ITS HARD imagine what cinema would like models model ers Whenever see movie about past know made present old-time airplanes featured often may ask yourself did find As Russian modeler can tell youll find aircraft used filming mo vie country first Id like intro duce some peoplethe modelers help make magic movies happen Konstantm Karpov 27 has mod eler 14 years flies F3B models radio-controlled Gliders placed first national team European Champion ships held Czechoslovakia year Sergei Amelin 32 has among top three champions USSR times flies RC Scale racers seri ously RC Helicopters hobby Sergei has flying 18 years Vitaliy Sokolov 54 can imagine long has flying Sokolov likes build unusual model airplanes Konstantin Vitaliy teach sport model airplanes school young people Sokolov won years Antonov Cup international contest sport veterans held Few modeling tasks call accuracy craftsmanship unerring piloting skills building flying miniature airplanes movies location recent World War II film team Russian mod elers learned sometimes can dangerous ESvetlana Filippova Kiev flying Free Flight FlA model 1981 Konstantin Sergei Vitaliy good friends well experienced modelers received first order film company Theyve building mod els movies ever since Lenflim Leningrad studio produc es feature films needed models battle scenes World War II movie called Tor pedonosci torpedo-carrying warships three asked build two Russian RC modelsa flying reconnaissance boat BR2 two-motor bomber IL-4 pro ducer Lenfilm told what kinds aircraft required three modelers made drafts invented constructions built flew models Before built models camera man explained realistic flight shots filming certain maneu vers some areas construction must duplicate prototypes precisely de tails wouldnt show up filming could ignored also explained dif ferent scales suit different purposes its preferable build models given scale some types shots another scale others Konstantin took responsibility adModels Go Movies 58 Model Aviation Left One two nonflying MI-S Helicopters built three-modeler team blown up Russo-Italian film Afghanistan Brake mechanic lower right rigs wires will suspend model simulated flight Above movie showed MI-S being being blown bits Afghanistan War realistic-looking explosion Helicopters du plicate full-scale prototype faithfully both inside out author expert builder wellknown International competitor own right joined modelers location movie about World War II pi loted RC versions Germanys famed Jun kers brought along few CL Junkers just RC ones flew camera Sergei Amelin left Konstantin Karpov pose two four radio-controlled Junkers built Russian WW ii film Hundred Soldiers Two Gifls Because tight shooting schedule models designed detachable wings stab Instant re pairs case accidents pictured Vitally Sokoiov third member Soviet models-for-movies team three have collaborating projects decade ministrative tasks Sergei put time design three men excel lent builders Lenflim has requested trios help four other occasions interesting collab oration came 1988-1989 producer Sergei Mikaelian making movie called Hundred Soldiers Two Girls Mikaelian soldier during World War II has strong memories period movie considered autobiographical Karpov Amelin Sokolov asked build four RC models Germanys famous Junkers aircraft built case accidents parts could disassem bled interchanged no time waste repairs Shooting began Lenin grad summertime since producer wanted blue skies green trees sum mer turned autumn before finished whole production moved city Kabuletty south Along several others invited join group Kabuletty can sure took couple Control Line models Junkers built 1964 film Baltic Sky can imagine old still flew well sup posed fly another pilot would fly second first never flown Scale model before much less flown Combat model flew two models same time same circle funny watch lucky crash did best make flying re alistic possible models flew too fast couldnt fly straight line least some circles radius visible cameras all-seeing eye So RC models took control Continued page ISS April 1991 59 Vitally Sokolov some examples novative approach RC model design So koiov favors unusual models like striking little molded plastic craft right Note openings between wings stabilizers Mechanic Vladimir Fiodorov poses radio-controlled Junkers fea tured dive-bombing role movie Hundred Soldiers Two Girls Konstantin Karpov seems absorbed design questIon posed fellow builder Vitally Sokolovs molded plastic model table wing Karpovs current projects Lenflim-produced Hundred Soldiers Two Girls two Junkers flew side side very close other dive-bombing trench Russian soldier stood guard builder-pilots maintain specified trajectory sequence bombing precisely possible making difficult movie scenes filmed Movies/Filippova Continued page 59 RC Junkers about 10 feet wing span weighed about 14 pounds equipped Russian 10cc Raduga ser ial engines engines modified course As know Soviet-made serial en gines usually arent highest quality Milcaelian exacting producer has vivid impressions memories war wanted movie capture told Konstantin Sergei fly Junkers theyd appear exactly remembered producers idea show two Junkers flying other divebombing trench Russian soldier stood guard models expected fly side side very close other youve flown RC models know hard Also since cameras couldnt move up pilots maintain specified trajectory Any little mistake flying directly trench would ruin take film showed So viet soldier guarding trench Explosives buried close trench detonated bombs hit ground Another problem sequence bombing precisely Mikaelian wished wanted planes dive down eject bombs regular intervals af ter other took lot experimenting changes models special control mechanism get right everything producer wanted Konstantin Sergei made 20 flights together before cameras rolled flew bombing scene over over producing hours worth film scene lasted minute finished movie shooting finishedor thought morning Mikaelian announced hed come up another ideahe wanted show bombing appeared soldier the trench So crew moved south again search summer time city Tashkent As Konstantin told later shooting Tashkent absolutely terrible experience him Sergei create effect Mi kaelian wanted two modelers stand side side cameraman throw bombs down themselves operator watch bombs hurtling down pre cisely six bombs about 10 inches long made metal reached speed 120 mph modelers cooperated bravely course nobody wanted killed stayed cam era threw bombs down precisely possible directly camera bombs landed extremely close probably about eight inches stood Fortunately nobody killed Mi kaelian satisfied scene filming over last collaboration movie project A Push-Rod Selection Leaves Up InTheAir Its true offer complete line push-rods world thats important reason choose Sullivan push-rods fact once its model doesnt matter other push-rods carry just want yours work best its will Sullivan push-rods designed built maximum strength flexibility dependability Theyre also light weiit well simply best Which means get widest choice Sullivan PRODUCTS push-rods get best choice P0 Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground brings something new interesting Konstantin Sergei Vitaliy last signment movie called Afghani stan Brake about recent war Afghan istan film jointly produced Lenfilm Italian company Vladimir Bartko producer modelers job build two So viet MI-8 Helicopters planes tended flying models blown up movie Yet construction duplicate full-scale MI-8 exactly both side out because producer wanted explosion look realistic possi ble fuselage length about 83 ft Helicopters fairly large As turned out oaly models needed blew up realistically other Helicopter left intact ready used future movie about SovietAfghanistan conflict could years away course Afghanistan war has become just bad dream What would movie industry out models modelers Konstantin Ser gei Vitaliy hope continue team work years come IZ Akro Bat/Hunton Continued page 63 Its critical use Cox fuel Cox en gines incompatible fuels used en gine will perform normally after start-up April 1991 155
Edition: Model Aviation - 1991/04
Page Numbers: 58, 59, 155
ITS HARD imagine what cinema would like models model ers Whenever see movie about past know made present old-time airplanes featured often may ask yourself did find As Russian modeler can tell youll find aircraft used filming mo vie country first Id like intro duce some peoplethe modelers help make magic movies happen Konstantm Karpov 27 has mod eler 14 years flies F3B models radio-controlled Gliders placed first national team European Champion ships held Czechoslovakia year Sergei Amelin 32 has among top three champions USSR times flies RC Scale racers seri ously RC Helicopters hobby Sergei has flying 18 years Vitaliy Sokolov 54 can imagine long has flying Sokolov likes build unusual model airplanes Konstantin Vitaliy teach sport model airplanes school young people Sokolov won years Antonov Cup international contest sport veterans held Few modeling tasks call accuracy craftsmanship unerring piloting skills building flying miniature airplanes movies location recent World War II film team Russian mod elers learned sometimes can dangerous ESvetlana Filippova Kiev flying Free Flight FlA model 1981 Konstantin Sergei Vitaliy good friends well experienced modelers received first order film company Theyve building mod els movies ever since Lenflim Leningrad studio produc es feature films needed models battle scenes World War II movie called Tor pedonosci torpedo-carrying warships three asked build two Russian RC modelsa flying reconnaissance boat BR2 two-motor bomber IL-4 pro ducer Lenfilm told what kinds aircraft required three modelers made drafts invented constructions built flew models Before built models camera man explained realistic flight shots filming certain maneu vers some areas construction must duplicate prototypes precisely de tails wouldnt show up filming could ignored also explained dif ferent scales suit different purposes its preferable build models given scale some types shots another scale others Konstantin took responsibility adModels Go Movies 58 Model Aviation Left One two nonflying MI-S Helicopters built three-modeler team blown up Russo-Italian film Afghanistan Brake mechanic lower right rigs wires will suspend model simulated flight Above movie showed MI-S being being blown bits Afghanistan War realistic-looking explosion Helicopters du plicate full-scale prototype faithfully both inside out author expert builder wellknown International competitor own right joined modelers location movie about World War II pi loted RC versions Germanys famed Jun kers brought along few CL Junkers just RC ones flew camera Sergei Amelin left Konstantin Karpov pose two four radio-controlled Junkers built Russian WW ii film Hundred Soldiers Two Gifls Because tight shooting schedule models designed detachable wings stab Instant re pairs case accidents pictured Vitally Sokoiov third member Soviet models-for-movies team three have collaborating projects decade ministrative tasks Sergei put time design three men excel lent builders Lenflim has requested trios help four other occasions interesting collab oration came 1988-1989 producer Sergei Mikaelian making movie called Hundred Soldiers Two Girls Mikaelian soldier during World War II has strong memories period movie considered autobiographical Karpov Amelin Sokolov asked build four RC models Germanys famous Junkers aircraft built case accidents parts could disassem bled interchanged no time waste repairs Shooting began Lenin grad summertime since producer wanted blue skies green trees sum mer turned autumn before finished whole production moved city Kabuletty south Along several others invited join group Kabuletty can sure took couple Control Line models Junkers built 1964 film Baltic Sky can imagine old still flew well sup posed fly another pilot would fly second first never flown Scale model before much less flown Combat model flew two models same time same circle funny watch lucky crash did best make flying re alistic possible models flew too fast couldnt fly straight line least some circles radius visible cameras all-seeing eye So RC models took control Continued page ISS April 1991 59 Vitally Sokolov some examples novative approach RC model design So koiov favors unusual models like striking little molded plastic craft right Note openings between wings stabilizers Mechanic Vladimir Fiodorov poses radio-controlled Junkers fea tured dive-bombing role movie Hundred Soldiers Two Girls Konstantin Karpov seems absorbed design questIon posed fellow builder Vitally Sokolovs molded plastic model table wing Karpovs current projects Lenflim-produced Hundred Soldiers Two Girls two Junkers flew side side very close other dive-bombing trench Russian soldier stood guard builder-pilots maintain specified trajectory sequence bombing precisely possible making difficult movie scenes filmed Movies/Filippova Continued page 59 RC Junkers about 10 feet wing span weighed about 14 pounds equipped Russian 10cc Raduga ser ial engines engines modified course As know Soviet-made serial en gines usually arent highest quality Milcaelian exacting producer has vivid impressions memories war wanted movie capture told Konstantin Sergei fly Junkers theyd appear exactly remembered producers idea show two Junkers flying other divebombing trench Russian soldier stood guard models expected fly side side very close other youve flown RC models know hard Also since cameras couldnt move up pilots maintain specified trajectory Any little mistake flying directly trench would ruin take film showed So viet soldier guarding trench Explosives buried close trench detonated bombs hit ground Another problem sequence bombing precisely Mikaelian wished wanted planes dive down eject bombs regular intervals af ter other took lot experimenting changes models special control mechanism get right everything producer wanted Konstantin Sergei made 20 flights together before cameras rolled flew bombing scene over over producing hours worth film scene lasted minute finished movie shooting finishedor thought morning Mikaelian announced hed come up another ideahe wanted show bombing appeared soldier the trench So crew moved south again search summer time city Tashkent As Konstantin told later shooting Tashkent absolutely terrible experience him Sergei create effect Mi kaelian wanted two modelers stand side side cameraman throw bombs down themselves operator watch bombs hurtling down pre cisely six bombs about 10 inches long made metal reached speed 120 mph modelers cooperated bravely course nobody wanted killed stayed cam era threw bombs down precisely possible directly camera bombs landed extremely close probably about eight inches stood Fortunately nobody killed Mi kaelian satisfied scene filming over last collaboration movie project A Push-Rod Selection Leaves Up InTheAir Its true offer complete line push-rods world thats important reason choose Sullivan push-rods fact once its model doesnt matter other push-rods carry just want yours work best its will Sullivan push-rods designed built maximum strength flexibility dependability Theyre also light weiit well simply best Which means get widest choice Sullivan PRODUCTS push-rods get best choice P0 Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground brings something new interesting Konstantin Sergei Vitaliy last signment movie called Afghani stan Brake about recent war Afghan istan film jointly produced Lenfilm Italian company Vladimir Bartko producer modelers job build two So viet MI-8 Helicopters planes tended flying models blown up movie Yet construction duplicate full-scale MI-8 exactly both side out because producer wanted explosion look realistic possi ble fuselage length about 83 ft Helicopters fairly large As turned out oaly models needed blew up realistically other Helicopter left intact ready used future movie about SovietAfghanistan conflict could years away course Afghanistan war has become just bad dream What would movie industry out models modelers Konstantin Ser gei Vitaliy hope continue team work years come IZ Akro Bat/Hunton Continued page 63 Its critical use Cox fuel Cox en gines incompatible fuels used en gine will perform normally after start-up April 1991 155
Edition: Model Aviation - 1991/04
Page Numbers: 58, 59, 155
ITS HARD imagine what cinema would like models model ers Whenever see movie about past know made present old-time airplanes featured often may ask yourself did find As Russian modeler can tell youll find aircraft used filming mo vie country first Id like intro duce some peoplethe modelers help make magic movies happen Konstantm Karpov 27 has mod eler 14 years flies F3B models radio-controlled Gliders placed first national team European Champion ships held Czechoslovakia year Sergei Amelin 32 has among top three champions USSR times flies RC Scale racers seri ously RC Helicopters hobby Sergei has flying 18 years Vitaliy Sokolov 54 can imagine long has flying Sokolov likes build unusual model airplanes Konstantin Vitaliy teach sport model airplanes school young people Sokolov won years Antonov Cup international contest sport veterans held Few modeling tasks call accuracy craftsmanship unerring piloting skills building flying miniature airplanes movies location recent World War II film team Russian mod elers learned sometimes can dangerous ESvetlana Filippova Kiev flying Free Flight FlA model 1981 Konstantin Sergei Vitaliy good friends well experienced modelers received first order film company Theyve building mod els movies ever since Lenflim Leningrad studio produc es feature films needed models battle scenes World War II movie called Tor pedonosci torpedo-carrying warships three asked build two Russian RC modelsa flying reconnaissance boat BR2 two-motor bomber IL-4 pro ducer Lenfilm told what kinds aircraft required three modelers made drafts invented constructions built flew models Before built models camera man explained realistic flight shots filming certain maneu vers some areas construction must duplicate prototypes precisely de tails wouldnt show up filming could ignored also explained dif ferent scales suit different purposes its preferable build models given scale some types shots another scale others Konstantin took responsibility adModels Go Movies 58 Model Aviation Left One two nonflying MI-S Helicopters built three-modeler team blown up Russo-Italian film Afghanistan Brake mechanic lower right rigs wires will suspend model simulated flight Above movie showed MI-S being being blown bits Afghanistan War realistic-looking explosion Helicopters du plicate full-scale prototype faithfully both inside out author expert builder wellknown International competitor own right joined modelers location movie about World War II pi loted RC versions Germanys famed Jun kers brought along few CL Junkers just RC ones flew camera Sergei Amelin left Konstantin Karpov pose two four radio-controlled Junkers built Russian WW ii film Hundred Soldiers Two Gifls Because tight shooting schedule models designed detachable wings stab Instant re pairs case accidents pictured Vitally Sokoiov third member Soviet models-for-movies team three have collaborating projects decade ministrative tasks Sergei put time design three men excel lent builders Lenflim has requested trios help four other occasions interesting collab oration came 1988-1989 producer Sergei Mikaelian making movie called Hundred Soldiers Two Girls Mikaelian soldier during World War II has strong memories period movie considered autobiographical Karpov Amelin Sokolov asked build four RC models Germanys famous Junkers aircraft built case accidents parts could disassem bled interchanged no time waste repairs Shooting began Lenin grad summertime since producer wanted blue skies green trees sum mer turned autumn before finished whole production moved city Kabuletty south Along several others invited join group Kabuletty can sure took couple Control Line models Junkers built 1964 film Baltic Sky can imagine old still flew well sup posed fly another pilot would fly second first never flown Scale model before much less flown Combat model flew two models same time same circle funny watch lucky crash did best make flying re alistic possible models flew too fast couldnt fly straight line least some circles radius visible cameras all-seeing eye So RC models took control Continued page ISS April 1991 59 Vitally Sokolov some examples novative approach RC model design So koiov favors unusual models like striking little molded plastic craft right Note openings between wings stabilizers Mechanic Vladimir Fiodorov poses radio-controlled Junkers fea tured dive-bombing role movie Hundred Soldiers Two Girls Konstantin Karpov seems absorbed design questIon posed fellow builder Vitally Sokolovs molded plastic model table wing Karpovs current projects Lenflim-produced Hundred Soldiers Two Girls two Junkers flew side side very close other dive-bombing trench Russian soldier stood guard builder-pilots maintain specified trajectory sequence bombing precisely possible making difficult movie scenes filmed Movies/Filippova Continued page 59 RC Junkers about 10 feet wing span weighed about 14 pounds equipped Russian 10cc Raduga ser ial engines engines modified course As know Soviet-made serial en gines usually arent highest quality Milcaelian exacting producer has vivid impressions memories war wanted movie capture told Konstantin Sergei fly Junkers theyd appear exactly remembered producers idea show two Junkers flying other divebombing trench Russian soldier stood guard models expected fly side side very close other youve flown RC models know hard Also since cameras couldnt move up pilots maintain specified trajectory Any little mistake flying directly trench would ruin take film showed So viet soldier guarding trench Explosives buried close trench detonated bombs hit ground Another problem sequence bombing precisely Mikaelian wished wanted planes dive down eject bombs regular intervals af ter other took lot experimenting changes models special control mechanism get right everything producer wanted Konstantin Sergei made 20 flights together before cameras rolled flew bombing scene over over producing hours worth film scene lasted minute finished movie shooting finishedor thought morning Mikaelian announced hed come up another ideahe wanted show bombing appeared soldier the trench So crew moved south again search summer time city Tashkent As Konstantin told later shooting Tashkent absolutely terrible experience him Sergei create effect Mi kaelian wanted two modelers stand side side cameraman throw bombs down themselves operator watch bombs hurtling down pre cisely six bombs about 10 inches long made metal reached speed 120 mph modelers cooperated bravely course nobody wanted killed stayed cam era threw bombs down precisely possible directly camera bombs landed extremely close probably about eight inches stood Fortunately nobody killed Mi kaelian satisfied scene filming over last collaboration movie project A Push-Rod Selection Leaves Up InTheAir Its true offer complete line push-rods world thats important reason choose Sullivan push-rods fact once its model doesnt matter other push-rods carry just want yours work best its will Sullivan push-rods designed built maximum strength flexibility dependability Theyre also light weiit well simply best Which means get widest choice Sullivan PRODUCTS push-rods get best choice P0 Box 5166 Baltimore MD 21224 Getting Better Ideas Off Ground brings something new interesting Konstantin Sergei Vitaliy last signment movie called Afghani stan Brake about recent war Afghan istan film jointly produced Lenfilm Italian company Vladimir Bartko producer modelers job build two So viet MI-8 Helicopters planes tended flying models blown up movie Yet construction duplicate full-scale MI-8 exactly both side out because producer wanted explosion look realistic possi ble fuselage length about 83 ft Helicopters fairly large As turned out oaly models needed blew up realistically other Helicopter left intact ready used future movie about SovietAfghanistan conflict could years away course Afghanistan war has become just bad dream What would movie industry out models modelers Konstantin Ser gei Vitaliy hope continue team work years come IZ Akro Bat/Hunton Continued page 63 Its critical use Cox fuel Cox en gines incompatible fuels used en gine will perform normally after start-up April 1991 155