Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 1434 38 38 38 12 38 34 12 12 1234 48 26 30 38 46 60 42 49 80 60 70 60 90 100 BUNDLE DEALS 2016336 685 20116436 1020 20-332336 84015-332436 955 15-18338 715 10-18436 675 15-316336 900 10316436 810 10-14336 630 1014436 890 1038336 860 5-38 436 625 5-12336 540 5-12436 855 10-332448 845 518448 485 53164 48 505 514440 625 PINE STICKS 36 48 18181317 18382027 3163161724 316 382332 316123040 14142637 14383042 14123447 30383752 SPRUCE STICKS 3648 18 1815 18 141824 18 382029 3163162534 14 143145 14 383456 38 384563 38 1255 70 12 1260 68 12 346888 SPRUCE TRIANGLES 38 38 1212 34 34 36 45 61 77 LUTE PLY 48 186156 1812300 HARD MAPLE 1 4 38 3838 38 12 38 34 1234 BIRCH DOWELS 16 316 14 518 38 18 40 45 50 56 88 36 09 11 14 25 32 3PLYBIRCH48 16412525 13212425 11612435 1812450 SPLYBIRCH48 33212570 1812585 31612585 1412-800 GROOVED LG MOUNTS 12 Iachaa 3834 53244 123431645 much prefer Old-Timer leans right due slipstream fuselage profile power added turns left torque increases consistency easier main tain right-turn searches thermals pay off frequently left turns ruddertrim clicks maintain circle diameter offset torque variations tend open circle have anything against aerobatiCs course Take away chief interest people wed have sick hobby Routine sequences can become boring spec tators youve seen Masters- Nationalslevel Pattern have seen During Control Line Stunt Nats Fox 35s broke out two- four-cycle droning day long admit falling asleep once truly enjoy good aerobatics pilot executes perfection own fun Iran herd could thenexisting RC Pattern reeds Some maneuvers though father could love am destined smell roses distractions retirement oddballs Mystical stuff wonders Lift electricpowered journey center earth stumbled over new RC religion different projects the same now its flying wings next month RC splendored thing wish knew locked-in way go years darkness know hairy dog up 8omething. recent book Editor World Model Airplanes$18OOfrom AMA Supply 2nd Service Section Everyone creation sent 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Preston Bowers Kragness others far away places got act Heres kit would say build well test make pictures its yours keep Some things several seasons under belts still fly regularly have potent impres sions lets take walk wild side Everyone probably knows Kraft early mass-market Electric Cessna beautiful Chipmunk both fine-grain foam motors batteries time duration 2 2 mm Chipmunk could flown glow 09 know Phil Kraft himself snapped glow-powered Chipmunk landing ap proach over parking lot ailerons too Cessna has offered others late bargain-basement prices Grab does eight nine minutes now good 05 motor six sub-C cells direct drive 7-4 7-5 prop MRC same Chipmunk lapped Enya 09 plain bearing engine Once break tight engine will last 20 years Chip munk beginners Forget what fun ship scoots like chain-lightning three channels mimics full-scale WV/ II fight ers must fly cockpit Poor Doug Pratt thought interference Chipmunk tight high-speed turns way up Out hed tumble like clipped-wing Mustang old Thompson Races Well Spitfire stalls 250 mph pull moderately tight turnso tell Dontpull tight fast turns Chipmunk will tip-stall dont slow up too much throttled-back passes keep nose down keep telling yourselt loved Shakes up liver bile dont think folks understand such things Once Doug re alized fly like full-size aircraft ballsnaps ailerons Phil K did point rolls Midwest bigger Chipmunk same fine foam Doug graduated Bigger always bettermore docile smoother still need ing bit careful stick work would want superb machine larger size base original Chipmunk youd have worlds great aerobatics configurations know what Art Scholl does TV Bob Nelitz big model surely nails down point youd call little 09 Chipmunk dog toy son really dont know airplanes Goldberg fine-grain-foam Ranger 42 brilliant efficiency nice lines perfect proportionseven Goldberg soul perfection Airplanes cant compared across board What matters well deliver design purpose RC trainers purpose learn fly successfully wash Out 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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listings everything complete kits semi-kits scratchbuilders plans 3-views reference books much Scale Dream Book specializes Brian Taylors beautiful scale plans well Complete-A-Pacs professionally done semi-kits have almost type kit all-balsa glass foam No matter what vintage prefer WW WW II have something proud say trophy-winning airplanes flying season come Bob Holman other source business policy deliver Best Scale customers can win npr Ihe Scale Dream Book constantly being ted new aircraft plans etc Send today st edition st might best investment ever made price $300 BRIAN TAYLOR PLANS $1995 Plan Pacs @ $3695 Spitfire Mkl64 span 60 power Focke Wuif FW 190-A461 span 60 power Curtiss P-40E65 span 60 power Hawker Tempest61 span 60 power Japanese George64 span 60 power P-Si B/D Mustang60 span 60 power Republic P-47D Thunderbolt bubble61 F6F Hellcat64 span 60 power BT-13--71 span 60 power anyway Vag shot up hopeless stall snapped point relating happening Outside shattered windshield brokenoff rear spar stub inserted cabin box no damage wings held traditional tumbuckles nylon bolts through cabin root ribs Vag would have totally destroyed Giant Scale jobs cannot survive takeoff snaps urge never look two panels cannot fail-safe pictures see taken after crash nothing fixed Another thing never epoxy buttend crosspieces use white yellow glue double-glue spruce reproduced longeron breaks prototype plane actually cracking -in spruce points used generous balsa gussets diagonal graln always well tabs crossspan 60 power piece junctions covering film kind Vag probably would have ended up firewood Covering Sig Koverall poly ester cloth days Vag will fly like bird Just good session will hung up forever Im now 15 maybe 19 max glow sizes 035 05 Electricsat local parks peaceful pastures guys enjoy pain well have big scale spoilers power Electrics flying wings next month big Krackeijac spoilers updated Rookie editor hopes prays can blame him will taik about reader-built planes Just 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 1434 38 38 38 12 38 34 12 12 1234 48 26 30 38 46 60 42 49 80 60 70 60 90 100 BUNDLE DEALS 2016336 685 20116436 1020 20-332336 84015-332436 955 15-18338 715 10-18436 675 15-316336 900 10316436 810 10-14336 630 1014436 890 1038336 860 5-38 436 625 5-12336 540 5-12436 855 10-332448 845 518448 485 53164 48 505 514440 625 PINE STICKS 36 48 18181317 18382027 3163161724 316 382332 316123040 14142637 14383042 14123447 30383752 SPRUCE STICKS 3648 18 1815 18 141824 18 382029 3163162534 14 143145 14 383456 38 384563 38 1255 70 12 1260 68 12 346888 SPRUCE TRIANGLES 38 38 1212 34 34 36 45 61 77 LUTE PLY 48 186156 1812300 HARD MAPLE 1 4 38 3838 38 12 38 34 1234 BIRCH DOWELS 16 316 14 518 38 18 40 45 50 56 88 36 09 11 14 25 32 3PLYBIRCH48 16412525 13212425 11612435 1812450 SPLYBIRCH48 33212570 1812585 31612585 1412-800 GROOVED LG MOUNTS 12 Iachaa 3834 53244 123431645 much prefer Old-Timer leans right due slipstream fuselage profile power added turns left torque increases consistency easier main tain 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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brokenoff rear spar stub inserted cabin box no damage wings held traditional tumbuckles nylon bolts through cabin root ribs Vag would have totally destroyed Giant Scale jobs cannot survive takeoff snaps urge never look two panels cannot fail-safe pictures see taken after crash nothing fixed Another thing never epoxy buttend crosspieces use white yellow glue double-glue spruce reproduced longeron breaks prototype plane actually cracking -in spruce points used generous balsa gussets diagonal graln always well tabs crossspan 60 power piece junctions covering film kind Vag probably would have ended up firewood Covering Sig Koverall poly ester cloth days Vag will fly like bird Just good session will hung up forever Im now 15 maybe 19 max glow sizes 035 05 Electricsat local parks peaceful pastures guys enjoy pain well have big scale spoilers power Electrics flying wings next month big Krackeijac spoilers updated Rookie editor hopes prays can blame him will taik about reader-built planes Just 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 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Preston Bowers Kragness others far away places got act Heres kit would say build well test make pictures its yours keep Some things several seasons under belts still fly regularly have potent impres sions lets take walk wild side Everyone probably knows Kraft early mass-market Electric Cessna beautiful Chipmunk both fine-grain foam motors batteries time duration 2 2 mm Chipmunk could flown glow 09 know Phil Kraft himself snapped glow-powered Chipmunk landing ap proach over parking lot ailerons too Cessna has offered others late bargain-basement prices Grab does eight nine minutes now good 05 motor six sub-C cells direct drive 7-4 7-5 prop MRC same Chipmunk lapped Enya 09 plain bearing engine Once break tight engine will last 20 years Chip munk beginners Forget what fun ship scoots like chain-lightning three channels mimics full-scale WV/ II fight ers must fly cockpit Poor Doug Pratt thought interference Chipmunk tight high-speed turns way up Out hed tumble like clipped-wing Mustang old Thompson Races Well Spitfire stalls 250 mph pull moderately tight turnso tell Dontpull tight fast turns Chipmunk will tip-stall dont slow up too much throttled-back passes keep nose down keep telling yourselt loved Shakes up liver bile dont think folks understand such things Once Doug re alized fly like full-size aircraft ballsnaps ailerons Phil K did point rolls Midwest bigger Chipmunk same fine foam Doug graduated Bigger always bettermore docile smoother still need ing bit careful stick work would want superb machine larger size base original Chipmunk youd have worlds great aerobatics configurations know what Art Scholl does TV Bob Nelitz big model surely nails down point youd call little 09 Chipmunk dog toy son really dont know airplanes Goldberg fine-grain-foam Ranger 42 brilliant efficiency nice lines perfect proportionseven Goldberg soul perfection Airplanes cant compared across board What matters well deliver design purpose RC trainers purpose learn fly successfully wash Out 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 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Preston Bowers Kragness others far away places got act Heres kit would say build well test make pictures its yours keep Some things several seasons under belts still fly regularly have potent impres sions lets take walk wild side Everyone probably knows Kraft early mass-market Electric Cessna beautiful Chipmunk both fine-grain foam motors batteries time duration 2 2 mm Chipmunk could flown glow 09 know Phil Kraft himself snapped glow-powered Chipmunk landing ap proach over parking lot ailerons too Cessna has offered others late bargain-basement prices Grab does eight nine minutes now good 05 motor six sub-C cells direct drive 7-4 7-5 prop MRC same Chipmunk lapped Enya 09 plain bearing engine Once break tight engine will last 20 years Chip munk beginners Forget what fun ship scoots like chain-lightning three channels mimics full-scale WV/ II fight ers must fly cockpit Poor Doug Pratt thought interference Chipmunk tight high-speed turns way up Out hed tumble like clipped-wing Mustang old Thompson Races Well Spitfire stalls 250 mph pull moderately tight turnso tell Dontpull tight fast turns Chipmunk will tip-stall dont slow up too much throttled-back passes keep nose down keep telling yourselt loved Shakes up liver bile dont think folks understand such things Once Doug re alized fly like full-size aircraft ballsnaps ailerons Phil K did point rolls Midwest bigger Chipmunk same fine foam Doug graduated Bigger always bettermore docile smoother still need ing bit careful stick work would want superb machine larger size base original Chipmunk youd have worlds great aerobatics configurations know what Art Scholl does TV Bob Nelitz big model surely nails down point youd call little 09 Chipmunk dog toy son really dont know airplanes Goldberg fine-grain-foam Ranger 42 brilliant efficiency nice lines perfect proportionseven Goldberg soul perfection Airplanes cant compared across board What matters well deliver design purpose RC trainers purpose learn fly successfully wash Out bowling golf raising geraniums nothing match Ranger 42 discussed Goldberg potential beauties larger version say 09 15 maybe 19 relaxed safe pleasure flying high LID good-looker would soar drop hat would magnificent Talk about beginners Electric Ranger 42 perfect confirmed Bob Boucher Astro Flight told back 42 finest RTF market Electrics Id like 035 five 800 mAh cells flew 05 -075 six heavy 12 Ah sub-Cs monstrous wing loading 26 oz/sq ft wood 7-5 prop broke eight Continued page 28 26 Model Aviation EuEu. 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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listings everything complete kits semi-kits scratchbuilders plans 3-views reference books much Scale Dream Book specializes Brian Taylors beautiful scale plans well Complete-A-Pacs professionally done semi-kits have almost type kit all-balsa glass foam No matter what vintage prefer WW WW II have something proud say trophy-winning airplanes flying season come Bob Holman other source business policy deliver Best Scale customers can win npr Ihe Scale Dream Book constantly being ted new aircraft plans etc Send today st edition st might best investment ever made price $300 BRIAN TAYLOR PLANS $1995 Plan Pacs @ $3695 Spitfire Mkl64 span 60 power Focke Wuif FW 190-A461 span 60 power Curtiss P-40E65 span 60 power Hawker Tempest61 span 60 power Japanese George64 span 60 power P-Si B/D Mustang60 span 60 power Republic P-47D Thunderbolt bubble61 F6F Hellcat64 span 60 power BT-13--71 span 60 power anyway Vag shot up hopeless stall snapped point relating happening Outside shattered windshield 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 1434 38 38 38 12 38 34 12 12 1234 48 26 30 38 46 60 42 49 80 60 70 60 90 100 BUNDLE DEALS 2016336 685 20116436 1020 20-332336 84015-332436 955 15-18338 715 10-18436 675 15-316336 900 10316436 810 10-14336 630 1014436 890 1038336 860 5-38 436 625 5-12336 540 5-12436 855 10-332448 845 518448 485 53164 48 505 514440 625 PINE STICKS 36 48 18181317 18382027 3163161724 316 382332 316123040 14142637 14383042 14123447 30383752 SPRUCE STICKS 3648 18 1815 18 141824 18 382029 3163162534 14 143145 14 383456 38 384563 38 1255 70 12 1260 68 12 346888 SPRUCE TRIANGLES 38 38 1212 34 34 36 45 61 77 LUTE PLY 48 186156 1812300 HARD MAPLE 1 4 38 3838 38 12 38 34 1234 BIRCH DOWELS 16 316 14 518 38 18 40 45 50 56 88 36 09 11 14 25 32 3PLYBIRCH48 16412525 13212425 11612435 1812450 SPLYBIRCH48 33212570 1812585 31612585 1412-800 GROOVED LG MOUNTS 12 Iachaa 3834 53244 123431645 much prefer Old-Timer leans right due slipstream fuselage profile power added turns left torque increases consistency easier main tain 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Thompson Races Well Spitfire stalls 250 mph pull moderately tight turnso tell Dontpull tight fast turns Chipmunk will tip-stall dont slow up too much throttled-back passes keep nose down keep telling yourselt loved Shakes up liver bile dont think folks understand such things Once Doug re alized fly like full-size aircraft ballsnaps ailerons Phil K did point rolls Midwest bigger Chipmunk same fine foam Doug graduated Bigger always bettermore docile smoother still need ing bit careful stick work would want superb machine larger size base original Chipmunk youd have worlds great aerobatics configurations know what Art Scholl does TV Bob Nelitz big model surely nails down point youd call little 09 Chipmunk dog toy son really dont know airplanes Goldberg fine-grain-foam Ranger 42 brilliant efficiency nice lines perfect proportionseven Goldberg soul perfection Airplanes cant compared across board What matters well deliver design purpose RC trainers purpose learn fly successfully wash Out 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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listings everything complete kits semi-kits scratchbuilders plans 3-views reference books much Scale Dream Book specializes Brian Taylors beautiful scale plans well Complete-A-Pacs professionally done semi-kits have almost type kit all-balsa glass foam No matter what vintage prefer WW WW II have something proud say trophy-winning airplanes flying season come Bob Holman other source business policy deliver Best Scale customers can win npr Ihe Scale Dream Book constantly being ted new aircraft plans etc Send today st edition st might best investment ever made price $300 BRIAN TAYLOR PLANS $1995 Plan Pacs @ $3695 Spitfire Mkl64 span 60 power Focke Wuif FW 190-A461 span 60 power Curtiss P-40E65 span 60 power Hawker Tempest61 span 60 power Japanese George64 span 60 power P-Si B/D Mustang60 span 60 power Republic P-47D Thunderbolt bubble61 F6F Hellcat64 span 60 power BT-13--71 span 60 power anyway Vag shot up hopeless stall snapped point relating happening Outside shattered windshield brokenoff rear spar stub inserted cabin box no damage wings held traditional tumbuckles nylon bolts through cabin root ribs Vag would have totally destroyed Giant Scale jobs cannot survive takeoff snaps urge never look two panels cannot fail-safe pictures see taken after crash nothing fixed Another thing never epoxy buttend crosspieces use white yellow glue double-glue spruce reproduced longeron breaks prototype plane actually cracking -in spruce points used generous balsa gussets diagonal graln always well tabs crossspan 60 power piece junctions covering film kind Vag probably would have ended up firewood Covering Sig Koverall poly ester cloth days Vag will fly like bird Just good session will hung up forever Im now 15 maybe 19 max glow sizes 035 05 Electricsat local parks peaceful pastures guys enjoy pain well have big scale spoilers power Electrics flying wings next month big Krackeijac spoilers updated Rookie editor hopes prays can blame him will taik about reader-built planes Just 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 1434 38 38 38 12 38 34 12 12 1234 48 26 30 38 46 60 42 49 80 60 70 60 90 100 BUNDLE DEALS 2016336 685 20116436 1020 20-332336 84015-332436 955 15-18338 715 10-18436 675 15-316336 900 10316436 810 10-14336 630 1014436 890 1038336 860 5-38 436 625 5-12336 540 5-12436 855 10-332448 845 518448 485 53164 48 505 514440 625 PINE STICKS 36 48 18181317 18382027 3163161724 316 382332 316123040 14142637 14383042 14123447 30383752 SPRUCE STICKS 3648 18 1815 18 141824 18 382029 3163162534 14 143145 14 383456 38 384563 38 1255 70 12 1260 68 12 346888 SPRUCE TRIANGLES 38 38 1212 34 34 36 45 61 77 LUTE PLY 48 186156 1812300 HARD MAPLE 1 4 38 3838 38 12 38 34 1234 BIRCH DOWELS 16 316 14 518 38 18 40 45 50 56 88 36 09 11 14 25 32 3PLYBIRCH48 16412525 13212425 11612435 1812450 SPLYBIRCH48 33212570 1812585 31612585 1412-800 GROOVED LG MOUNTS 12 Iachaa 3834 53244 123431645 much prefer Old-Timer leans right due slipstream fuselage profile power added turns left torque increases consistency easier main tain 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Preston Bowers Kragness others far away places got act Heres kit would say build well test make pictures its yours keep Some things several seasons under belts still fly regularly have potent impres sions lets take walk wild side Everyone probably knows Kraft early mass-market Electric Cessna beautiful Chipmunk both fine-grain foam motors batteries time duration 2 2 mm Chipmunk could flown glow 09 know Phil Kraft himself snapped glow-powered Chipmunk landing ap proach over parking lot ailerons too Cessna has offered others late bargain-basement prices Grab does eight nine minutes now good 05 motor six sub-C cells direct drive 7-4 7-5 prop MRC same Chipmunk lapped Enya 09 plain bearing engine Once break tight engine will last 20 years Chip munk beginners Forget what fun ship scoots like chain-lightning three channels mimics full-scale WV/ II fight ers must fly cockpit Poor Doug Pratt thought interference Chipmunk tight high-speed turns way up Out hed tumble like clipped-wing Mustang old 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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brokenoff rear spar stub inserted cabin box no damage wings held traditional tumbuckles nylon bolts through cabin root ribs Vag would have totally destroyed Giant Scale jobs cannot survive takeoff snaps urge never look two panels cannot fail-safe pictures see taken after crash nothing fixed Another thing never epoxy buttend crosspieces use white yellow glue double-glue spruce reproduced longeron breaks prototype plane actually cracking -in spruce points used generous balsa gussets diagonal graln always well tabs crossspan 60 power piece junctions covering film kind Vag probably would have ended up firewood Covering Sig Koverall poly ester cloth days Vag will fly like bird Just good session will hung up forever Im now 15 maybe 19 max glow sizes 035 05 Electricsat local parks peaceful pastures guys enjoy pain well have big scale spoilers power Electrics flying wings next month big Krackeijac spoilers updated Rookie editor hopes prays can blame him will taik about reader-built planes Just 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 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Preston Bowers Kragness others far away places got act Heres kit would say build well test make pictures its yours keep Some things several seasons under belts still fly regularly have potent impres sions lets take walk wild side Everyone probably knows Kraft early mass-market Electric Cessna beautiful Chipmunk both fine-grain foam motors batteries time duration 2 2 mm Chipmunk could flown glow 09 know Phil Kraft himself snapped glow-powered Chipmunk landing ap proach over parking lot ailerons too Cessna has offered others late bargain-basement prices Grab does eight nine minutes now good 05 motor six sub-C cells direct drive 7-4 7-5 prop MRC same Chipmunk lapped Enya 09 plain bearing engine Once break tight engine will last 20 years Chip munk beginners Forget what fun ship scoots like chain-lightning three channels mimics full-scale WV/ II fight ers must fly cockpit Poor Doug Pratt thought interference Chipmunk tight high-speed turns way up Out hed tumble like clipped-wing Mustang old Thompson Races Well Spitfire stalls 250 mph pull moderately tight turnso tell Dontpull tight fast turns Chipmunk will tip-stall dont slow up too much throttled-back passes keep nose down keep telling yourselt loved Shakes up liver bile dont think folks understand such things Once Doug re alized fly like full-size aircraft ballsnaps ailerons Phil K did point rolls Midwest bigger Chipmunk same fine foam Doug graduated Bigger always bettermore docile smoother still need ing bit careful stick work would want superb machine larger size base original Chipmunk youd have worlds great aerobatics configurations know what Art Scholl does TV Bob Nelitz big model surely nails down point youd call little 09 Chipmunk dog toy son really dont know airplanes Goldberg fine-grain-foam Ranger 42 brilliant efficiency nice lines perfect proportionseven Goldberg soul perfection Airplanes cant compared across board What matters well deliver design purpose RC trainers purpose learn fly successfully wash Out 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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Bill Winter 7 Plane Talk WHY THE -SCALE ARISTOCRAT An other impulse always plane never forgotten always dream planes build remain fantasies build things never thought about subconscious always wanted big Buried some pigeon hole mind dimmed memory long-ago 9-ft rubber-powered Cessna 1920s prop carved 24-in-long balsa 2 x 4 took two us manhandle row knots sliced inner tube rubberno winder no stretching Tissue-covered Cessna skimmed aloft never above 6 ft slowmotion Jumbo-Jumbo land gloriously blackberry patch flightbut Lindy happy flight Aristocrat flew off board desk-bound environmentalist went back-packing see bees bears came upon Lost Ark airplane indelible now first model got fly solo 1-3 magazine ever edited made mixed-up kid learning expe rience outweighed others combined gone ROGs twin-pushers fuselages pushers tractors Rubber Scale Gas FF CL through CO-2 Jetex Payload Wakefield scads playthings like Dakota finally Radio Control would take courses Mississippi Delta Probably home-builder full-size planes gets fly lovely Pietenpol et al knows such feelings An airplane big realistically mimicing its historical prototype model usual sense dont know what real cant ride though feel sometunes dont wish inspire suggest will see idly tripled Flyline Models kit Aristocrat innocent would take 2 years pre-Purple Plan Editor remember earlier column enerev Don Srull arrived like Gen eral Stonewall Jackson could have taken forever spray-painted hooked up control cables decorated detailed dummy engine relentlessly drove strut mak ing other hideous unending chores notions building light using low power saw 12 lb 15 18 2022 ended up 26 1 lb lead ballast saw Fox Eagle II Fox 78 real lugger considered Davis offer dieselize either thought 90 called Harry Roe World Engines recommended heady stuff wallet suggessted single-cylinder Tartan 132 cu would turn Top Flite 186 props nice 7000 rpm Scale effect know little planes tend Left size Winters Aristocrat apparent picture Don Srull John Safety Comes First Preston attach wing panel Assembly two-man job three better Especially big planes Winter says panels must freeto give way event minor mishap unyielding turnbuckles nylon bolts can result needless destruction Aristocrat cracked prop pilot forgotto disengage coupled aileron-rudder final approach rolled weeds Right Test pilot DonSrull controls advances throttle first test hop powerful engines prop blast whipping Winters legs scale dummy radial engine removed fortestingan advisable precaution unnecessary case needle valve position has never changed one-turn correction aileron clevis adjustment ever made Bill says Itwas like taking care Jumbo elephant has no regrets may surpriseyou lateron builtaQuarterScale Piper Vagabondmore aboutthat thetextand anotherpicture 20 Model Aviation plane Winter says left mixed-up kid air looks like 30-35-powered Kadet weighs 26 lb flies 1 32 cu Tartan glow turning Top Flite 18-Bat 7000 rpm has 1 0-ft 4 span 155 sq ft area loading 26 ozIsq ft Bill calls Good News/Bad News Its dream fly tough get flying field has compact car -size Aristocrat now domiciled AMA Museum aileron gap see result sloppy fit contoured gap just like full-size plane has Stabilizer looks tiny size actually 15% vs originals 11% flit fly wing loadings must very low Going other way changes just dramatic Golden Age airplanes before flap era has oodles area has 10-ft 4-in span 18-in chord airfoil over 2 thick good pilots got fly model saw things like slow flight just above idle Figure 8 tossed loss altitude An exceedingly happy aircraft toyed impossible dreams light frames fuselage 11 wide 16 deep merely fast-taxi power now know better folks already kept saying Dont build light Giant Scale model must heavy fly right should know 1978 So ply gusset happyI built Brooklyn Bridge Soup-kitchen epoxy could take out 8 lb easily now view its lovely performance course wants high performance genuine aerobatics verticals appropriate subject want 2 3 cu mills gross weight 10 15 possibly 18 pounds short discovered wing loading 26 27 oz/sq ft -scale Aristocrat corre sponds loading 22 oz 1 sq ft 5-ft RC Special Scale Warren Shipp bailed out dozens photos full-size aircraft exchanged sketches over year seeking deduce what really happened front view tip section what tip intermediate ribs etc obtained microfiche copies CAA certification drawings about 1930 blew up 172 shots 5 x 7s know now things too late correct days prototype did necessarily follow license application drawings Frequentiy successive planes off line same differences plane plane very difficult pinpoint details particular ship way can Mine has its prototype license number end up dozen old shots plane identified its license number Wheels differ engines noses fin shapes stringers external Ts sometimes fav orite wheel days wore 30 x 5 tire 7 dia -scale required 3 months worth sketching develop take-apart tail seemed have things happening tiny location like Times Square axis points horns pushrods cables bellcranks other things being assembled Bright spots Du-Bro stub axles make perfect pivots homebrew plywood bellcranks Klett aileronlinkage retainers make wonderful piano-type hingingin three groups per flipper epoxied cannot removed Stanley knife elephant ear flippers rudder dynamically statically balanced lead ailerons required adding nose ballast worth Logistics have truck station wagon prop big must removed fit fuselage full-size wagon have compact car Crewing plane requires two people three much better much stake maintenance must kept up full-size aircraft flying field like full-size plane must bethought such terms times starting taxiing flight plan ning etc Constant inspection bible club has regulations believe 20-lb limit am out Aristocrat small field like living edge cliff anyway nearby woods approach ob stacles fly others have clear crew runway Impossioie approve have seen rule enforced am willing travel far fly Perhaps can Can picture seeking clear field weekend just can put up ego-ship like what happened Giant Scale rarely see locally International Miniature Aircraft Association has over 5000 members grand magazine crammed pictures least 50000 big models out Except among themselves people keep low profile building flying con sciousness what almost seems have become distinct branch aviation world blather about Scale Aristo crat truly detailed just wanted look like original onethats tough enough lieve would win few Scale prizes Kadet kit Like kids battered 15year-old first auto now sits blocks should buried Arlington flown aileron-equipped Aristocraft CAR always left takeoffs landings Don Srull extremely consistent Scale flier because weak point landing gear cantilever strut gear capable taking 2G drop-on puts 52-lb load leg one-point landing 26-lb gross dont squeeze such gears back alignment After three-channel things challenge myself too easy rest comfortable plateau wasnt ailerons much true trainer few exist ailerons no problem Kadet doesnt care whether use ailerons rudder rudder-only flier finding ailerons right stick should home hardest part o real tourchannel trainer use rudder left hand correct takeoff swerves coordi nated right hand elevator aileron crosswinds Iran off two tanks Bridi 40 tearing up down runway before felt secure enough rotate track Kadet has enough dihedral fly controls built like proverbial brick outhouse knew skill leveland present limits Iflwishedto push could inverted flight stall torus Cuban 8s etc consistency problem now like instructor pick super guysand listen comments bit far out turn onto final should delayed next time youll angie approach drift weeds go bananas guy says give right left has pilot Since doing aerobatics isnt objective dont need have some symmetrical airfoiled ship good pilots insist essential Basic simple aerobatics can done various degrees danged near anything Ive pushed Bridi 40s RCM Trainers truly great planes dead-sticking anywhere contingency get spot exactly carefree Near neutral stability needed decent aerobatics regime true us though right-side-up stability measure hands-off stability takes off considerable heat flat-bottomed airfoil menaceonly hindrance skilled pilots want Ditto bit dihedral airfoil Falcon 56 admittedly trainer has stood test time allows good aerobatics like Falcon bit clean given shot power over fence November 1985 21 declining skillchallengedtheold boyto dig heels WinterpickedtheSig Kadet II seen two pictures aileron trainer strange reasons text know controversial Briefly seems think chorus must instructions isa harbinger trouble best thing book sometimes throw round open-top file Just John Preston photographed Kadet pic tures Winter watched coming going season halfand reports blueand-white trim wonderful camouflage sunlight get new trifocals find out what airplane doing between takeoffs landingsbut metthe challenge small field Modelers seem forget trainers full-scale aviation Primary Basic Advanced must same Hackers like require Basic feel oats afterwards OK Advanced students feel insecure will whisper running scared Advanced types required fly know older guys will never make because wrong plane power Sorry other hand kids under 15 six months maybe doing flat spins Ugly Stiks Must extrude new pilot through same die problem psychological power ap proaches four channels can land anything dead-stick anywherebut long approach over obstacles small field engine running corrections blustery day standing-tall time Claude McCullough Sig Mfg Co Kadets designer veteran Ive known years put position Cub instructor persisted flying wing bit low finally got mechanic check rigging Mac checked out personal Kadet found its CG well forward max forward position shown kit plan So did pre scribed 3A2 up neutral ailerons will keep middle-level pilots out jams believe What does slightly up-aileron neutral reduces center-of-pressure travel moves forward chord especially flatbottom airfoils increasing angles attack pitch-stable Also has pronounced washout effect greatly re duces danger stalling dropping tip beginner working way up after recent solo like hacker has occasional little relapses trick money safety-bank built-in handicaps Kadet two lightly-built 35 engines fine Old-Timers well-blocked noses ate vibration also fly Old-Timers well throttled back time Both engines shakers Kadet Like other two-cycle engines hated flown steadily mid low ranges plane hummed rough servos receiver Once vibrated off main gear screws backing out Des perate turned Clarence Lee guru advised engines sufficiently balanced especially cure position unbalanced prop position counteracted engines vibration fault wore out wrist pins rod bearings finally ripped piston self-destructed Blown engines belong Indianapolis son Rob hot reworked K&B 40 little compression felt nothing hand flipping starter mandatory Gosh did wind up Only trouble could obtain really low consistent idle approaches fast faster would try pa tience Job challenge forged Eventu ally put huge rectangle ply between firewall cabin bottom Standing plane its nose poured epoxy-microballon mix front phone rang came back epoxy run through fuel line hole onto engine strange repair 40 much thrust forgot opened throttle quickly takeoff poor plane would roll over flip upside down Right front Strong very windy gusty day arrived piece bit high flare relaxed thinking made wind tilted Kadet upright awing Mind blank guessed aileron twisted straight down impact No damage thanks soft sod death-weary 40 ominous clank yet good pilot better think Only Yeager stays hot fellow hackers approach problems slowly realized inherent mischief random patterns helps work consistent landing pattern Excess altitude bit troublesome insufficient altitude too much really puts pressure you get final approach Worse widely-varying distance between plane downwind leg Depth perception normally poorer suppose resulting vari able cross-country crosswind leg onto final Hatteras missing ships get stooging around killing distance altitude forcing final sometimes see wrong-way turns low-sun situations know farout cross-country crosswind leg really 900 final Usually anything shallow-banked turns fast airplane espe cially after takeoff can swing very wide put over woods nasty stuffand put mettle err usually put Kadet higher sky-full aerobatic demons flying back forth wide turns end bother hacker-cinch pull up half loop roll out Immelmann either aileron repeat process other end least get something eventually youll begin try other stuff youve seen ship inverted instant few times fly plane symmetrical airfoil beyond well-populated stage Kadet horse Id retire stud farm modeling life live over specifi cally RC would things differently Hindsight fools gold Thermals always hooked thermals after random finagaling golden age retire ment ships discovered thermals hook flier Lift precise word Lift can embrace entire area after chill autumn night mid-morning sun subtly causes air rise No searching needed no fancy tech niques ascending rate live air exceeds sink rate plane under power up go remember full-tank flight Rebel long ago control input being quick rudder land feet two wheels instead otherwise would have During early SOs remember flight duration model seven-footer loaded 11 lb rule limit floated sky-high 15 idle spoilers out spiral over green trees went 45 minutes Air bumps late final go-round 360s after other coasted cloud-high 30 minutes twilight dead air evening thin film dust hanging fields edge sure enough thermal flights ad infinitum Hot spots hiding bubbles spikes mystery plane takes over goes automatic banks up nose slightly high see planform front side 360s tightens its circle forget transmitter 22 Model Aviation An Old-Timer model especially Rubber Scale art form says Winter H Vagabond RC Assist FF shown flaunts its sticks translucent MonoKotered fuselage fin/rudder yellow main wing panels opaque dark blue black would perfect poly tips high-altitude visibility flying site regulars such stuff puzzlement Power K&B-Veco 19 enough 9-4 9-5 prop its 6-ft span warm days maintains altitude idleup 18 mm 4-oz tank dont hit thermal quickly just trim circling flight wait thermal find chop engine hard believe What see Bills 1/4-scale Piper Vagabond basic Cub yellow yet decorated posed camera immediately after stall snap-roll fasttaxi test run got away pilot Result loss itsformed windshield cracked spar butt youll have trouble believing text too Reason garbled communi cations too cooks plane having very strange rigging Vagabond weighs 18 lb has 0S 90 plc Rosenstock othersthis month byJohn Preston scale one-to-lO lift model can fly Tis relative Weight doesnt matter much Some planes get-lucky chance blending vague tidbits appetizing Free Flighters god Hung Designwise RC Special should never have soared Impossible heavyweight Sniffer magic automatic qualities Being odd asked Scott Christensen Top Flite Models explanation pronounced Ships Did Pass Night picture-taking purposes Bill Win- samples leftover photos John terwasdoinghisbookafewyearsagomany Preston never published depict aircraft peopleincluding Winter Don Srull John impressedtheauthorbecauseof flexPreston Ned Kragness Hurst Bowers ibility modes obvious potential says Bills son Mikebuilt flew numerous opinions necessarilythose MAFT Mystical Affinity Thermals bottom line designwise being luck interest peaked say should cinch beat both RC Special Sniffer designed requirements job managed prove Scott wise man Continued page 24 management perhaps yours soapbox Besides differences what make world go round Left Krafts Chipmunk Cessna shown designed electric power Both fine foam-based aircraft ahead time came out would 2 2V2 mm landed under fading power Present Electric systems can triple quadruple flight time double climb rate MRC offered same Chipmunk Enya 09 glow basic Chip munk layout classic model types Right Futaba produced RTF tough plastic fuselage balsa-skinned foam wings came everything needed Winter set throttle K&B-Veco 19 maybe thats liked flew nicely first hopwithout having make adjustments single clevis Itwasa three-channel setuprudder elevators engine Top Flites Headmaster designed Ken Willard part collection because looked purty flyby extremely elevator-sensitive test flight means wont need long throws Nor should careless too-rearward CG lo cation Winter says Headmaster qualifies forthe marching band aileron trainers has wizard-approved airfoil stunt ing thats what want has bit stays-where-you-point-it Winters choice aileron trainer Sig Kavalier still being flown Don Srull HP 40fora Scaletrainerand moder ate aerobatics Winter likes steadiness shoulder wing setup semi-symmetrical airfoilplusthe realism right-sideup stability designer McCulloughs Brooklyn Bridge structural approach suspect Bill partial because son Mike MonoKotes like crazy newcomers still think Kavalier RTF Plc five years old constantly-flown Kay still looks pristine new Maybe its good old American flag fin November 1985 23 uiii says 1-alcon good aileron trainer its 2412 airfoil yielding plus aerobatics John Preston controls Ranger42 /2AARTF foam kit first out some 15 years ago Winterfeels wasan extraor dinary design achievement lifetime friend Carl Goldberg super-efficient considered bestARTFs around Electric conversion Don Srull stuck 05-075 plain-Jane Astro itwith six heavy 12 Ah cells itflew 8 min-pluswith 7-5 wood prop small wing loading terrible 26 oz/sq ft Bill states anyone has flown Free Flight type could teach him herself fly RC 42 049 BALSA SHEETS 36 48 30 1/16233 332 2 40 18 2 43 3116249 14 2 56 132327 120337 11633749 31 33234458 37 16 3547145 31836282 55 1/4 37395 61 516385 38 3 68 124 71 343165 1164587648 3324789456 1846010666 31649312275 14411013484 38 4165225 124225261 MATCHED SHEETS 42 3324100 184108 3164120 144131 BALSA STICKS 3648 116 14 09 116 38 10 116 12 14 332 14 10 332 38 12 332 12 16 18 18 08 19 381218 18 121624 3163161116 316 3817 316 122230 14 141624 14 381928 14 122130 14 343444 14 140 5165162128 38 382737 38 123246 38 344255 38 152 12 123653 12 344662 12 158 56 0848 34 3467 1414 38 38 1212 34 34 1' BALSA PLANKS 11 12 13 1123 1124 22 23 24 33 34 TAPERED SHEETS 142 143 382 383 123 L ONE STAR EPOXY Smi560 15,568 30 ,568 LIGHT 4-6 LB 36 49 49 49 56 67 76 85 15 139 220 300 78 91 100 117 138 207 25 30 34 45 55 36 85 150 206 280 276 360 225 325 435 495 688124282 36 65 TRAILING EDGE 36 8514132 6851611438 983811246 12012270 INSTANT GLUE 1 , Thick298 1 , TO,298 2, Thick550 2, -ro,550 _____________________________________________ / Vagabond RC-Assist evolved As own 1 940s cabin FF published Air Trails kitted Eagle revised now published Model Airplane Newsthey have plans competitive Comet Sailplane Goldbergs magnificent-gliding FF Power model 6-ft span matches modified big Sniffer 1 lb lighter Thats 24 oz lighter Its climb almost good K&B-Veco 19 its 5th season Its glide far outclasses heavy Sniffer sometimes feather-like full elevator rudder turn-on-a-dime jazz almost over spot trying get Power landings difficult long flat approach sometimes full down needed hold wheels grass Sniffer far better soarer Sniffer has MAFT thing Just trim rudder idle engine relax Vag can soar like bird locked will go automaticbut have work circle varying sticks often forcing things downwind sides circles often have fly around sometimes bit up down coming out tossed RC Sailplane pilots ask try Vagabond thing will stay up forever say . dark tips good idea ask strong wings want get down fast ever noticed Sniffer looked like truck Old-Timers simple little understood gentle always smooth easy controls speed let thing breathe Like fly full-size aircraft heavy hand Kamikaze stuff RC Vagabond picture published few years ago MAN modified authentic FF original published Air Trails during WW II kitted Eagle authentic FF original John Pond plan source BASS WOOD 316316 31614 31638 316 12 316 34 14 14 1438 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Preston Bowers Kragness others far away places got act Heres kit would say build well test make pictures its yours keep Some things several seasons under belts still fly regularly have potent impres sions lets take walk wild side Everyone probably knows Kraft early mass-market Electric Cessna beautiful Chipmunk both fine-grain foam motors batteries time duration 2 2 mm Chipmunk could flown glow 09 know Phil Kraft himself snapped glow-powered Chipmunk landing ap proach over parking lot ailerons too Cessna has offered others late bargain-basement prices Grab does eight nine minutes now good 05 motor six sub-C cells direct drive 7-4 7-5 prop MRC same Chipmunk lapped Enya 09 plain bearing engine Once break tight engine will last 20 years Chip munk beginners Forget what fun ship scoots like chain-lightning three channels mimics full-scale WV/ II fight ers must fly cockpit Poor Doug Pratt thought interference Chipmunk tight high-speed turns way up Out hed tumble like clipped-wing Mustang old Thompson Races Well Spitfire stalls 250 mph pull moderately tight turnso tell Dontpull tight fast turns Chipmunk will tip-stall dont slow up too much throttled-back passes keep nose down keep telling yourselt loved Shakes up liver bile dont think folks understand such things Once Doug re alized fly like full-size aircraft ballsnaps ailerons Phil K did point rolls Midwest bigger Chipmunk same fine foam Doug graduated Bigger always bettermore docile smoother still need ing bit careful stick work would want superb machine larger size base original Chipmunk youd have worlds great aerobatics configurations know what Art Scholl does TV Bob Nelitz big model surely nails down point youd call little 09 Chipmunk dog toy son really dont know airplanes Goldberg fine-grain-foam Ranger 42 brilliant efficiency nice lines perfect proportionseven Goldberg soul perfection Airplanes cant compared across board What matters well deliver design purpose RC trainers purpose learn fly successfully wash Out 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What fools mortals couldnt manage big Aristocrat logically cant say no built -scale Piper Vagabond Fasten seat belts guy next state stack factory blueprints hoped use old Ohlsson Rice chainsaw engine Having flown Vags Lock Haven able complete factory drawings Piper chopped feet off Cub wing stubby fuselage required 40 negative stab wing set flat think 30 twist graduated tips including almost strip-type ailerons Ithink downthrust first model Vag no shocks depended fat wheels chose OS 90 engine 14-5 prop aimed 18 pounds realistic flight enve lope roughly 3-ft-bigger Aristocrat Hardly anyone builds accurate Vag model basic frame cabin front wider bottom top station behind seat door wider top bottom slants back frame aft wider Continued page 129 28 Model Aviation I I I I I U U U U U U U U U U AUTOGYRO airB C- THM Model Specification Rotor Diameter63 Overall length exc rotors33 Approx Weight mci engine less RIG465 lbs Recommended Power45 60 Cu Radio Control ..4 channel THE WORLDS FIRST 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properly occasion Inotlcedthat Have safe monthCG must aftof 20% chord can ailerons working backwards No bigtest safely say 17-18% marked CG problem thought Ill just flip reversing John Preston 12235 Ti/den wood Dr Rock-on cabin knew Pipers setup worked switch transmitter everything will beyule MD 20852would OK model because just fine transmitter has six little______________________________________screwball Airknocker described last monththe switches flipped thoughtsame deal Its nice trim out level flight ailerons things started happening prettyPlane Talk/Winterat fast cruise throttle/power fast fire breather front end startedContinued page 28techniqueadding power climb taking off screaming still taxiway For-to descend Nice no problems chaps tunately luckwas plane shot offway rudder post top Crosspiecesforgot paved area grass finallyrun wild angles steel-tube fuselages dont really good pilots have quickie stopped ithave smooth bends go straight statlon topreflight on-the-spot game plan 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