WHEN THE editor offered assignment back August 1977 sounded like fas cinating straightforward project Having long interested model aircraft publica tions anticipated no special problems com posing article subject However actual research began quickly became appar ent monumental task undertaken enlisted aid John J Brown collector model books supplied us extensive list publications compiled over period years added other titles encountered during course project Next contacted publishers could locate known have model aircraft titles among offerings Most cooper ated helpfully enabled us catch up currently in-print books Having assembled formidable mountain literature both old new set about reading task consumed several months spare time next problem became evolution logical presentation much information Space limitations precluded usage briefest reviews everything So elected offer taste various publications through years e historical significance others special insight importance hobby charm Books Hows model aviation library havent missing rewarding aspects modeling hobby Someone once said question ever asked book answer Certainly must true model building other subject Yet lack reading research builders go reinventing wheel needlessly laboring through problems likely have solved years previously Model aircraft books date back early will After reviewing books article Bill Hannan moved write own Peanut Power published Historical Aviation Album 1 900s articles relating models appeared earlier various scientific books journals Reading some elderly tomes April 1982 33 Peanut Scale I-rencn 1-arman poses selection ot scale drawings found some books mentioned plan potential model Scale enthusiast provides sort time-machine insight thinking fellow modelers long since forgotten truly window past lucid re minder very little has changed model aviation Virtually new development indeed old hat having appeared least principle long ago unfortunate some equate study history drudgery need fact review earlier works can sometimes yield fresh solutions current problems earliest book investigated survey Progress Flying Machines written Octave Chanute printed 1894 Chanute course important Wright brothers mentor heroic figure history aviation served years sort clearing house aero information among enthusiasts book Chanute attempted catalog classify experimental efforts known flight pioneer world over Featured illus trations data relating manner mini ature flying machines served inspire generations inventors example achievements French model builder Alphonse Penaud graphically documented planophore 1871 rubber-powered model 18-in wingspan cap able li-second flights covering 131 feet Weighing slightly over e machine seems have first feature nowstandard systems longitudinal stability via cidence settings lateral stability dihedral Incidentally Chanute states clearly model equipped vertical tail fact steered tail does appear illustrations later modelers have attempted fly reproductions Other models described include designed Lawrence Hargrave Australia gentle man invented box kite flew small craft powered compressed-air engines early 1890 Happily long out-of-print Chanute book has recently republished Lorenz & Herweg Publishers Long Beach CA recommend highly students aviation history earliest exclusively model aviation book dently volume sold fairly well reviewed Theory Practice reprinted during 1911 again revised form ModelAeroplaning 1910 publication V E Johnson British classic presents history models already considered ancient theories operation well practical design advice aware few internalcombustion gas-powered models success fully flown time rather sophisticated example depicted Johnson book four-cylinder V-type engine complete clockwork shut-off device Also well documented steam com pressed-air engines time flown models Interestingly electric motors tried found wanting Meanwhile United States Boys Book Model Aeroplanes published also 1910 authored Francis Collins Evi during 1921 Second Boys Book ModelAeroplanes appeared 1911 Collins offered thanks New York Model Aero Club Mr Edward Durrant Percy Pierce Cecil Peoli W S Howells young gentlemen models illustrated herewith singly collectively doing much development science America Somewhat confusingly another Collins Frederic apparently unrelated authored book entitled BoysAirplane Bool4 during 1919 gem contained brief history aviation plans simple helicopters twin-pusher model Bleriot Wright biplane Curtiss flying boat Topping Collins offered info making compressed-air engine ngI BIBLIOGRAPHY THIS LIST largely work John J Brown some additions Bill Hannan no such list can ever con sidered complete least indicative vast scope subject Publications categoriced authors name known English language editions few important exceptions noted Additons corrections may forwarded John Brown 13362 Fairmont Way Santa Ana CA 92705 No author listed Aeromodeller Pocker Data Book Model Aeronautical Press England 1969 64p No author listed Air Age Gas Models Herman Pub. Boston MA 1975 Aldridge Transistorized Radio Conrrol Models London 1972 Alexander J H Model Balloons Flying Machines Henley Pub NY 1910 Alexander 3 Foam Wings R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA AUen Elmer L Model Airplanes Frederick Stokes Co NY 1928 326p Note Later editions entitled New Model Airplanes Aston W G Model Flying Machines Iliffe & Sons Ltd London circa 1909 No author listed Balsa Wood Model Airplanes Fleischmana Transportation Co NY tSp Barnaby Ralph S Hose Make Fly Paper Airplanes Four Winds Press 1968 Bantam Books Inc IL 1970 84p Bechdoll lack Modern Handy Book Boys Book Inc NY 1933 432p Note Has chapter model airplanes Bengsch Gustav Hats Wilhelm Modell/tag 3m NsFtiegerkorps German tent verlag Dr M Mattiesen & Co Berlin 1942 288p Bowden C E LI Cot Diesel Model Engines Percival Marshall London 1947 l64p Bowden C F LI Cot History Technical Development Model Aircraft Harboroagh Pub Co Leicester 1946 Bowden C E LI Cot Model Gb Plag Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 h5p Bowden C E LI Col Model Jet Reaction Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 65p Bowden C E LI Cot Petrol-Esgined Model Aircraft Percival Marshall London 1945 230p Bowden T EG Aerodynamics nalyzed Harborough Pub Co London No author listed BoyCraft Whitman Pub Co Racine WI 1928 Note Has section model airplanes p 161-175 Boys Howard Transistor Circaito Radio Controlled Models Bernard London 1961 fOp Bradshaw Stanley OrIon Aircraft Modellers Guide Thitd Series 1936 Note First second series Howard Leigli Brown Willis C Model Airplanes vialivn Heath Boston 1942 43p Brown Willis C Black Dick History AMA AMA Washington DC 1966 84p Avail AMA HO Bruinama H Remote Control Radio Phillips Tech Lib Holland 1952 96p English tent Bruss Hetmut Proportional Stere rung German text Topp Stuttgart 1967 102p No author listed Building/Designing Maintenance Care Jetex Engines NY 196749p No author listed Building Flying ModelAirplssnes An Air Youth Hand book D AppletonCentury Co NY 1941 1942 1943 246p Bulger Thomas L F Stieri editor Model Builders Manual Junior eronaurical Engineer ing Dime Publications NY 1931 64p Bullivant Cecil Boys Book Hobbies Nelsonand Co NY 1912 452p Note Contains chapter model aircraft p 88-102 Buragas Robert 3 Decades Design NJ 1970 Buragas Robert 3 Decade Designs No 2 Rajo Pub NY 1966 74p Buragas Robert 3 Model Bailding AZ Rajo Pub, NY 1965 Carstens Pub Inc 1971 75p Buragas Robert 3 Holze Walter Weaver George Reference Handbook H P Pub NY 1958 74p CatIon F ABC Model Aircraft Construction 34 Model Aviation sampling pamphlets catalogs spans time 1g12 1g46 Note some famous names Paul Jones White Aeroplane Supply Ideal Megow Seltey Scientific glider must have heady discoveries youthful model builders day Moving right along journey through aeronautical literature past pause brief look small treasure Harpers Aircraft Book 1913 written Hyatt Verrill Prominent chapters Sailing Air Moving Bodies Air Steering Air concerned general theory Model Aeroplanes Fliers section found plans instructions Cecil Peolis racer twin-pusher Curtiss Hydroaeroplane also available time Ideal Aero plane Supply Co kit Ditto Nieuport l3leriot monoplanes Verrill also included plans biplane hang-glider well discourse full-size aircraft engines opinion better offerings published regardless date contrast inspirational text some early model books obviously based upon slim understanding subject proving garbled thinking knows no special time bound aries Yet some technically useless mis leading publications still make fascinating read ing illustrations often rather quaint intriguing During 1 920s 30s veritable explosion model book publishing much inspired Charles Lindberghs epic solo flight across Aflantic fact books era featured models purporting represent Spirit St Louis although accuracy among strong points Flying High edited Franklin K Mathiews published approval Boy Scouts America different sort book writings contributed such distinguished people Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Clarence D Chamberlin paragraph Lindbergh himself Added impressive line-up series aviation fiction stories science-fiction piece entitled Rocket Plane Dead Star shades Star Wars also assortment model construction plans including inevitable Spirit St Louis . actually plans Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co kit No wonder book reprinted 1928 1929 1930 least three other important volumes appeared during 1928 doubtless helped influence generation youngsters lasting interest aviation general model building particu lar called Beginning Fly authored Merrill Hamburg secretary technical advisor AMLA Airplane Model League America steady contri butor American Boy magazine book featured usual history aeronautics model building instructions series indoor outdoor model designs Also set forth rules model aircraft contests gaining popularity Another important 1928 publication Build ing Flying ModelAircraft Paul E Garber Smithsonian Institution Garber served Model Aircraft Consultant Playground Recreation Association America during summer 1927 book amplification extension series bulletins prepared purpose Featured history model aircraft sport world record listings information kites para chutes boomerangs Also covered flying tops ultra-simple helicopters gliders rubber-driven models Scale models including Spirit St Louis course model balloons compressed-air engine section contests third memorable 1928 publication Elmer L Allens Model Airplanes Build Fly Described author first presentation such detailed instruction practical working plans has ever attempted included material Boys Life London 952 Camm F 3 Model Aeroplanes London circa 1911 Camm F J Model Aeroplane handbook George Nessnes London 194931 2p Camm F 3 Design Model Aeroplanes aenn Brothers Ltd. London 1919 172p Camm F 1 Model Aeroplanes Airships George Newnes London t933 ISp Camns F 3 Power Driren Model Aircraft George Nessnes London 1933 98p Camm F Model Aircraft l-landbook London 1936 148p Carom F Radio Controlled Models Pearson Ltd London 1956 I8lp Carhone Martin R Build Flj Floaters Mason-Renshaw Inc 1972 lop Caalkin Daoid Notes Model Airplane & Prop Design 937 Cavanagh eorge Mrrdel Aeroplanes Motors Moffut Yard Co NY 1916 32p Chick Richard First Book Model Aircraft 5tadio London 1944 64p Chinn Peter G F hour Model Aircraft Model& Allied Pub 1977 153p Available International Pub 5ervice NY Chine Peter Ci F Model Aircraft Engine Tests Percival Marshall London 1960 96p Claudy Carl H Beginners Brrok Model Airplanes Bobba-Merrill Indianapolis IN 1930 l84p Claudy Carl H Prize Winners Essok Model Airplanes Bobhs-Merrill Indianapolit IN 1931 242p plus plant Colbridge Scale Models Balsa NY 1972 lISp Coleman li Northrop W C editor Flying Scale Models WW II Model Builder santa Ana CA 1974 l28p Collins Frederick nation bout D Appleton-Century Co NY 1929 260p Coffins Frederick Boy Scienrisr Lattsrop Lee Shepard Boston 1925 447p Note Lasr chapter early history aniutionPenaud Tatin Phipps Langley Chanute Wrights Collins Frederick Boys Airplane Book Stokes Co NY 1919 253p Collins Francis Arnold BoysBook Model Aeroplanes Appleton-Century NY 1910 1911 1926 1936 1937 1941 262p Collins Francis Arnold Boys Second Book Afodel Aeroplanes Century Co NY 1911 262p No author listed Color Treasury Model Airplanes Crescent Books London c 1972 h4p No author listed Cotnmercial Radio Cortrol Equipment tIre tlodel Builders I-lobby Helpers Pub NY No author listed Construction Kites Aeroplanes Manual Arts Press Peoria IL No author listed Construction Aerosnodellers Model Aeronautical Press England 1957 1963 93p No author listed Control Br Radio Winston Pub NY 1962 h4p Cook David C Guide Model Aircraft McBride NY 1945 28lp Cook David C & Davidson Jesse editorsl Model Aircraft Annual 1943 McBride NY 1943 244p Cook David C tlodel rrcratt nrual 1944 McBride NY 1944 244p Courtney Jeremiah Alenoratrdtn 10w Model Noise AMA Iteadquartcrs Washington DC 30p Aoail AMA tIQ Con Jack Boys Book hobbies Lutterworth Press London 1957 240p Note Chapter II ntodel aircraft R H Warring Craikshanks J W B Airfoil Sr etions Jirr tIre ero,rodeller Marshall & Sons 1940 46p Davis Tire Jurirr Air,rar s 8rok Airplanes NY laoidson lesse Building Yrar First Flying Jlrrdsls X-Acto Crescent Products Co. NY 1946 J2p l3rsvidson lesse II,, srr Build S,lid Seals Mssdel Wartrlasses April 1982 35 Thin typical aample full-size aviation books can form basis good reference library forthe Scale modeler Shown books US Great Britain Italy Japan magazine well selection racers performance models facsimile models semi-Scale types turned Out old friends Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co again line-up consisted Bleriot Cross-Channel Monoplane NC-4 Naval Seaplane Curtiss Jennie sic DeHavil land Biplane tn-motored Fokker guessed Spirit St Louis year 1930 saw introduction Begin ners Book Model Airplanes Fly Carl H Claudy charming book took fresh approach subject offering direct practical advice coupled priceless ingredient good humor missing too its pred ecessors helped remove much mystery mumbo-jumbo implied some formulae freak authors Also during 1930 Aircraft Book Boys appeared written daughter 1913 book author Hyatt Vernill title like Dorothy Vernill wouldnt have scored points womens libbers Doubtless however rated well air-minded youth day Although largely devoted full-scale aviation couple model planes found way volume including tri motor monoplane courtesy Ideal Aero plane Supply Co now incorporated 1931 Carl H Claudy came up another winner form Prize Winners Book Model Airplanes Some 36 contributors helped production plum ambitious useful compilations appear Besides usual reduced-size plans found books Claudy offered bonus feature two large separate sheets measuring about 34 x 22 other 44 x 33 full-size construction drawings plans enabled budding model aeronauts plunge right building enthusiasm still its peak folded drawings neatly secured inside book covers small straps Economic conditions would render such extrava gances unthinkable todays publishers pity Among choice offerings 1931 Model Aircraft Builder Chelsea Fraser Copiously illustrated book presented addition model building hints plans instructions making simple wind-tunnel miniature airport two rather primitive ingenious Link Trainers youthful pilots could actually sit fly Another 1931 classic Model Airplane Building Flying Joseph S Ott kit fame Lavishly illustrated book ex tremely comprehensive its presentation covering practically facet hobby great detail Featured construction methods gliders stick models Scale types Indoor duration models twin-pushers rocket plane compressed-air engine aircraft Edwin T Hamilton revealed Complete Model Aircraft Manual world during 1933 Comprising well over 500 pages ambitious effort must have monumental undertaking Treated minute detail tools trade building techniques painting insignia accessories art model flying Selected construction articles included pri mary glider secondary glider Bowlus sail plane C H Grants famous Minute Man stick model twin-pushers Indoor craft flying Scale models solid Scale types out-of-theordinary designs such tailless R 0 G plus two autogiros Another series books originated during 30s exerted powerful influence upon course model aviation now-famous ModelAeronautics YearBooks generally identified name editor/publisher Frank Zaic Truly labor-of-love effort volume represents treasure-trove modeling information ideas philosophy distilled world-wide network contributors Happily Continued page 102 X-Acto Crescent Products Co NY 1944 1947 32p Davis Lynn iloaukcs Model Aeroplane lab t9l7 Day Aircraft irs Made Like NY l9b8 Day Ossar Vincent Terence Miniature Aircraft Make lisa FIn Theta Manual Arts Press Peoria IL 1929 hhp Dean Bill Hill ihan s Book Balsa Models Arco Pub NY l970 b4p Iean Waning Model Aeronaatics London 1948 Dean Warring Model Planes Annual London 1949 bbp Delacombe Harry Boys Bosh Airships stokes Co NY 1909 244p Dewey Don Radio Control Ground Up K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA 197l 20p Dewey Don edilot Challenge Radio Control Scale R/C Modeler Corp Siecra Madre CA l967 96p Dewey Don editor What irs Worth R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don editor What Its Wsrlh Vol II K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madte CA Dewey Don editor What Its Worth Vol III K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Maitre CA Dewey Don editor What s Worth Vol IV RIC Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Coarse R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Course Vol II K/C Modeler Corp. Sierra Madre CA Ditty Model Flying London 1975 Available Transatlantic Arts Inc NY Doilfus Etienne H C Petite Models dAcroplanes French text Gaalhier-Villars Paris 91 2 22p Doylend W 0 Aircraft Miniature Modal Aeronautical Press England 1957 16p Available International Publications Service NY Easley G J Radio Control Systems Now Use Wrightwood Model Airplane Co MO 1947 31p Ebling Frank Kit Plan Book AMA Headquarters Washington DC 136p Available AMA HQ Ellis Chris Howls Make Model Aircraft Arco Pub Co NY 1973 tOp Ellis Prank H Duration Flying Models Fiwell 3 H Solid Scale Model Aircraft Harborough Pub England 96p Everett Dick Hydro Tips Brainhusters Hampton VA 1947 12p Pisber 0 P W Collectors Guide Model Aero Engines Argus Books England 1977 132p Fitzgibbon Joe Keshiuhian Harry Hatney Bill Best Golden Age Flying Models Golden Press MA 1975 86p No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Puh Minneapolis 1931 l46p Note Model planes Chapters tO p 129-I 34 articles James Bates Theodore Allen No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Pub Minneapolis 1932 146p Note Model planes p 36-37 article Stewart Rouse No author listed Flying Scale Models Air Age Pub 1942 104p Note Designs Earl Stahl H K Weiss Sidney StruhI William Wytam Ray Rusher Foote Donald K Aerodynamics Model Airplanes Barnes NY 1952 lSBp Foote Donald K Model Airplane Engines Barnes NY 1952 177p Forster J P P Model Aircraft Petrol Engines Harhorough Pub England 1943 96p Pox Duke Model Flyers Handbook AR Fracer Chelsea Model Aircraft Builder T Y Crowell Co NY 193l354p Continued page 137 36 Model Aviation has wide variety model aircraft books published over years Annuals offered hobby magazines handbooks major publishing houses Embroidered- quality blue casual shirts choice royal/white Mustang HMUJ navy/white Corsair IHCOI brown white Spitfire HSPJ red/white Style C Style L~2 Sweatershirt style VI 520 Golf Shirt style Cl 518 Sizes 532-361 M38-40l 1442-441 X46l Ladies Shin style U 510 StYI@V Sizes S8-10l M112-14l 1416-18 X20-22l Add 10% postage/handling Allow 3-4 weeks delivery Send check money order Flightilne Shirts Etc Department MA 1781 Jahnmark Circle Grants Pass OR 97526 Send SASE new brochure Name Address CityStateZip SizeStyleDesign ATTENTION ERS putDaves plane upforatrim familiariza tion flight found set up very mild handling slow aileron rolls enough elevator stall snap-roll Tim tried Chris sailplane found also short control authority addition Chris taped spoil ers closedand Tim likes use tow better control both found landings faster flatter become accustomed flying mile higher atmosphere home might say conditions less ideal still manageable snow helped brake landing rolls Dave brought out toy snow shovel truck proceeded clear runway us about 100 yards long half-awingspan wide told him faith ability stay center line did look picture carefully will see runway behind Chris Dave paralleling Inter state 15 row electric power poles pole just off near side runway looked avoidable decided keep flying patterns north runway just case approach end runway Out picture left also has power lines across could easily get impression flying inside barrel cloud ceiling fell rain started develop snowflakes looked like forget situation leave next morn ing get Tim back Eastern college dood After two false starts wherein sorted out problems began making tows lost count remember four Tim towed back reasonably low altitude several times benefit photographers need stronger telephoto lens get thing Both planes performed flawlessly didnt ding either main thing noticed takeoff runs lot longer climbs lot shallower have become accustomed sea level So whats got new RC channels think has spite intentions avoid RCing over holidays lousy weather conditions flew fun Now some folks have written letters asking new radio buy stating really intended sit back wait things settle out before buying anything think youll sitting out long time AMA Phase-In Plan outlined contem plates continued production use existing radios some time say buy what like nowand enjoy want try hedge bit look radios have interchangeable RE modules boards manufacturer may support new channel boards modules such proves feasible also may youll flyingand having funwhile situation develops Keep letters flowing George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicksville NY 11801 Books H annan Continued page 36 some items have reprinted still available Besides books magazines other types publications offered aeromodeling public Some pamphlets booklets rather true books yet filled exciting useful model building information As example consider Paul Jones Step-by-Step Course ModelAviation 1936 now-rare collec 102 Model Aviation U Can Afford Best. 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/04
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 35, 36, 102, 103, 104
WHEN THE editor offered assignment back August 1977 sounded like fas cinating straightforward project Having long interested model aircraft publica tions anticipated no special problems com posing article subject However actual research began quickly became appar ent monumental task undertaken enlisted aid John J Brown collector model books supplied us extensive list publications compiled over period years added other titles encountered during course project Next contacted publishers could locate known have model aircraft titles among offerings Most cooper ated helpfully enabled us catch up currently in-print books Having assembled formidable mountain literature both old new set about reading task consumed several months spare time next problem became evolution logical presentation much information Space limitations precluded usage briefest reviews everything So elected offer taste various publications through years e historical significance others special insight importance hobby charm Books Hows model aviation library havent missing rewarding aspects modeling hobby Someone once said question ever asked book answer Certainly must true model building other subject Yet lack reading research builders go reinventing wheel needlessly laboring through problems likely have solved years previously Model aircraft books date back early will After reviewing books article Bill Hannan moved write own Peanut Power published Historical Aviation Album 1 900s articles relating models appeared earlier various scientific books journals Reading some elderly tomes April 1982 33 Peanut Scale I-rencn 1-arman poses selection ot scale drawings found some books mentioned plan potential model Scale enthusiast provides sort time-machine insight thinking fellow modelers long since forgotten truly window past lucid re minder very little has changed model aviation Virtually new development indeed old hat having appeared least principle long ago unfortunate some equate study history drudgery need fact review earlier works can sometimes yield fresh solutions current problems earliest book investigated survey Progress Flying Machines written Octave Chanute printed 1894 Chanute course important Wright brothers mentor heroic figure history aviation served years sort clearing house aero information among enthusiasts book Chanute attempted catalog classify experimental efforts known flight pioneer world over Featured illus trations data relating manner mini ature flying machines served inspire generations inventors example achievements French model builder Alphonse Penaud graphically documented planophore 1871 rubber-powered model 18-in wingspan cap able li-second flights covering 131 feet Weighing slightly over e machine seems have first feature nowstandard systems longitudinal stability via cidence settings lateral stability dihedral Incidentally Chanute states clearly model equipped vertical tail fact steered tail does appear illustrations later modelers have attempted fly reproductions Other models described include designed Lawrence Hargrave Australia gentle man invented box kite flew small craft powered compressed-air engines early 1890 Happily long out-of-print Chanute book has recently republished Lorenz & Herweg Publishers Long Beach CA recommend highly students aviation history earliest exclusively model aviation book dently volume sold fairly well reviewed Theory Practice reprinted during 1911 again revised form ModelAeroplaning 1910 publication V E Johnson British classic presents history models already considered ancient theories operation well practical design advice aware few internalcombustion gas-powered models success fully flown time rather sophisticated example depicted Johnson book four-cylinder V-type engine complete clockwork shut-off device Also well documented steam com pressed-air engines time flown models Interestingly electric motors tried found wanting Meanwhile United States Boys Book Model Aeroplanes published also 1910 authored Francis Collins Evi during 1921 Second Boys Book ModelAeroplanes appeared 1911 Collins offered thanks New York Model Aero Club Mr Edward Durrant Percy Pierce Cecil Peoli W S Howells young gentlemen models illustrated herewith singly collectively doing much development science America Somewhat confusingly another Collins Frederic apparently unrelated authored book entitled BoysAirplane Bool4 during 1919 gem contained brief history aviation plans simple helicopters twin-pusher model Bleriot Wright biplane Curtiss flying boat Topping Collins offered info making compressed-air engine ngI BIBLIOGRAPHY THIS LIST largely work John J Brown some additions Bill Hannan no such list can ever con sidered complete least indicative vast scope subject Publications categoriced authors name known English language editions few important exceptions noted Additons corrections may forwarded John Brown 13362 Fairmont Way Santa Ana CA 92705 No author listed Aeromodeller Pocker Data Book Model Aeronautical Press England 1969 64p No author listed Air Age Gas Models Herman Pub. Boston MA 1975 Aldridge Transistorized Radio Conrrol Models London 1972 Alexander J H Model Balloons Flying Machines Henley Pub NY 1910 Alexander 3 Foam Wings R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA AUen Elmer L Model Airplanes Frederick Stokes Co NY 1928 326p Note Later editions entitled New Model Airplanes Aston W G Model Flying Machines Iliffe & Sons Ltd London circa 1909 No author listed Balsa Wood Model Airplanes Fleischmana Transportation Co NY tSp Barnaby Ralph S Hose Make Fly Paper Airplanes Four Winds Press 1968 Bantam Books Inc IL 1970 84p Bechdoll lack Modern Handy Book Boys Book Inc NY 1933 432p Note Has chapter model airplanes Bengsch Gustav Hats Wilhelm Modell/tag 3m NsFtiegerkorps German tent verlag Dr M Mattiesen & Co Berlin 1942 288p Bowden C E LI Cot Diesel Model Engines Percival Marshall London 1947 l64p Bowden C F LI Cot History Technical Development Model Aircraft Harboroagh Pub Co Leicester 1946 Bowden C E LI Cot Model Gb Plag Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 h5p Bowden C E LI Col Model Jet Reaction Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 65p Bowden C E LI Cot Petrol-Esgined Model Aircraft Percival Marshall London 1945 230p Bowden T EG Aerodynamics nalyzed Harborough Pub Co London No author listed BoyCraft Whitman Pub Co Racine WI 1928 Note Has section model airplanes p 161-175 Boys Howard Transistor Circaito Radio Controlled Models Bernard London 1961 fOp Bradshaw Stanley OrIon Aircraft Modellers Guide Thitd Series 1936 Note First second series Howard Leigli Brown Willis C Model Airplanes vialivn Heath Boston 1942 43p Brown Willis C Black Dick History AMA AMA Washington DC 1966 84p Avail AMA HO Bruinama H Remote Control Radio Phillips Tech Lib Holland 1952 96p English tent Bruss Hetmut Proportional Stere rung German text Topp Stuttgart 1967 102p No author listed Building/Designing Maintenance Care Jetex Engines NY 196749p No author listed Building Flying ModelAirplssnes An Air Youth Hand book D AppletonCentury Co NY 1941 1942 1943 246p Bulger Thomas L F Stieri editor Model Builders Manual Junior eronaurical Engineer ing Dime Publications NY 1931 64p Bullivant Cecil Boys Book Hobbies Nelsonand Co NY 1912 452p Note Contains chapter model aircraft p 88-102 Buragas Robert 3 Decades Design NJ 1970 Buragas Robert 3 Decade Designs No 2 Rajo Pub NY 1966 74p Buragas Robert 3 Model Bailding AZ Rajo Pub, NY 1965 Carstens Pub Inc 1971 75p Buragas Robert 3 Holze Walter Weaver George Reference Handbook H P Pub NY 1958 74p CatIon F ABC Model Aircraft Construction 34 Model Aviation sampling pamphlets catalogs spans time 1g12 1g46 Note some famous names Paul Jones White Aeroplane Supply Ideal Megow Seltey Scientific glider must have heady discoveries youthful model builders day Moving right along journey through aeronautical literature past pause brief look small treasure Harpers Aircraft Book 1913 written Hyatt Verrill Prominent chapters Sailing Air Moving Bodies Air Steering Air concerned general theory Model Aeroplanes Fliers section found plans instructions Cecil Peolis racer twin-pusher Curtiss Hydroaeroplane also available time Ideal Aero plane Supply Co kit Ditto Nieuport l3leriot monoplanes Verrill also included plans biplane hang-glider well discourse full-size aircraft engines opinion better offerings published regardless date contrast inspirational text some early model books obviously based upon slim understanding subject proving garbled thinking knows no special time bound aries Yet some technically useless mis leading publications still make fascinating read ing illustrations often rather quaint intriguing During 1 920s 30s veritable explosion model book publishing much inspired Charles Lindberghs epic solo flight across Aflantic fact books era featured models purporting represent Spirit St Louis although accuracy among strong points Flying High edited Franklin K Mathiews published approval Boy Scouts America different sort book writings contributed such distinguished people Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Clarence D Chamberlin paragraph Lindbergh himself Added impressive line-up series aviation fiction stories science-fiction piece entitled Rocket Plane Dead Star shades Star Wars also assortment model construction plans including inevitable Spirit St Louis . actually plans Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co kit No wonder book reprinted 1928 1929 1930 least three other important volumes appeared during 1928 doubtless helped influence generation youngsters lasting interest aviation general model building particu lar called Beginning Fly authored Merrill Hamburg secretary technical advisor AMLA Airplane Model League America steady contri butor American Boy magazine book featured usual history aeronautics model building instructions series indoor outdoor model designs Also set forth rules model aircraft contests gaining popularity Another important 1928 publication Build ing Flying ModelAircraft Paul E Garber Smithsonian Institution Garber served Model Aircraft Consultant Playground Recreation Association America during summer 1927 book amplification extension series bulletins prepared purpose Featured history model aircraft sport world record listings information kites para chutes boomerangs Also covered flying tops ultra-simple helicopters gliders rubber-driven models Scale models including Spirit St Louis course model balloons compressed-air engine section contests third memorable 1928 publication Elmer L Allens Model Airplanes Build Fly Described author first presentation such detailed instruction practical working plans has ever attempted included material Boys Life London 952 Camm F 3 Model Aeroplanes London circa 1911 Camm F J Model Aeroplane handbook George Nessnes London 194931 2p Camm F 3 Design Model Aeroplanes aenn Brothers Ltd. London 1919 172p Camm F 1 Model Aeroplanes Airships George Newnes London t933 ISp Camns F 3 Power Driren Model Aircraft George Nessnes London 1933 98p Camm F Model Aircraft l-landbook London 1936 148p Carom F Radio Controlled Models Pearson Ltd London 1956 I8lp Carhone Martin R Build Flj Floaters Mason-Renshaw Inc 1972 lop Caalkin Daoid Notes Model Airplane & Prop Design 937 Cavanagh eorge Mrrdel Aeroplanes Motors Moffut Yard Co NY 1916 32p Chick Richard First Book Model Aircraft 5tadio London 1944 64p Chinn Peter G F hour Model Aircraft Model& Allied Pub 1977 153p Available International Pub 5ervice NY Chine Peter Ci F Model Aircraft Engine Tests Percival Marshall London 1960 96p Claudy Carl H Beginners Brrok Model Airplanes Bobba-Merrill Indianapolis IN 1930 l84p Claudy Carl H Prize Winners Essok Model Airplanes Bobhs-Merrill Indianapolit IN 1931 242p plus plant Colbridge Scale Models Balsa NY 1972 lISp Coleman li Northrop W C editor Flying Scale Models WW II Model Builder santa Ana CA 1974 l28p Collins Frederick nation bout D Appleton-Century Co NY 1929 260p Coffins Frederick Boy Scienrisr Lattsrop Lee Shepard Boston 1925 447p Note Lasr chapter early history aniutionPenaud Tatin Phipps Langley Chanute Wrights Collins Frederick Boys Airplane Book Stokes Co NY 1919 253p Collins Francis Arnold BoysBook Model Aeroplanes Appleton-Century NY 1910 1911 1926 1936 1937 1941 262p Collins Francis Arnold Boys Second Book Afodel Aeroplanes Century Co NY 1911 262p No author listed Color Treasury Model Airplanes Crescent Books London c 1972 h4p No author listed Cotnmercial Radio Cortrol Equipment tIre tlodel Builders I-lobby Helpers Pub NY No author listed Construction Kites Aeroplanes Manual Arts Press Peoria IL No author listed Construction Aerosnodellers Model Aeronautical Press England 1957 1963 93p No author listed Control Br Radio Winston Pub NY 1962 h4p Cook David C Guide Model Aircraft McBride NY 1945 28lp Cook David C & Davidson Jesse editorsl Model Aircraft Annual 1943 McBride NY 1943 244p Cook David C tlodel rrcratt nrual 1944 McBride NY 1944 244p Courtney Jeremiah Alenoratrdtn 10w Model Noise AMA Iteadquartcrs Washington DC 30p Aoail AMA tIQ Con Jack Boys Book hobbies Lutterworth Press London 1957 240p Note Chapter II ntodel aircraft R H Warring Craikshanks J W B Airfoil Sr etions Jirr tIre ero,rodeller Marshall & Sons 1940 46p Davis Tire Jurirr Air,rar s 8rok Airplanes NY laoidson lesse Building Yrar First Flying Jlrrdsls X-Acto Crescent Products Co. NY 1946 J2p l3rsvidson lesse II,, srr Build S,lid Seals Mssdel Wartrlasses April 1982 35 Thin typical aample full-size aviation books can form basis good reference library forthe Scale modeler Shown books US Great Britain Italy Japan magazine well selection racers performance models facsimile models semi-Scale types turned Out old friends Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co again line-up consisted Bleriot Cross-Channel Monoplane NC-4 Naval Seaplane Curtiss Jennie sic DeHavil land Biplane tn-motored Fokker guessed Spirit St Louis year 1930 saw introduction Begin ners Book Model Airplanes Fly Carl H Claudy charming book took fresh approach subject offering direct practical advice coupled priceless ingredient good humor missing too its pred ecessors helped remove much mystery mumbo-jumbo implied some formulae freak authors Also during 1930 Aircraft Book Boys appeared written daughter 1913 book author Hyatt Vernill title like Dorothy Vernill wouldnt have scored points womens libbers Doubtless however rated well air-minded youth day Although largely devoted full-scale aviation couple model planes found way volume including tri motor monoplane courtesy Ideal Aero plane Supply Co now incorporated 1931 Carl H Claudy came up another winner form Prize Winners Book Model Airplanes Some 36 contributors helped production plum ambitious useful compilations appear Besides usual reduced-size plans found books Claudy offered bonus feature two large separate sheets measuring about 34 x 22 other 44 x 33 full-size construction drawings plans enabled budding model aeronauts plunge right building enthusiasm still its peak folded drawings neatly secured inside book covers small straps Economic conditions would render such extrava gances unthinkable todays publishers pity Among choice offerings 1931 Model Aircraft Builder Chelsea Fraser Copiously illustrated book presented addition model building hints plans instructions making simple wind-tunnel miniature airport two rather primitive ingenious Link Trainers youthful pilots could actually sit fly Another 1931 classic Model Airplane Building Flying Joseph S Ott kit fame Lavishly illustrated book ex tremely comprehensive its presentation covering practically facet hobby great detail Featured construction methods gliders stick models Scale types Indoor duration models twin-pushers rocket plane compressed-air engine aircraft Edwin T Hamilton revealed Complete Model Aircraft Manual world during 1933 Comprising well over 500 pages ambitious effort must have monumental undertaking Treated minute detail tools trade building techniques painting insignia accessories art model flying Selected construction articles included pri mary glider secondary glider Bowlus sail plane C H Grants famous Minute Man stick model twin-pushers Indoor craft flying Scale models solid Scale types out-of-theordinary designs such tailless R 0 G plus two autogiros Another series books originated during 30s exerted powerful influence upon course model aviation now-famous ModelAeronautics YearBooks generally identified name editor/publisher Frank Zaic Truly labor-of-love effort volume represents treasure-trove modeling information ideas philosophy distilled world-wide network contributors Happily Continued page 102 X-Acto Crescent Products Co NY 1944 1947 32p Davis Lynn iloaukcs Model Aeroplane lab t9l7 Day Aircraft irs Made Like NY l9b8 Day Ossar Vincent Terence Miniature Aircraft Make lisa FIn Theta Manual Arts Press Peoria IL 1929 hhp Dean Bill Hill ihan s Book Balsa Models Arco Pub NY l970 b4p Iean Waning Model Aeronaatics London 1948 Dean Warring Model Planes Annual London 1949 bbp Delacombe Harry Boys Bosh Airships stokes Co NY 1909 244p Dewey Don Radio Control Ground Up K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA 197l 20p Dewey Don edilot Challenge Radio Control Scale R/C Modeler Corp Siecra Madre CA l967 96p Dewey Don editor What irs Worth R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don editor What Its Wsrlh Vol II K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madte CA Dewey Don editor What Its Worth Vol III K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Maitre CA Dewey Don editor What s Worth Vol IV RIC Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Coarse R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Course Vol II K/C Modeler Corp. Sierra Madre CA Ditty Model Flying London 1975 Available Transatlantic Arts Inc NY Doilfus Etienne H C Petite Models dAcroplanes French text Gaalhier-Villars Paris 91 2 22p Doylend W 0 Aircraft Miniature Modal Aeronautical Press England 1957 16p Available International Publications Service NY Easley G J Radio Control Systems Now Use Wrightwood Model Airplane Co MO 1947 31p Ebling Frank Kit Plan Book AMA Headquarters Washington DC 136p Available AMA HQ Ellis Chris Howls Make Model Aircraft Arco Pub Co NY 1973 tOp Ellis Prank H Duration Flying Models Fiwell 3 H Solid Scale Model Aircraft Harborough Pub England 96p Everett Dick Hydro Tips Brainhusters Hampton VA 1947 12p Pisber 0 P W Collectors Guide Model Aero Engines Argus Books England 1977 132p Fitzgibbon Joe Keshiuhian Harry Hatney Bill Best Golden Age Flying Models Golden Press MA 1975 86p No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Puh Minneapolis 1931 l46p Note Model planes Chapters tO p 129-I 34 articles James Bates Theodore Allen No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Pub Minneapolis 1932 146p Note Model planes p 36-37 article Stewart Rouse No author listed Flying Scale Models Air Age Pub 1942 104p Note Designs Earl Stahl H K Weiss Sidney StruhI William Wytam Ray Rusher Foote Donald K Aerodynamics Model Airplanes Barnes NY 1952 lSBp Foote Donald K Model Airplane Engines Barnes NY 1952 177p Forster J P P Model Aircraft Petrol Engines Harhorough Pub England 1943 96p Pox Duke Model Flyers Handbook AR Fracer Chelsea Model Aircraft Builder T Y Crowell Co NY 193l354p Continued page 137 36 Model Aviation has wide variety model aircraft books published over years Annuals offered hobby magazines handbooks major publishing houses Embroidered- quality blue casual shirts choice royal/white Mustang HMUJ navy/white Corsair IHCOI brown white Spitfire HSPJ red/white Style C Style L~2 Sweatershirt style VI 520 Golf Shirt style Cl 518 Sizes 532-361 M38-40l 1442-441 X46l Ladies Shin style U 510 StYI@V Sizes S8-10l M112-14l 1416-18 X20-22l Add 10% postage/handling Allow 3-4 weeks delivery Send check money order Flightilne Shirts Etc Department MA 1781 Jahnmark Circle Grants Pass OR 97526 Send SASE new brochure Name Address CityStateZip SizeStyleDesign ATTENTION ERS putDaves plane upforatrim familiariza tion flight found set up very mild handling slow aileron rolls enough elevator stall snap-roll Tim tried Chris sailplane found also short control authority addition Chris taped spoil ers closedand Tim likes use tow better control both found landings faster flatter become accustomed flying mile higher atmosphere home might say conditions less ideal still manageable snow helped brake landing rolls Dave brought out toy snow shovel truck proceeded clear runway us about 100 yards long half-awingspan wide told him faith ability stay center line did look picture carefully will see runway behind Chris Dave paralleling Inter state 15 row electric power poles pole just off near side runway looked avoidable decided keep flying patterns north runway just case approach end runway Out picture left also has power lines across could easily get impression flying inside barrel cloud ceiling fell rain started develop snowflakes looked like forget situation leave next morn ing get Tim back Eastern college dood After two false starts wherein sorted out problems began making tows lost count remember four Tim towed back reasonably low altitude several times benefit photographers need stronger telephoto lens get thing Both planes performed flawlessly didnt ding either main thing noticed takeoff runs lot longer climbs lot shallower have become accustomed sea level So whats got new RC channels think has spite intentions avoid RCing over holidays lousy weather conditions flew fun Now some folks have written letters asking new radio buy stating really intended sit back wait things settle out before buying anything think youll sitting out long time AMA Phase-In Plan outlined contem plates continued production use existing radios some time say buy what like nowand enjoy want try hedge bit look radios have interchangeable RE modules boards manufacturer may support new channel boards modules such proves feasible also may youll flyingand having funwhile situation develops Keep letters flowing George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicksville NY 11801 Books H annan Continued page 36 some items have reprinted still available Besides books magazines other types publications offered aeromodeling public Some pamphlets booklets rather true books yet filled exciting useful model building information As example consider Paul Jones Step-by-Step Course ModelAviation 1936 now-rare collec 102 Model Aviation U Can Afford Best. 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Circus Hobbies 1925 E Creighton Road Pensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 known second has remarkable impact still being felt today especially among model aircraft designers because some theories presented subject con troversy some has appeared modeling press over years However may disagree will usually admit book caused think about own theories much carefully certainly buyers showed vote confidence since book progressed through least four printings informative useful publications Super Savings Fiberglass Materials Fiberglass Cloth 5 Sq yards SI 500 tour choice 3/, 24 6 Oz cloth 53000 per gal arnInatinE1goxYResiflfShrcure S 300 t6ozs Epoxy Primer K&BJ S40Oopergal Epoxy Paint rhinner K&B SI SOOper gal Polyester Resin K&BJ 520O0per gal Send check money order shipping cOllCCt COO Okay Call write mob Smith RIC Aircraft PO Box 33335 Gran4da Hills CA 91344 12131 366-6872 appear during 1 950s selected relatively small Model Aeronautics Made Painless Raul J Hoffman Printed 1955 Frank Zaic remarkable compilation data represents virtually everything known about subject model aircraft reduced basics between set covers Both practical mathematical explanations given making equally useful theory impirically-minded modelers Continued RP MRwP PRODUCTS MODEL Presents SUPER SUNDAY TRAINER 40 Easy buildDirect Order Fully aerobatic Easy fly _ Proven design lete building instructions parts machine cut 14625 Cannnita Rd #225 Norwalk CA 90650Phone 213 698-0722 104 Model Aviation RC Aerobatics/Van Putte Continued page 39 topic general interest edited version Eds letter follows have similar experience competition won person money involved drag racing quite few years finally gave up couldnt begin compete against factory teams un limited budgets engineering staffs left bitter taste mouth Well again same situation Pattern Im against factory teams think ultimately benefit hobbyist ever detrimental hobby aver age non-sponsored competitor has compete toe-to-toe reaching point talent enough mention dedi cation perseverance might wonder Sportsman class competitor would concerned reason simple should work tail off eliminated because lack financial backing finally reach Masters class will continue fly have admit has dampened enthusiasm somewhat same vein would like see retract able landing gear tuned pipes banned Sportsman Advanced classes wonder arent attracting people Pattern make expensive explore field no will take risk thought Pattern supposed flying event However has rapidly turned buying building event Will banning retracts pipes first three Pattern classes hurt Pattern opinion isabsolutely Competition relative thing everyone lower three classes contend fixed gear less power best pilots would prevail have just much funperhaps pilots could concentrate flying leaming trim secrets instead worrying about stalled retract servo lack pressure tank rasping down bottom all-winter project runway opinion time learn about retracts tuned pipes after youve mastered arts flight line procedure building trimming plane flying pattern stronly feel until reorganize sport will con tinue decline numbers Lets make aflying
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/04
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 35, 36, 102, 103, 104
WHEN THE editor offered assignment back August 1977 sounded like fas cinating straightforward project Having long interested model aircraft publica tions anticipated no special problems com posing article subject However actual research began quickly became appar ent monumental task undertaken enlisted aid John J Brown collector model books supplied us extensive list publications compiled over period years added other titles encountered during course project Next contacted publishers could locate known have model aircraft titles among offerings Most cooper ated helpfully enabled us catch up currently in-print books Having assembled formidable mountain literature both old new set about reading task consumed several months spare time next problem became evolution logical presentation much information Space limitations precluded usage briefest reviews everything So elected offer taste various publications through years e historical significance others special insight importance hobby charm Books Hows model aviation library havent missing rewarding aspects modeling hobby Someone once said question ever asked book answer Certainly must true model building other subject Yet lack reading research builders go reinventing wheel needlessly laboring through problems likely have solved years previously Model aircraft books date back early will After reviewing books article Bill Hannan moved write own Peanut Power published Historical Aviation Album 1 900s articles relating models appeared earlier various scientific books journals Reading some elderly tomes April 1982 33 Peanut Scale I-rencn 1-arman poses selection ot scale drawings found some books mentioned plan potential model Scale enthusiast provides sort time-machine insight thinking fellow modelers long since forgotten truly window past lucid re minder very little has changed model aviation Virtually new development indeed old hat having appeared least principle long ago unfortunate some equate study history drudgery need fact review earlier works can sometimes yield fresh solutions current problems earliest book investigated survey Progress Flying Machines written Octave Chanute printed 1894 Chanute course important Wright brothers mentor heroic figure history aviation served years sort clearing house aero information among enthusiasts book Chanute attempted catalog classify experimental efforts known flight pioneer world over Featured illus trations data relating manner mini ature flying machines served inspire generations inventors example achievements French model builder Alphonse Penaud graphically documented planophore 1871 rubber-powered model 18-in wingspan cap able li-second flights covering 131 feet Weighing slightly over e machine seems have first feature nowstandard systems longitudinal stability via cidence settings lateral stability dihedral Incidentally Chanute states clearly model equipped vertical tail fact steered tail does appear illustrations later modelers have attempted fly reproductions Other models described include designed Lawrence Hargrave Australia gentle man invented box kite flew small craft powered compressed-air engines early 1890 Happily long out-of-print Chanute book has recently republished Lorenz & Herweg Publishers Long Beach CA recommend highly students aviation history earliest exclusively model aviation book dently volume sold fairly well reviewed Theory Practice reprinted during 1911 again revised form ModelAeroplaning 1910 publication V E Johnson British classic presents history models already considered ancient theories operation well practical design advice aware few internalcombustion gas-powered models success fully flown time rather sophisticated example depicted Johnson book four-cylinder V-type engine complete clockwork shut-off device Also well documented steam com pressed-air engines time flown models Interestingly electric motors tried found wanting Meanwhile United States Boys Book Model Aeroplanes published also 1910 authored Francis Collins Evi during 1921 Second Boys Book ModelAeroplanes appeared 1911 Collins offered thanks New York Model Aero Club Mr Edward Durrant Percy Pierce Cecil Peoli W S Howells young gentlemen models illustrated herewith singly collectively doing much development science America Somewhat confusingly another Collins Frederic apparently unrelated authored book entitled BoysAirplane Bool4 during 1919 gem contained brief history aviation plans simple helicopters twin-pusher model Bleriot Wright biplane Curtiss flying boat Topping Collins offered info making compressed-air engine ngI BIBLIOGRAPHY THIS LIST largely work John J Brown some additions Bill Hannan no such list can ever con sidered complete least indicative vast scope subject Publications categoriced authors name known English language editions few important exceptions noted Additons corrections may forwarded John Brown 13362 Fairmont Way Santa Ana CA 92705 No author listed Aeromodeller Pocker Data Book Model Aeronautical Press England 1969 64p No author listed Air Age Gas Models Herman Pub. Boston MA 1975 Aldridge Transistorized Radio Conrrol Models London 1972 Alexander J H Model Balloons Flying Machines Henley Pub NY 1910 Alexander 3 Foam Wings R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA AUen Elmer L Model Airplanes Frederick Stokes Co NY 1928 326p Note Later editions entitled New Model Airplanes Aston W G Model Flying Machines Iliffe & Sons Ltd London circa 1909 No author listed Balsa Wood Model Airplanes Fleischmana Transportation Co NY tSp Barnaby Ralph S Hose Make Fly Paper Airplanes Four Winds Press 1968 Bantam Books Inc IL 1970 84p Bechdoll lack Modern Handy Book Boys Book Inc NY 1933 432p Note Has chapter model airplanes Bengsch Gustav Hats Wilhelm Modell/tag 3m NsFtiegerkorps German tent verlag Dr M Mattiesen & Co Berlin 1942 288p Bowden C E LI Cot Diesel Model Engines Percival Marshall London 1947 l64p Bowden C F LI Cot History Technical Development Model Aircraft Harboroagh Pub Co Leicester 1946 Bowden C E LI Cot Model Gb Plag Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 h5p Bowden C E LI Col Model Jet Reaction Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 65p Bowden C E LI Cot Petrol-Esgined Model Aircraft Percival Marshall London 1945 230p Bowden T EG Aerodynamics nalyzed Harborough Pub Co London No author listed BoyCraft Whitman Pub Co Racine WI 1928 Note Has section model airplanes p 161-175 Boys Howard Transistor Circaito Radio Controlled Models Bernard London 1961 fOp Bradshaw Stanley OrIon Aircraft Modellers Guide Thitd Series 1936 Note First second series Howard Leigli Brown Willis C Model Airplanes vialivn Heath Boston 1942 43p Brown Willis C Black Dick History AMA AMA Washington DC 1966 84p Avail AMA HO Bruinama H Remote Control Radio Phillips Tech Lib Holland 1952 96p English tent Bruss Hetmut Proportional Stere rung German text Topp Stuttgart 1967 102p No author listed Building/Designing Maintenance Care Jetex Engines NY 196749p No author listed Building Flying ModelAirplssnes An Air Youth Hand book D AppletonCentury Co NY 1941 1942 1943 246p Bulger Thomas L F Stieri editor Model Builders Manual Junior eronaurical Engineer ing Dime Publications NY 1931 64p Bullivant Cecil Boys Book Hobbies Nelsonand Co NY 1912 452p Note Contains chapter model aircraft p 88-102 Buragas Robert 3 Decades Design NJ 1970 Buragas Robert 3 Decade Designs No 2 Rajo Pub NY 1966 74p Buragas Robert 3 Model Bailding AZ Rajo Pub, NY 1965 Carstens Pub Inc 1971 75p Buragas Robert 3 Holze Walter Weaver George Reference Handbook H P Pub NY 1958 74p CatIon F ABC Model Aircraft Construction 34 Model Aviation sampling pamphlets catalogs spans time 1g12 1g46 Note some famous names Paul Jones White Aeroplane Supply Ideal Megow Seltey Scientific glider must have heady discoveries youthful model builders day Moving right along journey through aeronautical literature past pause brief look small treasure Harpers Aircraft Book 1913 written Hyatt Verrill Prominent chapters Sailing Air Moving Bodies Air Steering Air concerned general theory Model Aeroplanes Fliers section found plans instructions Cecil Peolis racer twin-pusher Curtiss Hydroaeroplane also available time Ideal Aero plane Supply Co kit Ditto Nieuport l3leriot monoplanes Verrill also included plans biplane hang-glider well discourse full-size aircraft engines opinion better offerings published regardless date contrast inspirational text some early model books obviously based upon slim understanding subject proving garbled thinking knows no special time bound aries Yet some technically useless mis leading publications still make fascinating read ing illustrations often rather quaint intriguing During 1 920s 30s veritable explosion model book publishing much inspired Charles Lindberghs epic solo flight across Aflantic fact books era featured models purporting represent Spirit St Louis although accuracy among strong points Flying High edited Franklin K Mathiews published approval Boy Scouts America different sort book writings contributed such distinguished people Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Clarence D Chamberlin paragraph Lindbergh himself Added impressive line-up series aviation fiction stories science-fiction piece entitled Rocket Plane Dead Star shades Star Wars also assortment model construction plans including inevitable Spirit St Louis . actually plans Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co kit No wonder book reprinted 1928 1929 1930 least three other important volumes appeared during 1928 doubtless helped influence generation youngsters lasting interest aviation general model building particu lar called Beginning Fly authored Merrill Hamburg secretary technical advisor AMLA Airplane Model League America steady contri butor American Boy magazine book featured usual history aeronautics model building instructions series indoor outdoor model designs Also set forth rules model aircraft contests gaining popularity Another important 1928 publication Build ing Flying ModelAircraft Paul E Garber Smithsonian Institution Garber served Model Aircraft Consultant Playground Recreation Association America during summer 1927 book amplification extension series bulletins prepared purpose Featured history model aircraft sport world record listings information kites para chutes boomerangs Also covered flying tops ultra-simple helicopters gliders rubber-driven models Scale models including Spirit St Louis course model balloons compressed-air engine section contests third memorable 1928 publication Elmer L Allens Model Airplanes Build Fly Described author first presentation such detailed instruction practical working plans has ever attempted included material Boys Life London 952 Camm F 3 Model Aeroplanes London circa 1911 Camm F J Model Aeroplane handbook George Nessnes London 194931 2p Camm F 3 Design Model Aeroplanes aenn Brothers Ltd. London 1919 172p Camm F 1 Model Aeroplanes Airships George Newnes London t933 ISp Camns F 3 Power Driren Model Aircraft George Nessnes London 1933 98p Camm F Model Aircraft l-landbook London 1936 148p Carom F Radio Controlled Models Pearson Ltd London 1956 I8lp Carhone Martin R Build Flj Floaters Mason-Renshaw Inc 1972 lop Caalkin Daoid Notes Model Airplane & Prop Design 937 Cavanagh eorge Mrrdel Aeroplanes Motors Moffut Yard Co NY 1916 32p Chick Richard First Book Model Aircraft 5tadio London 1944 64p Chinn Peter G F hour Model Aircraft Model& Allied Pub 1977 153p Available International Pub 5ervice NY Chine Peter Ci F Model Aircraft Engine Tests Percival Marshall London 1960 96p Claudy Carl H Beginners Brrok Model Airplanes Bobba-Merrill Indianapolis IN 1930 l84p Claudy Carl H Prize Winners Essok Model Airplanes Bobhs-Merrill Indianapolit IN 1931 242p plus plant Colbridge Scale Models Balsa NY 1972 lISp Coleman li Northrop W C editor Flying Scale Models WW II Model Builder santa Ana CA 1974 l28p Collins Frederick nation bout D Appleton-Century Co NY 1929 260p Coffins Frederick Boy Scienrisr Lattsrop Lee Shepard Boston 1925 447p Note Lasr chapter early history aniutionPenaud Tatin Phipps Langley Chanute Wrights Collins Frederick Boys Airplane Book Stokes Co NY 1919 253p Collins Francis Arnold BoysBook Model Aeroplanes Appleton-Century NY 1910 1911 1926 1936 1937 1941 262p Collins Francis Arnold Boys Second Book Afodel Aeroplanes Century Co NY 1911 262p No author listed Color Treasury Model Airplanes Crescent Books London c 1972 h4p No author listed Cotnmercial Radio Cortrol Equipment tIre tlodel Builders I-lobby Helpers Pub NY No author listed Construction Kites Aeroplanes Manual Arts Press Peoria IL No author listed Construction Aerosnodellers Model Aeronautical Press England 1957 1963 93p No author listed Control Br Radio Winston Pub NY 1962 h4p Cook David C Guide Model Aircraft McBride NY 1945 28lp Cook David C & Davidson Jesse editorsl Model Aircraft Annual 1943 McBride NY 1943 244p Cook David C tlodel rrcratt nrual 1944 McBride NY 1944 244p Courtney Jeremiah Alenoratrdtn 10w Model Noise AMA Iteadquartcrs Washington DC 30p Aoail AMA tIQ Con Jack Boys Book hobbies Lutterworth Press London 1957 240p Note Chapter II ntodel aircraft R H Warring Craikshanks J W B Airfoil Sr etions Jirr tIre ero,rodeller Marshall & Sons 1940 46p Davis Tire Jurirr Air,rar s 8rok Airplanes NY laoidson lesse Building Yrar First Flying Jlrrdsls X-Acto Crescent Products Co. NY 1946 J2p l3rsvidson lesse II,, srr Build S,lid Seals Mssdel Wartrlasses April 1982 35 Thin typical aample full-size aviation books can form basis good reference library forthe Scale modeler Shown books US Great Britain Italy Japan magazine well selection racers performance models facsimile models semi-Scale types turned Out old friends Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co again line-up consisted Bleriot Cross-Channel Monoplane NC-4 Naval Seaplane Curtiss Jennie sic DeHavil land Biplane tn-motored Fokker guessed Spirit St Louis year 1930 saw introduction Begin ners Book Model Airplanes Fly Carl H Claudy charming book took fresh approach subject offering direct practical advice coupled priceless ingredient good humor missing too its pred ecessors helped remove much mystery mumbo-jumbo implied some formulae freak authors Also during 1930 Aircraft Book Boys appeared written daughter 1913 book author Hyatt Vernill title like Dorothy Vernill wouldnt have scored points womens libbers Doubtless however rated well air-minded youth day Although largely devoted full-scale aviation couple model planes found way volume including tri motor monoplane courtesy Ideal Aero plane Supply Co now incorporated 1931 Carl H Claudy came up another winner form Prize Winners Book Model Airplanes Some 36 contributors helped production plum ambitious useful compilations appear Besides usual reduced-size plans found books Claudy offered bonus feature two large separate sheets measuring about 34 x 22 other 44 x 33 full-size construction drawings plans enabled budding model aeronauts plunge right building enthusiasm still its peak folded drawings neatly secured inside book covers small straps Economic conditions would render such extrava gances unthinkable todays publishers pity Among choice offerings 1931 Model Aircraft Builder Chelsea Fraser Copiously illustrated book presented addition model building hints plans instructions making simple wind-tunnel miniature airport two rather primitive ingenious Link Trainers youthful pilots could actually sit fly Another 1931 classic Model Airplane Building Flying Joseph S Ott kit fame Lavishly illustrated book ex tremely comprehensive its presentation covering practically facet hobby great detail Featured construction methods gliders stick models Scale types Indoor duration models twin-pushers rocket plane compressed-air engine aircraft Edwin T Hamilton revealed Complete Model Aircraft Manual world during 1933 Comprising well over 500 pages ambitious effort must have monumental undertaking Treated minute detail tools trade building techniques painting insignia accessories art model flying Selected construction articles included pri mary glider secondary glider Bowlus sail plane C H Grants famous Minute Man stick model twin-pushers Indoor craft flying Scale models solid Scale types out-of-theordinary designs such tailless R 0 G plus two autogiros Another series books originated during 30s exerted powerful influence upon course model aviation now-famous ModelAeronautics YearBooks generally identified name editor/publisher Frank Zaic Truly labor-of-love effort volume represents treasure-trove modeling information ideas philosophy distilled world-wide network contributors Happily Continued page 102 X-Acto Crescent Products Co NY 1944 1947 32p Davis Lynn iloaukcs Model Aeroplane lab t9l7 Day Aircraft irs Made Like NY l9b8 Day Ossar Vincent Terence Miniature Aircraft Make lisa FIn Theta Manual Arts Press Peoria IL 1929 hhp Dean Bill Hill ihan s Book Balsa Models Arco Pub NY l970 b4p Iean Waning Model Aeronaatics London 1948 Dean Warring Model Planes Annual London 1949 bbp Delacombe Harry Boys Bosh Airships stokes Co NY 1909 244p Dewey Don Radio Control Ground Up K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA 197l 20p Dewey Don edilot Challenge Radio Control Scale R/C Modeler Corp Siecra Madre CA l967 96p Dewey Don editor What irs Worth R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don editor What Its Wsrlh Vol II K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madte CA Dewey Don editor What Its Worth Vol III K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Maitre CA Dewey Don editor What s Worth Vol IV RIC Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Coarse R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Course Vol II K/C Modeler Corp. Sierra Madre CA Ditty Model Flying London 1975 Available Transatlantic Arts Inc NY Doilfus Etienne H C Petite Models dAcroplanes French text Gaalhier-Villars Paris 91 2 22p Doylend W 0 Aircraft Miniature Modal Aeronautical Press England 1957 16p Available International Publications Service NY Easley G J Radio Control Systems Now Use Wrightwood Model Airplane Co MO 1947 31p Ebling Frank Kit Plan Book AMA Headquarters Washington DC 136p Available AMA HQ Ellis Chris Howls Make Model Aircraft Arco Pub Co NY 1973 tOp Ellis Prank H Duration Flying Models Fiwell 3 H Solid Scale Model Aircraft Harborough Pub England 96p Everett Dick Hydro Tips Brainhusters Hampton VA 1947 12p Pisber 0 P W Collectors Guide Model Aero Engines Argus Books England 1977 132p Fitzgibbon Joe Keshiuhian Harry Hatney Bill Best Golden Age Flying Models Golden Press MA 1975 86p No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Puh Minneapolis 1931 l46p Note Model planes Chapters tO p 129-I 34 articles James Bates Theodore Allen No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Pub Minneapolis 1932 146p Note Model planes p 36-37 article Stewart Rouse No author listed Flying Scale Models Air Age Pub 1942 104p Note Designs Earl Stahl H K Weiss Sidney StruhI William Wytam Ray Rusher Foote Donald K Aerodynamics Model Airplanes Barnes NY 1952 lSBp Foote Donald K Model Airplane Engines Barnes NY 1952 177p Forster J P P Model Aircraft Petrol Engines Harhorough Pub England 1943 96p Pox Duke Model Flyers Handbook AR Fracer Chelsea Model Aircraft Builder T Y Crowell Co NY 193l354p Continued page 137 36 Model Aviation has wide variety model aircraft books published over years Annuals offered hobby magazines handbooks major publishing houses Embroidered- quality blue casual shirts choice royal/white Mustang HMUJ navy/white Corsair IHCOI brown white Spitfire HSPJ red/white Style C Style L~2 Sweatershirt style VI 520 Golf Shirt style Cl 518 Sizes 532-361 M38-40l 1442-441 X46l Ladies Shin style U 510 StYI@V Sizes S8-10l M112-14l 1416-18 X20-22l Add 10% postage/handling Allow 3-4 weeks delivery Send check money order Flightilne Shirts Etc Department MA 1781 Jahnmark Circle Grants Pass OR 97526 Send SASE new brochure Name Address CityStateZip SizeStyleDesign ATTENTION ERS putDaves plane upforatrim familiariza tion flight found set up very mild handling slow aileron rolls enough elevator stall snap-roll Tim tried Chris sailplane found also short control authority addition Chris taped spoil ers closedand Tim likes use tow better control both found landings faster flatter become accustomed flying mile higher atmosphere home might say conditions less ideal still manageable snow helped brake landing rolls Dave brought out toy snow shovel truck proceeded clear runway us about 100 yards long half-awingspan wide told him faith ability stay center line did look picture carefully will see runway behind Chris Dave paralleling Inter state 15 row electric power poles pole just off near side runway looked avoidable decided keep flying patterns north runway just case approach end runway Out picture left also has power lines across could easily get impression flying inside barrel cloud ceiling fell rain started develop snowflakes looked like forget situation leave next morn ing get Tim back Eastern college dood After two false starts wherein sorted out problems began making tows lost count remember four Tim towed back reasonably low altitude several times benefit photographers need stronger telephoto lens get thing Both planes performed flawlessly didnt ding either main thing noticed takeoff runs lot longer climbs lot shallower have become accustomed sea level So whats got new RC channels think has spite intentions avoid RCing over holidays lousy weather conditions flew fun Now some folks have written letters asking new radio buy stating really intended sit back wait things settle out before buying anything think youll sitting out long time AMA Phase-In Plan outlined contem plates continued production use existing radios some time say buy what like nowand enjoy want try hedge bit look radios have interchangeable RE modules boards manufacturer may support new channel boards modules such proves feasible also may youll flyingand having funwhile situation develops Keep letters flowing George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicksville NY 11801 Books H annan Continued page 36 some items have reprinted still available Besides books magazines other types publications offered aeromodeling public Some pamphlets booklets rather true books yet filled exciting useful model building information As example consider Paul Jones Step-by-Step Course ModelAviation 1936 now-rare collec 102 Model Aviation U Can Afford Best. 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Circus Hobbies 1925 E Creighton Road Pensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 known second has remarkable impact still being felt today especially among model aircraft designers because some theories presented subject con troversy some has appeared modeling press over years However may disagree will usually admit book caused think about own theories much carefully certainly buyers showed vote confidence since book progressed through least four printings informative useful publications Super Savings Fiberglass Materials Fiberglass Cloth 5 Sq yards SI 500 tour choice 3/, 24 6 Oz cloth 53000 per gal arnInatinE1goxYResiflfShrcure S 300 t6ozs Epoxy Primer K&BJ S40Oopergal Epoxy Paint rhinner K&B SI SOOper gal Polyester Resin K&BJ 520O0per gal Send check money order shipping cOllCCt COO Okay Call write mob Smith RIC Aircraft PO Box 33335 Gran4da Hills CA 91344 12131 366-6872 appear during 1 950s selected relatively small Model Aeronautics Made Painless Raul J Hoffman Printed 1955 Frank Zaic remarkable compilation data represents virtually everything known about subject model aircraft reduced basics between set covers Both practical mathematical explanations given making equally useful theory impirically-minded modelers Continued RP MRwP PRODUCTS MODEL Presents SUPER SUNDAY TRAINER 40 Easy buildDirect Order Fully aerobatic Easy fly _ Proven design lete building instructions parts machine cut 14625 Cannnita Rd #225 Norwalk CA 90650Phone 213 698-0722 104 Model Aviation RC Aerobatics/Van Putte Continued page 39 topic general interest edited version Eds letter follows have similar experience competition won person money involved drag racing quite few years finally gave up couldnt begin compete against factory teams un limited budgets engineering staffs left bitter taste mouth Well again same situation Pattern Im against factory teams think ultimately benefit hobbyist ever detrimental hobby aver age non-sponsored competitor has compete toe-to-toe reaching point talent enough mention dedi cation perseverance might wonder Sportsman class competitor would concerned reason simple should work tail off eliminated because lack financial backing finally reach Masters class will continue fly have admit has dampened enthusiasm somewhat same vein would like see retract able landing gear tuned pipes banned Sportsman Advanced classes wonder arent attracting people Pattern make expensive explore field no will take risk thought Pattern supposed flying event However has rapidly turned buying building event Will banning retracts pipes first three Pattern classes hurt Pattern opinion isabsolutely Competition relative thing everyone lower three classes contend fixed gear less power best pilots would prevail have just much funperhaps pilots could concentrate flying leaming trim secrets instead worrying about stalled retract servo lack pressure tank rasping down bottom all-winter project runway opinion time learn about retracts tuned pipes after youve mastered arts flight line procedure building trimming plane flying pattern stronly feel until reorganize sport will con tinue decline numbers Lets make aflying
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/04
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 35, 36, 102, 103, 104
WHEN THE editor offered assignment back August 1977 sounded like fas cinating straightforward project Having long interested model aircraft publica tions anticipated no special problems com posing article subject However actual research began quickly became appar ent monumental task undertaken enlisted aid John J Brown collector model books supplied us extensive list publications compiled over period years added other titles encountered during course project Next contacted publishers could locate known have model aircraft titles among offerings Most cooper ated helpfully enabled us catch up currently in-print books Having assembled formidable mountain literature both old new set about reading task consumed several months spare time next problem became evolution logical presentation much information Space limitations precluded usage briefest reviews everything So elected offer taste various publications through years e historical significance others special insight importance hobby charm Books Hows model aviation library havent missing rewarding aspects modeling hobby Someone once said question ever asked book answer Certainly must true model building other subject Yet lack reading research builders go reinventing wheel needlessly laboring through problems likely have solved years previously Model aircraft books date back early will After reviewing books article Bill Hannan moved write own Peanut Power published Historical Aviation Album 1 900s articles relating models appeared earlier various scientific books journals Reading some elderly tomes April 1982 33 Peanut Scale I-rencn 1-arman poses selection ot scale drawings found some books mentioned plan potential model Scale enthusiast provides sort time-machine insight thinking fellow modelers long since forgotten truly window past lucid re minder very little has changed model aviation Virtually new development indeed old hat having appeared least principle long ago unfortunate some equate study history drudgery need fact review earlier works can sometimes yield fresh solutions current problems earliest book investigated survey Progress Flying Machines written Octave Chanute printed 1894 Chanute course important Wright brothers mentor heroic figure history aviation served years sort clearing house aero information among enthusiasts book Chanute attempted catalog classify experimental efforts known flight pioneer world over Featured illus trations data relating manner mini ature flying machines served inspire generations inventors example achievements French model builder Alphonse Penaud graphically documented planophore 1871 rubber-powered model 18-in wingspan cap able li-second flights covering 131 feet Weighing slightly over e machine seems have first feature nowstandard systems longitudinal stability via cidence settings lateral stability dihedral Incidentally Chanute states clearly model equipped vertical tail fact steered tail does appear illustrations later modelers have attempted fly reproductions Other models described include designed Lawrence Hargrave Australia gentle man invented box kite flew small craft powered compressed-air engines early 1890 Happily long out-of-print Chanute book has recently republished Lorenz & Herweg Publishers Long Beach CA recommend highly students aviation history earliest exclusively model aviation book dently volume sold fairly well reviewed Theory Practice reprinted during 1911 again revised form ModelAeroplaning 1910 publication V E Johnson British classic presents history models already considered ancient theories operation well practical design advice aware few internalcombustion gas-powered models success fully flown time rather sophisticated example depicted Johnson book four-cylinder V-type engine complete clockwork shut-off device Also well documented steam com pressed-air engines time flown models Interestingly electric motors tried found wanting Meanwhile United States Boys Book Model Aeroplanes published also 1910 authored Francis Collins Evi during 1921 Second Boys Book ModelAeroplanes appeared 1911 Collins offered thanks New York Model Aero Club Mr Edward Durrant Percy Pierce Cecil Peoli W S Howells young gentlemen models illustrated herewith singly collectively doing much development science America Somewhat confusingly another Collins Frederic apparently unrelated authored book entitled BoysAirplane Bool4 during 1919 gem contained brief history aviation plans simple helicopters twin-pusher model Bleriot Wright biplane Curtiss flying boat Topping Collins offered info making compressed-air engine ngI BIBLIOGRAPHY THIS LIST largely work John J Brown some additions Bill Hannan no such list can ever con sidered complete least indicative vast scope subject Publications categoriced authors name known English language editions few important exceptions noted Additons corrections may forwarded John Brown 13362 Fairmont Way Santa Ana CA 92705 No author listed Aeromodeller Pocker Data Book Model Aeronautical Press England 1969 64p No author listed Air Age Gas Models Herman Pub. Boston MA 1975 Aldridge Transistorized Radio Conrrol Models London 1972 Alexander J H Model Balloons Flying Machines Henley Pub NY 1910 Alexander 3 Foam Wings R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA AUen Elmer L Model Airplanes Frederick Stokes Co NY 1928 326p Note Later editions entitled New Model Airplanes Aston W G Model Flying Machines Iliffe & Sons Ltd London circa 1909 No author listed Balsa Wood Model Airplanes Fleischmana Transportation Co NY tSp Barnaby Ralph S Hose Make Fly Paper Airplanes Four Winds Press 1968 Bantam Books Inc IL 1970 84p Bechdoll lack Modern Handy Book Boys Book Inc NY 1933 432p Note Has chapter model airplanes Bengsch Gustav Hats Wilhelm Modell/tag 3m NsFtiegerkorps German tent verlag Dr M Mattiesen & Co Berlin 1942 288p Bowden C E LI Cot Diesel Model Engines Percival Marshall London 1947 l64p Bowden C F LI Cot History Technical Development Model Aircraft Harboroagh Pub Co Leicester 1946 Bowden C E LI Cot Model Gb Plag Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 h5p Bowden C E LI Col Model Jet Reaction Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 65p Bowden C E LI Cot Petrol-Esgined Model Aircraft Percival Marshall London 1945 230p Bowden T EG Aerodynamics nalyzed Harborough Pub Co London No author listed BoyCraft Whitman Pub Co Racine WI 1928 Note Has section model airplanes p 161-175 Boys Howard Transistor Circaito Radio Controlled Models Bernard London 1961 fOp Bradshaw Stanley OrIon Aircraft Modellers Guide Thitd Series 1936 Note First second series Howard Leigli Brown Willis C Model Airplanes vialivn Heath Boston 1942 43p Brown Willis C Black Dick History AMA AMA Washington DC 1966 84p Avail AMA HO Bruinama H Remote Control Radio Phillips Tech Lib Holland 1952 96p English tent Bruss Hetmut Proportional Stere rung German text Topp Stuttgart 1967 102p No author listed Building/Designing Maintenance Care Jetex Engines NY 196749p No author listed Building Flying ModelAirplssnes An Air Youth Hand book D AppletonCentury Co NY 1941 1942 1943 246p Bulger Thomas L F Stieri editor Model Builders Manual Junior eronaurical Engineer ing Dime Publications NY 1931 64p Bullivant Cecil Boys Book Hobbies Nelsonand Co NY 1912 452p Note Contains chapter model aircraft p 88-102 Buragas Robert 3 Decades Design NJ 1970 Buragas Robert 3 Decade Designs No 2 Rajo Pub NY 1966 74p Buragas Robert 3 Model Bailding AZ Rajo Pub, NY 1965 Carstens Pub Inc 1971 75p Buragas Robert 3 Holze Walter Weaver George Reference Handbook H P Pub NY 1958 74p CatIon F ABC Model Aircraft Construction 34 Model Aviation sampling pamphlets catalogs spans time 1g12 1g46 Note some famous names Paul Jones White Aeroplane Supply Ideal Megow Seltey Scientific glider must have heady discoveries youthful model builders day Moving right along journey through aeronautical literature past pause brief look small treasure Harpers Aircraft Book 1913 written Hyatt Verrill Prominent chapters Sailing Air Moving Bodies Air Steering Air concerned general theory Model Aeroplanes Fliers section found plans instructions Cecil Peolis racer twin-pusher Curtiss Hydroaeroplane also available time Ideal Aero plane Supply Co kit Ditto Nieuport l3leriot monoplanes Verrill also included plans biplane hang-glider well discourse full-size aircraft engines opinion better offerings published regardless date contrast inspirational text some early model books obviously based upon slim understanding subject proving garbled thinking knows no special time bound aries Yet some technically useless mis leading publications still make fascinating read ing illustrations often rather quaint intriguing During 1 920s 30s veritable explosion model book publishing much inspired Charles Lindberghs epic solo flight across Aflantic fact books era featured models purporting represent Spirit St Louis although accuracy among strong points Flying High edited Franklin K Mathiews published approval Boy Scouts America different sort book writings contributed such distinguished people Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Clarence D Chamberlin paragraph Lindbergh himself Added impressive line-up series aviation fiction stories science-fiction piece entitled Rocket Plane Dead Star shades Star Wars also assortment model construction plans including inevitable Spirit St Louis . actually plans Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co kit No wonder book reprinted 1928 1929 1930 least three other important volumes appeared during 1928 doubtless helped influence generation youngsters lasting interest aviation general model building particu lar called Beginning Fly authored Merrill Hamburg secretary technical advisor AMLA Airplane Model League America steady contri butor American Boy magazine book featured usual history aeronautics model building instructions series indoor outdoor model designs Also set forth rules model aircraft contests gaining popularity Another important 1928 publication Build ing Flying ModelAircraft Paul E Garber Smithsonian Institution Garber served Model Aircraft Consultant Playground Recreation Association America during summer 1927 book amplification extension series bulletins prepared purpose Featured history model aircraft sport world record listings information kites para chutes boomerangs Also covered flying tops ultra-simple helicopters gliders rubber-driven models Scale models including Spirit St Louis course model balloons compressed-air engine section contests third memorable 1928 publication Elmer L Allens Model Airplanes Build Fly Described author first presentation such detailed instruction practical working plans has ever attempted included material Boys Life London 952 Camm F 3 Model Aeroplanes London circa 1911 Camm F J Model Aeroplane handbook George Nessnes London 194931 2p Camm F 3 Design Model Aeroplanes aenn Brothers Ltd. London 1919 172p Camm F 1 Model Aeroplanes Airships George Newnes London t933 ISp Camns F 3 Power Driren Model Aircraft George Nessnes London 1933 98p Camm F Model Aircraft l-landbook London 1936 148p Carom F Radio Controlled Models Pearson Ltd London 1956 I8lp Carhone Martin R Build Flj Floaters Mason-Renshaw Inc 1972 lop Caalkin Daoid Notes Model Airplane & Prop Design 937 Cavanagh eorge Mrrdel Aeroplanes Motors Moffut Yard Co NY 1916 32p Chick Richard First Book Model Aircraft 5tadio London 1944 64p Chinn Peter G F hour Model Aircraft Model& Allied Pub 1977 153p Available International Pub 5ervice NY Chine Peter Ci F Model Aircraft Engine Tests Percival Marshall London 1960 96p Claudy Carl H Beginners Brrok Model Airplanes Bobba-Merrill Indianapolis IN 1930 l84p Claudy Carl H Prize Winners Essok Model Airplanes Bobhs-Merrill Indianapolit IN 1931 242p plus plant Colbridge Scale Models Balsa NY 1972 lISp Coleman li Northrop W C editor Flying Scale Models WW II Model Builder santa Ana CA 1974 l28p Collins Frederick nation bout D Appleton-Century Co NY 1929 260p Coffins Frederick Boy Scienrisr Lattsrop Lee Shepard Boston 1925 447p Note Lasr chapter early history aniutionPenaud Tatin Phipps Langley Chanute Wrights Collins Frederick Boys Airplane Book Stokes Co NY 1919 253p Collins Francis Arnold BoysBook Model Aeroplanes Appleton-Century NY 1910 1911 1926 1936 1937 1941 262p Collins Francis Arnold Boys Second Book Afodel Aeroplanes Century Co NY 1911 262p No author listed Color Treasury Model Airplanes Crescent Books London c 1972 h4p No author listed Cotnmercial Radio Cortrol Equipment tIre tlodel Builders I-lobby Helpers Pub NY No author listed Construction Kites Aeroplanes Manual Arts Press Peoria IL No author listed Construction Aerosnodellers Model Aeronautical Press England 1957 1963 93p No author listed Control Br Radio Winston Pub NY 1962 h4p Cook David C Guide Model Aircraft McBride NY 1945 28lp Cook David C & Davidson Jesse editorsl Model Aircraft Annual 1943 McBride NY 1943 244p Cook David C tlodel rrcratt nrual 1944 McBride NY 1944 244p Courtney Jeremiah Alenoratrdtn 10w Model Noise AMA Iteadquartcrs Washington DC 30p Aoail AMA tIQ Con Jack Boys Book hobbies Lutterworth Press London 1957 240p Note Chapter II ntodel aircraft R H Warring Craikshanks J W B Airfoil Sr etions Jirr tIre ero,rodeller Marshall & Sons 1940 46p Davis Tire Jurirr Air,rar s 8rok Airplanes NY laoidson lesse Building Yrar First Flying Jlrrdsls X-Acto Crescent Products Co. NY 1946 J2p l3rsvidson lesse II,, srr Build S,lid Seals Mssdel Wartrlasses April 1982 35 Thin typical aample full-size aviation books can form basis good reference library forthe Scale modeler Shown books US Great Britain Italy Japan magazine well selection racers performance models facsimile models semi-Scale types turned Out old friends Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co again line-up consisted Bleriot Cross-Channel Monoplane NC-4 Naval Seaplane Curtiss Jennie sic DeHavil land Biplane tn-motored Fokker guessed Spirit St Louis year 1930 saw introduction Begin ners Book Model Airplanes Fly Carl H Claudy charming book took fresh approach subject offering direct practical advice coupled priceless ingredient good humor missing too its pred ecessors helped remove much mystery mumbo-jumbo implied some formulae freak authors Also during 1930 Aircraft Book Boys appeared written daughter 1913 book author Hyatt Vernill title like Dorothy Vernill wouldnt have scored points womens libbers Doubtless however rated well air-minded youth day Although largely devoted full-scale aviation couple model planes found way volume including tri motor monoplane courtesy Ideal Aero plane Supply Co now incorporated 1931 Carl H Claudy came up another winner form Prize Winners Book Model Airplanes Some 36 contributors helped production plum ambitious useful compilations appear Besides usual reduced-size plans found books Claudy offered bonus feature two large separate sheets measuring about 34 x 22 other 44 x 33 full-size construction drawings plans enabled budding model aeronauts plunge right building enthusiasm still its peak folded drawings neatly secured inside book covers small straps Economic conditions would render such extrava gances unthinkable todays publishers pity Among choice offerings 1931 Model Aircraft Builder Chelsea Fraser Copiously illustrated book presented addition model building hints plans instructions making simple wind-tunnel miniature airport two rather primitive ingenious Link Trainers youthful pilots could actually sit fly Another 1931 classic Model Airplane Building Flying Joseph S Ott kit fame Lavishly illustrated book ex tremely comprehensive its presentation covering practically facet hobby great detail Featured construction methods gliders stick models Scale types Indoor duration models twin-pushers rocket plane compressed-air engine aircraft Edwin T Hamilton revealed Complete Model Aircraft Manual world during 1933 Comprising well over 500 pages ambitious effort must have monumental undertaking Treated minute detail tools trade building techniques painting insignia accessories art model flying Selected construction articles included pri mary glider secondary glider Bowlus sail plane C H Grants famous Minute Man stick model twin-pushers Indoor craft flying Scale models solid Scale types out-of-theordinary designs such tailless R 0 G plus two autogiros Another series books originated during 30s exerted powerful influence upon course model aviation now-famous ModelAeronautics YearBooks generally identified name editor/publisher Frank Zaic Truly labor-of-love effort volume represents treasure-trove modeling information ideas philosophy distilled world-wide network contributors Happily Continued page 102 X-Acto Crescent Products Co NY 1944 1947 32p Davis Lynn iloaukcs Model Aeroplane lab t9l7 Day Aircraft irs Made Like NY l9b8 Day Ossar Vincent Terence Miniature Aircraft Make lisa FIn Theta Manual Arts Press Peoria IL 1929 hhp Dean Bill Hill ihan s Book Balsa Models Arco Pub NY l970 b4p Iean Waning Model Aeronaatics London 1948 Dean Warring Model Planes Annual London 1949 bbp Delacombe Harry Boys Bosh Airships stokes Co NY 1909 244p Dewey Don Radio Control Ground Up K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA 197l 20p Dewey Don edilot Challenge Radio Control Scale R/C Modeler Corp Siecra Madre CA l967 96p Dewey Don editor What irs Worth R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don editor What Its Wsrlh Vol II K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madte CA Dewey Don editor What Its Worth Vol III K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Maitre CA Dewey Don editor What s Worth Vol IV RIC Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Coarse R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Course Vol II K/C Modeler Corp. Sierra Madre CA Ditty Model Flying London 1975 Available Transatlantic Arts Inc NY Doilfus Etienne H C Petite Models dAcroplanes French text Gaalhier-Villars Paris 91 2 22p Doylend W 0 Aircraft Miniature Modal Aeronautical Press England 1957 16p Available International Publications Service NY Easley G J Radio Control Systems Now Use Wrightwood Model Airplane Co MO 1947 31p Ebling Frank Kit Plan Book AMA Headquarters Washington DC 136p Available AMA HQ Ellis Chris Howls Make Model Aircraft Arco Pub Co NY 1973 tOp Ellis Prank H Duration Flying Models Fiwell 3 H Solid Scale Model Aircraft Harborough Pub England 96p Everett Dick Hydro Tips Brainhusters Hampton VA 1947 12p Pisber 0 P W Collectors Guide Model Aero Engines Argus Books England 1977 132p Fitzgibbon Joe Keshiuhian Harry Hatney Bill Best Golden Age Flying Models Golden Press MA 1975 86p No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Puh Minneapolis 1931 l46p Note Model planes Chapters tO p 129-I 34 articles James Bates Theodore Allen No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Pub Minneapolis 1932 146p Note Model planes p 36-37 article Stewart Rouse No author listed Flying Scale Models Air Age Pub 1942 104p Note Designs Earl Stahl H K Weiss Sidney StruhI William Wytam Ray Rusher Foote Donald K Aerodynamics Model Airplanes Barnes NY 1952 lSBp Foote Donald K Model Airplane Engines Barnes NY 1952 177p Forster J P P Model Aircraft Petrol Engines Harhorough Pub England 1943 96p Pox Duke Model Flyers Handbook AR Fracer Chelsea Model Aircraft Builder T Y Crowell Co NY 193l354p Continued page 137 36 Model Aviation has wide variety model aircraft books published over years Annuals offered hobby magazines handbooks major publishing houses Embroidered- quality blue casual shirts choice royal/white Mustang HMUJ navy/white Corsair IHCOI brown white Spitfire HSPJ red/white Style C Style L~2 Sweatershirt style VI 520 Golf Shirt style Cl 518 Sizes 532-361 M38-40l 1442-441 X46l Ladies Shin style U 510 StYI@V Sizes S8-10l M112-14l 1416-18 X20-22l Add 10% postage/handling Allow 3-4 weeks delivery Send check money order Flightilne Shirts Etc Department MA 1781 Jahnmark Circle Grants Pass OR 97526 Send SASE new brochure Name Address CityStateZip SizeStyleDesign ATTENTION ERS putDaves plane upforatrim familiariza tion flight found set up very mild handling slow aileron rolls enough elevator stall snap-roll Tim tried Chris sailplane found also short control authority addition Chris taped spoil ers closedand Tim likes use tow better control both found landings faster flatter become accustomed flying mile higher atmosphere home might say conditions less ideal still manageable snow helped brake landing rolls Dave brought out toy snow shovel truck proceeded clear runway us about 100 yards long half-awingspan wide told him faith ability stay center line did look picture carefully will see runway behind Chris Dave paralleling Inter state 15 row electric power poles pole just off near side runway looked avoidable decided keep flying patterns north runway just case approach end runway Out picture left also has power lines across could easily get impression flying inside barrel cloud ceiling fell rain started develop snowflakes looked like forget situation leave next morn ing get Tim back Eastern college dood After two false starts wherein sorted out problems began making tows lost count remember four Tim towed back reasonably low altitude several times benefit photographers need stronger telephoto lens get thing Both planes performed flawlessly didnt ding either main thing noticed takeoff runs lot longer climbs lot shallower have become accustomed sea level So whats got new RC channels think has spite intentions avoid RCing over holidays lousy weather conditions flew fun Now some folks have written letters asking new radio buy stating really intended sit back wait things settle out before buying anything think youll sitting out long time AMA Phase-In Plan outlined contem plates continued production use existing radios some time say buy what like nowand enjoy want try hedge bit look radios have interchangeable RE modules boards manufacturer may support new channel boards modules such proves feasible also may youll flyingand having funwhile situation develops Keep letters flowing George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicksville NY 11801 Books H annan Continued page 36 some items have reprinted still available Besides books magazines other types publications offered aeromodeling public Some pamphlets booklets rather true books yet filled exciting useful model building information As example consider Paul Jones Step-by-Step Course ModelAviation 1936 now-rare collec 102 Model Aviation U Can Afford Best. 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Circus Hobbies 1925 E Creighton Road Pensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 known second has remarkable impact still being felt today especially among model aircraft designers because some theories presented subject con troversy some has appeared modeling press over years However may disagree will usually admit book caused think about own theories much carefully certainly buyers showed vote confidence since book progressed through least four printings informative useful publications Super Savings Fiberglass Materials Fiberglass Cloth 5 Sq yards SI 500 tour choice 3/, 24 6 Oz cloth 53000 per gal arnInatinE1goxYResiflfShrcure S 300 t6ozs Epoxy Primer K&BJ S40Oopergal Epoxy Paint rhinner K&B SI SOOper gal Polyester Resin K&BJ 520O0per gal Send check money order shipping cOllCCt COO Okay Call write mob Smith RIC Aircraft PO Box 33335 Gran4da Hills CA 91344 12131 366-6872 appear during 1 950s selected relatively small Model Aeronautics Made Painless Raul J Hoffman Printed 1955 Frank Zaic remarkable compilation data represents virtually everything known about subject model aircraft reduced basics between set covers Both practical mathematical explanations given making equally useful theory impirically-minded modelers Continued RP MRwP PRODUCTS MODEL Presents SUPER SUNDAY TRAINER 40 Easy buildDirect Order Fully aerobatic Easy fly _ Proven design lete building instructions parts machine cut 14625 Cannnita Rd #225 Norwalk CA 90650Phone 213 698-0722 104 Model Aviation RC Aerobatics/Van Putte Continued page 39 topic general interest edited version Eds letter follows have similar experience competition won person money involved drag racing quite few years finally gave up couldnt begin compete against factory teams un limited budgets engineering staffs left bitter taste mouth Well again same situation Pattern Im against factory teams think ultimately benefit hobbyist ever detrimental hobby aver age non-sponsored competitor has compete toe-to-toe reaching point talent enough mention dedi cation perseverance might wonder Sportsman class competitor would concerned reason simple should work tail off eliminated because lack financial backing finally reach Masters class will continue fly have admit has dampened enthusiasm somewhat same vein would like see retract able landing gear tuned pipes banned Sportsman Advanced classes wonder arent attracting people Pattern make expensive explore field no will take risk thought Pattern supposed flying event However has rapidly turned buying building event Will banning retracts pipes first three Pattern classes hurt Pattern opinion isabsolutely Competition relative thing everyone lower three classes contend fixed gear less power best pilots would prevail have just much funperhaps pilots could concentrate flying leaming trim secrets instead worrying about stalled retract servo lack pressure tank rasping down bottom all-winter project runway opinion time learn about retracts tuned pipes after youve mastered arts flight line procedure building trimming plane flying pattern stronly feel until reorganize sport will con tinue decline numbers Lets make aflying
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/04
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 35, 36, 102, 103, 104
WHEN THE editor offered assignment back August 1977 sounded like fas cinating straightforward project Having long interested model aircraft publica tions anticipated no special problems com posing article subject However actual research began quickly became appar ent monumental task undertaken enlisted aid John J Brown collector model books supplied us extensive list publications compiled over period years added other titles encountered during course project Next contacted publishers could locate known have model aircraft titles among offerings Most cooper ated helpfully enabled us catch up currently in-print books Having assembled formidable mountain literature both old new set about reading task consumed several months spare time next problem became evolution logical presentation much information Space limitations precluded usage briefest reviews everything So elected offer taste various publications through years e historical significance others special insight importance hobby charm Books Hows model aviation library havent missing rewarding aspects modeling hobby Someone once said question ever asked book answer Certainly must true model building other subject Yet lack reading research builders go reinventing wheel needlessly laboring through problems likely have solved years previously Model aircraft books date back early will After reviewing books article Bill Hannan moved write own Peanut Power published Historical Aviation Album 1 900s articles relating models appeared earlier various scientific books journals Reading some elderly tomes April 1982 33 Peanut Scale I-rencn 1-arman poses selection ot scale drawings found some books mentioned plan potential model Scale enthusiast provides sort time-machine insight thinking fellow modelers long since forgotten truly window past lucid re minder very little has changed model aviation Virtually new development indeed old hat having appeared least principle long ago unfortunate some equate study history drudgery need fact review earlier works can sometimes yield fresh solutions current problems earliest book investigated survey Progress Flying Machines written Octave Chanute printed 1894 Chanute course important Wright brothers mentor heroic figure history aviation served years sort clearing house aero information among enthusiasts book Chanute attempted catalog classify experimental efforts known flight pioneer world over Featured illus trations data relating manner mini ature flying machines served inspire generations inventors example achievements French model builder Alphonse Penaud graphically documented planophore 1871 rubber-powered model 18-in wingspan cap able li-second flights covering 131 feet Weighing slightly over e machine seems have first feature nowstandard systems longitudinal stability via cidence settings lateral stability dihedral Incidentally Chanute states clearly model equipped vertical tail fact steered tail does appear illustrations later modelers have attempted fly reproductions Other models described include designed Lawrence Hargrave Australia gentle man invented box kite flew small craft powered compressed-air engines early 1890 Happily long out-of-print Chanute book has recently republished Lorenz & Herweg Publishers Long Beach CA recommend highly students aviation history earliest exclusively model aviation book dently volume sold fairly well reviewed Theory Practice reprinted during 1911 again revised form ModelAeroplaning 1910 publication V E Johnson British classic presents history models already considered ancient theories operation well practical design advice aware few internalcombustion gas-powered models success fully flown time rather sophisticated example depicted Johnson book four-cylinder V-type engine complete clockwork shut-off device Also well documented steam com pressed-air engines time flown models Interestingly electric motors tried found wanting Meanwhile United States Boys Book Model Aeroplanes published also 1910 authored Francis Collins Evi during 1921 Second Boys Book ModelAeroplanes appeared 1911 Collins offered thanks New York Model Aero Club Mr Edward Durrant Percy Pierce Cecil Peoli W S Howells young gentlemen models illustrated herewith singly collectively doing much development science America Somewhat confusingly another Collins Frederic apparently unrelated authored book entitled BoysAirplane Bool4 during 1919 gem contained brief history aviation plans simple helicopters twin-pusher model Bleriot Wright biplane Curtiss flying boat Topping Collins offered info making compressed-air engine ngI BIBLIOGRAPHY THIS LIST largely work John J Brown some additions Bill Hannan no such list can ever con sidered complete least indicative vast scope subject Publications categoriced authors name known English language editions few important exceptions noted Additons corrections may forwarded John Brown 13362 Fairmont Way Santa Ana CA 92705 No author listed Aeromodeller Pocker Data Book Model Aeronautical Press England 1969 64p No author listed Air Age Gas Models Herman Pub. Boston MA 1975 Aldridge Transistorized Radio Conrrol Models London 1972 Alexander J H Model Balloons Flying Machines Henley Pub NY 1910 Alexander 3 Foam Wings R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA AUen Elmer L Model Airplanes Frederick Stokes Co NY 1928 326p Note Later editions entitled New Model Airplanes Aston W G Model Flying Machines Iliffe & Sons Ltd London circa 1909 No author listed Balsa Wood Model Airplanes Fleischmana Transportation Co NY tSp Barnaby Ralph S Hose Make Fly Paper Airplanes Four Winds Press 1968 Bantam Books Inc IL 1970 84p Bechdoll lack Modern Handy Book Boys Book Inc NY 1933 432p Note Has chapter model airplanes Bengsch Gustav Hats Wilhelm Modell/tag 3m NsFtiegerkorps German tent verlag Dr M Mattiesen & Co Berlin 1942 288p Bowden C E LI Cot Diesel Model Engines Percival Marshall London 1947 l64p Bowden C F LI Cot History Technical Development Model Aircraft Harboroagh Pub Co Leicester 1946 Bowden C E LI Cot Model Gb Plag Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 h5p Bowden C E LI Col Model Jet Reaction Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 65p Bowden C E LI Cot Petrol-Esgined Model Aircraft Percival Marshall London 1945 230p Bowden T EG Aerodynamics nalyzed Harborough Pub Co London No author listed BoyCraft Whitman Pub Co Racine WI 1928 Note Has section model airplanes p 161-175 Boys Howard Transistor Circaito Radio Controlled Models Bernard London 1961 fOp Bradshaw Stanley OrIon Aircraft Modellers Guide Thitd Series 1936 Note First second series Howard Leigli Brown Willis C Model Airplanes vialivn Heath Boston 1942 43p Brown Willis C Black Dick History AMA AMA Washington DC 1966 84p Avail AMA HO Bruinama H Remote Control Radio Phillips Tech Lib Holland 1952 96p English tent Bruss Hetmut Proportional Stere rung German text Topp Stuttgart 1967 102p No author listed Building/Designing Maintenance Care Jetex Engines NY 196749p No author listed Building Flying ModelAirplssnes An Air Youth Hand book D AppletonCentury Co NY 1941 1942 1943 246p Bulger Thomas L F Stieri editor Model Builders Manual Junior eronaurical Engineer ing Dime Publications NY 1931 64p Bullivant Cecil Boys Book Hobbies Nelsonand Co NY 1912 452p Note Contains chapter model aircraft p 88-102 Buragas Robert 3 Decades Design NJ 1970 Buragas Robert 3 Decade Designs No 2 Rajo Pub NY 1966 74p Buragas Robert 3 Model Bailding AZ Rajo Pub, NY 1965 Carstens Pub Inc 1971 75p Buragas Robert 3 Holze Walter Weaver George Reference Handbook H P Pub NY 1958 74p CatIon F ABC Model Aircraft Construction 34 Model Aviation sampling pamphlets catalogs spans time 1g12 1g46 Note some famous names Paul Jones White Aeroplane Supply Ideal Megow Seltey Scientific glider must have heady discoveries youthful model builders day Moving right along journey through aeronautical literature past pause brief look small treasure Harpers Aircraft Book 1913 written Hyatt Verrill Prominent chapters Sailing Air Moving Bodies Air Steering Air concerned general theory Model Aeroplanes Fliers section found plans instructions Cecil Peolis racer twin-pusher Curtiss Hydroaeroplane also available time Ideal Aero plane Supply Co kit Ditto Nieuport l3leriot monoplanes Verrill also included plans biplane hang-glider well discourse full-size aircraft engines opinion better offerings published regardless date contrast inspirational text some early model books obviously based upon slim understanding subject proving garbled thinking knows no special time bound aries Yet some technically useless mis leading publications still make fascinating read ing illustrations often rather quaint intriguing During 1 920s 30s veritable explosion model book publishing much inspired Charles Lindberghs epic solo flight across Aflantic fact books era featured models purporting represent Spirit St Louis although accuracy among strong points Flying High edited Franklin K Mathiews published approval Boy Scouts America different sort book writings contributed such distinguished people Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Clarence D Chamberlin paragraph Lindbergh himself Added impressive line-up series aviation fiction stories science-fiction piece entitled Rocket Plane Dead Star shades Star Wars also assortment model construction plans including inevitable Spirit St Louis . actually plans Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co kit No wonder book reprinted 1928 1929 1930 least three other important volumes appeared during 1928 doubtless helped influence generation youngsters lasting interest aviation general model building particu lar called Beginning Fly authored Merrill Hamburg secretary technical advisor AMLA Airplane Model League America steady contri butor American Boy magazine book featured usual history aeronautics model building instructions series indoor outdoor model designs Also set forth rules model aircraft contests gaining popularity Another important 1928 publication Build ing Flying ModelAircraft Paul E Garber Smithsonian Institution Garber served Model Aircraft Consultant Playground Recreation Association America during summer 1927 book amplification extension series bulletins prepared purpose Featured history model aircraft sport world record listings information kites para chutes boomerangs Also covered flying tops ultra-simple helicopters gliders rubber-driven models Scale models including Spirit St Louis course model balloons compressed-air engine section contests third memorable 1928 publication Elmer L Allens Model Airplanes Build Fly Described author first presentation such detailed instruction practical working plans has ever attempted included material Boys Life London 952 Camm F 3 Model Aeroplanes London circa 1911 Camm F J Model Aeroplane handbook George Nessnes London 194931 2p Camm F 3 Design Model Aeroplanes aenn Brothers Ltd. London 1919 172p Camm F 1 Model Aeroplanes Airships George Newnes London t933 ISp Camns F 3 Power Driren Model Aircraft George Nessnes London 1933 98p Camm F Model Aircraft l-landbook London 1936 148p Carom F Radio Controlled Models Pearson Ltd London 1956 I8lp Carhone Martin R Build Flj Floaters Mason-Renshaw Inc 1972 lop Caalkin Daoid Notes Model Airplane & Prop Design 937 Cavanagh eorge Mrrdel Aeroplanes Motors Moffut Yard Co NY 1916 32p Chick Richard First Book Model Aircraft 5tadio London 1944 64p Chinn Peter G F hour Model Aircraft Model& Allied Pub 1977 153p Available International Pub 5ervice NY Chine Peter Ci F Model Aircraft Engine Tests Percival Marshall London 1960 96p Claudy Carl H Beginners Brrok Model Airplanes Bobba-Merrill Indianapolis IN 1930 l84p Claudy Carl H Prize Winners Essok Model Airplanes Bobhs-Merrill Indianapolit IN 1931 242p plus plant Colbridge Scale Models Balsa NY 1972 lISp Coleman li Northrop W C editor Flying Scale Models WW II Model Builder santa Ana CA 1974 l28p Collins Frederick nation bout D Appleton-Century Co NY 1929 260p Coffins Frederick Boy Scienrisr Lattsrop Lee Shepard Boston 1925 447p Note Lasr chapter early history aniutionPenaud Tatin Phipps Langley Chanute Wrights Collins Frederick Boys Airplane Book Stokes Co NY 1919 253p Collins Francis Arnold BoysBook Model Aeroplanes Appleton-Century NY 1910 1911 1926 1936 1937 1941 262p Collins Francis Arnold Boys Second Book Afodel Aeroplanes Century Co NY 1911 262p No author listed Color Treasury Model Airplanes Crescent Books London c 1972 h4p No author listed Cotnmercial Radio Cortrol Equipment tIre tlodel Builders I-lobby Helpers Pub NY No author listed Construction Kites Aeroplanes Manual Arts Press Peoria IL No author listed Construction Aerosnodellers Model Aeronautical Press England 1957 1963 93p No author listed Control Br Radio Winston Pub NY 1962 h4p Cook David C Guide Model Aircraft McBride NY 1945 28lp Cook David C & Davidson Jesse editorsl Model Aircraft Annual 1943 McBride NY 1943 244p Cook David C tlodel rrcratt nrual 1944 McBride NY 1944 244p Courtney Jeremiah Alenoratrdtn 10w Model Noise AMA Iteadquartcrs Washington DC 30p Aoail AMA tIQ Con Jack Boys Book hobbies Lutterworth Press London 1957 240p Note Chapter II ntodel aircraft R H Warring Craikshanks J W B Airfoil Sr etions Jirr tIre ero,rodeller Marshall & Sons 1940 46p Davis Tire Jurirr Air,rar s 8rok Airplanes NY laoidson lesse Building Yrar First Flying Jlrrdsls X-Acto Crescent Products Co. NY 1946 J2p l3rsvidson lesse II,, srr Build S,lid Seals Mssdel Wartrlasses April 1982 35 Thin typical aample full-size aviation books can form basis good reference library forthe Scale modeler Shown books US Great Britain Italy Japan magazine well selection racers performance models facsimile models semi-Scale types turned Out old friends Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co again line-up consisted Bleriot Cross-Channel Monoplane NC-4 Naval Seaplane Curtiss Jennie sic DeHavil land Biplane tn-motored Fokker guessed Spirit St Louis year 1930 saw introduction Begin ners Book Model Airplanes Fly Carl H Claudy charming book took fresh approach subject offering direct practical advice coupled priceless ingredient good humor missing too its pred ecessors helped remove much mystery mumbo-jumbo implied some formulae freak authors Also during 1930 Aircraft Book Boys appeared written daughter 1913 book author Hyatt Vernill title like Dorothy Vernill wouldnt have scored points womens libbers Doubtless however rated well air-minded youth day Although largely devoted full-scale aviation couple model planes found way volume including tri motor monoplane courtesy Ideal Aero plane Supply Co now incorporated 1931 Carl H Claudy came up another winner form Prize Winners Book Model Airplanes Some 36 contributors helped production plum ambitious useful compilations appear Besides usual reduced-size plans found books Claudy offered bonus feature two large separate sheets measuring about 34 x 22 other 44 x 33 full-size construction drawings plans enabled budding model aeronauts plunge right building enthusiasm still its peak folded drawings neatly secured inside book covers small straps Economic conditions would render such extrava gances unthinkable todays publishers pity Among choice offerings 1931 Model Aircraft Builder Chelsea Fraser Copiously illustrated book presented addition model building hints plans instructions making simple wind-tunnel miniature airport two rather primitive ingenious Link Trainers youthful pilots could actually sit fly Another 1931 classic Model Airplane Building Flying Joseph S Ott kit fame Lavishly illustrated book ex tremely comprehensive its presentation covering practically facet hobby great detail Featured construction methods gliders stick models Scale types Indoor duration models twin-pushers rocket plane compressed-air engine aircraft Edwin T Hamilton revealed Complete Model Aircraft Manual world during 1933 Comprising well over 500 pages ambitious effort must have monumental undertaking Treated minute detail tools trade building techniques painting insignia accessories art model flying Selected construction articles included pri mary glider secondary glider Bowlus sail plane C H Grants famous Minute Man stick model twin-pushers Indoor craft flying Scale models solid Scale types out-of-theordinary designs such tailless R 0 G plus two autogiros Another series books originated during 30s exerted powerful influence upon course model aviation now-famous ModelAeronautics YearBooks generally identified name editor/publisher Frank Zaic Truly labor-of-love effort volume represents treasure-trove modeling information ideas philosophy distilled world-wide network contributors Happily Continued page 102 X-Acto Crescent Products Co NY 1944 1947 32p Davis Lynn iloaukcs Model Aeroplane lab t9l7 Day Aircraft irs Made Like NY l9b8 Day Ossar Vincent Terence Miniature Aircraft Make lisa FIn Theta Manual Arts Press Peoria IL 1929 hhp Dean Bill Hill ihan s Book Balsa Models Arco Pub NY l970 b4p Iean Waning Model Aeronaatics London 1948 Dean Warring Model Planes Annual London 1949 bbp Delacombe Harry Boys Bosh Airships stokes Co NY 1909 244p Dewey Don Radio Control Ground Up K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA 197l 20p Dewey Don edilot Challenge Radio Control Scale R/C Modeler Corp Siecra Madre CA l967 96p Dewey Don editor What irs Worth R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don editor What Its Wsrlh Vol II K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madte CA Dewey Don editor What Its Worth Vol III K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Maitre CA Dewey Don editor What s Worth Vol IV RIC Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Coarse R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Course Vol II K/C Modeler Corp. Sierra Madre CA Ditty Model Flying London 1975 Available Transatlantic Arts Inc NY Doilfus Etienne H C Petite Models dAcroplanes French text Gaalhier-Villars Paris 91 2 22p Doylend W 0 Aircraft Miniature Modal Aeronautical Press England 1957 16p Available International Publications Service NY Easley G J Radio Control Systems Now Use Wrightwood Model Airplane Co MO 1947 31p Ebling Frank Kit Plan Book AMA Headquarters Washington DC 136p Available AMA HQ Ellis Chris Howls Make Model Aircraft Arco Pub Co NY 1973 tOp Ellis Prank H Duration Flying Models Fiwell 3 H Solid Scale Model Aircraft Harborough Pub England 96p Everett Dick Hydro Tips Brainhusters Hampton VA 1947 12p Pisber 0 P W Collectors Guide Model Aero Engines Argus Books England 1977 132p Fitzgibbon Joe Keshiuhian Harry Hatney Bill Best Golden Age Flying Models Golden Press MA 1975 86p No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Puh Minneapolis 1931 l46p Note Model planes Chapters tO p 129-I 34 articles James Bates Theodore Allen No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Pub Minneapolis 1932 146p Note Model planes p 36-37 article Stewart Rouse No author listed Flying Scale Models Air Age Pub 1942 104p Note Designs Earl Stahl H K Weiss Sidney StruhI William Wytam Ray Rusher Foote Donald K Aerodynamics Model Airplanes Barnes NY 1952 lSBp Foote Donald K Model Airplane Engines Barnes NY 1952 177p Forster J P P Model Aircraft Petrol Engines Harhorough Pub England 1943 96p Pox Duke Model Flyers Handbook AR Fracer Chelsea Model Aircraft Builder T Y Crowell Co NY 193l354p Continued page 137 36 Model Aviation has wide variety model aircraft books published over years Annuals offered hobby magazines handbooks major publishing houses Embroidered- quality blue casual shirts choice royal/white Mustang HMUJ navy/white Corsair IHCOI brown white Spitfire HSPJ red/white Style C Style L~2 Sweatershirt style VI 520 Golf Shirt style Cl 518 Sizes 532-361 M38-40l 1442-441 X46l Ladies Shin style U 510 StYI@V Sizes S8-10l M112-14l 1416-18 X20-22l Add 10% postage/handling Allow 3-4 weeks delivery Send check money order Flightilne Shirts Etc Department MA 1781 Jahnmark Circle Grants Pass OR 97526 Send SASE new brochure Name Address CityStateZip SizeStyleDesign ATTENTION ERS putDaves plane upforatrim familiariza tion flight found set up very mild handling slow aileron rolls enough elevator stall snap-roll Tim tried Chris sailplane found also short control authority addition Chris taped spoil ers closedand Tim likes use tow better control both found landings faster flatter become accustomed flying mile higher atmosphere home might say conditions less ideal still manageable snow helped brake landing rolls Dave brought out toy snow shovel truck proceeded clear runway us about 100 yards long half-awingspan wide told him faith ability stay center line did look picture carefully will see runway behind Chris Dave paralleling Inter state 15 row electric power poles pole just off near side runway looked avoidable decided keep flying patterns north runway just case approach end runway Out picture left also has power lines across could easily get impression flying inside barrel cloud ceiling fell rain started develop snowflakes looked like forget situation leave next morn ing get Tim back Eastern college dood After two false starts wherein sorted out problems began making tows lost count remember four Tim towed back reasonably low altitude several times benefit photographers need stronger telephoto lens get thing Both planes performed flawlessly didnt ding either main thing noticed takeoff runs lot longer climbs lot shallower have become accustomed sea level So whats got new RC channels think has spite intentions avoid RCing over holidays lousy weather conditions flew fun Now some folks have written letters asking new radio buy stating really intended sit back wait things settle out before buying anything think youll sitting out long time AMA Phase-In Plan outlined contem plates continued production use existing radios some time say buy what like nowand enjoy want try hedge bit look radios have interchangeable RE modules boards manufacturer may support new channel boards modules such proves feasible also may youll flyingand having funwhile situation develops Keep letters flowing George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicksville NY 11801 Books H annan Continued page 36 some items have reprinted still available Besides books magazines other types publications offered aeromodeling public Some pamphlets booklets rather true books yet filled exciting useful model building information As example consider Paul Jones Step-by-Step Course ModelAviation 1936 now-rare collec 102 Model Aviation U Can Afford Best. 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Circus Hobbies 1925 E Creighton Road Pensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 known second has remarkable impact still being felt today especially among model aircraft designers because some theories presented subject con troversy some has appeared modeling press over years However may disagree will usually admit book caused think about own theories much carefully certainly buyers showed vote confidence since book progressed through least four printings informative useful publications Super Savings Fiberglass Materials Fiberglass Cloth 5 Sq yards SI 500 tour choice 3/, 24 6 Oz cloth 53000 per gal arnInatinE1goxYResiflfShrcure S 300 t6ozs Epoxy Primer K&BJ S40Oopergal Epoxy Paint rhinner K&B SI SOOper gal Polyester Resin K&BJ 520O0per gal Send check money order shipping cOllCCt COO Okay Call write mob Smith RIC Aircraft PO Box 33335 Gran4da Hills CA 91344 12131 366-6872 appear during 1 950s selected relatively small Model Aeronautics Made Painless Raul J Hoffman Printed 1955 Frank Zaic remarkable compilation data represents virtually everything known about subject model aircraft reduced basics between set covers Both practical mathematical explanations given making equally useful theory impirically-minded modelers Continued RP MRwP PRODUCTS MODEL Presents SUPER SUNDAY TRAINER 40 Easy buildDirect Order Fully aerobatic Easy fly _ Proven design lete building instructions parts machine cut 14625 Cannnita Rd #225 Norwalk CA 90650Phone 213 698-0722 104 Model Aviation RC Aerobatics/Van Putte Continued page 39 topic general interest edited version Eds letter follows have similar experience competition won person money involved drag racing quite few years finally gave up couldnt begin compete against factory teams un limited budgets engineering staffs left bitter taste mouth Well again same situation Pattern Im against factory teams think ultimately benefit hobbyist ever detrimental hobby aver age non-sponsored competitor has compete toe-to-toe reaching point talent enough mention dedi cation perseverance might wonder Sportsman class competitor would concerned reason simple should work tail off eliminated because lack financial backing finally reach Masters class will continue fly have admit has dampened enthusiasm somewhat same vein would like see retract able landing gear tuned pipes banned Sportsman Advanced classes wonder arent attracting people Pattern make expensive explore field no will take risk thought Pattern supposed flying event However has rapidly turned buying building event Will banning retracts pipes first three Pattern classes hurt Pattern opinion isabsolutely Competition relative thing everyone lower three classes contend fixed gear less power best pilots would prevail have just much funperhaps pilots could concentrate flying leaming trim secrets instead worrying about stalled retract servo lack pressure tank rasping down bottom all-winter project runway opinion time learn about retracts tuned pipes after youve mastered arts flight line procedure building trimming plane flying pattern stronly feel until reorganize sport will con tinue decline numbers Lets make aflying
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/04
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 35, 36, 102, 103, 104
WHEN THE editor offered assignment back August 1977 sounded like fas cinating straightforward project Having long interested model aircraft publica tions anticipated no special problems com posing article subject However actual research began quickly became appar ent monumental task undertaken enlisted aid John J Brown collector model books supplied us extensive list publications compiled over period years added other titles encountered during course project Next contacted publishers could locate known have model aircraft titles among offerings Most cooper ated helpfully enabled us catch up currently in-print books Having assembled formidable mountain literature both old new set about reading task consumed several months spare time next problem became evolution logical presentation much information Space limitations precluded usage briefest reviews everything So elected offer taste various publications through years e historical significance others special insight importance hobby charm Books Hows model aviation library havent missing rewarding aspects modeling hobby Someone once said question ever asked book answer Certainly must true model building other subject Yet lack reading research builders go reinventing wheel needlessly laboring through problems likely have solved years previously Model aircraft books date back early will After reviewing books article Bill Hannan moved write own Peanut Power published Historical Aviation Album 1 900s articles relating models appeared earlier various scientific books journals Reading some elderly tomes April 1982 33 Peanut Scale I-rencn 1-arman poses selection ot scale drawings found some books mentioned plan potential model Scale enthusiast provides sort time-machine insight thinking fellow modelers long since forgotten truly window past lucid re minder very little has changed model aviation Virtually new development indeed old hat having appeared least principle long ago unfortunate some equate study history drudgery need fact review earlier works can sometimes yield fresh solutions current problems earliest book investigated survey Progress Flying Machines written Octave Chanute printed 1894 Chanute course important Wright brothers mentor heroic figure history aviation served years sort clearing house aero information among enthusiasts book Chanute attempted catalog classify experimental efforts known flight pioneer world over Featured illus trations data relating manner mini ature flying machines served inspire generations inventors example achievements French model builder Alphonse Penaud graphically documented planophore 1871 rubber-powered model 18-in wingspan cap able li-second flights covering 131 feet Weighing slightly over e machine seems have first feature nowstandard systems longitudinal stability via cidence settings lateral stability dihedral Incidentally Chanute states clearly model equipped vertical tail fact steered tail does appear illustrations later modelers have attempted fly reproductions Other models described include designed Lawrence Hargrave Australia gentle man invented box kite flew small craft powered compressed-air engines early 1890 Happily long out-of-print Chanute book has recently republished Lorenz & Herweg Publishers Long Beach CA recommend highly students aviation history earliest exclusively model aviation book dently volume sold fairly well reviewed Theory Practice reprinted during 1911 again revised form ModelAeroplaning 1910 publication V E Johnson British classic presents history models already considered ancient theories operation well practical design advice aware few internalcombustion gas-powered models success fully flown time rather sophisticated example depicted Johnson book four-cylinder V-type engine complete clockwork shut-off device Also well documented steam com pressed-air engines time flown models Interestingly electric motors tried found wanting Meanwhile United States Boys Book Model Aeroplanes published also 1910 authored Francis Collins Evi during 1921 Second Boys Book ModelAeroplanes appeared 1911 Collins offered thanks New York Model Aero Club Mr Edward Durrant Percy Pierce Cecil Peoli W S Howells young gentlemen models illustrated herewith singly collectively doing much development science America Somewhat confusingly another Collins Frederic apparently unrelated authored book entitled BoysAirplane Bool4 during 1919 gem contained brief history aviation plans simple helicopters twin-pusher model Bleriot Wright biplane Curtiss flying boat Topping Collins offered info making compressed-air engine ngI BIBLIOGRAPHY THIS LIST largely work John J Brown some additions Bill Hannan no such list can ever con sidered complete least indicative vast scope subject Publications categoriced authors name known English language editions few important exceptions noted Additons corrections may forwarded John Brown 13362 Fairmont Way Santa Ana CA 92705 No author listed Aeromodeller Pocker Data Book Model Aeronautical Press England 1969 64p No author listed Air Age Gas Models Herman Pub. Boston MA 1975 Aldridge Transistorized Radio Conrrol Models London 1972 Alexander J H Model Balloons Flying Machines Henley Pub NY 1910 Alexander 3 Foam Wings R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA AUen Elmer L Model Airplanes Frederick Stokes Co NY 1928 326p Note Later editions entitled New Model Airplanes Aston W G Model Flying Machines Iliffe & Sons Ltd London circa 1909 No author listed Balsa Wood Model Airplanes Fleischmana Transportation Co NY tSp Barnaby Ralph S Hose Make Fly Paper Airplanes Four Winds Press 1968 Bantam Books Inc IL 1970 84p Bechdoll lack Modern Handy Book Boys Book Inc NY 1933 432p Note Has chapter model airplanes Bengsch Gustav Hats Wilhelm Modell/tag 3m NsFtiegerkorps German tent verlag Dr M Mattiesen & Co Berlin 1942 288p Bowden C E LI Cot Diesel Model Engines Percival Marshall London 1947 l64p Bowden C F LI Cot History Technical Development Model Aircraft Harboroagh Pub Co Leicester 1946 Bowden C E LI Cot Model Gb Plag Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 h5p Bowden C E LI Col Model Jet Reaction Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 65p Bowden C E LI Cot Petrol-Esgined Model Aircraft Percival Marshall London 1945 230p Bowden T EG Aerodynamics nalyzed Harborough Pub Co London No author listed BoyCraft Whitman Pub Co Racine WI 1928 Note Has section model airplanes p 161-175 Boys Howard Transistor Circaito Radio Controlled Models Bernard London 1961 fOp Bradshaw Stanley OrIon Aircraft Modellers Guide Thitd Series 1936 Note First second series Howard Leigli Brown Willis C Model Airplanes vialivn Heath Boston 1942 43p Brown Willis C Black Dick History AMA AMA Washington DC 1966 84p Avail AMA HO Bruinama H Remote Control Radio Phillips Tech Lib Holland 1952 96p English tent Bruss Hetmut Proportional Stere rung German text Topp Stuttgart 1967 102p No author listed Building/Designing Maintenance Care Jetex Engines NY 196749p No author listed Building Flying ModelAirplssnes An Air Youth Hand book D AppletonCentury Co NY 1941 1942 1943 246p Bulger Thomas L F Stieri editor Model Builders Manual Junior eronaurical Engineer ing Dime Publications NY 1931 64p Bullivant Cecil Boys Book Hobbies Nelsonand Co NY 1912 452p Note Contains chapter model aircraft p 88-102 Buragas Robert 3 Decades Design NJ 1970 Buragas Robert 3 Decade Designs No 2 Rajo Pub NY 1966 74p Buragas Robert 3 Model Bailding AZ Rajo Pub, NY 1965 Carstens Pub Inc 1971 75p Buragas Robert 3 Holze Walter Weaver George Reference Handbook H P Pub NY 1958 74p CatIon F ABC Model Aircraft Construction 34 Model Aviation sampling pamphlets catalogs spans time 1g12 1g46 Note some famous names Paul Jones White Aeroplane Supply Ideal Megow Seltey Scientific glider must have heady discoveries youthful model builders day Moving right along journey through aeronautical literature past pause brief look small treasure Harpers Aircraft Book 1913 written Hyatt Verrill Prominent chapters Sailing Air Moving Bodies Air Steering Air concerned general theory Model Aeroplanes Fliers section found plans instructions Cecil Peolis racer twin-pusher Curtiss Hydroaeroplane also available time Ideal Aero plane Supply Co kit Ditto Nieuport l3leriot monoplanes Verrill also included plans biplane hang-glider well discourse full-size aircraft engines opinion better offerings published regardless date contrast inspirational text some early model books obviously based upon slim understanding subject proving garbled thinking knows no special time bound aries Yet some technically useless mis leading publications still make fascinating read ing illustrations often rather quaint intriguing During 1 920s 30s veritable explosion model book publishing much inspired Charles Lindberghs epic solo flight across Aflantic fact books era featured models purporting represent Spirit St Louis although accuracy among strong points Flying High edited Franklin K Mathiews published approval Boy Scouts America different sort book writings contributed such distinguished people Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Clarence D Chamberlin paragraph Lindbergh himself Added impressive line-up series aviation fiction stories science-fiction piece entitled Rocket Plane Dead Star shades Star Wars also assortment model construction plans including inevitable Spirit St Louis . actually plans Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co kit No wonder book reprinted 1928 1929 1930 least three other important volumes appeared during 1928 doubtless helped influence generation youngsters lasting interest aviation general model building particu lar called Beginning Fly authored Merrill Hamburg secretary technical advisor AMLA Airplane Model League America steady contri butor American Boy magazine book featured usual history aeronautics model building instructions series indoor outdoor model designs Also set forth rules model aircraft contests gaining popularity Another important 1928 publication Build ing Flying ModelAircraft Paul E Garber Smithsonian Institution Garber served Model Aircraft Consultant Playground Recreation Association America during summer 1927 book amplification extension series bulletins prepared purpose Featured history model aircraft sport world record listings information kites para chutes boomerangs Also covered flying tops ultra-simple helicopters gliders rubber-driven models Scale models including Spirit St Louis course model balloons compressed-air engine section contests third memorable 1928 publication Elmer L Allens Model Airplanes Build Fly Described author first presentation such detailed instruction practical working plans has ever attempted included material Boys Life London 952 Camm F 3 Model Aeroplanes London circa 1911 Camm F J Model Aeroplane handbook George Nessnes London 194931 2p Camm F 3 Design Model Aeroplanes aenn Brothers Ltd. London 1919 172p Camm F 1 Model Aeroplanes Airships George Newnes London t933 ISp Camns F 3 Power Driren Model Aircraft George Nessnes London 1933 98p Camm F Model Aircraft l-landbook London 1936 148p Carom F Radio Controlled Models Pearson Ltd London 1956 I8lp Carhone Martin R Build Flj Floaters Mason-Renshaw Inc 1972 lop Caalkin Daoid Notes Model Airplane & Prop Design 937 Cavanagh eorge Mrrdel Aeroplanes Motors Moffut Yard Co NY 1916 32p Chick Richard First Book Model Aircraft 5tadio London 1944 64p Chinn Peter G F hour Model Aircraft Model& Allied Pub 1977 153p Available International Pub 5ervice NY Chine Peter Ci F Model Aircraft Engine Tests Percival Marshall London 1960 96p Claudy Carl H Beginners Brrok Model Airplanes Bobba-Merrill Indianapolis IN 1930 l84p Claudy Carl H Prize Winners Essok Model Airplanes Bobhs-Merrill Indianapolit IN 1931 242p plus plant Colbridge Scale Models Balsa NY 1972 lISp Coleman li Northrop W C editor Flying Scale Models WW II Model Builder santa Ana CA 1974 l28p Collins Frederick nation bout D Appleton-Century Co NY 1929 260p Coffins Frederick Boy Scienrisr Lattsrop Lee Shepard Boston 1925 447p Note Lasr chapter early history aniutionPenaud Tatin Phipps Langley Chanute Wrights Collins Frederick Boys Airplane Book Stokes Co NY 1919 253p Collins Francis Arnold BoysBook Model Aeroplanes Appleton-Century NY 1910 1911 1926 1936 1937 1941 262p Collins Francis Arnold Boys Second Book Afodel Aeroplanes Century Co NY 1911 262p No author listed Color Treasury Model Airplanes Crescent Books London c 1972 h4p No author listed Cotnmercial Radio Cortrol Equipment tIre tlodel Builders I-lobby Helpers Pub NY No author listed Construction Kites Aeroplanes Manual Arts Press Peoria IL No author listed Construction Aerosnodellers Model Aeronautical Press England 1957 1963 93p No author listed Control Br Radio Winston Pub NY 1962 h4p Cook David C Guide Model Aircraft McBride NY 1945 28lp Cook David C & Davidson Jesse editorsl Model Aircraft Annual 1943 McBride NY 1943 244p Cook David C tlodel rrcratt nrual 1944 McBride NY 1944 244p Courtney Jeremiah Alenoratrdtn 10w Model Noise AMA Iteadquartcrs Washington DC 30p Aoail AMA tIQ Con Jack Boys Book hobbies Lutterworth Press London 1957 240p Note Chapter II ntodel aircraft R H Warring Craikshanks J W B Airfoil Sr etions Jirr tIre ero,rodeller Marshall & Sons 1940 46p Davis Tire Jurirr Air,rar s 8rok Airplanes NY laoidson lesse Building Yrar First Flying Jlrrdsls X-Acto Crescent Products Co. NY 1946 J2p l3rsvidson lesse II,, srr Build S,lid Seals Mssdel Wartrlasses April 1982 35 Thin typical aample full-size aviation books can form basis good reference library forthe Scale modeler Shown books US Great Britain Italy Japan magazine well selection racers performance models facsimile models semi-Scale types turned Out old friends Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co again line-up consisted Bleriot Cross-Channel Monoplane NC-4 Naval Seaplane Curtiss Jennie sic DeHavil land Biplane tn-motored Fokker guessed Spirit St Louis year 1930 saw introduction Begin ners Book Model Airplanes Fly Carl H Claudy charming book took fresh approach subject offering direct practical advice coupled priceless ingredient good humor missing too its pred ecessors helped remove much mystery mumbo-jumbo implied some formulae freak authors Also during 1930 Aircraft Book Boys appeared written daughter 1913 book author Hyatt Vernill title like Dorothy Vernill wouldnt have scored points womens libbers Doubtless however rated well air-minded youth day Although largely devoted full-scale aviation couple model planes found way volume including tri motor monoplane courtesy Ideal Aero plane Supply Co now incorporated 1931 Carl H Claudy came up another winner form Prize Winners Book Model Airplanes Some 36 contributors helped production plum ambitious useful compilations appear Besides usual reduced-size plans found books Claudy offered bonus feature two large separate sheets measuring about 34 x 22 other 44 x 33 full-size construction drawings plans enabled budding model aeronauts plunge right building enthusiasm still its peak folded drawings neatly secured inside book covers small straps Economic conditions would render such extrava gances unthinkable todays publishers pity Among choice offerings 1931 Model Aircraft Builder Chelsea Fraser Copiously illustrated book presented addition model building hints plans instructions making simple wind-tunnel miniature airport two rather primitive ingenious Link Trainers youthful pilots could actually sit fly Another 1931 classic Model Airplane Building Flying Joseph S Ott kit fame Lavishly illustrated book ex tremely comprehensive its presentation covering practically facet hobby great detail Featured construction methods gliders stick models Scale types Indoor duration models twin-pushers rocket plane compressed-air engine aircraft Edwin T Hamilton revealed Complete Model Aircraft Manual world during 1933 Comprising well over 500 pages ambitious effort must have monumental undertaking Treated minute detail tools trade building techniques painting insignia accessories art model flying Selected construction articles included pri mary glider secondary glider Bowlus sail plane C H Grants famous Minute Man stick model twin-pushers Indoor craft flying Scale models solid Scale types out-of-theordinary designs such tailless R 0 G plus two autogiros Another series books originated during 30s exerted powerful influence upon course model aviation now-famous ModelAeronautics YearBooks generally identified name editor/publisher Frank Zaic Truly labor-of-love effort volume represents treasure-trove modeling information ideas philosophy distilled world-wide network contributors Happily Continued page 102 X-Acto Crescent Products Co NY 1944 1947 32p Davis Lynn iloaukcs Model Aeroplane lab t9l7 Day Aircraft irs Made Like NY l9b8 Day Ossar Vincent Terence Miniature Aircraft Make lisa FIn Theta Manual Arts Press Peoria IL 1929 hhp Dean Bill Hill ihan s Book Balsa Models Arco Pub NY l970 b4p Iean Waning Model Aeronaatics London 1948 Dean Warring Model Planes Annual London 1949 bbp Delacombe Harry Boys Bosh Airships stokes Co NY 1909 244p Dewey Don Radio Control Ground Up K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA 197l 20p Dewey Don edilot Challenge Radio Control Scale R/C Modeler Corp Siecra Madre CA l967 96p Dewey Don editor What irs Worth R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don editor What Its Wsrlh Vol II K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madte CA Dewey Don editor What Its Worth Vol III K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Maitre CA Dewey Don editor What s Worth Vol IV RIC Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Coarse R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Course Vol II K/C Modeler Corp. Sierra Madre CA Ditty Model Flying London 1975 Available Transatlantic Arts Inc NY Doilfus Etienne H C Petite Models dAcroplanes French text Gaalhier-Villars Paris 91 2 22p Doylend W 0 Aircraft Miniature Modal Aeronautical Press England 1957 16p Available International Publications Service NY Easley G J Radio Control Systems Now Use Wrightwood Model Airplane Co MO 1947 31p Ebling Frank Kit Plan Book AMA Headquarters Washington DC 136p Available AMA HQ Ellis Chris Howls Make Model Aircraft Arco Pub Co NY 1973 tOp Ellis Prank H Duration Flying Models Fiwell 3 H Solid Scale Model Aircraft Harborough Pub England 96p Everett Dick Hydro Tips Brainhusters Hampton VA 1947 12p Pisber 0 P W Collectors Guide Model Aero Engines Argus Books England 1977 132p Fitzgibbon Joe Keshiuhian Harry Hatney Bill Best Golden Age Flying Models Golden Press MA 1975 86p No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Puh Minneapolis 1931 l46p Note Model planes Chapters tO p 129-I 34 articles James Bates Theodore Allen No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Pub Minneapolis 1932 146p Note Model planes p 36-37 article Stewart Rouse No author listed Flying Scale Models Air Age Pub 1942 104p Note Designs Earl Stahl H K Weiss Sidney StruhI William Wytam Ray Rusher Foote Donald K Aerodynamics Model Airplanes Barnes NY 1952 lSBp Foote Donald K Model Airplane Engines Barnes NY 1952 177p Forster J P P Model Aircraft Petrol Engines Harhorough Pub England 1943 96p Pox Duke Model Flyers Handbook AR Fracer Chelsea Model Aircraft Builder T Y Crowell Co NY 193l354p Continued page 137 36 Model Aviation has wide variety model aircraft books published over years Annuals offered hobby magazines handbooks major publishing houses Embroidered- quality blue casual shirts choice royal/white Mustang HMUJ navy/white Corsair IHCOI brown white Spitfire HSPJ red/white Style C Style L~2 Sweatershirt style VI 520 Golf Shirt style Cl 518 Sizes 532-361 M38-40l 1442-441 X46l Ladies Shin style U 510 StYI@V Sizes S8-10l M112-14l 1416-18 X20-22l Add 10% postage/handling Allow 3-4 weeks delivery Send check money order Flightilne Shirts Etc Department MA 1781 Jahnmark Circle Grants Pass OR 97526 Send SASE new brochure Name Address CityStateZip SizeStyleDesign ATTENTION ERS putDaves plane upforatrim familiariza tion flight found set up very mild handling slow aileron rolls enough elevator stall snap-roll Tim tried Chris sailplane found also short control authority addition Chris taped spoil ers closedand Tim likes use tow better control both found landings faster flatter become accustomed flying mile higher atmosphere home might say conditions less ideal still manageable snow helped brake landing rolls Dave brought out toy snow shovel truck proceeded clear runway us about 100 yards long half-awingspan wide told him faith ability stay center line did look picture carefully will see runway behind Chris Dave paralleling Inter state 15 row electric power poles pole just off near side runway looked avoidable decided keep flying patterns north runway just case approach end runway Out picture left also has power lines across could easily get impression flying inside barrel cloud ceiling fell rain started develop snowflakes looked like forget situation leave next morn ing get Tim back Eastern college dood After two false starts wherein sorted out problems began making tows lost count remember four Tim towed back reasonably low altitude several times benefit photographers need stronger telephoto lens get thing Both planes performed flawlessly didnt ding either main thing noticed takeoff runs lot longer climbs lot shallower have become accustomed sea level So whats got new RC channels think has spite intentions avoid RCing over holidays lousy weather conditions flew fun Now some folks have written letters asking new radio buy stating really intended sit back wait things settle out before buying anything think youll sitting out long time AMA Phase-In Plan outlined contem plates continued production use existing radios some time say buy what like nowand enjoy want try hedge bit look radios have interchangeable RE modules boards manufacturer may support new channel boards modules such proves feasible also may youll flyingand having funwhile situation develops Keep letters flowing George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicksville NY 11801 Books H annan Continued page 36 some items have reprinted still available Besides books magazines other types publications offered aeromodeling public Some pamphlets booklets rather true books yet filled exciting useful model building information As example consider Paul Jones Step-by-Step Course ModelAviation 1936 now-rare collec 102 Model Aviation U Can Afford Best. 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Circus Hobbies 1925 E Creighton Road Pensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 known second has remarkable impact still being felt today especially among model aircraft designers because some theories presented subject con troversy some has appeared modeling press over years However may disagree will usually admit book caused think about own theories much carefully certainly buyers showed vote confidence since book progressed through least four printings informative useful publications Super Savings Fiberglass Materials Fiberglass Cloth 5 Sq yards SI 500 tour choice 3/, 24 6 Oz cloth 53000 per gal arnInatinE1goxYResiflfShrcure S 300 t6ozs Epoxy Primer K&BJ S40Oopergal Epoxy Paint rhinner K&B SI SOOper gal Polyester Resin K&BJ 520O0per gal Send check money order shipping cOllCCt COO Okay Call write mob Smith RIC Aircraft PO Box 33335 Gran4da Hills CA 91344 12131 366-6872 appear during 1 950s selected relatively small Model Aeronautics Made Painless Raul J Hoffman Printed 1955 Frank Zaic remarkable compilation data represents virtually everything known about subject model aircraft reduced basics between set covers Both practical mathematical explanations given making equally useful theory impirically-minded modelers Continued RP MRwP PRODUCTS MODEL Presents SUPER SUNDAY TRAINER 40 Easy buildDirect Order Fully aerobatic Easy fly _ Proven design lete building instructions parts machine cut 14625 Cannnita Rd #225 Norwalk CA 90650Phone 213 698-0722 104 Model Aviation RC Aerobatics/Van Putte Continued page 39 topic general interest edited version Eds letter follows have similar experience competition won person money involved drag racing quite few years finally gave up couldnt begin compete against factory teams un limited budgets engineering staffs left bitter taste mouth Well again same situation Pattern Im against factory teams think ultimately benefit hobbyist ever detrimental hobby aver age non-sponsored competitor has compete toe-to-toe reaching point talent enough mention dedi cation perseverance might wonder Sportsman class competitor would concerned reason simple should work tail off eliminated because lack financial backing finally reach Masters class will continue fly have admit has dampened enthusiasm somewhat same vein would like see retract able landing gear tuned pipes banned Sportsman Advanced classes wonder arent attracting people Pattern make expensive explore field no will take risk thought Pattern supposed flying event However has rapidly turned buying building event Will banning retracts pipes first three Pattern classes hurt Pattern opinion isabsolutely Competition relative thing everyone lower three classes contend fixed gear less power best pilots would prevail have just much funperhaps pilots could concentrate flying leaming trim secrets instead worrying about stalled retract servo lack pressure tank rasping down bottom all-winter project runway opinion time learn about retracts tuned pipes after youve mastered arts flight line procedure building trimming plane flying pattern stronly feel until reorganize sport will con tinue decline numbers Lets make aflying
Edition: Model Aviation - 1982/04
Page Numbers: 33, 34, 35, 36, 102, 103, 104
WHEN THE editor offered assignment back August 1977 sounded like fas cinating straightforward project Having long interested model aircraft publica tions anticipated no special problems com posing article subject However actual research began quickly became appar ent monumental task undertaken enlisted aid John J Brown collector model books supplied us extensive list publications compiled over period years added other titles encountered during course project Next contacted publishers could locate known have model aircraft titles among offerings Most cooper ated helpfully enabled us catch up currently in-print books Having assembled formidable mountain literature both old new set about reading task consumed several months spare time next problem became evolution logical presentation much information Space limitations precluded usage briefest reviews everything So elected offer taste various publications through years e historical significance others special insight importance hobby charm Books Hows model aviation library havent missing rewarding aspects modeling hobby Someone once said question ever asked book answer Certainly must true model building other subject Yet lack reading research builders go reinventing wheel needlessly laboring through problems likely have solved years previously Model aircraft books date back early will After reviewing books article Bill Hannan moved write own Peanut Power published Historical Aviation Album 1 900s articles relating models appeared earlier various scientific books journals Reading some elderly tomes April 1982 33 Peanut Scale I-rencn 1-arman poses selection ot scale drawings found some books mentioned plan potential model Scale enthusiast provides sort time-machine insight thinking fellow modelers long since forgotten truly window past lucid re minder very little has changed model aviation Virtually new development indeed old hat having appeared least principle long ago unfortunate some equate study history drudgery need fact review earlier works can sometimes yield fresh solutions current problems earliest book investigated survey Progress Flying Machines written Octave Chanute printed 1894 Chanute course important Wright brothers mentor heroic figure history aviation served years sort clearing house aero information among enthusiasts book Chanute attempted catalog classify experimental efforts known flight pioneer world over Featured illus trations data relating manner mini ature flying machines served inspire generations inventors example achievements French model builder Alphonse Penaud graphically documented planophore 1871 rubber-powered model 18-in wingspan cap able li-second flights covering 131 feet Weighing slightly over e machine seems have first feature nowstandard systems longitudinal stability via cidence settings lateral stability dihedral Incidentally Chanute states clearly model equipped vertical tail fact steered tail does appear illustrations later modelers have attempted fly reproductions Other models described include designed Lawrence Hargrave Australia gentle man invented box kite flew small craft powered compressed-air engines early 1890 Happily long out-of-print Chanute book has recently republished Lorenz & Herweg Publishers Long Beach CA recommend highly students aviation history earliest exclusively model aviation book dently volume sold fairly well reviewed Theory Practice reprinted during 1911 again revised form ModelAeroplaning 1910 publication V E Johnson British classic presents history models already considered ancient theories operation well practical design advice aware few internalcombustion gas-powered models success fully flown time rather sophisticated example depicted Johnson book four-cylinder V-type engine complete clockwork shut-off device Also well documented steam com pressed-air engines time flown models Interestingly electric motors tried found wanting Meanwhile United States Boys Book Model Aeroplanes published also 1910 authored Francis Collins Evi during 1921 Second Boys Book ModelAeroplanes appeared 1911 Collins offered thanks New York Model Aero Club Mr Edward Durrant Percy Pierce Cecil Peoli W S Howells young gentlemen models illustrated herewith singly collectively doing much development science America Somewhat confusingly another Collins Frederic apparently unrelated authored book entitled BoysAirplane Bool4 during 1919 gem contained brief history aviation plans simple helicopters twin-pusher model Bleriot Wright biplane Curtiss flying boat Topping Collins offered info making compressed-air engine ngI BIBLIOGRAPHY THIS LIST largely work John J Brown some additions Bill Hannan no such list can ever con sidered complete least indicative vast scope subject Publications categoriced authors name known English language editions few important exceptions noted Additons corrections may forwarded John Brown 13362 Fairmont Way Santa Ana CA 92705 No author listed Aeromodeller Pocker Data Book Model Aeronautical Press England 1969 64p No author listed Air Age Gas Models Herman Pub. Boston MA 1975 Aldridge Transistorized Radio Conrrol Models London 1972 Alexander J H Model Balloons Flying Machines Henley Pub NY 1910 Alexander 3 Foam Wings R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA AUen Elmer L Model Airplanes Frederick Stokes Co NY 1928 326p Note Later editions entitled New Model Airplanes Aston W G Model Flying Machines Iliffe & Sons Ltd London circa 1909 No author listed Balsa Wood Model Airplanes Fleischmana Transportation Co NY tSp Barnaby Ralph S Hose Make Fly Paper Airplanes Four Winds Press 1968 Bantam Books Inc IL 1970 84p Bechdoll lack Modern Handy Book Boys Book Inc NY 1933 432p Note Has chapter model airplanes Bengsch Gustav Hats Wilhelm Modell/tag 3m NsFtiegerkorps German tent verlag Dr M Mattiesen & Co Berlin 1942 288p Bowden C E LI Cot Diesel Model Engines Percival Marshall London 1947 l64p Bowden C F LI Cot History Technical Development Model Aircraft Harboroagh Pub Co Leicester 1946 Bowden C E LI Cot Model Gb Plag Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 h5p Bowden C E LI Col Model Jet Reaction Engines Percival Marshall London 1948 65p Bowden C E LI Cot Petrol-Esgined Model Aircraft Percival Marshall London 1945 230p Bowden T EG Aerodynamics nalyzed Harborough Pub Co London No author listed BoyCraft Whitman Pub Co Racine WI 1928 Note Has section model airplanes p 161-175 Boys Howard Transistor Circaito Radio Controlled Models Bernard London 1961 fOp Bradshaw Stanley OrIon Aircraft Modellers Guide Thitd Series 1936 Note First second series Howard Leigli Brown Willis C Model Airplanes vialivn Heath Boston 1942 43p Brown Willis C Black Dick History AMA AMA Washington DC 1966 84p Avail AMA HO Bruinama H Remote Control Radio Phillips Tech Lib Holland 1952 96p English tent Bruss Hetmut Proportional Stere rung German text Topp Stuttgart 1967 102p No author listed Building/Designing Maintenance Care Jetex Engines NY 196749p No author listed Building Flying ModelAirplssnes An Air Youth Hand book D AppletonCentury Co NY 1941 1942 1943 246p Bulger Thomas L F Stieri editor Model Builders Manual Junior eronaurical Engineer ing Dime Publications NY 1931 64p Bullivant Cecil Boys Book Hobbies Nelsonand Co NY 1912 452p Note Contains chapter model aircraft p 88-102 Buragas Robert 3 Decades Design NJ 1970 Buragas Robert 3 Decade Designs No 2 Rajo Pub NY 1966 74p Buragas Robert 3 Model Bailding AZ Rajo Pub, NY 1965 Carstens Pub Inc 1971 75p Buragas Robert 3 Holze Walter Weaver George Reference Handbook H P Pub NY 1958 74p CatIon F ABC Model Aircraft Construction 34 Model Aviation sampling pamphlets catalogs spans time 1g12 1g46 Note some famous names Paul Jones White Aeroplane Supply Ideal Megow Seltey Scientific glider must have heady discoveries youthful model builders day Moving right along journey through aeronautical literature past pause brief look small treasure Harpers Aircraft Book 1913 written Hyatt Verrill Prominent chapters Sailing Air Moving Bodies Air Steering Air concerned general theory Model Aeroplanes Fliers section found plans instructions Cecil Peolis racer twin-pusher Curtiss Hydroaeroplane also available time Ideal Aero plane Supply Co kit Ditto Nieuport l3leriot monoplanes Verrill also included plans biplane hang-glider well discourse full-size aircraft engines opinion better offerings published regardless date contrast inspirational text some early model books obviously based upon slim understanding subject proving garbled thinking knows no special time bound aries Yet some technically useless mis leading publications still make fascinating read ing illustrations often rather quaint intriguing During 1 920s 30s veritable explosion model book publishing much inspired Charles Lindberghs epic solo flight across Aflantic fact books era featured models purporting represent Spirit St Louis although accuracy among strong points Flying High edited Franklin K Mathiews published approval Boy Scouts America different sort book writings contributed such distinguished people Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Clarence D Chamberlin paragraph Lindbergh himself Added impressive line-up series aviation fiction stories science-fiction piece entitled Rocket Plane Dead Star shades Star Wars also assortment model construction plans including inevitable Spirit St Louis . actually plans Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co kit No wonder book reprinted 1928 1929 1930 least three other important volumes appeared during 1928 doubtless helped influence generation youngsters lasting interest aviation general model building particu lar called Beginning Fly authored Merrill Hamburg secretary technical advisor AMLA Airplane Model League America steady contri butor American Boy magazine book featured usual history aeronautics model building instructions series indoor outdoor model designs Also set forth rules model aircraft contests gaining popularity Another important 1928 publication Build ing Flying ModelAircraft Paul E Garber Smithsonian Institution Garber served Model Aircraft Consultant Playground Recreation Association America during summer 1927 book amplification extension series bulletins prepared purpose Featured history model aircraft sport world record listings information kites para chutes boomerangs Also covered flying tops ultra-simple helicopters gliders rubber-driven models Scale models including Spirit St Louis course model balloons compressed-air engine section contests third memorable 1928 publication Elmer L Allens Model Airplanes Build Fly Described author first presentation such detailed instruction practical working plans has ever attempted included material Boys Life London 952 Camm F 3 Model Aeroplanes London circa 1911 Camm F J Model Aeroplane handbook George Nessnes London 194931 2p Camm F 3 Design Model Aeroplanes aenn Brothers Ltd. London 1919 172p Camm F 1 Model Aeroplanes Airships George Newnes London t933 ISp Camns F 3 Power Driren Model Aircraft George Nessnes London 1933 98p Camm F Model Aircraft l-landbook London 1936 148p Carom F Radio Controlled Models Pearson Ltd London 1956 I8lp Carhone Martin R Build Flj Floaters Mason-Renshaw Inc 1972 lop Caalkin Daoid Notes Model Airplane & Prop Design 937 Cavanagh eorge Mrrdel Aeroplanes Motors Moffut Yard Co NY 1916 32p Chick Richard First Book Model Aircraft 5tadio London 1944 64p Chinn Peter G F hour Model Aircraft Model& Allied Pub 1977 153p Available International Pub 5ervice NY Chine Peter Ci F Model Aircraft Engine Tests Percival Marshall London 1960 96p Claudy Carl H Beginners Brrok Model Airplanes Bobba-Merrill Indianapolis IN 1930 l84p Claudy Carl H Prize Winners Essok Model Airplanes Bobhs-Merrill Indianapolit IN 1931 242p plus plant Colbridge Scale Models Balsa NY 1972 lISp Coleman li Northrop W C editor Flying Scale Models WW II Model Builder santa Ana CA 1974 l28p Collins Frederick nation bout D Appleton-Century Co NY 1929 260p Coffins Frederick Boy Scienrisr Lattsrop Lee Shepard Boston 1925 447p Note Lasr chapter early history aniutionPenaud Tatin Phipps Langley Chanute Wrights Collins Frederick Boys Airplane Book Stokes Co NY 1919 253p Collins Francis Arnold BoysBook Model Aeroplanes Appleton-Century NY 1910 1911 1926 1936 1937 1941 262p Collins Francis Arnold Boys Second Book Afodel Aeroplanes Century Co NY 1911 262p No author listed Color Treasury Model Airplanes Crescent Books London c 1972 h4p No author listed Cotnmercial Radio Cortrol Equipment tIre tlodel Builders I-lobby Helpers Pub NY No author listed Construction Kites Aeroplanes Manual Arts Press Peoria IL No author listed Construction Aerosnodellers Model Aeronautical Press England 1957 1963 93p No author listed Control Br Radio Winston Pub NY 1962 h4p Cook David C Guide Model Aircraft McBride NY 1945 28lp Cook David C & Davidson Jesse editorsl Model Aircraft Annual 1943 McBride NY 1943 244p Cook David C tlodel rrcratt nrual 1944 McBride NY 1944 244p Courtney Jeremiah Alenoratrdtn 10w Model Noise AMA Iteadquartcrs Washington DC 30p Aoail AMA tIQ Con Jack Boys Book hobbies Lutterworth Press London 1957 240p Note Chapter II ntodel aircraft R H Warring Craikshanks J W B Airfoil Sr etions Jirr tIre ero,rodeller Marshall & Sons 1940 46p Davis Tire Jurirr Air,rar s 8rok Airplanes NY laoidson lesse Building Yrar First Flying Jlrrdsls X-Acto Crescent Products Co. NY 1946 J2p l3rsvidson lesse II,, srr Build S,lid Seals Mssdel Wartrlasses April 1982 35 Thin typical aample full-size aviation books can form basis good reference library forthe Scale modeler Shown books US Great Britain Italy Japan magazine well selection racers performance models facsimile models semi-Scale types turned Out old friends Ideal Aeroplane Supply Co again line-up consisted Bleriot Cross-Channel Monoplane NC-4 Naval Seaplane Curtiss Jennie sic DeHavil land Biplane tn-motored Fokker guessed Spirit St Louis year 1930 saw introduction Begin ners Book Model Airplanes Fly Carl H Claudy charming book took fresh approach subject offering direct practical advice coupled priceless ingredient good humor missing too its pred ecessors helped remove much mystery mumbo-jumbo implied some formulae freak authors Also during 1930 Aircraft Book Boys appeared written daughter 1913 book author Hyatt Vernill title like Dorothy Vernill wouldnt have scored points womens libbers Doubtless however rated well air-minded youth day Although largely devoted full-scale aviation couple model planes found way volume including tri motor monoplane courtesy Ideal Aero plane Supply Co now incorporated 1931 Carl H Claudy came up another winner form Prize Winners Book Model Airplanes Some 36 contributors helped production plum ambitious useful compilations appear Besides usual reduced-size plans found books Claudy offered bonus feature two large separate sheets measuring about 34 x 22 other 44 x 33 full-size construction drawings plans enabled budding model aeronauts plunge right building enthusiasm still its peak folded drawings neatly secured inside book covers small straps Economic conditions would render such extrava gances unthinkable todays publishers pity Among choice offerings 1931 Model Aircraft Builder Chelsea Fraser Copiously illustrated book presented addition model building hints plans instructions making simple wind-tunnel miniature airport two rather primitive ingenious Link Trainers youthful pilots could actually sit fly Another 1931 classic Model Airplane Building Flying Joseph S Ott kit fame Lavishly illustrated book ex tremely comprehensive its presentation covering practically facet hobby great detail Featured construction methods gliders stick models Scale types Indoor duration models twin-pushers rocket plane compressed-air engine aircraft Edwin T Hamilton revealed Complete Model Aircraft Manual world during 1933 Comprising well over 500 pages ambitious effort must have monumental undertaking Treated minute detail tools trade building techniques painting insignia accessories art model flying Selected construction articles included pri mary glider secondary glider Bowlus sail plane C H Grants famous Minute Man stick model twin-pushers Indoor craft flying Scale models solid Scale types out-of-theordinary designs such tailless R 0 G plus two autogiros Another series books originated during 30s exerted powerful influence upon course model aviation now-famous ModelAeronautics YearBooks generally identified name editor/publisher Frank Zaic Truly labor-of-love effort volume represents treasure-trove modeling information ideas philosophy distilled world-wide network contributors Happily Continued page 102 X-Acto Crescent Products Co NY 1944 1947 32p Davis Lynn iloaukcs Model Aeroplane lab t9l7 Day Aircraft irs Made Like NY l9b8 Day Ossar Vincent Terence Miniature Aircraft Make lisa FIn Theta Manual Arts Press Peoria IL 1929 hhp Dean Bill Hill ihan s Book Balsa Models Arco Pub NY l970 b4p Iean Waning Model Aeronaatics London 1948 Dean Warring Model Planes Annual London 1949 bbp Delacombe Harry Boys Bosh Airships stokes Co NY 1909 244p Dewey Don Radio Control Ground Up K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA 197l 20p Dewey Don edilot Challenge Radio Control Scale R/C Modeler Corp Siecra Madre CA l967 96p Dewey Don editor What irs Worth R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don editor What Its Wsrlh Vol II K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madte CA Dewey Don editor What Its Worth Vol III K/C Modeler Corp Sierra Maitre CA Dewey Don editor What s Worth Vol IV RIC Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Coarse R/C Modeler Corp Sierra Madre CA Dewey Don Flight Training Course Vol II K/C Modeler Corp. Sierra Madre CA Ditty Model Flying London 1975 Available Transatlantic Arts Inc NY Doilfus Etienne H C Petite Models dAcroplanes French text Gaalhier-Villars Paris 91 2 22p Doylend W 0 Aircraft Miniature Modal Aeronautical Press England 1957 16p Available International Publications Service NY Easley G J Radio Control Systems Now Use Wrightwood Model Airplane Co MO 1947 31p Ebling Frank Kit Plan Book AMA Headquarters Washington DC 136p Available AMA HQ Ellis Chris Howls Make Model Aircraft Arco Pub Co NY 1973 tOp Ellis Prank H Duration Flying Models Fiwell 3 H Solid Scale Model Aircraft Harborough Pub England 96p Everett Dick Hydro Tips Brainhusters Hampton VA 1947 12p Pisber 0 P W Collectors Guide Model Aero Engines Argus Books England 1977 132p Fitzgibbon Joe Keshiuhian Harry Hatney Bill Best Golden Age Flying Models Golden Press MA 1975 86p No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Puh Minneapolis 1931 l46p Note Model planes Chapters tO p 129-I 34 articles James Bates Theodore Allen No author listed Flying Manual Pawcett Pub Minneapolis 1932 146p Note Model planes p 36-37 article Stewart Rouse No author listed Flying Scale Models Air Age Pub 1942 104p Note Designs Earl Stahl H K Weiss Sidney StruhI William Wytam Ray Rusher Foote Donald K Aerodynamics Model Airplanes Barnes NY 1952 lSBp Foote Donald K Model Airplane Engines Barnes NY 1952 177p Forster J P P Model Aircraft Petrol Engines Harhorough Pub England 1943 96p Pox Duke Model Flyers Handbook AR Fracer Chelsea Model Aircraft Builder T Y Crowell Co NY 193l354p Continued page 137 36 Model Aviation has wide variety model aircraft books published over years Annuals offered hobby magazines handbooks major publishing houses Embroidered- quality blue casual shirts choice royal/white Mustang HMUJ navy/white Corsair IHCOI brown white Spitfire HSPJ red/white Style C Style L~2 Sweatershirt style VI 520 Golf Shirt style Cl 518 Sizes 532-361 M38-40l 1442-441 X46l Ladies Shin style U 510 StYI@V Sizes S8-10l M112-14l 1416-18 X20-22l Add 10% postage/handling Allow 3-4 weeks delivery Send check money order Flightilne Shirts Etc Department MA 1781 Jahnmark Circle Grants Pass OR 97526 Send SASE new brochure Name Address CityStateZip SizeStyleDesign ATTENTION ERS putDaves plane upforatrim familiariza tion flight found set up very mild handling slow aileron rolls enough elevator stall snap-roll Tim tried Chris sailplane found also short control authority addition Chris taped spoil ers closedand Tim likes use tow better control both found landings faster flatter become accustomed flying mile higher atmosphere home might say conditions less ideal still manageable snow helped brake landing rolls Dave brought out toy snow shovel truck proceeded clear runway us about 100 yards long half-awingspan wide told him faith ability stay center line did look picture carefully will see runway behind Chris Dave paralleling Inter state 15 row electric power poles pole just off near side runway looked avoidable decided keep flying patterns north runway just case approach end runway Out picture left also has power lines across could easily get impression flying inside barrel cloud ceiling fell rain started develop snowflakes looked like forget situation leave next morn ing get Tim back Eastern college dood After two false starts wherein sorted out problems began making tows lost count remember four Tim towed back reasonably low altitude several times benefit photographers need stronger telephoto lens get thing Both planes performed flawlessly didnt ding either main thing noticed takeoff runs lot longer climbs lot shallower have become accustomed sea level So whats got new RC channels think has spite intentions avoid RCing over holidays lousy weather conditions flew fun Now some folks have written letters asking new radio buy stating really intended sit back wait things settle out before buying anything think youll sitting out long time AMA Phase-In Plan outlined contem plates continued production use existing radios some time say buy what like nowand enjoy want try hedge bit look radios have interchangeable RE modules boards manufacturer may support new channel boards modules such proves feasible also may youll flyingand having funwhile situation develops Keep letters flowing George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicksville NY 11801 Books H annan Continued page 36 some items have reprinted still available Besides books magazines other types publications offered aeromodeling public Some pamphlets booklets rather true books yet filled exciting useful model building information As example consider Paul Jones Step-by-Step Course ModelAviation 1936 now-rare collec 102 Model Aviation U Can Afford Best. 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Circus Hobbies 1925 E Creighton Road Pensacola FL 32504 904/478-6745 known second has remarkable impact still being felt today especially among model aircraft designers because some theories presented subject con troversy some has appeared modeling press over years However may disagree will usually admit book caused think about own theories much carefully certainly buyers showed vote confidence since book progressed through least four printings informative useful publications Super Savings Fiberglass Materials Fiberglass Cloth 5 Sq yards SI 500 tour choice 3/, 24 6 Oz cloth 53000 per gal arnInatinE1goxYResiflfShrcure S 300 t6ozs Epoxy Primer K&BJ S40Oopergal Epoxy Paint rhinner K&B SI SOOper gal Polyester Resin K&BJ 520O0per gal Send check money order shipping cOllCCt COO Okay Call write mob Smith RIC Aircraft PO Box 33335 Gran4da Hills CA 91344 12131 366-6872 appear during 1 950s selected relatively small Model Aeronautics Made Painless Raul J Hoffman Printed 1955 Frank Zaic remarkable compilation data represents virtually everything known about subject model aircraft reduced basics between set covers Both practical mathematical explanations given making equally useful theory impirically-minded modelers Continued RP MRwP PRODUCTS MODEL Presents SUPER SUNDAY TRAINER 40 Easy buildDirect Order Fully aerobatic Easy fly _ Proven design lete building instructions parts machine cut 14625 Cannnita Rd #225 Norwalk CA 90650Phone 213 698-0722 104 Model Aviation RC Aerobatics/Van Putte Continued page 39 topic general interest edited version Eds letter follows have similar experience competition won person money involved drag racing quite few years finally gave up couldnt begin compete against factory teams un limited budgets engineering staffs left bitter taste mouth Well again same situation Pattern Im against factory teams think ultimately benefit hobbyist ever detrimental hobby aver age non-sponsored competitor has compete toe-to-toe reaching point talent enough mention dedi cation perseverance might wonder Sportsman class competitor would concerned reason simple should work tail off eliminated because lack financial backing finally reach Masters class will continue fly have admit has dampened enthusiasm somewhat same vein would like see retract able landing gear tuned pipes banned Sportsman Advanced classes wonder arent attracting people Pattern make expensive explore field no will take risk thought Pattern supposed flying event However has rapidly turned buying building event Will banning retracts pipes first three Pattern classes hurt Pattern opinion isabsolutely Competition relative thing everyone lower three classes contend fixed gear less power best pilots would prevail have just much funperhaps pilots could concentrate flying leaming trim secrets instead worrying about stalled retract servo lack pressure tank rasping down bottom all-winter project runway opinion time learn about retracts tuned pipes after youve mastered arts flight line procedure building trimming plane flying pattern stronly feel until reorganize sport will con tinue decline numbers Lets make aflying