mx ousII nas just launched model Lakehurst NJ August 1935 won tne tirsi-place prize oi l00 Junior oIruuuuII contest same ship won 1937 National Championships Detroit phenomenal flight 70 minutes 2 seconds IN LATE SUMMER OF 1933 Maxwell Bassett could have quit building model air planes entirely still assured prominent place model aviation history Using gasoline engines designed friend Bill Brown first set official record gas-powered model NAAs other rubber power class 2426June II 1932 also first record official gas-powered flight US Nationals 255September 1932 Atlantic City NJ Less year later astonished whole modeling world winning outdoor events 1933 New York Nationals setting two records process As direct result 1933 Nats performance NAA established new rules separate gas-powered models own competition category Quitting farthest thing Bas setts mind Fresh 1933 Nationals sweep began draw plans still other new Gas model altogether built 13 Gas jobs up time Ship num Left Bassett Miss Philly 16-110 Newark NJ May 191934 plane won its first contest 6072 out-of-sight flight under new 1/4 oz/lb fuel allotment rules instituted Junior NAA after Bassetts Nats victory previous summer Right Miss Philadelphia IV 6-114 looked Its original configuration 7-ft V-dihedral wing Design very attractive angle Wheel pants lust show 64 Model Aviation Having started Gas model craze Bill Brown Max Bassett continued prove championship mettle winning practically everything sight Part 2 U Dave Ritchie B-I 14 Miss Philadelphia IV resembled Nats-winning Miss Philly LII quite closely respects Though its rudder rounded its fuselage nearly identical Moffett Trophy winner s Unlike its predecessor however orig inally mounted V-dihedral wing 7-ft span neat pair detachable wheel pants intended display biggest difference inside cabin Bassett installed 15-oz auxil iary gas tank augment 2/2-oZ tank came standard Brown Jr engine Bassett first envisioned flying model some flatland areathe prairie country Midwest perhapswhere could conveniently tracked cross-country automobile Victor Fritz fearful endurance record Gas models might leave Philadelphia area attempt made soon thought would better launch model local air port follow wherever might go full-size airplane Fritz made arrangements operator Camden NJ Central Airport hoped record trial could made fore Christmas 1933 Harsh winter weather forced least half-dozen post ponements however late following spring before attempt all-out endurance could made Meanwhile May 19 1934 PMAA sent large contingent modelers Eastern States Outdoor Championships Newark NJ Bassett course among entry new NAA Gas model category original Miss Philadelphia reecently returned Worlds Fair altogether untried competition model sported new polyhedral wing prop-saving wooden-strut landing gear new Model B Brown Jr engine pro vided power Unlike earlier A-model engines Bassett used manufactured Junior Motors Corporation Bill Brown father financial backer named Edward Roberts formed after parting ways late 1933 Walter Hurleman contrast lowvolume capability Hurleman shop Junior Motors would mass-produce 50000 engines before World War II Roberts would also become third presi dent not-yet-formed Academy Model Aeronautics lay ahead Newark meet still predominantly rubber-power contest Gas bug catching Bassett encountered serious competition number other Gas modelers includiong 1933 Nats rival Joe Kovel plus Alfred Huber Martin Fay nor others Newark area Early meet Kovel got KG-i off stalling 4-mm 35 sec flight might have lasted longer model properly trimmed experienced Bassett easily bettered mark launch ing Miss Philly thermal carried out-of-sight 6 mm 7 sec winning event despite new NAA Gas rules limited Miss Phillys fuel supply /2 oz Searching neighborhood over last seen Bassett father found slightly damaged model possession youngster paid princely reward two dollars its return May 28 nine days after Newark October 1983 65 Because last-minute change weather Bassett substituted 6-ft 1-in polyhedral wing Miss Philly IV seen moments after launch its unprecedented 24-hr flight New Jerseys Camden Central Airport vicinity Middletown DE May 2 1934 Bassett center Brown right waited airport Victor Fritz chased model chartered plane Bassett used same model larger wing slightly different tail win Texaco Trophy second time 1934 NatIonals month later Akron OH ibm lo B~LI l41kfIIX 2rJIOUr Pkuu 44 $44 44 First Gas Model Champion 3ufl 4 g44 t4y4 -4~ 4$4 4 iL -4 4 2 ck #6j 4 4il4pAr qp4$wr-4 Plan Miss Philadelphia IV made Paul Karnow left published Philadel a Bulletin June 1934 shows 6-ft 1 wing small stab actually used 21/2-hr flight Bassett repiaced 8-ft wing large stab because damage incurred models return Middletown DE Frank Zaics plan below taken plan Bert Pond made July 1934 Akron Nats reflects later wing stab mis-labeled 21/2-hr version ship v __ 4 7 ~~~12 40 4 LA 4W 4/ win Bassett readied new Miss Philadel phia IV its oft-postponed endurance tempt Camden Airport Among small group onlookers pioneer air transport operator C Townsend Ludington founder what now Eastern Airlines well Bassetts parents handful friends PMAA course Bill Brown Nearby Victor Fritz charter pi lot Jack Byrne prepared follow model Byrnes open cockpit Fairchild Parasol Two attempts made previous daythe first ending dreaded spiral dive because trim error second cur tailed after minute engine failure time however everything clicked Bassett Bill Brown holding started engine adjusted spark mixture until satisfied its exhaust note hefting plane shoulder height sprinted few steps heaved wind Climbing slow steady circles Miss Philly IV off blue 17 oz gas aboard Byrne Fritz took off after minia ture plane keeping Fairchild above it circled away southwesterly direc tion Fritz filming its progress 16mm movie camera tracked stead ily climbing model Camden Glouce ster NJ across Delaware River South Philadelphia beyond Over Chester PA wind change blew ship eastward back across river Gibbstown NJ changed direction again driving con stantly circling Miss Philly IV south over Salem NJ westward once across Delaware Bay models engine ran out gas 8000 feet altitude shortly after reaching Delaware state side now said Byrne later watch ship glide lazily circle after circle would never have believed hadnt seen myself little plane glided 10 miles Two hours 35 minutes 39 seconds after its launch Victor Fritz punched stopwatch Miss Philadelphia IV nosed over cow pasture near Armstrongs Cor ner Delaware just south Middletown four miles Maryland state line Byrne landed adjoining field both Fritz clambered out Fairchild retrieve model Miss Philly IV tra versed straight-line distance 54 miles its launch point Fritz estimated optimistically usual actually covered 180 miles due its circling flight path After refueling nearby airport Byrne Fritz headed back Camden touched down just before dark model poking out Fairchilds front cockpit Recalls Bassett waited patiently group friends front Byrnes hangar longest four hours Id ever spent life unprecedented feat hailed new endurance record Philadelphia Bulletin PMAA lauded both Bassett Brown specially-created Achieve ment Awards recognition ad vancernent miniature aircraft science Sounding note reverberates day PMAA director Charles H English declared boys ve shown model planes cannot classed mere p1ythings Praise came prestigious sources out side Philadelphia too Reginald Cleveland New York Times aviation editor noted accomplishment by-lined column Popular Science Readers Digest brought story barbershop readers over US its write-up Time Magazine compared 19-year-old Max Bassett thencurrent aviation heroes Frank Hawks Roscoe Turner Ironically though NAA refused recognize flight According its new 1934 rules Bassett precipitatd 1933 Nats sweep under flown Newark Gas models alloted uel per pound airplane weightup maximum 1 oz liquid Miss Philly TVs 17 oz fuel load far ex ceeded 2-hour flight never officially made record books getting record really didnt matter 66 Model Aviation Bassett Miss Philadelphia V B-116 Miss Philly VI B-i 17 essentially identical Both models built 1935 Maxwell Bassett indisputably nations foremost Gas model builder Youngsters not-so-youngsters over country hungered emulate him Junior Motors Corp deluged orders would produce about thousand Brown Jr engines its first year operation Gas model boom Akron Nats As mentioned earlier Miss Philly IV originally designed 7-ft V-dihederal wing actual 2-hr flight however Bassett substituted polyhedral wing 6-ft 1-in span similar Miss Philly III Sometime before flight Paul Karnow made accu rate plan ship configuration published Bulletin also 1934 later editions PMAA hand book Victor Fritz entitled Build Model Airplanes During return trip Delaware models wing tail assembly dam aged Fairchilds slipstream re place broken parts Bassett built another polyhedral wingthis time 8-ft spanas well larger elevator slighty different rudder new wing tail model went 10 days temporary dis play Philadelphias famed Franklin Insti tute museum before being whisked off Akron OH 1934 Nationals Exactly month after 2/2-hr flight Max Bassett once again prepared Miss Philly IV action time weedy ter rain Akron Municipal Airport Nearby shadow giant Goodyear Air Docka mountain building designed house largest zeppelin lighter-than-air shipsa crowd over 2000 spectators gathered seventh running National Model Airplane Championships Bassett faced competition meet ever before entered Modelers far Los Angeles Bos ton Chicago come gaspowered entries join fray Already Emmanuel Radoff Newark NJ Robert Long Reading PA sent Brown-powered ships aloft flights nearly 2 mm over 3/2 mm respec October 1983 67 Side view second Miss Philly V B-il 7 taken front yard other pictures Bassett modeis 11th Street 86th Avenue Phiiadeiphias Oak Lane section Modei has 96-in wingspan 561/4-in fuselage flew 1935 Nats didnt win Bassett picture right still displays some modeling tro phies den along others won yacht racing present hobby trophy shown presented PMAA outstand ing aChievement model aircraft science after 1934 24-hr flight Bill Brown received identical contributions sake old times Max Bassett picture below hangs authors Brown given test run Continued page 160 Great Lakes 5173626854 Model U Mold Company Tawas City Ml 48763 AT-6 SNJ Harvard Kj Price $22800I Wingspan 708 Wing Area 947 sq Length 47 Engine 60 Radio 4-8 channelsThis model detail molded rigid urethane Weight 9A-10 lbsfoam epoxy gell goat Urethane Send SASE ml o inherently fuel-proof glued verby well balsa plywood etc cyanoacrylate type glues Canopy also detail molded * * * * WANDITTM * F FLN *Dealers Invited *~nngea * uflC yew .. * * -J * Dry CO RD * w * Stick Abrasises *A Keen Machine' gives exceptional *sanang contral tar excellent finish. * * 89~ Basic mcI 1 flat Wond ann 1 * rits *1 O8~ Builder Special mcI 2 flat 1 half- * and wand 5 6 grits *1 29~ 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too rich suddenly faithful Browns chug ging pace quickened plane zoomed off towards crowd spectators Gaining altitude flew over Goodyear hangar barely missing mast top huge structure moment seemed hover over air dock drifted off northeast Bassett two contest offi cials following car Its /2-oz fuel allotment long gone Miss Philly IV landed after 21 mm 57 sec aloft briar patch off Akron-Canton Road some tour miles airport retrieved its builder two timers kept sight Returning field Bassett logged flight time immediately con gratulated meet officials fellow con testants Once again come out top Texaco Trophy now major prize Gas modelers under 21 years age keep second year running Officially flight set new rec ord tripling earlier mark Newark NJ flown under NAAs new Gas model fuel-allotment rules Wiley Post hand give keynote address Nationals banquet examined championship model nd praised its design workmanship Philadelphia next days news papers ran familiar story Bassett wins againJ Bulletin noted first five placers Texaco event flew models powered engines designed William L Brown night Nats banquet Ak rons Mayflower Hotel young Indiana hobby shop owner named Bert Pond per suaded Bassett let him make measure ments Texaco Trophy-winning plane Pond produced extremely detailed plan Miss Philly LV though mislabeled 2-hr version craft referenced Frank Zaics earliest Year Books sold through Ponds hobby shop Copies plan still available Write Bert Pond 128 War ren Terr Longmeadow MA 01106 Oddly magazine plans ship didnt appear until 1937 some woefully inaccurate return Philadelphia Bassett re tired Miss Philly IV Franklin Institute went permanent display museums Hall Aviation hanging honored position landing gear Amelia Earharts Lockheed Vega Neither Vega nor Bassetts model can seen Franklin Institute today Vega moved Smithsonian Institution Washington DC about 1965 Un fortunately Miss Philadelphia IV has lost balance summer apparently took well-deserved rest modeling activities Having graduated June music scholarship Philadel phias exclusive Penn Charter High School accomplished violinist well member varsity tennis team now prepared enter University Pennsylvania engineering student last Miss Philly academic other interests growing important Bassetts life began have less less time model building flying did however manage compete three meets 1935 first relatively minor competition featured added attraction full-size glider meet Paoli PA Having nothing else fly pulled two-year-old Miss Philadelphia II stick model out mothballs score nar row win over fellow PMAA members Tan ley Corrsin Matt Kania event CD limited fuel supply total /4 oz prevent models flying out sight Nationals St Louis demanded something competitive Miss Philly II Bassett hurriedly designed Tools 1lb -R-gon R*st built entirely new ship B-I 16 named predictably Miss Philadelphia V Again apparent gap B-numbers between Miss Philadelphia IV B-I 14 Miss Philadel phia V B-I 16 accounted fact Bassett considered two versions Miss Philadelphia IV 6-ft-span 2/2-hr endurance version 8-ft-span Texaco Trophy winner separate designs fore reserving number B-I 15 latter though never actually appeared plane model combined elements both stick cabin designs previously successful him Like Miss Philly LII IV fuselage built-up box section considerable flat side area no cabin however Instead wing mounted wire parasol framework Ia Miss Philly LI wing itself something new Eight feet span constant chord throughout flat center section approximately half long total span outer quarter pan els turned up what might called tip hedral flight wing tended flex slightly giving center section two degrees effective dihedral tail sur faces pretty much before ie CLEVELAND QUALITY PLANS WORLDS GREATEST TRUE SCALE PLANS VARIETY 4iI.MaSt, ti4,0 nodot piano anaitahi alt Ftoot Pig Snt 1910 00 stilt ntoking tnt ootd tOtonno hiotnO tO Pt sit tO OC Cit FF tubbO, StatiC Tht nothing elso thorn rwhotot400 plans 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different paint job numberB-l 17 Otherwise two ships identical June 1935 Nationals turned out huge disappointment Bassett Plagued engine trouble missed chance win Texaco Trophy third last time won would have allowed keep permanently Next season hed 21too old qualify Texaco competition Leo Weiss won event unique all-balsa twin-tailed model highly streamlined small comparision other entries Weiss ran engine part-throttle conserve gas scored new record 64 mm. 12 sec Second place went Bruno Marchi Boston 41 mm 55 sec effort best Bassett could manage third place flight 36 mm 49 sec quite respectable nonetheless considering engine ran about /2 mm Perhaps Bassetts engineamong very first Brown Juniors built veteran hundreds Ilightswas finally showing its age maybe just having bad day Whatever reason setback must have hard pill swallow mod eler keenly competitive since 1932 Nationals failed place top model airplane com petition entered never beaten own gameGas model flying So discouraged apparently fore leaving St Louis announced last contest isnt clear whether Bassett really tended quit modeling hap pened later summar $100 top prize offered Junior Birdmen America contest held Lake hurst NJ Naval Air Station prospect winning much money equivalent maybe $700 SI 000 today hard ignore Bassett says easily per suaded out retirement August 28 1935 entered twin ships time calling Miss Philly V VI Junior Birdmen Gas Model Classic few Gas meets ome ever sponsored organization later brought its own downfall turning against Gas power crowd about 1000 watched both models fly OOS meet before ground observers credited Miss Philly VI contest-winning time 17 mm 48 sec Two weeks later Bassett received $100 check mail Lawrence Shaw national director Junior Birdmen Second place worth $50 Leo Vartanian Brooklyn NY $25 third prize went Henry Stadelmeir New York City contest might have net loss Bassett valued models around $75 apiece Fortunately few days after meet spotted scrub pine 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mx ousII nas just launched model Lakehurst NJ August 1935 won tne tirsi-place prize oi l00 Junior oIruuuuII contest same ship won 1937 National Championships Detroit phenomenal flight 70 minutes 2 seconds IN LATE SUMMER OF 1933 Maxwell Bassett could have quit building model air planes entirely still assured prominent place model aviation history Using gasoline engines designed friend Bill Brown first set official record gas-powered model NAAs other rubber power class 2426June II 1932 also first record official gas-powered flight US Nationals 255September 1932 Atlantic City NJ Less year later astonished whole modeling world winning outdoor events 1933 New York Nationals setting two records process As direct result 1933 Nats performance NAA established new rules separate gas-powered models own competition category Quitting farthest thing Bas setts mind Fresh 1933 Nationals sweep began draw plans still other new Gas model altogether built 13 Gas jobs up time Ship num Left Bassett Miss Philly 16-110 Newark NJ May 191934 plane won its first contest 6072 out-of-sight flight under new 1/4 oz/lb fuel allotment rules instituted Junior NAA after Bassetts Nats victory previous summer Right Miss Philadelphia IV 6-114 looked Its original configuration 7-ft V-dihedral wing Design very attractive angle Wheel pants lust show 64 Model Aviation Having started Gas model craze Bill Brown Max Bassett continued prove championship mettle winning practically everything sight Part 2 U Dave Ritchie B-I 14 Miss Philadelphia IV resembled Nats-winning Miss Philly LII quite closely respects Though its rudder rounded its fuselage nearly identical Moffett Trophy winner s Unlike its predecessor however orig inally mounted V-dihedral wing 7-ft span neat pair detachable wheel pants intended display biggest difference inside cabin Bassett installed 15-oz auxil iary gas tank augment 2/2-oZ tank came standard Brown Jr engine Bassett first envisioned flying model some flatland areathe prairie country Midwest perhapswhere could conveniently tracked cross-country automobile Victor Fritz fearful endurance record Gas models might leave Philadelphia area attempt made soon thought would better launch model local air port follow wherever might go full-size airplane Fritz made arrangements operator Camden NJ Central Airport hoped record trial could made fore Christmas 1933 Harsh winter weather forced least half-dozen post ponements however late following spring before attempt all-out endurance could made Meanwhile May 19 1934 PMAA sent large contingent modelers Eastern States Outdoor Championships Newark NJ Bassett course among entry new NAA Gas model category original Miss Philadelphia reecently returned Worlds Fair altogether untried competition model sported new polyhedral wing prop-saving wooden-strut landing gear new Model B Brown Jr engine pro vided power Unlike earlier A-model engines Bassett used manufactured Junior Motors Corporation Bill Brown father financial backer named Edward Roberts formed after parting ways late 1933 Walter Hurleman contrast lowvolume capability Hurleman shop Junior Motors would mass-produce 50000 engines before World War II Roberts would also become third presi dent not-yet-formed Academy Model Aeronautics lay ahead Newark meet still predominantly rubber-power contest Gas bug catching Bassett encountered serious competition number other Gas modelers includiong 1933 Nats rival Joe Kovel plus Alfred Huber Martin Fay nor others Newark area Early meet Kovel got KG-i off stalling 4-mm 35 sec flight might have lasted longer model properly trimmed experienced Bassett easily bettered mark launch ing Miss Philly thermal carried out-of-sight 6 mm 7 sec winning event despite new NAA Gas rules limited Miss Phillys fuel supply /2 oz Searching neighborhood over last seen Bassett father found slightly damaged model possession youngster paid princely reward two dollars its return May 28 nine days after Newark October 1983 65 Because last-minute change weather Bassett substituted 6-ft 1-in polyhedral wing Miss Philly IV seen moments after launch its unprecedented 24-hr flight New Jerseys Camden Central Airport vicinity Middletown DE May 2 1934 Bassett center Brown right waited airport Victor Fritz chased model chartered plane Bassett used same model larger wing slightly different tail win Texaco Trophy second time 1934 NatIonals month later Akron OH ibm lo B~LI l41kfIIX 2rJIOUr Pkuu 44 $44 44 First Gas Model Champion 3ufl 4 g44 t4y4 -4~ 4$4 4 iL -4 4 2 ck #6j 4 4il4pAr qp4$wr-4 Plan Miss Philadelphia IV made Paul Karnow left published Philadel a Bulletin June 1934 shows 6-ft 1 wing small stab actually used 21/2-hr flight Bassett repiaced 8-ft wing large stab because damage incurred models return Middletown DE Frank Zaics plan below taken plan Bert Pond made July 1934 Akron Nats reflects later wing stab mis-labeled 21/2-hr version ship v __ 4 7 ~~~12 40 4 LA 4W 4/ win Bassett readied new Miss Philadel phia IV its oft-postponed endurance tempt Camden Airport Among small group onlookers pioneer air transport operator C Townsend Ludington founder what now Eastern Airlines well Bassetts parents handful friends PMAA course Bill Brown Nearby Victor Fritz charter pi lot Jack Byrne prepared follow model Byrnes open cockpit Fairchild Parasol Two attempts made previous daythe first ending dreaded spiral dive because trim error second cur tailed after minute engine failure time however everything clicked Bassett Bill Brown holding started engine adjusted spark mixture until satisfied its exhaust note hefting plane shoulder height sprinted few steps heaved wind Climbing slow steady circles Miss Philly IV off blue 17 oz gas aboard Byrne Fritz took off after minia ture plane keeping Fairchild above it circled away southwesterly direc tion Fritz filming its progress 16mm movie camera tracked stead ily climbing model Camden Glouce ster NJ across Delaware River South Philadelphia beyond Over Chester PA wind change blew ship eastward back across river Gibbstown NJ changed direction again driving con stantly circling Miss Philly IV south over Salem NJ westward once across Delaware Bay models engine ran out gas 8000 feet altitude shortly after reaching Delaware state side now said Byrne later watch ship glide lazily circle after circle would never have believed hadnt seen myself little plane glided 10 miles Two hours 35 minutes 39 seconds after its launch Victor Fritz punched stopwatch Miss Philadelphia IV nosed over cow pasture near Armstrongs Cor ner Delaware just south Middletown four miles Maryland state line Byrne landed adjoining field both Fritz clambered out Fairchild retrieve model Miss Philly IV tra versed straight-line distance 54 miles its launch point Fritz estimated optimistically usual actually covered 180 miles due its circling flight path After refueling nearby airport Byrne Fritz headed back Camden touched down just before dark model poking out Fairchilds front cockpit Recalls Bassett waited patiently group friends front Byrnes hangar longest four hours Id ever spent life unprecedented feat hailed new endurance record Philadelphia Bulletin PMAA lauded both Bassett Brown specially-created Achieve ment Awards recognition ad vancernent miniature aircraft science Sounding note reverberates day PMAA director Charles H English declared boys ve shown model planes cannot classed mere p1ythings Praise came prestigious sources out side Philadelphia too Reginald Cleveland New York Times aviation editor noted accomplishment by-lined column Popular Science Readers Digest brought story barbershop readers over US its write-up Time Magazine compared 19-year-old Max Bassett thencurrent aviation heroes Frank Hawks Roscoe Turner Ironically though NAA refused recognize flight According its new 1934 rules Bassett precipitatd 1933 Nats sweep under flown Newark Gas models alloted uel per pound airplane weightup maximum 1 oz liquid Miss Philly TVs 17 oz fuel load far ex ceeded 2-hour flight never officially made record books getting record really didnt matter 66 Model Aviation Bassett Miss Philadelphia V B-116 Miss Philly VI B-i 17 essentially identical Both models built 1935 Maxwell Bassett indisputably nations foremost Gas model builder Youngsters not-so-youngsters over country hungered emulate him Junior Motors Corp deluged orders would produce about thousand Brown Jr engines its first year operation Gas model boom Akron Nats As mentioned earlier Miss Philly IV originally designed 7-ft V-dihederal wing actual 2-hr flight however Bassett substituted polyhedral wing 6-ft 1-in span similar Miss Philly III Sometime before flight Paul Karnow made accu rate plan ship configuration published Bulletin also 1934 later editions PMAA hand book Victor Fritz entitled Build Model Airplanes During return trip Delaware models wing tail assembly dam aged Fairchilds slipstream re place broken parts Bassett built another polyhedral wingthis time 8-ft spanas well larger elevator slighty different rudder new wing tail model went 10 days temporary dis play Philadelphias famed Franklin Insti tute museum before being whisked off Akron OH 1934 Nationals Exactly month after 2/2-hr flight Max Bassett once again prepared Miss Philly IV action time weedy ter rain Akron Municipal Airport Nearby shadow giant Goodyear Air Docka mountain building designed house largest zeppelin lighter-than-air shipsa crowd over 2000 spectators gathered seventh running National Model Airplane Championships Bassett faced competition meet ever before entered Modelers far Los Angeles Bos ton Chicago come gaspowered entries join fray Already Emmanuel Radoff Newark NJ Robert Long Reading PA sent Brown-powered ships aloft flights nearly 2 mm over 3/2 mm respec October 1983 67 Side view second Miss Philly V B-il 7 taken front yard other pictures Bassett modeis 11th Street 86th Avenue Phiiadeiphias Oak Lane section Modei has 96-in wingspan 561/4-in fuselage flew 1935 Nats didnt win Bassett picture right still displays some modeling tro phies den along others won yacht racing present hobby trophy shown presented PMAA outstand ing aChievement model aircraft science after 1934 24-hr flight Bill Brown received identical contributions sake old times Max Bassett picture below hangs authors Brown given test run Continued page 160 Great Lakes 5173626854 Model U Mold Company Tawas City Ml 48763 AT-6 SNJ Harvard Kj Price $22800I Wingspan 708 Wing Area 947 sq Length 47 Engine 60 Radio 4-8 channelsThis model detail molded rigid urethane Weight 9A-10 lbsfoam epoxy gell goat Urethane Send SASE ml o inherently fuel-proof glued verby well balsa plywood etc cyanoacrylate type glues Canopy also detail molded * * * * WANDITTM * F FLN *Dealers Invited *~nngea * uflC yew .. * * -J * Dry CO RD * w * Stick Abrasises *A Keen Machine' gives exceptional *sanang contral tar excellent finish. * * 89~ Basic mcI 1 flat Wond ann 1 * rits *1 O8~ Builder Special mcI 2 flat 1 half- * and wand 5 6 grits *1 29~ Deluxe includes 3 flat 2 half * nd wands huff wands * 6 grits * *Additional Wands Abrasues auaiiable * local hubby shap *ADDIS ELMORE Eve Na 2t4 288 5789 8 * ox 266 uite Tenas 75146 * problem conventional flaps tend push nose down usually problem level normal flight attitude airplane assumes nosehigh attitude effect can become pro nounced particularly strong prop wash over wing Disturbances airflow tail can cause tail lose effec tiveness- resulting very rapid often uncontrollable nose-down rotation lution problem move center gravity well aft Unfortunately makes model extremely sensitive during high-speed flight up-moving flap tries rotate nose up thus countering some natural ten dency stable model dop its nose stalls up-moving flap flip doesnt aid slow flight model level attitude does bank model out thereby improving line tension ad vantage lies ease model can held nose-high stalled attitude having resort balancing model farther aft normal sacrificing high-speed stability havent seen anyone besides Tony Addie using tech nique may worth try having difficulty combined high amnuon P-40 CARD KIT FULL COLOR EXACT REPRODUCTION ONLCWELL THEY FLEW W $500REMEMBER HOW SgeoI offer tnoIod noopon tar rninrkrg o 7BotFm ModeIoP 0 Boa elmo RooeoIBe Mt 48000 beta, t halt pdoe 000 -kPUNIQUE NOSTALGIC OFT GET ORGANIZED f-tern s set nt 4 sturdy files hnlds over 4 years nt yxur favorite B, t t ntagaZmOOs 4 MAG FILES $495 Send $498 plas $100 tnt postage handling 0GM INDUSTRIES PO BOX 388-K DOVER NH 03820 low speed characteristics Profile model Try first cardboard alu minum flap taped outboard wing Richard L Perry 7578 Vagels Wax Springfield VA 22/53 CL Scale/Boss Continued page 63 also receive fully-detailed instructions use installation both CL RC ap plications X-CeII Team Contest Saturday Sunday October 2 1983 X-Cell Team Lexington KY will hold its second annual All-Scale AAA Meet contest will held Kearney Field Lexington will feature both RC CL Scale events RC events include AMA Precision Sport Giant Helicopter CL events will Precision Sport Scale also Ad vanced Intermediate Expert PAMPA Stunt events Trophies and/or merchandise will given through least three places addition normal contest activi ties manufacturers being encouraged present demonstrate products Swapshop tables will permitted big tent food refreshments will available reasonable prices sounds like fabulous Scale modeling weekend great opportunity two forms Scale modelers see what other guy doing full details entry fees regis tration camping please write call Lew McFarland CD 3404 Keithshire Way Lexington KY 40503 day phone 606-276-4881 right phone 606-223-2368 Help wanted Bill Brown Woonsocket Rt looking some information kit has just obtained kit old blue-line-stamped sheets balsa parts sheet bears name Capital Beechcraft Bill would like know can tell him kit true scale someone out happens have set plans particular kit anyone can supply information Bill can reached 87 Manville Road Woonsocket RI 02895 Also wanted Weston Moore Garland TX looking tbr someone can provide information whereabouts plans PT-19 early Sixties plans Weston looking sixfoot model Chuck Hollinger turn used Jetco PT- 19 kit manufactured After several years kit form Jetco Sig marketed kit short time Anyone information about plans kit please get touch Weston Moore 4325 Pineridge Garland TX 75042 subject needing help would like say also need help items column Its almost year now since first Scale column MA am beginning feel pinch good solid items column column mineits yours So let hear about what youre building flying days CL Scale Bill Bass 77-06 269th St New Hyde Park NY /1040 Bassett/Ritchie Continued page 67 tively Though direct competition Bassett because age 2 I-year-old Carl V Carlson Chicago bettered Bassets Newark record 6-mi 48/-sec flight new Open class bit excitement provided Joe Braun fellow-Philadelphian model took sudden crash-dive turf After repairs Braun sent plane up again 8 mm 26 sec Meanwhile California contingent Bill Atwood Irwin Ohlsson together driven way Akron LA having problems Gas models Thirty-six seconds hest Ohlsson could coax out beautifully built finished 8-ft ship known capable much better per formance things going right official flight shorter Ohlssons made Harold Mitchell Everett MA posted time 33 sec Atwood having no luck alV Gas job gave up went back rubber-powered ships several entered 160 Model Aviation * *SAILPLANE* * iaunching equipment histartslwincheslaCCesSOrieS complete linelbest pricesltop quality send self-addressed stamped envelope cataloglinformation RLF PRODUCTS R2 Rn, hAY PBoii IN 47454 t8I2lI2 4310 Perma-Grit TM Lifetime * Carbide Sanding Tungsten Carbide grit hardest material next diamond * OutlastssandpaperlOosoftimesTungsten carbide grit brazed * Tools will load steel 9 long tool use * Grit cant tear looseon balsa hardwoods fiberglass * Makes fitting blending fairing pleasurebeaded foams epoxy fillers * Fairs LE TE foam undercuttingplexiglas * Rapid stock Removal better control * Saves time nonev aggravation e USA * Replaces plane knite rasp & sanding blocks verage Modelers Use Excellent model buIlder can use tools Cuts epoxyllte likeF-100FlatCearse/Flne$695 buttF-1O1Fat FIne$695 lob Hoeckele Editor Model RetailerF-102Flat MedIum$895 R-200% RadIus CoarselPh$895 Ask Dealer send check MO No CODs toR-2011IS Tangent CoarselFlee$695 R-202 Round IWedIumlFIns$625 D i Products R-203Vo Round MedhimlFlee$495 209 Carrlands Dr Dayton OH 45429R-204 Round MedumlFlae$495 513 294-1192 age Paid Ohio residents add 6%tax contest As day wore became clear Brooklyns Joe Kovel would beat KG-2 mounting wing 10-ft span crashed car simply got out earlier 8-ft KG-I clocked flight 14 mm appeared Max Basesett might make official flight After two tries blue-and-yellow craft yet get off ground third launch released plane see falter rise uncertainly begin circle field precariously low altitude haste apparently set needle valve hair too rich suddenly faithful Browns chug ging pace quickened plane zoomed off towards crowd spectators Gaining altitude flew over Goodyear hangar barely missing mast top huge structure moment seemed hover over air dock drifted off northeast Bassett two contest offi cials following car Its /2-oz fuel allotment long gone Miss Philly IV landed after 21 mm 57 sec aloft briar patch off Akron-Canton Road some tour miles airport retrieved its builder two timers kept sight Returning field Bassett logged flight time immediately con gratulated meet officials fellow con testants Once again come out top Texaco Trophy now major prize Gas modelers under 21 years age keep second year running Officially flight set new rec ord tripling earlier mark Newark NJ flown under NAAs new Gas model fuel-allotment rules Wiley Post hand give keynote address Nationals banquet examined championship model nd praised its design workmanship Philadelphia next days news papers ran familiar story Bassett wins againJ Bulletin noted first five placers Texaco event flew models powered engines designed William L Brown night Nats banquet Ak rons Mayflower Hotel young Indiana hobby shop owner named Bert Pond per suaded Bassett let him make measure ments Texaco Trophy-winning plane Pond produced extremely detailed plan Miss Philly LV though mislabeled 2-hr version craft referenced Frank Zaics earliest Year Books sold through Ponds hobby shop Copies plan still available Write Bert Pond 128 War ren Terr Longmeadow MA 01106 Oddly magazine plans ship didnt appear until 1937 some woefully inaccurate return Philadelphia Bassett re tired Miss Philly IV Franklin Institute went permanent display museums Hall Aviation hanging honored position landing gear Amelia Earharts Lockheed Vega Neither Vega nor Bassetts model can seen Franklin Institute today Vega moved Smithsonian Institution Washington DC about 1965 Un fortunately Miss Philadelphia IV has lost balance summer apparently took well-deserved rest modeling activities Having graduated June music scholarship Philadel phias exclusive Penn Charter High School accomplished violinist well member varsity tennis team now prepared enter University Pennsylvania engineering student last Miss Philly academic other interests growing important Bassetts life began have less less time model building flying did however manage compete three meets 1935 first relatively minor competition featured added attraction full-size glider meet Paoli PA Having nothing else fly pulled two-year-old Miss Philadelphia II stick model out mothballs score nar row win over fellow PMAA members Tan ley Corrsin Matt Kania event CD limited fuel supply total /4 oz prevent models flying out sight Nationals St Louis demanded something competitive Miss Philly II Bassett hurriedly designed Tools 1lb -R-gon R*st built entirely new ship B-I 16 named predictably Miss Philadelphia V Again apparent gap B-numbers between Miss Philadelphia IV B-I 14 Miss Philadel phia V B-I 16 accounted fact Bassett considered two versions Miss Philadelphia IV 6-ft-span 2/2-hr endurance version 8-ft-span Texaco Trophy winner separate designs fore reserving number B-I 15 latter though never actually appeared plane model combined elements both stick cabin designs previously successful him Like Miss Philly LII IV fuselage built-up box section considerable flat side area no cabin however Instead wing mounted wire parasol framework Ia Miss Philly LI wing itself something new Eight feet span constant chord throughout flat center section approximately half long total span outer quarter pan els turned up what might called tip hedral flight wing tended flex slightly giving center section two degrees effective dihedral tail sur faces pretty much before ie CLEVELAND QUALITY PLANS WORLDS GREATEST TRUE SCALE PLANS VARIETY 4iI.MaSt, ti4,0 nodot piano anaitahi alt Ftoot Pig Snt 1910 00 stilt ntoking tnt ootd tOtonno hiotnO tO Pt sit tO OC Cit FF tubbO, StatiC Tht nothing elso thorn rwhotot400 plans Coat totFttotchnicO tents Ask ano ott tint ntottotot Otn thotrhargO youtontt ant tong, hut send $150 th Cttnntand-Dosignad pitootial nutatog hmktot cost $400 tooducot no got tnt pattialtr ittusttatod Pt, tie 100 goad SA5E nith Ott Ott ato,t Non tno horn toy sotnito 40 ho., doaftts Edt,d T Pnclnd--tcncno Bn Fi,dSno CLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY CO ta 00000 A, Ctonntond Otin 441e2 October 1983 161 SCALE DOCUwonIuTuLN SCALE DRAWINGSPHOTOS BOOKLETS MODEL PLANS 1983 AIRPLANE CATALOG 2 60AGEs TECH REPLA ERNAT ONAI 800 MC KENZIC NWY V DA ORCOON 007488 PAW DIESELS Englands Finest 049 29 New low low prices Send $100 tor list Eric Clutton 3816 DeSoto AVe Fort Myers Florida 33U5 roughly oval outlined bamboo landing gear Bassett stuck triedand-proven wooden struts substituted fat pair M&M air wheels skinny wooden ones used previous ships power plant orig inal A-model Brown Juniors Rather go St Louis just airplane Bassett built two models same design called second Miss Philadelphia V also gave slightly different paint job numberB-l 17 Otherwise two ships identical June 1935 Nationals turned out huge disappointment Bassett Plagued engine trouble missed chance win Texaco Trophy third last time won would have allowed keep permanently Next season hed 21too old qualify Texaco competition Leo Weiss won event unique all-balsa twin-tailed model highly streamlined small comparision other entries Weiss ran engine part-throttle conserve gas scored new record 64 mm. 12 sec Second place went Bruno Marchi Boston 41 mm 55 sec effort best Bassett could manage third place flight 36 mm 49 sec quite respectable nonetheless considering engine ran about /2 mm Perhaps Bassetts engineamong very first Brown Juniors built veteran hundreds Ilightswas finally showing its age maybe just having bad day Whatever reason setback must have hard pill swallow mod eler keenly competitive since 1932 Nationals failed place top model airplane com petition entered never beaten own gameGas model flying So discouraged apparently fore leaving St Louis announced last contest isnt clear whether Bassett really tended quit modeling hap pened later summar $100 top prize offered Junior Birdmen America contest held Lake hurst NJ Naval Air Station prospect winning much money equivalent maybe $700 SI 000 today hard ignore Bassett says easily per suaded out retirement August 28 1935 entered twin ships time calling Miss Philly V VI Junior Birdmen Gas Model Classic few Gas meets ome ever sponsored organization later brought its own downfall turning against Gas power crowd about 1000 watched both models fly OOS meet before ground observers credited Miss Philly VI contest-winning time 17 mm 48 sec Two weeks later Bassett received $100 check mail Lawrence Shaw national director Junior Birdmen Second place worth $50 Leo Vartanian Brooklyn NY $25 third prize went Henry Stadelmeir New York City contest might have net loss Bassett valued models around $75 apiece Fortunately few days after meet spotted scrub pine underbrush several miles air station cruising Navy blimp crews eventually recovered undamaged continued FF Duration/Meuser Continued pacze 69 Launch Gliders supply auto-stab functionthe trailing edge tail pops up little after about secondin addi tion dethermalizer function sees no problem adding additional functions might want Are confused am about now thought sorted out headbone until read what wrote realized Id simply have make sketch see Business opportunity Che Hobbies up grabs Hugo Sandroni going home Argentina selling out mail-order Free Flight business song plus wholesale value inventory half price new car could put self business get tax writeoffs would make entire initial expense evap orate Che Hobbies still business Sandroni wont leaving yet addition has just finished printing new catalog includes Free Flight goodies various manufacturers large small plus bunch own 23-page catalog sells $2 might seem bit steep However cant stay business giving away catalogs cost close amount just printing mailing jacking up prices Che has chosen address Che Hobbies 10900 Eastwood Ave Inglewood CA 90304 phone 213 674-1756 Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory Sr Oakland CA 94619 FF Indoor/Tenny Continued jaqe 71 model similar layout Brians model larger less con trollable next highest time 867 seconds made Butch Hadland Peanut Scale Ace England flying very nice Fokker Peanut Scale model Butchs model flew quite fast relatively speaking im portant consistent flat left turn got around course minimum wasted motion Let explain what mean wasted motion Martin Varney Brians father won Peanut Speed event US Indoor Champs earlier ib Continued page 164 162 Model Aviation eye ojolon ai lrlot Os alt ala highly detailed $2400 otwn.SI7OO Other supero gIantscaIe prans - Poll size 9 POKIER DVIlI 24 Ca In $2500 9 PT-I 9 Oaadra 110150 82800 9 PIPER 14 MIlitary J3 Cab Osadra 92000 land cash chk Plans sent rolled UPS POSTPAID mangy ordr toreign orders add 40% air mail TAYLOR-CRAFT Send large sane tot 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mx ousII nas just launched model Lakehurst NJ August 1935 won tne tirsi-place prize oi l00 Junior oIruuuuII contest same ship won 1937 National Championships Detroit phenomenal flight 70 minutes 2 seconds IN LATE SUMMER OF 1933 Maxwell Bassett could have quit building model air planes entirely still assured prominent place model aviation history Using gasoline engines designed friend Bill Brown first set official record gas-powered model NAAs other rubber power class 2426June II 1932 also first record official gas-powered flight US Nationals 255September 1932 Atlantic City NJ Less year later astonished whole modeling world winning outdoor events 1933 New York Nationals setting two records process As direct result 1933 Nats performance NAA established new rules separate gas-powered models own competition category Quitting farthest thing Bas setts mind Fresh 1933 Nationals sweep began draw plans still other new Gas model altogether built 13 Gas jobs up time Ship num Left Bassett Miss Philly 16-110 Newark NJ May 191934 plane won its first contest 6072 out-of-sight flight under new 1/4 oz/lb fuel allotment rules instituted Junior NAA after Bassetts Nats victory previous summer Right Miss Philadelphia IV 6-114 looked Its original configuration 7-ft V-dihedral wing Design very attractive angle Wheel pants lust show 64 Model Aviation Having started Gas model craze Bill Brown Max Bassett continued prove championship mettle winning practically everything sight Part 2 U Dave Ritchie B-I 14 Miss Philadelphia IV resembled Nats-winning Miss Philly LII quite closely respects Though its rudder rounded its fuselage nearly identical Moffett Trophy winner s Unlike its predecessor however orig inally mounted V-dihedral wing 7-ft span neat pair detachable wheel pants intended display biggest difference inside cabin Bassett installed 15-oz auxil iary gas tank augment 2/2-oZ tank came standard Brown Jr engine Bassett first envisioned flying model some flatland areathe prairie country Midwest perhapswhere could conveniently tracked cross-country automobile Victor Fritz fearful endurance record Gas models might leave Philadelphia area attempt made soon thought would better launch model local air port follow wherever might go full-size airplane Fritz made arrangements operator Camden NJ Central Airport hoped record trial could made fore Christmas 1933 Harsh winter weather forced least half-dozen post ponements however late following spring before attempt all-out endurance could made Meanwhile May 19 1934 PMAA sent large contingent modelers Eastern States Outdoor Championships Newark NJ Bassett course among entry new NAA Gas model category original Miss Philadelphia reecently returned Worlds Fair altogether untried competition model sported new polyhedral wing prop-saving wooden-strut landing gear new Model B Brown Jr engine pro vided power Unlike earlier A-model engines Bassett used manufactured Junior Motors Corporation Bill Brown father financial backer named Edward Roberts formed after parting ways late 1933 Walter Hurleman contrast lowvolume capability Hurleman shop Junior Motors would mass-produce 50000 engines before World War II Roberts would also become third presi dent not-yet-formed Academy Model Aeronautics lay ahead Newark meet still predominantly rubber-power contest Gas bug catching Bassett encountered serious competition number other Gas modelers includiong 1933 Nats rival Joe Kovel plus Alfred Huber Martin Fay nor others Newark area Early meet Kovel got KG-i off stalling 4-mm 35 sec flight might have lasted longer model properly trimmed experienced Bassett easily bettered mark launch ing Miss Philly thermal carried out-of-sight 6 mm 7 sec winning event despite new NAA Gas rules limited Miss Phillys fuel supply /2 oz Searching neighborhood over last seen Bassett father found slightly damaged model possession youngster paid princely reward two dollars its return May 28 nine days after Newark October 1983 65 Because last-minute change weather Bassett substituted 6-ft 1-in polyhedral wing Miss Philly IV seen moments after launch its unprecedented 24-hr flight New Jerseys Camden Central Airport vicinity Middletown DE May 2 1934 Bassett center Brown right waited airport Victor Fritz chased model chartered plane Bassett used same model larger wing slightly different tail win Texaco Trophy second time 1934 NatIonals month later Akron OH ibm lo B~LI l41kfIIX 2rJIOUr Pkuu 44 $44 44 First Gas Model Champion 3ufl 4 g44 t4y4 -4~ 4$4 4 iL -4 4 2 ck #6j 4 4il4pAr qp4$wr-4 Plan Miss Philadelphia IV made Paul Karnow left published Philadel a Bulletin June 1934 shows 6-ft 1 wing small stab actually used 21/2-hr flight Bassett repiaced 8-ft wing large stab because damage incurred models return Middletown DE Frank Zaics plan below taken plan Bert Pond made July 1934 Akron Nats reflects later wing stab mis-labeled 21/2-hr version ship v __ 4 7 ~~~12 40 4 LA 4W 4/ win Bassett readied new Miss Philadel phia IV its oft-postponed endurance tempt Camden Airport Among small group onlookers pioneer air transport operator C Townsend Ludington founder what now Eastern Airlines well Bassetts parents handful friends PMAA course Bill Brown Nearby Victor Fritz charter pi lot Jack Byrne prepared follow model Byrnes open cockpit Fairchild Parasol Two attempts made previous daythe first ending dreaded spiral dive because trim error second cur tailed after minute engine failure time however everything clicked Bassett Bill Brown holding started engine adjusted spark mixture until satisfied its exhaust note hefting plane shoulder height sprinted few steps heaved wind Climbing slow steady circles Miss Philly IV off blue 17 oz gas aboard Byrne Fritz took off after minia ture plane keeping Fairchild above it circled away southwesterly direc tion Fritz filming its progress 16mm movie camera tracked stead ily climbing model Camden Glouce ster NJ across Delaware River South Philadelphia beyond Over Chester PA wind change blew ship eastward back across river Gibbstown NJ changed direction again driving con stantly circling Miss Philly IV south over Salem NJ westward once across Delaware Bay models engine ran out gas 8000 feet altitude shortly after reaching Delaware state side now said Byrne later watch ship glide lazily circle after circle would never have believed hadnt seen myself little plane glided 10 miles Two hours 35 minutes 39 seconds after its launch Victor Fritz punched stopwatch Miss Philadelphia IV nosed over cow pasture near Armstrongs Cor ner Delaware just south Middletown four miles Maryland state line Byrne landed adjoining field both Fritz clambered out Fairchild retrieve model Miss Philly IV tra versed straight-line distance 54 miles its launch point Fritz estimated optimistically usual actually covered 180 miles due its circling flight path After refueling nearby airport Byrne Fritz headed back Camden touched down just before dark model poking out Fairchilds front cockpit Recalls Bassett waited patiently group friends front Byrnes hangar longest four hours Id ever spent life unprecedented feat hailed new endurance record Philadelphia Bulletin PMAA lauded both Bassett Brown specially-created Achieve ment Awards recognition ad vancernent miniature aircraft science Sounding note reverberates day PMAA director Charles H English declared boys ve shown model planes cannot classed mere p1ythings Praise came prestigious sources out side Philadelphia too Reginald Cleveland New York Times aviation editor noted accomplishment by-lined column Popular Science Readers Digest brought story barbershop readers over US its write-up Time Magazine compared 19-year-old Max Bassett thencurrent aviation heroes Frank Hawks Roscoe Turner Ironically though NAA refused recognize flight According its new 1934 rules Bassett precipitatd 1933 Nats sweep under flown Newark Gas models alloted uel per pound airplane weightup maximum 1 oz liquid Miss Philly TVs 17 oz fuel load far ex ceeded 2-hour flight never officially made record books getting record really didnt matter 66 Model Aviation Bassett Miss Philadelphia V B-116 Miss Philly VI B-i 17 essentially identical Both models built 1935 Maxwell Bassett indisputably nations foremost Gas model builder Youngsters not-so-youngsters over country hungered emulate him Junior Motors Corp deluged orders would produce about thousand Brown Jr engines its first year operation Gas model boom Akron Nats As mentioned earlier Miss Philly IV originally designed 7-ft V-dihederal wing actual 2-hr flight however Bassett substituted polyhedral wing 6-ft 1-in span similar Miss Philly III Sometime before flight Paul Karnow made accu rate plan ship configuration published Bulletin also 1934 later editions PMAA hand book Victor Fritz entitled Build Model Airplanes During return trip Delaware models wing tail assembly dam aged Fairchilds slipstream re place broken parts Bassett built another polyhedral wingthis time 8-ft spanas well larger elevator slighty different rudder new wing tail model went 10 days temporary dis play Philadelphias famed Franklin Insti tute museum before being whisked off Akron OH 1934 Nationals Exactly month after 2/2-hr flight Max Bassett once again prepared Miss Philly IV action time weedy ter rain Akron Municipal Airport Nearby shadow giant Goodyear Air Docka mountain building designed house largest zeppelin lighter-than-air shipsa crowd over 2000 spectators gathered seventh running National Model Airplane Championships Bassett faced competition meet ever before entered Modelers far Los Angeles Bos ton Chicago come gaspowered entries join fray Already Emmanuel Radoff Newark NJ Robert Long Reading PA sent Brown-powered ships aloft flights nearly 2 mm over 3/2 mm respec October 1983 67 Side view second Miss Philly V B-il 7 taken front yard other pictures Bassett modeis 11th Street 86th Avenue Phiiadeiphias Oak Lane section Modei has 96-in wingspan 561/4-in fuselage flew 1935 Nats didnt win Bassett picture right still displays some modeling tro phies den along others won yacht racing present hobby trophy shown presented PMAA outstand ing aChievement model aircraft science after 1934 24-hr flight Bill Brown received identical contributions sake old times Max Bassett picture below hangs authors Brown given test run Continued page 160 Great Lakes 5173626854 Model U Mold Company Tawas City Ml 48763 AT-6 SNJ Harvard Kj Price $22800I Wingspan 708 Wing Area 947 sq Length 47 Engine 60 Radio 4-8 channelsThis model detail molded rigid urethane Weight 9A-10 lbsfoam epoxy gell goat Urethane Send SASE ml o inherently fuel-proof glued verby well balsa plywood etc cyanoacrylate type glues Canopy also detail molded * * * * WANDITTM * F FLN *Dealers Invited *~nngea * uflC yew .. * * -J * Dry CO RD * w * Stick Abrasises *A Keen Machine' gives exceptional *sanang contral tar excellent finish. * * 89~ Basic mcI 1 flat Wond ann 1 * rits *1 O8~ Builder Special mcI 2 flat 1 half- * and wand 5 6 grits *1 29~ Deluxe includes 3 flat 2 half * nd wands huff wands * 6 grits * *Additional Wands Abrasues auaiiable * local hubby shap *ADDIS ELMORE Eve Na 2t4 288 5789 8 * ox 266 uite Tenas 75146 * problem conventional flaps tend push nose down usually problem level normal flight attitude airplane assumes nosehigh attitude effect can become pro nounced particularly strong prop wash over wing Disturbances airflow tail can cause tail lose effec tiveness- resulting very rapid often uncontrollable nose-down rotation lution problem move center gravity well aft Unfortunately makes model extremely sensitive during high-speed flight up-moving flap tries rotate nose up thus countering some natural ten dency stable model dop its nose stalls up-moving flap flip doesnt aid slow flight model level attitude does bank model out thereby improving line tension ad vantage lies ease model can held nose-high stalled attitude having resort balancing model farther aft normal sacrificing high-speed stability havent seen anyone besides Tony Addie using tech nique may worth try having difficulty combined high amnuon P-40 CARD KIT FULL COLOR EXACT REPRODUCTION ONLCWELL THEY FLEW W $500REMEMBER HOW SgeoI offer tnoIod noopon tar rninrkrg o 7BotFm ModeIoP 0 Boa elmo RooeoIBe Mt 48000 beta, t halt pdoe 000 -kPUNIQUE NOSTALGIC OFT GET ORGANIZED f-tern s set nt 4 sturdy files hnlds over 4 years nt yxur favorite B, t t ntagaZmOOs 4 MAG FILES $495 Send $498 plas $100 tnt postage handling 0GM INDUSTRIES PO BOX 388-K DOVER NH 03820 low speed characteristics Profile model Try first cardboard alu minum flap taped outboard wing Richard L Perry 7578 Vagels Wax Springfield VA 22/53 CL Scale/Boss Continued page 63 also receive fully-detailed instructions use installation both CL RC ap plications X-CeII Team Contest Saturday Sunday October 2 1983 X-Cell Team Lexington KY will hold its second annual All-Scale AAA Meet contest will held Kearney Field Lexington will feature both RC CL Scale events RC events include AMA Precision Sport Giant Helicopter CL events will Precision Sport Scale also Ad vanced Intermediate Expert PAMPA Stunt events Trophies and/or merchandise will given through least three places addition normal contest activi ties manufacturers being encouraged present demonstrate products Swapshop tables will permitted big tent food refreshments will available reasonable prices sounds like fabulous Scale modeling weekend great opportunity two forms Scale modelers see what other guy doing full details entry fees regis tration camping please write call Lew McFarland CD 3404 Keithshire Way Lexington KY 40503 day phone 606-276-4881 right phone 606-223-2368 Help wanted Bill Brown Woonsocket Rt looking some information kit has just obtained kit old blue-line-stamped sheets balsa parts sheet bears name Capital Beechcraft Bill would like know can tell him kit true scale someone out happens have set plans particular kit anyone can supply information Bill can reached 87 Manville Road Woonsocket RI 02895 Also wanted Weston Moore Garland TX looking tbr someone can provide information whereabouts plans PT-19 early Sixties plans Weston looking sixfoot model Chuck Hollinger turn used Jetco PT- 19 kit manufactured After several years kit form Jetco Sig marketed kit short time Anyone information about plans kit please get touch Weston Moore 4325 Pineridge Garland TX 75042 subject needing help would like say also need help items column Its almost year now since first Scale column MA am beginning feel pinch good solid items column column mineits yours So let hear about what youre building flying days CL Scale Bill Bass 77-06 269th St New Hyde Park NY /1040 Bassett/Ritchie Continued page 67 tively Though direct competition Bassett because age 2 I-year-old Carl V Carlson Chicago bettered Bassets Newark record 6-mi 48/-sec flight new Open class bit excitement provided Joe Braun fellow-Philadelphian model took sudden crash-dive turf After repairs Braun sent plane up again 8 mm 26 sec Meanwhile California contingent Bill Atwood Irwin Ohlsson together driven way Akron LA having problems Gas models Thirty-six seconds hest Ohlsson could coax out beautifully built finished 8-ft ship known capable much better per formance things going right official flight shorter Ohlssons made Harold Mitchell Everett MA posted time 33 sec Atwood having no luck alV Gas job gave up went back rubber-powered ships several entered 160 Model Aviation * *SAILPLANE* * iaunching equipment histartslwincheslaCCesSOrieS complete linelbest pricesltop quality send self-addressed stamped envelope cataloglinformation RLF PRODUCTS R2 Rn, hAY PBoii IN 47454 t8I2lI2 4310 Perma-Grit TM Lifetime * Carbide Sanding Tungsten Carbide grit hardest material next diamond * OutlastssandpaperlOosoftimesTungsten carbide grit brazed * Tools will load steel 9 long tool use * Grit cant tear looseon balsa hardwoods fiberglass * Makes fitting blending fairing pleasurebeaded foams epoxy fillers * Fairs LE TE foam undercuttingplexiglas * Rapid stock Removal better control * Saves time nonev aggravation e USA * Replaces plane knite rasp & sanding blocks verage Modelers Use Excellent model buIlder can use tools Cuts epoxyllte likeF-100FlatCearse/Flne$695 buttF-1O1Fat FIne$695 lob Hoeckele Editor Model RetailerF-102Flat MedIum$895 R-200% RadIus CoarselPh$895 Ask Dealer send check MO No CODs toR-2011IS Tangent CoarselFlee$695 R-202 Round IWedIumlFIns$625 D i Products R-203Vo Round MedhimlFlee$495 209 Carrlands Dr Dayton OH 45429R-204 Round MedumlFlae$495 513 294-1192 age Paid Ohio residents add 6%tax contest As day wore became clear Brooklyns Joe Kovel would beat KG-2 mounting wing 10-ft span crashed car simply got out earlier 8-ft KG-I clocked flight 14 mm appeared Max Basesett might make official flight After two tries blue-and-yellow craft yet get off ground third launch released plane see falter rise uncertainly begin circle field precariously low altitude haste apparently set needle valve hair too rich suddenly faithful Browns chug ging pace quickened plane zoomed off towards crowd spectators Gaining altitude flew over Goodyear hangar barely missing mast top huge structure moment seemed hover over air dock drifted off northeast Bassett two contest offi cials following car Its /2-oz fuel allotment long gone Miss Philly IV landed after 21 mm 57 sec aloft briar patch off Akron-Canton Road some tour miles airport retrieved its builder two timers kept sight Returning field Bassett logged flight time immediately con gratulated meet officials fellow con testants Once again come out top Texaco Trophy now major prize Gas modelers under 21 years age keep second year running Officially flight set new rec ord tripling earlier mark Newark NJ flown under NAAs new Gas model fuel-allotment rules Wiley Post hand give keynote address Nationals banquet examined championship model nd praised its design workmanship Philadelphia next days news papers ran familiar story Bassett wins againJ Bulletin noted first five placers Texaco event flew models powered engines designed William L Brown night Nats banquet Ak rons Mayflower Hotel young Indiana hobby shop owner named Bert Pond per suaded Bassett let him make measure ments Texaco Trophy-winning plane Pond produced extremely detailed plan Miss Philly LV though mislabeled 2-hr version craft referenced Frank Zaics earliest Year Books sold through Ponds hobby shop Copies plan still available Write Bert Pond 128 War ren Terr Longmeadow MA 01106 Oddly magazine plans ship didnt appear until 1937 some woefully inaccurate return Philadelphia Bassett re tired Miss Philly IV Franklin Institute went permanent display museums Hall Aviation hanging honored position landing gear Amelia Earharts Lockheed Vega Neither Vega nor Bassetts model can seen Franklin Institute today Vega moved Smithsonian Institution Washington DC about 1965 Un fortunately Miss Philadelphia IV has lost balance summer apparently took well-deserved rest modeling activities Having graduated June music scholarship Philadel phias exclusive Penn Charter High School accomplished violinist well member varsity tennis team now prepared enter University Pennsylvania engineering student last Miss Philly academic other interests growing important Bassetts life began have less less time model building flying did however manage compete three meets 1935 first relatively minor competition featured added attraction full-size glider meet Paoli PA Having nothing else fly pulled two-year-old Miss Philadelphia II stick model out mothballs score nar row win over fellow PMAA members Tan ley Corrsin Matt Kania event CD limited fuel supply total /4 oz prevent models flying out sight Nationals St Louis demanded something competitive Miss Philly II Bassett hurriedly designed Tools 1lb -R-gon R*st built entirely new ship B-I 16 named predictably Miss Philadelphia V Again apparent gap B-numbers between Miss Philadelphia IV B-I 14 Miss Philadel phia V B-I 16 accounted fact Bassett considered two versions Miss Philadelphia IV 6-ft-span 2/2-hr endurance version 8-ft-span Texaco Trophy winner separate designs fore reserving number B-I 15 latter though never actually appeared plane model combined elements both stick cabin designs previously successful him Like Miss Philly LII IV fuselage built-up box section considerable flat side area no cabin however Instead wing mounted wire parasol framework Ia Miss Philly LI wing itself something new Eight feet span constant chord throughout flat center section approximately half long total span outer quarter pan els turned up what might called tip hedral flight wing tended flex slightly giving center section two degrees effective dihedral tail sur faces pretty much before ie CLEVELAND QUALITY PLANS WORLDS GREATEST TRUE SCALE PLANS VARIETY 4iI.MaSt, ti4,0 nodot piano anaitahi alt Ftoot Pig Snt 1910 00 stilt ntoking tnt ootd tOtonno hiotnO tO Pt sit tO OC Cit FF tubbO, StatiC Tht nothing elso thorn rwhotot400 plans Coat totFttotchnicO tents Ask ano ott tint ntottotot Otn thotrhargO youtontt ant tong, hut send $150 th Cttnntand-Dosignad pitootial nutatog hmktot cost $400 tooducot no got tnt pattialtr ittusttatod Pt, tie 100 goad SA5E nith Ott Ott ato,t Non tno horn toy sotnito 40 ho., doaftts Edt,d T Pnclnd--tcncno Bn Fi,dSno CLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY CO ta 00000 A, Ctonntond Otin 441e2 October 1983 161 SCALE DOCUwonIuTuLN SCALE DRAWINGSPHOTOS BOOKLETS MODEL PLANS 1983 AIRPLANE CATALOG 2 60AGEs TECH REPLA ERNAT ONAI 800 MC KENZIC NWY V DA ORCOON 007488 PAW DIESELS Englands Finest 049 29 New low low prices Send $100 tor list Eric Clutton 3816 DeSoto AVe Fort Myers Florida 33U5 roughly oval outlined bamboo landing gear Bassett stuck triedand-proven wooden struts substituted fat pair M&M air wheels skinny wooden ones used previous ships power plant orig inal A-model Brown Juniors Rather go St Louis just airplane Bassett built two models same design called second Miss Philadelphia V also gave slightly different paint job numberB-l 17 Otherwise two ships identical June 1935 Nationals turned out huge disappointment Bassett Plagued engine trouble missed chance win Texaco Trophy third last time won would have allowed keep permanently Next season hed 21too old qualify Texaco competition Leo Weiss won event unique all-balsa twin-tailed model highly streamlined small comparision other entries Weiss ran engine part-throttle conserve gas scored new record 64 mm. 12 sec Second place went Bruno Marchi Boston 41 mm 55 sec effort best Bassett could manage third place flight 36 mm 49 sec quite respectable nonetheless considering engine ran about /2 mm Perhaps Bassetts engineamong very first Brown Juniors built veteran hundreds Ilightswas finally showing its age maybe just having bad day Whatever reason setback must have hard pill swallow mod eler keenly competitive since 1932 Nationals failed place top model airplane com petition entered never beaten own gameGas model flying So discouraged apparently fore leaving St Louis announced last contest isnt clear whether Bassett really tended quit modeling hap pened later summar $100 top prize offered Junior Birdmen America contest held Lake hurst NJ Naval Air Station prospect winning much money equivalent maybe $700 SI 000 today hard ignore Bassett says easily per suaded out retirement August 28 1935 entered twin ships time calling Miss Philly V VI Junior Birdmen Gas Model Classic few Gas meets ome ever sponsored organization later brought its own downfall turning against Gas power crowd about 1000 watched both models fly OOS meet before ground observers credited Miss Philly VI contest-winning time 17 mm 48 sec Two weeks later Bassett received $100 check mail Lawrence Shaw national director Junior Birdmen Second place worth $50 Leo Vartanian Brooklyn NY $25 third prize went Henry Stadelmeir New York City contest might have net loss Bassett valued models around $75 apiece Fortunately few days after meet spotted scrub pine underbrush several miles air station cruising Navy blimp crews eventually recovered undamaged continued FF Duration/Meuser Continued pacze 69 Launch Gliders supply auto-stab functionthe trailing edge tail pops up little after about secondin addi tion dethermalizer function sees no problem adding additional functions might want Are confused am about now thought sorted out headbone until read what wrote realized Id simply have make sketch see Business opportunity Che Hobbies up grabs Hugo Sandroni going home Argentina selling out mail-order Free Flight business song plus wholesale value inventory half price new car could put self business get tax writeoffs would make entire initial expense evap orate Che Hobbies still business Sandroni wont leaving yet addition has just finished printing new catalog includes Free Flight goodies various manufacturers large small plus bunch own 23-page catalog sells $2 might seem bit steep However cant stay business giving away catalogs cost close amount just printing mailing jacking up prices Che has chosen address Che Hobbies 10900 Eastwood Ave Inglewood CA 90304 phone 213 674-1756 Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory Sr Oakland CA 94619 FF Indoor/Tenny Continued jaqe 71 model similar layout Brians model larger less con trollable next highest time 867 seconds made Butch Hadland Peanut Scale Ace England flying very nice Fokker Peanut Scale model Butchs model flew quite fast relatively speaking im portant consistent flat left turn got around course minimum wasted motion Let explain what mean wasted motion Martin Varney Brians father won Peanut Speed event US Indoor Champs earlier ib Continued page 164 162 Model Aviation eye ojolon ai lrlot Os alt ala highly detailed $2400 otwn.SI7OO Other supero gIantscaIe prans - Poll size 9 POKIER DVIlI 24 Ca In $2500 9 PT-I 9 Oaadra 110150 82800 9 PIPER 14 MIlitary J3 Cab Osadra 92000 land cash chk Plans sent rolled UPS POSTPAID mangy ordr toreign orders add 40% air mail TAYLOR-CRAFT Send large sane tot 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mx ousII nas just launched model Lakehurst NJ August 1935 won tne tirsi-place prize oi l00 Junior oIruuuuII contest same ship won 1937 National Championships Detroit phenomenal flight 70 minutes 2 seconds IN LATE SUMMER OF 1933 Maxwell Bassett could have quit building model air planes entirely still assured prominent place model aviation history Using gasoline engines designed friend Bill Brown first set official record gas-powered model NAAs other rubber power class 2426June II 1932 also first record official gas-powered flight US Nationals 255September 1932 Atlantic City NJ Less year later astonished whole modeling world winning outdoor events 1933 New York Nationals setting two records process As direct result 1933 Nats performance NAA established new rules separate gas-powered models own competition category Quitting farthest thing Bas setts mind Fresh 1933 Nationals sweep began draw plans still other new Gas model altogether built 13 Gas jobs up time Ship num Left Bassett Miss Philly 16-110 Newark NJ May 191934 plane won its first contest 6072 out-of-sight flight under new 1/4 oz/lb fuel allotment rules instituted Junior NAA after Bassetts Nats victory previous summer Right Miss Philadelphia IV 6-114 looked Its original configuration 7-ft V-dihedral wing Design very attractive angle Wheel pants lust show 64 Model Aviation Having started Gas model craze Bill Brown Max Bassett continued prove championship mettle winning practically everything sight Part 2 U Dave Ritchie B-I 14 Miss Philadelphia IV resembled Nats-winning Miss Philly LII quite closely respects Though its rudder rounded its fuselage nearly identical Moffett Trophy winner s Unlike its predecessor however orig inally mounted V-dihedral wing 7-ft span neat pair detachable wheel pants intended display biggest difference inside cabin Bassett installed 15-oz auxil iary gas tank augment 2/2-oZ tank came standard Brown Jr engine Bassett first envisioned flying model some flatland areathe prairie country Midwest perhapswhere could conveniently tracked cross-country automobile Victor Fritz fearful endurance record Gas models might leave Philadelphia area attempt made soon thought would better launch model local air port follow wherever might go full-size airplane Fritz made arrangements operator Camden NJ Central Airport hoped record trial could made fore Christmas 1933 Harsh winter weather forced least half-dozen post ponements however late following spring before attempt all-out endurance could made Meanwhile May 19 1934 PMAA sent large contingent modelers Eastern States Outdoor Championships Newark NJ Bassett course among entry new NAA Gas model category original Miss Philadelphia reecently returned Worlds Fair altogether untried competition model sported new polyhedral wing prop-saving wooden-strut landing gear new Model B Brown Jr engine pro vided power Unlike earlier A-model engines Bassett used manufactured Junior Motors Corporation Bill Brown father financial backer named Edward Roberts formed after parting ways late 1933 Walter Hurleman contrast lowvolume capability Hurleman shop Junior Motors would mass-produce 50000 engines before World War II Roberts would also become third presi dent not-yet-formed Academy Model Aeronautics lay ahead Newark meet still predominantly rubber-power contest Gas bug catching Bassett encountered serious competition number other Gas modelers includiong 1933 Nats rival Joe Kovel plus Alfred Huber Martin Fay nor others Newark area Early meet Kovel got KG-i off stalling 4-mm 35 sec flight might have lasted longer model properly trimmed experienced Bassett easily bettered mark launch ing Miss Philly thermal carried out-of-sight 6 mm 7 sec winning event despite new NAA Gas rules limited Miss Phillys fuel supply /2 oz Searching neighborhood over last seen Bassett father found slightly damaged model possession youngster paid princely reward two dollars its return May 28 nine days after Newark October 1983 65 Because last-minute change weather Bassett substituted 6-ft 1-in polyhedral wing Miss Philly IV seen moments after launch its unprecedented 24-hr flight New Jerseys Camden Central Airport vicinity Middletown DE May 2 1934 Bassett center Brown right waited airport Victor Fritz chased model chartered plane Bassett used same model larger wing slightly different tail win Texaco Trophy second time 1934 NatIonals month later Akron OH ibm lo B~LI l41kfIIX 2rJIOUr Pkuu 44 $44 44 First Gas Model Champion 3ufl 4 g44 t4y4 -4~ 4$4 4 iL -4 4 2 ck #6j 4 4il4pAr qp4$wr-4 Plan Miss Philadelphia IV made Paul Karnow left published Philadel a Bulletin June 1934 shows 6-ft 1 wing small stab actually used 21/2-hr flight Bassett repiaced 8-ft wing large stab because damage incurred models return Middletown DE Frank Zaics plan below taken plan Bert Pond made July 1934 Akron Nats reflects later wing stab mis-labeled 21/2-hr version ship v __ 4 7 ~~~12 40 4 LA 4W 4/ win Bassett readied new Miss Philadel phia IV its oft-postponed endurance tempt Camden Airport Among small group onlookers pioneer air transport operator C Townsend Ludington founder what now Eastern Airlines well Bassetts parents handful friends PMAA course Bill Brown Nearby Victor Fritz charter pi lot Jack Byrne prepared follow model Byrnes open cockpit Fairchild Parasol Two attempts made previous daythe first ending dreaded spiral dive because trim error second cur tailed after minute engine failure time however everything clicked Bassett Bill Brown holding started engine adjusted spark mixture until satisfied its exhaust note hefting plane shoulder height sprinted few steps heaved wind Climbing slow steady circles Miss Philly IV off blue 17 oz gas aboard Byrne Fritz took off after minia ture plane keeping Fairchild above it circled away southwesterly direc tion Fritz filming its progress 16mm movie camera tracked stead ily climbing model Camden Glouce ster NJ across Delaware River South Philadelphia beyond Over Chester PA wind change blew ship eastward back across river Gibbstown NJ changed direction again driving con stantly circling Miss Philly IV south over Salem NJ westward once across Delaware Bay models engine ran out gas 8000 feet altitude shortly after reaching Delaware state side now said Byrne later watch ship glide lazily circle after circle would never have believed hadnt seen myself little plane glided 10 miles Two hours 35 minutes 39 seconds after its launch Victor Fritz punched stopwatch Miss Philadelphia IV nosed over cow pasture near Armstrongs Cor ner Delaware just south Middletown four miles Maryland state line Byrne landed adjoining field both Fritz clambered out Fairchild retrieve model Miss Philly IV tra versed straight-line distance 54 miles its launch point Fritz estimated optimistically usual actually covered 180 miles due its circling flight path After refueling nearby airport Byrne Fritz headed back Camden touched down just before dark model poking out Fairchilds front cockpit Recalls Bassett waited patiently group friends front Byrnes hangar longest four hours Id ever spent life unprecedented feat hailed new endurance record Philadelphia Bulletin PMAA lauded both Bassett Brown specially-created Achieve ment Awards recognition ad vancernent miniature aircraft science Sounding note reverberates day PMAA director Charles H English declared boys ve shown model planes cannot classed mere p1ythings Praise came prestigious sources out side Philadelphia too Reginald Cleveland New York Times aviation editor noted accomplishment by-lined column Popular Science Readers Digest brought story barbershop readers over US its write-up Time Magazine compared 19-year-old Max Bassett thencurrent aviation heroes Frank Hawks Roscoe Turner Ironically though NAA refused recognize flight According its new 1934 rules Bassett precipitatd 1933 Nats sweep under flown Newark Gas models alloted uel per pound airplane weightup maximum 1 oz liquid Miss Philly TVs 17 oz fuel load far ex ceeded 2-hour flight never officially made record books getting record really didnt matter 66 Model Aviation Bassett Miss Philadelphia V B-116 Miss Philly VI B-i 17 essentially identical Both models built 1935 Maxwell Bassett indisputably nations foremost Gas model builder Youngsters not-so-youngsters over country hungered emulate him Junior Motors Corp deluged orders would produce about thousand Brown Jr engines its first year operation Gas model boom Akron Nats As mentioned earlier Miss Philly IV originally designed 7-ft V-dihederal wing actual 2-hr flight however Bassett substituted polyhedral wing 6-ft 1-in span similar Miss Philly III Sometime before flight Paul Karnow made accu rate plan ship configuration published Bulletin also 1934 later editions PMAA hand book Victor Fritz entitled Build Model Airplanes During return trip Delaware models wing tail assembly dam aged Fairchilds slipstream re place broken parts Bassett built another polyhedral wingthis time 8-ft spanas well larger elevator slighty different rudder new wing tail model went 10 days temporary dis play Philadelphias famed Franklin Insti tute museum before being whisked off Akron OH 1934 Nationals Exactly month after 2/2-hr flight Max Bassett once again prepared Miss Philly IV action time weedy ter rain Akron Municipal Airport Nearby shadow giant Goodyear Air Docka mountain building designed house largest zeppelin lighter-than-air shipsa crowd over 2000 spectators gathered seventh running National Model Airplane Championships Bassett faced competition meet ever before entered Modelers far Los Angeles Bos ton Chicago come gaspowered entries join fray Already Emmanuel Radoff Newark NJ Robert Long Reading PA sent Brown-powered ships aloft flights nearly 2 mm over 3/2 mm respec October 1983 67 Side view second Miss Philly V B-il 7 taken front yard other pictures Bassett modeis 11th Street 86th Avenue Phiiadeiphias Oak Lane section Modei has 96-in wingspan 561/4-in fuselage flew 1935 Nats didnt win Bassett picture right still displays some modeling tro phies den along others won yacht racing present hobby trophy shown presented PMAA outstand ing aChievement model aircraft science after 1934 24-hr flight Bill Brown received identical contributions sake old times Max Bassett picture below hangs authors Brown given test run Continued page 160 Great Lakes 5173626854 Model U Mold Company Tawas City Ml 48763 AT-6 SNJ Harvard Kj Price $22800I Wingspan 708 Wing Area 947 sq Length 47 Engine 60 Radio 4-8 channelsThis model detail molded rigid urethane Weight 9A-10 lbsfoam epoxy gell goat Urethane Send SASE ml o inherently fuel-proof glued verby well balsa plywood etc cyanoacrylate type glues Canopy also detail molded * * * * WANDITTM * F FLN *Dealers Invited *~nngea * uflC yew .. * * -J * Dry CO RD * w * Stick Abrasises *A Keen Machine' gives exceptional *sanang contral tar excellent finish. * * 89~ Basic mcI 1 flat Wond ann 1 * rits *1 O8~ Builder Special mcI 2 flat 1 half- * and wand 5 6 grits *1 29~ 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Meanwhile California contingent Bill Atwood Irwin Ohlsson together driven way Akron LA having problems Gas models Thirty-six seconds hest Ohlsson could coax out beautifully built finished 8-ft ship known capable much better per formance things going right official flight shorter Ohlssons made Harold Mitchell Everett MA posted time 33 sec Atwood having no luck alV Gas job gave up went back rubber-powered ships several entered 160 Model Aviation * *SAILPLANE* * iaunching equipment histartslwincheslaCCesSOrieS complete linelbest pricesltop quality send self-addressed stamped envelope cataloglinformation RLF PRODUCTS R2 Rn, hAY PBoii IN 47454 t8I2lI2 4310 Perma-Grit TM Lifetime * Carbide Sanding Tungsten Carbide grit hardest material next diamond * OutlastssandpaperlOosoftimesTungsten carbide grit brazed * Tools will load steel 9 long tool use * Grit cant tear looseon balsa hardwoods fiberglass * Makes fitting blending fairing pleasurebeaded foams epoxy fillers * Fairs LE TE foam 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too rich suddenly faithful Browns chug ging pace quickened plane zoomed off towards crowd spectators Gaining altitude flew over Goodyear hangar barely missing mast top huge structure moment seemed hover over air dock drifted off northeast Bassett two contest offi cials following car Its /2-oz fuel allotment long gone Miss Philly IV landed after 21 mm 57 sec aloft briar patch off Akron-Canton Road some tour miles airport retrieved its builder two timers kept sight Returning field Bassett logged flight time immediately con gratulated meet officials fellow con testants Once again come out top Texaco Trophy now major prize Gas modelers under 21 years age keep second year running Officially flight set new rec ord tripling earlier mark Newark NJ flown under NAAs new Gas model fuel-allotment rules Wiley Post hand give keynote address Nationals banquet examined championship model nd praised its design workmanship Philadelphia next days news papers ran familiar story Bassett wins againJ Bulletin noted first five placers Texaco event flew models powered engines designed William L Brown night Nats banquet Ak rons Mayflower Hotel young Indiana hobby shop owner named Bert Pond per suaded Bassett let him make measure ments Texaco Trophy-winning plane Pond produced extremely detailed plan Miss Philly LV though mislabeled 2-hr version craft referenced Frank Zaics earliest Year Books sold through Ponds hobby shop Copies plan still available Write Bert Pond 128 War ren Terr Longmeadow MA 01106 Oddly magazine plans ship didnt appear until 1937 some woefully inaccurate return Philadelphia Bassett re tired Miss Philly IV Franklin Institute went permanent display museums Hall Aviation hanging honored position landing gear Amelia Earharts Lockheed Vega Neither Vega nor Bassetts model can seen Franklin Institute today Vega moved Smithsonian Institution Washington DC about 1965 Un fortunately Miss Philadelphia IV has lost balance summer apparently took well-deserved rest modeling activities Having graduated June music scholarship Philadel phias exclusive Penn Charter High School accomplished violinist well member varsity tennis team now prepared enter University Pennsylvania engineering student last Miss Philly academic other interests growing important Bassetts life began have less less time model building flying did however manage compete three meets 1935 first relatively minor competition featured added attraction full-size glider meet Paoli PA Having nothing else fly pulled two-year-old Miss Philadelphia II stick model out mothballs score nar row win over fellow PMAA members Tan ley Corrsin Matt Kania event CD limited fuel supply total /4 oz prevent models flying out sight Nationals St Louis demanded something competitive Miss Philly II Bassett hurriedly designed Tools 1lb -R-gon R*st built entirely new ship B-I 16 named predictably Miss Philadelphia V Again apparent gap B-numbers between Miss Philadelphia IV B-I 14 Miss Philadel phia V B-I 16 accounted fact Bassett considered two versions Miss Philadelphia IV 6-ft-span 2/2-hr endurance version 8-ft-span Texaco Trophy winner separate designs fore reserving number B-I 15 latter though never actually appeared plane model combined elements both stick cabin designs previously successful him Like Miss Philly LII IV fuselage built-up box section considerable flat side area no cabin however Instead wing mounted wire parasol framework Ia Miss Philly LI wing itself something new Eight feet span constant chord throughout flat center section approximately half long total span outer quarter pan els turned up what might called tip hedral flight wing tended flex slightly giving center section two degrees effective dihedral tail sur faces pretty much before ie CLEVELAND QUALITY PLANS WORLDS GREATEST TRUE SCALE PLANS VARIETY 4iI.MaSt, ti4,0 nodot piano anaitahi alt Ftoot Pig Snt 1910 00 stilt ntoking tnt ootd tOtonno hiotnO tO Pt sit tO OC Cit FF tubbO, StatiC Tht nothing elso thorn rwhotot400 plans Coat totFttotchnicO tents Ask ano ott tint ntottotot Otn thotrhargO youtontt ant tong, hut send $150 th Cttnntand-Dosignad pitootial nutatog hmktot cost $400 tooducot no got tnt pattialtr ittusttatod Pt, tie 100 goad SA5E nith Ott Ott ato,t Non tno horn toy sotnito 40 ho., doaftts Edt,d T Pnclnd--tcncno Bn Fi,dSno CLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY CO ta 00000 A, Ctonntond Otin 441e2 October 1983 161 SCALE DOCUwonIuTuLN SCALE DRAWINGSPHOTOS BOOKLETS MODEL PLANS 1983 AIRPLANE CATALOG 2 60AGEs TECH REPLA ERNAT ONAI 800 MC KENZIC NWY V DA ORCOON 007488 PAW DIESELS Englands Finest 049 29 New low low prices Send $100 tor list Eric Clutton 3816 DeSoto AVe Fort Myers Florida 33U5 roughly oval outlined bamboo landing gear Bassett stuck triedand-proven wooden struts substituted fat pair M&M air wheels skinny wooden ones used previous ships power plant orig inal A-model Brown Juniors Rather go St Louis just airplane Bassett built two models same design called second Miss Philadelphia V also gave slightly different paint job numberB-l 17 Otherwise two ships identical June 1935 Nationals turned out huge disappointment Bassett Plagued engine trouble missed chance win Texaco Trophy third last time won would have allowed keep permanently Next season hed 21too old qualify Texaco competition Leo Weiss won event unique all-balsa twin-tailed model highly streamlined small comparision other entries Weiss ran engine part-throttle conserve gas scored new record 64 mm. 12 sec Second place went Bruno Marchi Boston 41 mm 55 sec effort best Bassett could manage third place flight 36 mm 49 sec quite respectable nonetheless considering engine ran about /2 mm Perhaps Bassetts engineamong very first Brown Juniors built veteran hundreds Ilightswas finally showing its age maybe just having bad day Whatever reason setback must have hard pill swallow mod eler keenly competitive since 1932 Nationals failed place top model airplane com petition entered never beaten own gameGas model flying So discouraged apparently fore leaving St Louis announced last contest isnt clear whether Bassett really tended quit modeling hap pened later summar $100 top prize offered Junior Birdmen America contest held Lake hurst NJ Naval Air Station prospect winning much money equivalent maybe $700 SI 000 today hard ignore Bassett says easily per suaded out retirement August 28 1935 entered twin ships time calling Miss Philly V VI Junior Birdmen Gas Model Classic few Gas meets ome ever sponsored organization later brought its own downfall turning against Gas power crowd about 1000 watched both models fly OOS meet before ground observers credited Miss Philly VI contest-winning time 17 mm 48 sec Two weeks later Bassett received $100 check mail Lawrence Shaw national director Junior Birdmen Second place worth $50 Leo Vartanian Brooklyn NY $25 third prize went Henry Stadelmeir New York City contest might have net loss Bassett valued models around $75 apiece Fortunately few days after meet spotted scrub pine underbrush several miles air station cruising Navy blimp crews eventually recovered undamaged continued FF Duration/Meuser Continued pacze 69 Launch Gliders supply auto-stab functionthe trailing edge tail pops up little after about secondin addi tion dethermalizer function sees no problem adding additional functions might want Are confused am about now thought sorted out headbone until read what wrote realized Id simply have make sketch see Business opportunity Che Hobbies up grabs Hugo Sandroni going home Argentina selling out mail-order Free Flight business song plus wholesale value inventory half price new car could put self business get tax writeoffs would make entire initial expense evap orate Che Hobbies still business Sandroni wont leaving yet addition has just finished printing new catalog includes Free Flight goodies various manufacturers large small plus bunch own 23-page catalog sells $2 might seem bit steep However cant stay business giving away catalogs cost close amount just printing mailing jacking up prices Che has chosen address Che Hobbies 10900 Eastwood Ave Inglewood CA 90304 phone 213 674-1756 Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory Sr Oakland CA 94619 FF Indoor/Tenny Continued jaqe 71 model similar layout Brians model larger less con trollable next highest time 867 seconds made Butch Hadland Peanut Scale Ace England flying very nice Fokker Peanut Scale model Butchs model flew quite fast relatively speaking im portant consistent flat left turn got around course minimum wasted motion Let explain what mean wasted motion Martin Varney Brians father won Peanut Speed event US Indoor Champs earlier ib Continued page 164 162 Model Aviation eye ojolon ai lrlot Os alt ala highly detailed $2400 otwn.SI7OO Other supero gIantscaIe prans - Poll size 9 POKIER DVIlI 24 Ca In $2500 9 PT-I 9 Oaadra 110150 82800 9 PIPER 14 MIlitary J3 Cab Osadra 92000 land cash chk Plans sent rolled UPS POSTPAID mangy ordr toreign orders add 40% air mail TAYLOR-CRAFT Send large sane tot brochlrtOS 01 LEE TAYLOR all Taylororalt olans otterings 210 WIllow Anansa RosanlIlO CA 95078
Edition: Model Aviation - 1983/10
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mx ousII nas just launched model Lakehurst NJ August 1935 won tne tirsi-place prize oi l00 Junior oIruuuuII contest same ship won 1937 National Championships Detroit phenomenal flight 70 minutes 2 seconds IN LATE SUMMER OF 1933 Maxwell Bassett could have quit building model air planes entirely still assured prominent place model aviation history Using gasoline engines designed friend Bill Brown first set official record gas-powered model NAAs other rubber power class 2426June II 1932 also first record official gas-powered flight US Nationals 255September 1932 Atlantic City NJ Less year later astonished whole modeling world winning outdoor events 1933 New York Nationals setting two records process As direct result 1933 Nats performance NAA established new rules separate gas-powered models own competition category Quitting farthest thing Bas setts mind Fresh 1933 Nationals sweep began draw plans still other new Gas model altogether built 13 Gas jobs up time Ship num Left Bassett Miss Philly 16-110 Newark NJ May 191934 plane won its first contest 6072 out-of-sight flight under new 1/4 oz/lb fuel allotment rules instituted Junior NAA after Bassetts Nats victory previous summer Right Miss Philadelphia IV 6-114 looked Its original configuration 7-ft V-dihedral wing Design very attractive angle Wheel pants lust show 64 Model Aviation Having started Gas model craze Bill Brown Max Bassett continued prove championship mettle winning practically everything sight Part 2 U Dave Ritchie B-I 14 Miss Philadelphia IV resembled Nats-winning Miss Philly LII quite closely respects Though its rudder rounded its fuselage nearly identical Moffett Trophy winner s Unlike its predecessor however orig inally mounted V-dihedral wing 7-ft span neat pair detachable wheel pants intended display biggest difference inside cabin Bassett installed 15-oz auxil iary gas tank augment 2/2-oZ tank came standard Brown Jr engine Bassett first envisioned flying model some flatland areathe prairie country Midwest perhapswhere could conveniently tracked cross-country automobile Victor Fritz fearful endurance record Gas models might leave Philadelphia area attempt made soon thought would better launch model local air port follow wherever might go full-size airplane Fritz made arrangements operator Camden NJ Central Airport hoped record trial could made fore Christmas 1933 Harsh winter weather forced least half-dozen post ponements however late following spring before attempt all-out endurance could made Meanwhile May 19 1934 PMAA sent large contingent modelers Eastern States Outdoor Championships Newark NJ Bassett course among entry new NAA Gas model category original Miss Philadelphia reecently returned Worlds Fair altogether untried competition model sported new polyhedral wing prop-saving wooden-strut landing gear new Model B Brown Jr engine pro vided power Unlike earlier A-model engines Bassett used manufactured Junior Motors Corporation Bill Brown father financial backer named Edward Roberts formed after parting ways late 1933 Walter Hurleman contrast lowvolume capability Hurleman shop Junior Motors would mass-produce 50000 engines before World War II Roberts would also become third presi dent not-yet-formed Academy Model Aeronautics lay ahead Newark meet still predominantly rubber-power contest Gas bug catching Bassett encountered serious competition number other Gas modelers includiong 1933 Nats rival Joe Kovel plus Alfred Huber Martin Fay nor others Newark area Early meet Kovel got KG-i off stalling 4-mm 35 sec flight might have lasted longer model properly trimmed experienced Bassett easily bettered mark launch ing Miss Philly thermal carried out-of-sight 6 mm 7 sec winning event despite new NAA Gas rules limited Miss Phillys fuel supply /2 oz Searching neighborhood over last seen Bassett father found slightly damaged model possession youngster paid princely reward two dollars its return May 28 nine days after Newark October 1983 65 Because last-minute change weather Bassett substituted 6-ft 1-in polyhedral wing Miss Philly IV seen moments after launch its unprecedented 24-hr flight New Jerseys Camden Central Airport vicinity Middletown DE May 2 1934 Bassett center Brown right waited airport Victor Fritz chased model chartered plane Bassett used same model larger wing slightly different tail win Texaco Trophy second time 1934 NatIonals month later Akron OH ibm lo B~LI l41kfIIX 2rJIOUr Pkuu 44 $44 44 First Gas Model Champion 3ufl 4 g44 t4y4 -4~ 4$4 4 iL -4 4 2 ck #6j 4 4il4pAr qp4$wr-4 Plan Miss Philadelphia IV made Paul Karnow left published Philadel a Bulletin June 1934 shows 6-ft 1 wing small stab actually used 21/2-hr flight Bassett repiaced 8-ft wing large stab because damage incurred models return Middletown DE Frank Zaics plan below taken plan Bert Pond made July 1934 Akron Nats reflects later wing stab mis-labeled 21/2-hr version ship v __ 4 7 ~~~12 40 4 LA 4W 4/ win Bassett readied new Miss Philadel phia IV its oft-postponed endurance tempt Camden Airport Among small group onlookers pioneer air transport operator C Townsend Ludington founder what now Eastern Airlines well Bassetts parents handful friends PMAA course Bill Brown Nearby Victor Fritz charter pi lot Jack Byrne prepared follow model Byrnes open cockpit Fairchild Parasol Two attempts made previous daythe first ending dreaded spiral dive because trim error second cur tailed after minute engine failure time however everything clicked Bassett Bill Brown holding started engine adjusted spark mixture until satisfied its exhaust note hefting plane shoulder height sprinted few steps heaved wind Climbing slow steady circles Miss Philly IV off blue 17 oz gas aboard Byrne Fritz took off after minia ture plane keeping Fairchild above it circled away southwesterly direc tion Fritz filming its progress 16mm movie camera tracked stead ily climbing model Camden Glouce ster NJ across Delaware River South Philadelphia beyond Over Chester PA wind change blew ship eastward back across river Gibbstown NJ changed direction again driving con stantly circling Miss Philly IV south over Salem NJ westward once across Delaware Bay models engine ran out gas 8000 feet altitude shortly after reaching Delaware state side now said Byrne later watch ship glide lazily circle after circle would never have believed hadnt seen myself little plane glided 10 miles Two hours 35 minutes 39 seconds after its launch Victor Fritz punched stopwatch Miss Philadelphia IV nosed over cow pasture near Armstrongs Cor ner Delaware just south Middletown four miles Maryland state line Byrne landed adjoining field both Fritz clambered out Fairchild retrieve model Miss Philly IV tra versed straight-line distance 54 miles its launch point Fritz estimated optimistically usual actually covered 180 miles due its circling flight path After refueling nearby airport Byrne Fritz headed back Camden touched down just before dark model poking out Fairchilds front cockpit Recalls Bassett waited patiently group friends front Byrnes hangar longest four hours Id ever spent life unprecedented feat hailed new endurance record Philadelphia Bulletin PMAA lauded both Bassett Brown specially-created Achieve ment Awards recognition ad vancernent miniature aircraft science Sounding note reverberates day PMAA director Charles H English declared boys ve shown model planes cannot classed mere p1ythings Praise came prestigious sources out side Philadelphia too Reginald Cleveland New York Times aviation editor noted accomplishment by-lined column Popular Science Readers Digest brought story barbershop readers over US its write-up Time Magazine compared 19-year-old Max Bassett thencurrent aviation heroes Frank Hawks Roscoe Turner Ironically though NAA refused recognize flight According its new 1934 rules Bassett precipitatd 1933 Nats sweep under flown Newark Gas models alloted uel per pound airplane weightup maximum 1 oz liquid Miss Philly TVs 17 oz fuel load far ex ceeded 2-hour flight never officially made record books getting record really didnt matter 66 Model Aviation Bassett Miss Philadelphia V B-116 Miss Philly VI B-i 17 essentially identical Both models built 1935 Maxwell Bassett indisputably nations foremost Gas model builder Youngsters not-so-youngsters over country hungered emulate him Junior Motors Corp deluged orders would produce about thousand Brown Jr engines its first year operation Gas model boom Akron Nats As mentioned earlier Miss Philly IV originally designed 7-ft V-dihederal wing actual 2-hr flight however Bassett substituted polyhedral wing 6-ft 1-in span similar Miss Philly III Sometime before flight Paul Karnow made accu rate plan ship configuration published Bulletin also 1934 later editions PMAA hand book Victor Fritz entitled Build Model Airplanes During return trip Delaware models wing tail assembly dam aged Fairchilds slipstream re place broken parts Bassett built another polyhedral wingthis time 8-ft spanas well larger elevator slighty different rudder new wing tail model went 10 days temporary dis play Philadelphias famed Franklin Insti tute museum before being whisked off Akron OH 1934 Nationals Exactly month after 2/2-hr flight Max Bassett once again prepared Miss Philly IV action time weedy ter rain Akron Municipal Airport Nearby shadow giant Goodyear Air Docka mountain building designed house largest zeppelin lighter-than-air shipsa crowd over 2000 spectators gathered seventh running National Model Airplane Championships Bassett faced competition meet ever before entered Modelers far Los Angeles Bos ton Chicago come gaspowered entries join fray Already Emmanuel Radoff Newark NJ Robert Long Reading PA sent Brown-powered ships aloft flights nearly 2 mm over 3/2 mm respec October 1983 67 Side view second Miss Philly V B-il 7 taken front yard other pictures Bassett modeis 11th Street 86th Avenue Phiiadeiphias Oak Lane section Modei has 96-in wingspan 561/4-in fuselage flew 1935 Nats didnt win Bassett picture right still displays some modeling tro phies den along others won yacht racing present hobby trophy shown presented PMAA outstand ing aChievement model aircraft science after 1934 24-hr flight Bill Brown received identical contributions sake old times Max Bassett picture below hangs authors Brown given test run Continued page 160 Great Lakes 5173626854 Model U Mold Company Tawas City Ml 48763 AT-6 SNJ Harvard Kj Price $22800I Wingspan 708 Wing Area 947 sq Length 47 Engine 60 Radio 4-8 channelsThis model detail molded rigid urethane Weight 9A-10 lbsfoam epoxy gell goat Urethane Send SASE ml o inherently fuel-proof glued verby well balsa plywood etc cyanoacrylate type glues Canopy also detail molded * * * * WANDITTM * F FLN *Dealers Invited *~nngea * uflC yew .. * * -J * Dry CO RD * w * Stick Abrasises *A Keen Machine' gives exceptional *sanang contral tar excellent finish. * * 89~ Basic mcI 1 flat Wond ann 1 * rits *1 O8~ Builder Special mcI 2 flat 1 half- * and wand 5 6 grits *1 29~ 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Meanwhile California contingent Bill Atwood Irwin Ohlsson together driven way Akron LA having problems Gas models Thirty-six seconds hest Ohlsson could coax out beautifully built finished 8-ft ship known capable much better per formance things going right official flight shorter Ohlssons made Harold Mitchell Everett MA posted time 33 sec Atwood having no luck alV Gas job gave up went back rubber-powered ships several entered 160 Model Aviation * *SAILPLANE* * iaunching equipment histartslwincheslaCCesSOrieS complete linelbest pricesltop quality send self-addressed stamped envelope cataloglinformation RLF PRODUCTS R2 Rn, hAY PBoii IN 47454 t8I2lI2 4310 Perma-Grit TM Lifetime * Carbide Sanding Tungsten Carbide grit hardest material next diamond * OutlastssandpaperlOosoftimesTungsten carbide grit brazed * Tools will load steel 9 long tool use * Grit cant tear looseon balsa hardwoods fiberglass * Makes fitting blending fairing pleasurebeaded foams epoxy fillers * Fairs LE TE foam 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too rich suddenly faithful Browns chug ging pace quickened plane zoomed off towards crowd spectators Gaining altitude flew over Goodyear hangar barely missing mast top huge structure moment seemed hover over air dock drifted off northeast Bassett two contest offi cials following car Its /2-oz fuel allotment long gone Miss Philly IV landed after 21 mm 57 sec aloft briar patch off Akron-Canton Road some tour miles airport retrieved its builder two timers kept sight Returning field Bassett logged flight time immediately con gratulated meet officials fellow con testants Once again come out top Texaco Trophy now major prize Gas modelers under 21 years age keep second year running Officially flight set new rec ord tripling earlier mark Newark NJ flown under NAAs new Gas model fuel-allotment rules Wiley Post hand give keynote address Nationals banquet examined championship model nd praised its design workmanship Philadelphia next days news papers ran familiar story Bassett wins againJ Bulletin noted first five placers Texaco event flew models powered engines designed William L Brown night Nats banquet Ak rons Mayflower Hotel young Indiana hobby shop owner named Bert Pond per suaded Bassett let him make measure ments Texaco Trophy-winning plane Pond produced extremely detailed plan Miss Philly LV though mislabeled 2-hr version craft referenced Frank Zaics earliest Year Books sold through Ponds hobby shop Copies plan still available Write Bert Pond 128 War ren Terr Longmeadow MA 01106 Oddly magazine plans ship didnt appear until 1937 some woefully inaccurate return Philadelphia Bassett re tired Miss Philly IV Franklin Institute went permanent display museums Hall Aviation hanging honored position landing gear Amelia Earharts Lockheed Vega Neither Vega nor Bassetts model can seen Franklin Institute today Vega moved Smithsonian Institution Washington DC about 1965 Un fortunately Miss Philadelphia IV has lost balance summer apparently took well-deserved rest modeling activities Having graduated June music scholarship Philadel phias exclusive Penn Charter High School accomplished violinist well member varsity tennis team now prepared enter University Pennsylvania engineering student last Miss Philly academic other interests growing important Bassetts life began have less less time model building flying did however manage compete three meets 1935 first relatively minor competition featured added attraction full-size glider meet Paoli PA Having nothing else fly pulled two-year-old Miss Philadelphia II stick model out mothballs score nar row win over fellow PMAA members Tan ley Corrsin Matt Kania event CD limited fuel supply total /4 oz prevent models flying out sight Nationals St Louis demanded something competitive Miss Philly II Bassett hurriedly designed Tools 1lb -R-gon R*st built entirely new ship B-I 16 named predictably Miss Philadelphia V Again apparent gap B-numbers between Miss Philadelphia IV B-I 14 Miss Philadel phia V B-I 16 accounted fact Bassett considered two versions Miss Philadelphia IV 6-ft-span 2/2-hr endurance version 8-ft-span Texaco Trophy winner separate designs fore reserving number B-I 15 latter though never actually appeared plane model combined elements both stick cabin designs previously successful him Like Miss Philly LII IV fuselage built-up box section considerable flat side area no cabin however Instead wing mounted wire parasol framework Ia Miss Philly LI wing itself something new Eight feet span constant chord throughout flat center section approximately half long total span outer quarter pan els turned up what might called tip hedral flight wing tended flex slightly giving center section two degrees effective dihedral tail sur faces pretty much before ie CLEVELAND QUALITY PLANS WORLDS GREATEST TRUE SCALE PLANS VARIETY 4iI.MaSt, ti4,0 nodot piano anaitahi alt Ftoot Pig Snt 1910 00 stilt ntoking tnt ootd tOtonno hiotnO tO Pt sit tO OC Cit FF tubbO, StatiC Tht nothing elso thorn rwhotot400 plans 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different paint job numberB-l 17 Otherwise two ships identical June 1935 Nationals turned out huge disappointment Bassett Plagued engine trouble missed chance win Texaco Trophy third last time won would have allowed keep permanently Next season hed 21too old qualify Texaco competition Leo Weiss won event unique all-balsa twin-tailed model highly streamlined small comparision other entries Weiss ran engine part-throttle conserve gas scored new record 64 mm. 12 sec Second place went Bruno Marchi Boston 41 mm 55 sec effort best Bassett could manage third place flight 36 mm 49 sec quite respectable nonetheless considering engine ran about /2 mm Perhaps Bassetts engineamong very first Brown Juniors built veteran hundreds Ilightswas finally showing its age maybe just having bad day Whatever reason setback must have hard pill swallow mod eler keenly competitive since 1932 Nationals failed place top model airplane com petition entered never beaten own gameGas model flying So discouraged apparently fore leaving St Louis announced last contest isnt clear whether Bassett really tended quit modeling hap pened later summar $100 top prize offered Junior Birdmen America contest held Lake hurst NJ Naval Air Station prospect winning much money equivalent maybe $700 SI 000 today hard ignore Bassett says easily per suaded out retirement August 28 1935 entered twin ships time calling Miss Philly V VI Junior Birdmen Gas Model Classic few Gas meets ome ever sponsored organization later brought its own downfall turning against Gas power crowd about 1000 watched both models fly OOS meet before ground observers credited Miss Philly VI contest-winning time 17 mm 48 sec Two weeks later Bassett received $100 check mail Lawrence Shaw national director Junior Birdmen Second place worth $50 Leo Vartanian Brooklyn NY $25 third prize went Henry Stadelmeir New York City contest might have net loss Bassett valued models around $75 apiece Fortunately few days after meet spotted scrub pine 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mx ousII nas just launched model Lakehurst NJ August 1935 won tne tirsi-place prize oi l00 Junior oIruuuuII contest same ship won 1937 National Championships Detroit phenomenal flight 70 minutes 2 seconds IN LATE SUMMER OF 1933 Maxwell Bassett could have quit building model air planes entirely still assured prominent place model aviation history Using gasoline engines designed friend Bill Brown first set official record gas-powered model NAAs other rubber power class 2426June II 1932 also first record official gas-powered flight US Nationals 255September 1932 Atlantic City NJ Less year later astonished whole modeling world winning outdoor events 1933 New York Nationals setting two records process As direct result 1933 Nats performance NAA established new rules separate gas-powered models own competition category Quitting farthest thing Bas setts mind Fresh 1933 Nationals sweep began draw plans still other new Gas model altogether built 13 Gas jobs up time Ship num Left Bassett Miss Philly 16-110 Newark NJ May 191934 plane won its first contest 6072 out-of-sight flight under new 1/4 oz/lb fuel allotment rules instituted Junior NAA after Bassetts Nats victory previous summer Right Miss Philadelphia IV 6-114 looked Its original configuration 7-ft V-dihedral wing Design very attractive angle Wheel pants lust show 64 Model Aviation Having started Gas model craze Bill Brown Max Bassett continued prove championship mettle winning practically everything sight Part 2 U Dave Ritchie B-I 14 Miss Philadelphia IV resembled Nats-winning Miss Philly LII quite closely respects Though its rudder rounded its fuselage nearly identical Moffett Trophy winner s Unlike its predecessor however orig inally mounted V-dihedral wing 7-ft span neat pair detachable wheel pants intended display biggest difference inside cabin Bassett installed 15-oz auxil iary gas tank augment 2/2-oZ tank came standard Brown Jr engine Bassett first envisioned flying model some flatland areathe prairie country Midwest perhapswhere could conveniently tracked cross-country automobile Victor Fritz fearful endurance record Gas models might leave Philadelphia area attempt made soon thought would better launch model local air port follow wherever might go full-size airplane Fritz made arrangements operator Camden NJ Central Airport hoped record trial could made fore Christmas 1933 Harsh winter weather forced least half-dozen post ponements however late following spring before attempt all-out endurance could made Meanwhile May 19 1934 PMAA sent large contingent modelers Eastern States Outdoor Championships Newark NJ Bassett course among entry new NAA Gas model category original Miss Philadelphia reecently returned Worlds Fair altogether untried competition model sported new polyhedral wing prop-saving wooden-strut landing gear new Model B Brown Jr engine pro vided power Unlike earlier A-model engines Bassett used manufactured Junior Motors Corporation Bill Brown father financial backer named Edward Roberts formed after parting ways late 1933 Walter Hurleman contrast lowvolume capability Hurleman shop Junior Motors would mass-produce 50000 engines before World War II Roberts would also become third presi dent not-yet-formed Academy Model Aeronautics lay ahead Newark meet still predominantly rubber-power contest Gas bug catching Bassett encountered serious competition number other Gas modelers includiong 1933 Nats rival Joe Kovel plus Alfred Huber Martin Fay nor others Newark area Early meet Kovel got KG-i off stalling 4-mm 35 sec flight might have lasted longer model properly trimmed experienced Bassett easily bettered mark launch ing Miss Philly thermal carried out-of-sight 6 mm 7 sec winning event despite new NAA Gas rules limited Miss Phillys fuel supply /2 oz Searching neighborhood over last seen Bassett father found slightly damaged model possession youngster paid princely reward two dollars its return May 28 nine days after Newark October 1983 65 Because last-minute change weather Bassett substituted 6-ft 1-in polyhedral wing Miss Philly IV seen moments after launch its unprecedented 24-hr flight New Jerseys Camden Central Airport vicinity Middletown DE May 2 1934 Bassett center Brown right waited airport Victor Fritz chased model chartered plane Bassett used same model larger wing slightly different tail win Texaco Trophy second time 1934 NatIonals month later Akron OH ibm lo B~LI l41kfIIX 2rJIOUr Pkuu 44 $44 44 First Gas Model Champion 3ufl 4 g44 t4y4 -4~ 4$4 4 iL -4 4 2 ck #6j 4 4il4pAr qp4$wr-4 Plan Miss Philadelphia IV made Paul Karnow left published Philadel a Bulletin June 1934 shows 6-ft 1 wing small stab actually used 21/2-hr flight Bassett repiaced 8-ft wing large stab because damage incurred models return Middletown DE Frank Zaics plan below taken plan Bert Pond made July 1934 Akron Nats reflects later wing stab mis-labeled 21/2-hr version ship v __ 4 7 ~~~12 40 4 LA 4W 4/ win Bassett readied new Miss Philadel phia IV its oft-postponed endurance tempt Camden Airport Among small group onlookers pioneer air transport operator C Townsend Ludington founder what now Eastern Airlines well Bassetts parents handful friends PMAA course Bill Brown Nearby Victor Fritz charter pi lot Jack Byrne prepared follow model Byrnes open cockpit Fairchild Parasol Two attempts made previous daythe first ending dreaded spiral dive because trim error second cur tailed after minute engine failure time however everything clicked Bassett Bill Brown holding started engine adjusted spark mixture until satisfied its exhaust note hefting plane shoulder height sprinted few steps heaved wind Climbing slow steady circles Miss Philly IV off blue 17 oz gas aboard Byrne Fritz took off after minia ture plane keeping Fairchild above it circled away southwesterly direc tion Fritz filming its progress 16mm movie camera tracked stead ily climbing model Camden Glouce ster NJ across Delaware River South Philadelphia beyond Over Chester PA wind change blew ship eastward back across river Gibbstown NJ changed direction again driving con stantly circling Miss Philly IV south over Salem NJ westward once across Delaware Bay models engine ran out gas 8000 feet altitude shortly after reaching Delaware state side now said Byrne later watch ship glide lazily circle after circle would never have believed hadnt seen myself little plane glided 10 miles Two hours 35 minutes 39 seconds after its launch Victor Fritz punched stopwatch Miss Philadelphia IV nosed over cow pasture near Armstrongs Cor ner Delaware just south Middletown four miles Maryland state line Byrne landed adjoining field both Fritz clambered out Fairchild retrieve model Miss Philly IV tra versed straight-line distance 54 miles its launch point Fritz estimated optimistically usual actually covered 180 miles due its circling flight path After refueling nearby airport Byrne Fritz headed back Camden touched down just before dark model poking out Fairchilds front cockpit Recalls Bassett waited patiently group friends front Byrnes hangar longest four hours Id ever spent life unprecedented feat hailed new endurance record Philadelphia Bulletin PMAA lauded both Bassett Brown specially-created Achieve ment Awards recognition ad vancernent miniature aircraft science Sounding note reverberates day PMAA director Charles H English declared boys ve shown model planes cannot classed mere p1ythings Praise came prestigious sources out side Philadelphia too Reginald Cleveland New York Times aviation editor noted accomplishment by-lined column Popular Science Readers Digest brought story barbershop readers over US its write-up Time Magazine compared 19-year-old Max Bassett thencurrent aviation heroes Frank Hawks Roscoe Turner Ironically though NAA refused recognize flight According its new 1934 rules Bassett precipitatd 1933 Nats sweep under flown Newark Gas models alloted uel per pound airplane weightup maximum 1 oz liquid Miss Philly TVs 17 oz fuel load far ex ceeded 2-hour flight never officially made record books getting record really didnt matter 66 Model Aviation Bassett Miss Philadelphia V B-116 Miss Philly VI B-i 17 essentially identical Both models built 1935 Maxwell Bassett indisputably nations foremost Gas model builder Youngsters not-so-youngsters over country hungered emulate him Junior Motors Corp deluged orders would produce about thousand Brown Jr engines its first year operation Gas model boom Akron Nats As mentioned earlier Miss Philly IV originally designed 7-ft V-dihederal wing actual 2-hr flight however Bassett substituted polyhedral wing 6-ft 1-in span similar Miss Philly III Sometime before flight Paul Karnow made accu rate plan ship configuration published Bulletin also 1934 later editions PMAA hand book Victor Fritz entitled Build Model Airplanes During return trip Delaware models wing tail assembly dam aged Fairchilds slipstream re place broken parts Bassett built another polyhedral wingthis time 8-ft spanas well larger elevator slighty different rudder new wing tail model went 10 days temporary dis play Philadelphias famed Franklin Insti tute museum before being whisked off Akron OH 1934 Nationals Exactly month after 2/2-hr flight Max Bassett once again prepared Miss Philly IV action time weedy ter rain Akron Municipal Airport Nearby shadow giant Goodyear Air Docka mountain building designed house largest zeppelin lighter-than-air shipsa crowd over 2000 spectators gathered seventh running National Model Airplane Championships Bassett faced competition meet ever before entered Modelers far Los Angeles Bos ton Chicago come gaspowered entries join fray Already Emmanuel Radoff Newark NJ Robert Long Reading PA sent Brown-powered ships aloft flights nearly 2 mm over 3/2 mm respec October 1983 67 Side view second Miss Philly V B-il 7 taken front yard other pictures Bassett modeis 11th Street 86th Avenue Phiiadeiphias Oak Lane section Modei has 96-in wingspan 561/4-in fuselage flew 1935 Nats didnt win Bassett picture right still displays some modeling tro phies den along others won yacht racing present hobby trophy shown presented PMAA outstand ing aChievement model aircraft science after 1934 24-hr flight Bill Brown received identical contributions sake old times Max Bassett picture below hangs authors Brown given test run Continued page 160 Great Lakes 5173626854 Model U Mold Company Tawas City Ml 48763 AT-6 SNJ Harvard Kj Price $22800I Wingspan 708 Wing Area 947 sq Length 47 Engine 60 Radio 4-8 channelsThis model detail molded rigid urethane Weight 9A-10 lbsfoam epoxy gell goat Urethane Send SASE ml o inherently fuel-proof glued verby well balsa plywood etc cyanoacrylate type glues Canopy also detail molded * * * * WANDITTM * F FLN *Dealers Invited *~nngea * uflC yew .. * * -J * Dry CO RD * w * Stick Abrasises *A Keen Machine' gives exceptional *sanang contral tar excellent finish. * * 89~ Basic mcI 1 flat Wond ann 1 * rits *1 O8~ Builder Special mcI 2 flat 1 half- * and wand 5 6 grits *1 29~ Deluxe includes 3 flat 2 half * nd wands huff wands * 6 grits * *Additional Wands Abrasues auaiiable * local hubby shap *ADDIS ELMORE Eve Na 2t4 288 5789 8 * ox 266 uite Tenas 75146 * problem conventional flaps tend push nose down usually problem level normal flight attitude airplane assumes nosehigh attitude effect can become pro nounced particularly strong prop wash over wing Disturbances airflow tail can cause tail lose effec tiveness- resulting very rapid often uncontrollable nose-down rotation lution problem move center gravity well aft Unfortunately makes model extremely sensitive during high-speed flight up-moving flap tries rotate nose up thus countering some natural ten dency stable model dop its nose stalls up-moving flap flip doesnt aid slow flight model level attitude does bank model out thereby improving line tension ad vantage lies ease model can held nose-high stalled attitude having resort balancing model farther aft normal sacrificing high-speed stability havent seen anyone besides Tony Addie using tech nique may worth try having difficulty combined high amnuon P-40 CARD KIT FULL COLOR EXACT REPRODUCTION ONLCWELL THEY FLEW W $500REMEMBER HOW SgeoI offer tnoIod noopon tar rninrkrg o 7BotFm ModeIoP 0 Boa elmo RooeoIBe Mt 48000 beta, t halt pdoe 000 -kPUNIQUE NOSTALGIC OFT GET ORGANIZED f-tern s set nt 4 sturdy files hnlds over 4 years nt yxur favorite B, t t ntagaZmOOs 4 MAG FILES $495 Send $498 plas $100 tnt postage handling 0GM INDUSTRIES PO BOX 388-K DOVER NH 03820 low speed characteristics Profile model Try first cardboard alu minum flap taped outboard wing Richard L Perry 7578 Vagels Wax Springfield VA 22/53 CL Scale/Boss Continued page 63 also receive fully-detailed instructions use installation both CL RC ap plications X-CeII Team Contest Saturday Sunday October 2 1983 X-Cell Team Lexington KY will hold its second annual All-Scale AAA Meet contest will held Kearney Field Lexington will feature both RC CL Scale events RC events include AMA Precision Sport Giant Helicopter CL events will Precision Sport Scale also Ad vanced Intermediate Expert PAMPA Stunt events Trophies and/or merchandise will given through least three places addition normal contest activi ties manufacturers being encouraged present demonstrate products Swapshop tables will permitted big tent food refreshments will available reasonable prices sounds like fabulous Scale modeling weekend great opportunity two forms Scale modelers see what other guy doing full details entry fees regis tration camping please write call Lew McFarland CD 3404 Keithshire Way Lexington KY 40503 day phone 606-276-4881 right phone 606-223-2368 Help wanted Bill Brown Woonsocket Rt looking some information kit has just obtained kit old blue-line-stamped sheets balsa parts sheet bears name Capital Beechcraft Bill would like know can tell him kit true scale someone out happens have set plans particular kit anyone can supply information Bill can reached 87 Manville Road Woonsocket RI 02895 Also wanted Weston Moore Garland TX looking tbr someone can provide information whereabouts plans PT-19 early Sixties plans Weston looking sixfoot model Chuck Hollinger turn used Jetco PT- 19 kit manufactured After several years kit form Jetco Sig marketed kit short time Anyone information about plans kit please get touch Weston Moore 4325 Pineridge Garland TX 75042 subject needing help would like say also need help items column Its almost year now since first Scale column MA am beginning feel pinch good solid items column column mineits yours So let hear about what youre building flying days CL Scale Bill Bass 77-06 269th St New Hyde Park NY /1040 Bassett/Ritchie Continued page 67 tively Though direct competition Bassett because age 2 I-year-old Carl V Carlson Chicago bettered Bassets Newark record 6-mi 48/-sec flight new Open class bit excitement provided Joe Braun fellow-Philadelphian model took sudden crash-dive turf After repairs Braun sent plane up again 8 mm 26 sec Meanwhile California contingent Bill Atwood Irwin Ohlsson together driven way Akron LA having problems Gas models Thirty-six seconds hest Ohlsson could coax out beautifully built finished 8-ft ship known capable much better per formance things going right official flight shorter Ohlssons made Harold Mitchell Everett MA posted time 33 sec Atwood having no luck alV Gas job gave up went back rubber-powered ships several entered 160 Model Aviation * *SAILPLANE* * iaunching equipment histartslwincheslaCCesSOrieS complete linelbest pricesltop quality send self-addressed stamped envelope cataloglinformation RLF PRODUCTS R2 Rn, hAY PBoii IN 47454 t8I2lI2 4310 Perma-Grit TM Lifetime * Carbide Sanding Tungsten Carbide grit hardest material next diamond * OutlastssandpaperlOosoftimesTungsten carbide grit brazed * Tools will load steel 9 long tool use * Grit cant tear looseon balsa hardwoods fiberglass * Makes fitting blending fairing pleasurebeaded foams epoxy fillers * Fairs LE TE foam undercuttingplexiglas * Rapid stock Removal better control * Saves time nonev aggravation e USA * Replaces plane knite rasp & sanding blocks verage Modelers Use Excellent model buIlder can use tools Cuts epoxyllte likeF-100FlatCearse/Flne$695 buttF-1O1Fat FIne$695 lob Hoeckele Editor Model RetailerF-102Flat MedIum$895 R-200% RadIus CoarselPh$895 Ask Dealer send check MO No CODs toR-2011IS Tangent CoarselFlee$695 R-202 Round IWedIumlFIns$625 D i Products R-203Vo Round MedhimlFlee$495 209 Carrlands Dr Dayton OH 45429R-204 Round MedumlFlae$495 513 294-1192 age Paid Ohio residents add 6%tax contest As day wore became clear Brooklyns Joe Kovel would beat KG-2 mounting wing 10-ft span crashed car simply got out earlier 8-ft KG-I clocked flight 14 mm appeared Max Basesett might make official flight After two tries blue-and-yellow craft yet get off ground third launch released plane see falter rise uncertainly begin circle field precariously low altitude haste apparently set needle valve hair too rich suddenly faithful Browns chug ging pace quickened plane zoomed off towards crowd spectators Gaining altitude flew over Goodyear hangar barely missing mast top huge structure moment seemed hover over air dock drifted off northeast Bassett two contest offi cials following car Its /2-oz fuel allotment long gone Miss Philly IV landed after 21 mm 57 sec aloft briar patch off Akron-Canton Road some tour miles airport retrieved its builder two timers kept sight Returning field Bassett logged flight time immediately con gratulated meet officials fellow con testants Once again come out top Texaco Trophy now major prize Gas modelers under 21 years age keep second year running Officially flight set new rec ord tripling earlier mark Newark NJ flown under NAAs new Gas model fuel-allotment rules Wiley Post hand give keynote address Nationals banquet examined championship model nd praised its design workmanship Philadelphia next days news papers ran familiar story Bassett wins againJ Bulletin noted first five placers Texaco event flew models powered engines designed William L Brown night Nats banquet Ak rons Mayflower Hotel young Indiana hobby shop owner named Bert Pond per suaded Bassett let him make measure ments Texaco Trophy-winning plane Pond produced extremely detailed plan Miss Philly LV though mislabeled 2-hr version craft referenced Frank Zaics earliest Year Books sold through Ponds hobby shop Copies plan still available Write Bert Pond 128 War ren Terr Longmeadow MA 01106 Oddly magazine plans ship didnt appear until 1937 some woefully inaccurate return Philadelphia Bassett re tired Miss Philly IV Franklin Institute went permanent display museums Hall Aviation hanging honored position landing gear Amelia Earharts Lockheed Vega Neither Vega nor Bassetts model can seen Franklin Institute today Vega moved Smithsonian Institution Washington DC about 1965 Un fortunately Miss Philadelphia IV has lost balance summer apparently took well-deserved rest modeling activities Having graduated June music scholarship Philadel phias exclusive Penn Charter High School accomplished violinist well member varsity tennis team now prepared enter University Pennsylvania engineering student last Miss Philly academic other interests growing important Bassetts life began have less less time model building flying did however manage compete three meets 1935 first relatively minor competition featured added attraction full-size glider meet Paoli PA Having nothing else fly pulled two-year-old Miss Philadelphia II stick model out mothballs score nar row win over fellow PMAA members Tan ley Corrsin Matt Kania event CD limited fuel supply total /4 oz prevent models flying out sight Nationals St Louis demanded something competitive Miss Philly II Bassett hurriedly designed Tools 1lb -R-gon R*st built entirely new ship B-I 16 named predictably Miss Philadelphia V Again apparent gap B-numbers between Miss Philadelphia IV B-I 14 Miss Philadel phia V B-I 16 accounted fact Bassett considered two versions Miss Philadelphia IV 6-ft-span 2/2-hr endurance version 8-ft-span Texaco Trophy winner separate designs fore reserving number B-I 15 latter though never actually appeared plane model combined elements both stick cabin designs previously successful him Like Miss Philly LII IV fuselage built-up box section considerable flat side area no cabin however Instead wing mounted wire parasol framework Ia Miss Philly LI wing itself something new Eight feet span constant chord throughout flat center section approximately half long total span outer quarter pan els turned up what might called tip hedral flight wing tended flex slightly giving center section two degrees effective dihedral tail sur faces pretty much before ie CLEVELAND QUALITY PLANS WORLDS GREATEST TRUE SCALE PLANS VARIETY 4iI.MaSt, ti4,0 nodot piano anaitahi alt Ftoot Pig Snt 1910 00 stilt ntoking tnt ootd tOtonno hiotnO tO Pt sit tO OC Cit FF tubbO, StatiC Tht nothing elso thorn rwhotot400 plans Coat totFttotchnicO tents Ask ano ott tint ntottotot Otn thotrhargO youtontt ant tong, hut send $150 th Cttnntand-Dosignad pitootial nutatog hmktot cost $400 tooducot no got tnt pattialtr ittusttatod Pt, tie 100 goad SA5E nith Ott Ott ato,t Non tno horn toy sotnito 40 ho., doaftts Edt,d T Pnclnd--tcncno Bn Fi,dSno CLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY CO ta 00000 A, Ctonntond Otin 441e2 October 1983 161 SCALE DOCUwonIuTuLN SCALE DRAWINGSPHOTOS BOOKLETS MODEL PLANS 1983 AIRPLANE CATALOG 2 60AGEs TECH REPLA ERNAT ONAI 800 MC KENZIC NWY V DA ORCOON 007488 PAW DIESELS Englands Finest 049 29 New low low prices Send $100 tor list Eric Clutton 3816 DeSoto AVe Fort Myers Florida 33U5 roughly oval outlined bamboo landing gear Bassett stuck triedand-proven wooden struts substituted fat pair M&M air wheels skinny wooden ones used previous ships power plant orig inal A-model Brown Juniors Rather go St Louis just airplane Bassett built two models same design called second Miss Philadelphia V also gave slightly different paint job numberB-l 17 Otherwise two ships identical June 1935 Nationals turned out huge disappointment Bassett Plagued engine trouble missed chance win Texaco Trophy third last time won would have allowed keep permanently Next season hed 21too old qualify Texaco competition Leo Weiss won event unique all-balsa twin-tailed model highly streamlined small comparision other entries Weiss ran engine part-throttle conserve gas scored new record 64 mm. 12 sec Second place went Bruno Marchi Boston 41 mm 55 sec effort best Bassett could manage third place flight 36 mm 49 sec quite respectable nonetheless considering engine ran about /2 mm Perhaps Bassetts engineamong very first Brown Juniors built veteran hundreds Ilightswas finally showing its age maybe just having bad day Whatever reason setback must have hard pill swallow mod eler keenly competitive since 1932 Nationals failed place top model airplane com petition entered never beaten own gameGas model flying So discouraged apparently fore leaving St Louis announced last contest isnt clear whether Bassett really tended quit modeling hap pened later summar $100 top prize offered Junior Birdmen America contest held Lake hurst NJ Naval Air Station prospect winning much money equivalent maybe $700 SI 000 today hard ignore Bassett says easily per suaded out retirement August 28 1935 entered twin ships time calling Miss Philly V VI Junior Birdmen Gas Model Classic few Gas meets ome ever sponsored organization later brought its own downfall turning against Gas power crowd about 1000 watched both models fly OOS meet before ground observers credited Miss Philly VI contest-winning time 17 mm 48 sec Two weeks later Bassett received $100 check mail Lawrence Shaw national director Junior Birdmen Second place worth $50 Leo Vartanian Brooklyn NY $25 third prize went Henry Stadelmeir New York City contest might have net loss Bassett valued models around $75 apiece Fortunately few days after meet spotted scrub pine underbrush several miles air station cruising Navy blimp crews eventually recovered undamaged continued FF Duration/Meuser Continued pacze 69 Launch Gliders supply auto-stab functionthe trailing edge tail pops up little after about secondin addi tion dethermalizer function sees no problem adding additional functions might want Are confused am about now thought sorted out headbone until read what wrote realized Id simply have make sketch see Business opportunity Che Hobbies up grabs Hugo Sandroni going home Argentina selling out mail-order Free Flight business song plus wholesale value inventory half price new car could put self business get tax writeoffs would make entire initial expense evap orate Che Hobbies still business Sandroni wont leaving yet addition has just finished printing new catalog includes Free Flight goodies various manufacturers large small plus bunch own 23-page catalog sells $2 might seem bit steep However cant stay business giving away catalogs cost close amount just printing mailing jacking up prices Che has chosen address Che Hobbies 10900 Eastwood Ave Inglewood CA 90304 phone 213 674-1756 Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory Sr Oakland CA 94619 FF Indoor/Tenny Continued jaqe 71 model similar layout Brians model larger less con trollable next highest time 867 seconds made Butch Hadland Peanut Scale Ace England flying very nice Fokker Peanut Scale model Butchs model flew quite fast relatively speaking im portant consistent flat left turn got around course minimum wasted motion Let explain what mean wasted motion Martin Varney Brians father won Peanut Speed event US Indoor Champs earlier ib Continued page 164 162 Model Aviation eye ojolon ai lrlot Os alt ala highly detailed $2400 otwn.SI7OO Other supero gIantscaIe prans - Poll size 9 POKIER DVIlI 24 Ca In $2500 9 PT-I 9 Oaadra 110150 82800 9 PIPER 14 MIlitary J3 Cab Osadra 92000 land cash chk Plans sent rolled UPS POSTPAID mangy ordr toreign orders add 40% air mail TAYLOR-CRAFT Send large sane tot 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mx ousII nas just launched model Lakehurst NJ August 1935 won tne tirsi-place prize oi l00 Junior oIruuuuII contest same ship won 1937 National Championships Detroit phenomenal flight 70 minutes 2 seconds IN LATE SUMMER OF 1933 Maxwell Bassett could have quit building model air planes entirely still assured prominent place model aviation history Using gasoline engines designed friend Bill Brown first set official record gas-powered model NAAs other rubber power class 2426June II 1932 also first record official gas-powered flight US Nationals 255September 1932 Atlantic City NJ Less year later astonished whole modeling world winning outdoor events 1933 New York Nationals setting two records process As direct result 1933 Nats performance NAA established new rules separate gas-powered models own competition category Quitting farthest thing Bas setts mind Fresh 1933 Nationals sweep began draw plans still other new Gas model altogether built 13 Gas jobs up time Ship num Left Bassett Miss Philly 16-110 Newark NJ May 191934 plane won its first contest 6072 out-of-sight flight under new 1/4 oz/lb fuel allotment rules instituted Junior NAA after Bassetts Nats victory previous summer Right Miss Philadelphia IV 6-114 looked Its original configuration 7-ft V-dihedral wing Design very attractive angle Wheel pants lust show 64 Model Aviation Having started Gas model craze Bill Brown Max Bassett continued prove championship mettle winning practically everything sight Part 2 U Dave Ritchie B-I 14 Miss Philadelphia IV resembled Nats-winning Miss Philly LII quite closely respects Though its rudder rounded its fuselage nearly identical Moffett Trophy winner s Unlike its predecessor however orig inally mounted V-dihedral wing 7-ft span neat pair detachable wheel pants intended display biggest difference inside cabin Bassett installed 15-oz auxil iary gas tank augment 2/2-oZ tank came standard Brown Jr engine Bassett first envisioned flying model some flatland areathe prairie country Midwest perhapswhere could conveniently tracked cross-country automobile Victor Fritz fearful endurance record Gas models might leave Philadelphia area attempt made soon thought would better launch model local air port follow wherever might go full-size airplane Fritz made arrangements operator Camden NJ Central Airport hoped record trial could made fore Christmas 1933 Harsh winter weather forced least half-dozen post ponements however late following spring before attempt all-out endurance could made Meanwhile May 19 1934 PMAA sent large contingent modelers Eastern States Outdoor Championships Newark NJ Bassett course among entry new NAA Gas model category original Miss Philadelphia reecently returned Worlds Fair altogether untried competition model sported new polyhedral wing prop-saving wooden-strut landing gear new Model B Brown Jr engine pro vided power Unlike earlier A-model engines Bassett used manufactured Junior Motors Corporation Bill Brown father financial backer named Edward Roberts formed after parting ways late 1933 Walter Hurleman contrast lowvolume capability Hurleman shop Junior Motors would mass-produce 50000 engines before World War II Roberts would also become third presi dent not-yet-formed Academy Model Aeronautics lay ahead Newark meet still predominantly rubber-power contest Gas bug catching Bassett encountered serious competition number other Gas modelers includiong 1933 Nats rival Joe Kovel plus Alfred Huber Martin Fay nor others Newark area Early meet Kovel got KG-i off stalling 4-mm 35 sec flight might have lasted longer model properly trimmed experienced Bassett easily bettered mark launch ing Miss Philly thermal carried out-of-sight 6 mm 7 sec winning event despite new NAA Gas rules limited Miss Phillys fuel supply /2 oz Searching neighborhood over last seen Bassett father found slightly damaged model possession youngster paid princely reward two dollars its return May 28 nine days after Newark October 1983 65 Because last-minute change weather Bassett substituted 6-ft 1-in polyhedral wing Miss Philly IV seen moments after launch its unprecedented 24-hr flight New Jerseys Camden Central Airport vicinity Middletown DE May 2 1934 Bassett center Brown right waited airport Victor Fritz chased model chartered plane Bassett used same model larger wing slightly different tail win Texaco Trophy second time 1934 NatIonals month later Akron OH ibm lo B~LI l41kfIIX 2rJIOUr Pkuu 44 $44 44 First Gas Model Champion 3ufl 4 g44 t4y4 -4~ 4$4 4 iL -4 4 2 ck #6j 4 4il4pAr qp4$wr-4 Plan Miss Philadelphia IV made Paul Karnow left published Philadel a Bulletin June 1934 shows 6-ft 1 wing small stab actually used 21/2-hr flight Bassett repiaced 8-ft wing large stab because damage incurred models return Middletown DE Frank Zaics plan below taken plan Bert Pond made July 1934 Akron Nats reflects later wing stab mis-labeled 21/2-hr version ship v __ 4 7 ~~~12 40 4 LA 4W 4/ win Bassett readied new Miss Philadel phia IV its oft-postponed endurance tempt Camden Airport Among small group onlookers pioneer air transport operator C Townsend Ludington founder what now Eastern Airlines well Bassetts parents handful friends PMAA course Bill Brown Nearby Victor Fritz charter pi lot Jack Byrne prepared follow model Byrnes open cockpit Fairchild Parasol Two attempts made previous daythe first ending dreaded spiral dive because trim error second cur tailed after minute engine failure time however everything clicked Bassett Bill Brown holding started engine adjusted spark mixture until satisfied its exhaust note hefting plane shoulder height sprinted few steps heaved wind Climbing slow steady circles Miss Philly IV off blue 17 oz gas aboard Byrne Fritz took off after minia ture plane keeping Fairchild above it circled away southwesterly direc tion Fritz filming its progress 16mm movie camera tracked stead ily climbing model Camden Glouce ster NJ across Delaware River South Philadelphia beyond Over Chester PA wind change blew ship eastward back across river Gibbstown NJ changed direction again driving con stantly circling Miss Philly IV south over Salem NJ westward once across Delaware Bay models engine ran out gas 8000 feet altitude shortly after reaching Delaware state side now said Byrne later watch ship glide lazily circle after circle would never have believed hadnt seen myself little plane glided 10 miles Two hours 35 minutes 39 seconds after its launch Victor Fritz punched stopwatch Miss Philadelphia IV nosed over cow pasture near Armstrongs Cor ner Delaware just south Middletown four miles Maryland state line Byrne landed adjoining field both Fritz clambered out Fairchild retrieve model Miss Philly IV tra versed straight-line distance 54 miles its launch point Fritz estimated optimistically usual actually covered 180 miles due its circling flight path After refueling nearby airport Byrne Fritz headed back Camden touched down just before dark model poking out Fairchilds front cockpit Recalls Bassett waited patiently group friends front Byrnes hangar longest four hours Id ever spent life unprecedented feat hailed new endurance record Philadelphia Bulletin PMAA lauded both Bassett Brown specially-created Achieve ment Awards recognition ad vancernent miniature aircraft science Sounding note reverberates day PMAA director Charles H English declared boys ve shown model planes cannot classed mere p1ythings Praise came prestigious sources out side Philadelphia too Reginald Cleveland New York Times aviation editor noted accomplishment by-lined column Popular Science Readers Digest brought story barbershop readers over US its write-up Time Magazine compared 19-year-old Max Bassett thencurrent aviation heroes Frank Hawks Roscoe Turner Ironically though NAA refused recognize flight According its new 1934 rules Bassett precipitatd 1933 Nats sweep under flown Newark Gas models alloted uel per pound airplane weightup maximum 1 oz liquid Miss Philly TVs 17 oz fuel load far ex ceeded 2-hour flight never officially made record books getting record really didnt matter 66 Model Aviation Bassett Miss Philadelphia V B-116 Miss Philly VI B-i 17 essentially identical Both models built 1935 Maxwell Bassett indisputably nations foremost Gas model builder Youngsters not-so-youngsters over country hungered emulate him Junior Motors Corp deluged orders would produce about thousand Brown Jr engines its first year operation Gas model boom Akron Nats As mentioned earlier Miss Philly IV originally designed 7-ft V-dihederal wing actual 2-hr flight however Bassett substituted polyhedral wing 6-ft 1-in span similar Miss Philly III Sometime before flight Paul Karnow made accu rate plan ship configuration published Bulletin also 1934 later editions PMAA hand book Victor Fritz entitled Build Model Airplanes During return trip Delaware models wing tail assembly dam aged Fairchilds slipstream re place broken parts Bassett built another polyhedral wingthis time 8-ft spanas well larger elevator slighty different rudder new wing tail model went 10 days temporary dis play Philadelphias famed Franklin Insti tute museum before being whisked off Akron OH 1934 Nationals Exactly month after 2/2-hr flight Max Bassett once again prepared Miss Philly IV action time weedy ter rain Akron Municipal Airport Nearby shadow giant Goodyear Air Docka mountain building designed house largest zeppelin lighter-than-air shipsa crowd over 2000 spectators gathered seventh running National Model Airplane Championships Bassett faced competition meet ever before entered Modelers far Los Angeles Bos ton Chicago come gaspowered entries join fray Already Emmanuel Radoff Newark NJ Robert Long Reading PA sent Brown-powered ships aloft flights nearly 2 mm over 3/2 mm respec October 1983 67 Side view second Miss Philly V B-il 7 taken front yard other pictures Bassett modeis 11th Street 86th Avenue Phiiadeiphias Oak Lane section Modei has 96-in wingspan 561/4-in fuselage flew 1935 Nats didnt win Bassett picture right still displays some modeling tro phies den along others won yacht racing present hobby trophy shown presented PMAA outstand ing aChievement model aircraft science after 1934 24-hr flight Bill Brown received identical contributions sake old times Max Bassett picture below hangs authors Brown given test run Continued page 160 Great Lakes 5173626854 Model U Mold Company Tawas City Ml 48763 AT-6 SNJ Harvard Kj Price $22800I Wingspan 708 Wing Area 947 sq Length 47 Engine 60 Radio 4-8 channelsThis model detail molded rigid urethane Weight 9A-10 lbsfoam epoxy gell goat Urethane Send SASE ml o inherently fuel-proof glued verby well balsa plywood etc cyanoacrylate type glues Canopy also detail molded * * * * WANDITTM * F FLN *Dealers Invited *~nngea * uflC yew .. * * -J * Dry CO RD * w * Stick Abrasises *A Keen Machine' gives exceptional *sanang contral tar excellent finish. * * 89~ Basic mcI 1 flat Wond ann 1 * rits *1 O8~ Builder Special mcI 2 flat 1 half- * and wand 5 6 grits *1 29~ Deluxe includes 3 flat 2 half * nd wands huff wands * 6 grits * *Additional Wands Abrasues auaiiable * local hubby shap *ADDIS ELMORE Eve Na 2t4 288 5789 8 * ox 266 uite Tenas 75146 * problem conventional flaps tend push nose down usually problem level normal flight attitude airplane assumes nosehigh attitude effect can become pro nounced particularly strong prop wash over wing Disturbances airflow tail can cause tail lose effec tiveness- resulting very rapid often uncontrollable nose-down rotation lution problem move center gravity well aft Unfortunately makes model extremely sensitive during high-speed flight up-moving flap tries rotate nose up thus countering some natural ten dency stable model dop its nose stalls up-moving flap flip doesnt aid slow flight model level attitude does bank model out thereby improving line tension ad vantage lies ease model can held nose-high stalled attitude having resort balancing model farther aft normal sacrificing high-speed stability havent seen anyone besides Tony Addie using tech nique may worth try having difficulty combined high amnuon P-40 CARD KIT FULL COLOR EXACT REPRODUCTION ONLCWELL THEY FLEW W $500REMEMBER HOW SgeoI offer tnoIod noopon tar rninrkrg o 7BotFm ModeIoP 0 Boa elmo RooeoIBe Mt 48000 beta, t halt pdoe 000 -kPUNIQUE NOSTALGIC OFT GET ORGANIZED f-tern s set nt 4 sturdy files hnlds over 4 years nt yxur favorite B, t t ntagaZmOOs 4 MAG FILES $495 Send $498 plas $100 tnt postage handling 0GM INDUSTRIES PO BOX 388-K DOVER NH 03820 low speed characteristics Profile model Try first cardboard alu minum flap taped outboard wing Richard L Perry 7578 Vagels Wax Springfield VA 22/53 CL Scale/Boss Continued page 63 also receive fully-detailed instructions use installation both CL RC ap plications X-CeII Team Contest Saturday Sunday October 2 1983 X-Cell Team Lexington KY will hold its second annual All-Scale AAA Meet contest will held Kearney Field Lexington will feature both RC CL Scale events RC events include AMA Precision Sport Giant Helicopter CL events will Precision Sport Scale also Ad vanced Intermediate Expert PAMPA Stunt events Trophies and/or merchandise will given through least three places addition normal contest activi ties manufacturers being encouraged present demonstrate products Swapshop tables will permitted big tent food refreshments will available reasonable prices sounds like fabulous Scale modeling weekend great opportunity two forms Scale modelers see what other guy doing full details entry fees regis tration camping please write call Lew McFarland CD 3404 Keithshire Way Lexington KY 40503 day phone 606-276-4881 right phone 606-223-2368 Help wanted Bill Brown Woonsocket Rt looking some information kit has just obtained kit old blue-line-stamped sheets balsa parts sheet bears name Capital Beechcraft Bill would like know can tell him kit true scale someone out happens have set plans particular kit anyone can supply information Bill can reached 87 Manville Road Woonsocket RI 02895 Also wanted Weston Moore Garland TX looking tbr someone can provide information whereabouts plans PT-19 early Sixties plans Weston looking sixfoot model Chuck Hollinger turn used Jetco PT- 19 kit manufactured After several years kit form Jetco Sig marketed kit short time Anyone information about plans kit please get touch Weston Moore 4325 Pineridge Garland TX 75042 subject needing help would like say also need help items column Its almost year now since first Scale column MA am beginning feel pinch good solid items column column mineits yours So let hear about what youre building flying days CL Scale Bill Bass 77-06 269th St New Hyde Park NY /1040 Bassett/Ritchie Continued page 67 tively Though direct competition Bassett because age 2 I-year-old Carl V Carlson Chicago bettered Bassets Newark record 6-mi 48/-sec flight new Open class bit excitement provided Joe Braun fellow-Philadelphian model took sudden crash-dive turf After repairs Braun sent plane up again 8 mm 26 sec Meanwhile California contingent Bill Atwood Irwin Ohlsson together driven way Akron LA having problems Gas models Thirty-six seconds hest Ohlsson could coax out beautifully built finished 8-ft ship known capable much better per formance things going right official flight shorter Ohlssons made Harold Mitchell Everett MA posted time 33 sec Atwood having no luck alV Gas job gave up went back rubber-powered ships several entered 160 Model Aviation * *SAILPLANE* * iaunching equipment histartslwincheslaCCesSOrieS complete linelbest pricesltop quality send self-addressed stamped envelope cataloglinformation RLF PRODUCTS R2 Rn, hAY PBoii IN 47454 t8I2lI2 4310 Perma-Grit TM Lifetime * Carbide Sanding Tungsten Carbide grit hardest material next diamond * OutlastssandpaperlOosoftimesTungsten carbide grit brazed * Tools will load steel 9 long tool use * Grit cant tear looseon balsa hardwoods fiberglass * Makes fitting blending fairing pleasurebeaded foams epoxy fillers * Fairs LE TE foam undercuttingplexiglas * Rapid stock Removal better control * Saves time nonev aggravation e USA * Replaces plane knite rasp & sanding blocks verage Modelers Use Excellent model buIlder can use tools Cuts epoxyllte likeF-100FlatCearse/Flne$695 buttF-1O1Fat FIne$695 lob Hoeckele Editor Model RetailerF-102Flat MedIum$895 R-200% RadIus CoarselPh$895 Ask Dealer send check MO No CODs toR-2011IS Tangent CoarselFlee$695 R-202 Round IWedIumlFIns$625 D i Products R-203Vo Round MedhimlFlee$495 209 Carrlands Dr Dayton OH 45429R-204 Round MedumlFlae$495 513 294-1192 age Paid Ohio residents add 6%tax contest As day wore became clear Brooklyns Joe Kovel would beat KG-2 mounting wing 10-ft span crashed car simply got out earlier 8-ft KG-I clocked flight 14 mm appeared Max Basesett might make official flight After two tries blue-and-yellow craft yet get off ground third launch released plane see falter rise uncertainly begin circle field precariously low altitude haste apparently set needle valve hair too rich suddenly faithful Browns chug ging pace quickened plane zoomed off towards crowd spectators Gaining altitude flew over Goodyear hangar barely missing mast top huge structure moment seemed hover over air dock drifted off northeast Bassett two contest offi cials following car Its /2-oz fuel allotment long gone Miss Philly IV landed after 21 mm 57 sec aloft briar patch off Akron-Canton Road some tour miles airport retrieved its builder two timers kept sight Returning field Bassett logged flight time immediately con gratulated meet officials fellow con testants Once again come out top Texaco Trophy now major prize Gas modelers under 21 years age keep second year running Officially flight set new rec ord tripling earlier mark Newark NJ flown under NAAs new Gas model fuel-allotment rules Wiley Post hand give keynote address Nationals banquet examined championship model nd praised its design workmanship Philadelphia next days news papers ran familiar story Bassett wins againJ Bulletin noted first five placers Texaco event flew models powered engines designed William L Brown night Nats banquet Ak rons Mayflower Hotel young Indiana hobby shop owner named Bert Pond per suaded Bassett let him make measure ments Texaco Trophy-winning plane Pond produced extremely detailed plan Miss Philly LV though mislabeled 2-hr version craft referenced Frank Zaics earliest Year Books sold through Ponds hobby shop Copies plan still available Write Bert Pond 128 War ren Terr Longmeadow MA 01106 Oddly magazine plans ship didnt appear until 1937 some woefully inaccurate return Philadelphia Bassett re tired Miss Philly IV Franklin Institute went permanent display museums Hall Aviation hanging honored position landing gear Amelia Earharts Lockheed Vega Neither Vega nor Bassetts model can seen Franklin Institute today Vega moved Smithsonian Institution Washington DC about 1965 Un fortunately Miss Philadelphia IV has lost balance summer apparently took well-deserved rest modeling activities Having graduated June music scholarship Philadel phias exclusive Penn Charter High School accomplished violinist well member varsity tennis team now prepared enter University Pennsylvania engineering student last Miss Philly academic other interests growing important Bassetts life began have less less time model building flying did however manage compete three meets 1935 first relatively minor competition featured added attraction full-size glider meet Paoli PA Having nothing else fly pulled two-year-old Miss Philadelphia II stick model out mothballs score nar row win over fellow PMAA members Tan ley Corrsin Matt Kania event CD limited fuel supply total /4 oz prevent models flying out sight Nationals St Louis demanded something competitive Miss Philly II Bassett hurriedly designed Tools 1lb -R-gon R*st built entirely new ship B-I 16 named predictably Miss Philadelphia V Again apparent gap B-numbers between Miss Philadelphia IV B-I 14 Miss Philadel phia V B-I 16 accounted fact Bassett considered two versions Miss Philadelphia IV 6-ft-span 2/2-hr endurance version 8-ft-span Texaco Trophy winner separate designs fore reserving number B-I 15 latter though never actually appeared plane model combined elements both stick cabin designs previously successful him Like Miss Philly LII IV fuselage built-up box section considerable flat side area no cabin however Instead wing mounted wire parasol framework Ia Miss Philly LI wing itself something new Eight feet span constant chord throughout flat center section approximately half long total span outer quarter pan els turned up what might called tip hedral flight wing tended flex slightly giving center section two degrees effective dihedral tail sur faces pretty much before ie CLEVELAND QUALITY PLANS WORLDS GREATEST TRUE SCALE PLANS VARIETY 4iI.MaSt, ti4,0 nodot piano anaitahi alt Ftoot Pig Snt 1910 00 stilt ntoking tnt ootd tOtonno hiotnO tO Pt sit tO OC Cit FF tubbO, StatiC Tht nothing elso thorn rwhotot400 plans Coat totFttotchnicO tents Ask ano ott tint ntottotot Otn thotrhargO youtontt ant tong, hut send $150 th Cttnntand-Dosignad pitootial nutatog hmktot cost $400 tooducot no got tnt pattialtr ittusttatod Pt, tie 100 goad SA5E nith Ott Ott ato,t Non tno horn toy sotnito 40 ho., doaftts Edt,d T Pnclnd--tcncno Bn Fi,dSno CLEVELAND MODEL & SUPPLY CO ta 00000 A, Ctonntond Otin 441e2 October 1983 161 SCALE DOCUwonIuTuLN SCALE DRAWINGSPHOTOS BOOKLETS MODEL PLANS 1983 AIRPLANE CATALOG 2 60AGEs TECH REPLA ERNAT ONAI 800 MC KENZIC NWY V DA ORCOON 007488 PAW DIESELS Englands Finest 049 29 New low low prices Send $100 tor list Eric Clutton 3816 DeSoto AVe Fort Myers Florida 33U5 roughly oval outlined bamboo landing gear Bassett stuck triedand-proven wooden struts substituted fat pair M&M air wheels skinny wooden ones used previous ships power plant orig inal A-model Brown Juniors Rather go St Louis just airplane Bassett built two models same design called second Miss Philadelphia V also gave slightly different paint job numberB-l 17 Otherwise two ships identical June 1935 Nationals turned out huge disappointment Bassett Plagued engine trouble missed chance win Texaco Trophy third last time won would have allowed keep permanently Next season hed 21too old qualify Texaco competition Leo Weiss won event unique all-balsa twin-tailed model highly streamlined small comparision other entries Weiss ran engine part-throttle conserve gas scored new record 64 mm. 12 sec Second place went Bruno Marchi Boston 41 mm 55 sec effort best Bassett could manage third place flight 36 mm 49 sec quite respectable nonetheless considering engine ran about /2 mm Perhaps Bassetts engineamong very first Brown Juniors built veteran hundreds Ilightswas finally showing its age maybe just having bad day Whatever reason setback must have hard pill swallow mod eler keenly competitive since 1932 Nationals failed place top model airplane com petition entered never beaten own gameGas model flying So discouraged apparently fore leaving St Louis announced last contest isnt clear whether Bassett really tended quit modeling hap pened later summar $100 top prize offered Junior Birdmen America contest held Lake hurst NJ Naval Air Station prospect winning much money equivalent maybe $700 SI 000 today hard ignore Bassett says easily per suaded out retirement August 28 1935 entered twin ships time calling Miss Philly V VI Junior Birdmen Gas Model Classic few Gas meets ome ever sponsored organization later brought its own downfall turning against Gas power crowd about 1000 watched both models fly OOS meet before ground observers credited Miss Philly VI contest-winning time 17 mm 48 sec Two weeks later Bassett received $100 check mail Lawrence Shaw national director Junior Birdmen Second place worth $50 Leo Vartanian Brooklyn NY $25 third prize went Henry Stadelmeir New York City contest might have net loss Bassett valued models around $75 apiece Fortunately few days after meet spotted scrub pine underbrush several miles air station cruising Navy blimp crews eventually recovered undamaged continued FF Duration/Meuser Continued pacze 69 Launch Gliders supply auto-stab functionthe trailing edge tail pops up little after about secondin addi tion dethermalizer function sees no problem adding additional functions might want Are confused am about now thought sorted out headbone until read what wrote realized Id simply have make sketch see Business opportunity Che Hobbies up grabs Hugo Sandroni going home Argentina selling out mail-order Free Flight business song plus wholesale value inventory half price new car could put self business get tax writeoffs would make entire initial expense evap orate Che Hobbies still business Sandroni wont leaving yet addition has just finished printing new catalog includes Free Flight goodies various manufacturers large small plus bunch own 23-page catalog sells $2 might seem bit steep However cant stay business giving away catalogs cost close amount 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