec also include copy May 1932 Aero Digest article Carlsons model excellent plan contains recent photo Carlson replica 1928 AMLA Au 300000-member predecessor AMA published model plans longago American Boy magazine twin-push er Junior Outdoor winner Small World Summer 1932 dat ing future boss lived stone colonial places George Washington reputed have slept didnt An added attraction tennis court kid named Church doubles partner day Discovering made Rubber Scale models later intro duced dad Pop asked carve big Rubber propno explanation keep eye prop believe young Church became fighter pilot lost Philippine invasion Memory plays tricks remembered instead name Wagner think P-40 hero Pearl stage war fighters no guns because production shortages Since Ritchie engine historian Tasked him fill Wall Loutrel engines circa 1930 Hurst Bowers shown thought cast aluminum prop AMA Museum asking Did ever see anything like looked familiar believe cast aluminum prop converted old balsa prop As write Hurst still plowing through boxes hopes finding weird fossil prop Dave Ritchies follow-up Carl Carison Bong Field WI September 1981 twin-pusher replica 1928 AMLA prior AMA Nate-winning Ju nior outdoor winner Picture Bill Gough April 1932 article Aero Digest should give scoop Elmer Wall Wall Junior engine used power Big CHURCH SPARK COILS May nt lhtest celIa b~t ae beat Babe late ceac 3hlndh ete wateepjeQf eL k wIth Ii ulta Seud 5e itteat hat t tweductL Delawace Avenue Oumont N J Gas engines flew model aircraft have around since well before 1910 no thats typographical error Circa 1930 early production Church Single shown left Small World story see text Top Right Advertised Model Craftsman 1936 Church Twin Wonder later-year guys have put singles back-to-back make twin Church coil weighing 11 oz put out -in spark six volts Above Right years fine Loutrel around Winter doesnt know 1934 production item Another owner produced design GHO very early ones respectable quickly de generated farceas us rememberwith acute pain engine photos Tim Betty Danneis Model Museum January1985 19 y FROM 1950 MODEL BUILDERS ANNUAL PUB BY FAWCETT -----I 4 II weight ffl4K7S4 --4 4 II -4 II II I--II 44 --4 STUNT KING designed BILL WINTER wingspan /2 ins power 29 to35 cu ins prop lOX 6 power weight 2 lbs NOTE left wing panel longer span SCALE IN INCHES #99 Crate copy Wall engine catalog gives some insight range engine designsboth 2- 4-cycle catalog copy incomplete has six pages obviously staple-bound doesnt mention Wall Junior have seen other Wall enginea 4cycle horizontally-opposed twinwhich mentioned catalog either probably would account last page what probably originally eight-page catalog As Jersey connection Dave goes dont think Walls case obviously Chica goan man knew Dumont NJ may have Wall ene. also could have engine named Church believe large engine intended primarily model boats think manufactured Dmnont am little unsure what am saying because am going memory used have whole boxful early Model Crafts man magazines Au Hal Carstens publishes Flying Models editor think some early 30s issues contained small ads variety Church boat engines r know Loutrel good runner believe kit engine like Wall may have available finished form well prototype GHQ early examples cast iron pistons said good runners too As production progressed quality suffered point engine became laugh ing stock Au Ghastly GHQ stories legion me other time Aero Digest article April 1932 devoted fascinating two-page article Wall Junior engine drawing repro duced theres pic Wall contemplating collection products seven engines shown marine airplane in-line twin looking water-cooled some big Quadras missing opposed twin Wall 40 years experience both big miniature engines Juniorwhich powered Big Crate impressively engineered two-cycle Left Jim Sewards double-sized three-channel Pronto weighs 15 lb has uuaara power Bealeton VA last spring model foreground Built balsa ply lots MonoKote easy fly Mrs Seward little experience has no trouble piloting 8-ft plane background Frank Lowd cranks Quadra four-channel Super Pronto ailerons has much less dihedral three-channel Fellow member Glenn Wright Newport News Aero Modelers Assn also shown Right Eureka Joe Kovel original 8-ft KG-i undergoing restoration Published MAN Thirties KG designed Charlie Grant built flown Joe components now ready covering sheet balsa orig inal Joe says has started replica 10-ft KG-2 set record 2 hr 4 mm 40 sec Hadley Field NJ 1935 KG-2 demolished transit theater display Newark NJ Only removable power plant assembly remained used both planes save money Joe plans attend 1985 Nats restored KG-i accompanied Charlie now mid-BOs 20 Model Aviation displacement 153 Cu square design bore stroke both 1 Fuel 15-to-i gas/oil mix Weight power system 24-12 right wasnt 2-in-wide blade 3 lb performance chart Wall prop showed static thrust approaching 8 lb rpm ap proaching 3000 case cast two pieces aluminum Flanged brass beanngs steel crankshaft brass conrod avoid brass bush ings steel rod Lynite piston two cast iron rings skirt split han dle expansion cast iron cylinder aluminum head Wallscatalog showed later aero engine square design 1 bore stroke weighed 1 lb 4 oz developed 600 rpm Valve rotary ba sic design ad vanced beyond probably later Brown Jr Cost about $20 Continued page 22 January 1985 21 Meet Paul Plecan Plan Packet man has logged over5O0O plan drawings since mid-I 930s mostly magazines old Fly ing Aces Air Trails among Winter hired Paui staff draftsman before WW ii says Paui istheali-timechampofthedraw ing board Paui published own fine designs currentiyis doing Top Fiite kit drawings well grinding out Plan packets Judged Most Impressive Model 2nd Annual Boeing Hawks Electric Fly-In Jerry Hoicombs Laminaire modeled after home-built two-placerlike short/ fat Lear Fan Shocking specs mere 303 sq wing area fiberglass fuselage weighed 41/2 ibbut looks great air cobalt 05 eight cells 6-6 pusher prop specs work out 34-oz loading hasailerons too Mitch Poling picture Bernard Cawley USE AWont wear out Makes TM sanding easy No 14111 inch No 14222 inch $250$365 / Add 20% postage best results use STUFF Self Adhesse Sheet Sandpaper' No glue No drying time Ideal special sanding shapes Adheres materials 9 st 1 sheets Choice Medium Fine Super Fise 92 Ca APPLIED DESIGN CORP Penn Street egundo CA 90245 castings parts no doubt ac counts demand Brown mass-produced ready run $2150 Aero Digest included Wall engine booth display Detroit Aircraft Show arousing tremendous interest among model builders ran sequel May 1932 issue Big Crate Aero Digest premier avia tion magazine its day inspiration modelers everywhere thanks late George McLaughlin editor modeler circa 1920 told columnist reason three-views full-size planes help modelers drawings 2-in span appeared hundreds source own Rubber Scale shipsand todays model researchers seems Walter Brock full-scale fame during Twenties helping friend modeling movement early first Nats 1923 St Louis helped Carlson design goodlooking biplane 11-ft span engine built HW Hartman Chicago Wall-supplied castings weight scale drawing credits Brock design indicates 174 oz plus area 15 sq ft loading about 10 oz left about 6 lb airframe Outside rather long fuselage maybe wished straight flights Brock did himself proud design clever Wing panels attached fuselage sides assem bly eliminating complex cabane struts two-piece fuselage assembled cotter pins fittings Station 7 Station 1 5 longerons members pruce laminated two pieces aft pruce nose cowl shaped aluminum saucepan streamlined stringers along nose stab hinged elevator line adjustment Wing section RAF 15 Lead ing edge 1 x 1 balsa served front spar rear spar 4 spruce trailing edge pruce Covering paper frame internally wirebraced take impact 45-oz tank initially located LE moved slightly forward balance Ignition cluded four flashlight batteries Quite inter estingly sub-fm attached elevator included locking means adjust ment attaching long tail skid Fin stab symmetrical-sectioned LE TE being 1 x 1 alsa stab spruce spar measured 50 x 18wow Overall length about 10 ft Big Crate made flights getting off cardboard about 15 ft climbed steeply test 50 75 ft seemed slightly over-elevated made partial stall stall did 1931 Nats Since test flight probably calm air described being circular after dive partial stallwhich assumed due stretched rigging misalignment steady loss altitude may supContinued page 24 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MAStER ill RSCREW new K Series family propellers has introduced three sizes 14x6 14x8 16x6 large propellers have wider blades thinner airfoil sections best performance fourstroke engines will also work very well two-strokes Mold ed same tough glass-filled nylon G/F /2A Series props have same incredible strength durability Planned future releases series 12 x 6 16 x 8 Priced $395 $495 WINDSOR PROPELLER CO 384 Tesconi Ct Santa Rosa Calif 95401 a-jLU 13311 Beach Ave e Marina Del Rey UM 90292 22 Model Aviation BAKA Features Quick building balsa construction Full scale plans photo illustrated instructions Good first aileron airplane stable easy fly Send check MO Pay shipping MA GUS MODEL AIRCRAFT 3518 Laurel Burton Michigan 48529 Dealer Inquiries welcome MFG OF NI-STARTER $2995 charger PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH CHARGER WHEN ORDERINGI L TORK-STARTER revolutionary concept power iSV glow plugs model cars boats air planes using glow fuel engines TORK-STARTERITMI has steel wrench strong enough reduce compreasion easier starting 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connect throttle rudder servo CorrosIon problem unIt molded nylon sprIng staInless WeIght 1/10 OUNCE PRICE $250 503 357-2732 pose possibly unwanted turn really beneficial Free Flighter knows perhaps bit wind during 1931 Nats flight could have produced quick power stall CG stated being correct exist ing Rubber techniques used could have incorporated downthrust Ad justments incidentally made turnbuckles full-scale-type rigging wires Methinks tad too much full-scale influ ence Carlson certainly would have deferred Brock discussions Perhaps Carl will read favor us lowdown want nail Bassett already working out bugs soon-to-be famous Free Flights Theres long long road awinding about Old-Timer Control Line Stunt model never heard has twists pretzel design pub lished model airplane maga zine 1946 Nationals Wichita KS young Davy Slagle wisp Cali fornia lad flew bare feet utterly devastated Stunt event ultrasimple super-light ship hindsight looked performed like Combat job still future Stunter Under unflagging encouragement parents Davy prepared long practice sessions training Olympics sensation Davy gave sold model Ray Arden turn gave late Don Grouta hobby dealer Danbury CT hung up just entered shop kid really built because exactly work art Paper-covered open frame must have weighed about two-fifths much modern Stunter JC Madman Yates already flying up storm West Coast Mad man kitted 1947 perhaps 1948 phenom bottomed maneuvers close ground inches truly fin stirred dust trails dont know JC officially flew Nats 1947 Minneapolis two us went off corner did stuff Ignition Orwick powered could have 60 Madman much like todays machines thriller/chiller way Mad man flew know touching grass Overheads floated around like Free FlightI can still see deeply-bowed lines never took backward step watch him fly over concrete must have death thousand cuts Some guys admitted anatomy went berserk tension So far no flaps great Bob Palmer still active Continued page 26 Voyager/Winter Continued 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guests no longer am sure whether coupled-flap ships would become Warrior Squawwhatever Veco would produce Joe Wagner designer engineer Veco happened oldest son eighth grade managed fly reliably Goldberg profile all-balsa trainer flat-bottomed thin-airfoiled wing limited-area elevators per mitted gentle wing-overs Knowing nothing about internal mechanics future Veco kits never having meas ured anyones airplane though inspired Olathe eyeballed first Stunt job synthesis endless guesses never man aged fly such CL ships born dizzy took Torp 29 creature down Don Grout put through its pacescoupled flaps alland pro nounced OK Now what farmhand dragged laid-back kid nearby schoolyard didnt know what Stunt ship did briefing careful big flippers flaps sent straight up takeoff point two helpers dived away circle face down dirt avoid inevitable crash engine buzzed Still prone turning heads disbelief saw Stunter flying straight level lap after lapinverted Loops kinds wild free-style Finally fuel ran out thing crashed due twisted lines too consecutive inside loops could kid know about Asked earth done kid answered watched wheels wanted ship go toward wheels given down Inverted flight mountain climb daysstill s Yates destroyed 14 planes before managed inverted Cal Smith flew beside reedy marsh attempted inverts over protective vegetation 1949 sold plans called Sky King apparentlyand until other day blurred memory really wonder 20% airfoil came inI used did Detroit boys appear Nats 20-percenters Could have pickedtheir brains before 1949 since didnt know about flap linkages did thing could think double pushrods using two holes crank arm yield differential move mentevidently ooncerned high-drag flaps would slow things down Maybe thick airfoil just slow up knows now Another thing coupled flap/elevator invented HA Thom years beforeyou can find early issue Air Trailspossibly 1946 Wag ner now reminds Heck published HAs article Continued page 131 T T 1/32 scale plastic model kits Golden Age classic aircraft Colorful highly detailed miniatures Send $1 fully illustrated cata log other kits accessories Johnnie Casburn s JC New Cap 21 JC New Cap 21 List. $23995 Sleeve Puller -$795 Bearing Puller -$695 urn grabbed power cord m winch footswitch und up drum ripped out e middle three feet six-foot cord d destroyed switch cord axial severed outer braiding d central conductor shorted togeth causing runaway Weird Unusual rish could say yes second time has ppened winch alone Two years o winch three-speed ot switch same thing happened t potentially serious run iay drum ate footswitch hurled jagged piece aluminum plate about ches size over 60 feet straight could just easily have gone ts eye occurrence can oided proper positioning flier d foot switch Stretch out foot itch cord its full length away e plane spinning winch reel See etch elsewhere columnJP Other carelessness around winches s observed like bringing back e finger ring ogue chute going out tie break e line first unplugging foot itch walking behind winches ading landing area staring aight up air makes old mach turn ice-cold thorough treatise winch safety ill included addendum sub quent newsletter Please careful ce have written Hugh requested py planned winch safety article responds will include future ilumn Meanwhile will repeat Hughs essage fellow club members e benefit RC Sailplane readers tease careful looking out window write column see leaves ginning show fall colors er since will receive agazine December will close ishing Merry Christmas hope inta brings new modeling goodie dropped hints Have Safe Happy New Year John Preston 12235 Tilden wood Dr ckville MD 20852 FunlWinter Continued page 26 doing recent feature Joe Vagners small-field dandies men oned having plans ancient Stunter l permit blasphemy lerb Clukey provide months three iew Joes Xerox copies Span bout 41 weight 32 oz ree coats paintfoam wings still ithe future light loadings ame game have copy original ban ix Illustrated containingyour model Joe stated packed away tic archives also have handy copy FawcettHandbookforModelBuilders contained reprint drawings AuA blank mind bears 1950 copyright. seems came out MI early 1950 careful look drawings tells model used first Squaw ref erence However used thicker airfoil also did redesigned kit 1951 also liked several other innova tions such double pushrod built up flaps stole ideas use own Control Line models fantas tically-light Super Chief covered tis sue yet used elevators flaps much like Stunt King makes wonder what Expert Clarence Lee bonafide expert Peter Chinn Don Lowe Bob Wischer et al am doubting Thomas hacker deal junkyard stuff assume otherwise aint no hope studies what exists anyone can begin design own air planes After few years doing perceive houses rectangles Big deal interested rare Old-Timer Stunt things like Sky King guys might able persuade Joe Wagner add design list available draw ings As kids used say dont aint got Man proposes ver put off until tomoow. game plan run out space highlights mound quaint exotic industry stuff see ancient wood-paneled offices early 1940 CB Colby ex-cartoon ist editor Air Trails associate CB would soon edit Air Prog ress Iwould take overAir Trails late Alec Dawydoff White Russian hid fact genuine Russian royalty days czar 16 interpretor British army spoke four languages under stood six waving arms violently lapsed French knew fantastic people first-name basis Gliders life fact locked leg after forced landing top house Queens fell off roof late Doug Rolfe popped cutaway drawing truly great line illustrators time Doug wooden leg replacement stuck out propping Jenny Alec sauntered Alexander de Seversky famous planes preceded Republic Seversky Republic Fair child would make thousands Thun derbolts Seversky premier worldfamous pilot spite wooden leg Watching corner Paul Plecan Paul Yes worked Air Trails draftsman before WW II changed ca reer After flurry introductions Seversky said something Dawydoff Rus sian Plecan laughed loudly Alec Alex seemed thunderstruck Colby Rolfe Continued page 134 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free parking Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition excit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY 9am-6pm SATURDAY 9am-6pm SUNDAY 9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 January1985 131 I THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION FunlWinter Continued page 131 looked blank Paul know now spoke Polish Russian What great Seversky said Last night 45 years later found out place reminds Kremlin kitchens high time someone told about Paul Plecan Some look top-qual ity Scale model drawings know him today Plan Packet Man Well get Paul far original share bond wanted write edit Paul wanted draw plans gosh drew still draws enough reach moon Such idealistic careers conjur up image Beetle Bailey bumps bruises pizza-loving ugly sarge National Free Flight SocietyNFFS FF people never forget own kind doing story Paul say Plecan by-line has very likely ap peared articles hobby field other illustrator 1937 1965 wrote book slot-racer cars done about 3000 illustrations Au Paul has log lists sale its date current total would easi ly exceed 5000 fondest recollections center around year 1940 Old-timer fans will enjoy seeing list plans drew inked during 1940 Bill Gibsons Arrow won Class 40 Nats Au Gibsonhe teamed Howard Beeler Arrow like Zipper except pylon built wing detached fuselage think also won B missed C Louis Garamis tiny Half Pint gracefisl Sky lark Pauls own Falcon design Gene Chailles pod-and-boom O&R 23 gas FF Maurice Schoenbruns Gladiator George Reichs big 80-in Albatross Bill Engle hardts B Gas So Long Au landed across town Chicagos Midway during Nats famous Bomb shell Joe Konefes Paul also drew Good brothers three-parter Air Trails year Paul also did such Wakefields Bob Coplands British Winner Baker-Engle California Champ Roy Nelders Moffett Trophy winner Excepting Falcon NFFS ac count states above pub lished Air Trails accurate bought designs NFFS notes Plecan did fine designs own right such Grumman Widgeon Focke-WulfStosser Pesco Special Arado 76 Curtiss Seahawk Heinkel 112 1932 through 1942 fraction Pauls production untold thousands lonely hours board bench draw plans understand boys overlooked Pauls Simplex 1939 1940 Comet came out 35 days publishing rush SOmWOaS*K0S5CA I64 Sp.SISCOepUSA *15 755AMSC VCI Sp52105 ppUSA CORKER Oil21 I03 CUpSSSCOppUSA CdU COSUIWCA VflSpSClOappUSA CUPSISS Sn V94 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troublesome Wright engines led some hairy episodes like doing 10- 15-mile-dia 3600 turn after losing en gine takeoff Before 900 turn executed feathering second Down low draggy almost full flaps sticking out breeze remaining two Wrights struggled manfully strain too much Long before final third gave Continued page 136 Specifications Wing Area 1500 sq Span 7-2 Weight 20-25 lbs Engine 20-37 Fuselage Formers/Planking Wing Foam 3/32 SheetingKit $4flfl95 Stab Fin Solid Sheet Clear Canopy/All BalsaA Sure Winner ScaI4OH Residents addS % tax Major Decals Included d $1 00 complete catalogueioiapead B-29 also available IVHS BETA *2995I PKuL R/C Mfg 706 Easton NE North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 134 Model Aviation H PELK PIPE ________________________ THE EASIEST& LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET SIGNIFICANT P0 WER BOOST WI TH MUFFL ING unique slide valve design lets tune engine its peak power. right nowl Right field Just warm-up slide adjusting wire highest rpm Isee instructionsl tighten lock screw go 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B-29 abound Before Tinian Saipan first raids mounted India Yawata Steel Works desperation grosses such flights doubt Paul big birds skimmed ground flat out mile upon mile anything went wrong engine instant fireball Tail gunners watch streaming oil density pilot could assess situa tion own AMA Executive Director John Worth can tell about No military airplane paragon virtue what true probably true now Note flew lightplanes must resist alas writing novel Suf fice say Paul Ukranian terrible place Stalin days 20s family managed get UShis dad disappearing evening join crowd welcomed Lindbergh LeBourget Pauls youth spent seamy side Brooklyn city some strange reason probably gave us three times talented famous mod elers other United States Dont argue Youll lose Having seen model planes fly Russia six years age well before Lindbergh would later street kid hang around Airhop * * Long Engine Life * * Use BRU LINE Air Cleaner $225 $225 $195 $195 pars Glider Club Brooklyn observing stitching doping discovered model plane department Bloomingdales Department Store NY someone gave him Zaic Year Book Frank Zaic led out wilderness lifetime writings Years later Paul gravi tated Haaren Aero Trades New York dreams becoming chanic Hanren famous its aviation classes Ben Wachs fine chanical drawing teacher fortunately us pointed him direction technical illustrating pretty quick order discovered JASCO Indoor balsa sorts contests Bill Winter says Paul knowing too fumbling along two us dis covering Bill Barnes Air Adventurer mag azine same day $30 per week editor John DuBarry quit since wandered day John took reception room meet visitor named Plecan crude him threeview said Would buy Yes seemed good answer As write now Paul drawing plans Top Elite klts also selling own Plan Packets have front now No 4 consisting Page Racer side Sperry Messenger other Messenger 32 Page 31 course both beautifully drawn detailed basically sturdy Rubber jobs readily converted enlarged kind model DUAL PERSONAUTY TRAINER GEMINIS BEAUTIFUL SUPER CHAMP -DEALER DISTRIBU0R INQUIRIES INVITED WS 54 20-35ENGINES 3 CHANNEL THE BEGINNERS KITTEN AND EXPERTS TIGER Revolutionary snap wing eliminates bolts rubber bands Complete kit 554 95 dealer direct GEMINI MODELS INC P 0 Boc 1168 Pssoc NJ 07006 takes fancy full-size Messenger tiny equal-span biplane cute bug landed purpose down- town Washington DC street front steps government building Teterboro sod two-runway field reachable dusty roads Tony Fokker Atlantic Aviation built F-7 F- 10 trimotors four-engine F-32 Universals Super Universals assorted im pressive experimental jobs military con tract competitionsamphibs bombers di rigible fighters etc played hookey ride bike 20 miles gawk always Messenger hanging raf ters Page know special parasol Hawk souped up entered US Navy Thompson flown Lt Page crashed less mystenous reasons structural carbon monoxide etc Plecans plan sheets measure 22 x 34 comes avery long text about prototype plane build model Paul 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MUFFLERS ENGINE MOUNTS ENGINE TESTING EQUIP SCALE ACCESSORIES SMOKE KITS ETC Send $100 Catalog 2 column took 23 daysalso Purple lan 1 hairy-dog stories han usual know stick ime Upbeat ly-August issue lirborne Australian model magazine ublished 10-pager yours truly Bill Ialuf put both us cover ront National Center Aeromod ling AMA HQ Merv Buckmaster pub isher/editor reports circulation umped Says everyone reaching Airborne out curiosity thinks due o break series ofglainor faces [he two us total 135 years okes about two kangaroos over As George Perryman quips Old tge treachery will overcome youth kill bikinis Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 IMAAIBeckman Continued page 30 zatch surplus sunshine hold antil can drain off harmlessly iave times basin six right feet under water doesnt hap pen very often however rest time big open area inside largest cities world first visit Sepulveda over 30 years ago long Free Flight site local RCers starting use also lot difference between days Since time city has developed lot area parks being model flying field As understand city provided land some help local fliers paid improvements did lot work now have beautiful flying site large paved runway paved pit area taxiways picnic benches large grassed areas made possible buried sprinkler system delightful place extra-long weekend Giant Scale activities weather treated us pretty well year some heavy rain earlier week unusual time year spared four days festival What did get unusually high humidity wife Evelyn looking forward dry 800 weather remem bered past years going nice break constant 900 90o humidity days have live through summer Washington DC area didnt quite get balmy days looking wasnt bad enough seriously affect fun lot showed up join fun dont know final official count Sunday morning 212 registrants 250 300 aircraft wasnt past years respectable turnout location Some early estimates much larger attendance apparently based emotion logic An event like held West Coast isnt likely have draw East Coast location simply because difference population density Central locations have great est potential course because modelers areas usually can will attend dont feel big number important thing however Its important Giant Scale modeler get reasonable opportunity attend Big Bird Bashes least once few years Lets keep moving FFF around country worry too much about attendance records case high early estimates served scare some people off talked Continued page 140 HUCK WOOD dank Clark CHICK IS MISSING NERES WHERE WE HIT _ HES GOT BE NEARBrI CLOUD HE WAS HERE \ STOLE LOTS OF FUELIBUT ILL CIRCLE WIDER IN CASE -f IF RUN LOWJ fM HOPING HE S DOwN 1HLRE SOMEWHERE MELL SEE ME 50014 AND _ 4ND HEARS UE ME- __ 4 iS lONE p! CANT RAISE T AND OMIGOD THAT HER ON MYSITSJ THERES LITTLE WITCH! EITHERBHE M Sk4OtED OUT! DUE WIN yAWI4OURP T2I 0 C EMOPE January1985 137 Kill