Just for the Fun of It

Bill Winter _____fi Just Fun o t WHO IS BURIED Grants tomb Groucho Marx asked losers quiz program Some didnt know know guy kid flew Control Line front quite story John Morrill modeling life few-years-older neighbor Gerald Turner built first model airplane during mid-Forties still dont know fell love hobby did perplexes you look back steady string failures get models fly Both lived Burlington VT deeply wished teacher least contest attend moved New York dad went graduate school kid used open fields country life move seemed disaster lived close Grants Tomb upper Riverside Dr New York began build Control Line models could fly Youd get up early morning fly planes concrete area front tomb remember policeman beat unstated agreement would catch until put three four flights would throw out summer went back Vermont tried make Free Flight model fly will never forget day happened remain hooked day grace beauty Free Flight Youve built CL jobs spent lot time RC neither gives satisfaction well-trimmed FF quietly joining Mother Nature produce floating sculpture Now thing making engines Old-Timer fliers proud Simplex Hornet 19 have sold over 400 date think best market its purpose also produce superb high-tech winder superior front end serious Rubber mod elers So sit back John listen. Bear mind Simplex Hornet truly old-fashioned spark-ignition sideport engine goes back 45 years Yet today will turn Rev-Up 10-4 9000 rpm 9-4 11500 8-4 14000 7-4 15500 Zingers 8600 10300 13200 14800 respectively Morrill doubts can get better performance best Bantam Arden equal Arden extraordinary because potent lightweight Arden perhaps first modern engines 3600 porting compared oncepopular sideports Brown Ju nior famous early example Accord ing Morrill several people including Sal Taibi able use full power 30 Model Aviation Storm Hawk sport-type Rubber model John Morrill appears have stabilizer pivots downward dethermalizing clever solution on-the-bottom stabs John makes enginesand hasfiown plentyof Cland RC hethinksof beloved Free Flightsasflying sculptures As kid flew Control Line models frontof GrantsTomb New YorkCity Left John Morrill seems having fun assembling batch Simplex Hornet 19 spark-ignition engines Old-Timer buffs Right fruit toils sparker old tradition Its improved version Paul Lindbergs engine plans 1940 edition Popular Aviation Morrills re-work sideport design matches performance good Bantam Arden Simplex Hornet cabin designs Mor nhs fuel Aerodyne Low Octane mix Hobby Horn yields 500 rpm standard 31 mix 70weight oil lubricant must pe troleum oil synthetic rpm tests made 700F 40% humidity sea level built models 50 60 years ago will know Hall Famer Joe Ott inspired modelers across nation wonderful series rubber-powered mod els mostly Scale old Popular viadon title what now Flying Magazine Joe succeeded chap appropriately named Paul Lindberg designs resembled fondly-remembered Cleveland Master Scale jobs superior flight performance During 1940 Lindberg published two engine con struction articles first Hornet followed Hornet Class C both totally different supposes en gines must have serious limitations Morrill liked Hornet decided manufacture corrected two serious engineering flaws substandard compression ratio its day another exhaust gases passed back through sideport intake John redesigned Hornet power easier manufacturing retain spirit Old-Timer movement retained sideport layout baffled piston goal equal surpass Ohlsson 19 succeeded No castings used crankcase example machined extrusion engine cannot called Lindberg 19 Morrill states Lindberg must credited inspiration present engine choose believe Morrill After finish Purple Plan Rookie Enya 60 four-cycle hope improve upon own Old Square Sides Antique SAM ap proved using Simplex Hornet 19 day tricky advertising claims am hard-core cynic Show Morrills printed description engine made run isnt selling message sounds like Peter Chinn thorough eminently knowledgeable am impressed tender rebirth what evidently potentially great engine long ago contemplated photo John shop dont think Id hesitate buy used auto him see yourself obtain literature John Morrill Simplex Miniature En gines 143 Richmond St El Segundo CA 90245 Considering almost custom-made enginesmy impression price doesnt floor engines mass-production cost much often great deal Tis neither nor guy did fly models front Grants Tomb Southerner returns few issues back showed two photos HA Thomas Southerner now tatters attic number readers wrote After readers delighted informing Winter hed caught shortin connection two pictures printed column mentioning Thomas Southerner FF foran Arden 09 published October 1949 Air Trails happy reprint plans sent John Morrill Winter says Southerner warms heart textbook example design good plane Thomas has quite touch nice lines March 1985 31 I~0 ~ U sum Tor wflats name text RE Gibbs genuine artist-type says friends call Lump prefers Sopendecker Thats snow ship sitting 24 last January picture taken Winter says likes beautiful planes Stik-type things also turn him onprobably because helped start Stik saga publishing Grid Leaks original Phil Kraft read Gibbs text After 30 years Inactivity Bruce Augustus went Old-Timer bananas left Bruce silk-covered Comet Zipper powered Ohlsson 23 front-rotor Winter says certain magazine article really O&R 33 Above ship launched Augustus second time around friend gave him Buzzard Bombshell kit challenge build Love pilotand get hat Both pictures Karen Gutierry LI delightful airplane published October 1949 issue Air Trails fact modest Thomas didnt point out Its amazing people dug through back issues find plans certainly must have impact its time recalled plans Free Flight Arden 09 lovely low-wing twin-tailed ship epitome beauty skillful design cant imag ine beautiful RC version scaled please such 1 9-powered sixfooter would vision flight no doubt fine soarer textbook-perfect design both structurally aerodynamically ex ample note shallow sheet sides graceful tall formers just three sturdy stringers simple gear mount open-frame single-spar wing capped ribs D-tube leading edge Both wing stab set positive anglebut angular difference hands-off stabilitygiving slight downthrust effect low thrust line close center drag trim changes RC would minimal Offset toed-in fins also used such greats Hank Cole flying wing glider tend produce straight flight aft end yawed can visualize relative angle attack fins Balloon busting practiced western Texas snaps Jerry Farr Usually balloons 1 0-ft tether first shot typical Texas zephyr lays balloons ground daring pilot cant nerve up skimming grass Aeromaster low balloons pop up unexpected lullno telling silly spheres will go Finally about 300-ft tether time Roger Cerillis Aeromaster shows close can get still hit Busting balloon hard winning lotteryand can get addicted 32 Model Aviation Gus Munich likes pop open eyeglass case engine collectors meetings show own miniature engines Inspired RayArdens lost miniatures inside case L-R 020 ignition sideport make own spark plug half-size Mills diesel 012 displacement 010 look-alike Atom ignition Actually small Jgnition engines arent practical due weight coil condenser battery Right Gus Munich used two hardwood plates Va-in ball bearings Zapped place nylon gears 571 reduction drive 17-8 Giant Scale size prop converted folder Rubberband holds blades extended switch power blades folded can utter chaos Playboy uses 1 0-mm charge 0-mm flight reaching about 1500 ft process Paul Fishers Peerless Panther December1979 MA plans Doc Mathews flies well Electric Astro geared 05 11-7 prop pictured wIth 13-8 ship iswhite red trim black line around cowl arent low-wing Electrics understand what happens quote Thomas 1949 opening Few modelers realize extent average contest model overpowered Never appreciating fact responsible critical adjustments numerous crack-ups assume criterion Free Flight Gas modeling reaction con firmed Control Line fliers especially What screaming power spins outof-sight flights no wonder stick tethered flight What modelers miss out entirely sport gas job designed built solely pleasure fly ing true now beauty flight depends flying wing engine course like aerobatics power burn tuned pipes hot fuels must way life know well anyone else power has its place too often gets wrong places recall lecture modelers NACA engineer 1939 posed astounding observation hot Free Flight ships proportionally 60 times power P-40 Picture P-40 75000-hp engine Look through page ads youll find nice Bleriotover powered least several times big Schnuerle engine Louis spinning grave could have zapped English Channel nothing flat Wasp front streaming tatters wood fabric way continuously rolling night mare torque perhaps Bleriot would have escaped gravitymans first satellite can see now Southerner same size climbed great rate old 09 some guys would call underpowered 05 25 Ill meet halfway actually like Ugly Stiks often see pleasure flying truly clever machines very slight dihedral could draw deep breath occasionally power mid dle recommended displacement range Im afraid Stik suspect thousands scared death planes fly like airplanes Laser fine So T-Craft Like East West shall never meet interest has peaked credit card ad says Bruce Augustus Bruce rolling Old-Timer clover letterhead logo Augustus Airlines So guy asking sorts questions about old WOG published Air Trails kitted Megow collecting using funny old engines evidently owning airline Whats Augustus Airlines asked him Augustus Airlines proves air charter service operating out Sun Valley under Part 135 Fed Av Regs have V-tailed Bonanza Piper Sene call six-placer turbo de-icer have keep wings level being airline pilot sol get kicks models Hes returned modeling after lapse 30 years 1953 began building Megow WOG tough Ambroid accepted aero engineering Cornell Continued page 34 March 1985 33 Built covered flown feeling Park Flemings gorgeous Proctor Antic Saito 30 four-stroke Neat side mount Saito reveals simple sturdy construction plywood Rubberbanded place Kraft tank mounted vertically teed line needle valve prop Top Flite 1 0-6 bit much equivalent two-stroke Noting screw fill line its possible seals after filling have what essentially two-line system People appreciate four-cycles sound Pictures H Thomas Tiny engine near-delta happens Quadra Prop turns mid-wing slotnote shadow underneath does flip prop fantastic flier low-speed approaches made ungodly nose-high attitudehard believe Builder unknown Thomas plc Bruce begins folks retired Florida interested AE models told get rid workshop Regrets saved McCoy 29 Mills 13 Super Cyke Forster 29 RC receiver built Ed Lorenz plans Au Mills two sizes easy-starting smoothrunning imperishable low-power die sel made England recent ly India twas first diesel could start memorable Forster 29 perhaps best-made ignition engine overlapping WW II period much demand through about 1950 1983 friend gave original Buzzard Bombshell challenged build Augustus continues end tale now have 12 OldTimer Free Flights RC-assist models andover 40 OT engines Ijust acquired original Megow WOG kit perfect con dition Before put Uber Skiver balsa few questions freewheel get ques tions about airplane must mystery ship Briefly planked fuselage streamlined shoulder-wing ship polyhedral NACA 6409 airfoil Free Flighters favorite days Vagabond Strucks New Ruler non-lifting tail thin symmetrical stab section top wing sheeted efficiency strength planked fuselage syndrome may go back Leo Weiss magnificent Texaco winner St Louis Nats well before tke war likes Jim Cahills super Wakefield Thirties Clodhopper Megow WOG kit terrible wood over-thick stringy very heavy got wing down tight turn well stayed Ohlsson 23 en closed rather bulbous profile front end hence name WOG sport-flown less full power enjoyed its very fine glide People think nostalgia-period airplane because published 1944 SAM-ap proved SAM Society Antique Modelers Old-Timer airplane before 1942 cutoff date No WOG cant stand up postwar Civy Boy Ramrod former Paul Gilliam masterpiece balanced razors edgeat 110% typo chord Paul often paid price St Jeans Ramrod heck competi tor Hogan tradition still sensa tional machine Like others Bruce wants climb WOG straight up No athousand times no machine must flown under power wide fast circle exactly way Korda flew Powerhouse Korda good altitude after 180 turn Bruce asks good enough build FF competitions should make RC-assist Ive pix WOGs RC fun Old-Timers guys want Old-Timers FF competition build Vagabond could compete Sailplanes too SAMapproved Old-Timer Old Square Continued page 36 34 Model Aviation VIDkU PROGRA. 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David G Manley must decry loss several FF CL columns various modeling magazines Though fly primarily RC Gliders edays Sailplanes start model ing about 30 years ago FF CL though theres no CL little FF activity immediate area Im again considering building Nobler A-2 Point would hope AMA will least remind beginners entry mod eling need require seven channels balsa forest deed gas farm Publications should devote substantive coverage big kid block just hope MA will continue give guidance support contests fun-flying et al CL andFF justwantedtoventabitAu WenoteDaves use ofthe word continue connection MA worry Paul Fisher amused re marks about depth perception flying RCamen glasses dear wifes spotting much easier fly full-size thing Au Depth perception talking about lone oak tree Round Swampwhich everyone eventual ly hit including airline fighter pilots models always much farther away perceive higher maybe business seeing blob foolish far-out base legyouve gotta theorize what next have enjoying modeling 45 years off During late teens Paul continues lean out FF activitiestoo expensive kept flying away Now electric-powered flight has recent interest Enclosed picture DB Mathews Panther Au believe Docs reborn Peerless Astro 05 gear drive allows slow reflexes enough time keep up whats Continued Page 119 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MASIER AIRSCREW 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 GIF 1/2A 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 HAWKER SEA FURY FB MK11 77 Span th 695 Wing Area 1120 Sq B uiltUp c5onstruction Deluxe Custom Kit $27500 Includes Spinner Tank Plan Pack $7800 P47 THUNDEBOLT 81-5 Span th 70 Area 1200 SQ t-Up 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balloon maximize passes should try three-channel cabin can twist turnon dime late Jack Port National Champ rudder-only days simultaneous session lone balloon about 50 ft high Selinsgrove PA ye pioneers gathered once year like fur trappers Jacksons Hole Jack splattered pieces good 100 ft Well Ive holding some marginal snaps much too long friend Jerry Fan Maybe should see So heres Jerry no Jerry dont have 2year lead time Just note Jerry said about some west Texas fun stuff Tie helium balloons l0-ft-long string try hit balloon planeaint easy Au Yeah man Thats man few words short tether todays straight-in bombskies must bubble-headed variation limbo-pole act eyeglass case nonchalantly pop open go engine collectors meetings just fun pictures show 010 configured just like Atom second 020size ignition sideport has brass spinner tank venturi exhaust stack make own spark plugs two engines thread 6-40 -in hex third half-size replica Mills 045 Diesel one-quarter volume made casting glven small ignition engines really practical explains Gus due size coil condenser batteries halfsize Mills replica good Walnut-size models have also built two smaller diesels 008 006but have unable get run So far have built about 30 engines castings bar stock built using 6-in Atlas lathe 3in Unimat both attachments Gus builds clever models well Id like know about al though cant use pix two recent Old-Timers 1940s Ohlsson 60 ignition-powered cabin job Toughie MAN construction mm mm mm mm mm mm m m mm mm mm m I 1Jr Aviator Program Questionnaire Club/Individual NameI 2 Address/District I II I___________________________________ II 4I _______________________________ II II 6 Are Presently Active AMA Adopt-A-School Program I 7 Would Willing Work Interested Youths Building Flying Rubber-Powered Models Control Line Models Simple Gliders Note See Post serzptI 8 Why Wt tn Hpln9___________________________________________ 9 Would Willing Offer Youth-Oriented Flying Contests Promote Lessons Phone Number Area code Members Would Like Assist Present Club Youth Programs Within Area____________________________ Arden miniatures recent article Ray Arden miniatures prompted take some pictures few miniature engines have built says Gus Munich coordinator MECAModel Engine Collectors Assn Ive always fascinated tiny Ray Arden engines As collector has always dream find Rays missing miniatures disappeared after death hear used carry around old eye glass case show people Well thats what I put some miniatures old Good 10 Areas Modeling Interest within Club 11 Are Willing See Program succeed Through Hard Work Continued Interest Required 12 Any Special Youth Requirements Area I I I I IReturn Geoff Styles Director Public Relations Academy Model AeronautIcs 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm m March1985 119 Engines Engineered Meet Demands Most Discriminating Modeler Backed Service Match Engines Have Points Easy Starting SACHSDOL MAR 31 5OHP-BIbs11 oz 28500 31 O IwIth Muffler SACHSDOL MAR 37 65 HP-S lbs 15 os 325w 34500 WIth Muff len *KIORITZ 24 *The Work Horse *32HP-6/slbs * 169~ * ct Sales Only COBRA *The New Standard *For Giant Models * 31 HP 5A lbs * 149~ * Direct Sales Only ALL ENGINES READY TO RUN INCLUDING 6 BOLT PROP HUB MOUNT AND MOUNTING BOLT MUFFLERS AVAILABLE AT EXTRA CHARGE 857 High Mountain Rd North Haledon NJ 07508 article second Gooseneck pylon FF electric-powered using Robbe EF76 361 gear ratio Top Flite 14-6 Turns 4600 rpm 12 Sanyo cells Both RC-assist fly great Some folks tinker Some fly Few tinkerem much flying Gus inveterate tinkerer forever flying test/fun ships aniazes man has done much Electrics can go virtual ly unnoticed Tinkerer Flier Plainview Hicksville area Long Island still potato farms succession yearly sites farms lay bare housing developments Gus cooked up reed radio vibrating leaves stock tin think Gus five reeds connected rudder After work hed fly old Cox 010 Lightning Bug backyard wearing out four engines process Ive just digging through reams letters about ongoing Electric stuff June 1983 told getting 10-mm flights off 10-mm charge day long eventually got down 300 sq old FFs high gear ratios huge folding props 05 Electric guys will dig windy Saturday gave oppor tunity make 57-to-i gear box Leisure LT 50 flew 17-8 folder Au Thats standard-size Quar ter Scale wood prop gear box hardwood spacers -in ball bearings Zapped place Ten flights Performance 2100 rpm six cells plane climbs about same altitude 10-mm charge 10-6 11-7 11-7or l1-6onthe2to-i gear ratio think see light plane weighs certain amount rises say 1500 ft certain amount potential energy So put certain amount energy six cells charging energy results climb equal potential energy clear now no magic involved Gold whar find wish done book called Purple Plan 1 PP-i gluing piece two night big trouble PP-2 incidentally trying make up mind what make next PP-i underground going full tilt Don Srull cheats used expand produc tion sly way add dozen making Anyhooo give RE Gibbs Somewhere read Gibbs begins purpose art make viewer reader aware what knows does nt know knows Since latest col umn October MA obviously written personally just obviously represents piece writers art rather writers craft Im referring course Purple Plan 1 PP2 et al After 1934 beginning modeling have exposed arcane meanderings imposed faithful hobby spelled out column latest layoff lasted about six years ended early 1983 saw heard first four-stroke Nothing would except trade old Orbit single stick new Ace Silver Seven drag junk attic studio Again old problems along delights surface again As socalled fine art painter means Im selfemployed paint what wish try sell paint what someone else wishes guess Im coarse art painter crazy la bels self-discipline order day absolutely necessary paint day Muse rebuffed wanders off sulk among old brass deBolt fuel tanks framed Westland Widgeon Swaneys old MAN framed own desigu OS 10 model mags gaps back 1929 large pile must plans gradually surely being converted mouse dirt No doubt about Purple Plan 1 answer Aha Muse looks quizzically direction under snippit silver Permagloss PP1 Mr Winter formal respect has falling rain simplicity Great Thought thank have made modeling enjoyable again What Muse really really dislikes Gibbs revs up fallout PP2 expression pure disgust picks way through unfinished fore PP1 projects collecting dust 50 ] d S100in Cash Check Stamps 32 Page Tabloid size illustrated DISCOUNT Catalog Sent 1st Class Mail COMET COX FLYLINE- FOX GOLDBERG GUILLOWS JETCO K&B- PACTRA PECK POLYMER PERFECT- SIG STERLING ULLIVAN TOP FLITE & OTHERS PENN VALLEY HOllY CENTER 837 1 Main St LandaisFa 19441 120 Model Aviation w TMGM MFG Phone 1-201-427-3845 MACKEYS TRADE WIND KITE CO P0 Box 2698 Mission Viejo CA 92690 Modelers like TRADE WIND practice Light strong winds stable maneuverable Complete kit includes Ripsiop Nylon sail Key lar non-stretch lines handle/reel Fokker Drl screenprinted Red$2695 Sopwith 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days MARCH 29 30 & 31 Advance tickets may ordered sending large selfaddressed-stamped envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 Include check money order made payable Weak Signals R/O Club must please indicate expo days tickets used Prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under tickets along program will mailed back March 10 1985 Presented by Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO studio Hand-Launched Gilder framed 15in Rubber Piper Super Cruiser Mooney MAN framed Peck Pietenpol Peanut allbalsa Malibu Slope job tail-dragger OS 10 own-design shoulder wing sketched 1 920s lightplaneprob ably British 0S 10 framed Balsa USA Tempo OS F540 afore mentioned Widgeon 6-ft three chan nels 0S F561 feel very very good PP 1 will finished Someday four-strokes having punched start button again have spent enough guilt-ridden time ready three projects fly regularly 18year-old Mayfly design published MAN 1966 Ace SS R&E Cox Med 049 glow Davis Diesel mood hits Two Doc Mathews Kloud King Cox Black Widow R&E Cannon two-channel brick built nonstop start finish way go winter last year hopelessly snowed week live farm Three quickbuilding botch-up designed utilize 600 sq wing found growing attic Ace SS RET 56 oz Went together real fast no wing build hence name Teasum Three Evenings Saturday Until Mid night Started life OS 25 FSRon glow 10-4 prop gets off ground about 4 ft real pussycat air Switched Davis Diesel head 11-4 prop everything before except takeoff run stretched out about 15 ft Flying past six months Saito 30 four-stroke better before takeoff run now about 30 ft 10-6 prop Saito tachs about 7500 rpm should last forever Idles full tank out 1200 rpm tached 600 pops per minute Lovely little gem club York Area RC Club Inc adds about three four new members month total membership about 90 makes Kamikaze-style weekends dont really enjoy other photographing mayhem time time prefer Wednesday mornings company couple retired guys dont need PP 1 Fly 9 am until 2 3 afternoon No crowd no problems just set own pacefun year round January ther mometer 240 guarantee have field ourselves have field house facilities making coffee winter affairs series Keystone Cops routines Get field frantically transfer junk trunk flight line rip field house coffee Thoroughly enjoy brilliant companionship coffee until some idiot suggests time fly Dash out flight line start engine Adjust needle valve bit rich hopes engine will quit after about minute air No luck Blasted thing never ran better Must have up 15 mm least Feet cold Only four minutes Are kidding dont believe Confounded four-strokes run forever Ah Lloyd landing Ill sneak right behind him Oh nohes just doing touch-and-go swear nose frozen Bob walking across field transmitter AhaLloyd down safe ly Ill macho thing make circuit before landing Lloyd just ran field house What Bob doing other side field come across edge field Putt putt putt Home again Bob looking airplane-shaped hole snowbank Better help Bob Left hand numb Bob has right arm airplane-shaped hole shoulder Says cant feel anything Nei ther can Right foot just went out Bob now airplane-shaped hole head-first visible waist down Looks funny too cold laugh Might break some thing Lloyd joins us wants know what Bob doing cant answer because dont know what Bob doing As matter fact cant see Bob eyes watering badly cant see Lloyd Lloyd leads back field house Well go back Bob later After cup coffee Ah can see again maybe notsnowman walks stiff-legged through field house Its carrying Bobs aglet Its Bob have coffee lie about much fun having Much serious discussion results opinion must fly snowbanks make sure flying high-drag dirty model dont penetrate far Lloyd Continued page 124 March 1985 121 serve March 2930 &31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show See latest greatest radio control equip ment presented leading nc man ufac turers Talk notable nc personalities Fun/Winter Continued page 121 suggests go flying Bob pelt him foam coffee cups now 10 oclock Ill never make till two goes 52 weeks per year Weather permitting Muse now sprawled over old Min-X GG-1 transmitter Rand actuator making Zs So much art old rig still works adds fuel PP2 mess Lloyd has also talk about building couple pulse rudder/throttle things time machines hesitate As wife says cant go home again can visit neighbors dont take too seriously because also calls Quarter Scale models quarter pounders Well see Sorry thing has gotten completely out hand Gibbs dead-sticks tramps over attempt simple thank letter really what intended have sorry feeling todays RCers aware tantaliz ing mistique small man-made flying things Sportsmen rather modelers rate remind us older kids feeling lost among nutsand-bolts words published. Now hear As fellow member NYRC read great interest ar tide Arcola International Decem ber issue Model Aviation changes field over past year have nothing short amazing majority improvements ie bulletin board re-gravelling parking lot gravel boxes flight line refurbishing transmitter impound flowers reseeding have ac complished stalwart efforts Fred Locks 1984 NVRC vice-president son Sean hardest part labor im mediately evidentthe lobbying funds accomplish feats along others feel labors should acknowledged IS/David Beazley NVRC secretary 1985 Au Fred isa quiet frail guy white hair Ive talked him went about never-ending labors counterparts deserve medal Correction address Frank Macy re-creator Jim Walkers catapult 404 Interceptor other models A-J Fun Pak PO Box 545 Oregon City ORnot shown column last month Also see A-J Fun Pak ads issue flying season ended way began lovely long thermal flight Vagabond Old-Timer Just right lift hold altitude Such inner glow wonders guess Fun Objective Subjective airplane constantly impose will asserts its liberty doing its own beautiful thing Circling silently high graceful trance-like Surely epitome flying pinnacle full-scale model Beholding am subconscious bird watcher Hawks buzzards pelicans frigate birds word Au dubon Preserve species Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Faitfax VA 22030 Don Kichot/Miller Continued page 29 upside-down wing tips small ring fitted rubberbands will help attaching wing hooks engine wasstarted first flying session firstthingwe noticed unusual noise may caused shape prop nearness prop trailing edge wing both sound unique will attract attention regardless what other plane flying time Enya 40 four-cycle likes 1 5%-nitro fuel will fly 5% though wont have quite same speed zip found out used 5% mistake wondered performance drop ped off much however still able stunt model model stable flight once has trimmed-out found best trim the-elevator up top horizontal tail looked flat like inverted lifting section start neutral elevator allow plenty trim Don Kichot model has character istic found very-high-thrustline models full-size aircraft throttle retarded quickly model will rear up advanced rapidly will pitch nose-down either case trim returns normal soon speed has stabil ized new throttle setting correc tion best made elevator control stick throttle moved slowly pitching noticeable no time pitching real problem except worth remembering very low slow pass will land quickly advance throttle Neither full-size prototype nor model intended aerobatic ever know few modelers can resist little bit extrovert flying model has tested few maneuvers model will loop quite well though little extra speed helps will reasonable slow roll will roll off top loop Stall turns really nice positive Spins easy recovery immediate release controls Negative-G ma neuvers should attempted serious risk wings pulliAg out model easy build unusual see flight ground true scale model does require truck hauling will rupture you pick up does need degree aeronautical engineering build will fly up half-hour 8 oz fuel What else say 124 Model Aviation CLEVELAND GIANTSI MEW FOR GIANTICALE BUFFS Worlds Largest Gas Plans AssQrtnqeee INTRNA7IONALLY FAMOUS CD QUAUt9 MASTER MOGOLS PLANS 54SDOeneieellO 21 54 7t0Ceeeel Con TEYSA $42 72 Con 0261/4 L&S $46 104 Con Con PBY5A $56 63 Honnond too lIne $45 96 Wnight-Nenytooe 84877 oeins 517G Font 835. 52 W-Wnnet2t Red 1036 103 Roe E-t7G Font $55 77W-Wne131 ted 1 $4868 Odos 046A Ott. $32 86 Fobben 77 9n $39 108 Simon S3R Aenpln $49 60 ttotoond Fete Rote 53260 Roe 100 Spent $36 oylee Gte-S. 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Bill Winter _____fi Just Fun o t WHO IS BURIED Grants tomb Groucho Marx asked losers quiz program Some didnt know know guy kid flew Control Line front quite story John Morrill modeling life few-years-older neighbor Gerald Turner built first model airplane during mid-Forties still dont know fell love hobby did perplexes you look back steady string failures get models fly Both lived Burlington VT deeply wished teacher least contest attend moved New York dad went graduate school kid used open fields country life move seemed disaster lived close Grants Tomb upper Riverside Dr New York began build Control Line models could fly Youd get up early morning fly planes concrete area front tomb remember policeman beat unstated agreement would catch until put three four flights would throw out summer went back Vermont tried make Free Flight model fly will never forget day happened remain hooked day grace beauty Free Flight Youve built CL jobs spent lot time RC neither gives satisfaction well-trimmed FF quietly joining Mother Nature produce floating sculpture Now thing making engines Old-Timer fliers proud Simplex Hornet 19 have sold over 400 date think best market its purpose also produce superb high-tech winder superior front end serious Rubber mod elers So sit back John listen. Bear mind Simplex Hornet truly old-fashioned spark-ignition sideport engine goes back 45 years Yet today will turn Rev-Up 10-4 9000 rpm 9-4 11500 8-4 14000 7-4 15500 Zingers 8600 10300 13200 14800 respectively Morrill doubts can get better performance best Bantam Arden equal Arden extraordinary because potent lightweight Arden perhaps first modern engines 3600 porting compared oncepopular sideports Brown Ju nior famous early example Accord ing Morrill several people including Sal Taibi able use full power 30 Model Aviation Storm Hawk sport-type Rubber model John Morrill appears have stabilizer pivots downward dethermalizing clever solution on-the-bottom stabs John makes enginesand hasfiown plentyof Cland RC hethinksof beloved Free Flightsasflying sculptures As kid flew Control Line models frontof GrantsTomb New YorkCity Left John Morrill seems having fun assembling batch Simplex Hornet 19 spark-ignition engines Old-Timer buffs Right fruit toils sparker old tradition Its improved version Paul Lindbergs engine plans 1940 edition Popular Aviation Morrills re-work sideport design matches performance good Bantam Arden Simplex Hornet cabin designs Mor nhs fuel Aerodyne Low Octane mix Hobby Horn yields 500 rpm standard 31 mix 70weight oil lubricant must pe troleum oil synthetic rpm tests made 700F 40% humidity sea level built models 50 60 years ago will know Hall Famer Joe Ott inspired modelers across nation wonderful series rubber-powered mod els mostly Scale old Popular viadon title what now Flying Magazine Joe succeeded chap appropriately named Paul Lindberg designs resembled fondly-remembered Cleveland Master Scale jobs superior flight performance During 1940 Lindberg published two engine con struction articles first Hornet followed Hornet Class C both totally different supposes en gines must have serious limitations Morrill liked Hornet decided manufacture corrected two serious engineering flaws substandard compression ratio its day another exhaust gases passed back through sideport intake John redesigned Hornet power easier manufacturing retain spirit Old-Timer movement retained sideport layout baffled piston goal equal surpass Ohlsson 19 succeeded No castings used crankcase example machined extrusion engine cannot called Lindberg 19 Morrill states Lindberg must credited inspiration present engine choose believe Morrill After finish Purple Plan Rookie Enya 60 four-cycle hope improve upon own Old Square Sides Antique SAM ap proved using Simplex Hornet 19 day tricky advertising claims am hard-core cynic Show Morrills printed description engine made run isnt selling message sounds like Peter Chinn thorough eminently knowledgeable am impressed tender rebirth what evidently potentially great engine long ago contemplated photo John shop dont think Id hesitate buy used auto him see yourself obtain literature John Morrill Simplex Miniature En gines 143 Richmond St El Segundo CA 90245 Considering almost custom-made enginesmy impression price doesnt floor engines mass-production cost much often great deal Tis neither nor guy did fly models front Grants Tomb Southerner returns few issues back showed two photos HA Thomas Southerner now tatters attic number readers wrote After readers delighted informing Winter hed caught shortin connection two pictures printed column mentioning Thomas Southerner FF foran Arden 09 published October 1949 Air Trails happy reprint plans sent John Morrill Winter says Southerner warms heart textbook example design good plane Thomas has quite touch nice lines March 1985 31 I~0 ~ U sum Tor wflats name text RE Gibbs genuine artist-type says friends call Lump prefers Sopendecker Thats snow ship sitting 24 last January picture taken Winter says likes beautiful planes Stik-type things also turn him onprobably because helped start Stik saga publishing Grid Leaks original Phil Kraft read Gibbs text After 30 years Inactivity Bruce Augustus went Old-Timer bananas left Bruce silk-covered Comet Zipper powered Ohlsson 23 front-rotor Winter says certain magazine article really O&R 33 Above ship launched Augustus second time around friend gave him Buzzard Bombshell kit challenge build Love pilotand get hat Both pictures Karen Gutierry LI delightful airplane published October 1949 issue Air Trails fact modest Thomas didnt point out Its amazing people dug through back issues find plans certainly must have impact its time recalled plans Free Flight Arden 09 lovely low-wing twin-tailed ship epitome beauty skillful design cant imag ine beautiful RC version scaled please such 1 9-powered sixfooter would vision flight no doubt fine soarer textbook-perfect design both structurally aerodynamically ex ample note shallow sheet sides graceful tall formers just three sturdy stringers simple gear mount open-frame single-spar wing capped ribs D-tube leading edge Both wing stab set positive anglebut angular difference hands-off stabilitygiving slight downthrust effect low thrust line close center drag trim changes RC would minimal Offset toed-in fins also used such greats Hank Cole flying wing glider tend produce straight flight aft end yawed can visualize relative angle attack fins Balloon busting practiced western Texas snaps Jerry Farr Usually balloons 1 0-ft tether first shot typical Texas zephyr lays balloons ground daring pilot cant nerve up skimming grass Aeromaster low balloons pop up unexpected lullno telling silly spheres will go Finally about 300-ft tether time Roger Cerillis Aeromaster shows close can get still hit Busting balloon hard winning lotteryand can get addicted 32 Model Aviation Gus Munich likes pop open eyeglass case engine collectors meetings show own miniature engines Inspired RayArdens lost miniatures inside case L-R 020 ignition sideport make own spark plug half-size Mills diesel 012 displacement 010 look-alike Atom ignition Actually small Jgnition engines arent practical due weight coil condenser battery Right Gus Munich used two hardwood plates Va-in ball bearings Zapped place nylon gears 571 reduction drive 17-8 Giant Scale size prop converted folder Rubberband holds blades extended switch power blades folded can utter chaos Playboy uses 1 0-mm charge 0-mm flight reaching about 1500 ft process Paul Fishers Peerless Panther December1979 MA plans Doc Mathews flies well Electric Astro geared 05 11-7 prop pictured wIth 13-8 ship iswhite red trim black line around cowl arent low-wing Electrics understand what happens quote Thomas 1949 opening Few modelers realize extent average contest model overpowered Never appreciating fact responsible critical adjustments numerous crack-ups assume criterion Free Flight Gas modeling reaction con firmed Control Line fliers especially What screaming power spins outof-sight flights no wonder stick tethered flight What modelers miss out entirely sport gas job designed built solely pleasure fly ing true now beauty flight depends flying wing engine course like aerobatics power burn tuned pipes hot fuels must way life know well anyone else power has its place too often gets wrong places recall lecture modelers NACA engineer 1939 posed astounding observation hot Free Flight ships proportionally 60 times power P-40 Picture P-40 75000-hp engine Look through page ads youll find nice Bleriotover powered least several times big Schnuerle engine Louis spinning grave could have zapped English Channel nothing flat Wasp front streaming tatters wood fabric way continuously rolling night mare torque perhaps Bleriot would have escaped gravitymans first satellite can see now Southerner same size climbed great rate old 09 some guys would call underpowered 05 25 Ill meet halfway actually like Ugly Stiks often see pleasure flying truly clever machines very slight dihedral could draw deep breath occasionally power mid dle recommended displacement range Im afraid Stik suspect thousands scared death planes fly like airplanes Laser fine So T-Craft Like East West shall never meet interest has peaked credit card ad says Bruce Augustus Bruce rolling Old-Timer clover letterhead logo Augustus Airlines So guy asking sorts questions about old WOG published Air Trails kitted Megow collecting using funny old engines evidently owning airline Whats Augustus Airlines asked him Augustus Airlines proves air charter service operating out Sun Valley under Part 135 Fed Av Regs have V-tailed Bonanza Piper Sene call six-placer turbo de-icer have keep wings level being airline pilot sol get kicks models Hes returned modeling after lapse 30 years 1953 began building Megow WOG tough Ambroid accepted aero engineering Cornell Continued page 34 March 1985 33 Built covered flown feeling Park Flemings gorgeous Proctor Antic Saito 30 four-stroke Neat side mount Saito reveals simple sturdy construction plywood Rubberbanded place Kraft tank mounted vertically teed line needle valve prop Top Flite 1 0-6 bit much equivalent two-stroke Noting screw fill line its possible seals after filling have what essentially two-line system People appreciate four-cycles sound Pictures H Thomas Tiny engine near-delta happens Quadra Prop turns mid-wing slotnote shadow underneath does flip prop fantastic flier low-speed approaches made ungodly nose-high attitudehard believe Builder unknown Thomas plc Bruce begins folks retired Florida interested AE models told get rid workshop Regrets saved McCoy 29 Mills 13 Super Cyke Forster 29 RC receiver built Ed Lorenz plans Au Mills two sizes easy-starting smoothrunning imperishable low-power die sel made England recent ly India twas first diesel could start memorable Forster 29 perhaps best-made ignition engine overlapping WW II period much demand through about 1950 1983 friend gave original Buzzard Bombshell challenged build Augustus continues end tale now have 12 OldTimer Free Flights RC-assist models andover 40 OT engines Ijust acquired original Megow WOG kit perfect con dition Before put Uber Skiver balsa few questions freewheel get ques tions about airplane must mystery ship Briefly planked fuselage streamlined shoulder-wing ship polyhedral NACA 6409 airfoil Free Flighters favorite days Vagabond Strucks New Ruler non-lifting tail thin symmetrical stab section top wing sheeted efficiency strength planked fuselage syndrome may go back Leo Weiss magnificent Texaco winner St Louis Nats well before tke war likes Jim Cahills super Wakefield Thirties Clodhopper Megow WOG kit terrible wood over-thick stringy very heavy got wing down tight turn well stayed Ohlsson 23 en closed rather bulbous profile front end hence name WOG sport-flown less full power enjoyed its very fine glide People think nostalgia-period airplane because published 1944 SAM-ap proved SAM Society Antique Modelers Old-Timer airplane before 1942 cutoff date No WOG cant stand up postwar Civy Boy Ramrod former Paul Gilliam masterpiece balanced razors edgeat 110% typo chord Paul often paid price St Jeans Ramrod heck competi tor Hogan tradition still sensa tional machine Like others Bruce wants climb WOG straight up No athousand times no machine must flown under power wide fast circle exactly way Korda flew Powerhouse Korda good altitude after 180 turn Bruce asks good enough build FF competitions should make RC-assist Ive pix WOGs RC fun Old-Timers guys want Old-Timers FF competition build Vagabond could compete Sailplanes too SAMapproved Old-Timer Old Square Continued page 36 34 Model Aviation VIDkU PROGRA. 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David G Manley must decry loss several FF CL columns various modeling magazines Though fly primarily RC Gliders edays Sailplanes start model ing about 30 years ago FF CL though theres no CL little FF activity immediate area Im again considering building Nobler A-2 Point would hope AMA will least remind beginners entry mod eling need require seven channels balsa forest deed gas farm Publications should devote substantive coverage big kid block just hope MA will continue give guidance support contests fun-flying et al CL andFF justwantedtoventabitAu WenoteDaves use ofthe word continue connection MA worry Paul Fisher amused re marks about depth perception flying RCamen glasses dear wifes spotting much easier fly full-size thing Au Depth perception talking about lone oak tree Round Swampwhich everyone eventual ly hit including airline fighter pilots models always much farther away perceive higher maybe business seeing blob foolish far-out base legyouve gotta theorize what next have enjoying modeling 45 years off During late teens Paul continues lean out FF activitiestoo expensive kept flying away Now electric-powered flight has recent interest Enclosed picture DB Mathews Panther Au believe Docs reborn Peerless Astro 05 gear drive allows slow reflexes enough time keep up whats Continued Page 119 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MASIER AIRSCREW 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 GIF 1/2A 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 HAWKER SEA FURY FB MK11 77 Span th 695 Wing Area 1120 Sq B uiltUp c5onstruction Deluxe Custom Kit $27500 Includes Spinner Tank Plan Pack $7800 P47 THUNDEBOLT 81-5 Span th 70 Area 1200 SQ t-Up 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balloon maximize passes should try three-channel cabin can twist turnon dime late Jack Port National Champ rudder-only days simultaneous session lone balloon about 50 ft high Selinsgrove PA ye pioneers gathered once year like fur trappers Jacksons Hole Jack splattered pieces good 100 ft Well Ive holding some marginal snaps much too long friend Jerry Fan Maybe should see So heres Jerry no Jerry dont have 2year lead time Just note Jerry said about some west Texas fun stuff Tie helium balloons l0-ft-long string try hit balloon planeaint easy Au Yeah man Thats man few words short tether todays straight-in bombskies must bubble-headed variation limbo-pole act eyeglass case nonchalantly pop open go engine collectors meetings just fun pictures show 010 configured just like Atom second 020size ignition sideport has brass spinner tank venturi exhaust stack make own spark plugs two engines thread 6-40 -in hex third half-size replica Mills 045 Diesel one-quarter volume made casting glven small ignition engines really practical explains Gus due size coil condenser batteries halfsize Mills replica good Walnut-size models have also built two smaller diesels 008 006but have unable get run So far have built about 30 engines castings bar stock built using 6-in Atlas lathe 3in Unimat both attachments Gus builds clever models well Id like know about al though cant use pix two recent Old-Timers 1940s Ohlsson 60 ignition-powered cabin job Toughie MAN construction mm mm mm mm mm mm m m mm mm mm m I 1Jr Aviator Program Questionnaire Club/Individual NameI 2 Address/District I II I___________________________________ II 4I _______________________________ II II 6 Are Presently Active AMA Adopt-A-School Program I 7 Would Willing Work Interested Youths Building Flying Rubber-Powered Models Control Line Models Simple Gliders Note See Post serzptI 8 Why Wt tn Hpln9___________________________________________ 9 Would Willing Offer Youth-Oriented Flying Contests Promote Lessons Phone Number Area code Members Would Like Assist Present Club Youth Programs Within Area____________________________ Arden miniatures recent article Ray Arden miniatures prompted take some pictures few miniature engines have built says Gus Munich coordinator MECAModel Engine Collectors Assn Ive always fascinated tiny Ray Arden engines As collector has always dream find Rays missing miniatures disappeared after death hear used carry around old eye glass case show people Well thats what I put some miniatures old Good 10 Areas Modeling Interest within Club 11 Are Willing See Program succeed Through Hard Work Continued Interest Required 12 Any Special Youth Requirements Area I I I I IReturn Geoff Styles Director Public Relations Academy Model AeronautIcs 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm m March1985 119 Engines Engineered Meet Demands Most Discriminating Modeler Backed Service Match Engines Have Points Easy Starting SACHSDOL MAR 31 5OHP-BIbs11 oz 28500 31 O IwIth 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Ive just digging through reams letters about ongoing Electric stuff June 1983 told getting 10-mm flights off 10-mm charge day long eventually got down 300 sq old FFs high gear ratios huge folding props 05 Electric guys will dig windy Saturday gave oppor tunity make 57-to-i gear box Leisure LT 50 flew 17-8 folder Au Thats standard-size Quar ter Scale wood prop gear box hardwood spacers -in ball bearings Zapped place Ten flights Performance 2100 rpm six cells plane climbs about same altitude 10-mm charge 10-6 11-7 11-7or l1-6onthe2to-i gear ratio think see light plane weighs certain amount rises say 1500 ft certain amount potential energy So put certain amount energy six cells charging energy results climb equal potential energy clear now no magic involved Gold whar find wish done book called Purple Plan 1 PP-i gluing piece two night big trouble PP-2 incidentally trying make up mind what make next PP-i underground going full tilt Don Srull cheats used expand produc tion sly way add dozen making Anyhooo give RE Gibbs Somewhere read Gibbs begins purpose art make viewer reader aware what knows does nt know knows Since latest col umn October MA obviously written personally just obviously represents piece writers art rather writers craft Im referring course Purple Plan 1 PP2 et al After 1934 beginning modeling have exposed arcane meanderings imposed faithful hobby spelled out column latest layoff lasted about six years ended early 1983 saw heard first four-stroke Nothing would except trade old Orbit single stick new Ace Silver Seven drag junk attic studio Again old problems along delights surface again As socalled fine art painter means Im selfemployed paint what wish try sell paint what someone else wishes guess Im coarse art painter crazy la bels self-discipline order day absolutely necessary paint day Muse rebuffed wanders off sulk among old brass deBolt fuel tanks framed Westland Widgeon Swaneys old MAN framed own desigu OS 10 model mags gaps back 1929 large pile must plans gradually surely being converted mouse dirt No doubt about Purple Plan 1 answer Aha Muse looks quizzically direction under snippit silver Permagloss PP1 Mr Winter formal respect has falling rain simplicity Great Thought thank have made modeling enjoyable again What Muse really really dislikes Gibbs revs up fallout PP2 expression pure disgust picks way through unfinished fore PP1 projects collecting dust 50 ] d S100in Cash Check Stamps 32 Page Tabloid size illustrated DISCOUNT Catalog Sent 1st Class Mail COMET COX FLYLINE- FOX GOLDBERG GUILLOWS JETCO K&B- PACTRA PECK POLYMER PERFECT- SIG STERLING ULLIVAN TOP FLITE & OTHERS PENN VALLEY HOllY CENTER 837 1 Main St LandaisFa 19441 120 Model Aviation w TMGM MFG Phone 1-201-427-3845 MACKEYS TRADE WIND KITE CO P0 Box 2698 Mission Viejo CA 92690 Modelers like TRADE WIND practice Light strong winds stable maneuverable Complete kit includes Ripsiop Nylon sail Key lar non-stretch lines handle/reel Fokker Drl screenprinted Red$2695 Sopwith 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days MARCH 29 30 & 31 Advance tickets may ordered sending large selfaddressed-stamped envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 Include check money order made payable Weak Signals R/O Club must please indicate expo days tickets used Prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under tickets along program will mailed back March 10 1985 Presented by Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO studio Hand-Launched Gilder framed 15in Rubber Piper Super Cruiser Mooney MAN framed Peck Pietenpol Peanut allbalsa Malibu Slope job tail-dragger OS 10 own-design shoulder wing sketched 1 920s lightplaneprob ably British 0S 10 framed Balsa USA Tempo OS F540 afore mentioned Widgeon 6-ft three chan nels 0S F561 feel very very good PP 1 will finished Someday four-strokes having punched start button again have spent enough guilt-ridden time ready three projects fly regularly 18year-old Mayfly design published MAN 1966 Ace SS R&E Cox Med 049 glow Davis Diesel mood hits Two Doc Mathews Kloud King Cox Black Widow R&E Cannon two-channel brick built nonstop start finish way go winter last year hopelessly snowed week live farm Three quickbuilding botch-up designed utilize 600 sq wing found growing attic Ace SS RET 56 oz Went together real fast no wing build hence name Teasum Three Evenings Saturday Until Mid night Started life OS 25 FSRon glow 10-4 prop gets off ground about 4 ft real pussycat air Switched Davis Diesel head 11-4 prop everything before except takeoff run stretched out about 15 ft Flying past six months Saito 30 four-stroke better before takeoff run now about 30 ft 10-6 prop Saito tachs about 7500 rpm should last forever Idles full tank out 1200 rpm tached 600 pops per minute Lovely little gem club York Area RC Club Inc adds about three four new members month total membership about 90 makes Kamikaze-style weekends dont really enjoy other photographing mayhem time time prefer Wednesday mornings company couple retired guys dont need PP 1 Fly 9 am until 2 3 afternoon No crowd no problems just set own pacefun year round January ther mometer 240 guarantee have field ourselves have field house facilities making coffee winter affairs series Keystone Cops routines Get field frantically transfer junk trunk flight line rip field house coffee Thoroughly enjoy brilliant companionship coffee until some idiot suggests time fly Dash out flight line start engine Adjust needle valve bit rich hopes engine will quit after about minute air No luck Blasted thing never ran better Must have up 15 mm least Feet cold Only four minutes Are kidding dont believe Confounded four-strokes run forever Ah Lloyd landing Ill sneak right behind him Oh nohes just doing touch-and-go swear nose frozen Bob walking across field transmitter AhaLloyd down safe ly Ill macho thing make circuit before landing Lloyd just ran field house What Bob doing other side field come across edge field Putt putt putt Home again Bob looking airplane-shaped hole snowbank Better help Bob Left hand numb Bob has right arm airplane-shaped hole shoulder Says cant feel anything Nei ther can Right foot just went out Bob now airplane-shaped hole head-first visible waist down Looks funny too cold laugh Might break some thing Lloyd joins us wants know what Bob doing cant answer because dont know what Bob doing As matter fact cant see Bob eyes watering badly cant see Lloyd Lloyd leads back field house Well go back Bob later After cup coffee Ah can see again maybe notsnowman walks stiff-legged through field house Its carrying Bobs aglet Its Bob have coffee lie about much fun having Much serious discussion results opinion must fly snowbanks make sure flying high-drag dirty model dont penetrate far Lloyd Continued page 124 March 1985 121 serve March 2930 &31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show See latest greatest radio control equip ment presented leading nc man ufac turers Talk notable nc personalities Fun/Winter Continued page 121 suggests go flying Bob pelt him foam coffee cups now 10 oclock Ill never make till two goes 52 weeks per year Weather permitting Muse now sprawled over old Min-X GG-1 transmitter Rand actuator making Zs So much art old rig still works adds fuel PP2 mess Lloyd has also talk about building couple pulse rudder/throttle things time machines hesitate As wife says cant go home again can visit neighbors dont take too seriously because also calls Quarter Scale models quarter pounders Well see Sorry thing has gotten completely out hand Gibbs dead-sticks tramps over attempt simple thank letter really what intended have sorry feeling todays RCers aware tantaliz ing mistique small man-made flying things Sportsmen rather modelers rate remind us older kids feeling lost among nutsand-bolts words published. Now hear As fellow member NYRC read great interest ar tide Arcola International Decem ber issue Model Aviation changes field over past year have nothing short amazing majority improvements ie bulletin board re-gravelling parking lot gravel boxes flight line refurbishing transmitter impound flowers reseeding have ac complished stalwart efforts Fred Locks 1984 NVRC vice-president son Sean hardest part labor im mediately evidentthe lobbying funds accomplish feats along others feel labors should acknowledged IS/David Beazley NVRC secretary 1985 Au Fred isa quiet frail guy white hair Ive talked him went about never-ending labors counterparts deserve medal Correction address Frank Macy re-creator Jim Walkers catapult 404 Interceptor other models A-J Fun Pak PO Box 545 Oregon City ORnot shown column last month Also see A-J Fun Pak ads issue flying season ended way began lovely long thermal flight Vagabond Old-Timer Just right lift hold altitude Such inner glow wonders guess Fun Objective Subjective airplane constantly impose will asserts its liberty doing its own beautiful thing Circling silently high graceful trance-like Surely epitome flying pinnacle full-scale model Beholding am subconscious bird watcher Hawks buzzards pelicans frigate birds word Au dubon Preserve species Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Faitfax VA 22030 Don Kichot/Miller Continued page 29 upside-down wing tips small ring fitted rubberbands will help attaching wing hooks engine wasstarted first flying session firstthingwe noticed unusual noise may caused shape prop nearness prop trailing edge wing both sound unique will attract attention regardless what other plane flying time Enya 40 four-cycle likes 1 5%-nitro fuel will fly 5% though wont have quite same speed zip found out used 5% mistake wondered performance drop ped off much however still able stunt model model stable flight once has trimmed-out found best trim the-elevator up top horizontal tail looked flat like inverted lifting section start neutral elevator allow plenty trim Don Kichot model has character istic found very-high-thrustline models full-size aircraft throttle retarded quickly model will rear up advanced rapidly will pitch nose-down either case trim returns normal soon speed has stabil ized new throttle setting correc tion best made elevator control stick throttle moved slowly pitching noticeable no time pitching real problem except worth remembering very low slow pass will land quickly advance throttle Neither full-size prototype nor model intended aerobatic ever know few modelers can resist little bit extrovert flying model has tested few maneuvers model will loop quite well though little extra speed helps will reasonable slow roll will roll off top loop Stall turns really nice positive Spins easy recovery immediate release controls Negative-G ma neuvers should attempted serious risk wings pulliAg out model easy build unusual see flight ground true scale model does require truck hauling will rupture you pick up does need degree aeronautical engineering build will fly up half-hour 8 oz fuel What else say 124 Model Aviation CLEVELAND GIANTSI MEW FOR GIANTICALE BUFFS Worlds Largest Gas Plans AssQrtnqeee INTRNA7IONALLY FAMOUS CD QUAUt9 MASTER MOGOLS PLANS 54SDOeneieellO 21 54 7t0Ceeeel Con TEYSA $42 72 Con 0261/4 L&S $46 104 Con Con PBY5A $56 63 Honnond too lIne $45 96 Wnight-Nenytooe 84877 oeins 517G Font 835. 52 W-Wnnet2t Red 1036 103 Roe E-t7G Font $55 77W-Wne131 ted 1 $4868 Odos 046A Ott. $32 86 Fobben 77 9n $39 108 Simon S3R Aenpln $49 60 ttotoond Fete Rote 53260 Roe 100 Spent $36 oylee Gte-S. 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Bill Winter _____fi Just Fun o t WHO IS BURIED Grants tomb Groucho Marx asked losers quiz program Some didnt know know guy kid flew Control Line front quite story John Morrill modeling life few-years-older neighbor Gerald Turner built first model airplane during mid-Forties still dont know fell love hobby did perplexes you look back steady string failures get models fly Both lived Burlington VT deeply wished teacher least contest attend moved New York dad went graduate school kid used open fields country life move seemed disaster lived close Grants Tomb upper Riverside Dr New York began build Control Line models could fly Youd get up early morning fly planes concrete area front tomb remember policeman beat unstated agreement would catch until put three four flights would throw out summer went back Vermont tried make Free Flight model fly will never forget day happened remain hooked day grace beauty Free Flight Youve built CL jobs spent lot time RC neither gives satisfaction well-trimmed FF quietly joining Mother Nature produce floating sculpture Now thing making engines Old-Timer fliers proud Simplex Hornet 19 have sold over 400 date think best market its purpose also produce superb high-tech winder superior front end serious Rubber mod elers So sit back John listen. Bear mind Simplex Hornet truly old-fashioned spark-ignition sideport engine goes back 45 years Yet today will turn Rev-Up 10-4 9000 rpm 9-4 11500 8-4 14000 7-4 15500 Zingers 8600 10300 13200 14800 respectively Morrill doubts can get better performance best Bantam Arden equal Arden extraordinary because potent lightweight Arden perhaps first modern engines 3600 porting compared oncepopular sideports Brown Ju nior famous early example Accord ing Morrill several people including Sal Taibi able use full power 30 Model Aviation Storm Hawk sport-type Rubber model John Morrill appears have stabilizer pivots downward dethermalizing clever solution on-the-bottom stabs John makes enginesand hasfiown plentyof Cland RC hethinksof beloved Free Flightsasflying sculptures As kid flew Control Line models frontof GrantsTomb New YorkCity Left John Morrill seems having fun assembling batch Simplex Hornet 19 spark-ignition engines Old-Timer buffs Right fruit toils sparker old tradition Its improved version Paul Lindbergs engine plans 1940 edition Popular Aviation Morrills re-work sideport design matches performance good Bantam Arden Simplex Hornet cabin designs Mor nhs fuel Aerodyne Low Octane mix Hobby Horn yields 500 rpm standard 31 mix 70weight oil lubricant must pe troleum oil synthetic rpm tests made 700F 40% humidity sea level built models 50 60 years ago will know Hall Famer Joe Ott inspired modelers across nation wonderful series rubber-powered mod els mostly Scale old Popular viadon title what now Flying Magazine Joe succeeded chap appropriately named Paul Lindberg designs resembled fondly-remembered Cleveland Master Scale jobs superior flight performance During 1940 Lindberg published two engine con struction articles first Hornet followed Hornet Class C both totally different supposes en gines must have serious limitations Morrill liked Hornet decided manufacture corrected two serious engineering flaws substandard compression ratio its day another exhaust gases passed back through sideport intake John redesigned Hornet power easier manufacturing retain spirit Old-Timer movement retained sideport layout baffled piston goal equal surpass Ohlsson 19 succeeded No castings used crankcase example machined extrusion engine cannot called Lindberg 19 Morrill states Lindberg must credited inspiration present engine choose believe Morrill After finish Purple Plan Rookie Enya 60 four-cycle hope improve upon own Old Square Sides Antique SAM ap proved using Simplex Hornet 19 day tricky advertising claims am hard-core cynic Show Morrills printed description engine made run isnt selling message sounds like Peter Chinn thorough eminently knowledgeable am impressed tender rebirth what evidently potentially great engine long ago contemplated photo John shop dont think Id hesitate buy used auto him see yourself obtain literature John Morrill Simplex Miniature En gines 143 Richmond St El Segundo CA 90245 Considering almost custom-made enginesmy impression price doesnt floor engines mass-production cost much often great deal Tis neither nor guy did fly models front Grants Tomb Southerner returns few issues back showed two photos HA Thomas Southerner now tatters attic number readers wrote After readers delighted informing Winter hed caught shortin connection two pictures printed column mentioning Thomas Southerner FF foran Arden 09 published October 1949 Air Trails happy reprint plans sent John Morrill Winter says Southerner warms heart textbook example design good plane Thomas has quite touch nice lines March 1985 31 I~0 ~ U sum Tor wflats name text RE Gibbs genuine artist-type says friends call Lump prefers Sopendecker Thats snow ship sitting 24 last January picture taken Winter says likes beautiful planes Stik-type things also turn him onprobably because helped start Stik saga publishing Grid Leaks original Phil Kraft read Gibbs text After 30 years Inactivity Bruce Augustus went Old-Timer bananas left Bruce silk-covered Comet Zipper powered Ohlsson 23 front-rotor Winter says certain magazine article really O&R 33 Above ship launched Augustus second time around friend gave him Buzzard Bombshell kit challenge build Love pilotand get hat Both pictures Karen Gutierry LI delightful airplane published October 1949 issue Air Trails fact modest Thomas didnt point out Its amazing people dug through back issues find plans certainly must have impact its time recalled plans Free Flight Arden 09 lovely low-wing twin-tailed ship epitome beauty skillful design cant imag ine beautiful RC version scaled please such 1 9-powered sixfooter would vision flight no doubt fine soarer textbook-perfect design both structurally aerodynamically ex ample note shallow sheet sides graceful tall formers just three sturdy stringers simple gear mount open-frame single-spar wing capped ribs D-tube leading edge Both wing stab set positive anglebut angular difference hands-off stabilitygiving slight downthrust effect low thrust line close center drag trim changes RC would minimal Offset toed-in fins also used such greats Hank Cole flying wing glider tend produce straight flight aft end yawed can visualize relative angle attack fins Balloon busting practiced western Texas snaps Jerry Farr Usually balloons 1 0-ft tether first shot typical Texas zephyr lays balloons ground daring pilot cant nerve up skimming grass Aeromaster low balloons pop up unexpected lullno telling silly spheres will go Finally about 300-ft tether time Roger Cerillis Aeromaster shows close can get still hit Busting balloon hard winning lotteryand can get addicted 32 Model Aviation Gus Munich likes pop open eyeglass case engine collectors meetings show own miniature engines Inspired RayArdens lost miniatures inside case L-R 020 ignition sideport make own spark plug half-size Mills diesel 012 displacement 010 look-alike Atom ignition Actually small Jgnition engines arent practical due weight coil condenser battery Right Gus Munich used two hardwood plates Va-in ball bearings Zapped place nylon gears 571 reduction drive 17-8 Giant Scale size prop converted folder Rubberband holds blades extended switch power blades folded can utter chaos Playboy uses 1 0-mm charge 0-mm flight reaching about 1500 ft process Paul Fishers Peerless Panther December1979 MA plans Doc Mathews flies well Electric Astro geared 05 11-7 prop pictured wIth 13-8 ship iswhite red trim black line around cowl arent low-wing Electrics understand what happens quote Thomas 1949 opening Few modelers realize extent average contest model overpowered Never appreciating fact responsible critical adjustments numerous crack-ups assume criterion Free Flight Gas modeling reaction con firmed Control Line fliers especially What screaming power spins outof-sight flights no wonder stick tethered flight What modelers miss out entirely sport gas job designed built solely pleasure fly ing true now beauty flight depends flying wing engine course like aerobatics power burn tuned pipes hot fuels must way life know well anyone else power has its place too often gets wrong places recall lecture modelers NACA engineer 1939 posed astounding observation hot Free Flight ships proportionally 60 times power P-40 Picture P-40 75000-hp engine Look through page ads youll find nice Bleriotover powered least several times big Schnuerle engine Louis spinning grave could have zapped English Channel nothing flat Wasp front streaming tatters wood fabric way continuously rolling night mare torque perhaps Bleriot would have escaped gravitymans first satellite can see now Southerner same size climbed great rate old 09 some guys would call underpowered 05 25 Ill meet halfway actually like Ugly Stiks often see pleasure flying truly clever machines very slight dihedral could draw deep breath occasionally power mid dle recommended displacement range Im afraid Stik suspect thousands scared death planes fly like airplanes Laser fine So T-Craft Like East West shall never meet interest has peaked credit card ad says Bruce Augustus Bruce rolling Old-Timer clover letterhead logo Augustus Airlines So guy asking sorts questions about old WOG published Air Trails kitted Megow collecting using funny old engines evidently owning airline Whats Augustus Airlines asked him Augustus Airlines proves air charter service operating out Sun Valley under Part 135 Fed Av Regs have V-tailed Bonanza Piper Sene call six-placer turbo de-icer have keep wings level being airline pilot sol get kicks models Hes returned modeling after lapse 30 years 1953 began building Megow WOG tough Ambroid accepted aero engineering Cornell Continued page 34 March 1985 33 Built covered flown feeling Park Flemings gorgeous Proctor Antic Saito 30 four-stroke Neat side mount Saito reveals simple sturdy construction plywood Rubberbanded place Kraft tank mounted vertically teed line needle valve prop Top Flite 1 0-6 bit much equivalent two-stroke Noting screw fill line its possible seals after filling have what essentially two-line system People appreciate four-cycles sound Pictures H Thomas Tiny engine near-delta happens Quadra Prop turns mid-wing slotnote shadow underneath does flip prop fantastic flier low-speed approaches made ungodly nose-high attitudehard believe Builder unknown Thomas plc Bruce begins folks retired Florida interested AE models told get rid workshop Regrets saved McCoy 29 Mills 13 Super Cyke Forster 29 RC receiver built Ed Lorenz plans Au Mills two sizes easy-starting smoothrunning imperishable low-power die sel made England recent ly India twas first diesel could start memorable Forster 29 perhaps best-made ignition engine overlapping WW II period much demand through about 1950 1983 friend gave original Buzzard Bombshell challenged build Augustus continues end tale now have 12 OldTimer Free Flights RC-assist models andover 40 OT engines Ijust acquired original Megow WOG kit perfect con dition Before put Uber Skiver balsa few questions freewheel get ques tions about airplane must mystery ship Briefly planked fuselage streamlined shoulder-wing ship polyhedral NACA 6409 airfoil Free Flighters favorite days Vagabond Strucks New Ruler non-lifting tail thin symmetrical stab section top wing sheeted efficiency strength planked fuselage syndrome may go back Leo Weiss magnificent Texaco winner St Louis Nats well before tke war likes Jim Cahills super Wakefield Thirties Clodhopper Megow WOG kit terrible wood over-thick stringy very heavy got wing down tight turn well stayed Ohlsson 23 en closed rather bulbous profile front end hence name WOG sport-flown less full power enjoyed its very fine glide People think nostalgia-period airplane because published 1944 SAM-ap proved SAM Society Antique Modelers Old-Timer airplane before 1942 cutoff date No WOG cant stand up postwar Civy Boy Ramrod former Paul Gilliam masterpiece balanced razors edgeat 110% typo chord Paul often paid price St Jeans Ramrod heck competi tor Hogan tradition still sensa tional machine Like others Bruce wants climb WOG straight up No athousand times no machine must flown under power wide fast circle exactly way Korda flew Powerhouse Korda good altitude after 180 turn Bruce asks good enough build FF competitions should make RC-assist Ive pix WOGs RC fun Old-Timers guys want Old-Timers FF competition build Vagabond could compete Sailplanes too SAMapproved Old-Timer Old Square Continued page 36 34 Model Aviation VIDkU PROGRA. 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David G Manley must decry loss several FF CL columns various modeling magazines Though fly primarily RC Gliders edays Sailplanes start model ing about 30 years ago FF CL though theres no CL little FF activity immediate area Im again considering building Nobler A-2 Point would hope AMA will least remind beginners entry mod eling need require seven channels balsa forest deed gas farm Publications should devote substantive coverage big kid block just hope MA will continue give guidance support contests fun-flying et al CL andFF justwantedtoventabitAu WenoteDaves use ofthe word continue connection MA worry Paul Fisher amused re marks about depth perception flying RCamen glasses dear wifes spotting much easier fly full-size thing Au Depth perception talking about lone oak tree Round Swampwhich everyone eventual ly hit including airline fighter pilots models always much farther away perceive higher maybe business seeing blob foolish far-out base legyouve gotta theorize what next have enjoying modeling 45 years off During late teens Paul continues lean out FF activitiestoo expensive kept flying away Now electric-powered flight has recent interest Enclosed picture DB Mathews Panther Au believe Docs reborn Peerless Astro 05 gear drive allows slow reflexes enough time keep up whats Continued Page 119 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MASIER AIRSCREW 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 GIF 1/2A 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 HAWKER SEA FURY FB MK11 77 Span th 695 Wing Area 1120 Sq B uiltUp c5onstruction Deluxe Custom Kit $27500 Includes Spinner Tank Plan Pack $7800 P47 THUNDEBOLT 81-5 Span th 70 Area 1200 SQ t-Up 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balloon maximize passes should try three-channel cabin can twist turnon dime late Jack Port National Champ rudder-only days simultaneous session lone balloon about 50 ft high Selinsgrove PA ye pioneers gathered once year like fur trappers Jacksons Hole Jack splattered pieces good 100 ft Well Ive holding some marginal snaps much too long friend Jerry Fan Maybe should see So heres Jerry no Jerry dont have 2year lead time Just note Jerry said about some west Texas fun stuff Tie helium balloons l0-ft-long string try hit balloon planeaint easy Au Yeah man Thats man few words short tether todays straight-in bombskies must bubble-headed variation limbo-pole act eyeglass case nonchalantly pop open go engine collectors meetings just fun pictures show 010 configured just like Atom second 020size ignition sideport has brass spinner tank venturi exhaust stack make own spark plugs two engines thread 6-40 -in hex third half-size replica Mills 045 Diesel one-quarter volume made casting glven small ignition engines really practical explains Gus due size coil condenser batteries halfsize Mills replica good Walnut-size models have also built two smaller diesels 008 006but have unable get run So far have built about 30 engines castings bar stock built using 6-in Atlas lathe 3in Unimat both attachments Gus builds clever models well Id like know about al though cant use pix two recent Old-Timers 1940s Ohlsson 60 ignition-powered cabin job Toughie MAN construction mm mm mm mm mm mm m m mm mm mm m I 1Jr Aviator Program Questionnaire Club/Individual NameI 2 Address/District I II I___________________________________ II 4I _______________________________ II II 6 Are Presently Active AMA Adopt-A-School Program I 7 Would Willing Work Interested Youths Building Flying Rubber-Powered Models Control Line Models Simple Gliders Note See Post serzptI 8 Why Wt tn Hpln9___________________________________________ 9 Would Willing Offer Youth-Oriented Flying Contests Promote Lessons Phone Number Area code Members Would Like Assist Present Club Youth Programs Within Area____________________________ Arden miniatures recent article Ray Arden miniatures prompted take some pictures few miniature engines have built says Gus Munich coordinator MECAModel Engine Collectors Assn Ive always fascinated tiny Ray Arden engines As collector has always dream find Rays missing miniatures disappeared after death hear used carry around old eye glass case show people Well thats what I put some miniatures old Good 10 Areas Modeling Interest within Club 11 Are Willing See Program succeed Through Hard Work Continued Interest Required 12 Any Special Youth Requirements Area I I I I IReturn Geoff Styles Director Public Relations Academy Model AeronautIcs 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm m March1985 119 Engines Engineered Meet Demands Most Discriminating Modeler Backed Service Match Engines Have Points Easy Starting SACHSDOL MAR 31 5OHP-BIbs11 oz 28500 31 O IwIth Muffler SACHSDOL MAR 37 65 HP-S lbs 15 os 325w 34500 WIth Muff len *KIORITZ 24 *The Work Horse *32HP-6/slbs * 169~ * ct Sales Only COBRA *The New Standard *For Giant Models * 31 HP 5A lbs * 149~ * Direct Sales Only ALL ENGINES READY TO RUN INCLUDING 6 BOLT PROP HUB MOUNT AND MOUNTING BOLT MUFFLERS AVAILABLE AT EXTRA CHARGE 857 High Mountain Rd North Haledon NJ 07508 article second Gooseneck pylon FF electric-powered using Robbe EF76 361 gear ratio Top Flite 14-6 Turns 4600 rpm 12 Sanyo cells Both RC-assist fly great Some folks tinker Some fly Few tinkerem much flying Gus inveterate tinkerer forever flying test/fun ships aniazes man has done much Electrics can go virtual ly unnoticed Tinkerer Flier Plainview Hicksville area Long Island still potato farms succession yearly sites farms lay bare housing developments Gus cooked up reed radio vibrating leaves stock tin think Gus five reeds connected rudder After work hed fly old Cox 010 Lightning Bug backyard wearing out four engines process Ive just digging through reams letters about ongoing Electric stuff June 1983 told getting 10-mm flights off 10-mm charge day long eventually got down 300 sq old FFs high gear ratios huge folding props 05 Electric guys will dig windy Saturday gave oppor tunity make 57-to-i gear box Leisure LT 50 flew 17-8 folder Au Thats standard-size Quar ter Scale wood prop gear box hardwood spacers -in ball bearings Zapped place Ten flights Performance 2100 rpm six cells plane climbs about same altitude 10-mm charge 10-6 11-7 11-7or l1-6onthe2to-i gear ratio think see light plane weighs certain amount rises say 1500 ft certain amount potential energy So put certain amount energy six cells charging energy results climb equal potential energy clear now no magic involved Gold whar find wish done book called Purple Plan 1 PP-i gluing piece two night big trouble PP-2 incidentally trying make up mind what make next PP-i underground going full tilt Don Srull cheats used expand produc tion sly way add dozen making Anyhooo give RE Gibbs Somewhere read Gibbs begins purpose art make viewer reader aware what knows does nt know knows Since latest col umn October MA obviously written personally just obviously represents piece writers art rather writers craft Im referring course Purple Plan 1 PP2 et al After 1934 beginning modeling have exposed arcane meanderings imposed faithful hobby spelled out column latest layoff lasted about six years ended early 1983 saw heard first four-stroke Nothing would except trade old Orbit single stick new Ace Silver Seven drag junk attic studio Again old problems along delights surface again As socalled fine art painter means Im selfemployed paint what wish try sell paint what someone else wishes guess Im coarse art painter crazy la bels self-discipline order day absolutely necessary paint day Muse rebuffed wanders off sulk among old brass deBolt fuel tanks framed Westland Widgeon Swaneys old MAN framed own desigu OS 10 model mags gaps back 1929 large pile must plans gradually surely being converted mouse dirt No doubt about Purple Plan 1 answer Aha Muse looks quizzically direction under snippit silver Permagloss PP1 Mr Winter formal respect has falling rain simplicity Great Thought thank have made modeling enjoyable again What Muse really really dislikes Gibbs revs up fallout PP2 expression pure disgust picks way through unfinished fore PP1 projects collecting dust 50 ] d S100in Cash Check Stamps 32 Page Tabloid size illustrated DISCOUNT Catalog Sent 1st Class Mail COMET COX FLYLINE- FOX GOLDBERG GUILLOWS JETCO K&B- PACTRA PECK POLYMER PERFECT- SIG STERLING ULLIVAN TOP FLITE & OTHERS PENN VALLEY HOllY CENTER 837 1 Main St LandaisFa 19441 120 Model Aviation w TMGM MFG Phone 1-201-427-3845 MACKEYS TRADE WIND KITE CO P0 Box 2698 Mission Viejo CA 92690 Modelers like TRADE WIND practice Light strong winds stable maneuverable Complete kit includes Ripsiop Nylon sail Key lar non-stretch lines handle/reel Fokker Drl screenprinted Red$2695 Sopwith Camel printed YellowS2695 Red Yellow Blue w/o printing saS2495 3-Pac above tandem flyingS5995 Stain Inquly welcome CA ,sidmnts add tax Order yours today practice fun USED F55CXSION UEOIATICSPSECTICI CONDAT WIThOUT PEAR OP CsasmuaWIThOUT 5E5UIIDiEC CLAYTON ariu SR S C FIUDIU 40 2310 RAVENWOOD D PRAIRIE TEXAS 75050 PLAN SET SHIPPED POST PAID IN U 5 have questions answered featur ing worlds greatest Swap Shops no dealers complete refreshment centers Saturday Night Auction acres free park ing Complete radio control systems radio control kits engines will raffled off during course exposition Bring latest completely finished model display enter competition exciting awards models entered competition will judged Best Finish Best Mono-Kote Directors Award Best Show new THIRTYFl RST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will pre sented lucky winner Best Show Com8 join us enjoy yourselves un questionably worlds greatest radio con trol model show Open public three great days MARCH 29 30 & 31 Advance tickets may ordered sending large selfaddressed-stamped envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 Include check money order made payable Weak Signals R/O Club must please indicate expo days tickets used Prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under tickets along program will mailed back March 10 1985 Presented by Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO studio Hand-Launched Gilder framed 15in Rubber Piper Super Cruiser Mooney MAN framed Peck Pietenpol Peanut allbalsa Malibu Slope job tail-dragger OS 10 own-design shoulder wing sketched 1 920s lightplaneprob ably British 0S 10 framed Balsa USA Tempo OS F540 afore mentioned Widgeon 6-ft three chan nels 0S F561 feel very very good PP 1 will finished Someday four-strokes having punched start button again have spent enough guilt-ridden time ready three projects fly regularly 18year-old Mayfly design published MAN 1966 Ace SS R&E Cox Med 049 glow Davis Diesel mood hits Two Doc Mathews Kloud King Cox Black Widow R&E Cannon two-channel brick built nonstop start finish way go winter last year hopelessly snowed week live farm Three quickbuilding botch-up designed utilize 600 sq wing found growing attic Ace SS RET 56 oz Went together real fast no wing build hence name Teasum Three Evenings Saturday Until Mid night Started life OS 25 FSRon glow 10-4 prop gets off ground about 4 ft real pussycat air Switched Davis Diesel head 11-4 prop everything before except takeoff run stretched out about 15 ft Flying past six months Saito 30 four-stroke better before takeoff run now about 30 ft 10-6 prop Saito tachs about 7500 rpm should last forever Idles full tank out 1200 rpm tached 600 pops per minute Lovely little gem club York Area RC Club Inc adds about three four new members month total membership about 90 makes Kamikaze-style weekends dont really enjoy other photographing mayhem time time prefer Wednesday mornings company couple retired guys dont need PP 1 Fly 9 am until 2 3 afternoon No crowd no problems just set own pacefun year round January ther mometer 240 guarantee have field ourselves have field house facilities making coffee winter affairs series Keystone Cops routines Get field frantically transfer junk trunk flight line rip field house coffee Thoroughly enjoy brilliant companionship coffee until some idiot suggests time fly Dash out flight line start engine Adjust needle valve bit rich hopes engine will quit after about minute air No luck Blasted thing never ran better Must have up 15 mm least Feet cold Only four minutes Are kidding dont believe Confounded four-strokes run forever Ah Lloyd landing Ill sneak right behind him Oh nohes just doing touch-and-go swear nose frozen Bob walking across field transmitter AhaLloyd down safe ly Ill macho thing make circuit before landing Lloyd just ran field house What Bob doing other side field come across edge field Putt putt putt Home again Bob looking airplane-shaped hole snowbank Better help Bob Left hand numb Bob has right arm airplane-shaped hole shoulder Says cant feel anything Nei ther can Right foot just went out Bob now airplane-shaped hole head-first visible waist down Looks funny too cold laugh Might break some thing Lloyd joins us wants know what Bob doing cant answer because dont know what Bob doing As matter fact cant see Bob eyes watering badly cant see Lloyd Lloyd leads back field house Well go back Bob later After cup coffee Ah can see again maybe notsnowman walks stiff-legged through field house Its carrying Bobs aglet Its Bob have coffee lie about much fun having Much serious discussion results opinion must fly snowbanks make sure flying high-drag dirty model dont penetrate far Lloyd Continued page 124 March 1985 121 serve March 2930 &31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show See latest greatest radio control equip ment presented leading nc man ufac turers Talk notable nc personalities Fun/Winter Continued page 121 suggests go flying Bob pelt him foam coffee cups now 10 oclock Ill never make till two goes 52 weeks per year Weather permitting Muse now sprawled over old Min-X GG-1 transmitter Rand actuator making Zs So much art old rig still works adds fuel PP2 mess Lloyd has also talk about building couple pulse rudder/throttle things time machines hesitate As wife says cant go home again can visit neighbors dont take too seriously because also calls Quarter Scale models quarter pounders Well see Sorry thing has gotten completely out hand Gibbs dead-sticks tramps over attempt simple thank letter really what intended have sorry feeling todays RCers aware tantaliz ing mistique small man-made flying things Sportsmen rather modelers rate remind us older kids feeling lost among nutsand-bolts words published. Now hear As fellow member NYRC read great interest ar tide Arcola International Decem ber issue Model Aviation changes field over past year have nothing short amazing majority improvements ie bulletin board re-gravelling parking lot gravel boxes flight line refurbishing transmitter impound flowers reseeding have ac complished stalwart efforts Fred Locks 1984 NVRC vice-president son Sean hardest part labor im mediately evidentthe lobbying funds accomplish feats along others feel labors should acknowledged IS/David Beazley NVRC secretary 1985 Au Fred isa quiet frail guy white hair Ive talked him went about never-ending labors counterparts deserve medal Correction address Frank Macy re-creator Jim Walkers catapult 404 Interceptor other models A-J Fun Pak PO Box 545 Oregon City ORnot shown column last month Also see A-J Fun Pak ads issue flying season ended way began lovely long thermal flight Vagabond Old-Timer Just right lift hold altitude Such inner glow wonders guess Fun Objective Subjective airplane constantly impose will asserts its liberty doing its own beautiful thing Circling silently high graceful trance-like Surely epitome flying pinnacle full-scale model Beholding am subconscious bird watcher Hawks buzzards pelicans frigate birds word Au dubon Preserve species Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Faitfax VA 22030 Don Kichot/Miller Continued page 29 upside-down wing tips small ring fitted rubberbands will help attaching wing hooks engine wasstarted first flying session firstthingwe noticed unusual noise may caused shape prop nearness prop trailing edge wing both sound unique will attract attention regardless what other plane flying time Enya 40 four-cycle likes 1 5%-nitro fuel will fly 5% though wont have quite same speed zip found out used 5% mistake wondered performance drop ped off much however still able stunt model model stable flight once has trimmed-out found best trim the-elevator up top horizontal tail looked flat like inverted lifting section start neutral elevator allow plenty trim Don Kichot model has character istic found very-high-thrustline models full-size aircraft throttle retarded quickly model will rear up advanced rapidly will pitch nose-down either case trim returns normal soon speed has stabil ized new throttle setting correc tion best made elevator control stick throttle moved slowly pitching noticeable no time pitching real problem except worth remembering very low slow pass will land quickly advance throttle Neither full-size prototype nor model intended aerobatic ever know few modelers can resist little bit extrovert flying model has tested few maneuvers model will loop quite well though little extra speed helps will reasonable slow roll will roll off top loop Stall turns really nice positive Spins easy recovery immediate release controls Negative-G ma neuvers should attempted serious risk wings pulliAg out model easy build unusual see flight ground true scale model does require truck hauling will rupture you pick up does need degree aeronautical engineering build will fly up half-hour 8 oz fuel What else say 124 Model Aviation CLEVELAND GIANTSI MEW FOR GIANTICALE BUFFS Worlds Largest Gas Plans AssQrtnqeee INTRNA7IONALLY FAMOUS CD QUAUt9 MASTER MOGOLS PLANS 54SDOeneieellO 21 54 7t0Ceeeel Con TEYSA $42 72 Con 0261/4 L&S $46 104 Con Con PBY5A $56 63 Honnond too lIne $45 96 Wnight-Nenytooe 84877 oeins 517G Font 835. 52 W-Wnnet2t Red 1036 103 Roe E-t7G Font $55 77W-Wne131 ted 1 $4868 Odos 046A Ott. $32 86 Fobben 77 9n $39 108 Simon S3R Aenpln $49 60 ttotoond Fete Rote 53260 Roe 100 Spent $36 oylee Gte-S. 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Bill Winter _____fi Just Fun o t WHO IS BURIED Grants tomb Groucho Marx asked losers quiz program Some didnt know know guy kid flew Control Line front quite story John Morrill modeling life few-years-older neighbor Gerald Turner built first model airplane during mid-Forties still dont know fell love hobby did perplexes you look back steady string failures get models fly Both lived Burlington VT deeply wished teacher least contest attend moved New York dad went graduate school kid used open fields country life move seemed disaster lived close Grants Tomb upper Riverside Dr New York began build Control Line models could fly Youd get up early morning fly planes concrete area front tomb remember policeman beat unstated agreement would catch until put three four flights would throw out summer went back Vermont tried make Free Flight model fly will never forget day happened remain hooked day grace beauty Free Flight Youve built CL jobs spent lot time RC neither gives satisfaction well-trimmed FF quietly joining Mother Nature produce floating sculpture Now thing making engines Old-Timer fliers proud Simplex Hornet 19 have sold over 400 date think best market its purpose also produce superb high-tech winder superior front end serious Rubber mod elers So sit back John listen. Bear mind Simplex Hornet truly old-fashioned spark-ignition sideport engine goes back 45 years Yet today will turn Rev-Up 10-4 9000 rpm 9-4 11500 8-4 14000 7-4 15500 Zingers 8600 10300 13200 14800 respectively Morrill doubts can get better performance best Bantam Arden equal Arden extraordinary because potent lightweight Arden perhaps first modern engines 3600 porting compared oncepopular sideports Brown Ju nior famous early example Accord ing Morrill several people including Sal Taibi able use full power 30 Model Aviation Storm Hawk sport-type Rubber model John Morrill appears have stabilizer pivots downward dethermalizing clever solution on-the-bottom stabs John makes enginesand hasfiown plentyof Cland RC hethinksof beloved Free Flightsasflying sculptures As kid flew Control Line models frontof GrantsTomb New YorkCity Left John Morrill seems having fun assembling batch Simplex Hornet 19 spark-ignition engines Old-Timer buffs Right fruit toils sparker old tradition Its improved version Paul Lindbergs engine plans 1940 edition Popular Aviation Morrills re-work sideport design matches performance good Bantam Arden Simplex Hornet cabin designs Mor nhs fuel Aerodyne Low Octane mix Hobby Horn yields 500 rpm standard 31 mix 70weight oil lubricant must pe troleum oil synthetic rpm tests made 700F 40% humidity sea level built models 50 60 years ago will know Hall Famer Joe Ott inspired modelers across nation wonderful series rubber-powered mod els mostly Scale old Popular viadon title what now Flying Magazine Joe succeeded chap appropriately named Paul Lindberg designs resembled fondly-remembered Cleveland Master Scale jobs superior flight performance During 1940 Lindberg published two engine con struction articles first Hornet followed Hornet Class C both totally different supposes en gines must have serious limitations Morrill liked Hornet decided manufacture corrected two serious engineering flaws substandard compression ratio its day another exhaust gases passed back through sideport intake John redesigned Hornet power easier manufacturing retain spirit Old-Timer movement retained sideport layout baffled piston goal equal surpass Ohlsson 19 succeeded No castings used crankcase example machined extrusion engine cannot called Lindberg 19 Morrill states Lindberg must credited inspiration present engine choose believe Morrill After finish Purple Plan Rookie Enya 60 four-cycle hope improve upon own Old Square Sides Antique SAM ap proved using Simplex Hornet 19 day tricky advertising claims am hard-core cynic Show Morrills printed description engine made run isnt selling message sounds like Peter Chinn thorough eminently knowledgeable am impressed tender rebirth what evidently potentially great engine long ago contemplated photo John shop dont think Id hesitate buy used auto him see yourself obtain literature John Morrill Simplex Miniature En gines 143 Richmond St El Segundo CA 90245 Considering almost custom-made enginesmy impression price doesnt floor engines mass-production cost much often great deal Tis neither nor guy did fly models front Grants Tomb Southerner returns few issues back showed two photos HA Thomas Southerner now tatters attic number readers wrote After readers delighted informing Winter hed caught shortin connection two pictures printed column mentioning Thomas Southerner FF foran Arden 09 published October 1949 Air Trails happy reprint plans sent John Morrill Winter says Southerner warms heart textbook example design good plane Thomas has quite touch nice lines March 1985 31 I~0 ~ U sum Tor wflats name text RE Gibbs genuine artist-type says friends call Lump prefers Sopendecker Thats snow ship sitting 24 last January picture taken Winter says likes beautiful planes Stik-type things also turn him onprobably because helped start Stik saga publishing Grid Leaks original Phil Kraft read Gibbs text After 30 years Inactivity Bruce Augustus went Old-Timer bananas left Bruce silk-covered Comet Zipper powered Ohlsson 23 front-rotor Winter says certain magazine article really O&R 33 Above ship launched Augustus second time around friend gave him Buzzard Bombshell kit challenge build Love pilotand get hat Both pictures Karen Gutierry LI delightful airplane published October 1949 issue Air Trails fact modest Thomas didnt point out Its amazing people dug through back issues find plans certainly must have impact its time recalled plans Free Flight Arden 09 lovely low-wing twin-tailed ship epitome beauty skillful design cant imag ine beautiful RC version scaled please such 1 9-powered sixfooter would vision flight no doubt fine soarer textbook-perfect design both structurally aerodynamically ex ample note shallow sheet sides graceful tall formers just three sturdy stringers simple gear mount open-frame single-spar wing capped ribs D-tube leading edge Both wing stab set positive anglebut angular difference hands-off stabilitygiving slight downthrust effect low thrust line close center drag trim changes RC would minimal Offset toed-in fins also used such greats Hank Cole flying wing glider tend produce straight flight aft end yawed can visualize relative angle attack fins Balloon busting practiced western Texas snaps Jerry Farr Usually balloons 1 0-ft tether first shot typical Texas zephyr lays balloons ground daring pilot cant nerve up skimming grass Aeromaster low balloons pop up unexpected lullno telling silly spheres will go Finally about 300-ft tether time Roger Cerillis Aeromaster shows close can get still hit Busting balloon hard winning lotteryand can get addicted 32 Model Aviation Gus Munich likes pop open eyeglass case engine collectors meetings show own miniature engines Inspired RayArdens lost miniatures inside case L-R 020 ignition sideport make own spark plug half-size Mills diesel 012 displacement 010 look-alike Atom ignition Actually small Jgnition engines arent practical due weight coil condenser battery Right Gus Munich used two hardwood plates Va-in ball bearings Zapped place nylon gears 571 reduction drive 17-8 Giant Scale size prop converted folder Rubberband holds blades extended switch power blades folded can utter chaos Playboy uses 1 0-mm charge 0-mm flight reaching about 1500 ft process Paul Fishers Peerless Panther December1979 MA plans Doc Mathews flies well Electric Astro geared 05 11-7 prop pictured wIth 13-8 ship iswhite red trim black line around cowl arent low-wing Electrics understand what happens quote Thomas 1949 opening Few modelers realize extent average contest model overpowered Never appreciating fact responsible critical adjustments numerous crack-ups assume criterion Free Flight Gas modeling reaction con firmed Control Line fliers especially What screaming power spins outof-sight flights no wonder stick tethered flight What modelers miss out entirely sport gas job designed built solely pleasure fly ing true now beauty flight depends flying wing engine course like aerobatics power burn tuned pipes hot fuels must way life know well anyone else power has its place too often gets wrong places recall lecture modelers NACA engineer 1939 posed astounding observation hot Free Flight ships proportionally 60 times power P-40 Picture P-40 75000-hp engine Look through page ads youll find nice Bleriotover powered least several times big Schnuerle engine Louis spinning grave could have zapped English Channel nothing flat Wasp front streaming tatters wood fabric way continuously rolling night mare torque perhaps Bleriot would have escaped gravitymans first satellite can see now Southerner same size climbed great rate old 09 some guys would call underpowered 05 25 Ill meet halfway actually like Ugly Stiks often see pleasure flying truly clever machines very slight dihedral could draw deep breath occasionally power mid dle recommended displacement range Im afraid Stik suspect thousands scared death planes fly like airplanes Laser fine So T-Craft Like East West shall never meet interest has peaked credit card ad says Bruce Augustus Bruce rolling Old-Timer clover letterhead logo Augustus Airlines So guy asking sorts questions about old WOG published Air Trails kitted Megow collecting using funny old engines evidently owning airline Whats Augustus Airlines asked him Augustus Airlines proves air charter service operating out Sun Valley under Part 135 Fed Av Regs have V-tailed Bonanza Piper Sene call six-placer turbo de-icer have keep wings level being airline pilot sol get kicks models Hes returned modeling after lapse 30 years 1953 began building Megow WOG tough Ambroid accepted aero engineering Cornell Continued page 34 March 1985 33 Built covered flown feeling Park Flemings gorgeous Proctor Antic Saito 30 four-stroke Neat side mount Saito reveals simple sturdy construction plywood Rubberbanded place Kraft tank mounted vertically teed line needle valve prop Top Flite 1 0-6 bit much equivalent two-stroke Noting screw fill line its possible seals after filling have what essentially two-line system People appreciate four-cycles sound Pictures H Thomas Tiny engine near-delta happens Quadra Prop turns mid-wing slotnote shadow underneath does flip prop fantastic flier low-speed approaches made ungodly nose-high attitudehard believe Builder unknown Thomas plc Bruce begins folks retired Florida interested AE models told get rid workshop Regrets saved McCoy 29 Mills 13 Super Cyke Forster 29 RC receiver built Ed Lorenz plans Au Mills two sizes easy-starting smoothrunning imperishable low-power die sel made England recent ly India twas first diesel could start memorable Forster 29 perhaps best-made ignition engine overlapping WW II period much demand through about 1950 1983 friend gave original Buzzard Bombshell challenged build Augustus continues end tale now have 12 OldTimer Free Flights RC-assist models andover 40 OT engines Ijust acquired original Megow WOG kit perfect con dition Before put Uber Skiver balsa few questions freewheel get ques tions about airplane must mystery ship Briefly planked fuselage streamlined shoulder-wing ship polyhedral NACA 6409 airfoil Free Flighters favorite days Vagabond Strucks New Ruler non-lifting tail thin symmetrical stab section top wing sheeted efficiency strength planked fuselage syndrome may go back Leo Weiss magnificent Texaco winner St Louis Nats well before tke war likes Jim Cahills super Wakefield Thirties Clodhopper Megow WOG kit terrible wood over-thick stringy very heavy got wing down tight turn well stayed Ohlsson 23 en closed rather bulbous profile front end hence name WOG sport-flown less full power enjoyed its very fine glide People think nostalgia-period airplane because published 1944 SAM-ap proved SAM Society Antique Modelers Old-Timer airplane before 1942 cutoff date No WOG cant stand up postwar Civy Boy Ramrod former Paul Gilliam masterpiece balanced razors edgeat 110% typo chord Paul often paid price St Jeans Ramrod heck competi tor Hogan tradition still sensa tional machine Like others Bruce wants climb WOG straight up No athousand times no machine must flown under power wide fast circle exactly way Korda flew Powerhouse Korda good altitude after 180 turn Bruce asks good enough build FF competitions should make RC-assist Ive pix WOGs RC fun Old-Timers guys want Old-Timers FF competition build Vagabond could compete Sailplanes too SAMapproved Old-Timer Old Square Continued page 36 34 Model Aviation VIDkU PROGRA. 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David G Manley must decry loss several FF CL columns various modeling magazines Though fly primarily RC Gliders edays Sailplanes start model ing about 30 years ago FF CL though theres no CL little FF activity immediate area Im again considering building Nobler A-2 Point would hope AMA will least remind beginners entry mod eling need require seven channels balsa forest deed gas farm Publications should devote substantive coverage big kid block just hope MA will continue give guidance support contests fun-flying et al CL andFF justwantedtoventabitAu WenoteDaves use ofthe word continue connection MA worry Paul Fisher amused re marks about depth perception flying RCamen glasses dear wifes spotting much easier fly full-size thing Au Depth perception talking about lone oak tree Round Swampwhich everyone eventual ly hit including airline fighter pilots models always much farther away perceive higher maybe business seeing blob foolish far-out base legyouve gotta theorize what next have enjoying modeling 45 years off During late teens Paul continues lean out FF activitiestoo expensive kept flying away Now electric-powered flight has recent interest Enclosed picture DB Mathews Panther Au believe Docs reborn Peerless Astro 05 gear drive allows slow reflexes enough time keep up whats Continued Page 119 LEADER IN SMALL AIRFOIL TECHNOLOGY MASIER AIRSCREW 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 GIF 1/2A 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 HAWKER SEA FURY FB MK11 77 Span th 695 Wing Area 1120 Sq B uiltUp c5onstruction Deluxe Custom Kit $27500 Includes Spinner Tank Plan Pack $7800 P47 THUNDEBOLT 81-5 Span th 70 Area 1200 SQ t-Up 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balloon maximize passes should try three-channel cabin can twist turnon dime late Jack Port National Champ rudder-only days simultaneous session lone balloon about 50 ft high Selinsgrove PA ye pioneers gathered once year like fur trappers Jacksons Hole Jack splattered pieces good 100 ft Well Ive holding some marginal snaps much too long friend Jerry Fan Maybe should see So heres Jerry no Jerry dont have 2year lead time Just note Jerry said about some west Texas fun stuff Tie helium balloons l0-ft-long string try hit balloon planeaint easy Au Yeah man Thats man few words short tether todays straight-in bombskies must bubble-headed variation limbo-pole act eyeglass case nonchalantly pop open go engine collectors meetings just fun pictures show 010 configured just like Atom second 020size ignition sideport has brass spinner tank venturi exhaust stack make own spark plugs two engines thread 6-40 -in hex third half-size replica Mills 045 Diesel one-quarter volume made casting glven small ignition engines really practical explains Gus due size coil condenser batteries halfsize Mills replica good Walnut-size models have also built two smaller diesels 008 006but have unable get run So far have built about 30 engines castings bar stock built using 6-in Atlas lathe 3in Unimat both attachments Gus builds clever models well Id like know about al though cant use pix two recent Old-Timers 1940s Ohlsson 60 ignition-powered cabin job Toughie MAN construction mm mm mm mm mm mm m m mm mm mm m I 1Jr Aviator Program Questionnaire Club/Individual NameI 2 Address/District I II I___________________________________ II 4I _______________________________ II II 6 Are Presently Active AMA Adopt-A-School Program I 7 Would Willing Work Interested Youths Building Flying Rubber-Powered Models Control Line Models Simple Gliders Note See Post serzptI 8 Why Wt tn Hpln9___________________________________________ 9 Would Willing Offer Youth-Oriented Flying Contests Promote Lessons Phone Number Area code Members Would Like Assist Present Club Youth Programs Within Area____________________________ Arden miniatures recent article Ray Arden miniatures prompted take some pictures few miniature engines have built says Gus Munich coordinator MECAModel Engine Collectors Assn Ive always fascinated tiny Ray Arden engines As collector has always dream find Rays missing miniatures disappeared after death hear used carry around old eye glass case show people Well thats what I put some miniatures old Good 10 Areas Modeling Interest within Club 11 Are Willing See Program succeed Through Hard Work Continued Interest Required 12 Any Special Youth Requirements Area I I I I IReturn Geoff Styles Director Public Relations Academy Model AeronautIcs 1810 Samuel Morse Dr Reston VA 22090 mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm m March1985 119 Engines Engineered Meet Demands Most Discriminating Modeler Backed Service Match Engines Have Points Easy Starting SACHSDOL MAR 31 5OHP-BIbs11 oz 28500 31 O IwIth Muffler SACHSDOL MAR 37 65 HP-S lbs 15 os 325w 34500 WIth Muff len *KIORITZ 24 *The Work Horse *32HP-6/slbs * 169~ * ct Sales Only COBRA *The New Standard *For Giant Models * 31 HP 5A lbs * 149~ * Direct Sales Only ALL ENGINES READY TO RUN INCLUDING 6 BOLT PROP HUB MOUNT AND MOUNTING BOLT MUFFLERS AVAILABLE AT EXTRA CHARGE 857 High Mountain Rd North Haledon NJ 07508 article second Gooseneck pylon FF electric-powered using Robbe EF76 361 gear ratio Top Flite 14-6 Turns 4600 rpm 12 Sanyo cells Both RC-assist fly great Some folks tinker Some fly Few tinkerem much flying Gus inveterate tinkerer forever flying test/fun ships aniazes man has done much Electrics can go virtual ly unnoticed Tinkerer Flier Plainview Hicksville area Long Island still potato farms succession yearly sites farms lay bare housing developments Gus cooked up reed radio vibrating leaves stock tin think Gus five reeds connected rudder After work hed fly old Cox 010 Lightning Bug backyard wearing out four engines process Ive just digging through reams letters about ongoing Electric stuff June 1983 told getting 10-mm flights off 10-mm charge day long eventually got down 300 sq old FFs high gear ratios huge folding props 05 Electric guys will dig windy Saturday gave oppor tunity make 57-to-i gear box Leisure LT 50 flew 17-8 folder Au Thats standard-size Quar ter Scale wood prop gear box hardwood spacers -in ball bearings Zapped place Ten flights Performance 2100 rpm six cells plane climbs about same altitude 10-mm charge 10-6 11-7 11-7or l1-6onthe2to-i gear ratio think see light plane weighs certain amount rises say 1500 ft certain amount potential energy So put certain amount energy six cells charging energy results climb equal potential energy clear now no magic involved Gold whar find wish done book called Purple Plan 1 PP-i gluing piece two night big trouble PP-2 incidentally trying make up mind what make next PP-i underground going full tilt Don Srull cheats used expand produc tion sly way add dozen making Anyhooo give RE Gibbs Somewhere read Gibbs begins purpose art make viewer reader aware what knows does nt know knows Since latest col umn October MA obviously written personally just obviously represents piece writers art rather writers craft Im referring course Purple Plan 1 PP2 et al After 1934 beginning modeling have exposed arcane meanderings imposed faithful hobby spelled out column latest layoff lasted about six years ended early 1983 saw heard first four-stroke Nothing would except trade old Orbit single stick new Ace Silver Seven drag junk attic studio Again old problems along delights surface again As socalled fine art painter means Im selfemployed paint what wish try sell paint what someone else wishes guess Im coarse art painter crazy la bels self-discipline order day absolutely necessary paint day Muse rebuffed wanders off sulk among old brass deBolt fuel tanks framed Westland Widgeon Swaneys old MAN framed own desigu OS 10 model mags gaps back 1929 large pile must plans gradually surely being converted mouse dirt No doubt about Purple Plan 1 answer Aha Muse looks quizzically direction under snippit silver Permagloss PP1 Mr Winter formal respect has falling rain simplicity Great Thought thank have made modeling enjoyable again What Muse really really dislikes Gibbs revs up fallout PP2 expression pure disgust picks way through unfinished fore PP1 projects collecting dust 50 ] d S100in Cash Check Stamps 32 Page Tabloid size illustrated DISCOUNT Catalog Sent 1st Class Mail COMET COX FLYLINE- FOX GOLDBERG GUILLOWS JETCO K&B- PACTRA PECK POLYMER PERFECT- SIG STERLING ULLIVAN TOP FLITE & OTHERS PENN VALLEY HOllY CENTER 837 1 Main St LandaisFa 19441 120 Model Aviation w TMGM MFG Phone 1-201-427-3845 MACKEYS TRADE WIND KITE CO P0 Box 2698 Mission Viejo CA 92690 Modelers like TRADE WIND practice Light strong winds stable maneuverable Complete kit includes Ripsiop Nylon sail Key lar non-stretch lines handle/reel Fokker Drl screenprinted Red$2695 Sopwith Camel printed YellowS2695 Red Yellow Blue w/o printing saS2495 3-Pac above tandem flyingS5995 Stain Inquly welcome CA ,sidmnts add tax Order yours today practice fun USED F55CXSION UEOIATICSPSECTICI CONDAT WIThOUT PEAR OP CsasmuaWIThOUT 5E5UIIDiEC CLAYTON ariu SR S C FIUDIU 40 2310 RAVENWOOD D PRAIRIE TEXAS 75050 PLAN SET SHIPPED POST PAID IN U 5 have questions answered featur ing worlds greatest Swap Shops no dealers complete refreshment centers Saturday Night Auction acres free park ing Complete radio control systems radio control kits engines will raffled off during course exposition Bring latest completely finished model display enter competition exciting awards models entered competition will judged Best Finish Best Mono-Kote Directors Award Best Show new THIRTYFl RST ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will pre sented lucky winner Best Show Com8 join us enjoy yourselves un questionably worlds greatest radio con trol model show Open public three great days MARCH 29 30 & 31 Advance tickets may ordered sending large selfaddressed-stamped envelope Tickets 38235 Castle Romulus Michigan 48174 Include check money order made payable Weak Signals R/O Club must please indicate expo days tickets used Prices $400 per day adults $100 per day children 12 under tickets along program will mailed back March 10 1985 Presented by Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO studio Hand-Launched Gilder framed 15in Rubber Piper Super Cruiser Mooney MAN framed Peck Pietenpol Peanut allbalsa Malibu Slope job tail-dragger OS 10 own-design shoulder wing sketched 1 920s lightplaneprob ably British 0S 10 framed Balsa USA Tempo OS F540 afore mentioned Widgeon 6-ft three chan nels 0S F561 feel very very good PP 1 will finished Someday four-strokes having punched start button again have spent enough guilt-ridden time ready three projects fly regularly 18year-old Mayfly design published MAN 1966 Ace SS R&E Cox Med 049 glow Davis Diesel mood hits Two Doc Mathews Kloud King Cox Black Widow R&E Cannon two-channel brick built nonstop start finish way go winter last year hopelessly snowed week live farm Three quickbuilding botch-up designed utilize 600 sq wing found growing attic Ace SS RET 56 oz Went together real fast no wing build hence name Teasum Three Evenings Saturday Until Mid night Started life OS 25 FSRon glow 10-4 prop gets off ground about 4 ft real pussycat air Switched Davis Diesel head 11-4 prop everything before except takeoff run stretched out about 15 ft Flying past six months Saito 30 four-stroke better before takeoff run now about 30 ft 10-6 prop Saito tachs about 7500 rpm should last forever Idles full tank out 1200 rpm tached 600 pops per minute Lovely little gem club York Area RC Club Inc adds about three four new members month total membership about 90 makes Kamikaze-style weekends dont really enjoy other photographing mayhem time time prefer Wednesday mornings company couple retired guys dont need PP 1 Fly 9 am until 2 3 afternoon No crowd no problems just set own pacefun year round January ther mometer 240 guarantee have field ourselves have field house facilities making coffee winter affairs series Keystone Cops routines Get field frantically transfer junk trunk flight line rip field house coffee Thoroughly enjoy brilliant companionship coffee until some idiot suggests time fly Dash out flight line start engine Adjust needle valve bit rich hopes engine will quit after about minute air No luck Blasted thing never ran better Must have up 15 mm least Feet cold Only four minutes Are kidding dont believe Confounded four-strokes run forever Ah Lloyd landing Ill sneak right behind him Oh nohes just doing touch-and-go swear nose frozen Bob walking across field transmitter AhaLloyd down safe ly Ill macho thing make circuit before landing Lloyd just ran field house What Bob doing other side field come across edge field Putt putt putt Home again Bob looking airplane-shaped hole snowbank Better help Bob Left hand numb Bob has right arm airplane-shaped hole shoulder Says cant feel anything Nei ther can Right foot just went out Bob now airplane-shaped hole head-first visible waist down Looks funny too cold laugh Might break some thing Lloyd joins us wants know what Bob doing cant answer because dont know what Bob doing As matter fact cant see Bob eyes watering badly cant see Lloyd Lloyd leads back field house Well go back Bob later After cup coffee Ah can see again maybe notsnowman walks stiff-legged through field house Its carrying Bobs aglet Its Bob have coffee lie about much fun having Much serious discussion results opinion must fly snowbanks make sure flying high-drag dirty model dont penetrate far Lloyd Continued page 124 March 1985 121 serve March 2930 &31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show See latest greatest radio control equip ment presented leading nc man ufac turers Talk notable nc personalities Fun/Winter Continued page 121 suggests go flying Bob pelt him foam coffee cups now 10 oclock Ill never make till two goes 52 weeks per year Weather permitting Muse now sprawled over old Min-X GG-1 transmitter Rand actuator making Zs So much art old rig still works adds fuel PP2 mess Lloyd has also talk about building couple pulse rudder/throttle things time machines hesitate As wife says cant go home again can visit neighbors dont take too seriously because also calls Quarter Scale models quarter pounders Well see Sorry thing has gotten completely out hand Gibbs dead-sticks tramps over attempt simple thank letter really what intended have sorry feeling todays RCers aware tantaliz ing mistique small man-made flying things Sportsmen rather modelers rate remind us older kids feeling lost among nutsand-bolts words published. Now hear As fellow member NYRC read great interest ar tide Arcola International Decem ber issue Model Aviation changes field over past year have nothing short amazing majority improvements ie bulletin board re-gravelling parking lot gravel boxes flight line refurbishing transmitter impound flowers reseeding have ac complished stalwart efforts Fred Locks 1984 NVRC vice-president son Sean hardest part labor im mediately evidentthe lobbying funds accomplish feats along others feel labors should acknowledged IS/David Beazley NVRC secretary 1985 Au Fred isa quiet frail guy white hair Ive talked him went about never-ending labors counterparts deserve medal Correction address Frank Macy re-creator Jim Walkers catapult 404 Interceptor other models A-J Fun Pak PO Box 545 Oregon City ORnot shown column last month Also see A-J Fun Pak ads issue flying season ended way began lovely long thermal flight Vagabond Old-Timer Just right lift hold altitude Such inner glow wonders guess Fun Objective Subjective airplane constantly impose will asserts its liberty doing its own beautiful thing Circling silently high graceful trance-like Surely epitome flying pinnacle full-scale model Beholding am subconscious bird watcher Hawks buzzards pelicans frigate birds word Au dubon Preserve species Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Faitfax VA 22030 Don Kichot/Miller Continued page 29 upside-down wing tips small ring fitted rubberbands will help attaching wing hooks engine wasstarted first flying session firstthingwe noticed unusual noise may caused shape prop nearness prop trailing edge wing both sound unique will attract attention regardless what other plane flying time Enya 40 four-cycle likes 1 5%-nitro fuel will fly 5% though wont have quite same speed zip found out used 5% mistake wondered performance drop ped off much however still able stunt model model stable flight once has trimmed-out found best trim the-elevator up top horizontal tail looked flat like inverted lifting section start neutral elevator allow plenty trim Don Kichot model has character istic found very-high-thrustline models full-size aircraft throttle retarded quickly model will rear up advanced rapidly will pitch nose-down either case trim returns normal soon speed has stabil ized new throttle setting correc tion best made elevator control stick throttle moved slowly pitching noticeable no time pitching real problem except worth remembering very low slow pass will land quickly advance throttle Neither full-size prototype nor model intended aerobatic ever know few modelers can resist little bit extrovert flying model has tested few maneuvers model will loop quite well though little extra speed helps will reasonable slow roll will roll off top loop Stall turns really nice positive Spins easy recovery immediate release controls Negative-G ma neuvers should attempted serious risk wings pulliAg out model easy build unusual see flight ground true scale model does require truck hauling will rupture you pick up does need degree aeronautical engineering build will fly up half-hour 8 oz fuel What else say 124 Model Aviation CLEVELAND GIANTSI MEW FOR GIANTICALE BUFFS Worlds Largest Gas Plans AssQrtnqeee INTRNA7IONALLY FAMOUS CD QUAUt9 MASTER MOGOLS PLANS 54SDOeneieellO 21 54 7t0Ceeeel Con TEYSA $42 72 Con 0261/4 L&S $46 104 Con Con PBY5A $56 63 Honnond too lIne $45 96 Wnight-Nenytooe 84877 oeins 517G Font 835. 52 W-Wnnet2t Red 1036 103 Roe E-t7G Font $55 77W-Wne131 ted 1 $4868 Odos 046A Ott. $32 86 Fobben 77 9n $39 108 Simon S3R Aenpln $49 60 ttotoond Fete Rote 53260 Roe 100 Spent $36 oylee Gte-S. 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