Canyou identifythisaircraft As modeled Bob King isa successful flierwith K&B 61 ora Fox 78 Read text clues IF THERE WERE banquet guest honor would Bob Hyde same age author began modeling before Lindbergh year 1927 1925 set world Twin Pusher record later bought out hobby shop Endicott NY ran hobby IBM engineer 1929 started Elmira Glider Club primary glider now hangs holy-of-holies Harris Hill Museum Elmira groups first pilot having taught himself flythere no glider pilots thenand obtained instructors license Always maintaining interest modeling Bob designed instruments Pioneer during war developed several including flight recorder B-29s 1946 bought Aeronca Chief flew 10 years two boys fascinated planes pursued Free Flight got Control Line early Fifties go race cars boats 1972 Bob became interested RC designed lightplane wished test model formso much fun never gave up Now 26 RC jobs has thing biplanes 13 flying 1/5-scale Jungmann -scale Curtiss Wright Junior pusher circa 1930 Marquart Chargersimilar Steen Skyboltis favorite 10 degrees sweep both wings fantastic flier flies several times week own field own permission year ago used up seven drums fuel has Bluehead 48In Tiger Moth 500 hours time last heard about sell out manufacturing line six RC racing hydro planes son Jim Bob won first third mono Tunnel Hulls Racing own Scat Cat hulls produced Hyde Engineering Crystal River FL Bob versatile inventor Hyde Power Systems Inc Bob developed revolutionary wheel-hub en gine cars steam-driven has five cylinders built-in wobble plateeliminates clutch flywheel transmission drive shaft universal differential rear axle unit Gets full power cold start 15 sec zero weather Can used one-wheel all-wheel front-wheel drive 500 rpm gets 40 mph VW 26m tire Units vary 10 100 hp 20 such cars pollute less standard suto uses no oil eitherGE Silicone grease has 10 times lubricity conventional greases Pix fascinating could go forever model plane magazine old enough have read modelinWair magazines before say 1937 no way earth can identify amphibian accompanying picture Genuine old-timers will go bananas Obviously model real planenote tandem engines turned counter-rotating props Clue number two famous pilot Shorty Hasfurther designer Frank Tinsley No published Bill Barnes Air Adventurer 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter extending wingspan Top Flite Airacobra above Bob Hyde found excellent Pattern ship forward canopy isa plus Pattern Below Typical Bob Hydes 13 bipes lovely scratch-built 1/5-scale Hawker Fury fightersimplified exotic sport flier deleting interplane struts making simple sheet-metal ar come Thats Incredible missed guy Bill Winters Vagabond FF RC assist own design 1944 Air Trailsit missed SAM Society Antique Modelers Old Timerdeadlinewhen flown bya month orso did Wog Competitivetothe sailplane Vagabond also just missed second Radio Control postwar Nats flown Trammell also model flown Lou Andrews didnt design Two pounds lighter Winters Sniffer Vagabond spans6 ft climbs lessthan half throttle K&B 19 Its covered transparent MonoKote red yellow opaque dark blue tips forvisibility Construction sticks skinny butthree standard Airtronics servos fit side-by-side 4 prop pitch no could possibly hit landing spot Unless balanced extremely nose-heavy must flown constantly under power soaring scads down trim Winters Old Square Sides box sport flier published before WW Ilunderthe pen name Sprague early Thirties mag became Air Trails American Modeler disaster area Lets run imaginary film backwards So want pictures something different said Bob King Granger IN about RC Bill Barnes Snorter ought bring back memories bs model Pattern-size has flown off water both Fox 78 K&B Veco 61 78 would take off 14-in prop did Veco However two finest flights came Fox turning 12-in prop Bob now building later ulitmate Bill Barnes plane famous Lancerwhich has single retracting float cites just such model plane used two Goldberg nose gear retracts swing float snug belly cant find Published about 1974-75 American ModelerBob Ken dall Indiana dreamed up mechanism plot thickens friend Bob King tells interested old Bill Bames airplanes writes Gordon Codding Kingman AZ Bob valued mem ber Bill Barnes Research Staff So camera closes Codding Youve heard Baker Street Irregulars international association thousands dedicated Sher lock Holmes same thing miniature group guys scattered throughout US have thing about Bill Barnes Lets input data roughly 193 1-32 about 1938-39 Bill Barnes Air Adventurer novels written George L Eaton reality two guys Harold B Montanye WW pilot Fly Like Pro Chuck Verall alternated months hang characters appear mile minute F Orlin Tremainethere editorturned Frank Tinsley old cavalry man illustrated westerns publisher Street & Smith dominated world pulp days Western Stories Detective Stories Astounding Stories nowAnalog some hundred others includ ing real old days Buffalo Bill Frank Merrill etc Like Jules Verne Frank generation ahead time aware anything could tip off Franks meteoric career aeronautics illustrator painted Air Trails covers designed incredible fleet machines Bill Barnes characters fly Lancer being writer came aboard January 1 1937 editor found ourselves middle Richtofens Flying Circus Tremaine fathered science fiction too scifi guys think John Campbell sainthe other side office partitiondo honor Tremaine wearing gray spats Franklin Roosevelt long cigarette holder explained fourth dimension us first day ancient roll-top desk shop Frank T know man street head clouds Mechanix Illust rated Doomsday Tins ley him illustratingthings like end world wowed Jack Parr shpw before Johnny Carson Masterminding artis tic warfare Joe Lawlor huge hooked nose made him model posed Shadow another company fictitious hero know knows what evil lurks hearts men Well back ranch tarmac Bill Barnes Tinsley designed roughly 15 flying machines vivid imagination conjured up cannons firing through prop hubs retracting floats bomb er mother ships carrying folding-wing fighters transports infrared sights on Ama zingly viable aircraft caught attention aeronautical world late scene got edit fantasy copy kind Walt Disney World During WW II pilot AAF Gordon Codding relates carried several pages torn Air Trails Bill Barnes planes three-view As mental exercise would try figure out ways make work real life advantage having best state art around AF planes task find workable item still retaining B-B features shown magazine drawings later years hoped build fly Full-Scale Gordon doing just home-builts ala Bill Barnes modelinghe has threeviews sale also some Barnes fleet structured models hence Snorter built July1981 17 Tom II 25-powered Peerless Panther built plans Doc Mathews magazine plan No 283 $5 Tom says finally reached Shangrila level Kraft Gold Medal 4-ch conversion Gordon Codding utilizes simple gadgets real foot-pedal rudder control Transmitter left has function-oriented control knobsjust pilot full-size plane uses Rudder pedals right made broken prop blades bicycle spokes full propellerplus bicycle brake cable up transmitter slide mechanism works AMONG THE senior local pilots bump flying weekdays Bob Crosby pushes three-year-old -scale Cub forward side-slips did unimaginable things 8-ft lightweighteven flying backwards across entire flying area precision control uses neck strap holds case true against chest tummy always faces plane hold transmitter cockeyed angles plane make hard yourselfstick movements can askew Europe straps transmittertrays arecommonmaybewe have cultural hang-upmachismo histransmitter hasa metal halfloop northeast northwest corners case providing fingers free tning Bernie Steucker presiaent Northern Virginia Radio Control Club volunteered shoot two quickie pix us thought interior transmitter interesting mainly because Bob two battery packs right left darned know disappeared tol can fly day switching pack other Double insurance wed say Another nifty thing Bob has Ace Silver 7 encoder bottom four Ace RF decks top changing plugs can operate three 72 MHz frequencies 27 MHz frequency AROOT 02 GLIDER Bob King also has plans list old-time models full-size prints WW aircraft came factory much Gordon Codding 3724 John L Ave Kingman AZ 86401 am looking now pile fascinating descriptions spread out wall-towall numerous prints Lord too much space cant dig deeply Gordon active RC flier days though gravely handicapped wears steel spinal brace up four hours day spirit Bill Bames propells him does carry incredible research helpers handle plans business uses transmitter mounted platform front him can fly models spot Codding knows about tells us few B-B planes plublished three-view Eaglet BF-4C Silver Lancer BF-7 Charger BF-8 Transport BT 4 12 designs plus varients Gordon somehow came up few loose ends transmitter rigged foot pedals like rudder bar flies models just did real ones cockoit Hes buildina RC rubber solid - guys FF look up toi 50 years experience among Lto Rare Bill Gough loves unorthodox Rubber Scale like IndoorGeeBee Sporister covered microfilm long-ago MAAI Vito Garfalo widely loved respected magnificent design talents rubber things really perk Joe Konefes Buzzard Bombshell became world-famous its designer almost quite got lost shuffle smiles should tell something WINGSPAN 56 versions complete Barnes fleet model museum almost got away us does have museum gone now bigger-than-life crea tive people Depression days what legacy left Sadly Codding has written everyone sight including magazines never got answer Incredible alas too typical apologize skimming surface guys built Panther Doc Mathews published December 1979 ModelAviation youre sport flier flair old-timers once Peerless kit may have missed something accompanying pic Tom MehI Sand Lake MI has way words appreciation pure flight have own private special satis faction fine hobby Tom writes get up before sun brew coffee read Just Fun before rest world can intrude Being immersed tales flying past present fine flying itself Enclosed picture Panther because first success achieving plane flies have described flight well beauti ful beyond description air Though rolls spins prettily Doc promised almost never fly way preferring instead float around just watch flying wing have finally reached Shangri-la level Challenges relative simple building project real challenge came out beautiful Pure straight whole thing gives terrific satisfaction being bridge own lackluster abilities fine things have written about note Tom went low cost route Power Thunder Tiger 25 Hobby Shackhas rough castings runs surpris ingly well Flies lowest throttle settings Coverite two coats fuel-proof Zar urethane varnish doesnt yellow muffler varnish Tom proud weighs 3 oz less weight given Docs article Incidentally pleaded Doc model natty-looking low-winger youd reborn give yourself chance watch airplanes come George Aldrichwho still threatens fly big Nobler Stunt Natscouldnt resist siren song first love Free Flight Step daughter Debbie holds Spearhead Jr niece Karen Struck New Ruler Spear head thewildest pretty decorated crates weve ever seen must have noticed cant buy Magnum fuel finest moonshine ever brewed stills Texas Winter still has four gallons gotta screw needle two full turns never residue airplane must burn everything Alas comes fuels us dont know difference between black molasses pure maple syrup whatever days alive ride vagrant air looks much like stunters probably roll loop spin invertjust like other guys tear up weekend skies have both waysuntil have both ways youll never real hightime pilot command pilot quialified fly anything everything enjoy splendored thing hobby really Promised last month about Heinz Koener North Wales PA gave up electric came interesting story Heinz flew Windrifter sailplane set ting out hi-start Bob Kopski also Continued page 106 BATTERY ONJOFFSERVOS SWITCH AERECEIVERFAIL-SAFE2 RSPPIM-4C5 3 SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT4 18 Model Aviation Len heinz Ioerner -in original based Windrifter powered AStro 02 Canopy removed show access Gets6-min runcan loop hammerhead go inverted thermal Drawings below show sections tapered wing Reproduction 63% full size Right Herb Dirks talked electric power flying misses challenge firing up engineso mounted dummy cylinder nose old-times sake Note air opening front wing cool battery pack No silly exhaust wont get radio English-made RC Fail Safe will return servos nominal neutral pre-set trim case transmitter receiver failure interference out-of-range conditions Throttle flaps set safe mode KIORITZ NiINES BY GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH Original Developer Factory Trained Authorized Master Service Dealer Year limited Warranty Pre-Drilled Props Avail Ask About Custom- Built KIORITZ Engines Deep Fins Optimum Cooling 21/4 Flywheel 5mall Magneto 15/8 Six Bolt Aluminum Hub Carb Needles & Throttle Accessible Engine Running Don Godfrey 722-1765 Points Sealed Rear Housing $18995 pay shipping pre-paid orders DEALERS WELCOME 242 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/07
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Canyou identifythisaircraft As modeled Bob King isa successful flierwith K&B 61 ora Fox 78 Read text clues IF THERE WERE banquet guest honor would Bob Hyde same age author began modeling before Lindbergh year 1927 1925 set world Twin Pusher record later bought out hobby shop Endicott NY ran hobby IBM engineer 1929 started Elmira Glider Club primary glider now hangs holy-of-holies Harris Hill Museum Elmira groups first pilot having taught himself flythere no glider pilots thenand obtained instructors license Always maintaining interest modeling Bob designed instruments Pioneer during war developed several including flight recorder B-29s 1946 bought Aeronca Chief flew 10 years two boys fascinated planes pursued Free Flight got Control Line early Fifties go race cars boats 1972 Bob became interested RC designed lightplane wished test model formso much fun never gave up Now 26 RC jobs has thing biplanes 13 flying 1/5-scale Jungmann -scale Curtiss Wright Junior pusher circa 1930 Marquart Chargersimilar Steen Skyboltis favorite 10 degrees sweep both wings fantastic flier flies several times week own field own permission year ago used up seven drums fuel has Bluehead 48In Tiger Moth 500 hours time last heard about sell out manufacturing line six RC racing hydro planes son Jim Bob won first third mono Tunnel Hulls Racing own Scat Cat hulls produced Hyde Engineering Crystal River FL Bob versatile inventor Hyde Power Systems Inc Bob developed revolutionary wheel-hub en gine cars steam-driven has five cylinders built-in wobble plateeliminates clutch flywheel transmission drive shaft universal differential rear axle unit Gets full power cold start 15 sec zero weather Can used one-wheel all-wheel front-wheel drive 500 rpm gets 40 mph VW 26m tire Units vary 10 100 hp 20 such cars pollute less standard suto uses no oil eitherGE Silicone grease has 10 times lubricity conventional greases Pix fascinating could go forever model plane magazine old enough have read modelinWair magazines before say 1937 no way earth can identify amphibian accompanying picture Genuine old-timers will go bananas Obviously model real planenote tandem engines turned counter-rotating props Clue number two famous pilot Shorty Hasfurther designer Frank Tinsley No published Bill Barnes Air Adventurer 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter extending wingspan Top Flite Airacobra above Bob Hyde found excellent Pattern ship forward canopy isa plus Pattern Below Typical Bob Hydes 13 bipes lovely scratch-built 1/5-scale Hawker Fury fightersimplified exotic sport flier deleting interplane struts making simple sheet-metal ar come Thats Incredible missed guy Bill Winters Vagabond FF RC assist own design 1944 Air Trailsit missed SAM Society Antique Modelers Old Timerdeadlinewhen flown bya month orso did Wog Competitivetothe sailplane Vagabond also just missed second Radio Control postwar Nats flown Trammell also model flown Lou Andrews didnt design Two pounds lighter Winters Sniffer Vagabond spans6 ft climbs lessthan half throttle K&B 19 Its covered transparent MonoKote red yellow opaque dark blue tips forvisibility Construction sticks skinny butthree standard Airtronics servos fit side-by-side 4 prop pitch no could possibly hit landing spot Unless balanced extremely nose-heavy must flown constantly under power soaring scads down trim Winters Old Square Sides box sport flier published before WW Ilunderthe pen name Sprague early Thirties mag became Air Trails American Modeler disaster area Lets run imaginary film backwards So want pictures something different said Bob King Granger IN about RC Bill Barnes Snorter ought bring back memories bs model Pattern-size has flown off water both Fox 78 K&B Veco 61 78 would take off 14-in prop did Veco However two finest flights came Fox turning 12-in prop Bob now building later ulitmate Bill Barnes plane famous Lancerwhich has single retracting float cites just such model plane used two Goldberg nose gear retracts swing float snug belly cant find Published about 1974-75 American ModelerBob Ken dall Indiana dreamed up mechanism plot thickens friend Bob King tells interested old Bill Bames airplanes writes Gordon Codding Kingman AZ Bob valued mem ber Bill Barnes Research Staff So camera closes Codding Youve heard Baker Street Irregulars international association thousands dedicated Sher lock Holmes same thing miniature group guys scattered throughout US have thing about Bill Barnes Lets input data roughly 193 1-32 about 1938-39 Bill Barnes Air Adventurer novels written George L Eaton reality two guys Harold B Montanye WW pilot Fly Like Pro Chuck Verall alternated months hang characters appear mile minute F Orlin Tremainethere editorturned Frank Tinsley old cavalry man illustrated westerns publisher Street & Smith dominated world pulp days Western Stories Detective Stories Astounding Stories nowAnalog some hundred others includ ing real old days Buffalo Bill Frank Merrill etc Like Jules Verne Frank generation ahead time aware anything could tip off Franks meteoric career aeronautics illustrator painted Air Trails covers designed incredible fleet machines Bill Barnes characters fly Lancer being writer came aboard January 1 1937 editor found ourselves middle Richtofens Flying Circus Tremaine fathered science fiction too scifi guys think John Campbell sainthe other side office partitiondo honor Tremaine wearing gray spats Franklin Roosevelt long cigarette holder explained fourth dimension us first day ancient roll-top desk shop Frank T know man street head clouds Mechanix Illust rated Doomsday Tins ley him illustratingthings like end world wowed Jack Parr shpw before Johnny Carson Masterminding artis tic warfare Joe Lawlor huge hooked nose made him model posed Shadow another company fictitious hero know knows what evil lurks hearts men Well back ranch tarmac Bill Barnes Tinsley designed roughly 15 flying machines vivid imagination conjured up cannons firing through prop hubs retracting floats bomb er mother ships carrying folding-wing fighters transports infrared sights on Ama zingly viable aircraft caught attention aeronautical world late scene got edit fantasy copy kind Walt Disney World During WW II pilot AAF Gordon Codding relates carried several pages torn Air Trails Bill Barnes planes three-view As mental exercise would try figure out ways make work real life advantage having best state art around AF planes task find workable item still retaining B-B features shown magazine drawings later years hoped build fly Full-Scale Gordon doing just home-builts ala Bill Barnes modelinghe has threeviews sale also some Barnes fleet structured models hence Snorter built July1981 17 Tom II 25-powered Peerless Panther built plans Doc Mathews magazine plan No 283 $5 Tom says finally reached Shangrila level Kraft Gold Medal 4-ch conversion Gordon Codding utilizes simple gadgets real foot-pedal rudder control Transmitter left has function-oriented control knobsjust pilot full-size plane uses Rudder pedals right made broken prop blades bicycle spokes full propellerplus bicycle brake cable up transmitter slide mechanism works AMONG THE senior local pilots bump flying weekdays Bob Crosby pushes three-year-old -scale Cub forward side-slips did unimaginable things 8-ft lightweighteven flying backwards across entire flying area precision control uses neck strap holds case true against chest tummy always faces plane hold transmitter cockeyed angles plane make hard yourselfstick movements can askew Europe straps transmittertrays arecommonmaybewe have cultural hang-upmachismo histransmitter hasa metal halfloop northeast northwest corners case providing fingers free tning Bernie Steucker presiaent Northern Virginia Radio Control Club volunteered shoot two quickie pix us thought interior transmitter interesting mainly because Bob two battery packs right left darned know disappeared tol can fly day switching pack other Double insurance wed say Another nifty thing Bob has Ace Silver 7 encoder bottom four Ace RF decks top changing plugs can operate three 72 MHz frequencies 27 MHz frequency AROOT 02 GLIDER Bob King also has plans list old-time models full-size prints WW aircraft came factory much Gordon Codding 3724 John L Ave Kingman AZ 86401 am looking now pile fascinating descriptions spread out wall-towall numerous prints Lord too much space cant dig deeply Gordon active RC flier days though gravely handicapped wears steel spinal brace up four hours day spirit Bill Bames propells him does carry incredible research helpers handle plans business uses transmitter mounted platform front him can fly models spot Codding knows about tells us few B-B planes plublished three-view Eaglet BF-4C Silver Lancer BF-7 Charger BF-8 Transport BT 4 12 designs plus varients Gordon somehow came up few loose ends transmitter rigged foot pedals like rudder bar flies models just did real ones cockoit Hes buildina RC rubber solid - guys FF look up toi 50 years experience among Lto Rare Bill Gough loves unorthodox Rubber Scale like IndoorGeeBee Sporister covered microfilm long-ago MAAI Vito Garfalo widely loved respected magnificent design talents rubber things really perk Joe Konefes Buzzard Bombshell became world-famous its designer almost quite got lost shuffle smiles should tell something WINGSPAN 56 versions complete Barnes fleet model museum almost got away us does have museum gone now bigger-than-life crea tive people Depression days what legacy left Sadly Codding has written everyone sight including magazines never got answer Incredible alas too typical apologize skimming surface guys built Panther Doc Mathews published December 1979 ModelAviation youre sport flier flair old-timers once Peerless kit may have missed something accompanying pic Tom MehI Sand Lake MI has way words appreciation pure flight have own private special satis faction fine hobby Tom writes get up before sun brew coffee read Just Fun before rest world can intrude Being immersed tales flying past present fine flying itself Enclosed picture Panther because first success achieving plane flies have described flight well beauti ful beyond description air Though rolls spins prettily Doc promised almost never fly way preferring instead float around just watch flying wing have finally reached Shangri-la level Challenges relative simple building project real challenge came out beautiful Pure straight whole thing gives terrific satisfaction being bridge own lackluster abilities fine things have written about note Tom went low cost route Power Thunder Tiger 25 Hobby Shackhas rough castings runs surpris ingly well Flies lowest throttle settings Coverite two coats fuel-proof Zar urethane varnish doesnt yellow muffler varnish Tom proud weighs 3 oz less weight given Docs article Incidentally pleaded Doc model natty-looking low-winger youd reborn give yourself chance watch airplanes come George Aldrichwho still threatens fly big Nobler Stunt Natscouldnt resist siren song first love Free Flight Step daughter Debbie holds Spearhead Jr niece Karen Struck New Ruler Spear head thewildest pretty decorated crates weve ever seen must have noticed cant buy Magnum fuel finest moonshine ever brewed stills Texas Winter still has four gallons gotta screw needle two full turns never residue airplane must burn everything Alas comes fuels us dont know difference between black molasses pure maple syrup whatever days alive ride vagrant air looks much like stunters probably roll loop spin invertjust like other guys tear up weekend skies have both waysuntil have both ways youll never real hightime pilot command pilot quialified fly anything everything enjoy splendored thing hobby really Promised last month about Heinz Koener North Wales PA gave up electric came interesting story Heinz flew Windrifter sailplane set ting out hi-start Bob Kopski also Continued page 106 BATTERY ONJOFFSERVOS SWITCH AERECEIVERFAIL-SAFE2 RSPPIM-4C5 3 SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT4 18 Model Aviation Len heinz Ioerner -in original based Windrifter powered AStro 02 Canopy removed show access Gets6-min runcan loop hammerhead go inverted thermal Drawings below show sections tapered wing Reproduction 63% full size Right Herb Dirks talked electric power flying misses challenge firing up engineso mounted dummy cylinder nose old-times sake Note air opening front wing cool battery pack No silly exhaust wont get radio English-made RC Fail Safe will return servos nominal neutral pre-set trim case transmitter receiver failure interference out-of-range conditions Throttle flaps set safe mode KIORITZ NiINES BY GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH Original Developer Factory Trained Authorized Master Service Dealer Year limited Warranty Pre-Drilled Props Avail Ask About Custom- Built KIORITZ Engines Deep Fins Optimum Cooling 21/4 Flywheel 5mall Magneto 15/8 Six Bolt Aluminum Hub Carb Needles & Throttle Accessible Engine Running Don Godfrey 722-1765 Points Sealed Rear Housing $18995 pay shipping pre-paid orders DEALERS WELCOME 242 co n 397ccSaIl 5earngs Cenk 32 HP 05 5000 PCased Ro em Rod Pnto, Ps WeghtS b GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH 6195 HIlifleld St N W N CANTON OHIO 44720 Phone 21 6 499-8854 after 6 00 PM Toledo/Beckman Continued page ~ Higgins Contempo Magnum II engine 26 Cu haselectronicignition Flywheelfinswillbe trimmed production units Mightilne shirts have got covered One-liner Shirts $1050 Plane ShIrts $725 top quality football shIrts complete history back sky blue blue printing war- ground colorful WWII irds red printing Pitt airplanes applied sky blue shirts fine line followed seunoeeeauealu P38 Ugh5Sng xipw nf t claexic airntne FSFW FSF Hellcat P47 Thcatdett05 PiP ilgemnat P-SI Miteang PBF Bearcat PSI Black Widew AT-S Texan Fw90 P-SE Hawk A6M Zero e humor gags lot people Sky blue T-shirts printed two colors Pitts shirt white printed red black Theres such thing grasity. gk1ouiteaaaeei otOsio S SOMETIffiG SPECIALlF Order PS nnrcfzoOrder Thu earth socks.j313U34 nvs Order MN Order SHVl~ot Order SD Mens sizes Sm 132-361 Med 38-401 Lg 42-441 XL 1461Order PP~ahlatakydlvlg NameSend check money order Iplus 51 P/H Add 65% mx AddressFlightllne ShIrts Etcin california 12504 Saratoga Avenue CityStateZipsaratoga CA 95070 SizeStyleDesignTotal SAllow 44 weeks tar dellvesyl 106 Model Aviation Giezendanner USA P0 Box 818 Pottstown PA 19464 Higgins Contempo 11611 Cantara St. No Hollywood CA 9l605 Hobby Shack 18480 Bandilier Circle Fountain Valley CA 92708 International Miniature Aircraft Association 254 Washington St. Binghamton NY 1390l JC Enterprises 2551 SW 28th Terrace Ft Lauderdale FL 33312 J-5 Enterprises P0 Box 82 Belmont Ontario Canada NOL IBO Jim Messers Quality Model Products 106 Valley View Drive Allegany NY 14706 Midwest Products Co. 400 S Indiana Hobart IN 46342 Parker R/C Planes P0 Box 8l95 Van Nuys CA 91409 Quadra USA 1032 Manitowac Ave Oak Creek WI 53154 R&R Models 161 Red Bud Dr. Northwood OH 43619 R/C Kits 706 Easton NE N Canton OH 4472 Realistic Models 4 lOS Wadsworth Ct Annan dale VA 22003 Roush Mfg. P0 Box 251 Sandyville OH 4467 Schmidt Custom Kits I948 Franklin Blvd. Elk Grove CA 95624 T&D Fiberglass 30926 Block Garden City Ml 48135 Top Elite Models l90l N Narragansett Chi cago IL 60639 Trail Mfg Co. P0 Box 549 Huron Park Ontario canada NOM YO Vortac Mfg Co. P0 Box 469 Oak Lawn IL 60453 Wendell Hostetler Super Scale Plans l04l Heatherwood Lane Orville OH 44667 World Engines 8960 Rossash Ave. Cincinnati OH 45236 Ill back next month til thenlots happy safe flying Bob Beckman 8248 Holly Grove Court Ma nassas VA 22110 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 electric specialist showed up Kopaki 15mm flight electric glider before Heinz released reached max altitude Bob already air second time got 300 400 ft higher Heinzs Windrifter airborne 0-mm longer went morning wind shifted Heinz plodded out relocate hi-start stake Now Heinz launch lift area plowed field maneuver back over field losing considerable altitude Bob just flew lift over over again day grew hot After another 1600-ft hike retrieve hi-start huffing puffing red face found Bob sitting shade car flying electric glider Without taking eye off crate Bob asked Heinz didnt fly electric After leg cramps night running Heinz decided cant beat em join em Bob built aerobatic jobsBob has 460 flights Astro 075 Don Srull have picnic 6ft Spitfire using Astro 05 prop drive 12-or 13-8 Asking Heinz recommendation good place start people already building four-motor Connie mentioned have switched mysterious tn-motor sash Heres Heinz 02 flider own design borrowed Olympic nice beginners plane electric low budget Span 56 airfoil 10% see drawing Good forward speed penetration 6/i-min motor run Continued page 108 SPECIFICATIONS WnIbo Ponp cb 3 Ring Piston stock Ouadra adapter reposi tions carb easy access needles/throttle Executive Design Corp. I67-B New Highway North Amityville NY I701 Gibbs Hobby & Research 6195 HilIfield St NW Canton OH 44720 TypSoon a-li FIyIeg Foeteets B-24 Liberator 8-25 M5c5ell 8-29 5sperfortress ILGAIN Losing control can night mare wrong response given command can take its toll model modeling radio repair So avoid inflated repair costs undue service time Radio South fast economical inCONTROl control nerves andyour///house radio service wallet Radio South wecan depend Radio know feel aboutUlSouth customer satisfaction hobby too aresnt just motto Its avidRCenthusiastswith e FubaOO~way nearly half century ofet us put back combined experience L1z/I1 ro Line 1925 E Creighton RoadPensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 can horse around 3 mm. doing consecutive loops hammerheads invertedand still have time gain altitude good thermal flight come down short ofthe field can switch again plane purrs right feet Ace three-channel fits like glove Heinz goes need two battery packs stay up day long Data Astro 02 514 x 3 prop 4 x 12 Ah cells span 56 same Falcon 56 area 360 squares weight 24 oz loading 96 oz. length 31 Controls on-off rudder elevator no run fly-away RC jobs interference unexplained crashes would nice nothing happened less transmitter quits some goof-ball invades frequency strange things ether take over plane gets too far downwind away saved Believe device market several years can save airplane However talked name experts said Oh just something go wrong came conclusion true wed still flying Good brothers vacuum-tube single-channel 1948 escapements Well tell about own investigate miracle device manufactured CEL Electronics Harlow Ltd. Coachworks House River Way Harlow Essex CM 20P England called Electronic Fail-Safe Unit plugs between receiver servos Since works off receiver decoder passes normal signals through servos Should signals disrupted causing servos throw model Out control cease functioning device switches out receiver outputs switches preset control signals move servos safe positions As made functions three-wire servos positive pulse two milliseconds Being British recognize two familiar radio systems listed Futaba Sanwa its safe mode handles transmit ter receiever failures out-of-range inter ference another transmitter speech interference severe impulse ignition inter ference handlesup four channels channels requires second unit CEL claims whatever circumstances device will least give additional time seek recovery aircraft Address Miss Pamela Lee tell sent Before get ourselves Dutch recent description Bob Smurthwaites excellent Engel man spruce should give equal time Sig also has good stuff use too now Midwest Products announced two days ago written new spruce Samples look good indeed Also just received letter Tom Runge Ace discussing firms acquisition Pro Line Ace will continue fine tradition Pro Line Electronics once favorite experts select line systems Ace has versatile radio Silver 7 however kit form now will offer both firstline kit top quality ready-to-use system well Pro Line owners Ace will provide network approved service centers throughout worldwe presume existing Ace centers provide base no warranty work can done systems manufactured last corpo rate owner info address Pro Line Division Ace R/C Inc. 203 W 19th St Box 735 Higginsville MO 64037 Bill Winter 4330 ito Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Rearwin Jr/Mathews Continued page 26 Junior struts model functional remarkably simple fabricate Sig SH 552 heavy duty devises rods soldered Onto 3/32-in music wire using short lengths brass tubing joiners wing panel inserted wing root tip blocked up proper dihedral angle boxes scrap wood Once proper angle established clevis/wire lengths fit solder joint Small tabs tin crimped soldered wire trimmed slide K&S airfoil tubing assembly secured PFC forced around tabs secures tube wire avoids rotation nut plates cut-down horns should secured interior Hot Stuff epoxy Once covering applied will accessible use devises horns provide some degree rigging degree washout washin can adjusted also make wing attachment super simple Always use two rubberbands between hooks case should break Radio installation After components structure completed install hard ware Adjust servo tray unit fore aft obtain center gravity CG approximately ahead finished point allows added weight covering finish aft CG ti x bass spruce cross beam can permanently secured fuselage sides sheet metal screws through ply sides receiver can placed under servos scrap ply box forward whichever helps CG proper location used Sullivan semi-flex pushrods whatever used anti-flex cross members should installed six inches used threaded clevis studs horn ends studs running EZ connectors servo ends Threaded studs can installed nylon pushrods very easily chucking -in drill blipping rod As exercise creative engineering originally connected ailerons servo pair Du- Bra * 190 balI links snaps adjusted throw varying holes used horns technique satisfactory until links accidently snapped wrong balls practical system subsequently installed using Du-Bro # 183 aileron connectors connector turned way up threaded rod remove wings Attaching wings requires opposite steps little practice wings can removed reinstalled minute two Covering finish fuselage proto type covered Sigs Koverall applied new novel manner painted framework outlines two coats 50% water 50% Elmers white glue allowed mix dry ironed Koverall Thats right ironed iron must set Coverite tempera ture generate enough heat pull white glue up fabrics weave Once its edges stick down very well can run iron over surface shrink fabric tightly Overlap areas require repeat coat first Continued page 110 108 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/07
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 106, 108
Canyou identifythisaircraft As modeled Bob King isa successful flierwith K&B 61 ora Fox 78 Read text clues IF THERE WERE banquet guest honor would Bob Hyde same age author began modeling before Lindbergh year 1927 1925 set world Twin Pusher record later bought out hobby shop Endicott NY ran hobby IBM engineer 1929 started Elmira Glider Club primary glider now hangs holy-of-holies Harris Hill Museum Elmira groups first pilot having taught himself flythere no glider pilots thenand obtained instructors license Always maintaining interest modeling Bob designed instruments Pioneer during war developed several including flight recorder B-29s 1946 bought Aeronca Chief flew 10 years two boys fascinated planes pursued Free Flight got Control Line early Fifties go race cars boats 1972 Bob became interested RC designed lightplane wished test model formso much fun never gave up Now 26 RC jobs has thing biplanes 13 flying 1/5-scale Jungmann -scale Curtiss Wright Junior pusher circa 1930 Marquart Chargersimilar Steen Skyboltis favorite 10 degrees sweep both wings fantastic flier flies several times week own field own permission year ago used up seven drums fuel has Bluehead 48In Tiger Moth 500 hours time last heard about sell out manufacturing line six RC racing hydro planes son Jim Bob won first third mono Tunnel Hulls Racing own Scat Cat hulls produced Hyde Engineering Crystal River FL Bob versatile inventor Hyde Power Systems Inc Bob developed revolutionary wheel-hub en gine cars steam-driven has five cylinders built-in wobble plateeliminates clutch flywheel transmission drive shaft universal differential rear axle unit Gets full power cold start 15 sec zero weather Can used one-wheel all-wheel front-wheel drive 500 rpm gets 40 mph VW 26m tire Units vary 10 100 hp 20 such cars pollute less standard suto uses no oil eitherGE Silicone grease has 10 times lubricity conventional greases Pix fascinating could go forever model plane magazine old enough have read modelinWair magazines before say 1937 no way earth can identify amphibian accompanying picture Genuine old-timers will go bananas Obviously model real planenote tandem engines turned counter-rotating props Clue number two famous pilot Shorty Hasfurther designer Frank Tinsley No published Bill Barnes Air Adventurer 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter extending wingspan Top Flite Airacobra above Bob Hyde found excellent Pattern ship forward canopy isa plus Pattern Below Typical Bob Hydes 13 bipes lovely scratch-built 1/5-scale Hawker Fury fightersimplified exotic sport flier deleting interplane struts making simple sheet-metal ar come Thats Incredible missed guy Bill Winters Vagabond FF RC assist own design 1944 Air Trailsit missed SAM Society Antique Modelers Old Timerdeadlinewhen flown bya month orso did Wog Competitivetothe sailplane Vagabond also just missed second Radio Control postwar Nats flown Trammell also model flown Lou Andrews didnt design Two pounds lighter Winters Sniffer Vagabond spans6 ft climbs lessthan half throttle K&B 19 Its covered transparent MonoKote red yellow opaque dark blue tips forvisibility Construction sticks skinny butthree standard Airtronics servos fit side-by-side 4 prop pitch no could possibly hit landing spot Unless balanced extremely nose-heavy must flown constantly under power soaring scads down trim Winters Old Square Sides box sport flier published before WW Ilunderthe pen name Sprague early Thirties mag became Air Trails American Modeler disaster area Lets run imaginary film backwards So want pictures something different said Bob King Granger IN about RC Bill Barnes Snorter ought bring back memories bs model Pattern-size has flown off water both Fox 78 K&B Veco 61 78 would take off 14-in prop did Veco However two finest flights came Fox turning 12-in prop Bob now building later ulitmate Bill Barnes plane famous Lancerwhich has single retracting float cites just such model plane used two Goldberg nose gear retracts swing float snug belly cant find Published about 1974-75 American ModelerBob Ken dall Indiana dreamed up mechanism plot thickens friend Bob King tells interested old Bill Bames airplanes writes Gordon Codding Kingman AZ Bob valued mem ber Bill Barnes Research Staff So camera closes Codding Youve heard Baker Street Irregulars international association thousands dedicated Sher lock Holmes same thing miniature group guys scattered throughout US have thing about Bill Barnes Lets input data roughly 193 1-32 about 1938-39 Bill Barnes Air Adventurer novels written George L Eaton reality two guys Harold B Montanye WW pilot Fly Like Pro Chuck Verall alternated months hang characters appear mile minute F Orlin Tremainethere editorturned Frank Tinsley old cavalry man illustrated westerns publisher Street & Smith dominated world pulp days Western Stories Detective Stories Astounding Stories nowAnalog some hundred others includ ing real old days Buffalo Bill Frank Merrill etc Like Jules Verne Frank generation ahead time aware anything could tip off Franks meteoric career aeronautics illustrator painted Air Trails covers designed incredible fleet machines Bill Barnes characters fly Lancer being writer came aboard January 1 1937 editor found ourselves middle Richtofens Flying Circus Tremaine fathered science fiction too scifi guys think John Campbell sainthe other side office partitiondo honor Tremaine wearing gray spats Franklin Roosevelt long cigarette holder explained fourth dimension us first day ancient roll-top desk shop Frank T know man street head clouds Mechanix Illust rated Doomsday Tins ley him illustratingthings like end world wowed Jack Parr shpw before Johnny Carson Masterminding artis tic warfare Joe Lawlor huge hooked nose made him model posed Shadow another company fictitious hero know knows what evil lurks hearts men Well back ranch tarmac Bill Barnes Tinsley designed roughly 15 flying machines vivid imagination conjured up cannons firing through prop hubs retracting floats bomb er mother ships carrying folding-wing fighters transports infrared sights on Ama zingly viable aircraft caught attention aeronautical world late scene got edit fantasy copy kind Walt Disney World During WW II pilot AAF Gordon Codding relates carried several pages torn Air Trails Bill Barnes planes three-view As mental exercise would try figure out ways make work real life advantage having best state art around AF planes task find workable item still retaining B-B features shown magazine drawings later years hoped build fly Full-Scale Gordon doing just home-builts ala Bill Barnes modelinghe has threeviews sale also some Barnes fleet structured models hence Snorter built July1981 17 Tom II 25-powered Peerless Panther built plans Doc Mathews magazine plan No 283 $5 Tom says finally reached Shangrila level Kraft Gold Medal 4-ch conversion Gordon Codding utilizes simple gadgets real foot-pedal rudder control Transmitter left has function-oriented control knobsjust pilot full-size plane uses Rudder pedals right made broken prop blades bicycle spokes full propellerplus bicycle brake cable up transmitter slide mechanism works AMONG THE senior local pilots bump flying weekdays Bob Crosby pushes three-year-old -scale Cub forward side-slips did unimaginable things 8-ft lightweighteven flying backwards across entire flying area precision control uses neck strap holds case true against chest tummy always faces plane hold transmitter cockeyed angles plane make hard yourselfstick movements can askew Europe straps transmittertrays arecommonmaybewe have cultural hang-upmachismo histransmitter hasa metal halfloop northeast northwest corners case providing fingers free tning Bernie Steucker presiaent Northern Virginia Radio Control Club volunteered shoot two quickie pix us thought interior transmitter interesting mainly because Bob two battery packs right left darned know disappeared tol can fly day switching pack other Double insurance wed say Another nifty thing Bob has Ace Silver 7 encoder bottom four Ace RF decks top changing plugs can operate three 72 MHz frequencies 27 MHz frequency AROOT 02 GLIDER Bob King also has plans list old-time models full-size prints WW aircraft came factory much Gordon Codding 3724 John L Ave Kingman AZ 86401 am looking now pile fascinating descriptions spread out wall-towall numerous prints Lord too much space cant dig deeply Gordon active RC flier days though gravely handicapped wears steel spinal brace up four hours day spirit Bill Bames propells him does carry incredible research helpers handle plans business uses transmitter mounted platform front him can fly models spot Codding knows about tells us few B-B planes plublished three-view Eaglet BF-4C Silver Lancer BF-7 Charger BF-8 Transport BT 4 12 designs plus varients Gordon somehow came up few loose ends transmitter rigged foot pedals like rudder bar flies models just did real ones cockoit Hes buildina RC rubber solid - guys FF look up toi 50 years experience among Lto Rare Bill Gough loves unorthodox Rubber Scale like IndoorGeeBee Sporister covered microfilm long-ago MAAI Vito Garfalo widely loved respected magnificent design talents rubber things really perk Joe Konefes Buzzard Bombshell became world-famous its designer almost quite got lost shuffle smiles should tell something WINGSPAN 56 versions complete Barnes fleet model museum almost got away us does have museum gone now bigger-than-life crea tive people Depression days what legacy left Sadly Codding has written everyone sight including magazines never got answer Incredible alas too typical apologize skimming surface guys built Panther Doc Mathews published December 1979 ModelAviation youre sport flier flair old-timers once Peerless kit may have missed something accompanying pic Tom MehI Sand Lake MI has way words appreciation pure flight have own private special satis faction fine hobby Tom writes get up before sun brew coffee read Just Fun before rest world can intrude Being immersed tales flying past present fine flying itself Enclosed picture Panther because first success achieving plane flies have described flight well beauti ful beyond description air Though rolls spins prettily Doc promised almost never fly way preferring instead float around just watch flying wing have finally reached Shangri-la level Challenges relative simple building project real challenge came out beautiful Pure straight whole thing gives terrific satisfaction being bridge own lackluster abilities fine things have written about note Tom went low cost route Power Thunder Tiger 25 Hobby Shackhas rough castings runs surpris ingly well Flies lowest throttle settings Coverite two coats fuel-proof Zar urethane varnish doesnt yellow muffler varnish Tom proud weighs 3 oz less weight given Docs article Incidentally pleaded Doc model natty-looking low-winger youd reborn give yourself chance watch airplanes come George Aldrichwho still threatens fly big Nobler Stunt Natscouldnt resist siren song first love Free Flight Step daughter Debbie holds Spearhead Jr niece Karen Struck New Ruler Spear head thewildest pretty decorated crates weve ever seen must have noticed cant buy Magnum fuel finest moonshine ever brewed stills Texas Winter still has four gallons gotta screw needle two full turns never residue airplane must burn everything Alas comes fuels us dont know difference between black molasses pure maple syrup whatever days alive ride vagrant air looks much like stunters probably roll loop spin invertjust like other guys tear up weekend skies have both waysuntil have both ways youll never real hightime pilot command pilot quialified fly anything everything enjoy splendored thing hobby really Promised last month about Heinz Koener North Wales PA gave up electric came interesting story Heinz flew Windrifter sailplane set ting out hi-start Bob Kopski also Continued page 106 BATTERY ONJOFFSERVOS SWITCH AERECEIVERFAIL-SAFE2 RSPPIM-4C5 3 SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT4 18 Model Aviation Len heinz Ioerner -in original based Windrifter powered AStro 02 Canopy removed show access Gets6-min runcan loop hammerhead go inverted thermal Drawings below show sections tapered wing Reproduction 63% full size Right Herb Dirks talked electric power flying misses challenge firing up engineso mounted dummy cylinder nose old-times sake Note air opening front wing cool battery pack No silly exhaust wont get radio English-made RC Fail Safe will return servos nominal neutral pre-set trim case transmitter receiver failure interference out-of-range conditions Throttle flaps set safe mode KIORITZ NiINES BY GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH Original Developer Factory Trained Authorized Master Service Dealer Year limited Warranty Pre-Drilled Props Avail Ask About Custom- Built KIORITZ Engines Deep Fins Optimum Cooling 21/4 Flywheel 5mall Magneto 15/8 Six Bolt Aluminum Hub Carb Needles & Throttle Accessible Engine Running Don Godfrey 722-1765 Points Sealed Rear Housing $18995 pay shipping pre-paid orders DEALERS WELCOME 242 co n 397ccSaIl 5earngs Cenk 32 HP 05 5000 PCased Ro em Rod Pnto, Ps WeghtS b GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH 6195 HIlifleld St N W N CANTON OHIO 44720 Phone 21 6 499-8854 after 6 00 PM Toledo/Beckman Continued page ~ Higgins Contempo Magnum II engine 26 Cu haselectronicignition Flywheelfinswillbe trimmed production units Mightilne shirts have got covered One-liner Shirts $1050 Plane ShIrts $725 top quality football shIrts complete history back sky blue blue printing war- ground colorful WWII irds red printing Pitt airplanes applied sky blue shirts fine line followed seunoeeeauealu P38 Ugh5Sng xipw nf t claexic airntne FSFW FSF Hellcat P47 Thcatdett05 PiP ilgemnat P-SI Miteang PBF Bearcat PSI Black Widew AT-S Texan Fw90 P-SE Hawk A6M Zero e humor gags lot people Sky blue T-shirts printed two colors Pitts shirt white printed red black Theres such thing grasity. gk1ouiteaaaeei otOsio S SOMETIffiG SPECIALlF Order PS nnrcfzoOrder Thu earth socks.j313U34 nvs Order MN Order SHVl~ot Order SD Mens sizes Sm 132-361 Med 38-401 Lg 42-441 XL 1461Order PP~ahlatakydlvlg NameSend check money order Iplus 51 P/H Add 65% mx AddressFlightllne ShIrts Etcin california 12504 Saratoga Avenue CityStateZipsaratoga CA 95070 SizeStyleDesignTotal SAllow 44 weeks tar dellvesyl 106 Model Aviation Giezendanner USA P0 Box 818 Pottstown PA 19464 Higgins Contempo 11611 Cantara St. No Hollywood CA 9l605 Hobby Shack 18480 Bandilier Circle Fountain Valley CA 92708 International Miniature Aircraft Association 254 Washington St. Binghamton NY 1390l JC Enterprises 2551 SW 28th Terrace Ft Lauderdale FL 33312 J-5 Enterprises P0 Box 82 Belmont Ontario Canada NOL IBO Jim Messers Quality Model Products 106 Valley View Drive Allegany NY 14706 Midwest Products Co. 400 S Indiana Hobart IN 46342 Parker R/C Planes P0 Box 8l95 Van Nuys CA 91409 Quadra USA 1032 Manitowac Ave Oak Creek WI 53154 R&R Models 161 Red Bud Dr. Northwood OH 43619 R/C Kits 706 Easton NE N Canton OH 4472 Realistic Models 4 lOS Wadsworth Ct Annan dale VA 22003 Roush Mfg. P0 Box 251 Sandyville OH 4467 Schmidt Custom Kits I948 Franklin Blvd. Elk Grove CA 95624 T&D Fiberglass 30926 Block Garden City Ml 48135 Top Elite Models l90l N Narragansett Chi cago IL 60639 Trail Mfg Co. P0 Box 549 Huron Park Ontario canada NOM YO Vortac Mfg Co. P0 Box 469 Oak Lawn IL 60453 Wendell Hostetler Super Scale Plans l04l Heatherwood Lane Orville OH 44667 World Engines 8960 Rossash Ave. Cincinnati OH 45236 Ill back next month til thenlots happy safe flying Bob Beckman 8248 Holly Grove Court Ma nassas VA 22110 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 electric specialist showed up Kopaki 15mm flight electric glider before Heinz released reached max altitude Bob already air second time got 300 400 ft higher Heinzs Windrifter airborne 0-mm longer went morning wind shifted Heinz plodded out relocate hi-start stake Now Heinz launch lift area plowed field maneuver back over field losing considerable altitude Bob just flew lift over over again day grew hot After another 1600-ft hike retrieve hi-start huffing puffing red face found Bob sitting shade car flying electric glider Without taking eye off crate Bob asked Heinz didnt fly electric After leg cramps night running Heinz decided cant beat em join em Bob built aerobatic jobsBob has 460 flights Astro 075 Don Srull have picnic 6ft Spitfire using Astro 05 prop drive 12-or 13-8 Asking Heinz recommendation good place start people already building four-motor Connie mentioned have switched mysterious tn-motor sash Heres Heinz 02 flider own design borrowed Olympic nice beginners plane electric low budget Span 56 airfoil 10% see drawing Good forward speed penetration 6/i-min motor run Continued page 108 SPECIFICATIONS WnIbo Ponp cb 3 Ring Piston stock Ouadra adapter reposi tions carb easy access needles/throttle Executive Design Corp. I67-B New Highway North Amityville NY I701 Gibbs Hobby & Research 6195 HilIfield St NW Canton OH 44720 TypSoon a-li FIyIeg Foeteets B-24 Liberator 8-25 M5c5ell 8-29 5sperfortress ILGAIN Losing control can night mare wrong response given command can take its toll model modeling radio repair So avoid inflated repair costs undue service time Radio South fast economical inCONTROl control nerves andyour///house radio service wallet Radio South wecan depend Radio know feel aboutUlSouth customer satisfaction hobby too aresnt just motto Its avidRCenthusiastswith e FubaOO~way nearly half century ofet us put back combined experience L1z/I1 ro Line 1925 E Creighton RoadPensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 can horse around 3 mm. doing consecutive loops hammerheads invertedand still have time gain altitude good thermal flight come down short ofthe field can switch again plane purrs right feet Ace three-channel fits like glove Heinz goes need two battery packs stay up day long Data Astro 02 514 x 3 prop 4 x 12 Ah cells span 56 same Falcon 56 area 360 squares weight 24 oz loading 96 oz. length 31 Controls on-off rudder elevator no run fly-away RC jobs interference unexplained crashes would nice nothing happened less transmitter quits some goof-ball invades frequency strange things ether take over plane gets too far downwind away saved Believe device market several years can save airplane However talked name experts said Oh just something go wrong came conclusion true wed still flying Good brothers vacuum-tube single-channel 1948 escapements Well tell about own investigate miracle device manufactured CEL Electronics Harlow Ltd. Coachworks House River Way Harlow Essex CM 20P England called Electronic Fail-Safe Unit plugs between receiver servos Since works off receiver decoder passes normal signals through servos Should signals disrupted causing servos throw model Out control cease functioning device switches out receiver outputs switches preset control signals move servos safe positions As made functions three-wire servos positive pulse two milliseconds Being British recognize two familiar radio systems listed Futaba Sanwa its safe mode handles transmit ter receiever failures out-of-range inter ference another transmitter speech interference severe impulse ignition inter ference handlesup four channels channels requires second unit CEL claims whatever circumstances device will least give additional time seek recovery aircraft Address Miss Pamela Lee tell sent Before get ourselves Dutch recent description Bob Smurthwaites excellent Engel man spruce should give equal time Sig also has good stuff use too now Midwest Products announced two days ago written new spruce Samples look good indeed Also just received letter Tom Runge Ace discussing firms acquisition Pro Line Ace will continue fine tradition Pro Line Electronics once favorite experts select line systems Ace has versatile radio Silver 7 however kit form now will offer both firstline kit top quality ready-to-use system well Pro Line owners Ace will provide network approved service centers throughout worldwe presume existing Ace centers provide base no warranty work can done systems manufactured last corpo rate owner info address Pro Line Division Ace R/C Inc. 203 W 19th St Box 735 Higginsville MO 64037 Bill Winter 4330 ito Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Rearwin Jr/Mathews Continued page 26 Junior struts model functional remarkably simple fabricate Sig SH 552 heavy duty devises rods soldered Onto 3/32-in music wire using short lengths brass tubing joiners wing panel inserted wing root tip blocked up proper dihedral angle boxes scrap wood Once proper angle established clevis/wire lengths fit solder joint Small tabs tin crimped soldered wire trimmed slide K&S airfoil tubing assembly secured PFC forced around tabs secures tube wire avoids rotation nut plates cut-down horns should secured interior Hot Stuff epoxy Once covering applied will accessible use devises horns provide some degree rigging degree washout washin can adjusted also make wing attachment super simple Always use two rubberbands between hooks case should break Radio installation After components structure completed install hard ware Adjust servo tray unit fore aft obtain center gravity CG approximately ahead finished point allows added weight covering finish aft CG ti x bass spruce cross beam can permanently secured fuselage sides sheet metal screws through ply sides receiver can placed under servos scrap ply box forward whichever helps CG proper location used Sullivan semi-flex pushrods whatever used anti-flex cross members should installed six inches used threaded clevis studs horn ends studs running EZ connectors servo ends Threaded studs can installed nylon pushrods very easily chucking -in drill blipping rod As exercise creative engineering originally connected ailerons servo pair Du- Bra * 190 balI links snaps adjusted throw varying holes used horns technique satisfactory until links accidently snapped wrong balls practical system subsequently installed using Du-Bro # 183 aileron connectors connector turned way up threaded rod remove wings Attaching wings requires opposite steps little practice wings can removed reinstalled minute two Covering finish fuselage proto type covered Sigs Koverall applied new novel manner painted framework outlines two coats 50% water 50% Elmers white glue allowed mix dry ironed Koverall Thats right ironed iron must set Coverite tempera ture generate enough heat pull white glue up fabrics weave Once its edges stick down very well can run iron over surface shrink fabric tightly Overlap areas require repeat coat first Continued page 110 108 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/07
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 106, 108
Canyou identifythisaircraft As modeled Bob King isa successful flierwith K&B 61 ora Fox 78 Read text clues IF THERE WERE banquet guest honor would Bob Hyde same age author began modeling before Lindbergh year 1927 1925 set world Twin Pusher record later bought out hobby shop Endicott NY ran hobby IBM engineer 1929 started Elmira Glider Club primary glider now hangs holy-of-holies Harris Hill Museum Elmira groups first pilot having taught himself flythere no glider pilots thenand obtained instructors license Always maintaining interest modeling Bob designed instruments Pioneer during war developed several including flight recorder B-29s 1946 bought Aeronca Chief flew 10 years two boys fascinated planes pursued Free Flight got Control Line early Fifties go race cars boats 1972 Bob became interested RC designed lightplane wished test model formso much fun never gave up Now 26 RC jobs has thing biplanes 13 flying 1/5-scale Jungmann -scale Curtiss Wright Junior pusher circa 1930 Marquart Chargersimilar Steen Skyboltis favorite 10 degrees sweep both wings fantastic flier flies several times week own field own permission year ago used up seven drums fuel has Bluehead 48In Tiger Moth 500 hours time last heard about sell out manufacturing line six RC racing hydro planes son Jim Bob won first third mono Tunnel Hulls Racing own Scat Cat hulls produced Hyde Engineering Crystal River FL Bob versatile inventor Hyde Power Systems Inc Bob developed revolutionary wheel-hub en gine cars steam-driven has five cylinders built-in wobble plateeliminates clutch flywheel transmission drive shaft universal differential rear axle unit Gets full power cold start 15 sec zero weather Can used one-wheel all-wheel front-wheel drive 500 rpm gets 40 mph VW 26m tire Units vary 10 100 hp 20 such cars pollute less standard suto uses no oil eitherGE Silicone grease has 10 times lubricity conventional greases Pix fascinating could go forever model plane magazine old enough have read modelinWair magazines before say 1937 no way earth can identify amphibian accompanying picture Genuine old-timers will go bananas Obviously model real planenote tandem engines turned counter-rotating props Clue number two famous pilot Shorty Hasfurther designer Frank Tinsley No published Bill Barnes Air Adventurer 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter extending wingspan Top Flite Airacobra above Bob Hyde found excellent Pattern ship forward canopy isa plus Pattern Below Typical Bob Hydes 13 bipes lovely scratch-built 1/5-scale Hawker Fury fightersimplified exotic sport flier deleting interplane struts making simple sheet-metal ar come Thats Incredible missed guy Bill Winters Vagabond FF RC assist own design 1944 Air Trailsit missed SAM Society Antique Modelers Old Timerdeadlinewhen flown bya month orso did Wog Competitivetothe sailplane Vagabond also just missed second Radio Control postwar Nats flown Trammell also model flown Lou Andrews didnt design Two pounds lighter Winters Sniffer Vagabond spans6 ft climbs lessthan half throttle K&B 19 Its covered transparent MonoKote red yellow opaque dark blue tips forvisibility Construction sticks skinny butthree standard Airtronics servos fit side-by-side 4 prop pitch no could possibly hit landing spot Unless balanced extremely nose-heavy must flown constantly under power soaring scads down trim Winters Old Square Sides box sport flier published before WW Ilunderthe pen name Sprague early Thirties mag became Air Trails American Modeler disaster area Lets run imaginary film backwards So want pictures something different said Bob King Granger IN about RC Bill Barnes Snorter ought bring back memories bs model Pattern-size has flown off water both Fox 78 K&B Veco 61 78 would take off 14-in prop did Veco However two finest flights came Fox turning 12-in prop Bob now building later ulitmate Bill Barnes plane famous Lancerwhich has single retracting float cites just such model plane used two Goldberg nose gear retracts swing float snug belly cant find Published about 1974-75 American ModelerBob Ken dall Indiana dreamed up mechanism plot thickens friend Bob King tells interested old Bill Bames airplanes writes Gordon Codding Kingman AZ Bob valued mem ber Bill Barnes Research Staff So camera closes Codding Youve heard Baker Street Irregulars international association thousands dedicated Sher lock Holmes same thing miniature group guys scattered throughout US have thing about Bill Barnes Lets input data roughly 193 1-32 about 1938-39 Bill Barnes Air Adventurer novels written George L Eaton reality two guys Harold B Montanye WW pilot Fly Like Pro Chuck Verall alternated months hang characters appear mile minute F Orlin Tremainethere editorturned Frank Tinsley old cavalry man illustrated westerns publisher Street & Smith dominated world pulp days Western Stories Detective Stories Astounding Stories nowAnalog some hundred others includ ing real old days Buffalo Bill Frank Merrill etc Like Jules Verne Frank generation ahead time aware anything could tip off Franks meteoric career aeronautics illustrator painted Air Trails covers designed incredible fleet machines Bill Barnes characters fly Lancer being writer came aboard January 1 1937 editor found ourselves middle Richtofens Flying Circus Tremaine fathered science fiction too scifi guys think John Campbell sainthe other side office partitiondo honor Tremaine wearing gray spats Franklin Roosevelt long cigarette holder explained fourth dimension us first day ancient roll-top desk shop Frank T know man street head clouds Mechanix Illust rated Doomsday Tins ley him illustratingthings like end world wowed Jack Parr shpw before Johnny Carson Masterminding artis tic warfare Joe Lawlor huge hooked nose made him model posed Shadow another company fictitious hero know knows what evil lurks hearts men Well back ranch tarmac Bill Barnes Tinsley designed roughly 15 flying machines vivid imagination conjured up cannons firing through prop hubs retracting floats bomb er mother ships carrying folding-wing fighters transports infrared sights on Ama zingly viable aircraft caught attention aeronautical world late scene got edit fantasy copy kind Walt Disney World During WW II pilot AAF Gordon Codding relates carried several pages torn Air Trails Bill Barnes planes three-view As mental exercise would try figure out ways make work real life advantage having best state art around AF planes task find workable item still retaining B-B features shown magazine drawings later years hoped build fly Full-Scale Gordon doing just home-builts ala Bill Barnes modelinghe has threeviews sale also some Barnes fleet structured models hence Snorter built July1981 17 Tom II 25-powered Peerless Panther built plans Doc Mathews magazine plan No 283 $5 Tom says finally reached Shangrila level Kraft Gold Medal 4-ch conversion Gordon Codding utilizes simple gadgets real foot-pedal rudder control Transmitter left has function-oriented control knobsjust pilot full-size plane uses Rudder pedals right made broken prop blades bicycle spokes full propellerplus bicycle brake cable up transmitter slide mechanism works AMONG THE senior local pilots bump flying weekdays Bob Crosby pushes three-year-old -scale Cub forward side-slips did unimaginable things 8-ft lightweighteven flying backwards across entire flying area precision control uses neck strap holds case true against chest tummy always faces plane hold transmitter cockeyed angles plane make hard yourselfstick movements can askew Europe straps transmittertrays arecommonmaybewe have cultural hang-upmachismo histransmitter hasa metal halfloop northeast northwest corners case providing fingers free tning Bernie Steucker presiaent Northern Virginia Radio Control Club volunteered shoot two quickie pix us thought interior transmitter interesting mainly because Bob two battery packs right left darned know disappeared tol can fly day switching pack other Double insurance wed say Another nifty thing Bob has Ace Silver 7 encoder bottom four Ace RF decks top changing plugs can operate three 72 MHz frequencies 27 MHz frequency AROOT 02 GLIDER Bob King also has plans list old-time models full-size prints WW aircraft came factory much Gordon Codding 3724 John L Ave Kingman AZ 86401 am looking now pile fascinating descriptions spread out wall-towall numerous prints Lord too much space cant dig deeply Gordon active RC flier days though gravely handicapped wears steel spinal brace up four hours day spirit Bill Bames propells him does carry incredible research helpers handle plans business uses transmitter mounted platform front him can fly models spot Codding knows about tells us few B-B planes plublished three-view Eaglet BF-4C Silver Lancer BF-7 Charger BF-8 Transport BT 4 12 designs plus varients Gordon somehow came up few loose ends transmitter rigged foot pedals like rudder bar flies models just did real ones cockoit Hes buildina RC rubber solid - guys FF look up toi 50 years experience among Lto Rare Bill Gough loves unorthodox Rubber Scale like IndoorGeeBee Sporister covered microfilm long-ago MAAI Vito Garfalo widely loved respected magnificent design talents rubber things really perk Joe Konefes Buzzard Bombshell became world-famous its designer almost quite got lost shuffle smiles should tell something WINGSPAN 56 versions complete Barnes fleet model museum almost got away us does have museum gone now bigger-than-life crea tive people Depression days what legacy left Sadly Codding has written everyone sight including magazines never got answer Incredible alas too typical apologize skimming surface guys built Panther Doc Mathews published December 1979 ModelAviation youre sport flier flair old-timers once Peerless kit may have missed something accompanying pic Tom MehI Sand Lake MI has way words appreciation pure flight have own private special satis faction fine hobby Tom writes get up before sun brew coffee read Just Fun before rest world can intrude Being immersed tales flying past present fine flying itself Enclosed picture Panther because first success achieving plane flies have described flight well beauti ful beyond description air Though rolls spins prettily Doc promised almost never fly way preferring instead float around just watch flying wing have finally reached Shangri-la level Challenges relative simple building project real challenge came out beautiful Pure straight whole thing gives terrific satisfaction being bridge own lackluster abilities fine things have written about note Tom went low cost route Power Thunder Tiger 25 Hobby Shackhas rough castings runs surpris ingly well Flies lowest throttle settings Coverite two coats fuel-proof Zar urethane varnish doesnt yellow muffler varnish Tom proud weighs 3 oz less weight given Docs article Incidentally pleaded Doc model natty-looking low-winger youd reborn give yourself chance watch airplanes come George Aldrichwho still threatens fly big Nobler Stunt Natscouldnt resist siren song first love Free Flight Step daughter Debbie holds Spearhead Jr niece Karen Struck New Ruler Spear head thewildest pretty decorated crates weve ever seen must have noticed cant buy Magnum fuel finest moonshine ever brewed stills Texas Winter still has four gallons gotta screw needle two full turns never residue airplane must burn everything Alas comes fuels us dont know difference between black molasses pure maple syrup whatever days alive ride vagrant air looks much like stunters probably roll loop spin invertjust like other guys tear up weekend skies have both waysuntil have both ways youll never real hightime pilot command pilot quialified fly anything everything enjoy splendored thing hobby really Promised last month about Heinz Koener North Wales PA gave up electric came interesting story Heinz flew Windrifter sailplane set ting out hi-start Bob Kopski also Continued page 106 BATTERY ONJOFFSERVOS SWITCH AERECEIVERFAIL-SAFE2 RSPPIM-4C5 3 SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT4 18 Model Aviation Len heinz Ioerner -in original based Windrifter powered AStro 02 Canopy removed show access Gets6-min runcan loop hammerhead go inverted thermal Drawings below show sections tapered wing Reproduction 63% full size Right Herb Dirks talked electric power flying misses challenge firing up engineso mounted dummy cylinder nose old-times sake Note air opening front wing cool battery pack No silly exhaust wont get radio English-made RC Fail Safe will return servos nominal neutral pre-set trim case transmitter receiver failure interference out-of-range conditions Throttle flaps set safe mode KIORITZ NiINES BY GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH Original Developer Factory Trained Authorized Master Service Dealer Year limited Warranty Pre-Drilled Props Avail Ask About Custom- Built KIORITZ Engines Deep Fins Optimum Cooling 21/4 Flywheel 5mall Magneto 15/8 Six Bolt Aluminum Hub Carb Needles & Throttle Accessible Engine Running Don Godfrey 722-1765 Points Sealed Rear Housing $18995 pay shipping pre-paid orders DEALERS WELCOME 242 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P0 Box 469 Oak Lawn IL 60453 Wendell Hostetler Super Scale Plans l04l Heatherwood Lane Orville OH 44667 World Engines 8960 Rossash Ave. Cincinnati OH 45236 Ill back next month til thenlots happy safe flying Bob Beckman 8248 Holly Grove Court Ma nassas VA 22110 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 electric specialist showed up Kopaki 15mm flight electric glider before Heinz released reached max altitude Bob already air second time got 300 400 ft higher Heinzs Windrifter airborne 0-mm longer went morning wind shifted Heinz plodded out relocate hi-start stake Now Heinz launch lift area plowed field maneuver back over field losing considerable altitude Bob just flew lift over over again day grew hot After another 1600-ft hike retrieve hi-start huffing puffing red face found Bob sitting shade car flying electric glider Without taking eye off crate Bob asked Heinz didnt fly electric After leg cramps night running Heinz decided cant beat em join em Bob built aerobatic jobsBob has 460 flights Astro 075 Don Srull have picnic 6ft Spitfire using Astro 05 prop drive 12-or 13-8 Asking Heinz recommendation good place start people already building four-motor Connie mentioned have switched mysterious tn-motor sash Heres Heinz 02 flider own design borrowed Olympic nice beginners plane electric low budget Span 56 airfoil 10% see drawing Good forward speed penetration 6/i-min motor run Continued page 108 SPECIFICATIONS WnIbo Ponp cb 3 Ring Piston stock Ouadra adapter reposi tions carb easy access needles/throttle Executive Design Corp. 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Coachworks House River Way Harlow Essex CM 20P England called Electronic Fail-Safe Unit plugs between receiver servos Since works off receiver decoder passes normal signals through servos Should signals disrupted causing servos throw model Out control cease functioning device switches out receiver outputs switches preset control signals move servos safe positions As made functions three-wire servos positive pulse two milliseconds Being British recognize two familiar radio systems listed Futaba Sanwa its safe mode handles transmit ter receiever failures out-of-range inter ference another transmitter speech interference severe impulse ignition inter ference handlesup four channels channels requires second unit CEL claims whatever circumstances device will least give additional time seek recovery aircraft Address Miss Pamela Lee tell sent Before get ourselves Dutch recent description Bob Smurthwaites excellent Engel man spruce should give equal time Sig also has good stuff use too now Midwest Products announced two days ago written new spruce Samples look good indeed Also just received letter Tom Runge Ace discussing firms acquisition Pro Line Ace will continue fine tradition Pro Line Electronics once favorite experts select line systems Ace has versatile radio Silver 7 however kit form now will offer both firstline kit top quality ready-to-use system well Pro Line owners Ace will provide network approved service centers throughout worldwe presume existing Ace centers provide base no warranty work can done systems manufactured last corpo rate owner info address Pro Line Division Ace R/C Inc. 203 W 19th St Box 735 Higginsville MO 64037 Bill Winter 4330 ito Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Rearwin Jr/Mathews Continued page 26 Junior struts model functional remarkably simple fabricate Sig SH 552 heavy duty devises rods soldered Onto 3/32-in music wire using short lengths brass tubing joiners wing panel inserted wing root tip blocked up proper dihedral angle boxes scrap wood Once proper angle established clevis/wire lengths fit solder joint Small tabs tin crimped soldered wire trimmed slide K&S airfoil tubing assembly secured PFC forced around tabs secures tube wire avoids rotation nut plates cut-down horns should secured interior Hot Stuff epoxy Once covering applied will accessible use devises horns provide some degree rigging degree washout washin can adjusted also make wing attachment super simple Always use two rubberbands between hooks case should break Radio installation After components structure completed install hard ware Adjust servo tray unit fore aft obtain center gravity CG approximately ahead finished point allows added weight covering finish aft CG ti x bass spruce cross beam can permanently secured fuselage sides sheet metal screws through ply sides receiver can placed under servos scrap ply box forward whichever helps CG proper location used Sullivan semi-flex pushrods whatever used anti-flex cross members should installed six inches used threaded clevis studs horn ends studs running EZ connectors servo ends Threaded studs can installed nylon pushrods very easily chucking -in drill blipping rod As exercise creative engineering originally connected ailerons servo pair Du- Bra * 190 balI links snaps adjusted throw varying holes used horns technique satisfactory until links accidently snapped wrong balls practical system subsequently installed using Du-Bro # 183 aileron connectors connector turned way up threaded rod remove wings Attaching wings requires opposite steps little practice wings can removed reinstalled minute two Covering finish fuselage proto type covered Sigs Koverall applied new novel manner painted framework outlines two coats 50% water 50% Elmers white glue allowed mix dry ironed Koverall Thats right ironed iron must set Coverite tempera ture generate enough heat pull white glue up fabrics weave Once its edges stick down very well can run iron over surface shrink fabric tightly Overlap areas require repeat coat first Continued page 110 108 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1981/07
Page Numbers: 16, 17, 18, 106, 108
Canyou identifythisaircraft As modeled Bob King isa successful flierwith K&B 61 ora Fox 78 Read text clues IF THERE WERE banquet guest honor would Bob Hyde same age author began modeling before Lindbergh year 1927 1925 set world Twin Pusher record later bought out hobby shop Endicott NY ran hobby IBM engineer 1929 started Elmira Glider Club primary glider now hangs holy-of-holies Harris Hill Museum Elmira groups first pilot having taught himself flythere no glider pilots thenand obtained instructors license Always maintaining interest modeling Bob designed instruments Pioneer during war developed several including flight recorder B-29s 1946 bought Aeronca Chief flew 10 years two boys fascinated planes pursued Free Flight got Control Line early Fifties go race cars boats 1972 Bob became interested RC designed lightplane wished test model formso much fun never gave up Now 26 RC jobs has thing biplanes 13 flying 1/5-scale Jungmann -scale Curtiss Wright Junior pusher circa 1930 Marquart Chargersimilar Steen Skyboltis favorite 10 degrees sweep both wings fantastic flier flies several times week own field own permission year ago used up seven drums fuel has Bluehead 48In Tiger Moth 500 hours time last heard about sell out manufacturing line six RC racing hydro planes son Jim Bob won first third mono Tunnel Hulls Racing own Scat Cat hulls produced Hyde Engineering Crystal River FL Bob versatile inventor Hyde Power Systems Inc Bob developed revolutionary wheel-hub en gine cars steam-driven has five cylinders built-in wobble plateeliminates clutch flywheel transmission drive shaft universal differential rear axle unit Gets full power cold start 15 sec zero weather Can used one-wheel all-wheel front-wheel drive 500 rpm gets 40 mph VW 26m tire Units vary 10 100 hp 20 such cars pollute less standard suto uses no oil eitherGE Silicone grease has 10 times lubricity conventional greases Pix fascinating could go forever model plane magazine old enough have read modelinWair magazines before say 1937 no way earth can identify amphibian accompanying picture Genuine old-timers will go bananas Obviously model real planenote tandem engines turned counter-rotating props Clue number two famous pilot Shorty Hasfurther designer Frank Tinsley No published Bill Barnes Air Adventurer 16 Model Aviation Bill Winter extending wingspan Top Flite Airacobra above Bob Hyde found excellent Pattern ship forward canopy isa plus Pattern Below Typical Bob Hydes 13 bipes lovely scratch-built 1/5-scale Hawker Fury fightersimplified exotic sport flier deleting interplane struts making simple sheet-metal ar come Thats Incredible missed guy Bill Winters Vagabond FF RC assist own design 1944 Air Trailsit missed SAM Society Antique Modelers Old Timerdeadlinewhen flown bya month orso did Wog Competitivetothe sailplane Vagabond also just missed second Radio Control postwar Nats flown Trammell also model flown Lou Andrews didnt design Two pounds lighter Winters Sniffer Vagabond spans6 ft climbs lessthan half throttle K&B 19 Its covered transparent MonoKote red yellow opaque dark blue tips forvisibility Construction sticks skinny butthree standard Airtronics servos fit side-by-side 4 prop pitch no could possibly hit landing spot Unless balanced extremely nose-heavy must flown constantly under power soaring scads down trim Winters Old Square Sides box sport flier published before WW Ilunderthe pen name Sprague early Thirties mag became Air Trails American Modeler disaster area Lets run imaginary film backwards So want pictures something different said Bob King Granger IN about RC Bill Barnes Snorter ought bring back memories bs model Pattern-size has flown off water both Fox 78 K&B Veco 61 78 would take off 14-in prop did Veco However two finest flights came Fox turning 12-in prop Bob now building later ulitmate Bill Barnes plane famous Lancerwhich has single retracting float cites just such model plane used two Goldberg nose gear retracts swing float snug belly cant find Published about 1974-75 American ModelerBob Ken dall Indiana dreamed up mechanism plot thickens friend Bob King tells interested old Bill Bames airplanes writes Gordon Codding Kingman AZ Bob valued mem ber Bill Barnes Research Staff So camera closes Codding Youve heard Baker Street Irregulars international association thousands dedicated Sher lock Holmes same thing miniature group guys scattered throughout US have thing about Bill Barnes Lets input data roughly 193 1-32 about 1938-39 Bill Barnes Air Adventurer novels written George L Eaton reality two guys Harold B Montanye WW pilot Fly Like Pro Chuck Verall alternated months hang characters appear mile minute F Orlin Tremainethere editorturned Frank Tinsley old cavalry man illustrated westerns publisher Street & Smith dominated world pulp days Western Stories Detective Stories Astounding Stories nowAnalog some hundred others includ ing real old days Buffalo Bill Frank Merrill etc Like Jules Verne Frank generation ahead time aware anything could tip off Franks meteoric career aeronautics illustrator painted Air Trails covers designed incredible fleet machines Bill Barnes characters fly Lancer being writer came aboard January 1 1937 editor found ourselves middle Richtofens Flying Circus Tremaine fathered science fiction too scifi guys think John Campbell sainthe other side office partitiondo honor Tremaine wearing gray spats Franklin Roosevelt long cigarette holder explained fourth dimension us first day ancient roll-top desk shop Frank T know man street head clouds Mechanix Illust rated Doomsday Tins ley him illustratingthings like end world wowed Jack Parr shpw before Johnny Carson Masterminding artis tic warfare Joe Lawlor huge hooked nose made him model posed Shadow another company fictitious hero know knows what evil lurks hearts men Well back ranch tarmac Bill Barnes Tinsley designed roughly 15 flying machines vivid imagination conjured up cannons firing through prop hubs retracting floats bomb er mother ships carrying folding-wing fighters transports infrared sights on Ama zingly viable aircraft caught attention aeronautical world late scene got edit fantasy copy kind Walt Disney World During WW II pilot AAF Gordon Codding relates carried several pages torn Air Trails Bill Barnes planes three-view As mental exercise would try figure out ways make work real life advantage having best state art around AF planes task find workable item still retaining B-B features shown magazine drawings later years hoped build fly Full-Scale Gordon doing just home-builts ala Bill Barnes modelinghe has threeviews sale also some Barnes fleet structured models hence Snorter built July1981 17 Tom II 25-powered Peerless Panther built plans Doc Mathews magazine plan No 283 $5 Tom says finally reached Shangrila level Kraft Gold Medal 4-ch conversion Gordon Codding utilizes simple gadgets real foot-pedal rudder control Transmitter left has function-oriented control knobsjust pilot full-size plane uses Rudder pedals right made broken prop blades bicycle spokes full propellerplus bicycle brake cable up transmitter slide mechanism works AMONG THE senior local pilots bump flying weekdays Bob Crosby pushes three-year-old -scale Cub forward side-slips did unimaginable things 8-ft lightweighteven flying backwards across entire flying area precision control uses neck strap holds case true against chest tummy always faces plane hold transmitter cockeyed angles plane make hard yourselfstick movements can askew Europe straps transmittertrays arecommonmaybewe have cultural hang-upmachismo histransmitter hasa metal halfloop northeast northwest corners case providing fingers free tning Bernie Steucker presiaent Northern Virginia Radio Control Club volunteered shoot two quickie pix us thought interior transmitter interesting mainly because Bob two battery packs right left darned know disappeared tol can fly day switching pack other Double insurance wed say Another nifty thing Bob has Ace Silver 7 encoder bottom four Ace RF decks top changing plugs can operate three 72 MHz frequencies 27 MHz frequency AROOT 02 GLIDER Bob King also has plans list old-time models full-size prints WW aircraft came factory much Gordon Codding 3724 John L Ave Kingman AZ 86401 am looking now pile fascinating descriptions spread out wall-towall numerous prints Lord too much space cant dig deeply Gordon active RC flier days though gravely handicapped wears steel spinal brace up four hours day spirit Bill Bames propells him does carry incredible research helpers handle plans business uses transmitter mounted platform front him can fly models spot Codding knows about tells us few B-B planes plublished three-view Eaglet BF-4C Silver Lancer BF-7 Charger BF-8 Transport BT 4 12 designs plus varients Gordon somehow came up few loose ends transmitter rigged foot pedals like rudder bar flies models just did real ones cockoit Hes buildina RC rubber solid - guys FF look up toi 50 years experience among Lto Rare Bill Gough loves unorthodox Rubber Scale like IndoorGeeBee Sporister covered microfilm long-ago MAAI Vito Garfalo widely loved respected magnificent design talents rubber things really perk Joe Konefes Buzzard Bombshell became world-famous its designer almost quite got lost shuffle smiles should tell something WINGSPAN 56 versions complete Barnes fleet model museum almost got away us does have museum gone now bigger-than-life crea tive people Depression days what legacy left Sadly Codding has written everyone sight including magazines never got answer Incredible alas too typical apologize skimming surface guys built Panther Doc Mathews published December 1979 ModelAviation youre sport flier flair old-timers once Peerless kit may have missed something accompanying pic Tom MehI Sand Lake MI has way words appreciation pure flight have own private special satis faction fine hobby Tom writes get up before sun brew coffee read Just Fun before rest world can intrude Being immersed tales flying past present fine flying itself Enclosed picture Panther because first success achieving plane flies have described flight well beauti ful beyond description air Though rolls spins prettily Doc promised almost never fly way preferring instead float around just watch flying wing have finally reached Shangri-la level Challenges relative simple building project real challenge came out beautiful Pure straight whole thing gives terrific satisfaction being bridge own lackluster abilities fine things have written about note Tom went low cost route Power Thunder Tiger 25 Hobby Shackhas rough castings runs surpris ingly well Flies lowest throttle settings Coverite two coats fuel-proof Zar urethane varnish doesnt yellow muffler varnish Tom proud weighs 3 oz less weight given Docs article Incidentally pleaded Doc model natty-looking low-winger youd reborn give yourself chance watch airplanes come George Aldrichwho still threatens fly big Nobler Stunt Natscouldnt resist siren song first love Free Flight Step daughter Debbie holds Spearhead Jr niece Karen Struck New Ruler Spear head thewildest pretty decorated crates weve ever seen must have noticed cant buy Magnum fuel finest moonshine ever brewed stills Texas Winter still has four gallons gotta screw needle two full turns never residue airplane must burn everything Alas comes fuels us dont know difference between black molasses pure maple syrup whatever days alive ride vagrant air looks much like stunters probably roll loop spin invertjust like other guys tear up weekend skies have both waysuntil have both ways youll never real hightime pilot command pilot quialified fly anything everything enjoy splendored thing hobby really Promised last month about Heinz Koener North Wales PA gave up electric came interesting story Heinz flew Windrifter sailplane set ting out hi-start Bob Kopski also Continued page 106 BATTERY ONJOFFSERVOS SWITCH AERECEIVERFAIL-SAFE2 RSPPIM-4C5 3 SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT4 18 Model Aviation Len heinz Ioerner -in original based Windrifter powered AStro 02 Canopy removed show access Gets6-min runcan loop hammerhead go inverted thermal Drawings below show sections tapered wing Reproduction 63% full size Right Herb Dirks talked electric power flying misses challenge firing up engineso mounted dummy cylinder nose old-times sake Note air opening front wing cool battery pack No silly exhaust wont get radio English-made RC Fail Safe will return servos nominal neutral pre-set trim case transmitter receiver failure interference out-of-range conditions Throttle flaps set safe mode KIORITZ NiINES BY GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH Original Developer Factory Trained Authorized Master Service Dealer Year limited Warranty Pre-Drilled Props Avail Ask About Custom- Built KIORITZ Engines Deep Fins Optimum Cooling 21/4 Flywheel 5mall Magneto 15/8 Six Bolt Aluminum Hub Carb Needles & Throttle Accessible Engine Running Don Godfrey 722-1765 Points Sealed Rear Housing $18995 pay shipping pre-paid orders DEALERS WELCOME 242 co n 397ccSaIl 5earngs Cenk 32 HP 05 5000 PCased Ro em Rod Pnto, Ps WeghtS b GIBBS HOBBY & RESEARCH 6195 HIlifleld St N W N CANTON OHIO 44720 Phone 21 6 499-8854 after 6 00 PM Toledo/Beckman Continued page ~ Higgins Contempo Magnum II engine 26 Cu haselectronicignition Flywheelfinswillbe trimmed production units Mightilne shirts have got covered One-liner Shirts $1050 Plane ShIrts $725 top quality football shIrts complete history back sky blue blue printing war- ground colorful WWII irds red printing Pitt airplanes applied sky blue shirts fine line followed seunoeeeauealu P38 Ugh5Sng xipw nf t claexic airntne FSFW FSF Hellcat P47 Thcatdett05 PiP ilgemnat P-SI Miteang PBF Bearcat PSI Black Widew AT-S Texan Fw90 P-SE Hawk A6M Zero e humor gags lot people Sky blue T-shirts printed two colors Pitts shirt white printed red black Theres such thing grasity. gk1ouiteaaaeei otOsio S SOMETIffiG SPECIALlF Order PS nnrcfzoOrder Thu earth socks.j313U34 nvs Order MN Order SHVl~ot Order SD Mens sizes 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P0 Box 469 Oak Lawn IL 60453 Wendell Hostetler Super Scale Plans l04l Heatherwood Lane Orville OH 44667 World Engines 8960 Rossash Ave. Cincinnati OH 45236 Ill back next month til thenlots happy safe flying Bob Beckman 8248 Holly Grove Court Ma nassas VA 22110 Fun/Winter Continued page 18 electric specialist showed up Kopaki 15mm flight electric glider before Heinz released reached max altitude Bob already air second time got 300 400 ft higher Heinzs Windrifter airborne 0-mm longer went morning wind shifted Heinz plodded out relocate hi-start stake Now Heinz launch lift area plowed field maneuver back over field losing considerable altitude Bob just flew lift over over again day grew hot After another 1600-ft hike retrieve hi-start huffing puffing red face found Bob sitting shade car flying electric glider Without taking eye off crate Bob asked Heinz didnt fly electric After leg cramps night running Heinz decided cant beat em join em Bob built aerobatic jobsBob has 460 flights Astro 075 Don Srull have picnic 6ft Spitfire using Astro 05 prop drive 12-or 13-8 Asking Heinz recommendation good place start people already building four-motor Connie mentioned have switched mysterious tn-motor sash Heres Heinz 02 flider own design borrowed Olympic nice beginners plane electric low budget Span 56 airfoil 10% see drawing Good forward speed penetration 6/i-min motor run Continued page 108 SPECIFICATIONS WnIbo Ponp cb 3 Ring Piston stock Ouadra adapter reposi tions carb easy access needles/throttle Executive Design Corp. I67-B New Highway North Amityville NY I701 Gibbs Hobby & Research 6195 HilIfield St NW Canton OH 44720 TypSoon a-li FIyIeg Foeteets B-24 Liberator 8-25 M5c5ell 8-29 5sperfortress ILGAIN Losing control can night mare wrong response given command can take its toll model modeling radio repair So avoid inflated repair costs undue service time Radio South fast economical inCONTROl control nerves andyour///house radio service wallet Radio South wecan depend Radio know feel aboutUlSouth customer satisfaction hobby too aresnt just motto Its avidRCenthusiastswith e FubaOO~way nearly half century ofet us put back combined experience L1z/I1 ro Line 1925 E Creighton RoadPensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 can horse around 3 mm. doing consecutive loops hammerheads invertedand still have time gain altitude good thermal flight come down short ofthe field can switch again plane purrs right feet Ace three-channel fits like glove Heinz goes need two battery packs stay up day long Data Astro 02 514 x 3 prop 4 x 12 Ah cells span 56 same Falcon 56 area 360 squares weight 24 oz loading 96 oz. length 31 Controls on-off rudder elevator no run fly-away RC jobs interference unexplained crashes would nice nothing happened less transmitter quits some goof-ball invades frequency strange things ether take over plane gets too far downwind away saved Believe device market several years can save airplane However talked name experts said Oh just something go wrong came conclusion true wed still flying Good brothers vacuum-tube single-channel 1948 escapements Well tell about own investigate miracle device manufactured CEL Electronics Harlow Ltd. Coachworks House River Way Harlow Essex CM 20P England called Electronic Fail-Safe Unit plugs between receiver servos Since works off receiver decoder passes normal signals through servos Should signals disrupted causing servos throw model Out control cease functioning device switches out receiver outputs switches preset control signals move servos safe positions As made functions three-wire servos positive pulse two milliseconds Being British recognize two familiar radio systems listed Futaba Sanwa its safe mode handles transmit ter receiever failures out-of-range inter ference another transmitter speech interference severe impulse ignition inter ference handlesup four channels channels requires second unit CEL claims whatever circumstances device will least give additional time seek recovery aircraft Address Miss Pamela Lee tell sent Before get ourselves Dutch recent description Bob Smurthwaites excellent Engel man spruce should give equal time Sig also has good stuff use too now Midwest Products announced two days ago written new spruce Samples look good indeed Also just received letter Tom Runge Ace discussing firms acquisition Pro Line Ace will continue fine tradition Pro Line Electronics once favorite experts select line systems Ace has versatile radio Silver 7 however kit form now will offer both firstline kit top quality ready-to-use system well Pro Line owners Ace will provide network approved service centers throughout worldwe presume existing Ace centers provide base no warranty work can done systems manufactured last corpo rate owner info address Pro Line Division Ace R/C Inc. 203 W 19th St Box 735 Higginsville MO 64037 Bill Winter 4330 ito Vista Dr Fairfax VA 22030 Rearwin Jr/Mathews Continued page 26 Junior struts model functional remarkably simple fabricate Sig SH 552 heavy duty devises rods soldered Onto 3/32-in music wire using short lengths brass tubing joiners wing panel inserted wing root tip blocked up proper dihedral angle boxes scrap wood Once proper angle established clevis/wire lengths fit solder joint Small tabs tin crimped soldered wire trimmed slide K&S airfoil tubing assembly secured PFC forced around tabs secures tube wire avoids rotation nut plates cut-down horns should secured interior Hot Stuff epoxy Once covering applied will accessible use devises horns provide some degree rigging degree washout washin can adjusted also make wing attachment super simple Always use two rubberbands between hooks case should break Radio installation After components structure completed install hard ware Adjust servo tray unit fore aft obtain center gravity CG approximately ahead finished point allows added weight covering finish aft CG ti x bass spruce cross beam can permanently secured fuselage sides sheet metal screws through ply sides receiver can placed under servos scrap ply box forward whichever helps CG proper location used Sullivan semi-flex pushrods whatever used anti-flex cross members should installed six inches used threaded clevis studs horn ends studs running EZ connectors servo ends Threaded studs can installed nylon pushrods very easily chucking -in drill blipping rod As exercise creative engineering originally connected ailerons servo pair Du- Bra * 190 balI links snaps adjusted throw varying holes used horns technique satisfactory until links accidently snapped wrong balls practical system subsequently installed using Du-Bro # 183 aileron connectors connector turned way up threaded rod remove wings Attaching wings requires opposite steps little practice wings can removed reinstalled minute two Covering finish fuselage proto type covered Sigs Koverall applied new novel manner painted framework outlines two coats 50% water 50% Elmers white glue allowed mix dry ironed Koverall Thats right ironed iron must set Coverite tempera ture generate enough heat pull white glue up fabrics weave Once its edges stick down very well can run iron over surface shrink fabric tightly Overlap areas require repeat coat first Continued page 110 108 Model Aviation