Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 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fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting other fellow fly first Use impound area insist others flying likewise En force frequency control means clothespins whatever Use frequency flags Frequency flags AMA con trol scheme cant denied insur ance charged fine put jail fail ing mount proper flag mounting wrong flag trans mitter can put out AMA activity including AMA club flying other hand dont depend frequency flags protect youl still too pastel flags around could anything Red Brown Orange rebels like own kind flag better Throw some crystal-swapping now legal module-swapping changing 140 Model Aviation handing line. complete line decals available model anywhere 6 NEW KILL MARKING SHEETS nsignia sheets also letters numbers e majordecals available popular 40-60 sizes plus Giant Scale American and~ 0 WW sizes believe major decals have comprehensive assortment available now sizes styles coming time pressure sensitive water transfer 00 DISTRIBUTORS INQUIRIES INVITED COITACT YOUR LOCAL HOBBY SHOP OR WRITE DIRECT Well bet line youll 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1985/04
Page Numbers: 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 131, 134, 135, 137, 140
Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 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fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting 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Bill Winter [I Just Fun t OVER THE RAINBOW month everyone escape mood teasing fade-out Indian Summer present chill breezes hibernation building season upon us have hounded desist months guys wanting Pronto plans MAN 1972 guys went Purple Plan nuts composer just rewrote music wish reborn rekitted pick simple project must danged near 200 pieces wing old Rookie Clue Total pieces divided days equals pieces per day equates total time eyes bigger stomach youll end up Dolor de la Cabesa sorrow head 110 days have rough framewell almost Es cape Right now Would believe Phineas Pinkham G-8 Bill Barnes other heroes Escadrille days pulp publishing really lived thousands remember noses quiver eyes get teary Guys fly Rubber Scale know newsletters revere gory days all-conquering fictional aces Pulps think publishing always like Before Lfe beganpictures conquered wordspublishers lived Cabbage Patch world could never meet demand depth Depression brother can spare dime golden opportunities hung like plums picking Four guys might share desk space some Union Square loft Big Apple use phone-answering service some years later would multi-million-dollar outfit Midtown Manhattan share profit some printers idle presses would publish 22 Model Aviation Left This July 1936 Issue Bill Barnes Air Trails featured Frank Tinsleys design fabled Silver Lancer Note its tandem engine counter-rotating props Macchi Castoidi Schneider racer hub cannon icading edge radiators retractable single float big model department edited Gordon Light 1933 Wakefield Cup win ner Bill Winter contributor aboard later same year magazine about size MA thinner developed pocketbook pulp called Bill Barnes Air Adventurer Air Trails already predominate title become solely Air Trails threeyears later Right Typical gory heil-bent-for-leatherfiction pulpa G-8 Battle Aces Authors prophetic scene old cover mind boggling 1918 Spads strafing German ramp-launched guided missile Late WW lithe Nazi V-i buzz bomb reality Millions followed headystuff Photos theAMA Museum Library may laugh now circa 1930 hoked-up adventures depicted covers G-B Baffle Aces three copy righted Popular Publications 1933 late 1965 As recent July1971 Berkley Medallion Books reprinted others new magazines nothing Some houses giants beginning Street Smith met Bill Barnes Round Table cronies began dime novel 1855 Operating out three sixstory buildings S&S worlds richest publisher 100 titles going back Wild West Buffalo Bill ran four Hoe presses 24 hours day capable 12000 magazines hour Net exceeded $25000000 15 years straight An editor made $30 week Some S&S pulps sold roughly 1000000 copies issue perhaps weekly cowboys Frank Dick Merrill Yale baseball heroes Detec tive Stories Love Stories Shadow Shadow knows lost crowd about 75000 amonth BillBarnes Air Adventurer stage set air heroes WW Jousting knights like Richtofen hunter Fonck supreme marksman gallant Nungesser Frank Luke balloon buster Eddie Rickenbacker Voss Bishop Ball Mannock et al created kids Twenties fantasy world Wagnerian gods Only nine years after WW Lindberghs daring New York-toParis flight electrified hundreds millions possibly mans first step moon Bamstormers surplus Jennies Hisso Standards decade trans ocean heart-stoppers airmail pilots Rides 504 Pioneer airplane makers hopeful factories mostly doomed dis aster Youth wanted near airplanes touch mostly just look hang around dusty country fields Mania bur geoning pulps near kids would ever get flying Wild West What can old wings tails Dick Flemings 1957 hIgh-thrust FF Thermic wing Zaic giidercut down 100 80 inoutgrew available flying fields lost someones attic now reappears Elteeb beetle spelled back wards ha canard using modified enlarged FF stab rear pylon-mounted Cox 049 RC Flies great Torp 35 049Winter says real progress 900 squares Locals 40-powered ships shake heads disbelief Elteeb lovely Drums Turbulent built RC Sweitzer Enterprises plans BIll Kaluf 23% full size 58/4-ln span good match its Saito 45 four-cycle 1 251/2 Graupner prop Covering British Solartex Winter adds Hobby Lobby wheels both Bills use em realistic light side-mounted engine given realism addition two scalelike cylinders oppo site side WInter says structure too easy too tough either meticulous closely follows full-scale airplane April 1985 23 Emil Agosta retired North Carolina found 45-mile-away neighbor Jesse Anglin producing J-3 Cub look-alike Kitten ultralight see text Emils 1/a-scale model spans 120 will gross about 14-17 lb Tartan single 134 cu glow Zenoah G-23 Structure full-scale ultrallght model-like Emils smaller copy about much true scale can get Dave Trost flight-testing Midwest Giant Sweet Low Stik Field Bench report Winter happened along Dave removabie tall assembly planned removable wing panels Quadra 22 turned 7000 gas 18-10 Zinger glow version 7800 10% nltro saving 8 o no flywheel etc burning ito 1 oz giow fuel per minute Winter impressed cautious safety techniques used Dave helper An excellent smoker note smoke trail holds through huge loop Left A lightly-loaded flying wingfor sport flying thermaling slope soaringwill loops inside outside rolls spine inverted flight gotta kiddin Robbe says can Geler have electric-powered version shown eight-cell pack Elevons fun anytime Specs Span 596 area 713 sq weight 34 oz 56 oz electric EF-76 Ii bad area Right Robbes Parat TF does basic maneuvers 09 glow engine its basically three channels can have aileron control wish An all-balsa ship can also Electric EF-76 Ii direct-drive motor eight 12 Ah cells Winter says really doesnt plug commercial stuff combination approach both subjects praiseworthy over again goggled helmeted super heroes inevitable yammer ing machine guns instead six-gun 'equalizer' Most pulps fantasiesgood guys bad guys right wrong cowboys indians aerial Westerns gal verboten G-8 makes TVs A-Team bunch sissies Others Bill Barneswhich evolved Air Trails audited circulation surpass ing combined totals of todays model mags 75000000 less popula tion thenwithout giving up bloodand-guts heroics took full-scale model aircraft seriously Flying Aces started model department toobefore FDR president Frank Tinsley old caval ry-man famous Western artist de signed Bill Barnes fighters transports etc concocted hub-firing cannons infrared sights retractable floats tiny folding-wing fighter carried inside mother ship prophet So Robert Homer member Glastonbury Model Club captain USAF Reserve Ret ex-B-24 B29 pilot LTC Civil Air Patrol flying L-16s C-172s registered professional engineer Life Charter mem ber Connecticut Historical Assn built Quaker Flash Baby Cy clone 1938 Bob owns operates New England Air Museum Bradley Inter national Airport Windsor Lock CT 06096 finest promise land went see Frank Tinsley May 1965 after seeing illustration done Hartford Courant restoration Essex Harbor Bob relates told about days withAir Trails author George L Eaton just house name did exist like authors Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Bobsey Twins. 30s said readers got very picky would complain showed trim tab right wing Stormer story another Thats design Bill Barnes planes draw accu rate three-views asked him what happened Bill Barnes crew Homer continues said written article 1951 Air Trails stated Bill involved research since hadnt heard thing said should see man named Mir R cant disclose 24 Model Aviation Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him saysJohnny Luxon TheGolden Flier has doing its stufffor2o monthsclimbs75 100 ft 200-ft circles makes run-out landings does Astro 02 electric motor five Sanyo cells small ones naturally way plane isa Free Flight real name Frank gave address Long Ridge section Stamford CT Au card file holds Stamford ad dress popular pulp writer day old newspaperman cre ated never-forgotten character another magazine since doesnt answer too will reveal name As George L Eaton really two guys Monty Montanye WW flier Chuck Verrall alternated monthly 60000-word Bill Barnes opus idea writing article Bradley Air Museum Newsletter now New England Air Museum saw Mr R says Homer knew what happened Bill Barnes crew also G-8 Phineas Pinkham Mr Rs story never got write article first met Bill 1 920s began Mr R graduated BA pre-law joined Army Air Corps returned college got law degree amateur pilot saw Bill around airports got friendly offered special job government thought Bill As special agent State Department form secret committee members Air Force Navy Coast Guard FBI Army Navy Intelligence given money out special fund combat international crime secret because extreme isolationist attitude government couldnt sponsor anything international gave Bill mon ey build alrport fleet planes hired pilots ground crew sworn secrecy started operations suc cess recorded Air Trails 1938 Mr R recalls Barnes operation shut down Bill went Wright Field helped Air Corps evaluate own aircraft designs Because small size Bills organiza tion fine planes multi-pur pose therefore too expensive Bill joined Army Air Corps rank Lt Col given command A-20 group flew North African campaign Bill ended up Brig Gen Wing Commander Wing later flew A-26s time Bill back Wright Field Chief Light Bomber Procurement Au can look up fyou wish went England test flying British-American Labs doing radar countermeasures work Test flights conducted over Germany After war Bill set up consulting service Stamford did special jobs sometimes government killed automobile accident early 1952 Au Mr Rs remarkable memory kept meticulous diarytells us what became Bills trusted flying com panions Sandy Shorty 1938 Barnes organiza tion broke up Mr R recalls Sandy got degree engineering management Continued page 26 Book life live over priority would possess remarkable Paul Matt books HistoricalAviation Album series necessarily must review appeal reader look beyond love historic classic aircraft volume treasure trove superb professionally-drawn thoroughly-re searched drawingsand long backup arti cles completely explore readable fashion history type its marks through years paralleled numerous rare pictures treasure vol umes have Already 14 issues out printas painful fact lost animal spe cies 120 historys signifi cant aircraft have covered date subject fortunately still available two 17 x 22 sheets detailed accurate working prints di mensions airfoils cross sections color schemes scales standard de signed easy use scratch modeler working own medium never knows new volume will appear amount spade work truly know appalling resultswould hon orthe National Airand Space Museum albums Smithsonian product won der man Paul Matt could funnel life such overwhelming projects Simi larly contributor obviously does like wise come discussion Matts Vol 17 through back door have cor responding George Clapp years share love Fokkers Fairchilds others too know 18 Georges years went developing exacting tale facts drawings Fairchilds long last see daylight Vol 17 awesome gaps bridge lost company files fire-lost materi als vanished engineering drawings Incredible detective work eventually solved myriad mysteries George worked close ly Smithsonian has used some drawings its own one-subject aircraft books Data has painstakingly amassed Fairchild restoratidn projects some casessome have fol lowed year after year cover Vol 17 full-color flight shot currently-flying American Airways Fairchild FC-2 struts foreground testing camera plane some classic biplane book about same size ModelAviation has 96 pages printed deluxe 80-lb coated stock newsprint about 40-lb weight 012 card cover varnished Perfect spine binding emContinued page 140 April 1985 25 Left Old-timer Bill Cann readies Zenoah-powered Rearwin RCM plans Winter recommends taching big engines before flying session shown pre cisc rpm flights says too Rearwin flies much like Aristocrat time Bill brings out rudder-only 22-year-old Airknocker people ask plane can fly elevator control Cann shot three consecutive touch-and-goeswith itthrottie too though Egyptian artifact waddled like duck doing Right Tn-engined Cub Fred Locks really has two freewheeling 5-3s addition ST 40 10-6 little props spun fast original plastic tube bearings melted now has metal bearings Remember story Arcola international NVRC site Winter flies dec orating achieved Fred Locks son Fred wouldnt need slingshot Goliath High film strength lubricant increased power long engine life Detergents cut performance robbing varnish Highest quality ingredients insure top engine performance reliability Anti-foam additives prevent high RPM lean out Rust preventatives protect expensive engines Type Nltro /a Lubricant4 Gal24 Gal64 Gal 124 Gal FAI0/oSynthetic$675$595$575$550 5s50/aSynthetic$775$695$675$650 Sc50/0Castor Oil$775$695$675$650 4-cycle70/sCastor/Syn$850$765$750$725 4-cycle150/aCastor/Syn$995$895$850$825 lOs100/aSynthetic$895$7 95$750$725 lOc10%Castor Oil$895$795$750$725 R/G121/20/aSyn/Castor$995$895$850$825 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North Canton OH 44721 216-499-5323 joined Air Force given direct commission 1st Lt went direct P-40 transition went Eng land P-47 squadron later changed P-5 shot down six Ger man planes returned Major After several jobs did pan out decided restart Bill Barnes Squadron came Mr R continues got him some surplus two-place Tigercats retired still knew some people old Barnes field now covered neat rows Cape Cod houses Levittown Plainview probably found field farther out island Au might research origins Mastic Air Strip practiced landingsand towed sailpianes operated Sandy financed money inherited Bill family inheritance no longer government money Old Squadron mem bers now too old duty recruited friends WW II Air Force Navy situation soon bogged down legal problems Mr R sadly relates get special permission government helped him carry automatic weapons aircraft get private policeman licenses men states expected operate clincher found out notify state 10 days advance whenever bringing armed aircraft jurisdictions decided couldnt operate way went out business sold Tigercats firebombers went engineering consultant business has since retired living Hicksville NY Au Just north ofJericho Turnpike too farfrom George Myers abode foxy ole George aware nearby mysteri ous neighbor Keep eyes peeled George low-flying ultralights once pilot always pilot know Shorty Mr Ris emphatic went Army Capt assigned Kelly Army Air Base San Antonio TX helped organize Armys expanding aircraft maintenance system retired Lt Col eventually ended up presi dent Connecticut company modified Air Force aircraft under contract retired 1976 died 1981 Au understand went peace fully richly deserved Now back Mr Homer writes Mr R sure what happened rest crew heard gotten jobs production test pilots Army Navy instructors airline pilots went tell other aviation heroes Au Mr R unable apparently supply Mr Homer whereabouts various family members Flying Aces Club Newsletter has unearthed some promising leads Next month Mr Homer narrates Mr Rs remarkable recollections laterday careers G-8 buddies Continued page 28 26Model Aviation New 1/5 Scale Sea Fury Beautiful Stable Flyer Capable AllAerobatlC Standard Class Scorpion & Little Scorpion 2-Meter Class Scorpion TheU Little Scorpion effective March 1 1965 * Sleek T-Tail design * Spoilers * Full Hardware t Landings * Foam Wing Construction* * Cloth Wing Covers * Strong Easy Build Fusela. 0 pain * Eppler 193 Air Foil *3 Channel Radio Required rudderlsilerons elevator spoileral Fox Models 115 N Thornwood Davenport IA 52802 Add $500 shipping Nippy Bull Battle youll see Phmeas Pinkham found success unique waysomething Flying Aces crowd would possibly dream first time heard name Emil Agosta upon submission K&B powered Miss America February 1978 Model Aviation Sometimes undefinable symphony man ma chine telling us much about other lots builder/machine combina tions never forget probably because signal subconcious something~ ahead Emil retired 1983 built small house Weaverville NC see moun tainsfar far away fullest sense word Long Island Brooklyn perhaps ground out like us what think indentured servitude first priority base ment workshop Free last free last New machinery benches drafting table etc Very hard says one-man show Living teaching Long Island lot easier enjoy Am masochistic Emil built another Miss America possi bly beautiful machine come out mid-30s drew plans large vintage bipe got its bare bones almost ready wrote finishing bare bones unusual projectthe reason delightful letters item Last night perusing magazines watching TV very poor Emil began caught letter Clar ence Lee Tartan Au months back Clarence discussed two letters answering some points perplexed mein RCM course know engine because Sig Giuseppe Fantini asked distrib ute did want get involved business asked Dick Phillips help . put Fantini touch someone Au World Engines handles Tartan line discourse Lee informative know Norm Rosenstock proves common friend has Aristocrat am familiar its configuration What gets stated its weight being 28 lb Most guys would go Quadra-type engine Yet claims truly mind boggling Now what does have Au Can talk Aristocrat has 10 ft 4 wing 18-in chord mod eled after circa-1930 generous-area three-place craftno flaps hence area lighter loading size scale-effect Reynolds Number 35-38oz loading equates 20- 25-oz loading 5-ft plane make no claims 132 Tartan glow single cruises A-throttle no sense power lacking fact tachs 18-6 7000 rpm equates old Quadra 2 cu nearly incomparably lighter Ive blowing steam ever since Moses came down Continued page 131 28 Model Aviation K OPSs Little Pride Joys. modeler takes pride owning quality engine OPS offers Ursus 60 RC SLA 40 RC Both engines have ABC piston sleeves Schnuerle port dual ball bearings come OPS slide valve carb muffler Check out OPS engines local hobby shop have engine will proud own Parts People -~ 91%40JZ4 %c Uttice Box 26247 Orleans Louisiana 70186 242-5967 Continued page 21 tion increased over weekend exposure new people activity Much exposure due effort Black Sheep Squadron Burbank CA group organized put two fast-paced programs day Sparkplugged popular Addie Tony Naccarato group includes everyone pre-teenagers couple adult aviation engineers Black Sheep Squadron organized flying no means flying closed event attended anywhere wished fly model considered safe operate within not-unlimited con fines convention hail allowed gave us opportunity enjoy applaud types small lightweight Free Flight Control Line RC model airplanesfrom microfilm variety Indoor RC modelspowered electric CO-2 motors believe RC rubberband power Weve seen blimps hot-air balloons tractors pushers conventional canard big little Helicopters have missed turn various types powered rubber electric motorsand normal glow-engine-powered though latter have flown TV camera crews before event opened general public site flying exactly Nats proportions adequate small models types During opening part flight demonstration air full types rubber-powered craft Peanut Scale bipes AMA Delta Darts about later Black Sheep opened-up throttle liffle exciting Control Line flying exhibitions electric-powered dude carrier takeoffs landings realistic aircraft carrier complete arresting cables temporarily installed demonstrated slow fast forma tion flying followed electric-powered stunter could just about everything including inside outside loopsand crowd-pleasing inverted low-level flight something looked surprisingly like B-25 took air Black Sheep being good Navy folks call PBJ Anyway realism form flight enjoyed pieces de resistance Tony Naccaratos flight RC Farman followed further titillate crowdand end show extreme ly lightweight perfectly controllable 80-in-span model veteran four years IMS flying has performed other fly-ins both indoors out An important part public demon stration communication public must made aware what going Black Sheeps flying activities neither exception nor ignored Throughout entire program members public address system expertly inform ing audience what seeing way model airplane Scale ship air announcer also told audience about full-sized counterpart its history audience sent home empty-handed Anyone desiring vited area facilities provided help building trimming flying AMA Delta Dart Members Black Sheep Squadron instructed instead taking well-deserved break Though occasional adult could seen dutifully sticking Part Part B program mostly thoroughly enjoyed children pleasure derived simple model evident being no age restriction satisfaction ob tained creating something works supposed Black Sheep members reward time effort applause smiles got plenty both general public audience us current model ing activity centers around sevenchannel radios percentages nitro May always favored CAVU weather happy landings Fun/Winter Continued page 28 mount about three years ago urged big-plane builders throw out glow What baloney Think tiny Eaglet blown up loft area typical offull-size vintage planes massive machinery troublemaking overkill perfect usuallyneeded nose weight fyou want verti cal performancerolls going straight up have smaller wing area weights 12 15 lb maybe 18or20 OK big engine Think Falcon 56 flies very well does good aerobatics nice 25 Yet some times see piped 40sAt least can go what full-size plane supposed Aristocrat P-40 should course fly way satisfies us compels ap propriate subject choice no definitive answers Sailplane folks oversimplify settle virtually finite aspect ratios thin Eppler airfoils like Way go/But along comes few groups flying 15%-thick foilsthey too say way go/And did have take Turnaround Pattern show valid ity tail draggers Rudderbug estab lished trike syndrome days way get off just rudder control low power comes cynic runs crowd Agosta took hills landed smack dab Heaven stumbled Jesse Anglin designed built amazing ultralight aircraft Cub look-alike perhaps have seen ads machine called J-3 Kitten has model-like easy-to-build frame fac Continued page 134 April 1985 131 IM Show/Marez Rt2Box2547 La Grande OR 97850 503 963-0596 VERY FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS SUPERIOR MACHINE FINISHED PARTS SUPER CLEAN FLYING AIRPLANES ENJOYABLE ASSEMBLY FIRECAT SPAN 577 ENGINE 35 50 CLASSY LOW WING BEAUTY FLIES IN GROOVE EASY TO TRIM VERY AEROBATIC Also Available TOPOAT Span 577 $5950 BI-CAT Span 478750 LASERCAT Span 547450 Dealer Inquiries Invited tory piece~ away45 miles down road Emil thus able study factory methods construction knew winner Emil says fact took first place Lakeland FL latest open cockpit took first place Oshkosh EAA Fly-In Agosta light went V3-scale version RC beginners employing ordi naly model-building techniques feel states Emil large-scale builders Im guilty often resort welding brazing machine shop work etc within skill ability average sport flier feel thing will top out less 15 lb use smaller engines like 0-23 wrote Paul Kinney informa don engine read report Emil goes Au report just background case Clarence Lee could address problem started thinking amount engines flooding market today want make reliable choice Wingspan 10 ft chord 1725 area 2070 squares Au ballpark Aristocrat airplane should top out about 12 lb power plant course aerobatic plane airfoil NAS 64 perhaps modi fied took until 1 am plot factory ordinates Kitten exact scale did feel like shelling out $7500 factory drawings fun airplane worked three-view sketches photographs needed dimension drove factory engineer saw bare bones impressed Now will give anything cautious down about Yankees see results softens up helps exactly age talk about some planes used fly Agosta discouraged what thought aileron problem can milk 1-in travel up downtotal 2 full-scale J-3 Kitten has 6-in traveltotal 12 scale Emil needed 4 total travel possibly crucial because ultralight flies slowly could require proportionately larger movements vast underground folks dont find things like mags seek out others may have suggestions both ered Bob Wischer times built Aristocrat because no experience large horns hinges etc some basics eight years ago special suppli ers appeared same-specs Aristocrat weighs almost double Emils J-3 Kitten clues Aristocrat could slow-flown solid responses just above idle aileron control alone delayed due small vertical tail down-aileron drag climb-out waited 100 ft before broke mild turn Using CARrudder trav el 20% aileron movement caseit perfect use CAR switch off during takeoffs late final rudder alone handles flare roll-out Using CAR decidedand high rate Emils Kitten should OK lessthan-scale aileron travel now advises has differential 1 3/4 up using large Kraft output wheels now mention some thing jars memory like Lou Garamis workbench Emil concludes Honestly laughed out loud re minded Eddie Webster former crew chief TWA dont know built anything ping-pong table loaded auto accessories plumb ing parts just heaps undefinable junk laid out new plane simply would strong-arm contents back table could walk anywhere near back table fallen debris resembled county land-fill truly miss him course cannot forget Lou fixture Holmes Airport Au across what now LaGuardia Airport learned much him Fish-heads fish-tails dont know what came after reeds propo system fails result basket-case Reeds neutralized after pilot bailed out plane free-flighted aerobatic crates being what they usually ended up horrendous cart wheel What picked up entire PK PRODUCTS Specializing Quadra/Zenoah Sales Service PO Box 6226 Hayward CA 94540Tel 415 581-4277 Eves NewI MK II H & K Superstarters Q-35$2495 Q-50$2495 MAG II$3495 Super Hustler$3495 Zenoah$2495 Tartan Twin$3995 Roper 37$2495 90 Day Warranty ZENOAH QUARTZ CUSTOM Dual outlet aluminum muffler Carb rotated needle accessibility cowled Modified Quadra mount 6 bolt prop washer carb linkage Complete assembled shown $14495 $16495 w/superstarter DEALER INQUIRES IN V/TED ALL ORDERS ADD $200 POSTAGE & HANDLING CALIF RES ADD SALES TAX 134 Model Aviation JIM ROBERTS / 5I Fun/Winter Continued page 131 ATlENTION SCALERS EPOXY GLASS COWLS FOR NOSEN PICA 510 MOAGAM B4L54 USA PLATT CONCEPT FLEET PIOSTEflEK ACM T-CRAFT SHEBER PITTS B SCALE SUPER CUB FORKER 0-7 BOEING F- 12 P-26 P482 P454 SPARROW HAWK GEE BEE MOD r MACBA/ENS TURBULENT CHRISTEN EAGLa BRISIGHELJAS STARDUS TEA II A SCALE J3-BI BABY FLYBABY AIACAMPER PILOT JUNGMANAI 3B SCALE 1/4 SCALE DECATHALON PIPER PA-lB B OTHERS WHEEL PANTS FOR Ci TA BR/A STA RD US TEA II PITT& SKYBOLT LIBERTYSPORT CHRIS TEN EAGLE PBE HAWK STEARMAN S7NSON SAB MULLIGAN B OTHERS BRAZEDfr HEAT-TREATED WIRE GEAR5SCA3ANES LARGE SCALE PLANS AVAILABLE Send $100 latest list supply Modelers fiberglass parts plansWnte call us T 8 D FIBERGLASS SPECIALTIES 30925 BLOCK GARDEN CflY MI 48135 PHONE 313 421-6356 front end entire aft end hopefully hung shop wall some guys collections shamed African biggame hunters puzzlement Nobody ever figured out what hope springs eternal. still save wings tails soggy worn-out fuselages Flying surfaces dont make good stuffed mooseheads Astrolog ical influences command us some thing Perhaps readers would like know what old wings find atticlike did Thermic 100 wing says Richard Fleming returned-to-thehobby guy About 1957 built large Free Flight original except wing Thermic 100 kit clipped 80 went up fast Torp 35 Glide magnificent So fine available fields simply too small craft stored parents garage attic Two summers ago got wing back built Sailplane could learn about modern RC Both high-start Cox 049 launch methods used time wing flown up 35 now 049 would have thunk possible year built another plane old Thermic winga canard Dick goes first wasnt entirely successful Under power Elteeb beetle spelled backwards flew quite well en gine ran easy control would glide fine time nose would drop sharply reasoned front surface sufficient low speed would lose lift before hind surface main wing needed much larger slow-flight-efficient front surface Au requires canard suiface less incidence Actually modified lifting tail Free Flight mentioned above Interestingly enough built craft knowledge Lazy Duck pub lished MA some months ago Results similar Elteeb powered Cox parts engine made up TD shaft case piston cylinder mid-60s reed-valve something result unusually powerful engine hauls canard really well Total lifting surface 900 squares An 049 taking up over 900 sq guys roaring 40s shake heads wonder have used Thermic wing two other craft another story Dont some people still make wing kits Have guys used keep looking spare 6-ft lightweight Spitfire frame Don Srull has rafters wing gets resist hinting allude gets visions own have old wings Theres gold thar hills Dont send wing please could bust Purple Plan 1 project Glenn Curtiss sits leading edge lower wing sometimes modelers wave him flies low over heads Johnny Luxon tells us Johnny belongs Flightmasters Southern California took up gliding after pelican soared him beach So cant bad Pelicans can dynamic-soar wee ripples Ill bite Well seems has Free Flight 1909 Curtiss pusher Golden Flier apparition struts wires ailerons between biplane wings triple-finned biplane canard out front generous stabilizer single fin booms over place flies almost week endfor last 20 months sez heat Mile Square Park flying site has use long time Trivia Its Fountain Valley 31 miles north San Clemente Anyhooo Johnnys tribute Glenn Curtiss has 34-in span developed 3-in two-view drawing gave dimensions full-size airplane feet model 1 1 ft peculiar airplane Au Ill bet will fly nose slightly high makes excellent landings says Luxon hand launch slight breeze usually sinks some starts climbing approx 200-ft-dia circles until reach es altitude 75 100 ft starts gradual descent making 10 circles comes perfect landing runs along ground early flights successful make modffications add fifth cell order get climb above 25 30 ft altitude Cell Yes believe historic vision powered Astro 02 five Sanyo Ni-Cds doesnt say must small cells doesnt need much motor power supply Free Flight Electrics realistic hops just charge small battery few minutes fits shoe-box field equipment No fuss CO-2 like little FF Scale models just much fun Hey Glenn give look Im waving small world again January column Iran item about 1948-49 CL Stunter published Fawcett 1950 Model Builders Annual saying Old-Timer no knew about Wrong comments about 1949 Stunt King fit closely large growing segment CL activity allowed run Unofficial Nats event year Old-Timer Stunt course advises Lou Crane Heres packet prepared OTS fliers Reno Notice Stunt King certified-eligible OTS design listed inventors current event Garden State Circle Burners John Miske particular Au 15-page booklet including Official 1951-52 AMA rules pertaining CL Precision Acrobatics Regulations illustrated maneuvers Theres complete list designs under 09 covered published advertisements magazine articles prior December 31 1952 magazine title sources count 14 MAN 16 Air Trails nine Flying Models two handbook Air World Air Trails 10-year tenure behind TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA ONE MAIN STREET TOLEDO OHIO Reserve March 29 30 & 31 1985 attend worlds greatest radio control model show featuring worlds largest Swap Shops no dealers complete refresh ment centers Saturday Night Auction raffles com plete nc systems acces sories acres free park ing Bring latest completely finished models display enter competition forexcit ing awards Competiton models will accepted during show hours till 10 am Sunday morning no entry fee Complete nc systems will presented first second third place winners new Cannon A-i 35mm camera outfit will awarded lucky winner Best Show Open public three great days MARCH 2930 & 31 FRIDAY9 am-6 pm SATURDAY9am-6pm SUNDAY9 am-430 pm Weak Signals RIO Club PO Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April1985 135 ANNUAL RADIO CONTROL EXPOSITION nodel Hobb9 TOUCH UP AIR BRUSH FOR DETAIt PAINTING OF AIRPLANE WINGS AND BOATS$4fi00 AAERTO TEX MATERIAL YFT RESISTANT RI UE BLACK ORANGE iREEN ANTIQUE YELLOW 2 METER ROLL $720 TACHOMETER W/LED READ OUT FOR EASY FIELD READING QAflJ ACCURATE ENGINE RPM 7YJ 12 PIECE WOOD Z~- CARVING SET FOR HOBBYISTS/ \\ QUICK HEAT SOLDERING GUN 139 WATT 21 PIECE TOOL SET US SIZE SCREWDRIVERS PLUS PHILLIPS HEX AND WRENCH TYPES TRIPLE HANDS WITH MAGNIFIER N EXTRA HELP IN HOLDING THOSE SMALL PARTS WHILE SOLDERING GLUING OR PAINTING MAGNIFIER LAMP WITH MULTI-POSITION 39 FLEXIBLE ARM 3 DIIIPTER 4/ $3O LENS FOR 4 TIMES MAGNIFICATION another 10-year stint MAN cant help remember Pal mers Mars Aldrichs Nobler Saftig Zilch gosh Travel Air Scale bought Jim Hunt Bob Hunts dad now Bob presides over Flying Models Tempus fugit 88 kits am bit surprised said little about thriving activity centers close Lou remarks Au Lou Ive met four-generation modeling families Im firewalled write build sometimes travel nearby flying sites RC wee bit FE Rubber Everything next door seven-league-boots Californians Tex ans last time IsawJoisey DHDash-7 other side ofthe coin think Ive letterfrom mention Garden State Circle Burners lam postage stamp away don t believe RC-only worldor kids out style attendance Reno OTS fairly small Crane explains due time-slot ting first event Monday morning separation John Ponds SAM events Both courses action followed try avoid conflicts official Precision Aerobatics events fliers seen major pool probable OTS entrants turned out case Also have heard via E-Mail PAMPAs assistant newsletter editor Doug Figgs flying buddy Doug Pratt using CompuServe computerlink electronics mail bulletin board service some relationship AMA position Au suppose high-tech guys dig stuff butlstillfinger-paint cave walls know night Doug Pratt left something computer asking f anyone out model ing next morning seven re plies Now AMA building concept Heres strong endorsement such E-Mail Lou offers After volun teered OTS thing Doug Figgs able advise quickly hardcopy things needed know about. via E Mail second versatility voice phone callperhaps better 11 pm best time phone rates 2 3 am eastern time E-Mail waits until ad dressee picks up CompuServe also has free national bulletin board facility several dedicated services called Special Interest Groups might find use us few computations/applications arti cles flight simulator programs have already appeared mags trade shows CompuServe has advantage computer can set up work various computer brands otherwise harder link together central processor dialects differ number home computers around today modems terminal programs might need mention forum such Just Fun It. Continued page 140 could have RC airplane TEL EMASTER 40 should April1985137 HLA111 Hobby Lobby TELEMASTER 40$5050 great beginners also entertaining experts Big 73 wing span 3 5 RC channels Nearly flies itself has unusual ability fly badly con flruartsd Doug Pratt AMA HQ staff has hooked two major information services CompuServe Source few months maintaining informa tion sorts modeling stuff printing news bulletins running conferences answering electronics mail finds modelers dont know about AMA Anyone owns home computer subscribes either outfits can reach AMA through AMA address 700202 24 CompuServe ST6232 Source Right now Im year 2001or 2010 can reach oldfashioned way Pencil ball-point type writerIm fully equipped pre solid-state interpret anything Some names squiggles Perhaps writers should print Anyone ROGs Bill Winter 4432 Altura Ct Fairfax VA 22030 Book/Winter Continued page 25 ployed no staples issue has 193 se lected fine photos some 77 collected Clapp bible Fair childs purpose have waited years tell about Clapp coverage obtained example Matt found Col deVriesa retired Air Force officer expert Scale modeler writes column RCM dayscov ered Standard story Charles Days 1910 biplane Cicero Field Chicago through Hisso-powered Jenny lookalike J-1 J-1 better plane Jennie bedeviled WW different lousy engine Hisso J-1 proved much favored early barnstormers knew Charlie Day barnstormed Glenn L Martin babe arms Charlie produced Cur tiss Hawks China before during China-Japan war before WW II interviewed Charlie old Saturday Evening Post spent three solid weeks him old Lafayette Hotel lower Fifth Ave accompanied wife flown around world him biplane own design Charliewasa majorfigure laterduringWW II Martin-Marietta headed Ca nadian aircraft production deVries Matt tell show things enthrall also Vol 17 contains equally good cover age Cessna Bobcat Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina USAAF pilot train ing WW II superficial stuff PBY story example includes 57 photos three pages drawings plan view double-size fold-out sheet dont just recommend bookI hope foolish enough miss far underpriced $1000 can still get Vol 15 16 suggest send required 504 stamps coin Matts latest illus trated catalog Historical Aviation Al bum PO Box 33 Temple City CA 91780 Bill Winter Stroker/Randolph Continued page 38 tray slide along mounting rails until airplane balances point plans glue spot aileron servo also mounted plywood tray glued -in balsa risers front back servo well wing Hook up linkages servos surfaces check proper movement elevator throw measured trail ing edge should about 3/ in direction rudder throw should about 1A Ailerons should own no Set transmitter trim tabs middle range control surfaces centered Range-check radio after everything installed Flying have never flown plane four-stroke engine before first flight will feel engine running fast enough fly airplane somewhat reluctant rotate Fear airplane will leap air fly just well 40-powered sport airplane can expect very groovy easyto-handle airplane little trim change required between upright verted flight loops almost same either direction difficult make Stroker snap slow speed both aileron rudder full deflection will control held will spinreluctantly Landings quite slow con trol through stall conventional gear handles just easily threewheeler really works well grass strips beauty four-stroke flying great sound fuel goes almost twice far Radio Technique/Myers Continued pa 41 alert possibility danger wary cat checks out neighborhood before makes move overconfident cat forgets check ends up dogmeat becomes part pavement Dont send cat-lover letters would emulate wary cat get yourself monitor learn use properly Perform some ground tests faced new unusual situa tion Find out what flying before fly Keep Sailplaneor expendable traineraround Send up test new systems test air turbulence wind shears RF interference etc before send up something expen sive dangerous important certain advantages letting other fellow fly first Use impound area insist others flying likewise En force frequency control means clothespins whatever Use frequency flags Frequency flags AMA con trol scheme cant denied insur ance charged fine put jail fail ing mount proper flag mounting wrong flag trans mitter can put out AMA activity including AMA club flying other hand dont depend frequency flags protect youl still too pastel flags around could anything Red Brown Orange rebels like own kind flag better Throw some crystal-swapping now legal module-swapping changing 140 Model Aviation handing line. complete line decals available model anywhere 6 NEW KILL MARKING SHEETS nsignia sheets also letters numbers e majordecals available popular 40-60 sizes plus Giant Scale American and~ 0 WW sizes believe major decals have comprehensive assortment available now sizes styles coming time pressure sensitive water transfer 00 DISTRIBUTORS INQUIRIES INVITED COITACT YOUR LOCAL HOBBY SHOP OR WRITE DIRECT Well bet line youll 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